Open Meeting: Launch of the new ‘Sidwell Street and St James Discovering Exeter’ Booklet.

Saturday 17th October at 10:30 - 12:30
Positive Light Projects, 184-187 Sidwell Street, Exeter EX4 6RD
Please note that this replaces our usual monthly meeting at the Mint Methodist church. It is being held in Positive Light Projects, the spacious Exeter Phoenix gallery opposite John Lewis, as this is at the heart of the area covered by the booklet, a revision to the previous Discovering Exeter no. 5.

10.30 Coffee and viewing of old photographs of the Sidwell Street area.

11.00 Launch of Discovering Exeter: Sidwell Street and St James. Dr Julia Neville, our President, who edited the new edition will talk about the history of the area covered by the book which includes not only Sidwell Street but an area from Blackboy Road up to Mount Pleasant and across the railway to Lion’s Holt and Devonshire Place. She will explain how the events of the forty years since the publication of the first edition have not only changed the face of the area itself but added to our understanding of its history.

The booklet will be on sale at the meeting, price £5.