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Living on Pilton Quay in the 1950s : 5
Keith Laity has sent The Pilton Story this classic 50’s picture showing playmates in Reform Street. They are, left to right, seated Martin Sanders, Ian Cox and Robert Laity; seated in the cart is ...
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Living on Pilton Quay in the 1950s : 4
Keith Laity has sent The Pilton Story this picture of himself and his brother Robert in the front yard of No. 6 Pilton Quay Cottages, their attention seeming to be drawn to a cat on the wall. It...
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Living on Pilton Quay in the 1950s : 3
Keith Laity has sent The Pilton Story this picture of himself aged 17 months with his father George Laity. It was taken in the front yard of No. 6 Pilton Quay Cottages on 2nd July 1955. Berry’s Y...
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Living on Pilton Quay in the 1950s : 2
Keith Laity has sent The Pilton Story this picture from September 1954 taken on Pilton Quay across the road from The Cottages (the end Cottage can be seen in the rear). He does not know the name ...
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Living on Pilton Quay in the 1950s : 1
Keith Laity has sent The Pilton Story this picture was taken at the bottom of Reform Street in April 1953 with the Reform Inn in the background. His father George, his mother Jean and his older br...
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The Unicorn Coffee House, Pilton, opened in 1887
The Unicorn Coffee House on Pilton Street opened in 1887 in what is now Pilton Church Hall. The event was reported in the North Devon Journal of 3rd November. Colonel and Mrs. Hibbert of Broadgate...
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PILTON CHURCH, BARNSTAPLE : UNVEILING OF MEMORIAL WINDOW TO THE FALLEN
On Thursday 27th May 1920, the North Devon Journal reported the unveiling of the memorial west window in the Church of St Mary the Virgin. The memorial to those of the parish who fell in the Great...
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Mr William Thomas of Pilton with his wife Miss Pickard of Shirwell
William Thomas, the son of John Davy Thomas of Pilton, was initially a schoolmaster at Shirwell School and at Swimbridge, and then at Heanton where he was the first master of the Board School. He ...
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