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.

Naome Glanville, the University's Arts und Culture Coordinator, will kindly guide us along the Sculpture Trail in the grounds of the University of Exeter. Even if you have done this walk before, as many of us will have, I am sure we will get new insights. In order to manage numbers, can you please email Gert if you are interested to come along (gertvonhoff@btinternet.com). The University grounds are hilly, so please bring appropriate footwear. We will start off at 2pm with a short introduction by Emma Molony of 'Double Elephant Print', who will give us a short presentation about the 'Print and Paper' project - which recently had an exhibition in Sidwell Street and documents the history of paper-making in Exeter and surroundings. It is part of a project between the Double Elephant Print Workshop and one of our academics in Geography. You can find a link to information about the exhibition in the side column.

Do join us (again) for a leisurely walk around the ‘wrong side of the river’ as St Thomas has been traditionally known to the locals. Find out some of the reasons why it may have been true and why those who live here don’t agree! We won’t have time to cover the whole area but will include several varying sites of interest. Wendy Rakestrow will lead this walk, which will come in several loops, so if you do not want to do the whole walk you can drop out earlier. We all hope the weather will be kinder to us than in October when only a very few rain hardy members made it to this walk and reported back how very interesting it had been, So thanks, Wendy, for offering it again. Keep the clouds at bay!

For an afternoon of socialising, welcoming and bringing together new and long-standing members, we will meet at the Quaker's Meeting House. We hope the weather will be kind enough for us to use the lovely garden here for a social event, but there will also be a short presentation by our member Chris Dent about the Quaker movement and the Meeting House.

A social event where visitors and guests are welcome and refreshment will be available. Our speaker is Stuart Blaylock who will tell us about Bowhill House on Dunsford Road. The house was built c1500 for Roger Holland, a prominent Exeter citizen, MP and Sheriff of Devon. Stuart’s expert knowledge resulted in his book - Bowhill, Exeter, Devon: The Archaeological Study of a Building Under Repair, 1977-1995.

Gert is offering a walk along the new development alongside Prince Charles Road, which will be the first low car use site in Exeter. The area alongside the railtracks is levelled out, foundations have gone in and two large blocks of what will be built here are already up and close to be finished. We can discuss the architecture and the impact on the local area.