A social event where visitors and guests are welcome and refreshment will be available.
Ben Clapp will be our speaker for this meeting.
A social event where visitors and guests are welcome and refreshment will be available.
Fiona Carden will speak about CoLab, which she has been leading for years. CoLab was set up as Collaborative Community and Social Laboratory more than 10 years ago and as a multi-agency wellbeing hub has become a model of national significance in the sector. Together with Lord Charles Courtenay, Earl of Devon, she also now chairs 'Exeter Partnership', former 'Liveable Exeter Place Board'.
David Solman will lead our second tree walk, this time through Bull Meadow Park in St. Leonard's. The ground of the park is uneven, so please bring adequate footwear. There will be a chance to sit together for a cup of tea and biscuit afterwards in the nearby 'Old St. Leonard's Hall' in Roberts Road, EX2 4HD.
Ian Maxted will guide a walk he designed as a literary walk for Heritage Open Days, September 2025. This walk is part of the 'Discovering Exeter Walks', individual events run by Exeter Civic Society.
ECS thinks this would be a good time to start thinking of how to improve North Street, a street which could do with an uplift. This is a closed event, for which you will have to book yourself in by emailing your details to gertvonhoff@btinternet.com .
As part of the Festival of Devon in the 1920s, www.devontwentiesfestival.co.uk. Julia Neville will lead a walk around Exeter city centre highlighting how Exeter in the 1920s was already adapting to its modern functions as a centre for learning, technology, local government and leisure activities and jettisoning the industrial activity that represented its past. Pre-booking by email to hello@devontwentiesfestival.co.uk is essential. Update 5 Oct: NO FURTHER BOOKINGS POSSIBLE AS EVENT IS OVERSCRIBED.
A social event where visitors and guests are welcome and refreshment will be available.
In his talk, our speaker Hugh Meller will take us on an informative, entertaining and amusing trip through the graves and memorials of the notable and notorious people found in Exeter and Devon. The presentation embraces the rich and the poor, the magnificent and the quaint and the sad and the quirky, both in the memorials and gravestones and the lives (and deaths) of the people remembered.
Hilary Neville has planned our next walk. July’s walk takes us out of the City to visit three villages: Pinhoe, Poltimore and Broadclyst. Points of interest will range from ancient churches to brand new housing, and there’s a great view from near Pinhoe Church. The walk is five miles long, and includes a long climb at the start up to Pinhoe church. But don’t be deterred! It is all quite easy underfoot. It will take place on Monday 14th July, starting at 11:00 am, at Pinhoe Library - please note the date and time which are planned in order to allow us to break for lunch at the Poltimore House cafe.
A social event where visitors and guests are welcome and refreshment will be available.
Our speaker John Davidson will inform us about the lost rivers of Exeter and what can be done to 'daylight' some of them again.
OUR SPEAKER IS ILL, SO SO WE HAD TO CHANGE SPEAKER AND TOPIC.
Robert Guyver will now speak on 'Lady Harriet Acland’s American Adventure (1776-1778) and the rest of her life.’ We are very grateful that Robert agreed to step in with very short notice.
A social event where visitors and guests are welcome and refreshment will be available.
Stephen Mariner will lead a walk through the history of important sites in St Leonard's. This is the rescheduled walk which had to be cancelled in June. Half a year later it will become our pre-Christmas walk, where we usually end up for a hot drink in a cafe/pub along the way.
