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Welcome to our neighbourhoods
Where is Exwick?
Where is St Thomas?
Where is Cowick?
Where is Alphington?
A Topographical Map - West of the Exe
360 degree images west of the Exe
Alphington
Cowick
St Thomas Parish Church
St Thomas
Exwick - Winchester Avenue
Exwick - Foxhays Garage
Living Here... projects
Cricklepitmedia
Radio Free
Our world
We are volunteering with the RAMM
St Thomas local history trail
Talking with elders at Age Concern, St Thomas
"EX4"
A day of theatre and outdoor fun!
Heads and Tales
Living Here Primary School Project
International Women's Day
On Exwick Farm
Inspirational Women of Devon
What we owe to the few...
Mrs Letts, Wardrew Road
liz Bramley
Sue remembers life west of the EXe
Dancing West of the Exe
Researching a shoe donation from Alphington
The Walkey family of Alphington
Flooding in Exwick in the 1950s and 60s
Liz Moreton remembers the floods when she was a schoolgirl.
West Exe Children's Centre
Award for Katharine Pringle, West Exe Children's Centre
New storytelling house at West Exe Children's Centre
Gerald Holds the Fort
Early Years Project
West Side - four new plays
Bicycles, Boundry Stones and Bouncing Bombs
SCENE 3 Skating on ice
Would you know where you came from?
We are the guardian angels
Contribute to this site
How to add your own pages
Access, legal and technical information
Terms of use
Privacy statement
Accessibility
Award - heritage strengthens communities
Bicycles, Boundry Stones and Bouncing Bombs
Radio Free
St Thomas local history trail
Sue and Gail reflect on the making of the Local Area Resource
Boxing and the Bullers Arms
Electric Electronics kinetic static encyclopaedias
New storytelling house at West Exe Children's Centre
Ellen Kerswel and her daughter, Gladys – St Thomas
Neighbourhoods
Alphington
Memories of Alphington and St.Thomas
Harvest of Life
Henry Dorville
Thomas Plane's school medal
Living Here, Alphington Old Residents Re-union Day
Alphington Local History Group
Pots, Combs and Butterflies
Japanese Gifts from the Veitch Family
The Alphington in my memory
Human remains from a Bronze Age cremation
liz Bramley
Bell ringers, beagles and TB
Caroline Sarah Chamberlain of Alphington
Using the Allotments
Alphington Conservation Area
Stone Age flint axe
Further research on the Alphington Ponies
Alphington during the Second World War
Warden's seal of Exe Bridge
A very early map of Exeter, made in 1587
Researching a shoe donation from Alphington
The Walkey family of Alphington
The girdled snail
An old Alphington document
The Alphington ponies
Red shoes
Work skills in Bakers Yard, Alphington
Searching for Alphington!
A brief history of Alphington
A brief history of Alphington
A brief history of Alphington
Boundaries, brooks, crosses and more from Alphington
The inns of Alphington, past and present
St. Michael and All Angels Church, Alphington
Gerald the Giraffe too tall for RAMM
Old photographs and prints of Alphington
A mystery cottage
Alphington's link with Charles Dickens
Alphington cattle and horse fairs at Midsummer and Michaelmas
Lightning Strike at St Michael's
Alphington village
An Alphington village production
One of Alphington's old bakeries
Memories of an Alphington Childhood 1935 - 1949
Memories of my Alphington childhood 1935–1949 – Chapter 1
Memories of my Alphington childhood 1935–1949 – Chapter 2
Memories of my Alphington childhood 1935–1949 – Chapter 3
Memories of my Alphington childhood 1935–1949 – Chapter 4
Memories of my Alphington childhood 1935–1949 – Chapter 5
Memories of my Alphington childhood 1935–1949 – Chapter 6
Memories of my Alphington childhood 1935–1949 – Chapter 7
Memories of my Alphington childhood 1935–1949 – Chapter 8
Memories of my Alphington childhood 1935–1949 – Chapter 9
Memories of my Alphington childhood 1935–1949 – Chapter 10
