Calendar

Events

Every year, Heavitree Local History Society holds four quarterly meetings each with an external speaker, and additionally a couple of walks / tours in the Heavitree area.

Unless indicated, meetings are held at Heavitree United Reformed Church, at 7:30pm on the second Wed of Mar, Jun, Sep & Dec.

Forthcoming Events

DateSubjectSpeaker
Wed 9th Sep 2026AGM followed by …
'A History of Exeter Hospitals'

The talk will cover a great array of local health initiatives from the first leper facility in the city to the Nightingale Hospital built during the Covid outbreak. Responses to major events like the 1832 Cholera epidemic and the First World War will be discussed. Institutions described will include the old Workhouse, the original and subsequent RD&E hospitals, the eye infirmary and the Princess Elizabeth Orthopaedic Hospital.

Several of the hospitals to be highlighted were in or close to Heavitree including the Old City Hospital, off Heavitree Road, the ‘new’ city hospital in Gladstone Road and Mowbray House Maternity Hospital off Butts Road.

The talk will also celebrate major medical inventions and innovations in Exeter.		Mike Richards
Sun 11th Oct 2026A stroll around the Polsloe Park area

Meet at 2pm at the St Marks Road entrance of the Higher Cemetery		Martin Weiler
Wed 9th Dec 2026'Wills as Windows on Tudor, Stuart and Georgian Lives'Dr Laura Sangha,
University of Exeter
Wed 10th Mar 2027TBATBA
Wed 9th Jun 2027TBATBA


Past Meetings

A table of our past meetings can be found on our Archive page.

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