• Welcome to the Bideford & District Community Archive

    Welcome to the Bideford & District Community Archive

    ...The Gazette Newspaper 1856 onwards.

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  • Welcome to the Bideford & District Community Archive

    Welcome to the Bideford & District Community Archive

    ...The Gazette Newspaper 1856 onwards.

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  • 1 New Lundy stamps

  • 2 Battle of the gap at Westward Ho!

  • 3 Celebrations for 103rd birthday

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    Gus Honeybun meets local children
  • 5 Launching the 'Golden Hinde'

  • 6 Lady Godiva comes to Torrington

  • 7 Championship Trophy for Hartland
  • 8

    10-year-old scrambler practices
  • 9

    First Girls at Bideford Grammar School take part in Play
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    Birgitta Whittaker
  • 11 New addition to Quay front

  • 12 Bideford School Junior Choir Sing in France at Twinning Ceremony in Landivisiau
  • 13 Clovelly custom

  • 14

    Inter-school Road Safety Quiz Cup Winners
  • 15 Repair work on Long Bridge
  • 16 Gloves fit for a king!

  • 17 Bideford computer stars

  • 18

    School of Dancing's Annual Display
  • 19 Broomhayes £1,000 Surprise
  • 20 Bideford childrens' cinema opens

  • 21 Record player of 80 years ago

  • 22

    Appledore boys beat mums at football
  • 23

    First prize
  • 24 Modern living at Bideford

  • 25 Jalopy joy for children of Shamwickshire

  • 26 Larkworthy Family play in Shebbear's Football Team
  • 27 Finished in 1876

  • 28

    Close associations with North Devon
  • 29 Calligrapher extraordinary

  • 30

    Double Baptism on Torridge
  • 31 Torrington children build igloo
  • 32

    Youth Clubs Join Together For Entertainment
  • 33 Panto time at Westward Ho!

  • 34 Cement-clad boats being built at Northam

  • 35 Westward Ho! Tennis Club Winners
  • 36 Charter granted by Philip and Mary

  • 37 Quads join a Langtree happy family

  • 38 Twenty-one yachts

  • 39 Head Barman appointed Torrington Town Crier
  • 40 Yeoi Vale House finally demolished

  • 41 Devil sent packing

  • 42 Jumble sale fever

  • 43

    Toasted with musical honours
  • 44 Brothers reunion 1947
  • 45

    FA Cup Match for the Robins
  • 46 Ship-in-bottle world record

  • 47

    Married in 1908
  • 48 Artisans' Club

  • 49 Wishing well is pixielated

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    Womens Skittles Competition in Buckland Brewer
  • 51

    Mums protest in Coronation Road
  • 52

    Lenwood Squash Club
  • 53 Church renovation rejoicing at Northam

  • 54 Waldon Triplets
  • 55 Bideford country dancers on TV

  • 56

    Andre Veillett and Quentin Reed in Judo Demonstration
  • 57 Wine and beer merchants for 150 years

  • 58 Eleventh hour bid to save last sailing barge

  • 59 Four sisters' nostalgic reunion

  • 60 Burnard family reunion

  • 61 Some 240 exhibits

  • 62 Entente cordiale in Bideford

  • 63

    Successful motor cycling team
  • 64 Escaped crane moves into Kenwith Valley

  • 65 Cavaliers join the Hunt
  • 66 Hartland Dancers
  • 67 Torrington Youth Club rewarded by party
  • 68 Appledore's largest

  • 69 Bideford Liberal club new lounge bar opened

  • 70 Appledore's new lifeboat

  • 71 Fundraising trip for RNLI

  • 72 Hartland postman retires

  • 73 Bideford Liberals' fashion show

  • 74 Clovelly nightmare

  • 75 New look for Torrington Lane

  • 76 Teenager Peter Jackson Makes Horror Film
  • 77

    Mrs Whapham finds ferret in Bridgeland Street while shopping
  • 78

    Jinxed School Trip
  • 79 Fleet of foot and fair of face

  • 80

    Relatives all over the world
  • 81 Donkey and horses enjoy carnival drink

  • 82

    Gift from Bideford Town Council
  • 83 Littleham family's five generations

  • 84

    New gateway
  • 85 Westward Ho! combined op

  • 86

    Was a missionary
  • 87 Bideford inquest on French trawlermen opens

  • 88 Space dominates Hartland carnival

  • 89 Shipbuilding hobby at Hartland

  • 90 Appledore Juniors Football
  • 91 Train returns to Westleigh straight

  • 92 Students help model St Sidwell

  • 93 Clovelly donkey film star

  • 94

    Reds Womens Team Are First To Compete Throughout Season
  • 95 Faints as she wins national competition

  • 96

    Building works
  • 97

    Wynne Olley's styles impress International Hair Fashion Designer
  • 98 Bideford A.F.C annual dinner
  • 99

    Holidaying in north Devon
  • 100 Bravery against bull at Shebbear rewarded

  • 101 Largest salmon caught in Torridge

  • 102 Bringing shopping home by goat

  • 103

    Hamburger is part of modern life
  • 104

    Cadets are given certificates
  • 105 New shipyard on schedule

  • 106

    Exhibition of school work
  • 107 Designed all furnishing of new chapel

  • 108

    Bidefordians
  • 109 Just over a year old

  • 110 John Andrew Bread Charity
  • 111 Salmon netting at Bideford

  • 112 Liked holidays here - so starts business

  • 113 Westward Ho! public conveniences get go ahead
  • 114 Baby Kate goes home to Lundy

  • 115 A craftsman's 'potted' history

3.5.1957 Robins win Hansen Cup

Robins Win The Hansen Cup

May 3rd, 1957

Bideford AFC pictured with the Hansen Cup after they had defeated Bude 2-1 in the final

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and suddenly it's spring

Cadds Down Farm

1 March 1974

Joined by Trixie, the pony

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  • Torrington May Fair Queen and Her Attendants

    Names from left to right:Joan Ricketts; Joan Newcombe; Jean Wernhem; Margaret Sweet; Enid Ovenden; Rona Elsworthy; Doris Short; (back row);
    Eileen Short; Miss Margery Bennett (Queen); Joyce Downman; David Fiddian (Page); Peggie Sussex;

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  • Seafield House - the "Spooky House" of Westward Ho!

    The house on the cliff edge known locally as ‘Spooky House’ or even ‘Haunted House’ , was built about 1885.

    The road was especially built to enable access to the house and was initially known as Seafield Road; later it became Merley Road.

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  • Christmas Eve at the Front

    An interesting letter has just been received by Mrs Packer, of Broadclyst, from her husband, Corpl Packer of A Company, 1st Battalion Devonshire Regiment, who is serving with the Expeditionary Force in Northern France. In the course of a letter he describes a remarkable incident which occurred on Christmas Eve between the British and German trenches.

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1911 Coronation Medal

Coronation Medal Presented on June 22nd 1911   Learn More

The Hoops Inn

The Hoops Inn close to Peppercombe Beach

The Quay at Appledore

Appledore Quay where Taw and Torridge Rivers meet 

 
Wynne Olley

Crowning Glory

12 October 1962

Their finest achievement to date...

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Shipyard goes into liquidation 1963

Liquidator appointed

4 January 1963

Difficulty in retaining labour...

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