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Home » Newspaper Cuttings » Local Newspaper cuttings collected by Pirton Villagers

Local Newspaper cuttings collected by Pirton Villagers

These articles were taken from newspapers based around North Herts…..The Hertfordshire Pictorial, The Hertfordshire Herald, The Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire Express, The Comet

New village Hall

The begonia show

The day war broke out

The church that Marianna built

Exile returns to Pirton after 60 years

You can’t beat these country pumpkins 

Ghostly goings-on down at the green

Family has lived here for hundreds of years

When boys lined up for mass caning

A headless cavalier and Neolithic razor-strop are part of Pirton’s inheritance

Labourer digs up bones in jar

Frail home with secrets to share ..Daily Telegraph

Pirton not pretty?  Views differ in the village

Straw plaiters head for village

Straw-plaiters, human scarecrows; heavy  smokers and Pirton’s quip for a king 

Now it’s the live and let die

 For White Horse read  Motte and Bailey

Pirton pub retains its former charm

 

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