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The Olympic Torch passes through Pilton on 21st May 2012
The Olympic Torch passed through Pilton at around 11.30am on 21st May 2012 carried by a trampolining champion from Gloucester called Annelies Willerton in Rolle Street and Braunton Road.
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Pilton Green Man Festival Parade 1997
This colourful line of women and children in medieval costume led the Pilton Green Man Festival Parade in 1997. Immediately recognisable in dark brown in the centre is Joan Spear, wife of the Vica...
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The Windsor Arms, Bradiford, in 1965
For many years the brewery, Starkeys, operated the Windsor Arms in Bradiford. It was earlier part of Starkey Knight and Ford, based in Tiverton and with breweries in Bridgwater and Taunton and stor...
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Pilton and Fremington Beavers at the Birthday Party in January 1985
This photograph shows the Pilton Beavers (in the blue sweatshirts) and the Fremington Beavers (in the grey sweatshirts) at the Pilton Beavers' Birthday Party in January 1985. Only a few names of t...
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Shearford Lane
Shearford Lane, also known as Venn's Lane or Stinking Lily Lane for the wild garlic which thrives on it, is a typical Devon sunken lane. It originally led from Pilton to Playford, Blakewell and Bl...
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Rev Vernon Ross leaves Pilton Church in October 2008
In October 2008, the Rev Vernon Ross (seen here with his wife Francesca, Churchwardens Mark Crooks and Kate Hastings and Readers David Rushworth and Marion Sanders) left Pilton Church after 9 years...
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The Tower of St Mary's Church, Pilton
It is difficult to imagine the tower of Pilton Church topped with a lead spire, similar to the ones at Ashford, Barnstaple, Braunton, Swimbridge and others in North Devon. However, that was the ca...
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Samuel Blake Wool Pulling in Pilton Bridge in 1931
Samuel Blake of 50 The Rock, Pilton, is shown wool pulling at Sanders & Son, Fellmongers in Pilton Bridge in 1931. Sam Blake was married to Ellen Blake, who was a midwife, in 1904 and they liv...
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