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This photograph shows sailing barges moored on the River Yeo at Rolle Quay in around 1900. On the quay you can see the rail link from the Ilfracombe Railway (which ran along the north shore of the...

Rawle, Gammon & Baker, known as RGB, was formed in 1850 when Samuel Rawle, a Barnstaple shipbroker, joined forces with William Gammon, a Barnstaple builder. They set up business as timber impo...

In 1982 a limited edition (of 200) of an illustrated map of Pilton was prepared by J Kemp for the first Pilton Festival. This is a scanned copy of No 2 given to The Pilton Story by Albert Linacre....

This photograph shows the surprising view from the grounds of Pilton House looking south across the valley of the River Yeo at Christmas 1916. At that time, Rotary Gardens do not exist - they were...

Pilton Causeway, connecting the lower part of Pilton Street with the north end of the town of Barnstaple, is barely recognisable today as a causeway. The whole area was once a marsh which flooded ...

Over 130 people attended the Summer Concert of Words and Music organised by THE FRIENDS OF PILTON CHURCH on the evening of Pilton Festival in July 2008. They heard a brilliant mixture of words (wr...

Mary Passmore's grandparents - Jane and William Bartlett - lived at 8 Pilton Quay (behind the cottage at the front which is 1 Pilton Street) here in the cottage at the foot of Pilton Street. The vi...