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SALE OF WORK FOR PILTON CHURCH OPENED BY MATILDA LADY WILLIAMS IN 1923
St Mary’s Church, Pilton, dates back over ten centuries, so it is not surprising that it requires quite a lot of maintenance. In July 1923 the North Devon Journal reported a Sale of Work on the Vi...
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The Pilton School in about 1923
This photograph, posted by Brenda Parsley on The Pilton Story Facebook page in April 2020, is of the pupils of Pilton School in about 1923. So far we have identified Brenda’s mother, Dorothy Horsma...
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The Musical ‘Robin Hood’ in Pilton Church Hall c.1923
This photograph shows the cast of a musical production of ‘Robin Hood’ with Herbert John Stevens as Robin Hood and Bess Mitchell as Maid Marion on the stage of Pilton Church Hall. Herbert Stevens ...
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Indenture of Alfred Edward Hobbs, age 16 years, to Thomas Colbourne of B...
In April 1909, Alfred Edward Hobbs, 16 year old son of Alfred Edward Hobbs Senior (a mason’s labourer), was indentured, for four years and 9 months, as an apprentice moulder to Thomas S Colbourne o...
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Bull Hill House, Bull Hill, in the 1930s
This photograph of Bull Hill House from the 1930s shows it with modern windows on the first floor and the part over the entrance which is surmounted by battlements filled in with modern windows and...
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Iris Pearce dressed in a Home Guard Uniform during the 1939-45 War
Iris Pearce (nee Crook and later Iris Morris) is shown here in the garden of Pilton House dressed up in a Home Guard uniform during the Second World War. Women were not officially allowed in the H...
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