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Mark Squires and a Marmoset at the first Pilton Festival in 1982
The first Pilton Festival in 1982 finished with a procession from Pilton Park and a market in Pilton Street on 24th July. Among the participants was a 4-year-old Mark Squires with a marmoset monke...
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Barnstaple Town Football Club Fans adopt the Pilton Pageant Red Mask in ...
In an acknowledgement of its Pilton roots, Barnstaple Town FC fans have adopted the red mask from the Pilton Green Man Pageant on their banners and flags this year. The club has never forgotten it...
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The Medieval Market in Pilton Street during the first Pilton Festival in...
As part of the first Pilton Festival of the modern era, held in June and July 1982, a Medieval Market was held in Pilton Street on Saturday 24th July. This is a scene from that day. This link will...
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Pilton Festival, reported in the North Devon Journal Herald on July 8th ...
This picture is of the full page spread about the first Pilton Festival in the modern era published in the North Devon Journal-Herald on 8th July 1982. The centrepiece article by Graham Andrews ca...
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When a doctor sold herbs to keep the plague at bay : July 1982
This is a transcription of an article by Graham Andrews which was the centrepiece of a full page spread in the North Devon Journal-Herald on Thursday 8th July 1982 about the very first Pilton Festi...
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Hamish Patrick – Pilton Leading Light
In December 2014 Pilton lost a leading light with the death of Hamish Patrick. A founding member of Pilton Festival, he was born in London, educated in the USA, trained as an actor and did theatre...
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Stall for the Barnstaple Hard of Hearing Club at Pilton Festival
Among the many charities which took stalls at Pilton Green Man Day, or Pilton Festival as it was known back in the day, was the Barnstaple Hard of Hearing Club. This photograph from Mary Passmore ...
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Underneath the Arches with Helen Chugg and Marion Sanders
At an early Pilton Festival event of the 1980s or 1990s, Helen Chugg (left) and Marion Sanders are running a stall under the archway leading to St Mary’s Church, Pilton, for people to decorate Euro...
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