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Golden Wedding of Mr & Mrs George H Ackland of Fair View, Pilton, on...
Mr George Ackland & Mrs Bessie Ackland of 59 Fair View, Pilton, celebrated their Golden Wedding on Thursday 11th August 1938 and this article in the North Devon Journal of that date recorded th...
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'Shilling' Sam Gratton and his daughter Janet Gratton of Fair ...
This photograph shows 'Shilling' Sam Gratton of Fair View, Pilton with his daughter Janet Gratton. Sam and his son, William, were thatchers and practised their trade all over Devon and Somerset. S...
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May Belles and Wedding Bells in Sixties’ Pilton
Susan Roscoe, age 16, left her family home in Fair View, Pilton, with her parents, one brother and five sisters and emigrated to Australia in1970. In this fascinating note she recounts her time as...
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Peter Newcombe of Fair View in 1962/63
This photograph was taken in 1962 or 63 in the area between the houses of Fair View and the River Yeo where the Fair View Car Park is in 2014. We understand it was then called Murray Fields. The ...
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The Fairview Party to celebrate Victory in Japan Day in August 1945
Rain on the day meant that the Fairview VJ Day Street Party in August 1945 had to be held at the Queen Anne Building on the Strand, now the Barnstaple Heritage Centre. People identified in the p...
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Pilton Park in around 1905
This photograph of Pilton Park is thought to date from about 1905. It shows children and nannies in Edwardian dress - all wearing hats as we have noted before on photographs of this time. In the ...
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