Crediton, about 1900

East Street, Crediton about 1905

East Street, after a great snow storm in 1891.

Vine Cottage, East Street, Crediton. Four generations of Heards lived in the street over 100 + years.

In the 1928 Street Directory Heards are occupying at least 5 houses in East Street.

1909 Bemused onlookers in East Street, watching the 1000th anniversary celebrations of the consecration of Crediton's church as a cathedral in 909.

The Ring of Bells, one of East Street's pubs, which, with the cottages adjoining it, was demolished in about 1911.

Funeral procession of General Sir Redvers Buller, East Street, Crediton,1908 (See Links Page and The Artistic Gene)

The Heards had a grandstand view from number 46 - the thatched house centre top, immediately to the left of the building with bay windows.

The Fountain, at the junction of East Street and Charlotte Street

Two of the houses in this picture were occupied by Heards,one above the little girl with outstretched arms being my childhood home.

East Street and not a car in sight. On the right, Dean Street, where many of our Osborne, Haydon and Drew family lived.

Mill Street, Crediton

Crediton Parish Church

The church from the South-West

On the left of the picture the gatepost marks the entrance to the Berry family's builder's yard. The family moved the business here from St Lawrence Green in about 1860, when the grammar school was expanded to its present site.

Alms Houses, Church Street, Crediton

Crediton fair, in the High Street

Crediton High Street, about 1900

High Street Crediton about 1900

Crediton High Street, early 1900s

High Street Crediton

What are those barrels?

Western end of the High Street, Crediton

Western High Street, looking East, Crediton

Crediton High Street, looking West from the Town Hall.

One of many, Gimblett's Economic Shoe Factory, behind the shop front on the right, received much of its leather on a railway running from Adams tannery a few doors up the street.

Market Street, on Market Day

Now People's Park, formerly Buller Park, Crediton

Originally the Rack Field where Creditons kersies (woollens) would be laid out to dry before being sent to market.

Western Road, Crediton

The Berrys' lived in a house on the right from the 1840s until the 1970s. Their Builders yard was located here from the 1840s until the mid 1860s.

Crediton Green

Queen Elizabeth's School Crediton in about 1870. Photographed by William Hector

Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Crediton, about 1903

Attended by many of the sons of families on this site.

Woodland Head, Yeoford

Home for Turners, Canns, Heals, Labbetts and Bubears

Yeoford

Yeoford

Neopardy, Yeoford

Rose and Crown Hill, Sandford

The Lamb Inn, Sandford

Sandford

Sandford School

St Swithuns, Sandford

Sandford on Market day

Sandford Mill

A general view of Sandford

Colebrooke - after Crediton and Sandford the third most significant parish in our families' history

Coleford Village

Copplestone; Turners, Heals and Linscotts lived here

Copplestone

Copplestone

Copplestone

Shobrooke: Feys, Coneybeers, Osbornes and Heards all lived in the village

Shobrooke Church

Shobrooke in the 1940s

Cheriton Fitzpaine - home of Heards, Feys, Sharlands, Braggs, Wallers, Wensleys, Greenslades

Cheriton Fitzpaine

Cheriton Fitzpaine.

Cheriton Fitzpaine

Cheriton Fitzpaine

Morchard Bishop - in the heart of Devon, many of our families lived here

Morchard Bishop

Morchard Bishop. Pitts lived here in the 1920s -1940s

Morchard Bishop

Lapford - Pitts were born in the village

Lapford - home of the Heals.

The Bible Christians built the Chapel in 1860, and it was bought by the Independents to be used for a Sunday School in 1871

Lapford. Drews and Rudalls also lived here.

