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Pilton Junior School Top Class in 1963-64
This photograph, originally sent to Peter Christie by Elaine Stevens (neé Andrew) and published in the North Devon Journal in December 2016, is of the top class at Pilton Junior School in 1963-64. ...
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Trevor Beer MBE, Writer and Wildlife Artist, 1937 - 2017
Trevor Beer, the well-known Devon writer and wildlife artist, was born on The Rock, Pilton, in January 1937 and died in June 2017. He went to Pilton School next to St Mary’s Church and his boyhood...
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Rotary Club Honours Green Man Hamish
The Rotary Club of Barnstaple took the unprecedented step of awarding its annual Citizen of the Year Award posthumously to Hamish Patrick of Pilton, who died in December 2014. Hamish was a foundin...
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River Taw Bathing in the 1920s
Learning to swim in the 1920s meant plunging into the River Taw. This picture shows Barnstaple schoolboys under the guidance of a teacher from Pilton whose name we will verify before including it ...
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Golden Wedding of Mr & Mrs George H Ackland of Fair View, Pilton, on...
Mr George Ackland & Mrs Bessie Ackland of 59 Fair View, Pilton, celebrated their Golden Wedding on Thursday 11th August 1938 and this article in the North Devon Journal of that date recorded th...
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Restoration of the Bells of St Mary’s Church in 1969-70
There are eight bells in the tower of St Mary’s Church, Pilton, and they were last restored in 1969-70. Church bells were first recorded in Pilton in 1553 when there were five. These increased to ...
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Benjamin Manning Fined for Toll Evasion in 1847
While the 'Save Manning's Pit' team was doing research for the Exhibition at the Museum of Barnstaple and North Devon in May 2017 they searched the British Newspaper Archives for mentions of Benjam...
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A Barumite's Experience at the Front at Christmas 1914
In January 1915, the North Devon Journal wrote up the experiences of a Pilton man after enlisting in the 1st Devons just before World War I broke out in July 1914. After four months training, Priv...
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