Memories of my Alphington childhood 1935–1949 – Chapter 11
Memories of my Alphington childhood 1935–1949 – Chapter 12
Memories of my Alphington childhood 1935–1949 – Chapter 13
Memories of my Alphington childhood 1935–1949 – Chapter 14
Memories of my Alphington childhood 1935–1949 – Chapter 15
Memories of my Alphington childhood 1935–1949 – Chapter 16
Memories of my Alphington childhood 1935–1949 – Chapter 17
The Alphington Photographic Club
The Alphington Photographic Group
The Alphington Photographic Group
Wildlife and flora in Alphington
The Alphington Mallard and ducklings
Alphington's wild flora
Alphington's wild flora
Alphington's wild flora
Alphington's wild flora
Butterflies in and around Alphington's Lanes
Moths in and around Alphington's lanes
Mammals in and around Alphington's lanes
The birds in Alphington's lanes
Reptiles and amphibians around Alphington's lanes
The insects in Alphington's lanes
The flora and wildlife in Alphington's old lanes
St Thomas
Trams West of the Exe
Memories of Alphington and St.Thomas
Parasol from about 1860
St Thomas Asylum
Kerswell Codd bottles found in the Duryard valley
Bakery tale
" Living Here Interview "
Radio Free
Cowick Street Conservation Area
'Codd' pop bottles
History took my breath away
Ropemakers of St. Thomas
Exeter Croquet Club
St Thomas local history trail
St Thomas object is a "Treasure of Exeter"
Haven Road
Our neighbourhoods' bricks and mortar
Civil war comes to St Thomas
The Postcard Show
The Flying Falcons
Cricket Club Capers
Electric Electronics kinetic static encyclopaedias
The Morrison Table shelter
A place of special architectural and historical interest...
Water water everywhere...
Pinces Gardens
A useful link
Manilla Mould from Birdall's Foundry, Cowick Street
Anderson shelter used in St Thomas
Ladybirds, but not as we know them...
Hayes Barton, St Thomas
St Thomas Union workhouse from the air
Garton & King
A glimpse of seventeenth century St Thomas
The Flowerpot ring
Pirates in St Thomas?
Roman coin hoard from St Thomas
Roman coin found in Alphington Road
Warden's seal of Exe Bridge
Ellen Kerswel and her daughter, Gladys – St Thomas
A find from the St Thomas Poor Union Workhouse
Ticket to ride
A very early map of Exeter, made in 1587
Whose Grandfather was the Vicar of St Thomas the Apostle Church?
Portrait of a Devon Wrestling Champion
Thomas Gray (1787-1848) - more from RAMM
Portrait of Thomas Gray, railway pioneer
My favorite things: a dress from RAMMs Collection
Met your girl by the gasworks wall?
St Thomas Easter Fair: 1820 -1900
The St Thomas Easter Fair project at the University of Exeter
The St. Thomas Easter Fair: 1820-1900
The Easter Fair in the 1820s:
St Thomas Easter Fair in the 1830s:
St Thomas Easter Fair in the 1840s:
St Thomas Easter Fair in the 1850s:
St Thomas Easter Fair in the 1860s:
St Thomas Easter Fair in the 1870s:
St Thomas Easter Fair in the 1880s:
St Thomas Easter Fair in the 1890s:
Bibliography and PDF version
Cowick
Mrs Phyllis Alcock old Exwickonian
The Redhills Workhouse
Swete Vol. 1
Swete Vol. 1
Roman coin found at Cowick Fields
Warden's seal of Exe Bridge
Ticket to ride
A very early map of Exeter, made in 1587
Exwick
2009 A Christmas Poem for Exwick
Wool cloth making in Medieval Exwick
Exwick and the English Civil War
St Thomas Asylum
Exwick photograph
The Hidden Beauty of Exwick
Historic Exwick
Old Exwick Trail
Exwick Local History Group
Storyteller Cat of Exwick - A Winter Poem
History took my breath away
Time capsule buried by children in Exwick
Splash Playscheme
Exwick School
We are the guardian angels
Warden's seal of Exe Bridge
A very early map of Exeter, made in 1587
Man with sailing ship?
A set of stone angels from Exwick cemetery
Were you at the Swan Fair in 1988?
West-side stories
Helping at the operating theatre during wartime
Comptometers
It was during haymaking...
