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Victory Celebrations at Pilton Glove Factory 1945
Four employees of the Pilton Glove Factory are here celebrating victory at the end of the Second World War in 1945 in what is now Rotary Gardens, Pilton. The new North Road (built 1938) can be seen...
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The Pilton Story Library
Thanks to the generosity of people within the Pilton Community, we have a small collection of books relevant to the history of Pilton and the surrounding area. Some of these books are available to...
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Pilton West and Shirwell Home Guard during World War II
Back during World War II, about 70 years ago, these men served in Pilton West and Shirwell Home Guard. This photograph was published in the North Devon Gazette and Advertiser on 4th April 1996 in ...
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The Wedding Reception of Alfred Martin Brown and Mary Margarite Harper o...
Alfred Martin Brown of Wrafton and Mary Margarite Harper of 30 Pottington Road Barnstaple were married at Pilton Church by the Reverend John Henderson on the 17th September 1941. The groom was on 6...
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Captain Charles Pearce of Pilton House on his horse Tupenny during the 1...
This photograph shows Capt Charles Pearce, the son of Charles Pearce Senior, who lived at Pilton House. Charles Pearce Junior was born in 1886, survived service in World War I and died in 1960 at ...
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Devon Agricultural Show in grounds of Pilton House 1900 : No 2
One of a set of three pictures of the Devon Agricultural Show held in the grounds of Pilton House in 1900. The picture shows cavalrymen putting on a mounted display as one of the attractions for a ...
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Surviving Battle of Britain air raid
During the Battle of Britain in 1940, Eric Sanders, from a family of five children born in Pilton and who lives in the Feoffee Cottages, was stationed at RAF Detling in Kent, near Maidenhead. He'd ...
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Commemoration of Haile Selassi's Exile to England held in Rock Park...
Following the invasion of Ethiopia by the Italians in 1935, Emperor Haile Selassie fled to exile in 1936 and eventually ended up in Fairfield House, Bath, England, where he remained until 1941 when...
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