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This 1400-word article from the North Devon Journal of March 1933 reported a talk by the Manager of the Barnstaple Water Company, C. N Wood, to the Rotary Club of Barnstaple. The story begins in 1...

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 ...

Our readers have often been amused by reading contributions from the pen of " Saki." We much regret that that pleasure will no more be theirs; for news has just reached this country that he was kil...

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...

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...

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...

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...