• 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 Dismantling of wireless mast

  • 2 Variety in summer weather

  • 3 Can-carrying over cobbles has disappeared

  • 4 Simple Item 138
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    Relatives all over the world
  • 6 Torrington's enterprise's new extensions

  • 7 Colour TV salesman at eight

  • 8 In the tortoise nursery - eight hatched at Bideford

  • 9 Hartland postman retires

  • 10 New look in the hayfields

  • 11 Baby Kate goes home to Lundy

  • 12 For crying out loud!

  • 13 Homage to a well-loved sovereign

  • 14 New Estate's view of estuary activities

  • 15 Bravery against bull at Shebbear rewarded

  • 16 Centenary of Landcross Methodist Chapel

  • 17 Hartland Dancers
  • 18 Old Girls revisit Edgehill

  • 19 Puppet characters introduced

  • 20 Bideford's gift to Sir Francis

  • 21 Eight to strike and a race to win

  • 22 Bideford has built over 500 post-war homes

  • 23 Huntshaw TV mast

  • 24 Celebrations for 103rd birthday

  • 25 Waldon Triplets
  • 26

    Youth Clubs Join Together For Entertainment
  • 27 It really was the 'last time'

  • 28 Yeo vale road ruin provides a mystery

  • 29 One of the luckier farmers in getting in the problem harvest

  • 30 Parkham plan realised

  • 31 Revived market off to splendid start

  • 32 Thunderstorm destruction of 25 years ago

  • 33 Devil sent packing

  • 34

    Building works
  • 35 Northam wants to continue pumping from river

  • 36 Calligrapher extraordinary

  • 37 New Lundy stamps

  • 38 Champagne send-off for Torrington new factory

  • 39 Northam footballers of the future

  • 40 Pretty pennies at Beaford

  • 41 Death - and birth - of a telephone exchange

  • 42 Tomorrow' night's skittles broadcast from Bideford

  • 43 Little 'Big Ben'

  • 44 Emergency ferry services

  • 45 Northam's almshouse

  • 46 By pony and trap to market

  • 47 Birds' convalescent home at Instow

  • 48

    First prize
  • 49 Fundraising trip for RNLI

  • 50 Artisans' Club

  • 51 Out of puff!

  • 52

    Holidaying in north Devon
  • 53 End of the line

  • 54 Puzzle corner at Bideford!

  • 55

    First Girls at Bideford Grammar School take part in Play
  • 56

    Close associations with North Devon
  • 57 Panto time at Westward Ho!

  • 58 Weare Giffard potato

  • 59 On her 'maiden' trip from Bideford

  • 60 TV contest means big job for Bideford Guides

  • 61 Space dominates Hartland carnival

  • 62 New life for Hartland organ

  • 63

    Birgitta Whittaker
  • 64 Diamond Jubilee of St Peter's Church, East-the-Water

  • 65 Five generations link Woolsery, Clovelly and Bideford

  • 66 Thirty bridges cross Torridge

  • 67 Sooty is quick on the draw

  • 68 A sense of humour in advertising

  • 69 Torrington to have first woman mayor

  • 70 Shoes certainly not made for walking

  • 71 Landmark at Bradworthy

  • 72 Barley from Bideford to Bonnie Scotland

  • 73 Pannier Market's future?

  • 74

    Reds Womens Team Are First To Compete Throughout Season
  • 75 Children's procession with foxgloves

  • 76

    Toasted with musical honours
  • 77 Polish custom on Pancake Day

  • 78 Wishing well is pixielated

  • 79 X-ray shoe fitting

  • 80 Peter poses for TV film

  • 81 Picking the pops

  • 82 Finished in 1876

  • 83 Northam loses thatched cottage landmark

  • 84 Bideford loses training ship

  • 85 Train returns to Westleigh straight

  • 86 Clovelly donkey film star

  • 87 First ship in 8 years

  • 88 Clovelly nightmare

  • 89 Eleven million pound scheme's official opening

  • 90 Entente cordiale in Bideford

  • 91

    Andre Veillett and Quentin Reed in Judo Demonstration
  • 92 Just over a year old

  • 93

    Lenwood Squash Club
  • 94 School's link with cargo ship

  • 95 Some mushroom!

  • 96 Boys from Bideford school complete Ten Tors

  • 97 Photo mural in Bideford bank

  • 98 Yeoi Vale House finally demolished

  • 99 Centenary of Gazette

  • 100 Beach search for mines takes longer

  • 101 Wine and beer merchants for 150 years

  • 102 Bideford Bridge re-opens

  • 103 Bideford triplets' first birthday party

  • 104 Bideford - as Rowlandson saw it about 1810-15

  • 105 Unique holiday adventure!

