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Victorian Week at Pilton Bluecoat School in 1989
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...
- from: Martin.Haddrill
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Pilton Almshouses Archway
An atmospheric portrait of the archway entrance to the Feoffee Cottages (almshouses) at the top of Pilton Street, sometime in the Victorian era. The archway was built in 1849/50 and paid for partl...
- from: Richard.Howe
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Heather Dwyer of Pilton Stores as a Victorian Bather in about 1998
Some of the Pilton Green Man Festivals had themes, and in this year, thought to be 1998, the theme was 'Victorian'. This photograph shows Heather Dwyer of Pilton Stores dressed as a Victorian bath...
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Noel and Pet Harley at the Victorian Pilton Festival 1993
Noel and Pet Harley in Victorian dress at the Pilton Festival 1993.
- from: Margaret.Reed
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Rev. John Spear at the Victorian Pilton Festival 1993
Rev. John Spear at the Victorian Pilton Festival 1993, vicar of Pilton 1990-1999. He retired in 1999 and lives in Abbotsham with his wife Joan.
- from: Margaret.Reed
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Mary Spiegelhalter in Victorian dress at the 1993 Pilton Festival
Mary Spiegelhalter nee Harris, born in Barnstaple. Her 19th century dress was very fragile. Her brother-in-law, Eddie Spiegelhalter, lives at the bottom of Pilton Street. Her father-in-law, Cecil...
- from: Margaret.Reed
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Children in Victorian Pilton
Were our Victorian children well fed and clothed? Only if they were the lucky ones, born into wealth and comfort. The vast majority in Pilton lived in cold, damp houses, often ten or more people ...
- from: Margaret.Reed
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50 years of the Parish Nurse in Pilton
Throughout the Victorian years the population of Pilton grew by leaps and bounds as people crowded into Barnstaple from the surrounding parishes in search of work, bringing their families with them...
- from: Margaret.Reed
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