• 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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    Exhibition of school work
  • 2 Farewell to passenger trains

  • 3 No laughing matter

  • 4 Safe door weighing two tons

  • 5 Pretty pennies at Beaford

  • 6 Last train from Torrington

  • 7 Capers on the cobbles

  • 8 Appledore tugs fete London Tower

  • 9 Appledore schooner broadcast

  • 10 Bideford blacksmith wins English championship

  • 11 Gift plaque on Clovelly council houses

  • 12 All for the love of a lady!

  • 13 Torrington's shelter for the aged

  • 14 Circus comes to town

  • 15 Centenary of Gazette

  • 16 John Andrew Bread Charity
  • 17 Bideford childrens' cinema opens

  • 18 Bideford-Torrington road gets 'carpet coat'

  • 19 Four sisters' nostalgic reunion

  • 20 Olympic riders to compete at Bideford Horse Show

  • 21 Teenager Peter Jackson Makes Horror Film
  • 22 Escaped crane moves into Kenwith Valley

  • 23 Peter poses for TV film

  • 24 Bideford Zoo's first baby is big draw

  • 25 New Lundy stamps

  • 26 Torrington acclaims 400th anniversary of granting of charter

  • 27 X-ray shoe fitting

  • 28 Passing of a Torrington landmark

  • 29 Beach search for mines takes longer

  • 30 Entente cordiale in Bideford

  • 31 Two kinds of hovercraft at Bideford

  • 32 Torrington to have first woman mayor

  • 33 Smiling welcome to Hartland visitors

  • 34 Private home for public pump

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

  • 36 New life for Hartland organ

  • 37 Childrens' model of Torrington

  • 38 Sweet success at Langtree School

  • 39 Largest salmon caught in Torridge

  • 40 Fishermen of Greencliff

  • 41 Dismantling of wireless mast

  • 42 Picking the pops

  • 43 113 years at Instow

  • 44 Photo of town's first car wins prize

  • 45 Instow local art show was 'tremendous success'

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

  • 47 In their new robes and hats

  • 48 Shipbuilding hobby at Hartland

  • 49 Charter granted by Philip and Mary

  • 50 Bideford firm develops new non-spill paint

  • 51 For crying out loud!

  • 52 Thorn-apple found in Littleham conservatory

  • 53 Ship-in-bottle world record

  • 54 Five generations link Woolsery, Clovelly and Bideford

  • 55 Rowing triumphs at Bideford

  • 56 Weare Giffard potato

  • 57

    First prize
  • 58 Tibbles home again - and fish supper

  • 59 Holiday scene near Sandymere

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

  • 61 Appledore's largest

  • 62 Four hundred residents leave Bideford!

  • 63 Hartland's invitation

  • 64 Birds' convalescent home at Instow

  • 65 Just over a year old

  • 66 What's the time?

  • 67 Bideford skifflers, they're no squares

  • 68 Thrush builds nest in cauliflower

  • 69 Baby Kate goes home to Lundy

  • 70 Emergency ferry services

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

  • 72 Joe the ginger tabby is 21

  • 73 North Devon Driving School

  • 74 Bideford's new market opens next week

  • 75 A Weare Giffard speciality - delicious strawberries

  • 76

    Relatives all over the world
  • 77

    First Girls at Bideford Grammar School take part in Play
  • 78 No ancient Grecian temple this

  • 79 First tankers arrive at new depot

  • 80

    Hamburger is part of modern life
  • 81 TV contest means big job for Bideford Guides

  • 82 Bideford loses training ship

  • 83 Eleven million pound scheme's official opening

  • 84 Water Board mains spread through villages

  • 85 Children's procession with foxgloves

  • 86 Champagne send-off for Torrington new factory

  • 87 Northam's almshouse

  • 88 Alderman Anstey's dream comes tru

  • 89 Battle of the gap at Westward Ho!

  • 90 Bank Holiday weather was beach weather

  • 91 Some mushroom!

  • 92 Off on a great adventure

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    Toasted with musical honours
  • 94 Eleventh hour bid to save last sailing barge

  • 95 Practical sympathy at Northam

  • 96 Big develolpment at Calveford

  • 97

    Successful motor cycling team
  • 98 Broomhayes £1,000 Surprise
  • 99 Inscribed Bibles and silver spoons for babies

  • 100 Penny for the guy

  • 101 Westward Ho! public conveniences get go ahead
  • 102 Pet squirrels at Monkleigh

  • 103 Tramps camp by riverside throughout arctic weather

  • 104 Sunshine and shade at Appledore

  • 105 Fundraising trip for RNLI

  • 106 Wilfred and Mabel visit schools and hospital

  • 107 Calligrapher extraordinary

  • 108 Championship Trophy for Hartland
  • 109 Liked holidays here - so starts business

  • 110 Police station view of Bideford

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

  • 112 By pony and trap to market

  • 113

    School of Dancing's Annual Display
  • 114 Not Bideford's answer to the moon rocket!

