“CREDITON Courier” Editorial Manager Alan Quick took this photo of HM the Queen, when she visited Exeter on Wednesday, May 1 in 2002, on the first day of her Golden Jubilee tour of the UK.

Accompanied by the Duke of Edinburgh, she was greeted by crowds of well-wishers outside Exeter Cathedral, which hosted entertainment specially created for the Jubilee.

The West Country tour by the royal couple began that day with around 1,500 people lining the streets of Falmouth in Cornwall.

It was the first day of the Queen’s Golden Jubilee tour, from May to August, during which she travelled to about 60 towns in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

Her visit to the region was designed to highlight two of the region’s most important industries - farming and tourism - that were both badly affected by the previous year’s foot-and-mouth outbreak.

They visited the new National Maritime Museum in Falmouth - due to open that autumn - where they saw a yacht called Bluebottle, which was given to them as a wedding gift.

The Queen then went out to the harbour to meet the crew of a new lifeboat and officially name the ship Robert Cox Scott.

The crews of both the HMS Cornwall and the Prince William - named after the couple’s grandson - gave the couple “three cheers”.

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