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Plan of Conveyance of Pilton House in March 1866
This document, found among Pilton House papers in 2015, shows the plan of the conveyance when the house and grounds were sold in 1866. The scale suggests that the land stretched from the back of t...
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Pilton Almshouses Archway
An atmospheric portrait of the archway entrance to the Feoffee Cottages (almshouses) at the top of Pilton Street, sometime in the Victorian era. The archway was built in 1849/50 and paid for partl...
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Arthur Thorne of Priory Gardens, Pilton with REME in Brussels
This photograph, sent in by Maureen Dark (neé Thorne), is of her father, Arthur Thorne, of Priory Gardens, then Priory Road and later at 123, Pilton Street next to the Yeo Dale Hotel. This was mor...
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Butchers and Bakers in Pilton Street c1900
These premises once housed Charles Lee's butchers and Southcombe's bakery. They were almost certainly in the bottom corner, currently used for health and beauty therapy. The date is turn of the 19t...
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Cattle Droving Through Pilton Street until after World War II
This short document tells the story of the driving of cattle from Ilfracombe and Braunton through Bradiford and down Pilton Street around the Strand and across the Long Bridge to Barnstaple Junctio...
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Descendants of John Hartnoll and Elizabeth Facey of Pilton from 1773
Canadian Anne Bishop has traced her antecedents back to the Hartnolls of Pilton in the late 1700s. This article - very useful for anyone researching their family tree and having ancestors in common...
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Pilton Street in the Snow in 1924 by Bruce William Oliver
This is an original pen and ink sketch of Pilton Street in deep snow by Bruce William Oliver of Barnstaple probably dating from the winter of 1923-24. Bruce Oliver was a prominent architect in Bid...
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The Village of Pilton filmed in about 1960
In 2013 The Pilton Story was given a 7 minutes silent film - probably from a Super 8 - of scenes around Pilton. These included the view from Bull Hill House, and shots of Pilton Street, the North ...
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