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SOME SNIPPETS ABOUT PILTON FROM THE NORTH DEVON JOURNAL
This document lists extracts about Pilton (1827 - 1937) taken from the North Devon Journal by Reginald Norman with additional notes made by Margaret Reed. They cover houses and house ownership and...
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Pilton Heritage Trail
A booklet compiled by Terry Chaplin in approx. 2000 with the help of Margaret Reed, Ethan Danielson, Bill Forward and the Devon Record Office and funding from Millennium Awards and Tarka Country Mi...
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The Village of Pilton filmed in about 1960
In 2013 The Pilton Story was given a 7 minutes silent film - probably from a Super 8 - of scenes around Pilton. These included the view from Bull Hill House, and shots of Pilton Street, the North ...
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The Sailing Smack 'John and Ann' brings new Church Bells to Pi...
In 1853 three of the old bells of St Mary's Church, Pilton, were taken away to Loughborough by sea to be re-cast by John Taylor & Sons and for two new ones to be made. They were brought back t...
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Brian Norman - Boy sailor
Brian Norman, now of Braunton, tells how as a Pilton boy he'd spend some of his school holidays in the late 1940s sailing out of Pilton Quay with his grandfather, Captain George Coates, on voyages ...
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The Bell in Pilton Street in April 1987
This Bell was carried up Pilton Street in April 1987 as part of a festival organised by the Horse and Bamboo Theatre Company as part of 'The 12 Curlicues of Pilton'. It is thought to remember the...
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The Murch Family (part 2) in 1951
This is a picture of the younger 'half' of the Murch family of 6 Pilton Quay (now part of the auction room site) - taken in 1951. Left to right: Maurice, mum (Beatrice), Gordon, Harold and Olive...
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The Murch Family (part 1) in 1942
This is a picture of the older 'half' of the Murch family who lived at 6 Pilton Quay (now part of the auction room site) - taken in 1942. Left to right: Margaret, Walter (who tragically died later...
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