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Next Steps Developments – a small charity based in Pilton
Next Steps Developments is a charity (registered charity no. 118222) which works with adults with learning disabilities, mental health illness and other additional needs. They have a workshop, las...
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Postcard of Thanks from Westaway to a Dressmaker in Braunton Road c 1910
This is a postcard of Westaway, Pilton, (sometimes referred to as Westaway House) to a seamstress Mrs Whale of 'Costumia', Braunton Road, Barnstaple, from a satisfied customer living at Westaway, f...
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Alfred Edward Hobbs in Deolali, Maharastra, India, in 1915
This is a photograph of Lance Corporal Alfred Edward Hobbs of Pilton. He had served in the 1st/6th Devonshire Regiment. Based in Barnstaple, the 6th Devons specifically recruited men from North D...
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Comrades of the Great War Certificate of Alfred Edward Hobbs
The Comrades of the Great War was formed in 1917 as a non-political association to represent the rights of ex-service men and women who had served or had been discharged from service during The Gre...
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Restoration of the Bells of St Mary’s Church in 1969-70
There are eight bells in the tower of St Mary’s Church, Pilton, and they were last restored in 1969-70. Church bells were first recorded in Pilton in 1553 when there were five. These increased to ...
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DEVON ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY PAPER ON A MEDIEVAL GOLD RING FOUND AT PILT...
'The Prior's Ring' of Pilton was found buried under a tree in a garden close to Pilton Churchyard in 1867. The owner of the site, a Doctor Forrester, took the ring to the British Museum for identif...
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Pilton Bellringers’ Record Run to Bude in 1912
You have to be amazed by some of the things that went on in Pilton 100 years ago. In July 1912 the bellringers of Pilton Parish Church went on a record breaking run to Bude with a ‘coach and four’....
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Private Ronald Thomas John Frayne 2416, 1st/6th Battalion Devonshire Reg...
Private Ronald Frayne of Pilton Street was 21 when he died on March 8th 1916 helping to relieve British comrades besieged inside the city of Kut, near Baghdad, He was one of five children of John...
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