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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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PROBABLY THE LAST PINT DRAWN AT THE NEW INN, PILTON STREET, IN 1969
This photograph shows Lilian Mabel Stevens (née Perkins) and she is thought to be drawing the last pint of Whitbread beer in the New Inn at 29/30 Pilton Street before it closed in 1969. Margaret R...
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'Dick Whittington & his Cat' the Pilton Panto January 2000...
The January 2000 Pilton Panto ‘Dick Whittington and his Cat’ was probably the 4th Pilton Panto of the modern era. This one was presented in the skittle alley of the then Chichester Arms in Pilton S...
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The 2004 Pilton Panto ‘Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves’
The January 2004 Pilton Panto ‘Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves’ was the 8th Pilton Panto of the modern era. This one was again presented in the skittle alley of the then Chichester Arms in Pilton S...
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The 2002 Pilton Panto ‘Peter Pan’
The February 2002 Pilton Panto ‘Peter Pan’ was the 7th Pilton Panto of the modern era. This one was again presented in the skittle alley of the then Chichester Arms in Pilton Street, now the Green...
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The 2000 Pilton Panto ‘Dick Whittington and his Cat’
The January 2000 Pilton Panto ‘Dick Whittington and his Cat’ was probably the 4th Pilton Panto of the modern era, although we lack programmes from earlier ones to verify that fact. This one was pr...
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Twigs Flower Shop comes to Pilton in 2017
Twigs Flower Shop was established in Barnstaple in 1999 by Deryn Northam and, since then, has gained a reputation for exceptional flowers and service. In July 2017 it relocated from Mermaid Walk t...
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TREVOR BEER’S BOYHOOD MEMORIES OF PILTON
In 2013, the writer and wildlife artist Trevor Beer wrote his boyhood memories of life in Pilton where he was born in January 1937. He died in June 2017. These memoirs offer a fascinating insight...
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