Lapford Station in about 1905

Emma Kathleen Pitts, 1878-1954 and baby Lewis Laurence (Laurie) Pitts, 1912-1999, at Higher Town Place, Lapford, about 1912

Zeal Monachorum - Feys and their in-laws, Rices and Coles lived in the parish

Zeal Monachorum

Zeal Monachorum

Zeal Monachorum

Zeal Monachorum

Down St Mary

Home of Feys, Linscotts, Cheritons, Drews, Wensleys

Cheriton Bishop, home of Saffins, Clarks, Northways, Conibeers

Cheriton Bishop

Cheriton Cross. Saffins and Clarks lived here

Cheriton Cross, Cheriton Bishop

Crockernwell: Turners, Saffins and Feys lived in the village

Drewsteignton, home of the Clarks, and probably of the Feys in the 17th-18th centuries

Drewsteignton

Drewsteignton

Drewsteignton

Tedburn St Mary

Home of Heards. Halls, Linscotts, Brownings and Cheritons

Bow

Feys lived here, also Linscotts

Bow in about 1900. Also called Nymet Tracey

Dunsford: home to several Heard in-law families, including Linscotts, Conbeers (Conibeers), Smallridges.

Dunsford again

North Tawton surrounded by the Dartmoor hills

Linscotts, Langs and Wensleys lived here

Winkleigh: home of the Luxtons

Fore Street, Okehampton

Drews, Metters, Gilberts, Coombes all lived here

South Molton

Heathcoats' Lace Factory, Tiverton, about 1900

Several of our Tiverton ancestors worked here

Fore Street, Tiverton

Castle Street Tiverton

Halberton

Halberton

Wheelers, Rowes and Wrights lived in Halberton

Witheridge - home of Partridges and Arscotts, Drews and Fursdons

Witheridge

Chittlehampton - home of Partridges and Arscotts

Payehembury

Home to Heards and Johns

Exmouth

Home for Pitts, Waller, Hooker families.

... and holiday destination for many of our families

Exmouth

Newton St Cyres

William Heard was apprenticed in the village as a wheelwright

Newton St Cyres

Other Heard, Helmore and Bicknell family lived here too.

Exeter High Street about 1905

High Street, Exeter

High Street, Exeter

Exeter, High Street

Exeter High Street

New London Hotel, Exeter

Theatre Royal, Exeter

Sidwell Street, Exeter

Originally outside the city, many family members lived in St Sidwell's parish

Sidwell Street Exeter, about 1905

Sidwell Street, Exeter

St Sidwells, Exeter

Clock Tower, Exeter

Clock Tower, Exeter

Queen Street, Exeter

Queen Street, Exeter, the Museum

The great Cathedral of St Peter's, Exeter

Cathedral Close, Exeter

East Southernhay, Exeter

In contrast to the West Quarter, this part of Exeter was home to surgeons (for the nearby hospital), solicitors, retired merchants, gentlewomen, and people "living on bank dividends"

South Street, Exeter. The eastern boundary of the West Quarter.

Fore Street, Exeter

The main artery of the West Quarter of Exeter

Fore Street, Exeter

Fore Street, Exeter

Stepcote Hill, West Quarter, Exeter, about 1900

Stepcote Hill

Church of St Mary Steps, Exeter

Several family weddings took place here in the 19th century

St Mary Steps again. The West Quarter where several of our families lived.

Frog Street, just beyond the city walls. One of the poorest parts of the city in the nineteenth and early twentieth century.

A later view of Frog Street. It adjoins the West Quarter. Feys lived here.

This Merchant's House was the famous house that moved in 1962. It now sits in West Street: the inner bypass now runs through here.

West Exeter. Nearby, the river.

Exe Bridge - on the other side, St Thomas

Exeter, looking towards Fore Street and the West Quarter from St Thomas

Similar view of the bridge and the West Quarter

Old Exe Bridge, demolished 1903

New Exe Bridge

Ferry at Exeter

Exeter Canal

Exeter Canal

Countess Wear. Heards lived here.

Reuben Heard (1904-1925) is said to have developed typhoid after swimmingin the River Exe near his home here. His mother Emily Heard nee Warren was infected whilst nursing him. They both died in the Isolation Hspital at Pinhoe in 1925

Cottage in Countess Wear, Exeter - a Heard family home

Topsham High Street

Pinhoe Road, Exeter.

Heavitree, Exeter, about 1900

Heard, Fey, Physick and Waller family members have lived in Heavitreee, and Heards are there still!