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Benjamin Manning Fined for Toll Evasion in 1847
While the 'Save Manning's Pit' team was doing research for the Exhibition at the Museum of Barnstaple and North Devon in May 2017 they searched the British Newspaper Archives for mentions of Benjam...
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Hugh Robert and Sarah Catherine Augusta Hibbert of Broadgate
This is the grave of Colonel Hugh Robert Hibbert and his wife Sarah Catherine Augusta Hibbert. Hugh Hibbert was born at Birtles Hall in the County of Cheshire in 1822. Sarah Hibbert (neé Lee) was...
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Mr Tiltman, Teacher at Pilton Junior School 1962
Teacher of the top class at Pilton Junior School in 1962, Mr Frank Tiltman, pictured by one of his pupils, Mark Elson, then aged about 11. Mark, a keen photographer all his life, has kindly submitt...
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Mr Charles Sherratt, Head teacher of Pilton Junior School 1962
Head teacher of Pilton Junior School, Mr Charles Sherratt, pictured in 1962. The photo was taken on a Brownie 127 by a very young Mark Elson, about 11 years old at the time and about to leave for s...
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Pilton Junior School class of 1957
Children from (probably) Charles Sherratt's 2nd Year Junior class at Pilton Junior in 1957. The photo is courtesy of Mark Elson, formerly of Pilton and an ex-head teacher himself, now living in Cro...
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Ellen and Samuel Blake of The Rock, Pilton
Ellen and Samuel Blake were married in 1904 and lived at 50, The Rock until they died. Ellen was a midwife while Samuel was a fellmonger and worked at Sanders on Pilton Bridge. They had three chi...
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Hilda Squire and Victoria Blake of The Rock, Pilton
Hilda Squire (right), the wife of Jack Squire, who was a Barnstaple butcher and a Pilton bellringer, and Victoria (Vicky) Blake (left), the wife of Bill Blake and mother of Gillian Blake, lived at ...
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Air Commodore Herbert Martin Massey, Senior British Officer at Stalag Lu...
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 ...
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