Exeter Memories

• What it is: a free website of photographs, stories and videos about Exeter
• Size: about 1,000 pages and over 10,000 photographs
• Founded by: David Cornforth (died December 2022); now maintained by Sean Creech
• Contact: info@exetermemories.co.uk; there is also an Exeter Memories group on Facebook

Exeter Memories describes itself as a history of Exeter “including historic buildings and places, famous people and individual stories”, with photographs of each decade of the twentieth century, genealogy content, public art, pubs, streets, theatres and cinemas, a timeline and a large collection of historic film.

The scrapbook runs decade by decade from the nineteenth century to the 2000s. The topic pages cover areas, buildings, bridges, pubs, churches, schools, commerce, entertainment, transport, parks, sport and streets. There are sections on the First and Second World Wars, including the Blitz, the Home Guard and a roll of honour, a Devon war memorials page, and a people section with Exeter people, famous visitors and group photographs. A list of Exeter's 800 mayors sits alongside them.

For Dartmoor research it is the place to look for the Exeter side of the story: the city's shops, printers, schools, churches and civic life that surrounded the Devonshire Association and the Dartmoor books published there. People in our directory who belong to that world include the bookseller, publisher and mayor James George Commin and the Royal Albert Memorial Museum.

Sources: Exeter Memories, home page | Exeter People.