Magdalen Road Exeter. 4. North side east

→		COLLEGE ROAD. No.16 College Road fronts Magdalen Road.
77-87	1920-1942	Numbered 75-85
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75	1909 Oct 5	Exeter and Plymouth Gazette. Exeter City Council nominations: Mr. Charles Warren, auctioneer and house furnisher, 75, Magdalen-road, for St. Leonard's Ward will, on Monday, be declared elected.
75	1910 Oct 25	Western Times. Municipal elections. St. Leonard's: Warren, Charles, 75, Magdalen-road, auctioneer and house furnisher; nominators, C. Cole, J. Gould, L. Smale, and H. Bidgood.
75	1910 Oct 26	Exeter and Plymouth Gazette. To the electors of St Leonard’s ward. Plans to devote himself to the benefit of the people of Exeter, “and St. Leonard's in particular. I remain, yours faithfully, Charles Warren, 75, Magdalen-road."
87
85	1904	St. Monica.
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89
87	1920-1942	Yvery
89	1986-2024+	Raleigh House. 16 apartments for residents over 60 run by Cornwerstone. Refurbished 2017
91
-	1888	Rochelle shown on Ordnance Survey 1:500 map.
85	1895	Rochelle. Hitt, Henry John
87	1904-1908	Rochelle
89	1904-1942	Raleigh Villa.
91	2024	Misnumbered 81
93	1876-1877	Site of a skating rink set up as part of the short-lived craze for roller skating which peaked in 1876 when three rinks were set up in Exeter, none of them long-lasting.
-	1876 Feb 18	Exeter and Plymouth Gazette. The Exeter Skating Rink Club. Announcement to “the aristocracy and inhabitants of Exeter and its neighbourhood".
-	1876 Feb 18	Western Times. The Proprietors of the Skating Rink, Victoria Hall, beg to inform the Public that they are not in any way connected with the proposed elaborate scheme for carrying out a Rink in the Magdalen-road.
-	1876 Apr 7	Western Times. Under distinguished patronage. The Devon and Exeter Roller Skating and Racquet Club. Magdalen Road, Exeter. This skating rink, now in course of erection, will occupy an area of 25,000 superficial feet.
-	1876 Jun 2	Exeter and Plymouth Gazette. Wanted, immediately, half a dozen good plasterers. Apply at the Skating Rink, Magdalen-road.
-	1876 Jul 14	Exeter and Plymouth Gazette. The Devon and Exeter Skating Rink. One of the largest and finest skating-rinks in the kingdom will be opened this (Friday) afternoon Exeter, in the Magdalen-road, Mount Radford.
-	1876 Aug 22	Exeter and Plymouth Gazette Daily Telegram. Devon and Exeter Skating and Racquet Club, Magdalen Road. The Rink will be open to the Public as under during the week Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday, 10 a.m., 2 p.m., and 6 p.m.
-	1876 Aug 28	Western Times. The Devon and Exeter Skating Rink, Magdalen-road. Season tickets to admit on all public days will be ready for issue on Friday, lst next. Gentlemen's tickets £2 2 0 Ladies' tickets £1 11 Non-skate tickets £0 10.
-	1876 Sep 16	Exeter and Plymouth Gazette Daily Telegram. Annual licensing meeting at the Guildhall. Mr. John Maxwell, No. 2, Salutary Mount, Heavitree, secretary and manager of the Devon and Exeter Skating Rink and Racquet Club House, Magdalen-road, applied for license authorising him to hold excise licenses.
-	1877 Aug 4	Launceston Weekly News, and Cornwall & Devon Advertiser. Devon and Exeter Skating Rink, situated on Magdalen-road, is to brought to the hammer.
-	1877 Aug 8	Exeter Flying Post. Property known as the Devon and Exeter Skating Rink, situated in Magdalen-road, St. Sidwell's, Exeter, comprising manager's apartments, refreshment rooms, ladies' and gentlemen's retiring rooms, and cellars in the basement ...
