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Devon Agricultural Show 1900 in grounds of Pilton House : No. 3
One of a set of three photos of the Devon Agricultural Show when it was held in the grounds of Pilton House in 1900. The cameraman would have been standing where the North Road was later built and ...
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North Devon Technical College around 1947
Around 1947 the North Devon Technical College was housed in old huts where Barnstaple Fire Station is now located at the bottom of the A39 North Road towards Lynton close to Pilton Bridge. This pho...
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Devon County Agricultural Show in Pilton House Park 1900
Devon County Agricultural Show – this was held in Pilton House Park (now Rotary Gardens and the North Road) in 1900. The photo was taken by Sir Bourchier Wrey of Trebitch in the County of Cornwall,...
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Pilton Bridge in 1920s
This photograph shows Pilton Bridge in the 1920s before it was widened and re-aligned for the construction of the North Road in 1938. In the background are what are now Bridge House, occupied by C...
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Commemorative Stone for erection of new North Road Bridge at Pilton in 1938
In 1938 the village of Pilton was bypassed by a new road which required a new bridge across the River Yeo. This stone commemorates that event. The inscription is: North Road Bridge Erected 1938 ...
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The View from Pilton House at Christmas in 1916
This photograph shows the surprising view from the grounds of Pilton House looking south across the valley of the River Yeo at Christmas 1916. At that time, Rotary Gardens do not exist - they were...
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Pilton Personalities of the 1970s and 1980s
Putting the Pilton world to rights in the 1970s and 1980s on a bench facing Lower Raleigh Road across the New (North) Road are (left to right): Arthur Thorne (lived at Athelstan House, 123, Pilton...
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