  • 106 Escaped crane moves into Kenwith Valley

  • 107 No ancient Grecian temple this

  • 108 Championship Trophy for Hartland
  • 109 Lots drawn to prevent dog fight

  • 110 Reed threshing 'putting the clock back' at Weare Giffard

  • 111 Six footed lamb

  • 112 All aboard the ark

  • 113 Town's second woman mayor in 392 years

  • 114 Allhalland Street - then and now

  • 115 Still hunting aged 80 and a Field Master

  • 116 Bideford childrens' cinema opens

  • 117 Grenville House for Bideford R.D.C.

  • 118 Rowing triumphs at Bideford

  • 119 No laughing matter

  • 120 Alverdiscott is proud of its new parish hall

  • 121 New civic medallions

  • 122 Bringing shopping home by goat

  • 123

    Successful motor cycling team
  • 124

    Womens Skittles Competition in Buckland Brewer
  • 125

    Bidefordians
  • 126

    Mums protest in Coronation Road
  • 127 Joe the ginger tabby is 21

  • 128 Bideford's private wharves busier

  • 129 New choral society's growing response

  • 130 Speeding communications: Bideford firm's new installation

  • 131

    Jinxed School Trip
  • 132 Two kinds of hovercraft at Bideford

  • 133 A story to tell!

  • 134 Warmington's garage ad

  • 135 Clovelly's 91 year old horseman

  • 136 Largest salmon caught in Torridge

  • 137 Second Monte Carlo Rally

  • 138 Modern living at Bideford

  • 139 One thousand visit zoo at Whitsun

  • 140 Donkey work made easier at Clovelly

  • 141 Cavaliers join the Hunt
  • 142 Battle of the gap at Westward Ho!

  • 143 Westward Ho! public conveniences get go ahead
  • 144 Salmon netting at Bideford

  • 145 The art of the thatcher

  • 146 Fleet of foot and fair of face

  • 147 Tibbles home again - and fish supper

  • 148 Chess - their bridge over the years

  • 149 Move for oldest boatyard on Torridge

  • 150 Clovelly custom

  • 151 Broomhayes £1,000 Surprise
  • 152 Charter granted by Philip and Mary

  • 153 Torrington acclaims 400th anniversary of granting of charter

  • 154 Riverside mystery

  • 155 Larkworthy Family play in Shebbear's Football Team
  • 156 Thrush builds nest in cauliflower

  • 157 Record pebble-throwing day

  • 158 Faints as she wins national competition

  • 159 Panel sprint for Bideford broadcast

  • 160 Church renovation rejoicing at Northam

  • 161 Appledore schooner broadcast

  • 162 Penny for the guy

  • 163 Lady Churchill congratulates Bideford artists at nursing exhibition

  • 164 'Out of Appledore' sailing memories

  • 165 Hartland Abbey outdoor staff 60 years ago

  • 166 Private home for public pump

  • 167 Doing time - over 300 years of it - at Hartland

  • 168 Alwington School closing after 120 years

  • 169 Farewell to passenger trains

  • 170 Four sisters' nostalgic reunion

  • 171 Success to Festival of the Arts

  • 172 The Geneva marionettes

  • 173 Torrington children build igloo
  • 174 Four hundred residents leave Bideford!

  • 175 Students help model St Sidwell

  • 176 Appledore's new lifeboat

  • 177 They never miss a game at Torrington

  • 178

    Was a missionary
  • 179 A bird of their own!

  • 180 TV features Bideford's New Year bread ceremony

  • 181 Eleventh hour bid to save last sailing barge

  • 182 No sale of Springfield House

  • 183 Picture bought for shillings may be worth thousands

  • 184 Littleham cow tops 70 tons mark in milk production

  • 185 Lady Godiva comes to Torrington

  • 186 Ship-in-bottle world record

  • 187 New shipyard on schedule

  • 188 Jalopy joy for children of Shamwickshire

  • 189 Life begins at 80

  • 190 East-the-Water's call for new school

  • 191 Water Board mains spread through villages

  • 192 What the television camera saw at Abbotsham

  • 193 All for the love of a lady!

