All aboard the Exeter Heritage Harbour Festival

People are being invited to help celebrate Exeter’s historic waterside with a day packed full of free music, activities, and all things maritime…including of course, boats! 

It’s the return of Exeter’s Heritage Harbour Festival on Sunday 8 June, from 11am until 7pm. 

It all takes place at Exeter’s famous Custom House, under the Transit Shed, around the waterfront and on the Piazza. 

The event is being put on by Exeter Canal and Quay Trust and festival goers can expect steam boats, railways, traction engines, classic cars together with musicians and other performers. 

Here is the programme of events: 

• 11.00am – 11.45am – Music from Mariners Away.  Singing from aboard Lhyne at the canal basin. 
• 11.00am – 4.00pm – Topsham Museum Exhibition. At the Custom House Gallery. 
• 11.00am – 4.00pm – Westcountry Knotters Display. Outside the Exeter Custom House. 
• 11.00am – 4.00pm – Come Aboard – visit resident heritage boats Britannia and Lhyner. Britannia, at the Canal Basin. Lhyner, at Kings Wharf.  
• 11.00am – 4.00pm (drop in any time) – Past Mortems – exploring the lives of 19th century sailors through skeletal remains. At the Surveyors Room, Exeter Custom House 
• 11.00am – 4.00pm – Ride on Railway. At the Piazza. 
• 11.00am – 4.00pm – Classic Car Display. At the Piazza. 
• 11.00am – 11.45am – Music from the Dilly Boys. At the Transit Shed. 
• 12.00pm – Steam Boats arrive in the Canal Basin.   
• 12.00pm – 12.45pm – Music from Back at Nicks. At the Transit Shed. 
• 12.00pm – 12.45pm – Talk: Tales of Land, Songs of the Sea. Exeter Custom House. 
• 12.15pm – 1.00pm – Music from the Liberty Sisters. At the Piazza. 
• 1.00pm – 1.45pm – Music from Dilly Boys. At the Transit Shed. 
• 1.30pm – 2.15pm – Talk: Wild Swimming Adventures Around the World with Matt Newbury. At Exeter Custom House 
• 2.00pm – 2.45pm – Music from Back at Nicks. At the Transit Shed 
• 2.00pm – Historic Red Coat Tour 
• 2.30pm – 3.15pm – Music from the Liberty Sisters. At the Piazza 
• 2.30pm – 3.15pm – Talk: Past Mortems: Exploring the lives of 19th century sailors through their skeletal remains, with Grace Smithers, Dr Laura Evis and Tereza Nesnídalová. At Exeter Custom House 
• 3.00pm – 3.45pm – Music from Mariners Away. At the Transit Shed 
• 6.00pm onwards – Film Screening – Wind, Tide and Oar (chargeable). Book tickets for the screening at Exeter Phoenix.