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This 1400-word article from the North Devon Journal of March 1933 reported a talk by the Manager of the Barnstaple Water Company, C. N Wood, to the Rotary Club of Barnstaple. The story begins in 1...

Before the County Bench at Barnstaple yesterday Otto Leopold Trechmann, landowner and farmer, of Westaway, Pilton, Barnstaple' pleaded "Guilty" to selling by retail fresh milk other than under the ...

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...

This photograph shows Pilton milkman George Huxtable delivering milk in Braunton Road in 1944. George Huxtable’s dairy was at 32 Pilton Street and he had his cows on land on the north side of Pilt...

This photograph of the pupils of Pilton School dates from 1924 when it was in the building immediately to the west of St Mary’s Church. For the moment we have only identified Kathleen Huxtable, wh...

In the Spring Term of 1989, the school project at Pilton Bluecoat School was “The Victorians”. For one week the classroom was turned into a Victorian classroom with the children sitting in rows at...

This picture is of the full page spread about the first Pilton Festival in the modern era published in the North Devon Journal-Herald on 8th July 1982. The centrepiece article by Graham Andrews ca...