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Pilton Bluecoat School, Probably in 1982
This photograph is of a class at Bluecoat School in Pilton in 1982. Sam Payton posted this and other photographs on The Pilton Story Group on Facebook in November 2014. She has identified them as f...
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PILTON FESTIVAL - THIRTY YEARS ON!
A world of 30 years ago was re-visited in Pilton, Barnstaple, with the showing of a film of the first Pilton Festival in Pilton Church Hall on Friday 27th January. The right to hold a street market...
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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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Remembering Sapper Harry Fry-Vicary 154113 284th Army Troop Company of t...
Harry Fry-Vicary was born in 1897 to William and Adelaide Fry-Vicary and lived on The Rock, Pilton. Before enlisting in 1916 he was a cabinet maker at the Barnstaple Cabinet Works. In France he w...
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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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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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