The AGM is a chance for members to hold the Executive to account and issues to be raised regarding the running of the Society. This is an opportunity for members to stand for election to the Committee for the following year. This event is for paid up members only and only they will be allowed to vote on any decisions taken.

A social event where visitors and guests are welcome and refreshment will be available. Devon Gardens Trust seeks to promote and protect Devon’s designed landscape heritage – its parks, gardens and cemeteries of special historic interest – for future generations. It works with owners, managers and local authorities to ensure that those gardens, parks and cemeteries of special historic importance are recognised and conserved. Dianne Long, a former Trust chair, will take us through the work of the Trust and focus on the history and conservation of some of the important historic parks, gardens and cemeteries in and around Exeter.

Saturday and Sunday (8-9 June) sees the Exeter Heritage Harbour Festival coming back. We will have a stall on Sunday in the Piazza Terracina, show-casing what we are doing and running a competition testing your knowledge of Exeter Sites which are of specific interest to our Society. If you are really good, you may even win one of our prizes, good luck. So please join us down by the Basin and have a good time. All on 'Steam Sunday' - so full steam ahead!

Gert Vonhoff will lead a walk along the Exeter City Walls where we can talk a bit about how this defining structure has developed over time and in which state it is today.

Our July walk will take us 'Around Topsham', 3.5 miles in length. Meet at Holman Way at 2pm on Wednesday 3 July for a tour of some lesser known parts of Topsham. Jim Perriam will lead the walk, which will stick to the ground and not provide you with the lofty shot from above. So you all should feel safe to come and enjoy a summer afternoon out.

A social event where visitors and guests are welcome and refreshment will be available. Richard Holloday will speak about 'Exeter Retailing 1880-1940'.

A social event where visitors and guests are welcome and refreshment will be available. At 11 am John Davidson will give a presentation on 'Exeter Floods - Past, Present and Future'.

Our June walk will be the delayed one for May, and will be a circular walk taking us from Countess Wear to Heavitree and back: incorporating Duckes Meadow, Northbrook Park, Ludwell Valley and parts of Whipton. Let us hope we have walking weather and all will be fit to go!

A social event where visitors and guests are welcome and refreshment will be available. Many people rely on Stagecoach buses, but they are not always reliable. More people would use them if they were and so reduce the amount of traffic on the road. But running a bus service and making it reliable isn't an easy task. At 11a.m. Peter Knight, Managing Director Stagecoach South West, will talk about the challenges of running the service and the bus station.

This was too ambitious, given the weather we recently have had. Jim checked the paths for us and it is way too muddy. So we will have to reschedule this walk for a dryer time. We are currently thinking whether we can put something else in place for 3 April, so watch the site! Original announcement: April and high time for getting out: this time we want to explore Exeter's northern border with a country walk, mostly on paths and bridleways. Bring firm footwear. We hope to see lots of wild flowers and maybe the odd other wild life as well.

Interested in planning issues but uncertain how the process works and how to take part? This is the meeting for you. Our members, Paul Barkley and Chris Dent, both planning experts, will host a presentation and teach-in which will bring you fully up to speed and enable you to have a say about planning issues in your street or neighbourhood and more widely across the City. Please let Keith Lewis know by email (keithatecs@gmail.com) if you wish to attend so we can manage numbers and send members any presentation materials in advance. Non members are welcome to attend if places are available so please send an email if you are interested.

Our walk will start and finish at the Guildhall and will be about 3 Miles. It will include St Nicholas Priory, the Medieval bridge, the suspension bridge, the Quay and parts of the riverbank.