GIs, ballroom dancing and segregation
Norman's ups and downs from a difficult start
The Veitch Nursery tree
The Alphington in my memory
Bakery tale
Sue remembers life west of the EXe
Ropemakers of St. Thomas
Ron's story
What we owe to the few...
Frost, Fuel and Fishing
On Exwick Farm
The County Ground in the 1920s
Shillingfords and Exeter
St Thomas
One way traffic in Cowick Street
Dancing West of the Exe
A day with a Hedgehog
Anderson shelter used in St Thomas
Boxing and the Bullers Arms
From west of the frozen Exe to life in India
The felling of an historic tree in Alphington
The felling of an historic tree in Alphington
Funny tales from Alphington
Alphington during the Second World War
Mrs Letts, Wardrew Road
Mr Pollard, the Alphington baker
Flooding in Exwick in the 1950s and 60s
Slums in St Thomas
Memories of home
Liz Moreton remembers the floods when she was a schoolgirl.
The potter of Newlands House
Exeter Blitz
Wartime West of the Exe
The Blitz in Kerswill Road, St Thomas
Childhood memories of the Exeter Blitz
Memories of the Blitz
House and home lost in the Blitz.
Gallery
Cathedral towers
Splash Playscheme
Photographs from Exwick
Share your snap shots
A place of special architectural and historical interest...
Water water everywhere...
The view of Exeter from Exwick
"Natural Reflections" Spring and Summer
At work and at play
Mosaics around St Thomas
The felling of an historic tree in Alphington
"Onkers" the famous goose
"Onkers" the famous goose
A view to remember!
Work skills in Bakers Yard, Alphington
"Natural Reflections" Autumn
"Natural Reflections" Winter
Aerial view of the Exe
Exeter from Exwick
1. Exeter from Exwick - Through the Seasons
2. Exeter from Exwick - Through the Seasons
3. Exeter from Exwick - Through the Seasons
4. Exwick from Exeter - through the seasons
5. Exeter from Exwick - Through the Seasons
8. Exeter from Exwick
6. Exeter from Exwick - Through the Seasons
7. Exeter from Exwick - Through the Seasons
8. Exeter from Exwick - Through the Seasons
9. Exeter from Exwick
Notes and queries
My life at RAMM
Family history
The Plants Family
Four St Thomas gentlemen in 1883:
Flowerpot Cottage
Ellen Kerswel and her daughter, Gladys – St Thomas
Mystery images
Four St Thomas gentlemen in 1883:
Willey's Sports and Social Club, St. Thomas
Were you in The Gondoliers in 1946?
Willey's Sports and Social Club
Ellen Kerswel and her daughter, Gladys – St Thomas
Electricity Board - Exeter river basin
A mystery cottage
An Alphington village production
One of Alphington's old bakeries
Quirky notes and queries
Who loves the Living Here community web site?
St Thomas's church linked to a terrier
Local studies
"A Chronicle Of The Old Exe Bridge"
Exciting New Agile Learning Programme
A Topographical Map - West of the Exe
People
RAMM Time Capsule
The Plants Family
Redvers Buller
We'd throw our caps onto Gerald
Fragile Fortunes
Fred Kelland, lock keeper on the Exeter ship canal
Another link to Abraham Cann
William Courtenay
Further research on the Alphington Ponies
The Walkey family of Alphington
Whose Grandfather was the Vicar of St Thomas the Apostle Church?
The Alphington ponies
Who was Nathaniel? - more from RAMM
Abraham Cann (c.1794-1864) - more from RAMM
Alphington's link with Charles Dickens
Nature
The Plants Family
Ladybird invaders not taking over the world!
Early botanical specimens collected at Cleve House
Using the Allotments
Minibeasts are all around us...
Ladybirds, but not as we know them...
