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The 1939-1945 Shirwell Home Guard on Pilton Bridge
This photograph, which was posted on Facebook by Terry Priscott, shows soldiers of Shirwell Home Guard during World War II sitting on the parapet of the new Pilton Bridge. The bridge was built in ...
- from: Martin.Haddrill
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The Story of Engineering at No 12 Pilton Street
In the early nineteenth century No 12 Pilton Street was the site of a malthouse, four houses and a garden. By the 1840s Joseph Laramy from South Molton had established a woolstapling business. Wh...
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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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VE Day Party in Bradiford, May 1945
Tony Sumners posted this photograph of the Bradiford V E Day 1945 Party on Facebook. His mum, Phyllis Elizabeth Sumners, is in the picture to the left of the nurse at the front. It was a fancy dr...
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THOMAS HARDING R.N. OF THE REFORM INN, PILTON
Thomas Harding was a man with an adventurous past, which only came to light when his medals were sold at auction. He was born in Weymouth in 1847, joined the Royal Navy at the age of 15 and served...
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Abbey Road, Pilton, Street Party for V-J (Victory over Japan) Day August...
To celebrate victory over the Japanese in 1945, following the explosions of 6th and 9th August 1945, when the United States dropped atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, V-J Day or Victory over Jap...
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The Sign of The Three Tuns in Barnstaple
The Three Tuns was once a very popular pub on Barnstaple High Street and was marketed as "the oldest tavern in the oldest street in the oldest borough in Britain" - not completely true but a good s...
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Lt Col William Harding of Upcott House, Pilton
This article by Jane Evans published in the Tiverton Civic Society Newsletter in May 2016 recounts the life of Lieutenant Colonel William Harding. He was born in 1792, the third son of Robert and ...
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