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Eagles on the Entrance to Pilton House
This photograph shows the entrance to Pilton House when the gateposts were adorned with eagles. Although the quality is not good, we hope this might prompt someone to tell us more about the fate o...
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Miss Allsop of Pilton House is presented with a Paignton crab on 15th Ju...
Miss Allsop of Pilton House is shown here receiving the Paignton crab won by Barnstaple from the Mayor Mr Clark on behalf of the residents of Pilton House. It is dated 15th June 1955. We would l...
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May Fayre at Pilton House, 13th May 1961
This photograph shows the May Queen, with an entourage of girls with flowers and a girl and a boy dressed as a bride and groom at a May Fayre held in the grounds of Pilton House on 13th May 1961. T...
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Captain Charles Pearce of Pilton House on his horse Tupenny during the 1...
This photograph shows Capt Charles Pearce, the son of Charles Pearce Senior, who lived at Pilton House. Charles Pearce Junior was born in 1886, survived service in World War I and died in 1960 at ...
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Iris Pearce dressed in a Home Guard Uniform during the 1939-45 War
Iris Pearce (nee Crook and later Iris Morris) is shown here in the garden of Pilton House dressed up in a Home Guard uniform during the Second World War. Women were not officially allowed in the H...
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Pilton House Residents' Christmas Party 1954
At the Christmas Party of 1954, the residents of Pilton House dressed up for charades representing songs with Miss Sanders at the piano. The characters included Gladstone, Geisha Girl, Welsh Lady, ...
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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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Rotary Club of Barnstaple Golden Jubilee Project 74 to Create the Rotary...
In commemoration of formation of the Rotary Club of Barnstaple in 1924, the members of the Rotary Club decided in 1970 to celebrate their Golden Jubilee by creating a Rest Garden for the elderly on...
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