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Pilton Bellringers’ Record Run to Bude in 1912
You have to be amazed by some of the things that went on in Pilton 100 years ago. In July 1912 the bellringers of Pilton Parish Church went on a record breaking run to Bude with a ‘coach and four’....
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PROBABLY THE LAST PINT DRAWN AT THE NEW INN, PILTON STREET, IN 1969
This photograph shows Lilian Mabel Stevens (née Perkins) and she is thought to be drawing the last pint of Whitbread beer in the New Inn at 29/30 Pilton Street before it closed in 1969. Margaret R...
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Private William Darch 2546, 1st/6th Battalion Devonshire Regiment and Pr...
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...
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Private Ronald Thomas John Frayne 2416, 1st/6th Battalion Devonshire Reg...
Private Ronald Frayne of Pilton Street was 21 when he died on March 8th 1916 helping to relieve British comrades besieged inside the city of Kut, near Baghdad, He was one of five children of John...
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Private Frank Norman 10003 1st Battalion, Devonshire Regiment
Private Frank Norman was born in Barnstaple in 1894 to William and Susanna Norman and lived at 47, Bradiford. Prior to enlisting with the 1st Battalion of the Devonshire Regiment, just after the o...
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Claudius Wilfred Dix 23rd County of London Yeomanry
Claudius Wilfred Dix was born in May 1892 to George and Alice Dix of Gloster Road, Barnstaple. In this family photo he is shown, centre back, with his parents and sisters in 1902. He was working...
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The Life of Richard Ackland, Royal Marine, 1790 - 1872
The Life of Richard Ackland, Royal Marine, 1790 - 1872 This document tells the story of Richard Ackland, born in Shirwell in 1790 to John and Catherine Ackland. He was a Blue Marine from 1810 until...
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Remembering Sapper Harry Fry-Vicary 154113 284th Army Troop Company of t...
Harry Fry-Vicary was born in 1897 to William and Adelaide Fry-Vicary and lived on The Rock, Pilton. Before enlisting in 1916 he was a cabinet maker at the Barnstaple Cabinet Works. In France he w...
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