  • 115 Torrington's new amenity

  • 116 Designed all furnishing of new chapel

  • 117 Lots drawn to prevent dog fight

  • 118 Can-carrying over cobbles has disappeared

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

  • 120 Mural in the whimsical fashion

  • 121 Can spring be far away?

  • 122 Bideford Bridge re-opens

  • 123 Meredith's ironmongers

  • 124 School's link with cargo ship

  • 125 New look in the hayfields

  • 126 New fire and ambulance stations

  • 127 Some 240 exhibits

  • 128 Burnard family reunion

  • 129

    Mums protest in Coronation Road
  • 130 Record player of 80 years ago

  • 131

    Gus Honeybun meets local children
  • 132 Bideford inquest on French trawlermen opens

  • 133 Northam footballers of the future

  • 134

    Lenwood Squash Club
  • 135 Town's second woman mayor in 392 years

  • 136 Artisans' Club

  • 137 Weare Giffard Hall sold for £11,300

  • 138 A lost Bideford 'island'

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

  • 140 River scenes that enchant the visitors

  • 141

    Andre Veillett and Quentin Reed in Judo Demonstration
  • 142 Littleham family's five generations

  • 143 Signed scroll momento of Queen Mother's visit

  • 144 Homage to a well-loved sovereign

  • 145 Appledore boy is youngest recipient of RNLI vellun

  • 146 Picking the pops

  • 147 Clovelly nightmare

  • 148 Do recall the old windmill at Northam?

  • 149 Church renovation rejoicing at Northam

  • 150 Sight of a lifetime

  • 151 They set out for Bideford and became lost

  • 152

    Birgitta Whittaker
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    Bidefordians
  • 154 Bideford A.F.C annual dinner
  • 155

    Inter-school Road Safety Quiz Cup Winners
  • 156 Celebrations for 103rd birthday

  • 157 Life begins at 80

  • 158 New gateway to King George's Fields

  • 159 Allhalland Street - then and now

  • 160 Bideford regatta

  • 161 Torridge graveyard of wooden hulks

  • 162 Hartland Abbey outdoor staff 60 years ago

  • 163

    Jinxed School Trip
  • 164 Broomhayes children will keep their winter pet

  • 165 Calf thinks of mare as mum

  • 166 Centuries old but today busier than ever

  • 167 Future of Torrington almshouses

  • 168 Centenary of Landcross Methodist Chapel

  • 169 Photo mural in Bideford bank

  • 170 North Devon author featured in TV documentary

  • 171 New choral society's growing response

  • 172 Westward Ho! Tennis Club Winners
  • 173 TV features Bideford's New Year bread ceremony

  • 174 Picture bought for shillings may be worth thousands

  • 175 The Geneva marionettes

  • 176 Tide sweeps under and over the old bridge

  • 177 Donkey and horses enjoy carnival drink

  • 178 End of the line

  • 179 Ships at Bideford

  • 180 Saving money, wear and tear

  • 181 Gloves fit for a king!

  • 182 Simple Item 138
  • 183 Torridge wins on time schedule

  • 184

    Married in 1908
  • 185 Bideford's first triplets for 12 years

  • 186

    Womens Skittles Competition in Buckland Brewer
  • 187 Bideford Liberal club new lounge bar opened

  • 188 Revived market off to splendid start

  • 189 New Post Office

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

  • 191 Wine and beer merchants for 150 years

  • 192 Bideford triplets' first birthday party

  • 193 What is future of railway goods yard?

  • 194 Move for oldest boatyard on Torridge

  • 195 Buckland goes to County Show

  • 196 Salmon netting at Bideford

  • 197 Council agree to demolition of Chanter's Folly

  • 198 Success to Festival of the Arts

  • 199 School crossing patrol begins

  • 200 America's tribute to 'J.H.'

  • 201 Puzzle corner at Bideford!

  • 202 Lady Churchill congratulates Bideford artists at nursing exhibition

  • 203 A story to tell!