  • 194

    Mrs Whapham finds ferret in Bridgeland Street while shopping
  • 195 Torridge wins on time schedule

  • 196 New gateway to King George's Fields

  • 197

    Married in 1908
  • 198 Yelland potter's exhibition at Bideford

  • 199 'Les Girls' of Hartland

  • 200 A craftsman's 'potted' history

  • 201 Council agree to demolition of Chanter's Folly

  • 202 Last train from Torrington

  • 203 Jumble sale fever

  • 204 Bideford stock car racing entry comes in second

  • 205

    Exhibition of school work
  • 206 Mobile missionary

  • 207 New addition to Quay front

  • 208 Westward Ho! combined op

  • 209 Tide sweeps under and over the old bridge

  • 210 Decontrol of meat

  • 211 Television comes to Torridge District

  • 212 Bideford School Junior Choir Sing in France at Twinning Ceremony in Landivisiau
  • 213 Safe door weighing two tons

  • 214 Eight and a half million pound Taw development scheme

  • 215 Shipbuilding hobby at Hartland

  • 216 Appledore tugs fete London Tower

  • 217 Torrington's new amenity

  • 218 Bideford computer stars

  • 219 113 years at Instow

  • 220 Donkey and horses enjoy carnival drink

  • 221 Future of Torrington almshouses

  • 222 Watch the dicky bird!

  • 223 Designed all furnishing of new chapel

  • 224 Quads at Thornhillhead

  • 225 Harvest service in Bideford 'pub' bar

  • 226 No ancient Grecian temple this

  • 227 Pet squirrels at Monkleigh

  • 228 Twenty-one yachts

  • 229 Fishing light goes out at close of poor season

  • 230 Sweet success at Langtree School

  • 231 Police station view of Bideford

  • 232 Bideford Liberal club new lounge bar opened

  • 233 Malibou boys are all-the-year-round surfers

  • 234 Big develolpment at Calveford

  • 235 In their new robes and hats

  • 236 Quads join a Langtree happy family

  • 237 He beat the floods

  • 238 Last of Bideford factory chimney

  • 239 Alderman Anstey's dream comes tru

  • 240 Torridge graveyard of wooden hulks

  • 241 Torrington in 1967

  • 242 Sixty-two year old Picarooner makes ready for season

  • 243 Bideford shipyard workers cheer new minesweeper

  • 244 They set out for Bideford and became lost

  • 245 Signed scroll momento of Queen Mother's visit

  • 246 Sunshine and shade at Appledore

  • 247 Weare Giffard Hall sold for £11,300

  • 248 Brothers reunion 1947
  • 249 Mural in the whimsical fashion

  • 250 Bideford 'What's my line?' challenger

  • 251 Olympic riders to compete at Bideford Horse Show

  • 252 A lost Bideford 'island'

  • 253 Thorn-apple found in Littleham conservatory

  • 254 Bideford country dancers on TV

  • 255 Hartland's invitation

  • 256 Spring-cleaning the Ridge

  • 257 Tramps camp by riverside throughout arctic weather

  • 258 School crossing patrol begins

  • 259 So this is the mainland!

  • 260 Preparations for new Clovelly Court

  • 261 Bideford's new market opens next week

  • 262

    Gift from Bideford Town Council
  • 263 Happy Days!

  • 264 Vessel built 300 feet above sea level

  • 265 Appledore's largest

  • 266 Daisy's pride and joy

  • 267 To build racing cars in former blacksmith's shop

  • 268 Picking the pops

  • 269 John Andrew Bread Charity
  • 270 Some 240 exhibits

  • 271 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

  • 272 New look for Torrington Lane

  • 273 Cement-clad boats being built at Northam

  • 274 Making way for the double-deckers

  • 275 Broomhayes children will keep their winter pet

  • 276 Can spring be far away?

  • 277 Bridging the stream

  • 278 Record player of 80 years ago

  • 279 First tankers arrive at new depot

  • 280 Westward Ho! sand yacht to challenge speed record

  • 281

    Double Baptism on Torridge
  • 282 Head Barman appointed Torrington Town Crier
  • 283 Bideford-Torrington road gets 'carpet coat'

  • 284 Designed and made in Bideford

  • 285 Ancestral home nestling in lovely combe

  • 286 New Post Office

  • 287 Teenager Peter Jackson Makes Horror Film
  • 288 Instow local art show was 'tremendous success'

  • 289 Works at craft he learned over 65 years ago

  • 290 Practical sympathy at Northam

  • 291 Bideford schoolboy's courage recognised

  • 292 Fish nearly pulled him in

  • 293 Boys win hockey on the sands challenge

  • 294 Bank Holiday weather was beach weather

  • 295

    FA Cup Match for the Robins
  • 296

    Appledore boys beat mums at football
  • 297 A Weare Giffard speciality - delicious strawberries

  • 298 Cruising down the river

  • 299 Bideford Zoo's first baby is big draw

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    School of Dancing's Annual Display
  • 301 An early 'special' to Bideford

  • 302 Saving money, wear and tear

  • 303 Ships at Bideford

  • 304 Smiling welcome to Hartland visitors

  • 305 They are parted pro-tem

  • 306 Appledore Juniors Football
  • 307

    Inter-school Road Safety Quiz Cup Winners
  • 308 Bideford Liberals' fashion show

  • 309 What is future of railway goods yard?