"Onkers" the famous goose
"Onkers" the famous goose
The girdled snail
Wildlife on the Exeter Canal
Wildlife and flora in Alphington
The Alphington Mallard and ducklings
Alphington's wild flora
Alphington's wild flora
Alphington's wild flora
Alphington's wild flora
Butterflies in and around Alphington's Lanes
Moths in and around Alphington's lanes
Mammals in and around Alphington's lanes
The birds in Alphington's lanes
Reptiles and amphibians around Alphington's lanes
The insects in Alphington's lanes
The flora and wildlife in Alphington's old lanes
History
RAMM Time Capsule
'Devon Leather'
'Devon Leather'
Kerswell Codd bottles found in the Duryard valley
Alphington Rough Collie Dogs
St Thomas local history trail
Living Here at the DRO
Pinces Gardens
Find out about maps
Hayes Barton, St Thomas
Researching a shoe donation from Alphington
An old Alphington document
A brief history of Alphington
A brief history of Alphington
A brief history of Alphington
Boundaries, brooks, crosses and more from Alphington
The inns of Alphington, past and present
St. Michael and All Angels Church, Alphington
A set of stone angels from Exwick cemetery
Were you at the Swan Fair in 1988?
Alphington cattle and horse fairs at Midsummer and Michaelmas
Lightning Strike at St Michael's
Alphington village
Alphington's History
A brief history of Alphington
Boundaries, brooks, crosses and more from Alphington
The inns of Alphington, past and present
St. Michael and All Angels Church, Alphington
A brief history of Alphington
A brief history of Alphington
St Thomas Easter Fair: 1820 -1900
The St Thomas Easter Fair project at the University of Exeter
The St. Thomas Easter Fair: 1820-1900
The Easter Fair in the 1820s:
St Thomas Easter Fair in the 1830s:
St Thomas Easter Fair in the 1840s:
St Thomas Easter Fair in the 1850s:
St Thomas Easter Fair in the 1860s:
St Thomas Easter Fair in the 1870s:
St Thomas Easter Fair in the 1880s:
St Thomas Easter Fair in the 1890s:
Bibliography and PDF version
West Exe Technology College local history project
interview with my grandma
Jo swinford in exeter
Marge wescott in exeter
life in exeter interview paul whittaker
My interview with Debbie James-her life in Exeter
Families
living here
living here
west of exe interview
living here west of the exe
'living here' west of the exe
living here west of the exe
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living here west of the exe
living here west of the exe interveiw
living here west of the exe
living here west of the exe
Intervue with a very good friend
living in west of the exe
Living here west of the exe
living here west of the exe interview
West of the Exe interview with Daisy
interview
City Wall
Special Memories
City Wall.
Living Here West of The Exe
Interview
Interview
Interview
My walk around the City Wall
Interview
Interview with my Grandad
Interview with my Dad
City Wall walk
Walk around the City Wall
Interview
Interview
Interview
Interview
Interview
A walk around the city wall of Exeter
West Of The Exe
west of exe interview
interview about jane
interview westof the exe
My interview
Intview About Harry
interviewing my mum
My life on the west of the River Exe
Interview with Emma Thomas
my dads interview west of the exe
moving to exeter
interveiw with david mcknight
An interview with my mum
My Interview With Eilleen Saunders
Interview with my mum
interveiw
Living Here West of the Exe
'Living here' West Of The Exe
My interview with my nan
My interview with Debbie James
liz Bramley
`interveiwing for Living Here`
About My Nan
" Living Here Interview "
My Nan
Untitled
KS2 Redhills Workhouse
KS2 Redhills Workhouse. A Local Area Study
Introduction for Teachers
Lesson A1: Investigating maps and aerial photographs.
Lesson A2: Fieldwork - a walk around the locality of the school.
Lesson A3: Now and Then
Lesson B1: A photo-walk around the workhouse site
Lesson B2: We call it the old hospital...
Lesson B3: Why is that building a funny shape?
Lesson C1: What was it like to be a child in the workhouse?
Lesson D1: Finding out about food then and now.
D1 Extension: Paupers bread to be the 'best seconds '
Lesson D2: Compare what we eat and what they ate in the workhouse.
Lesson E1: Did people work in the workhouse?
A find from the St Thomas Poor Union Workhouse
Lesson E2: Role playing jobs in the workhouse
FOCUS F: Cross-curricular Literacy links
The Redhills Workhouse
Sue and Gail reflect on the making of the Local Area Resource
Further links
Research your area
Exciting New Agile Learning Programme
St. Thomas Local History Group
Exwick Local History Group
Alphington Local History Group
Bicycles, Boundry Stones and Bouncing Bombs
Cowick Street Conservation Area
A Topographical Map - West of the Exe
Living Here at the DRO
Research skills
Look up statistics about where you live.
Find out about maps
Find out more about your finds...