  • 204 No ancient Grecian temple this

  • 205 New look for Torrington Lane

  • 206 Traditions and skills still there

  • 207 'Les Girls' of Hartland

  • 208

    Holidaying in north Devon
  • 209 Torrington children build igloo
  • 210 Harvest service in Bideford 'pub' bar

  • 211 Bideford shipyard workers cheer new minesweeper

  • 212 Lady Godiva comes to Torrington

  • 213 No sale of Springfield House

  • 214 Quads at Thornhillhead

  • 215 Train returns to Westleigh straight

  • 216 Space dominates Hartland carnival

  • 217 Cavaliers join the Hunt
  • 218 Spring-cleaning the Ridge

  • 219

    Youth Clubs Join Together For Entertainment
  • 220 Fish nearly pulled him in

  • 221 Westward Ho! sand yacht to challenge speed record

  • 222

    Reds Womens Team Are First To Compete Throughout Season
  • 223 Tomorrow' night's skittles broadcast from Bideford

  • 224 New Estate's view of estuary activities

  • 225 Making way for the double-deckers

  • 226 Clovelly donkey film star

  • 227 All aboard the ark

  • 228 Launching the 'Golden Hinde'

  • 229 Jumble sale fever

  • 230 Daisy's pride and joy

  • 231 Light reading for the lighthouse

  • 232 First steel ship built at Bideford

  • 233 Appledore Juniors Football
  • 234 Ten year old scrambler

  • 235 Record pebble-throwing day

  • 236 Hartland Dancers
  • 237 Bideford's gift to Sir Francis

  • 238 Cruising down the river

  • 239 Quads join a Langtree happy family

  • 240 Waldon Triplets
  • 241 Brothers reunion 1947
  • 242 Northam wants to continue pumping from river

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    Was a missionary
  • 244 East-the-Water sets town an example

  • 245 Puppet characters introduced

  • 246 Eight and a half million pound Taw development scheme

  • 247 Vessel built 300 feet above sea level

  • 248 Shoes certainly not made for walking

  • 249 Landmark at Bradworthy

  • 250 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

  • 251 Getting up steam for tomorrow

  • 252 Bideford has built over 500 post-war homes

  • 253

    Appledore boys beat mums at football
  • 254 An early 'special' to Bideford

  • 255 Yeoi Vale House finally demolished

  • 256 Born 1883 - still going strong

  • 257 Spray dodging - the new pastime

  • 258 Torrington Youth Club rewarded by party
  • 259 Fishing light goes out at close of poor season

  • 260 Thunderstorm destruction of 25 years ago

  • 261 Steep street of old Bideford

  • 262 Head Barman appointed Torrington Town Crier
  • 263 When horses score over the tractor

  • 264 Little 'Big Ben'

  • 265 They are parted pro-tem

  • 266 Westward Ho! combined op

  • 267 Second Monte Carlo Rally

  • 268 Old Girls revisit Edgehill

  • 269 Speeding communications: Bideford firm's new installation

  • 270 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

  • 271 One thousand visit zoo at Whitsun

  • 272

    Mrs Whapham finds ferret in Bridgeland Street while shopping
  • 273 Recognise this resort?

  • 274 Diamond Jubilee of St Peter's Church, East-the-Water

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

  • 276 Faints as she wins national competition

  • 277 A craftsman's 'potted' history

  • 278 Yeo vale road ruin provides a mystery

  • 279 New shipyard on schedule

  • 280

    Wynne Olley's styles impress International Hair Fashion Designer
  • 281 Sooty is quick on the draw

  • 282 Bridging the stream

  • 283 Pannier Market's future?

  • 284 Buckland farm workers to receive long-service awards

  • 285 New Lundy air-mail stamps

  • 286 Bravery against bull at Shebbear rewarded

  • 287 Alverdiscott is proud of its new parish hall

  • 288 Variety in summer weather

  • 289 Bideford country dancers on TV

  • 290 Hartland postman retires

  • 291 Works at craft he learned over 65 years ago

  • 292 A bird of their own!

  • 293 On her 'maiden' trip from Bideford

  • 294 So this is the mainland!

  • 295 Finished in 1876

  • 296 Cement-clad boats being built at Northam

  • 297 Alwington School closing after 120 years

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

  • 299 Out of puff!

  • 300 Television comes to Torridge District

  • 301 The creative urge on Saturday morning

  • 302 What the television camera saw at Abbotsham

  • 303

    Close associations with North Devon
  • 304 Students help model St Sidwell

  • 305 In the tortoise nursery - eight hatched at Bideford

  • 306 Repair work on Long Bridge
  • 307 Symbol of Lundy independence

  • 308 Down at the 'Donkey House'

  • 309 Preparations for new Clovelly Court

  • 310 They never miss a game at Torrington

  • 311 Bicycle now does donkey work

  • 312

    Gift from Bideford Town Council
  • 313

    Cadets are given certificates
  • 314 Up-to-date Bideford!

