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A poster from nearly 200 years ago tells how some Piltonians lived, in this case a certain T. Harding who died in 1830 and his furniture sold by auction. The list of household goods includes his "F...

This photograph posted on Facebook by Stuart Ackland shows (left to right) Cath Thorne, Jack Pugsley and Olive Pugsley (his mother) with Arthur Thorne in the front in the late 1920s. Many thanks to...

This advertisement for the Raleigh Sanitary Steam Laundry was found in 'The Barnstaple Book of Cookery' published in 1914. In the book there is a description: "The Barnstaple book of cookery publi...

These photographs are of Len Lake during World War II. He was clearly in the RAF. After the war he had a butcher's shop with his wife Blanche at the Pilton end of Boutport Street. They later lived...

This photograph is of the wedding of Betty Parkhouse and Patrick Crook in the south porch of Pilton Church in the mid-1950s. The only other person so far identified is Maureen Dark (neé Thorne) on...

Fred Thorne and his wife, Kate (see separate entry) Thorne were the parents of Jean (Elston) and Joyce Thorne and grandparents of Kevin Elston, Lynne Treloar, Anne (Humphreys), Richard Elston and K...

Kate Thorne and her husband Fred (see separate entry) Thorne were the parents of Jean (Elston) and Joyce Thorne and grandparents of Kevin Elston, Lynne Treloar, Anne (Humphreys), Richard Elston and...