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St David's Project

  • About
    • Thanks
    • Our Community
    • Other Projects
    • 17 St David’s Hill, 1843-65
    • Exeter Community Centre
  • History
    • Early Cloth Production
    • Memories of the Victorian Parish
    • Buildings and Structures
      • Central Station
      • Easton and Sons
      • Exeter City Prison
      • Exeter’s Iron Bridge and the Pit
      • HM Prison – Exeter
      • Ivy Bank House
      • Mount Dinham and St Michael’s Church
      • Queens Chamber
      • Rougemont Hotel
      • Royal Albert Memorial Museum
      • St Anne’s Well Brewery
      • St David’s Station
      • St David’s Church
      • The Miles Clock Tower
      • Turkish Baths
      • Victoria Hall
    • Mills And Water
      • Mill on the Exe
      • The Water Engine
      • Bodies in the Leats
      • Head Weir Bathing Place
    • Streets
      • Northernhay Street
      • Russell Terrace
      • Elm Grove Road
      • Dinham Road
      • Queen’s Terrace
      • Lower North Street
      • Bystock Terrace
      • Haldon Road
      • Richmond Road
      • Telford Road
      • Woodbine Terrace
      • Creation of New North Road
    • St David’s People
      • W. G. Hoskins (1908 – 1992)
      • William Gibbs (1790 – 1875)
      • Martha Moody (1784 – 1868)
      • General Redvers Buller
      • John Dinham (1788-1864)
      • Emmeline Pankhurst
  • Parks & Pleasure
    • The Veitch Nursery in Exeter
    • Robert T Veitch (1823-1885)
    • Peter C M Veitch (1850-1929)
    • Thomas Lobb (1817-1894)
    • William Lobb (c.1809-1864)
    • Richard Pierce (c.1836-1867)
    • The Edinburgh Tree
  • Epidemics
    • The Cholera Outbreak of 1832
    • Cholera – Some Exeter Deaths
    • The Exeter Dispensary in Queen Street
    • Florence Annie Parkes
    • Tudor and Stuart Apothecaries
  • Charity
    • Almshouses
    • Atwell Palmer Almshouses
    • Mount Dinham Free Cottages
    • St David’s Institute
    • Charity Schools
    • 17 St David’s Hill and the Flaye family
  • Media
    • Audio
    • Maps
    • Timeline
  • Archive

Plants, Parks & Pleasure

St David’s parish has close associations with the Veitch family, the leading nurserymen in the city. Vestiges of their Victorian nursery remain.
The Veitch Nursery Robert T Veitch Peter C. M. Veitch Thomas Lobb William Lobb Richard Pierce The Edinburgh Tree

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