24 March 2007 - Exeter

Queen Street, the magnificent Royal Albert Memorial Museum and Art Gallery.

Cathedral Close, Mol’s Coffee House dating from 1596.

More old buildings in the Close. The building with the dome in the roof (No 7) is a very distinguished building. In 1662, the Courtenays, Earls of Devon, acquired it as their town house, and so it remained until bought by the Devon and Exeter Institution in 1813.

Another view in the close showing the old Assembly Rooms (1768) by Mr William Mackworth Praed, now the Royal Clarence Hotel (named after the Duchess of Clarence, whose husband became William IV in 1827) the first hostelry in England to be known as an hotel (1770).

The Guild Hall in the High Street

A mixture of the old and the new in the High Street.

Looking down the alleyway that leads from the High Street to the Cathedral Close.

Another view in Cathedral Close

Business properties in Princesshay.

Burnett Patch bridge linking sections of the town wall.

The Cathedral and Close, a popular place for sitting, talking and eating out.

The Civic Hall. Now the Guildhall Shopping Centre.

Walking back to the railway station and another view of the Museum and Art Gallery.

Gandy Street.