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KINDLY IMPULSE Pilton Farmer And The Milk : from the Western Morning N...
Before the County Bench at Barnstaple yesterday Otto Leopold Trechmann, landowner and farmer, of Westaway, Pilton, Barnstaple' pleaded "Guilty" to selling by retail fresh milk other than under the ...
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Victorian Week at Pilton Bluecoat School in 1989
In the Spring Term of 1989, the school project at Pilton Bluecoat School was “The Victorians”. For one week the classroom was turned into a Victorian classroom with the children sitting in rows at...
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Pilton Festival, reported in the North Devon Journal Herald on July 8th ...
This picture is of the full page spread about the first Pilton Festival in the modern era published in the North Devon Journal-Herald on 8th July 1982. The centrepiece article by Graham Andrews ca...
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When a doctor sold herbs to keep the plague at bay : July 1982
This is a transcription of an article by Graham Andrews which was the centrepiece of a full page spread in the North Devon Journal-Herald on Thursday 8th July 1982 about the very first Pilton Festi...
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GREAT FIRE AT RAWLEIGH FACTORY IN 1869 AS REPORTED IN THE NORTH DEVON JO...
In around 1863, the Messrs Shapland and Petter established a water-powered factory at Rawleigh where it regularly employed one hundred hands in the manufacture of suites of furniture, marble mantel...
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Sale of Hope Mills Woollen Manufactory in Bradiford in February 1830
In February 1830, the North Devon Journal carried this advertisement for Hope Mills Woollen Manufactory in Pilton, Barnstaple. It was clearly a comprehensive establishment with a factory, dye hous...
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Sale of Work in Aid of New Pilton Church Room in 1904
The Unicorn Inn, close to the top of Pilton Street, was bought by the Diocese of Exeter and turned into Pilton Parish Rooms right at the beginning of the 20th century. The skittle alley at the rear...
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The Origins of Barnstaple and Pilton: New Perspectives on Old Settlements
In a 2020 paper published in the Transactions of the Devonshire Association, Wendy Clarke has re-examined the Anglo-Saxon origins of Barnstaple and Pilton. The relationship between these close neig...
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