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Sources consulted for articles on this website

Books and guides

1902 Coronation Programme and Time Table
2000 Years in Exeter - W G Hoskins * recommended
A Century of Exeter - Peter Thomas * recommended
An Account of Exeter's Merchant Adventurers in the 16th Century by William Cotton 1873
An Alphington Album - Pauline Aplin and Jeanne Gaskell
An Exeter Boyhood - Frank Retter * recommended
Any Gum Chum - Stil
Around Topsham in Old Photographs - the Topsham Museum Society
Aspects of Exeter - P Thomas and J Warren
Banks and Banknotes of Exeter, 1769-1906 - John Ryton
Born in Exeter - Heles School Historical Society
'Borough' Pocket Guide, The - Wheatons 1908
Civil and Ecclesiastical History of the City of Exeter - Jenkins 1841
Chronicals of Exeter - Todd Gray 2005
Cobbett of the West - a biography of Thomas Latimer by Richard Lambert
Coronation Exhibition of City Archive 1953 - RAMM
Courtenay Family Records held at the Devon Records Office
Description and Account of the City Of Exeter - Hoker 1765
Devon - W G Hoskins
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries (various)
Devon Railway Station - Mike Oakley
Discovering Exeter 1, St Davids - Joyce Greenaway
Discovering Exeter 2, St Leonards - Gilbert Venn
Discovering Exeter 3, Heavitree - Trevor Falla
Discovering Exeter 4, Pennsylvania - Hazel Harvey
Discovering Exeter 5, Sidwell Street - Hazel Harvey
Discovering Exeter 6, West of the River - Hazel Harvey
Discovering Exeter 7, Lost Churches
Discovering Exeter 8, Gates of the Close
Discovering Exeter 9, Community Mosaics - Hazel Harvey
Discovering Exeter 10, Public Inscriptions - Den Perrin
Discovering Exeter 11, Twentieth Century Architecture - Eduardo Hoyas-Saavedra
Discovering Exeter 12, The Street Names of Exeter - Mike Walker
Discovering Whipton - Peter Gentry
Eighteenth Century Exeter - Robert Newton
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Essence of Exeter, The - Todd Gray
Exeter 1540-1640 - Wallace T MacCaffrey
Exeter Airport - In Peace and War - Geoff Worrell
Exeter Burning - Peter Thomas
Exeter Cathedral Guidebook
Exeter City Council Guidebooks, various years from 1910 through to 1981
Exeter City Council Minutes of Meetings
Exeter City - Mike Blackstone
Exeter City Wall (leaflet) by the Devon Archaeological Society
Exeter Coinage - John Andrews, William Elston, Norman Shiel
Exeter in the 1940's - Todd Gray * recommended
Exeter in Old Photographs - Peter Thomas
Exeter Local History Society - newsletters
Exeter Maps - Todd Gray
Exeter News Photographs of the 1940s - Todd Gray
Exeter Past - Hazel Harvey * recommended
Exeter Phoenix - Thomas Sharp
Exeter the Blitz and Rebirth of the City - Norman Venning
Exeter The Golden Years - Peter Thomas *recommended
Express and Echo - clippings
Exploring Exeter - Jean Mauner
Gleanings from the Municipal and Cathedral Records - Cotton and Woollcombe 1877
Golden Hammer, The - S E Ellacott
The Golden Years - Peter Thomas - a very good portrait of Exeter between 1945 and 1960.
History of Alphington - Professor J Harte
History of the City of Exeter - Oliver 1861
History of the City and St Annes Well Brewery - Geoffrey Pring,
History of the Weavers, Fullers and Shearmen of Exeter - B F Creswell
Illustrated London News
The Journeys of Celia Fiennes - Celia Fiennes
Kelly's Devonshire Directory 1897 CD
The Laners - Stella Darke
Lost City of Exeter, Revisited - Chips Barber
Lost Exeter - Todd Gray * recommended
Maritime Museum Guidebook 1969
Mayors of Exeter from the 13th Century to the Present Day - MM Rowe & J Cochlin
Motor Vehicle Registration Records
Ordnance Survey maps including the 1905, 2nd edition
People Talking - compiled by Jenny Lloyd
Pinhoe of Yesterday - Chips Barber
Portrait of Exeter - Brian Little
The Ports of the Exe Estuary 1660-1860 - E A G Clark
Remarkable Antiquites of the City of Exeter 1049-1677 - Izacke
Reminiscences of Exeter 50 Years Since (1877) - James Cossins
Road Transport Before the Railways by Dorian Gerhold
Seventeenth-Century Exeter - W B Stevens
Souvenir of Exeter - Devon and Somerset Stores 1900
St Nicholas Priory, Exeter - H Lloyd Parry and Harold Brakspear
St Sidwells School Exeter - History 1665 - 2006 - Hazel Harvey
Story of Exeter, The - A M Shorto
Story of Countess Weir, The - L E Bartlett 1915
This is Your City - P J Dymond
Topham - an account of its streets and buildings, the Topsham Society
Topsham Past and Present - Chips Barber
Topsham - The story of the manor and port of - D M Bradbear
Transactions of he Devonshire Association (various)
Trewman's Exeter Flying Post - issues from 1801 to 1914 held in the West Country Studies Library
Victorian Exeter - Robert Newton
Water Mills and other Water Powered Sites in Devon by Martin Bodman
Whipton of Yesterday - Chips Barber and Don Lashbrook
Woolmer's Exeter Gazette - in the Devon & Exeter Institution
Worths Guide,- 12th edition
Worths Guide - 18th edition

* I have only recommended books that are currently available

Trade directories between 1796 and 1967 from: Besley

Besley
Kelly
Piggot
Post Office
Slater
Trewman
White

Individuals and Organisations that have given information

Amber Rooms
Ball, Margaret
Beach Bros.
Bell, James
COFEPOW
Cornish, Mr George
Elands - Cathedral Close
Endicott, Kevin
Ewing, Mike
Express & Echo
Globe Hotel - Topsham
Harvey, Hazel
Hinchcliffe, Peter
Holladay, Richard
Hotel Barcelona
Isca Photographic Collection - Peter Thomas
Johnson, Olive
Mazonowicz, Alan H
Ministry of Defence
Northcott Theatre
Passmore, Dick
Perrin, Den - Heavitree Local History Society
Rougemont Hotel
Rowsell, Syd
Royal Albert Memorial Museum
Salutation Inn - Topsham
Ship Inn
Stones Furniture Cream
Thomas Moore (the store)
Westcountry Studies Library - for maps, cuttings, documents and books

Websites consulted

A Brief History of Exeter
Albanyward.com - history of the cinema in the south west
Ancestry.com for census records
Applause South West
BBC - Creative Archive
British Genealogy - Newspaper page
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Debenhams
Dingles
De Havilland Moth Club
Devon Library Services - Etched on Devon's Memory
Devon Life
Devon History Society
Edmund Forte - My Families Website
Environment Agency website
Exeter 1950 by John Watson
ExeterCD * recommended site
Exeter City Council - History of Exeter pages * recommended site
Exeter City FC 'Grecians'
Exeter University
GENUKI
Flying Post
Historicaldirectories
Hookways - Greenslade and email
Met Office email
Ministry of Defence email
National Archives
Northcott Theatrewebsite email
Nostalgia - Express & Echo and paper
OldTowns
Pathe News * recommended site
South West Maritime History Society
Stones Furniture Cream Website - history page
Vapormatic
Village Inn
Wikipedia
Wippells website

Plus many more that I failed to log and also - many conversations with friends and acquaintances.

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