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Carnival capers in South Molton
CARNIVAL: Everyone likes a carnival float and this photograph shows one from the South Molton Carnival in 1953 or 1954. Sent to me by Doreen Wheaton, it features Betty Pearse as the Queen with her two...
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150 YEARS AGOMay 18, 1865The Journal's circulation reaches 2,400 copies per week.An Ilfracombe thief is caught after photographs of him are distributed by the police. 100 YEARS AGOMay 20, 1915Two...
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Horses accompany troops as they are called up for war
THE outbreak of the First World War saw the hasty calling up of local reservists – including the Torrington-based squadron of the North Devon Hussars who rode their horses into the assembly point in...
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When fishing for herring was a major industry in Clovelly
JO Smith has been running the Boatstories project for the last year which was set up to produce short films on the history and current practice of fishing in North Devon. Her latest film is concerned...
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YESTERYEAR: Appledore Shipyard employees at work
THESE two photographs have been sent in by sisters Enid Sherborne and Cynthia Snowden. They show their grandfather Felix Abbott at Hansen's machine shop in Appledore shipyard – in the group photograph...
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YESTERYEAR: Rare shot of US army trucks
RARE SHOT: Peter Christie has written before about the paucity of local Second World War photographs through concerns over security plus a shortage of film, so it was exciting for him to come across...
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YESTERYEAR: Celebrating football team's extremely successful...
FOOTBALL SUCCESS: Pam Balfour has sent Peter Christie this picture of the highly successful Torrington football team in 1949, proudly displaying the Torridge Cup and the League Cup they won in that...
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Former Barnstaple rugby forward Bill Slee dies in Australia aged...
BILL Slee, a tall and fearless second row who played for Barnstaple in the Sixties, has died, aged 72.With his physical presence on the pitch and likeable character off it, Mr Slee was a popular figure...
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YESTERYEAR: Putting names to the faces of Marwood children, 1908
PETER Christie has featured quite a few old school photographs but rarely has it been possible to put names to the early ones. But in this case, he can offer some. Sent in by M Grant, the first...
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YESTERYEAR: Wreck at Westward Ho! attracts lots of visitors
IN January 1921 the Royal Navy sent the torpedo boat HMS Sandfly for scrapping, but on its way to the scrapyard it was wrecked on the Pebble Ridge at Westward Ho! Such an exciting event saw lots of...
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YESTERYEAR: Council 'dustmen' seated outside the old castle...
MARTYN Easterbrook has been looking through his family's old photographs and came up with a fascinating shot which shows the old Borough of Barnstaple dustmen around 1940 – they had yet to be renamed...
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