Allhallows School News Today

Written by curator of Honiton Museum - Margaret Lewis.

Margaret Lewis, curator of Honiton Museum. If a resident in the East Devon area needed a surveyor, a valuer, or an auctioneer to sell cyder, livestock...

Margaret Lewis, curator of Honiton Museum, writes for the Herald. Tibetan porters could never understand why British explorers felt the need to climb...

At a ceremony in the Mackarness Hall on July 24th 1945, the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors admitted Sir Arthur Travers Harris as the third Honorary...

Some Honiton residents ignored the 1853 Vaccination Act, which made smallpox vaccination compulsory for all infants up to three months old in England.

Watercolours of local scenes painted by Alfred Leyman will be sold at auction by Chilcotts next month.

Margaret Lewis, from Honiton Museum, takes us back in time to Christmas in Devon a century ago.

This printer’s block is one of a set of three which were used at Dimond’s in the High Street during the printing process for the front cover of JRW...

Margaret Lewis - Honiton Museum Published: 6:00 AM March 2, 2021    The wallet presented to Honiton serviceman Les Ackland on his return from World War Two - Credit: Honiton Museum After World War Two ended and under the chairmanship of Mr C N Hatcher, fundraising efforts  for the Honiton Welcome Home fund began. The East Devon Pony Club donated the money raised at their gymkhana and the Allhallows School amateur dramatic society performed a three-act play ‘The Crooked Billett’ at the Ma...

Margaret Lewis Ozias Humphry was born at Honiton in 1742 - Credit: Allhallows Museum Ozias Humphry, was born at Honiton in 1742, the eldest son of George (a peruke (wig) maker) and Elizabeth Humphry.  Under the headmastership of the Reverend Richard Lewis, Ozias was educated at Allhallows School and at the age of 15 he went to London to study art at the St Martins Lane Academy but returned to Honiton when his father died in 1759.  The wording in George Humphry’s will was really unusual for ...