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While the 'Save Manning's Pit' team was doing research for the Exhibition at the Museum of Barnstaple and North Devon in May 2017 they searched the British Newspaper Archives for mentions of Benjam...

If the Western Rising or Prayer Book Rebellion means little or nothing to you, rest assured that you are not alone. 1549 – particularly the late Spring and Summer of 1549 – brought considerable civ...

This photograph, taken in Pilton Church Hall, is of the 12th North Devon (Pilton) Scout Group and is sometime in the early 1980s. It is one of a group of similar photographs of the Scout Group tak...

When I moved to Pilton, nearly 20 years ago, my wife and I moved into a Chalet bungalow in Lower Raleigh Road. I became intrigued by the name Raleigh. Was there any connection with Sir Walter of th...

This is the grave of Colonel Hugh Robert Hibbert and his wife Sarah Catherine Augusta Hibbert. Hugh Hibbert was born at Birtles Hall in the County of Cheshire in 1822. Sarah Hibbert (neé Lee) was...

Teacher of the top class at Pilton Junior School in 1962, Mr Tiltman, pictured by one of his pupils, Mark Elson, then aged about 11. Mark, a keen photographer all his life, has kindly submitted sev...

Head teacher of Pilton Junior School, Mr Charles Sherratt, pictured in 1962. The photo was taken on a Brownie 127 by a very young Mark Elson, about 11 years old at the time and about to leave for s...