-	1877 Aug 23	Sale particulars, Devon and Exeter Skating Rink, Exeter, 1877. Devon Heritage Centre, FOR/B/6/1/23. Freehold property including brick buildings, rink and grounds to be sold at the premises by Mr S R Force on August 23rd 1877.
-	1877 Aug 29	Exeter Flying Post. Auction on Thursday afternoon, on the premises, for the sale of the freehold property known as the Devon and Exeter Skating Rink, Magdalen-road. Mr. Force said the premises had been laid out and fitted up within the last eighteen months at a cost of £3,000.
-	1877 Oct 12	Exeter and Plymouth Gazette. The Devon and Exeter Skating Rink, Magdalen Road, Exeter. Mr. S. R. Force, has received instructions sell by auction, on Monday October 15th, Garden Seats, Garden Chairs, Two French Umbrella Tents, 14 20 inch Round Iron Tables ...
-	1878-1886	The Rink. Hitt, Henry John, builder
-	1878 Feb 26	Exeter and Plymouth Gazette Daily Telegram. Exeter Working-man's Conservative Union. Soiree. Victoria Hall being fitted up as a Circus, and therefore not available, the popular festivity will be held in the Magdalen-road Skating Rink, which will be covered and conveniently arranged. The gathering at the Rink will be specially attractive.
-	1878 Feb 27	Exeter Flying Post. Exeter Working-man's Conservative Union. Soiree. To accommodate this monster gathering, Mr. H. Hitt, of Heavitree, came to the rescue, and kindly offered the site lately used as a Skating Rink on the Magdalen-road. The Committee, having carefully inspected the building, determined to accept Mr. Hitt's offer.
-	1878 Feb 28	Exeter and Plymouth Gazette Daily Telegram. Exeter Working-man's Conservative Union. Soiree Tuesday, March 5th, 1878, Magdalen Road Skating Rink. The arrangements for this Entertainment include a Grand Concert.
-	1879 May 14	Exeter Flying Post. Exeter Dog Show. On 4th, 5th, and 6th June, 1879 (Bath and West of England Show week), in the Skating Rink, Magdalen Road, under most Distinguished Patronage, and under Kennel Club Rules. Prize Lists and Entry Forms are now ready.
-	1885 May 13	Express and Echo. [The course of a boundary] runs along Mount Pleasant and Union-roads to Heavitree-road, and then strikes across to Magdalen-road, through the house adjoining the Horse Bazaar and the old skating rink.
87	1895	The Rink. Hitt, Henry John, builder & contractor
91	1902-1942	Rink House
93	2024	Misnumbered 83
-	1838	Francis Harris, occupier, Samuel Kingdon, owner, dwelling house and garden, gross value £17 0s., rateable value £13 10s. Valuation of the houses and lands in the city of Exeter, by Rowe, Cornish and Hooper.
-	1838	Humphrey Ley, occupier, Samuel Kingdon, owner, a timber yard, gross value £4 0s., rateable value £3 10s. Valuation of the houses and lands in the city of Exeter, by Rowe, Cornish and Hooper.
→	1920-1942	COLLEGE AVENUE
-	1612-1818	Magdalen Drop. This was used by the City of Exeter Quarter Sessions which passed at least 14 death sentences of which four are known to have been carried out. It was situated to the east of the corner of College Avenue, in St Luke’s College car park, near the parish boundary mark. The condemned
were transported by cart from South Gate Prison. -	1610 Jul 12	Richard Wilkyns was accused of murdering a man and a woman, causing three people to become desperately ill and killing a horse, a cow and ten pigs through witchcraft. Having been found guilty by Exeter jurors, he was sentenced to be hanged and promptly executed in Magdalen Street (or perhaps the Magdalen drop).
-	1761 Jul 8	Western Flying Post. Executed at Magdalen Road Gallows, Samuel Wish, guilty of the murder of his wife.
