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This newspaper cutting from the North Devon Journal Herald reports the death of Mr Charles Pearce of Pilton House at the age of 88 in December 1945. As well as being Mayor of both South Molton and...

This Triumphal Arch was erected by Lt Col William Harding of Upcott House as a personal commemoration of his military exploits when fighting in the Peninsular War (1807-1814) which, incidentally, w...

Air Commodore Herbert Martin Massey, who lived in Pilton following his retirement from the RAF, was the Senior British officer in the German Prisoner of War Camp Stalag Luft III. Stalag Luft III ...

In the past, and in fact right up until the eve of the First World War, members of the congregation in English parish churches paid an annual sum in ‘pew rent’. In return they had reserved seats i...

This photograph, sent in by Maureen Dark, shows her grandfather Albert Thorne, second from the right, during World War I. Albert Thorne, known as Bert, lived at 7 Priory Gardens, was a bellringer ...

Born in 1935, the young John Onslow was evacuated from Croydon to Devon in 1940, during the Second World War. The photograph shows him with his host family, Mr. and Mrs. Ridd. Gwen and Harold Ridd ...

Rain on the day meant that the Fairview VJ Day Street Party in August 1945 had to be held at the Queen Anne Building on the Strand, now the Barnstaple Heritage Centre. People identified in the p...