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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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  • Welcome to the Bideford & District Community Archive

    Welcome to the Bideford & District Community Archive

    ...The Gazette Newspaper 1856 onwards.

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  • 1 First ship in 8 years

  • 2 Burnard family reunion

  • 3 Bideford-Torrington road gets 'carpet coat'

  • 4 Panel sprint for Bideford broadcast

  • 5 Emergency ferry services

  • 6 Picking the pops

  • 7 Bravery against bull at Shebbear rewarded

  • 8 Private home for public pump

  • 9

    Youth Clubs Join Together For Entertainment
  • 10 John Andrew Bread Charity
  • 11 Bideford computer stars

  • 12 Littleham family's five generations

  • 13 Riverside mystery

  • 14 Pretty pennies at Beaford

  • 15 North Devon author featured in TV documentary

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

  • 17 Decontrol of meat

  • 18 All aboard the ark

  • 19 Appledore boy is youngest recipient of RNLI vellun

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

  • 21

    Toasted with musical honours
  • 22

    Lenwood Squash Club
  • 23

    Womens Skittles Competition in Buckland Brewer
  • 24 Born 1883 - still going strong

  • 25 Littleham cow tops 70 tons mark in milk production

  • 26 Donkey work made easier at Clovelly

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

  • 28 Fish nearly pulled him in

  • 29 Northam's almshouse

  • 30 Devil sent packing

  • 31 Last train from Torrington

  • 32 Gloves fit for a king!

  • 33 Ancestral home nestling in lovely combe

  • 34

    Successful motor cycling team
  • 35 All for the love of a lady!

  • 36 A bird of their own!

  • 37 Mobile missionary

  • 38 Five generations link Woolsery, Clovelly and Bideford

  • 39 Out of puff!

  • 40 New shipyard on schedule

  • 41 A craftsman's 'potted' history

  • 42 Polish custom on Pancake Day

  • 43 Fishing light goes out at close of poor season

  • 44 Faints as she wins national competition

  • 45 No laughing matter

  • 46 East-the-Water sets town an example

  • 47 They are parted pro-tem

  • 48 Tomorrow' night's skittles broadcast from Bideford

  • 49 Yeoi Vale House finally demolished

  • 50 Making way for the double-deckers

  • 51 Rowing triumphs at Bideford

  • 52 No sale of Springfield House

  • 53 Sunshine and shade at Appledore

  • 54

    Married in 1908
  • 55 Pannier Market's future?

  • 56 New Post Office

  • 57 Bideford shipyard workers cheer new minesweeper

  • 58 Little 'Big Ben'

  • 59 Unique holiday adventure!

  • 60 Lots drawn to prevent dog fight

  • 61 Works at craft he learned over 65 years ago

  • 62 Northam wants to continue pumping from river

  • 63 Inscribed Bibles and silver spoons for babies

  • 64 Broomhayes children will keep their winter pet

  • 65 What is future of railway goods yard?

  • 66 Quads join a Langtree happy family

  • 67 Donkey and horses enjoy carnival drink

  • 68 Charter granted by Philip and Mary

  • 69 Tibbles home again - and fish supper

  • 70 When horses score over the tractor

  • 71

    Close associations with North Devon
  • 72 New civic medallions

  • 73 Sweet success at Langtree School

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

  • 75 Yeo vale road ruin provides a mystery

  • 76

    Was a missionary
  • 77 New look in the hayfields

  • 78 Championship Trophy for Hartland
  • 79 Church renovation rejoicing at Northam

  • 80 Move for oldest boatyard on Torridge

  • 81 Dismantling of wireless mast

  • 82 Off on a great adventure

  • 83 One thousand visit zoo at Whitsun

  • 84 Saving money, wear and tear

  • 85 Picking the pops

  • 86 New look for Torrington Lane

  • 87 Revived market off to splendid start

  • 88 Jalopy joy for children of Shamwickshire

  • 89 Fishermen of Greencliff

  • 90 Symbol of Lundy independence

  • 91 First tankers arrive at new depot

  • 92 Second Monte Carlo Rally

  • 93

    Birgitta Whittaker
  • 94 A Weare Giffard speciality - delicious strawberries

  • 95 Joe the ginger tabby is 21

  • 96 Westward Ho! public conveniences get go ahead
  • 97 Lady Churchill congratulates Bideford artists at nursing exhibition

