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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...

This photograph shows Sheilah Mary Roscoe (daughter of Sam Gratton, a Barnstaple thatcher) and her daughter Susan Houston (neé Roscoe) outside 4 Fair View which was their home until 1970. They liv...

In 1995 Susan Houston (neé Roscoe) brought her parents back to Pilton 25 years after they emigrated to Australia from Fair View, Pilton, with their six children. Here they can be seen under the ar...

In 1965 Susan Roscoe, age 11, now Susan Houston, was bridesmaid at the wedding of Janet Gratton to Richard Day at St Mary's Church, Pilton. More of her life in Pilton in the 1960s can be found in ...

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...