Staff and volunteers at Knightshayes near Tiverton are currently researching the role the National Trust property played during the First World War.
Their research will form the basis of an exhibition they’re hoping to hold from mid-July to November next year to mark the 100 year anniversary of the War and the team are keen to hear from anyone who might hold any information that might help them with their project.
It is known that the house was used by the Red Cross as a Voluntary Aid Detachment hospital until 1919, with the entire ground floor equipped to offer treatment...
A local conservation charity is marking Volunteers’ Week by highlighting some of the many ways in which its dedicated volunteers contribute.
The Whitley Wildlife Conservation Trust runs Paignton Zoo, Living Coasts in Torquay and Newquay Zoo in Cornwall, as well as nature reserves in Devon.
This is the 30th anniversary of Volunteers’ Week, run by the National Council for Voluntary Organisations, which champions volunteering and the voluntary sector.
Neil Thomas-Childs, Volunteer Coordinator for Paignton Zoo and Living Coasts, said: “Paignton Zoo has over 140...
Staff and students from Bicton’s Military and Public Services Academy (MaPS) have this week introduced their education programme to dignitaries from across the country.
Representatives from the Ministry of Defence, other UK colleges, Skills for Armed Forces plus further associates were invited to a presentation day about the framework for the popular MaPS Academy, and the strategy for opening the programme up on a national level.
The MaPS Academy is currently based at Bicton College in East Devon and provides residential preparation courses designed to give students the...
To commemorate the 70th anniversary of D-Day the Exeter-based Met Office has released a series of videos detailing the part paid by forecasters in the planning of the landings on June 6 1944. The videos pay tribute to role that Met Office forecasters had in helping with preparations for the invasion fleet. Advice from the Office ensured the invasion fleet avoided, what would have been, a disastrous initial attempt during the heavy wind, rain and unsettled seas on June 5 In the videos Deputy Chief Meteorologist, Chris Tubbs uses the historic weather charts to explain how forecasters at the...
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Afternoon Tea is the epitome of English style and where better to indulge than in a grand Georgian house with floor to ceiling windows overlooking a putting green surrounded by landscaped gardens. You really cannot get much more English than that!
However despite the grand exterior, Exeter Golf and Country Club and our Wear Park Restaurant where we serve Afternoon Tea, is as friendly and welcoming as you get. We’ve left the...
This year, Exmouth Art Group will be holding their annual exhibition at A la Ronde, near Exmouth, from 19 June to 2 July. The exhibition can be seen, free of charge, in the stable and award winning tearooms from 10.30am to 5.00pm each day.
Exmouth Art Group was founded in 1946 by a group of just seven artists with the aim of encouraging the appreciation and practice of the visual arts in the district. Today, the group has an average of 200 members made up of professional, semi-professional and amateur artists. They hold regular talks, demonstrations, workshops, critiques and three...
Two Exeter School pupils are runners up in a national competition organised by the Oxford German Network.
Upper Fifth Formers (Year 11) pupils Rebecca Richardson and Abby Pelling took part in the German For The Future competition, part of the Oxford German Olympiad 2014, during their GCSE exams.
They had to fill in a two-page survey in German answering questions about what primary school children should learn about in their German lessons and why; which Bruder Grimm fairy tales they would recommend be told to children and why; and which German speaking town or area would be...
The airport at Exeter had always been intended for use by the military in the event of war, and in 1939 the airport was taken over by the Air Ministry. Three asphalt runways were laid and RAF Station Exeter became officially operational on 6 July 1940.
RAF Hurricane squadrons had protected the Channel ports but in April 1944 the RAF units were withdrawn and the airfield was taken over by the US 9th Air Force. It became Station 463 and the United States 440th Troop Carrier Group, flying seventy C-47As and seventy CG-4 gliders, arrived in preparation for D-Day. There was insufficient...
The National Trust has been awarded £10,000 by the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) for a project, For King and Country at Killerton, near Exeter.
Awarded through HLF’s First World War: Then and Bow programme, the project will focus on the creation of a site-specific performance and art installation.
To be staged on Thursday 12 and Friday 13 June at 1pm and 4pm the performance tells the story of the impact of the First World War on the people at Killerton and the surrounding estate.
Written by Killerton staff and local primary school pupils the story explores the first...
East Budleigh and Bicton Parish residents are being asked to decide how to spend £3,450 available for sports in the area.
East Budleigh with Bicton Parish Council and East Devon District Council are taking their voting stall to the Scarecrow Festival at East Budleigh Village Hall on Saturday 14 June between 11am and 3pm. Go along and cast your vote!
The money has all come from recent housing developments (Section 106 money) in the parish. It is now up to residents to decide how the money is used.
An appeal for ideas last year produced two suggestions from East...
