Title page from a manuscript laying out the words and form of the ceremonies for receiving the habit and profession. Includes a colourfully illustrated title page, and a colourful illustration of the altar at the end of the manuscript.
Page from the revised edition of the Rule of St Augustine and the Constitutions of St Bridget, featuring the signatures of sisters and brothers of Syon Abbey, including those of Confessor General Joseph [Seth] Foster, Abbess Isabella [Elizabeth]…
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…
Students on the steps of the Bradninch Place college building, Gandy Street, Exeter. The Borough of Badninch was a student society for men with its own Mayor and officials.
Black and white photograph showing Briony Duncan on her confirmation day, surrounded by Meriol Trevor, Mole, and Rose Marie. outside convent school at St. Leonard's
Black and white photograph showing Mole brushing Ching, her Pekingese outside Docton Mill. Unknown woman [possibly Bunny] in background. Labelled 'Mole & Ching the name of their Pekineses' on reverse