Find Your Roots
Saturday 10 October 2009, 10am to 4pm
Parasol from about 1860
Donated to RAMM by a lady in Alphington Road
Bibliography and PDF version
St Thomas Easter Fair research
'Devon Leather'
An outline history of tanners and tanneries in 19th century Devon.
St Thomas Easter Fair in the 1850s:
Victorian respectability and the fair
St Thomas Easter Fair in the 1840s:
Wild beasts and well-behaved crowds
St Thomas Asylum
Bowhill House, now used by architects
Thomas Plane's school medal
Alphington School for Boys
Key to Murder - A Mystery Thriller
7.30pm July 28, 29 & 31 and 1st August
Redvers Buller
A local landowner with a military career
Cowick Street Environmental Improvements - Public Consultation
Friday 17th April (12pm-6pm) and Saturday 18th April (9am-1pm).
Living Here Guidance for Editors
This explains the editorial policy of this website
Exwick Local History Group
More about it and how to join
Alphington Local History Group
More about it and how to join
Guildhall Exhibition features West-Side Stories
7 to 21 April 2009 (but closed over Easter weekend, 10 to 13 April)
Inspirational Women of Devon
Booklet features women who live in St Thomas
St Thomas Trail Guided Walk
Saturday 7 March 2009, 10.30 to 12.30
Interview
The best place in Britain!
Interview
Recent memories
Interview with my Grandad
Memories of all the fields
City Wall walk
Lots of questions to answer
Walk around the City Wall
Learning and remembering the sweets
Interview
Fields, brooks and tadpoles
Interview
Cider apple orchards and motorbikes
Interview
Friends and Barton Fields
Interview
Changes in a short space of time
Interview
Clark's Pond and watercress
Bakery tale
R D Western & Sons of Exeter
Four St Thomas gentlemen in 1883:
Messrs Clogg, Bradshaw, Vanstone and Sandford
We'd throw our caps onto Gerald
A tribute to Lt Col. John Speller
The Place-Shaping Agenda:
Museums and Local Government
'Codd' pop bottles
Kerswell Aerated Waterworks, St Thomas
History took my breath away
How I got on during my trip to Britain
Future Heritage
Friday 14 & Saturday 15th November
Ropemakers of St. Thomas
An oral history of the Cloggs and their family business, spanning three centuries
St Thomas local history trail
Officially launched on 7 November 2008
St Thomas object is a "Treasure of Exeter"
Birdall's bell features in RAMM exhibition
Time capsule buried by children in Exwick
Garden of Remembrance looks to the future
Fragile Fortunes
New research includes Exwick wool trade
The Redhills Workhouse
A play script for children to perform
Help write hidden LGBT history
Local Lesbian, Gay, Bi and Trans heritage
Haven Road
Memories of Kelland family members
Sue and Gail reflect on the making of the Local Area Resource
and encourage other schools to explore their local environment
Further links
Other websites and places to visit
Civil war comes to St Thomas
Lead shot finds at Hayes Barton
Research skills
Some guidance and links
Teacher, family, researcher, volunteer?
A quick way to find pages of interest to you
The Postcard Show
A poem set in St Thomas
The Flying Falcons
A poem set in the County Ground
Cricket Club Capers
A poem about Marsh Barton
Bell ringers, beagles and TB
Old family photos from the Westcott family of Alphington
Ron's story
Memories of peace and war
Water water everywhere...
Pictures of a flooded Cowick Street
SCENE 3 Skating on ice
An extract from 'West Side' (Living Here Play Number 4)
Would you know where you came from?
An extract from 'West Side' (Living Here Play Number 4)
We are the guardian angels
An extract from 'West Side' (Living Here Play Number 4)
Another link to Abraham Cann
Wrestler added to Heard family history website
Frost, Fuel and Fishing
Glimpses of post-war Exeter
A day of theatre and outdoor fun!
Playscheme works with Ian Hegginworth Siddons
My Neighbourhood Project
29 March 2008 Saturday 1-3pm
Contact us
How to get in touch with the 'Living Here' team
National Playday at St Thomas
Wednesday 6 August 2008, 12 noon to 4pm
Fun4Free in Exwick
Friday 22 August 2008, 1pm to 4pm
Mosaics around St Thomas
Delightful community artworks
Your chance to make history!
Past, present and future, as told by you...
Find out about maps
Activity sheet for 7 to 10 year olds, to print out
Find out about coins
Activity sheet for 7 to 10 year olds, to print out
St Thomas
My everyday life in 2008
Dancing West of the Exe
Happy memories around Cowick Street
Find out more about how memory works...
BBC Radio 4 project: The Memory Experience
Worried about your memory?
Advice and support for memory loss
Affected by memory loss?
Alzheimer's Society Lesbian & Gay Network
Holocaust Memorial Day
Sunday 27 January 2008
Stone Age flint axe
Found at Waybrook Cottages, Alphington
Anderson shelter used in St Thomas
A little history of the Anderson shelter
From west of the frozen Exe to life in India
John, in his eighties, shares some of his life story
Hayes Barton, St Thomas
Death of an Elizabethan country house
FREE taster days for beginners
Try out digital photography, oral history and creative writing with Living Here...
Garton & King
Foundry in St Thomas
A glimpse of seventeenth century St Thomas
A trade token with woolcombers, issued by David Hart
The Flowerpot ring
Evidence from medieval St Thomas
Family overseas?
Trace your roots beyond Britain
Pirates in St Thomas?
'Piece of 8' found locally
Mrs Letts, Wardrew Road
Student digs in St Thomas
Ticket to ride
Dunsford Road to Pinhoe Road
A very early map of Exeter, made in 1587
Land west of the Exe is outside the city
Come along to the Research Group
A chance to meet others and compare notes
Heads and Tales
Images from RAMM
Mr Pollard, the Alphington baker
and a link to a rather taller tale
Researching west of the Exe...
Have you referenced your sources?
Memories of the Blitz
Plane crash in Barton Road
Slums in St Thomas
It went on 'til the 1950s
Memories of home
St Thomas circa 1950
House and home lost in the Blitz.
An unexpected move to Alphington
Who was Nathaniel? - more from RAMM
Making money from wool in the 1700s
Man with sailing ship?
Detective work uncovers the story behind the picture
Red shoes
donated by a lady from Alphington
Biscuit goes on a train...
I wonder where he's off to?
Biscuit goes exploring
Adventures of a little dog who lives at school
Read about 'local distinctiveness'
Some thoughts from 'Common Ground'
Portrait of a Devon Wrestling Champion
Story of Abraham Cann, local celebrity
Thomas Gray (1787-1848) - more from RAMM
Railway pioneer who died unrecognised in Alphington Road
Abraham Cann (c.1794-1864) - more from RAMM
Devon Wrestling Champion who fought in St Thomas
Take it further:
Learn how to interpret documents spanning 800 years
Take it further:
Research your local churchyard or cemetery.
Gerald the Giraffe too tall for RAMM
and a family connection to an Alphington baker
Were you at the Swan Fair in 1988?
Research for a community pageant in Exwick