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Christine Lovelock, Pilton-based Artist
Christine Lovelock, a Pilton resident artist since 1998, paints mainly in pastels and acrylics, sometimes in oils or watercolour, and mainly from memory. She tries to recapture moments of intense ...
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Pilton Park Flooding on 3rd January 2014
Under the influence of high spring tides, low pressure, strong SW winds and high flows in the River Yeo, Pilton Park was seriously flooded early on 3rd January 2014, the water depth reaching about ...
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Devon County Agricultural Show in Pilton House Park 1900
Devon County Agricultural Show – this was held in Pilton House Park (now Rotary Gardens and the North Road) in 1900. The photo was taken by Sir Bourchier Wrey of Trebitch in the County of Cornwall,...
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Pathfield School Community Forest School in 2012
A new Community Forest School has been created by Pathfield Special School, Pilton, which caters for more than 120 children with special needs. It was completed in 2012. The Forest School is also ...
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Under Minnow Road
This photograph is view of Under Minnow Road, Pilton, likely to be around 1900. The area now associated with the name ‘Under Minnow Road’ bears this name as a result of a mistake made in the twent...
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Painting of sheepskins drying in the Northfield, Pilton.
A painting by a Belgian refugee circa 1915, showing the racks where sheepskins were dried in the Northfield above Pilton Church. The field later gave way to the houses in Northfield Park. Picture c...
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Boyhood adventures and Mannings Pit
A reunion in the Reform Inn brought back many memories for boyhood friends from Pilton, Bobby Furse, George Challacombe, John Norman and his cousin, Brian Norman. Among the reminiscences were long...
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Rotary Gardens' Tree Trail Board 2013
As part of improvements carried out by North Devon Council in the first half of 2013, three information boards were erected in Rotary Gardens, one at each corner, in July 2013. One set out 'The Cr...
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