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Christmas Tea Party 2012
About 25 people gathered at the Victoria Tea Rooms in Pilton Street in December 2012 where members of the Pilton Story team explained more about the archive's aims and achievements so far. The pict...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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