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Timeline
Victorian City
At the beginning of Victoria’s reign the city still faced very serious problems of disease and poverty. The shock of the cholera outbreak of a few years earlier was still in many people’s minds (see Late Georgian), and the work of the Improvement Commissioners was far from complete. Their work included the new Queen Street (named after Queen Victoria but in fact begun a few years before her reign), and public schemes to improve the water supply, sewers, hospitals and street lighting.
The period saw a considerable rise in the city’s population from 28,000 in 1831 to 47,000 in 1901. With it came a large growth in the extent of the city, especially in late Victorian times, when St Thomas, Heavitree, Mount Pleasant and St Davids all experienced rapid growth.
Improvements in education for children were marked by a new generation of schools for both boys and girls. The great efforts in improving adult education for working people centred on the Albert Memorial Museum, founded in the 1860s. To many Victorians education was closely linked to religion and new churches were built to serve the suburbs, whilst the cathedral experienced an expensive restoration in the 1870s.
The ‘Tudor Room’ at St Nicholas Priory
Exeter Cathedral
Spreat’s view of Exeter Cathedral
The Cathedral and Bishop’s Palace
Map of Exeter of c1851
The city centre in 1876
Exeter from above Exwick
The Guildhall and High Street
North Street in Victoria’s reign
Queen Street
Old Heavitree Church
Smoking cap worn by Grandpa Cole in Alphington
Hats from JG Ross
Wedding dress made by Green and Sons
The Watergate
Old houses in South Street
Theatre Royal tickets
Royal Albert Memorial Museum Art Gallery
A 1½d check from Glade’s Black Dog Inn (reverse)
A check from the Victory Inn, Sidwell Street (reverse)
A 3d check from the Eagle Tavern, Barrack Road (reverse)
A 6d check from the Country House Inn (obverse)
A token of the Ship Inn, Heavitree (reverse)
The Exeter School medal for excellence in Classics (reverse)
A Topsham scholar (reverse)
A token of the Coach and Horses Inn (reverse)
The new Post Office in Queen Street
The Albert Memorial Museum and Free Library
The railway at St David’s
The railway at St David’s
The Theatre Royal fire
Theatre Royal fire condolence card
Proposed designs for the Freemasons’ Hall
Improvements in drinking water
The interior of the Cathedral quire before Scott’s restoration
The interior of the Cathedral quire after Scott’s restoration
A group of four floor tiles from the cathedral
The church of Allhallows–on–the–Walls
View of St Michael’s church
St Matthew’s church
The Exeter Diocesan Training School
The interior of the St Luke’s College chapel
A Victorian Sunday School medal
Waterwheel in Cricklepit Mill
Poster of the St Anne’s Well Brewery Company
The Malthouse, Haven Banks
The early development of the Malthouse from the 1780s
Later developments at the Malthouse
The Clifton Hill brickworks
A wood carving from Harry Hems’ studio
A product of the Exeter Art Pottery
A 6d check from the Country House Inn (reverse)
A 3d check from the Eagle Tavern, Barrack Road (obverse)
A check from the Victory Inn, Sidwell Street (obverse)
A token of the Ship Inn, Heavitree (obverse)
A token of the Coach and Horses Inn (obverse)
The Garton and King hammer
Check for Thomas Carnall’s Coffee House (obverse)
’Exeter from Haven Banks’
The Custom House and Quay
Examples of ’Honiton’ lace
Victorian lace
Opposition to paying for improvements
Glass from the hospital chapel
St Sidwell’s Board School: a model Victorian School
The Exeter School medal for excellence in Classics (obverse)
A Topsham scholar (obverse)
Provision for the sick: Wynard’s almshouses
The area of Cricklepit Mill in the 18th century
The railway between Exeter and Exmouth, 1846
A length of broad gauge from the Great Western Railway
JL Pearson’s cloister at Exeter Cathedral
The lierne vault of JL Pearson
Guy Fawkes night at Exeter Cathedral
The cellar of St Nicholas Priory as a domestic dwelling
Exeter Free Cottages
Victorian stoneware jars and bottles
Badge of a West of England fireman
Codd bottles
A Victorian Shop: Joslin and Quicke
Victorian weights and measures
The Exeter Penny Post
The Baths, Southernhay, Exeter
St Luke’s campus of the University of Exeter
Malting floor tiles
Photo of Bodley’s foundry
Engravings of machinery made at Bodley’s
A pattern from Bodley’s
Food for the poor: a Penny Dinner Society plate
A 1½d check from Glade’s Black Dog Inn (obverse)
Exeter Coffee Tavern token (obverse)
Exeter Coffee Tavern token (reverse)
Fire Notice
Post Office refreshments token (obverse)
Post Office refreshments token (reverse)
Theatre Royal programme (front)
Theatre Royal programme (back)
Page from a child’s notebook
Poster for Commemoration of Peace
Menu card for the City of Exeter School Board (outside)
Menu card for the City of Exeter School Board (inside)
Boer War ration tin
Parts of an early calculator
An angel collected by Harry Hems
A green man collected by Harry Hems
List of persons executed at Devon County Gaol
A grand fantasy fair
A five pound note of City Bank, Exeter
