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Pilton Bridge Garage, Pilton, in the 1960s
This photograph of Pilton Bridge Garage in the 1960s was posted on the Facebook Barnstaple History Page by Terry Loder in September 2013. The garage was built in the 1930s by Charlie Hinxman and h...
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Bull Hill House, Bull Hill, in the 1930s
This photograph of Bull Hill House from the 1930s shows it with modern windows on the first floor and the part over the entrance which is surmounted by battlements filled in with modern windows and...
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The Rock, Pilton in the 1930s or 40s
This is a photo of The Rock, Pilton, thought to have been taken in the 1930s from opposite Rock House. The area looks rather run down. The cottage on the right No 75 was lived in by Miss Annie Bowd...
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The Barnstaple Shilling presented to Pilton Upper Almshouse Residents 2014
The tradition of the Mayor of Barnstaple presenting coins to the residents of the almshouses in the town just after election to office probably dates back to Henry Gardner Tippett who died in 1795....
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Commemoration of Haile Selassi's Exile to England held in Rock Park...
Following the invasion of Ethiopia by the Italians in 1935, Emperor Haile Selassie fled to exile in 1936 and eventually ended up in Fairfield House, Bath, England, where he remained until 1941 when...
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The Story of Engineering at No 12 Pilton Street
In the early nineteenth century No 12 Pilton Street was the site of a malthouse, four houses and a garden. By the 1840s Joseph Laramy from South Molton had established a woolstapling business. Wh...
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Pilton Children in the 1930 Millenary Pageant
Children from Pilton took part in a Millenary pageant in 1930, called ' Barnstaple Through the Ages' held in the Pannier Market and commemorating the 1,000 years since the Borough of Barnstaple was...
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Remembering Albert Linacre
In September 2015, Albert Linacre, a long time resident who was instrumental in making Pilton the vibrant community it is today, passed way at the age of 85. Born in Birmingham in 1930, Albert att...
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