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Pilton Arts Group - The First Forty Years
Pilton Arts Group came into being in late 1971, as a result of the closure of the Municipal School of Art in Barnstaple High Street. They bought the former Church of England School beside Pilton C...
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Historic Rotary Gardens Makeover Marks 40th Anniversary of Creation by B...
A project to improve Pilton’s Rotary Gardens was completed in 2014, in time for the park’s 40th anniversary on Friday 23 May. Work at the gardens began in 2013, with a new path and benches and ext...
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THOMAS HARDING R.N. OF THE REFORM INN, PILTON
Thomas Harding was a man with an adventurous past, which only came to light when his medals were sold at auction. He was born in Weymouth in 1847, joined the Royal Navy at the age of 15 and served...
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Rotary Gardens' Tree Trail Board 2013
As part of improvements carried out by North Devon Council in the first half of 2013, three information boards were erected in Rotary Gardens, one at each corner, in July 2013. One set out 'The Cr...
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The Public Houses of Pilton
In 1971 Margaret Reed published this 28 page booklet entitled ‘The Public Houses of Pilton’. Although the early inns are unrecorded, there is information from around the end of 18th century onward...
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Aerial View of North Devon District Hospital in the late1980s
This view of the North Devon District Hospital was taken by Margaret Reed in about 1988.
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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 Heritage Trail
A booklet compiled by Terry Chaplin in approx. 2000 with the help of Margaret Reed, Ethan Danielson, Bill Forward and the Devon Record Office and funding from Millennium Awards and Tarka Country Mi...
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