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Concert Party in Pilton Church Rooms in 1920s
The three girls are taking part in a Concert Party, probably as part of the Girls Friendly Society (GFS), in Pilton Church Rooms (now the Hall) in the 1920s. Left to right they are Wynne Knill, Ne...
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Pilton Flower Festival in 1982
This wonderful 'rainbow' display at St Mary's Church Flower Festival in 1982 was done by Jennie Hobbs and Clariss Gee. This was at the time of the very first Pilton Festival of the modern era. Th...
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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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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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The Bartlett Family of Pilton from 1864 onwards
This photograph shows the family of William and Jane Bartlett (née Baker) of Pilton in about 1910. Their family has links to many North Devon families - Sanders, Passmore, Hobbs and Huxtable, amon...
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Jennie Hobbs and the Barnstaple Central Girls’ School in 1937
This photograph from the papers of the late Jennie Hobbs of Pilton, who died in September 2017, shows a class of girls from the Central Girls’ School, Barnstaple, in 1937. No specific references t...
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The Wedding of Alfred Edward Hobbs and Jane Bartlett, Saturday 3rd July ...
This wedding photograph shows the families and friends of Alfred Edward Hobbs and Jane Bartlett after their wedding in the Church of St Mary the Virgin in Pilton in July 1920. A report on the wedd...
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Indenture of Alfred Edward Hobbs, age 16 years, to Thomas Colbourne of B...
In April 1909, Alfred Edward Hobbs, 16 year old son of Alfred Edward Hobbs Senior (a mason’s labourer), was indentured, for four years and 9 months, as an apprentice moulder to Thomas S Colbourne o...
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