EDGT owns and maintains the Dissenters' graveyard in Exeter.
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15 Dec 2022
New biogs added to edgt.org.uk for two influential ministers - Rev Micaiah Towgood and his cousin Rev Stephen Towgood. Lots of other excellent biogs have been uploaded this year #Exeter #Devon @godsacre @devonfhresearch
ALT A receipt from 1767 with signatures of Micaiah and Stephen Towgood and Abraham Tozer, all dissenting ministers in Exeter.
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27 Sep 2021
Thanks to everyone who visited the graveyard during @heritageopenday recently. We enjoyed a lovely music performance from the West Gallery Quire to whom we are very grateful. Our gates will be open each Wednesday (10am-4pm) until the end of October.
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25 May 2021
We've been off-line for a few months, but we've been very busy working on biographies of people buried in @ExeterDGT. We are also installing lots of signs in the graveyard so that visitors can access our research work on their phones.@HeritageFundL_S - edgt.org.uk
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18 Sep 2020
If you like graveyard archaeology you'll love @BBCTwo's Britain's Biggest Dig #BiggestDig (Tuesdays 9p.m. BBC2). We have a link between @ExeterDGT and the #HS2Digs at St James's London - Capt Matthew Flinders and Catherine Hippius. See bit.ly/32J7LSB. @MOLArchaeology
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12 Sep 2020
We’re open today and have had a stream of visitors. If you are in @visitexeter today or tomorrow please pop in (11-4). @heritageopenday @godsacre #scanourQR
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11 Sep 2020
We will be open this weekend - 12th/13th September between the hours of 11 and 4 for @heritageopenday. We are trialling the use of QR codes in the graveyard to enable visitors to access information in our database. Please pop along if you are in Exeter and #scanourQR!
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28 Jul 2020
Huge thanks from @ExeterDGT to all those players of
@TNLUK #NationalLottery for making it possible for
@HeritageFundUK to provide an emergency grant to us. The grant will be used wisely and will help to tell our story to visitors for years to come. #thankstoyou
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14 Jun 2020
Just written a short piece for m.facebook.com/Devonandcornw… daily blog. They are intending to post one invited contribution each day throughout June and July - it’s an excellent initiative @devonassoc @DevonGardens #DCRSdaily
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1 May 2020
Great effort to get the DFH out - lots of interesting content as always.
Thanks to a sterling effort by Sally, our Editor and by the printers, the MAY Devon Family Historian has been posted and is hitting the mats in the UK today. The digital version is also online in the Members' Area.
Thanks to all.
Keep well and stay safe.
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14 Apr 2020
Delighted that our memorial landscape is included in the @DevonGardens journal. Thanks for accepting our article. @godsacre @devonhistorysoc @DevonHeritage
14 Apr 2020
Our latest journal is in the post to our members. Well researched articles include The Edinburgh tree in Exeter and Langstone Cliff Cottage near Dawlish. @thegardenstrust @devon_ex_inst @ExeterDGT @LangstoneCliff
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7 Apr 2020
Our booklet on the graveyard is now available at a special discounted price of £2.50 p&p. It covers the origins of the site to the present day conservation work. It's great value and proceeds go to our maintenance work. edgt.org.uk/booklet.html @devonfhresearch @devonhistorysoc
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20 Mar 2020
We want to turn the negatives created by #Covid_19 into a positive contribution to #Exeter's history. We are seeking memories, anecdotes & photographs of the Dissenters' graveyard, Magdalen Street or George's Meeting House in South Street. See edgt.org.uk/news.html for details.
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6 Mar 2020
This is a wonderful exhibition ably demonstrating the exquisite skills of Devon lacemakers. @RAMMuseum #Devon #DevonLacemakers
These late 19th-century laces still have original price tickets from Mrs. J. Tucker & Sons of Exeter.
See them, and more beautiful #Devon #lace, in "By Royal Appointment: Devon Lace-makers," on until 31 May.
#ByRoyalAppointment #lace-making #DevonLacemakers #DevonLace
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Exeter Dissenters’ Graveyard Trust retweeted
23 Nov 2019
Wed 27th Nov, 1pm - come along and hear Dr Ian Varndell @ExeterDGT speak for our next lunchtime lecture!
Tickets £5 and more info at nicholaspriory.com/events/sa…… @ExeterHBT @Devon_Hour @visitexeter #exeter #visitexeter
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18 Nov 2019
Anna Wilhelmina Merivale (1782-1815) wrote detailed and witty letters to her friends and family. Read the account of her brother's marriage to Louisa Drury in July 1805 edgt.org.uk/uploads/3/4/6/9/… @partoyster @devonhistorysoc
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15 Nov 2019
Looking forward to talking about the graveyard at 21 The Mint on 27th November - see nicholaspriory.com/events/sa…. @nixpriory @exploringexeter @devonassoc @devonhistorysoc
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Exeter Dissenters’ Graveyard Trust retweeted
26 Oct 2019
The story of how Temperance Lloyd, Mary Trembles and Susanna Edwards came to the gallows is a tragic one that serves as a dark reminder of England's superstitious past 🧙♀️
bit.ly/342Oyce
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Exeter Dissenters’ Graveyard Trust retweeted
26 Oct 2019
Some people think visiting cemeteries is morbid, but they used to be popular places of recreation:
This 1881 Globe article noted how, "The city burial grounds vie with the city parks in their attractions for the idler on a summer day," and were, "thronged" with visitors. 👍👍
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26 Oct 2019
Our gates are open today, so if you feel like braving the wet and windy weather please visit the graveyard and have a look around. More information is available on edgt.org.uk
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Exeter Dissenters’ Graveyard Trust retweeted
26 Oct 2019
ST NICHOLAS PRIORY is open tomorrow (Sunday) from 1-4pm Come and explore almost 1000 years of Exeter's history
Find us hidden away at The Mint (off Fore Street) #Exeter
FREE ADMISSION
@nixpriory #visitexeter @Devon_Hour #thingstodoinexeter #Exeterheritage
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