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Barnstaple Town Football Club Fans adopt the Pilton Pageant Red Mask in ...
In an acknowledgement of its Pilton roots, Barnstaple Town FC fans have adopted the red mask from the Pilton Green Man Pageant on their banners and flags this year. The club has never forgotten it...
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Coronation Tea Party for King Charles III in Pilton Almshouses 7th May 2023
The Coronation of King Charles III on Saturday 6th May 2023 was celebrated by the residents of the Pilton United Charity Almshouses in the gardens of St Margaret’s and the Lower Almshouses on Sunda...
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New Pilton Bridge Crossing of River Yeo in 1937
Until 1937 the main road north from Barnstaple, which dates from before the time of the Barnstaple Turnpike Trust (1827), crossed the River Yeo at Pilton Bridge and then went up Pilton Street, The ...
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Programme from the Opening of Bluecoat School in March 1969
Bluecoat School (now Bluecoat Academy) was officially opened by J L Smeall, the Principal of St Luke’s College, Exeter, and blessed by the then Bishop of Plymouth, Wilfrid Guy Sanderson. The openi...
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North Devon Gazette Report of Pilton Green Man Day 2004
In July 2004 reporter Matt Passmore, son of Pilton residents Mike and Lesley Passmore, wrote a full page report with photographs in the North Devon Gazette of 21st July of the successful Pilton Fes...
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IMPORTANT SALE AT BROADGATE, PILTON, IN 1918
In May 1918 the Broadgate Estate and the Contents of Broadgate House on Bellaire owned by Mrs Hibbert were sold by auction. The sale of the contents was reported as follows in the North Devon Jour...
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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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KINDLY IMPULSE Pilton Farmer And The Milk : from the Western Morning N...
Before the County Bench at Barnstaple yesterday Otto Leopold Trechmann, landowner and farmer, of Westaway, Pilton, Barnstaple' pleaded "Guilty" to selling by retail fresh milk other than under the ...
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