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Historic house gets set for a very special party

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

GEORGE Bradford is making a date to mark a very special anniversary later this week.

The trust behind Poltimore House, on the outskirts of Exeter, is celebrating its 10th anniversary with a birthday bash and it is appealing for the 1,401 babies born at the house...

Survivors of HMS Exeter disaster join in reunion

REUNION: Eight survivors of the sinking of HMS Exeter after the 68th annual reunion at Exeter Cathedral, where a window has been dedicated to the tragedy. From left, Bill Francis, Tom King, Johnny King, Steve Cairns, Bill Guy, Joe Asher, Bill Welch and George Gaskell are pictured at the White Ensign Club in South Street

Thursday, March 11, 2010

EIGHT survivors of the sinking of HMS Exeter in the Second World War joined in the annual HMS Exeter/Macassar reunion at Exeter Cathedral. The eight...

Mary dedicated herself to city operatic society

Tuesday, March 09, 2010

THE golden days of Exeter Operatic Society have been recalled with the death of Mary Alderton. She is the only person in the society's history to...

Schoolboy football tale prompts photo memory

top team: Pictured left to right, back row: D Tucker, M Ainscough, P Rutley, D Beecroft, T Clark, H Hawkey, R Hammond (capt), J Radford (manager). Front row, from left: C Sweet, J Turner, J Cope, L Burnett, S Banfield.

Tuesday, March 09, 2010

NOSTALGIC stories on the footballing prowess of boys from the old Ladysmith school and stalwarts such as Cliff Bastin and Jack Radford, sent Echo...

Convent girls are invited to relive city schooldays

REUNITED: The Mount St Mary's Convent girls who met up for a reunion in 2008 at Isca Bowls centre

Thursday, March 04, 2010

OLD girls from Exeter's Mount St Mary's School are being invited to come together for a reunion in the city. Reunion planner Cherry Madley, (nee...

Letter prompts treasure trove of wartime photos

blitzed city: A picture of Exeter city centre in 1947, as it was left following bombing raids by the German airforce in 1942

Tuesday, March 02, 2010

EXETER historian Peter Thomas has told of the letter he received 17 years ago that led to a treasure trove of never-before-seen photographs of wartime...

Amazing exploits of 'the human mole' John Fancy

THE MOLE: John Fancy, seated far right, with other prisoners of war at Stalag Luft 1 in 1942, and, inset, in his 90s

Thursday, February 25, 2010

THE daring deeds of wartime flier John Fancy are being told in a new book. Dubbed the most slippery prisoner of war the Nazis ever captured, Mr Fancy...

Exhibition planned to honour Polar explorer

EXPLORERS: Denis Lillie and Captain George Murray Levick pictured on January 24, 1911, during Captain Scott's ill-fated Antarctic expedition

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

CAPTAIN George Murray Levick, who lived near Budleigh Salterton, until his death in 1956, is to be remembered with a special exhibition next year. The...

Remarkable pictures reveal tale of one man's war in city

VITAL SUPPORT: This advertising board at the top of High Street, Exeter, showed how much the city had raised for the war effort. It is featured in a new book by Peter Thomas, right

Friday, February 19, 2010

A REMARKABLE 17-year-long project between an Exeter historian and a man he never met is set to throw new light on war and peace in the city. It has...

Community hall going back to wartime home

Umborne Hall, a Quonset Hut, was used to house American troops in the Second World War

Thursday, February 18, 2010

A WARTIME Quonset hut, used as a temporary home for American soldiers before becoming a Devon village hall, is returning to Dunkeswell. Umborne Hall...

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