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Shipbuilding in Pilton and Pottington in 18th and 19th Centuries
It is difficult to believe, given how narrow the River Yeo at Pilton is today, that there was once a thriving shipbuilding industry in Pilton dating back to the mid-18th century and lasting beyond ...
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Quay reflections on days of fishing in the 1950s by Sylvia Mullen (neé P...
"Growing up with parents who had a passion for fishing it was hardly surprising that we children would follow. Before these adventures along the river beds could take place some rag worm (bait) ha...
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Stanbury & Sons Victoria Flour Mill on Rolle Quay
This photograph shows the Stanbury & Sons Victoria Flour Mills on Rolle Quay which were demolished some time after 1941. The Mills were located opposite the site where the Barnstaple Civic Cen...
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Aerial View of River Yeo and Rolle Quay in the late 1980s
This aerial view of the River Yeo and Rolle Quay from the late 1980s shows the Inner Relief Road (completed 1986) and, bottom right, the Civic Centre (foundation stone laid in 1967). In the centre...
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Rolle Quay around 1900
This photograph shows sailing barges moored on the River Yeo at Rolle Quay in around 1900. On the quay you can see the rail link from the Ilfracombe Railway (which ran along the north shore of the...
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Rawle, Gammon and Baker - 140 years old in 1990
To celebrate Rawle, Gammon and Baker (now affectionately known to all as RGB) reaching 140 years from its origins in Rolle Quay, Pilton in 1850, the North Devon Journal produced a Special Publicati...
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The 1982 Map of Pilton for First Festival
In 1982 a limited edition (of 200) of an illustrated map of Pilton was prepared by J Kemp for the first Pilton Festival. This is a scanned copy of No 2 given to The Pilton Story by Albert Linacre....
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