-	1783 Sep 26	John Ashbolt and John Lee hanged at Magdalen Gallows for highway robbery near Exwick Bridge. Both were members of the 20th Regiment of Foot
-	1787 Jan 24	Exeter Flying Post. William Fitzgerald, aged 23, hanged for highway robbery at Magdalen Drop
-	1818 Oct 29	Exeter Assizes. Samuel Holmyard, 68 was convicted of forgery of Exeter City Bank £1 note. He was caught attempting to buy a hat, and the trail led to his Sun Lane house where 400 forged £1 notes were found.
-	1818 Nov 12	Exeter Flying Post. Exeter, Wednesday, Nov. 11. Samuel Holmyard and William Davis are to be executed on Friday next, on the Magdalen road; a temporary platform and drop are now preparing, which is to be erected on the spot where the gallows formerly stood. This was to be the first City of Exeter execution for 32 years.
-	1818 Nov 19	Exeter Flying Post. Friday last, Samuel Holmyard was executed on the Magdalen-road, pursuant to his sentence at our late Quarter Sessions, for a forgery on the City Bank. He appeared truly penitent, and met his fate with calmness and fortitude. William Davis, his associate, and who was to have suffered with him, received a respite on Wednesday evening last. Holmyard was the last County of Exeter prisoner from the South Gate prison to be taken to the Magdalen Drop for execution. Co-accused William Davis was sentenced to a prison ship.
-	1818	Illustration in Royal Albert Memorial Museum: The City Prison in the Ancient South Gate, Exeter - Samuel Holmyard for forgery on the City Bank taken for execution to the gallows in Magdalen Road 1818
-	2023	St Luke’s Campus car park.
-	2023	College House
-	2024	University of Exeter (St Luke’s Campus) Proposal for six-storey block fronting Magdalen Road.
→		BARING CRESCENT
		125-135 Magdalen Road 2023
125
127-135	1883-2026+	These numbers originally made up 1-4 Baring Cottages, probably built about 1882 as they first feature in the 1883 directory.
127	1883-1925	4 Baring Cottages
4	1883	Hawkins, William, gardener.
4	1925	Rabbage, A., [private resident].
127	1939	Richards and Watts, builders.
127	1942-1969	Taylor and Barnett, plumbers, electrical, sanitary and heating engineers.
127	1961-1964	Heavitree Builders Ltd
127	1981-1987	Quickprint Service.
127	1999-2001	ABA-text, translators. Tel: 428094. Registered address 2023: 13 Clifton Road, Exeter, Devon, EX1 2BR.
127	2002-2024+	Bizzy-Be frames, picture framers. Tel: 677178
129
2	1883	Goldsworthy, Samuel John, shopkeeper.
2&3	1921-1925	Knapman, James,
129	1927	Rabbage, A., [private resident].
129	1939	Weeks, -, [private resident].
129	1952	Pope, J. A., [private resident].
129	1956-1962	Pope, Leonard, [private resident].
129	1963-1964	[empty?].
129	1987	Pett, Michael C. , [private resident].
129	2023-2024+	[Private residence].
131
3	1883	Goldsworthy, Samuel John, bootmaker.
3	1887-1897	Knapman, James, boot and shoe maker.
2&3	1921-1925	Knapman, James, boot and shoe maker.
3	1926-1927	Knapman, James, boot and shoe maker.
131	1927-1939	Knapman, James, boot and shoe maker.
131	1942	Freeman, taylor.
131	1948-1962	Edwards and Drage (Tools) Ltd, local dealers.
131&133	1963-1969	Edwards and Drage (Tools) Ltd, local dealers.
131	1981-1987	Colour TV Services.
131	1996-2002	CTS Radio & TV. Tel: 272575. Listed in Neighbourhood news 1997-2000
131	2008-2014	CTS Professional Audio Visual Service.
