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Pilton's Feast of Merriment July 1982
This was the report of the first Pilton Festival Pageant, Parade and Fair, held on 24th July 1982, in the North Devon Journal of 29th July. The Pageant depicted people and events throughout Pilton...
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Incumbents of St Mary's Church Pilton since 1600 (with Ashford sinc...
No Dates Name 1 1600-1605 Joseph Smyth 2 1605-1613 Morgan Davies 3 1613-1614 Francis Sharton 4 1614-1616 Nicholas Shukstone 5 1616-1651 Roger Bomcher 6 1651-1681 Joseph Ayres 7 1681-1695 ...
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Some Memories of St Mary's Church Choir, Pilton in 1970s and 1980s
Richard Westacott was a member of Pilton Church Choir in the 1970s and 1980s - in the days when Eric Ashton was Choirmaster and Rev James West was the vicar. Later he also sang under Choirmaster J...
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The Start of Pilton Festival in 1982
The Pilton Festival in Barnstaple, North Devon, started in 1982 as a result of the arrival of the Rev. Anthony Geering as Vicar of Pilton Church. With Ian Thomas, Albert Linacre, Noel Harley and m...
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Metropolitan Anthony In Pilton
This photograph is an interesting shot of Metropolitan Anthony and local parishioners in the Ladywell entrance to St Mary's Churchyard, Pilton. Anthony was Metropolitan Bishop of the Russian Orthod...
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A Study in Pilton Bluecoat School on Stir-Up Sunday in 1983
This picture was possibly taken in 1983 on Stir-Up Sunday – the Sunday immediately before Advent Sunday when Christmas puddings and cakes were traditionally made. It is taken in Bluecoat School in...
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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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