List of Speakers : 2002 to date
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2002 |
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April |
Ian Jubb |
Old Exeter Postcards |
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June 13th |
Dick Passmore |
History Of Theatre Royal, Exeter |
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August 8th |
Robert Crawley and Colin Shears |
History Of Exeter Transport |
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October 10th |
Elayne Hoskin |
Old Exeter – SW Film &TV Archive |
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December 12th |
Christine Trigger |
Exeter A – Z |
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2003 |
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February 13th |
Todd Gray |
The Lost City Of Exeter |
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April 10th |
Hazel Harvey |
Exeter Civic Society |
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June 12th |
Prof. Holdsworth |
Quakers In Exeter & the S. West |
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August 14th |
Alan & Elaine Dolley |
A Trip Along Exeter Canal |
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October 9th |
Peter Faulkner |
The Aclands Of Killerton |
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December 11th |
Royal Albert Memorial Museum |
Exeter Silver & Silversmiths |
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2004 |
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February 12th |
Nigel Cheffers Heard |
The Exeter Roman Bath Trust |
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April 8th |
David Clement |
Admiral Sir John Duckworth King |
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June 8th |
Pat Salter |
Exeter Pubs In the Early 1800s |
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August 8th |
Alan Masonowicz |
History Of Exwick Village |
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October 14th |
Roger Thorne |
2½ Centuries Of Methodism In Exeter |
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December 9th |
Stuart Raymond |
the Sources Of English Local History |
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2005 |
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February 10th |
Prof Ivan Roots |
End Of the Civil War In Exeter |
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April 14th |
Gordon Chapman |
Lost Cinemas In Devon |
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June 9th |
Michael Portreath |
General Buller & the Boer War |
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August 11th |
Kevin White |
Aspects Of Exeter |
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October 13th |
Pongo Blanchford |
The New Trafalgar Way |
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2006 |
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February 9th |
Canon Neil Collings |
Colourful Clergy Of Devon |
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April 13th |
Martin Watts |
Exeter Watermills |
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June 8th |
John Avery |
Cholera In Exeter |
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August 10th |
Angela Sutton-Vane |
Exeter Police Force &Archives |
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October 12th |
Dr Janet Cutler |
Isambard Kingdom Brunel |
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2007 |
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February 8th |
Andrew Davey |
History Of Exeter Library Service |
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April 12th |
Canon Ann Barwood |
The Exeter Riddles |
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June 14th |
Geoffrey Harding |
Aspects Of Georgian Exeter |
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August 9th |
Dr David Keep |
St Boniface |
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October 11th |
Bob Alcock |
The Development of the Exeter University Campus |
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2008 |
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February 14th |
Frank Gent |
Exeter Witchcraft Trials |
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April 10th |
Christine Trigger |
Fred Karno |
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June 12th |
Todd Gray |
Devon – the Slave Trade |
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August 14th |
David Cornforth |
Film of the Blitz plus a walk along the leats |
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October 9th |
Prof Robert Snodwen |
Restoration Of St Stephen’s Church |
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2009 |
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February 12th |
Geoffrey Harding |
Exeter Almshouses |
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April 9th |
Carol Mcfadzean |
Charlotte Treadwin & Devon Lace |
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June 11th |
DeputyEditor, Express & Echo |
History Of Newspapers in Exeter |
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October 8th |
Tim Jenkinson |
Milestones and Boundary Stones of Exeter |
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2010 |
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February 10 |
AGM & Colin Laskey |
Exeter Scenes |
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April 14 |
Geoffrey Harding |
The Templers of Exeter & Stover |
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June 9 |
Felicity Harper |
Illustrated talk by Powderham Castle’s archivist |
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August 11 |
Sadru Bhanji |
The French Prisoner of War Hospital at Countess Wear |
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October 13 |
Dr Todd Gray |
New Research in Exeter’s History |
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December 8 |
Christmas Party |
Quiz |
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2011 |
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February 9 |
AGM |
A Member’s Research Project |
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April 13 |
Richard Giles |
A Train to Exmouth, a journey of 150 years (to mark the 150thAnniversary of the Avocet Line) |
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June 8 |
Anne Howard |
Using the resources of the Westcountry Studies Library for research projects |
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August 10 |
Dr Peter Baker |
The Colletons of Exeter |
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October 12 |
Gillian Allen |
The Davy family of Topsham and Jamaica |
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December 14 |
Christmas Party |
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2012 |
