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Children's Fancy Dress Competition (Second Group) on Victory in Eur...
On VE (Victory in Europe) Day, 8 May 1945, at the end of World War II, a fancy dress competition was held for the children in Pilton House grounds. The children, where known, are: back row (l. to...
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National Registration Card of Iris Pearce - World War II until 1951
The National Registration Act 1939 established a National Register which began operating on 29 September 1939 (known as National Registration Day) with a system of identity cards to operate during ...
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Children's Fancy Dress Competition (First Group) on Victory in Euro...
On VE (Victory in Europe) Day, 8 May 1945, at the end of World War II, a fancy dress competition was held for the children in Pilton House grounds. Mary Passmore (second from right on front row) w...
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Pilton West and Shirwell Home Guard during World War II
Back during World War II, about 70 years ago, these men served in Pilton West and Shirwell Home Guard. This photograph was published in the North Devon Gazette and Advertiser on 4th April 1996 in ...
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James Edward Blacksell 1912 - 1987
Margaret Reed, Barnstaple historian, has written here about James Edward Blacksell, sometimes known as 'Blackie', who was a Barnstaple teacher and headmaster, a national promoter of the Arts, an im...
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The 1939-1945 Shirwell Home Guard on Pilton Bridge
This photograph, which was posted on Facebook by Terry Priscott, shows soldiers of Shirwell Home Guard during World War II sitting on the parapet of the new Pilton Bridge. The bridge was built in ...
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Arthur Thorne of Priory Gardens, Pilton with REME in Brussels
This photograph, sent in by Maureen Dark (neé Thorne), is of her father, Arthur Thorne, of Priory Gardens, then Priory Road and later at 123, Pilton Street next to the Yeo Dale Hotel. This was mor...
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Len Lake
These photographs are of Len Lake during World War II. He was clearly in the RAF. After the war he had a butcher's shop with his wife Blanche at the Pilton end of Boutport Street. They later lived...
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