131	2015	Havill’s Service, home entertainment and appliance support.
131	2019-2024+	St James Solicitors. Criminal law specialists.
133
133	1939	[not listed].
133	1952-1962	Williams, Reginald C. [private resident]
131&133	1963-1969	Edwards and Drage (Tools) Ltd, local dealers.
133	1987	Truro Dental Laboratories (Exeter). M. L. Kinnersley manager.
133	2022	[Private residence].
135	1883-1926	1, Baring Cottages
1	1883	Turl, Thomas Newton, dairyman.
1	1887-1897	Johnson, Robert, farmer and dairyman.
1	1925-1926	Maddick, James, dairyman and fruiterer.
135	1927	Maddick, James, dairyman and fruiterer.
135	1939-1942	Wilson, F., dairyman and fruiterer.
135	1948	Drage, A. L., dairyman and fruiterer.
135	1952	Burns, Thomas, dairyman, grocer, fruiterer and cafe.
135	1956-1965	Taylor, F. H., dairyman.
135	1969	Endicott, L[eonard W]. and M., grocers
135	1981-2012	Bizzy-Be, DIY centre. Tel: 274170. Chilcott, John 1987-1991. For sale 2012.
135	2013-2015	Darkhorse Espresso, coffee shop
135	2017-2024+	Baker and Baker, chartered surveyors.
137-41		Numbers never used
143
-	1888	Langley
-	1895	Baring Lawn
143	1920-1932	Baring Lawn Westall House
145
-	1888-1895	Baring Lodge
145	1920-1925	Baring Lodge
-	1930	Sale catalogue 1930 in Devon Record Office: 547B/P2969.
145-47	1927-2013	St Margaret’s School for Girls, private school. Closed 31 August 2013.
145-49	1946-1954	St Margaret’s School for Girls, private school.
145-51	1955-1981	St Margaret’s School for Girls, private school.
145-53	1987	St Margaret’s School for Girls, private school.
145	2023-2024+	Newberry Lodge
147
-	1888	Bryntirion
147	1920-1932	Wynlaton House
147	1927-2013	St Margaret’s School for Girls, private school.
147	2021-2024+	St Margarets Residences, [private residents]
149
-	1888-1895	Baring House
149	1920-1932	Baring House
149	1946-2013	St Margaret’s School for Girls, private school.
151-63	1920-1932	Baring Place
151	1920-1932	7 Baring Place
151	1955-2013	St Margaret’s School for Girls, private school.
153
153	1920-1932	6 Baring Place
153	1987-2013	St Margaret’s School for Girls, private school.
155
155	1920-1932	5 Baring Place
157
157	1920-1932	4 Baring Place
157	1932	Baring Beech
159	1920-1932	3 Baring Place
159	1977	Sale catalogue in Devon Record Office: 547B/P2509.
161	1920-1932	2 Baring Place
163	1920-1932	1 Baring Place
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165-171	1883-1924	4-1 Woodbine Place (5-1 1883-1893). Early residents not traced.
165
4	1920-1921	Challenger, Amos, Woodbine Cafe (shopkeeper 1919).
4	1924	Henton, G. B. [private resident].
165	1927	Henton A. [private resident].
165	1932-1939	Omitted, demolished or merged with 167.
167
3	1920-1921	Lacey, Mrs A. F. [private resident].
3	1924	Challenger, G. B. [private resident].
167	1927-1932	Challenger, G. B. [private resident].
167	1932-1951	Searle G., footwear expert.
167	1952	Omitted, demolished
169
2	1920-1924	Warner, George Howard, coachman.
169	1927-1932	Warner, George Howard, coachman.
169	1939-1943	empty
169	1946	omitted, demolished
171
1	1920-1921	Cole, George, gardener
1	1924	Cole Mrs M. [private resident].
171	1927-1932	Cole Mrs M. [private resident].
171	1939-1943	empty
171	1946	omitted, demolished
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