People who may have used the Underground Passages to shelter from the Blitz are being asked to help produce a short film.
Next year marks the 75th anniversary of the Exeter Blitz of 1942. To commemorate these events, Exeter’s Underground Passages plans to produce a short documentary about wartime Exeter and the night-time Baedeker raids the city suffered.
Staff at the Passages are attempting to contact anyone who can remember Exeter during these years, particularly anyone who used the passages as an air-raid shelter. They are hoping to conduct living memory interviews with...
Celebrate Halloween this October half-term at Exeter’s spooky Underground Passages.
Between 22–30 October there will be special ‘Witches & Wizards Tours’ where children are invited to explore under the city’s streets on special guided tours and discover ingredients for magic spells. Using the ingredients found, the young adventurers are challenged to concoct their own magic spell and enter it into a competition with the opportunity to win one of many fantastic prizes!
This year adults and children aged 14 years and over will have the opportunity to experience one of our...
Two leading visitor attractions in Exeter have scooped top awards from an online review site.
TripAdvisor, which is the world’s biggest online travel review website, has awarded its coveted Certificate of Excellence to the Royal Albert Memorial Museum (RAMM) and the Underground Passages.
Now in its sixth year, the TripAdvisor award celebrates excellence in hospitality and is given only to services that consistently achieve great reviews on TripAdvisor by continually delivering a high quality customer experience.
2016 is the second year in a row that RAMM and the...
The Gilbert Stephens Young Professionals Network (YPN) this month donned hard hats and trainers on a spooky Halloween tour around Exeter’s Underground Passages. The networking group got up close and personal as they worked their way around the system of medieval passages under Exeter High Street and were taught more about the city as a centre of commerce and historical importance.
After the tour, the group emerged above ground, dusted themselves off and headed over to Artigiano coffee and wine bar to socialise over craft beer and shared pizza planks.
Exeter’s Underground Passages will be running special Easter egg hunts every day throughout the Easter school holidays, 28 March – 12 April 2015.
Hunt for the eggs left by the Easter bunny in these mysterious passages beneath Exeter’s Street to win a special chocolate prize! Lots of fun for everyone.
Exeter’s Underground Passages were built in the 14th and 15th centuries to bring a supply of fresh drinking water in to the city. Exeter is the only city in the UK to have underground passages of this type and guided tours have taken place here since the 1930s. Highlights...
This evening event highlights some of the more unsavoury tales from Exeter’s history and is NOT suitable for children under 14 years of age.
Visitors must be aware of unlit spaces, narrow passages, uneven floors and strange goings-on.
Exeter’s famous Underground Passages are located in the city centre on Paris Street between the Next and Zara stores. Honiton Road and Sowton Park & Ride stops are located opposite the entrance. Alternatively use city centre car parking.
Normal admission prices apply. Child price applies to age 14-17
During the Exeter Blitz of May 1942, citizens took shelter in the Underground Passages whilst the city was heavily bombed. 160 high explosive bombs and 10,000 incendiary devices were dropped on the city. The damage inflicted changed the face of the city forever.
To commemorate the anniversary of this devastating event, there will be a rare opportunity on Bank Holiday Monday 5 May to experience the highs and lows of the air raid in the same setting.
The brick section of Exeter’s Underground Passages was licensed to shelter up to 300 people during the raids, and this document...
