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SOME SNIPPETS ABOUT PILTON FROM THE NORTH DEVON JOURNAL
This document lists extracts about Pilton (1827 - 1937) taken from the North Devon Journal by Reginald Norman with additional notes made by Margaret Reed. They cover houses and house ownership and...
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Box carting through Pilton
Some of Pilton's 'old boys' remember their childhood racing box carts, or pram-wheel buggies, from Maer Top to the bottom of Pilton Street in the days when there was no traffic and only the risk of...
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Third Annual Police v Fire Cup at Barnstaple Rugby Club on 2nd May 2011
An exhibition match took place on 2nd May 2011 between men of the Police (Devon and Cornwall) and Fire (Devon and Somerset) at Barnstaple Rugby Club in aid of Help for Heroes and North Devon Hospic...
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The Olympic Torch passes through Pilton on 21st May 2012
The Olympic Torch passed through Pilton at around 11.30am on 21st May 2012 carried by a trampolining champion from Gloucester called Annelies Willerton in Rolle Street and Braunton Road.
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Pilton Bellringers Third in Whit Monday Ringing Festival in 1904
The Pilton Guild of Bellringers from St Mary's Church were winners of 3rd prize in the Whit Monday Ringing Festival at Barnstaple Parish Church in May 1904.
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Fined for Cycling Furiously in Pilton Street
Eric Sanders’ grandparents and auntie ran Pilton Post Office, a familiar landmark which later became a hairdressing salon, then a restaurant and is now a private house. Eric’s father was a keen cyc...
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