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Pilton’s Role in the Development of Barnstaple's Water Supply from ...
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...
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Pilton Festival, reported in the North Devon Journal Herald on July 8th ...
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...
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When a doctor sold herbs to keep the plague at bay : July 1982
This is a transcription of an article by Graham Andrews which was the centrepiece of a full page spread in the North Devon Journal-Herald on Thursday 8th July 1982 about the very first Pilton Festi...
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GREAT FIRE AT RAWLEIGH FACTORY IN 1869 AS REPORTED IN THE NORTH DEVON JO...
In around 1863, the Messrs Shapland and Petter established a water-powered factory at Rawleigh where it regularly employed one hundred hands in the manufacture of suites of furniture, marble mantel...
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Sale of Hope Mills Woollen Manufactory in Bradiford in February 1830
In February 1830, the North Devon Journal carried this advertisement for Hope Mills Woollen Manufactory in Pilton, Barnstaple. It was clearly a comprehensive establishment with a factory, dye hous...
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SALE OF WORK FOR PILTON CHURCH OPENED BY MATILDA LADY WILLIAMS IN 1923
St Mary’s Church, Pilton, dates back over ten centuries, so it is not surprising that it requires quite a lot of maintenance. In July 1923 the North Devon Journal reported a Sale of Work on the Vi...
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Sale of Work in Aid of New Pilton Church Room in 1904
The Unicorn Inn, close to the top of Pilton Street, was bought by the Diocese of Exeter and turned into Pilton Parish Rooms right at the beginning of the 20th century. The skittle alley at the rear...
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The Unicorn Coffee House, Pilton, opened in 1887
The Unicorn Coffee House on Pilton Street opened in 1887 in what is now Pilton Church Hall. The event was reported in the North Devon Journal of 3rd November. Colonel and Mrs. Hibbert of Broadgate...
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