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This is the second of two pages of a newsletter produced by Pilton Bridge Garage in the summer of 1961 for the 'interest and enjoyment' of its customers. The proprietor at the time was Mr Jack H B...

This lovely photograph of childhood neighbours and friends, Shirley Squire (right) and Gillan Blake, now Humble, was taken in 1947 outside 50, The Rock, Pilton. Shirley, who lived at 49 The Rock, ...

Henry John Turberville, who was formerly known as Henry John Blackmore and was the elder brother of Richard Doddridge (R D) Blackmore, the author of 'Lorna Doone', died in very mysterious circumsta...

This picture shows maypole dancing during the May Queen festival held in 1968 in the grounds of Pilton House, Pilton Street. It came to the archive from Jan Cashin (formerly Huxtable) whose family ...

In 2013, the writer and wildlife artist Trevor Beer wrote his boyhood memories of life in Pilton where he was born in January 1937. He died in June 2017. These memoirs offer a fascinating insight...

Until 1937 the main road north from Barnstaple, which dates from before the time of the Barnstaple Turnpike Trust (1827), crossed the River Yeo at Pilton Bridge and then went up Pilton Street, The ...

This 14 minute film of black and white photographs of the early Pilton Festival, some of them before it was actually a Green Man Festival, was given to The Pilton Story by Tony Palmer of Yeo Vale. ...