  • 315 Clovelly's 91 year old horseman

  • 316 Bideford computer stars

  • 317 Panel sprint for Bideford broadcast

  • 318 A man and his wheel

  • 319 First ship in 8 years

  • 320 Bideford's private wharves busier

  • 321 Parkham plan realised

  • 322 Donkey work made easier at Clovelly

  • 323 Bideford schoolboy's courage recognised

  • 324 A roof-top view - where?

  • 325 Ancestral home nestling in lovely combe

  • 326 Six footed lamb

  • 327 Jalopy joy for children of Shamwickshire

  • 328 Happy Days!

  • 329 Boys from Bideford school complete Ten Tors

  • 330 Designed and made in Bideford

  • 331 Littleham cow tops 70 tons mark in milk production

  • 332 New civic medallions

  • 333 It really was the 'last time'

  • 334 Loads of black and white

  • 335 Service with a smile

  • 336

    New gateway
  • 337 Decontrol of meat

  • 338 Barley from Bideford to Bonnie Scotland

  • 339 Torrington school's sundial - fashioned by Headmaster

  • 340 Torrington in 1967

  • 341 Boys win hockey on the sands challenge

  • 342 Bideford School Junior Choir Sing in France at Twinning Ceremony in Landivisiau
  • 343 He beat the floods

  • 344 Panto time at Westward Ho!

  • 345 Clovelly custom

  • 346 'Out of Appledore' sailing memories

  • 347 The art of the thatcher

  • 348 Bideford Liberals' fashion show

  • 349 Twenty-one yachts

  • 350 A sense of humour in advertising

  • 351 Warmington's garage ad

  • 352 Holiday traffic in Bideford High Street

  • 353 Thirty bridges cross Torridge

  • 354 Colour TV salesman at eight

  • 355 Northam loses thatched cottage landmark

  • 356 Unique holiday adventure!

  • 357 Eight to strike and a race to win

  • 358 Fleet of foot and fair of face

  • 359

    10-year-old scrambler practices
  • 360 Mobile missionary

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

  • 362 Devil sent packing

  • 363 Death - and birth - of a telephone exchange

  • 364 New art gallery opened

  • 365 Huntshaw TV mast

  • 366 Watch the dicky bird!

  • 367 Riverside mystery

  • 368 Last of Bideford factory chimney

  • 369 Modern living at Bideford

  • 370 Larkworthy Family play in Shebbear's Football Team
  • 371 Torrington's enterprise's new extensions

  • 372 New addition to Quay front

  • 373 Polish custom on Pancake Day

  • 374 Yelland potter's exhibition at Bideford

  • 375 Revenge in style

  • 376 Still hunting aged 80 and a Field Master

  • 377

    Double Baptism on Torridge
  • 378

    FA Cup Match for the Robins
  • 379 Bideford stock car racing entry comes in second

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    Building works
  • 381 Appledore's new lifeboat

  • 382 Bringing shopping home by goat

  • 383 Bideford electricity window display qualifies for area competition

  • 384 Wishing well is pixielated

  • 385 Chess - their bridge over the years

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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  • 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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  • 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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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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Bideford And North Devon Building Society

The ninety-sixth Annual General Meeting of Bideford and North Devon Building Society was held on Thursday of last week.

3.2.1950 Building Society

In moving the adoption of the Directors’ Report and Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 31st October 1949, the Chairman (Mr C J Martin) said: “At the end of the previous year the Mortgage assets of the Society amounted to £189, 916 and this has risen, at the 31st October 1949, to £218, 435 – an increase of £28,519. During the past Financial Year a total of £65,290 was advanced on Mortgages, as compared with £61,765 in the previous year, and I would like to mention that a considerably greater sum could have been advanced, but it is the settled policy of your Directors to have full regard to possible future conditions and to make advances based on prudent valuations only.”

“The passage of years inevitably brings losses in our friends and it is with the deepest regret that I have to refer to the loss suffered by the Society, during the past year, by the death of Alderman H A Willett Huxham.”

The report and the Statement of Accounts were duly adopted, following the seconding of the motion by Alderman T Burton, who referred to the sound policy of the Society in again carrying the surplus for the year to the Reserve Fund.

Mr C J Martin, Mr C J Smith and Mr J W Ward, the Directors retiring by rotation, were re-elected and Mr C M D Mountjoy, the Members’ Auditor, was also re-elected.

Tributes to the work of the Officials and Staff during the past year were expressed and a vote of thanks to the Chairman for presiding concluded the meeting.

The full Gazette article is dated 3 February 1950

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