Audios
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Boyhood adventures and Mannings Pit
A reunion in the Reform Inn brought back many memories for boyhood friends from Pilton, Bobby Furse, George Challacombe, John Norman and his cousin, Brian Norman. Among the reminiscences were long...
- from: Richard.Howe
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Brian Norman - Boy sailor
Brian Norman, now of Braunton, tells how as a Pilton boy he'd spend some of his school holidays in the late 1940s sailing out of Pilton Quay with his grandfather, Captain George Coates, on voyages ...
- from: Richard.Howe
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Half-muffled Peal of Pilton Church Bells for Yvonne Gray in February 2009
In early 2009, Yvonne Gray of the St Mary's Bellringers died and a half-muffled peal was rung in memory of her on 22 February 2009. For further information see also the group of bellringers in 2...
- from: Martin.Haddrill
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Box carting through Pilton
Some of Pilton's 'old boys' remember their childhood racing box carts, or pram-wheel buggies, from Maer Top to the bottom of Pilton Street in the days when there was no traffic and only the risk of...
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Surviving Battle of Britain air raid
During the Battle of Britain in 1940, Eric Sanders, from a family of five children born in Pilton and who lives in the Feoffee Cottages, was stationed at RAF Detling in Kent, near Maidenhead. He'd ...
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Alison Mills, inspiration for The Pilton Story
The Pilton Story Community Heritage Project, to give it its full title, started to take shape after a community gathering in Pilton Church Hall in 2008 to which North Devon Council brought officers...
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Molecatching for a penny and telegram boy for a tanner - Eric Sanders...
Eric remembers his childhood having to leave Pilton and earning sixpences for gardening, catching moles and sending their skins to a London dealer, delivering telegrams including some to a man who ...
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Fined for Cycling Furiously in Pilton Street
Eric Sanders’ grandparents and auntie ran Pilton Post Office, a familiar landmark which later became a hairdressing salon, then a restaurant and is now a private house. Eric’s father was a keen cyc...
- from: Richard.Howe
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