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February 9 |
AGM |
Mini auction of books, prints etc. |
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April 12 |
Richard Holladay |
History of Garton & King Ltd. |
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June 14 |
Camilla Hampshire |
RAMM: Aspects of Exeter |
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August 9 |
Mike Passmore |
Exminster’s Wartime Secret |
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October 11 |
Prof. Ruth Hawker |
History of the Salvation Army in Exeter |
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December 13 |
Dick Passmore |
Barnfield Theatre Myths & Legends |
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2013 |
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February 12 |
AGM & |
Film of Exeter in the 1920s |
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April 9 |
Capt Jack Nott |
Exeter Ship Canal |
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June 11 |
Caradoc Doy |
The Veitch Family’s Influence |
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August 13 |
Tony Lethbridge |
Exe Bridges Redevelopment 1968-72 |
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October 8 |
John Allan |
Medieval Exeter |
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December 10 |
Colin Laskey |
Postcards with a seasonal slant |
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2014 |
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February 13th |
AGM |
None |
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April 10 |
Colin Vosper |
History of the Harry Hems Centre |
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June 12 |
Mike Walker |
Tuckers Hall |
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August 14 |
Dr John Salvatore |
Topsham Road Excavations |
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October 9 |
Clare Maudling |
History of Post War Exeter |
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December 11 |
Peter Dare |
Types of Stones in the Cathedral |
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2015 |
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February 12th |
AGM & Frances Allwright |
Wynards Almshouses |
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April 9th |
Steve Paterson |
Magical Beliefs & Practices in the West Country |
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June 11 |
Malcolm Grigorey |
Teign Valley Railway |
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August 14th |
David Cornforth |
Pre-WW2 aerial photographs |
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October 8th |
David Force |
History of Force & Sons |
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December 10th |
Richard Holladay |
Industrial Life in Pre-War Exeter |
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2016 |
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February 11th |
Christine Trigger |
Past Exeter: Sidney Endacott's Watercolours |
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April 14th |
Tony Lethbridge |
Exeter and the Great War |
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June 9th |
Kevin White & John Davidson |
Exeter School: Its History |
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August 11th & 6 September |
Dr Todd Gray |
100 Things You Should Know About Exeter |
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October 13th |
Malcolm Foster |
Norman Exeter |
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December 8th |
Michael Parrott |
Polish Air Fighters in WW2 |
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February 11th |
Christine Trigger |
Past Exeter: Sidney Endacott's Watercolours |
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2017 |
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February 9 |
Sam Rainbow |
History of the YMCA |
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April 13 |
Dr Julia Neville |
Exeter’s First World War Hospitals |
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June 8 |
Dr Kate Osborne |
Exeter’s Medieval Bakers |
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August 10 |
Chris Reed & Todd Gray |
Medieval maps to the present day |
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October 12 |
Ed Williams-Hawkes |
Deller’s Cafe |
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December 11 |
Robert Hesketh |
Christmas Quiz |
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2018 |
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February 14 |
Martin Horrell |
St David’s Church Reredos |
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April 11 |
John Allan |
Building of Exeter Cathedral |
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June 8 |
Julia Neville |
the Fight for Votes for Women, 1866-1918 |
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August 10 |
Richard Holladay |
Dr Lovely and the Workmen’s Dwellings Company |
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October 12 |
John Allan |
Building of Exeter Cathedral (cont from 11 April) |
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December 11 |
Jill Kemp |
A Tudor Christmas |
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2019 |
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2019 |
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February 12 |
Alan Rosevear |
Travel Before the Railways |
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April 10 |
Peter Thomas |
Forty Years Of Local History |
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June 12 |
Valerie Belsey |
Green Lanes |
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August 14 |
Andrew Johnson |
Stained Glass |
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October 17 |
Todd Gray |
Individuals and the Mob 1500-1900 |
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December 7 |
Jim Causley |
History through Song |
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2020 |
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18 January |
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Backstage at the Northcott Theatre |
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12 February |
Martin Horrell |
A miscellany of little known facts about Exeter’s Churches |
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8 April (cancelled due to lockdown) |
Michael Parrott |
Thomas Gregory – The Lifesaver of Exeter |
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24 July (cancelled due to lockdown) |
Caroline Walter |
Northcott Theatre Archives |
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13 August |
Nicola Gale |
Weather & War (audience limited to 25 due to Covid) |
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