Diary Dates 2010
Apart
from outside visits,
all meetings are held in the Music Room of
the Central Library.
Start Times 7.30pm
Tea and coffee available
NOTE - the bi-monthly talk will be on the second Wednesday of the month from February 2010.
Wednesday 9th June 2010
Felicity
Harper, the archivist of the Powderham Estate will give an illustrated
talk on the Courtenay family.
Wednesday
11th August 2010
Sadru Bhanji will give a talk on 'The French
Prisoner of War Hospital at Glasshouse, Countess Wear'
Wednesday 13th October 2010
Mr T Gray will talk on 'New Research in Exeter's History.'
See Coming Events for the summer outside meetings
Photo Gallery
For our first visit of the 2009
season, about a dozen members turned out on a cold and damp May day for
a tour of Exeter's more ghoulish sites. After starting in St Peter's
Churchyard and via 21 the Mint, we reached the catacombs dead tired, to
meet the residents and raise the spirits with a tale of Victorian
burial practises. Anyone who missed the visit can catch up by taking
one of the free Redcoat tours, but do choose a warmer day.
In March 2008 members enjoyed a visit
to Exeter's Underground Passages. Three of the group are discussing the
finer points of Exeter's water supply and the case, for and against,
for adding something medicinal to it.
In July 2007, David Snell
kindly conducted society members around some of the lesser known parts
of the Cathedral - here, David is explaining the pre-Copernicus clock
to the group.
Twenty four members visited Downes,
the former home of General Sir
Redvers Buller in May 2007.
Madge Wakely came to the Exeter
History Day 2007, especially to see the
photographs of Maurice Swansborough - she knew Maurice as a young man
in the early 1950s.
The many exhibitors and visitors at the
Exeter History Day 2006.
Bill Olive guided
the History Society around the hidden nooks and
crannies of the Guildhall; here, members are inspecting the city's
silver.
Dutch brickwork was
inspected when we were shown around Topsham in the
summer of 2006.