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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...
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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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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 ...
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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.
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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.
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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...
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Pilton's Feast of Merriment July 1982
This was the report of the first Pilton Festival Pageant, Parade and Fair, held on 24th July 1982, in the North Devon Journal of 29th July. The Pageant depicted people and events throughout Pilton...
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Pilton Church Seating in Victorian Days
In the past, and in fact right up until the eve of the First World War, members of the congregation in English parish churches paid an annual sum in ‘pew rent’. In return they had reserved seats i...
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