Time for Tea

Celebrate the festive season. Come and listen or sing along to Christmas music performed by children from St Mary’s school Axminster under the direction of Mrs Burroughs. Enjoy a cuppa with [...]

Join Ian Gladstone, Riley enthusiast and expert for an illustrated talk about his passion. In the 1930s everyone aspired to a Riley, the Lotus of its day.The wonder car was a four door saloon [...]

Cider has been made in Devon from a very early date, indeed apple pips have been found at archeological sites dating from the Neolithic period. Orchard cultivation of apples certainly arrived [...]

Everyday objects can quickly become curiosities as fashions and technologies change. In this talk Douglas Hull, local resident and member of the Axminster Heritage Collections Committee, will [...]

Enjoy a cuppa with today’s talk by Nick Cole who tells the story of the Bantam soldiers of the First World War. When hostilities began in August 1914, the minimum height for a soldier in [...]

Enjoy tea and cakes in the company of other locals. Today’s talk by local historian David Knapman will explain about Axminster’s long-standing water supply and how it determined the [...]

Enjoy tea and cakes in the company of other locals. Today’s talk is the story of farming in East Devon told by local historian Colin Pady.  Devon has always been a rural county with farming [...]

Legacy to Landscape; linking King John’s Oak to the future – a talk by Ruth Worsley This three year project celebrates a hidden area of landscape based on a 1780s map of the Shute Estate. [...]