  • 310 Meredith's ironmongers

  • 311 Circus comes to town

  • 312 Bideford blacksmith wins English championship

  • 313 What's the time?

  • 314 Recognise this resort?

  • 315 Sight of a lifetime

  • 316

    Wynne Olley's styles impress International Hair Fashion Designer
  • 317 Bideford inquest on French trawlermen opens

  • 318 Torrington Youth Club rewarded by party
  • 319 Appledore boy is youngest recipient of RNLI vellun

  • 320 Traditions and skills still there

  • 321 America's tribute to 'J.H.'

  • 322 Bideford regatta

  • 323 Service with a smile

  • 324 Revenge in style

  • 325 A roof-top view - where?

  • 326 Holiday scene near Sandymere

  • 327 Spray dodging - the new pastime

  • 328 Passing of a Torrington landmark

  • 329 Gloves fit for a king!

  • 330 New fire and ambulance stations

  • 331

    Cadets are given certificates
  • 332 Not Bideford's answer to the moon rocket!

  • 333 Buckland goes to County Show

  • 334 Fishermen of Greencliff

  • 335 Burnard family reunion

  • 336 Centuries old but today busier than ever

  • 337 Holiday traffic in Bideford High Street

  • 338

    New gateway
  • 339 Capers on the cobbles

  • 340 Torrington school's sundial - fashioned by Headmaster

  • 341

    Hamburger is part of modern life
  • 342 Steep street of old Bideford

  • 343 Open-air art exhibition by 'under 40' group

  • 344 Westward Ho! Tennis Club Winners
  • 345 Off on a great adventure

  • 346 Childrens' model of Torrington

  • 347 Up-to-date Bideford!

  • 348 Ten year old scrambler

  • 349 Calf thinks of mare as mum

  • 350 Repair work on Long Bridge
  • 351 Littleham family's five generations

  • 352 A man and his wheel

  • 353 North Devon author featured in TV documentary

  • 354 Born 1883 - still going strong

  • 355 Do recall the old windmill at Northam?

  • 356 River scenes that enchant the visitors

  • 357 Bideford skifflers, they're no squares

  • 358 Wilfred and Mabel visit schools and hospital

  • 359 Bideford firm develops new non-spill paint

  • 360 Bideford electricity window display qualifies for area competition

  • 361 Light reading for the lighthouse

  • 362 When horses score over the tractor

  • 363 Bideford's first triplets for 12 years

  • 364 North Devon Driving School

  • 365 Torrington's shelter for the aged

  • 366 Down at the 'Donkey House'

  • 367 Symbol of Lundy independence

  • 368 Launching the 'Golden Hinde'

  • 369 New Lundy air-mail stamps

  • 370 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

  • 371 Gift plaque on Clovelly council houses

  • 372 Getting up steam for tomorrow

  • 373 Bicycle now does donkey work

  • 374 Inscribed Bibles and silver spoons for babies

  • 375

    10-year-old scrambler practices
  • 376 Loads of black and white

  • 377 The creative urge on Saturday morning

  • 378 Bideford A.F.C annual dinner
  • 379 Liked holidays here - so starts business

  • 380 Buckland farm workers to receive long-service awards

  • 381 Photo of town's first car wins prize

  • 382 First steel ship built at Bideford

  • 383

    Gus Honeybun meets local children
  • 384 New art gallery opened

  • 385 East-the-Water sets town an example

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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Eisteddfod Win For Hartland

Hartland Methodist Sunday school scored the highest number of points

at the Bude Methodist circuit youth eisteddfod

25.3.1977 Eisteddfod Hartland

After the marks had been adjusted to take into account the differences between large and small Sunday schools in the circuit Hartland had 2,405 points. Second were Kilkhampton with 1,786 points and third Morwenstow with 1,515 points.

Winners of the trophies for most points in the senior section were Ian Petvin, of Bude, and Carolyn Vanstone, of Kilkhampton, Wendy Heard, Hartland won the trophy in the 9-11 years section and Dwayne Heard, also of Hartland, was runner up in the 12-14 years section to David Cleave. The trophy for the 6-8 years olds went to Kay Wise of Flexbury.

First prize winners from Hartland were: Dwayne Heard, Andrew Prouse, Lisa Manley, Tracey Thorne, Denis Short, Maria Prouse, and Wendy Heard.

The full Gazette article is dated 25 March 1977

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