Items (24 total)
"Geographia" Large Scale Street Plan of Exeter
Folded street plan in a red printed card cover. It including a key to railways, station and bus routes, as well as an index to streets. The date is unknown, but it is assumed to have been made in between the 1940s and 1960s, likely after the Second…
Bacon's Large-Scale Plan of Exeter, with Street Index
Folded chromo-lithograph plan of Exeter in red printed card cover.
Bomb damaged Registry building, University College of the South West
Photograph of the exterior of the Registry of the University College of the South West, damaged in the Exeter Blitz in May 1942. Most of the college records were also destroyed.
City of Exeter Town Map 1951
Folded town planning map of Exeter, produced by Cook, Hammond and Kell for the Planning Officer at Exeter City Council in 1951. The city underwent a period of post-war rebuilding in the late 1940s and early 1950s, for which the City Council may have…
Civitas Exoniae (vulgo Excester) urbs primaria in comitatu Devoniae
Framed copy of map of Exeter, engraved by Frans Hogenberg and printed in Vol. 6 of Georg Braun's 'Theatri praecipuarum totius mundi urbium'. It was based upon the 1587 map by John Hooker, originally engraved by Remigius Hogenberg.
Excester in Engellandt
This map of Exeter, based on John Hooker’s 1587 map, was published in the book ‘Libellus novus politicus emblematicus civitatum’ and is used to point out the dangers of excessive lust. The Latin and German texts describe how the female serpent bites…
Exeter
Plan of Exeter, engraved by John Roper under the direction of J. Britton from a drawing by I. Hayman. This plan was removed from 'The British Atlas...' (1810) by G. Cole and J. Roper. It was originally engraved in 1805 and printed in 'The Beauties of…
Exeter
Framed plan of Exeter showing the existing boundaries (in green) and the proposed boundary changes (in yellow), produced by Lieutenant Robert Kearsley Dawson, Royal Engineers. This plan was the result of the Reform Bill of 1831 and the Boundaries Act…
Exeter
Framed colour plan of Exeter, drawn and engraved by John Rapkin. The plan is decorated with illustrations of the Guildhall, Exeter Cathedral, Northern Hay, the Post Office and St. Sidwells, drawn and engraved by Henry Winkles.
Exeter Official Street Plan
Folded street plan, produced by the Exeter Information Bureau.
Exonia. Excester.
Colour map of Exeter by Rutger Hemannides, based upon the 1587 map by John Hooker, originally engraved by Remigius Hogenberg.
Gandy Street, Exeter
Exterior photograph of university premises in Gandy Street, Exeter. The building was purpose built with 40 rooms and a lecture theatre, it opened in 1911 and was sold by the University in 1983.
Isca Danmoniorum: britanice Kaier penhuelgorte: Saxonice Monketon: Latine Exonia: Anglice Exeancestre vel Exestre at nunc Vulgo Exeter: urbs perãtiqua, et Emporium celeberrimum
Isca Danmoniorum is the earliest known printed map of Exeter. It was commissioned by John Hooker, the first Chamblerlain of Exeter, from the Flemish engraver Remigius Hogenberg, and formed the basis of all printed maps of Exeter for more than a…
Map of Exeter in 1832: Shewing the localities where the Deaths caused by Pestilential Cholera occurred in the years 1832, 1833, & 1834
A modern copy of a map by Dr. Thomas Shapter, printed in 'The History of the Cholera in Exeter in 1832' (1849). The first cholera outbreak reached England in the autumn of 1831 and arrived in Exeter in July 1832. Horizontal bars (1832), diamonds…
Northcott Theatre
Exterior photograph of the Northcott Theatre, University of Exeter
Plan of Exeter from actual Survey
This detailed plan of Exeter was produced by John Wood for the Improvement Commissioners in the late 1830s. It shows individual plots, as well as ward and parish boundaries. A legend at the side lists public buildings and places of worship in the…
Rag week boat race across the Exe
View across the Exe looking towards Mount Dinham.