Heritage Harbour Festival 2025

Join us to celebrate Exeter’s Heritage Harbour!

The return of our hugely popular celebration of Exeter's Heritage Harbour status. Expect steam boats, railways, traction engines, classic cars together with musicians and other performers. This free event will take place at the Custom House and on the Piazza.

Programme of Events

11.00am – 11.45am
Live music from The Custom House Crew
Piazza

11.00am – 4.00pm
Topsham Museum Exhibition
Custom House Gallery

11.00am – 4.00pm
Westcountry Knotters Display
Outside the Exeter Custom House

11.00am – 4.00pm
Come Aboard – visit our resident heritage boats Britannia and Lhyner.
Britannia – Canal Basin, Lhyner – Kings Wharf

11.00am – 4.00pm (drop in any time)
Past Mortems – exploring the lives of 19th century sailors through skeletal remains
Surveyors Room, Exeter Custom House

11.00am – 4.00pm
Ride on Railway
Piazza

11.00am – 4.00pm
Classic Car Display
Piazza

11.00am – 11.45am
Music from the Dilly Boys
Transit Shed

12.00pm
Steam Boats arrive in the Canal Basin

12.00pm – 12.45pm
Music from Back at Nicks
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
Piazza

1.00pm – 1.45pm
Music from Dilly Boys
Transit Shed

1.15pm – 2.00pm
Music from Mariners Away
Singing from aboard Britannia at the canal basin

1.30pm – 2.15pm
Talk: Wild Swimming Adventures Around the World with Matt Newbury
Exeter Custom House

2.00pm – 2.45pm
Music from Back at Nicks
Transit Shed

2.00pm
Historic Red Coat Tour

2.30pm – 3.15pm
Music from the Liberty Sisters
Piazza

3.00pm – 3.45pm
Music from Mariners Away
Transit Shed

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.
Exeter Custom House

6.00pm onwards
Film Screening – Wind, Tide and Oar (chargeable)
Exeter Phoenix

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• Next month, 6th June, 10:00 pm, Bow Lines – Maritime Literary Festival in Exeter
• This July, 29th July, 11:00 am, Summer at the Quayside in Exeter
• This September, 13th September, 12:00 pm, Quayside Shanty Festival 2025 in Exeter

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