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Two Darch brothers were killed in the Great War, the sons of Thomas and Jane Darch of Pilton Street, Pilton. The first was Private William Darch who was employed at the Barnstaple Cabinet Works in...

'The People's War' was a term applied to the Home Front in Britain during the World War II. One key feature of this was the Government's War Savings Campaign run by Sir Robert Kindersley. Savings ...

Our readers have often been amused by reading contributions from the pen of " Saki." We much regret that that pleasure will no more be theirs; for news has just reached this country that he was kil...

In 1953 the Borough of Barnstaple sold 1.7 acres (0.7 hectares) of land now occupied by Barnstaple Fire Station and the houses immediately surrounding it to Devon County Council close to ‘the Pilto...

Maurice Huxtable was born in 1922 and lived for much of his life at 82 Pilton Street, immediately above the Church Hall, with his parents Benjamin Ernest and Edith Tamzyn Huxtable and his sister Iv...

These three items figured in the North Devon Herald of July 8, 1920. This edition included a report of the marriage of Albert Hobbs and Jane Bartlett and was kept for all these years by their daug...

Next year, 2018, marks the centenary of the end of World War I. Peter Bray posted this collage based on the two medals awarded to his Grandad, Walter Worth. They were passed to Peter by his Gran...