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'Sat on the gate' in around 1953 - the old entrance gate to Pa...
Circa 1953. Keith (Skipper) Bates and Olive Murch taken at the entrance gate to Pathfields - now long gone (the start of Pathfield's school's grounds opposite The Bluecoat School is where the gate...
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Girls at Pilton School circa 1949
This was a group of girls attending Pilton School and was taken in the playground against the church wall. We understand the event was celebrating May Day and the girls are dressed all in white to...
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The Prior's Ring
This is a mediaeval gold ring, set with a cabochon sapphire surrounded with a bezel engraved with a Hebrew inscription translated as ‘May Jesu Emmanuel Jehova be with us’, and on the reverse, in La...
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The ‘Ladywell’ Murder
This is the true tale of a killing in the heart of olde Pilton in 1238, taken from Crown Pleas in a volume of the Devon and Cornwall Records Society.
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The Pilton Long Stone Excavation 1967
In 1967 the North Devon Archaeological Society carried out an excavation of the Pilton Long Stone which stands at the junction of Under Minnow Road and Bellaire, originally on a rocky hillock known...
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Pilton Entries in the Barnstaple Kelly's Directory of 1941
This document is an extract of the 'businesses' in the Pilton area (Pilton, Raleigh, Yeo Vale, Pottington, Bradiford and Rolle Quay) listed in the 1941 Kelly's Directory of Barnstaple and Neighbour...
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The Pilton Priory Seal circa 1420
This is the ancient seal of Pilton Priory which dates from about 1420. The seal-making device, also referred to as a seal matrix or die, is held in the Victoria and Albert Museum. On the reverse ...
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Aerial View of River Yeo and Rolle Quay in the late 1980s
This aerial view of the River Yeo and Rolle Quay from the late 1980s shows the Inner Relief Road (completed 1986) and, bottom right, the Civic Centre (foundation stone laid in 1967). In the centre...
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