Researching west of the Exe...
Reference sources in your research
Read about 'local distinctiveness'
Take it further:
Take it further:
Things to do
Help write hidden LGBT history
Have your say
RAMM Time Capsule
Cowick Street Environmental Improvements - Public Consultation
Bicycles, Boundry Stones and Bouncing Bombs
Future_heritage
Exeter City Council Leisure & Museums Strategy
Learn about historical objects
Find out about maps
Find out about coins
Find out more about your finds...
Find out more about your finds...
Reference sources in your research
Take it further:
Learning activities
Exciting New Agile Learning Programme
Using the Allotments
Find out about maps
Find out about coins
St Thomas Union workhouse from the air
Reference sources in your research
Living Here Primary School Project
Teachers, get your school involved
How The Black Death came to Exwick!
Exwick Community Drama, 1990
Suggestion for Teachers: create a photo diary
Biscuit goes exploring
Biscuit goes on a train...
Biscuit finds a friend
I didn't know London had places like this.
Research your area
Exciting New Agile Learning Programme
St. Thomas Local History Group
Exwick Local History Group
Alphington Local History Group
Bicycles, Boundry Stones and Bouncing Bombs
Cowick Street Conservation Area
A Topographical Map - West of the Exe
Living Here at the DRO
Research skills
Look up statistics about where you live.
Find out about maps
Find out more about your finds...
Researching west of the Exe...
Reference sources in your research
Read about 'local distinctiveness'
Take it further:
Take it further:
Sharing memories
RAMM Time Capsule
What we owe to the few...
Talking with elders at Age Concern, St Thomas
Find out more about how memory works...
Worried about your memory?
Affected by memory loss?
Social activities
RAMM Time Capsule
Exciting New Agile Learning Programme
Going Potty
South Western Naturalists Union
Pottery at Alphington
Trace your roots
Family overseas?
Volunteering
Living Here Guidance for Editors
We are volunteering with the RAMM
Volunteer for 'Living Here... West of the Exe'
Events
Open mornings at Exeter's cemeteries
My Neighbourhood PACT
My Neighbourhood PACT goes live in Exwick - Have your say!
An Exploration of Cob Building Around the World
Earthed: Cob cook-up
Can't Pay? Won't Pay!
Local History Day
Events form
Record of events now passed
Christmas Craft Fair
Exwick Remembers
Discovering Landscape History - The Parishscapes Project
Agile Learning Programme Open Day
Arms and the Man (Alphington)
Exhibition: De-Placing Future Memory
Find Your Roots
Harvest of Life - A Celebration of Community - Alphington
Summer Family Holiday Activities
National Playday
Play4Free
"A Monkeys Tale" and "Romeo and Shakespeare"
ST. THOMAS LOCAL HISTORY GROUP
Photography and History from Alphington
EXWICK SUNDAY FUN DAY
Family History Talk
A new St Thomas Local History Group
Key to Murder - A Mystery Thriller
Cowick Street Environmental Improvements - Public Consultation
A Creepy Walk
Old Buildings of Church Road
Mid-summer Evening Parish Walk
Special Spring Meeting (Devon History Society)
Alphington Old Residents Re-union Day
Guildhall Exhibition features West-Side Stories
St Thomas Trail Guided Walk
Voices from a Popular Past - tracing a heritage of women's cinema culture
Future Heritage
Splash Holiday Activity Open Day
Sharing the Harvest
West of Exe future_heritage
EX4 - The Ivy Project's film about 3 young people west of the Exe
Spring into life in Pinces Gardens
Exeter Play Rangers in St Thomas
My Neighbourhood Project
The Alphington Garden Flower and Produce Show
National Playday at St Thomas
Fun4Free in Exwick
Global Gardeners Touring Exhibition
Pub Quiz
What's Wild in Alphington?
RAMM Volunteers in Exwick on 21 February 2008
Three Living Here Pub Quizzes in February
Half Term Fabulous Finds Day for Families, 20 February 2008
Young at Heart, 23 February 2008
Living Here Road Show
Holocaust Memorial Day
Uncovering Lesbian, Gay, Bi and Transgender histories
FREE taster days for beginners
Come along to the Research Group
RAMM roadshow in Cowick Barton
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