EPW041178 ENGLAND (1933). Widgery Road, Exeter, 1933

296 Pinhoe Road

Mainline to London (Waterloo).

Now the Exeter Arena.

Honeylands

Northbrook Borstal and Reform School in the 1960's now various uses including a martial arts hall.

Whipton Showground site of the annual Devon County Show from 1956 to 1990 when it moved to Westpoint.

This house is still occupied on the corner of Pinwood Lane and Beacon Lane. Now totally surrounded by housing.

Exeter's spread to the North East continued into all of the fields in this photo throughout the thirties, forties and fifties and the areas became Beacon Heath and Whipton and then on towards Pinhoe.

Widgery Road

Bennett Square

Widgery Road

This whole area now built up as Beacon Heath.

Beacon Lane

Summer Lane

Beacon Lane

Beacon Lane

Beacon Lane

Red House Inn

Whipton Road

Part of the Posloe Bridge platform where local residents flocked to catch the Exmouth train for the sun and beach.

The relentless spread of housing from Exeter to local villages continued and accelerated in the 1930's, in this case from Posloe Bridge towards the ancient village of Whipton which was finally incorporated into the suburban sprawl in the 1930's and by the early 1950's housing had moved onwards towards Pinhoe.

Exeter to Exmouth railway line.