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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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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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The Bartlett Family and Alfred Edward Hobbs in the 1920s
This is a family group of the Bartlett Family of Pilton together with Edward and Jane Hobbs and is thought to date from the 1920s. We have identified them in relation to Jane Hobbs (née Bartlett i...
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Pilton Causeway in 1976 before the Inner Ring Road
This photograph is taken looking north along Pilton Causeway towards Pilton Bridge. The building in the foreground, left, was Barnstaple Fire Station which moved to its current location on North R...
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The 1939-1945 Shirwell Home Guard on Pilton Bridge
This photograph, which was posted on Facebook by Terry Priscott, shows soldiers of Shirwell Home Guard during World War II sitting on the parapet of the new Pilton Bridge. The bridge was built in ...
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Pilton Bridge in 1920s
This photograph shows Pilton Bridge in the 1920s before it was widened and re-aligned for the construction of the North Road in 1938. In the background are what are now Bridge House, occupied by C...
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No 1 Pilton Street and No 8 Pilton Quay
These cottages were at the bottom of Pilton Street at the junction with Pilton Quay. No 1 Pilton Street was lived in by Sarah Gribble and her daughter Nellie Georgina Gribble (age 4) as recorded in...
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Samuel Blake Wool Pulling in Pilton Bridge in 1931
Samuel Blake of 50 The Rock, Pilton, is shown wool pulling at Sanders & Son, Fellmongers in Pilton Bridge in 1931. Sam Blake was married to Ellen Blake, who was a midwife, in 1904 and they liv...
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