  • 98 Bideford Liberals' fashion show

  • 99 Photo of town's first car wins prize

  • 100 Champagne send-off for Torrington new factory

  • 101 What the television camera saw at Abbotsham

  • 102 New Lundy stamps

  • 103 Appledore schooner broadcast

  • 104 Traditions and skills still there

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

  • 106 Still hunting aged 80 and a Field Master

  • 107 The art of the thatcher

  • 108 Passing of a Torrington landmark

  • 109 Designed all furnishing of new chapel

  • 110 113 years at Instow

  • 111 Wishing well is pixielated

  • 112 Alverdiscott is proud of its new parish hall

  • 113 New Estate's view of estuary activities

  • 114 Clovelly nightmare

  • 115 Puzzle corner at Bideford!

  • 116 Pet squirrels at Monkleigh

  • 117 New gateway to King George's Fields

  • 118 A lost Bideford 'island'

  • 119 Childrens' model of Torrington

  • 120 Practical sympathy at Northam

  • 121 Gift plaque on Clovelly council houses

  • 122 Mural in the whimsical fashion

  • 123 Bideford has built over 500 post-war homes

  • 124

    Appledore boys beat mums at football
  • 125 Instow local art show was 'tremendous success'

  • 126 X-ray shoe fitting

  • 127

    Double Baptism on Torridge
  • 128 Revenge in style

  • 129 Huntshaw TV mast

  • 130 It really was the 'last time'

  • 131 Torrington's enterprise's new extensions

  • 132 Calf thinks of mare as mum

  • 133 Salmon netting at Bideford

  • 134 First steel ship built at Bideford

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

  • 136 New choral society's growing response

  • 137 America's tribute to 'J.H.'

  • 138 Eleventh hour bid to save last sailing barge

  • 139 Smiling welcome to Hartland visitors

  • 140 Torridge graveyard of wooden hulks

  • 141 Not Bideford's answer to the moon rocket!

  • 142 Up-to-date Bideford!

  • 143 Happy Days!

  • 144

    Exhibition of school work
  • 145 Bideford A.F.C annual dinner
  • 146 Big develolpment at Calveford

  • 147 Puppet characters introduced

  • 148 Steep street of old Bideford

  • 149 Bideford triplets' first birthday party

  • 150 Quads at Thornhillhead

  • 151 Torrington Youth Club rewarded by party
  • 152 Fleet of foot and fair of face

  • 153 Westward Ho! combined op

  • 154 Alwington School closing after 120 years

  • 155 Celebrations for 103rd birthday

  • 156 The creative urge on Saturday morning

  • 157 Parkham plan realised

  • 158 They never miss a game at Torrington

  • 159 Westward Ho! Tennis Club Winners
  • 160 Tramps camp by riverside throughout arctic weather

  • 161 Wilfred and Mabel visit schools and hospital

  • 162 Bringing shopping home by goat

  • 163 A man and his wheel

  • 164

    Mums protest in Coronation Road
  • 165 Sight of a lifetime

  • 166 Success to Festival of the Arts

  • 167 Just over a year old

  • 168 Battle of the gap at Westward Ho!

  • 169 Colour TV salesman at eight

  • 170 Thirty bridges cross Torridge

  • 171 Life begins at 80

  • 172 Largest salmon caught in Torridge

  • 173 Bideford's first triplets for 12 years

  • 174 Four hundred residents leave Bideford!

  • 175 Meredith's ironmongers

  • 176 Clovelly custom

  • 177 Fundraising trip for RNLI

  • 178 Baby Kate goes home to Lundy

  • 179 He beat the floods

  • 180 Appledore's largest

  • 181 Bank Holiday weather was beach weather

  • 182 Bideford childrens' cinema opens

  • 183 Ten year old scrambler

  • 184 Students help model St Sidwell

  • 185 Penny for the guy

  • 186 School's link with cargo ship

  • 187 In their new robes and hats

  • 188 Holiday traffic in Bideford High Street

  • 189 Hartland Dancers
  • 190 Liked holidays here - so starts business

  • 191 Picture bought for shillings may be worth thousands

  • 192 Death - and birth - of a telephone exchange

  • 193 Finished in 1876

  • 194 Ship-in-bottle world record

  • 195 Thorn-apple found in Littleham conservatory

  • 196 Light reading for the lighthouse

  • 197 What's the time?

  • 198 Torrington's shelter for the aged

  • 199 Television comes to Torridge District

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    Cadets are given certificates
  • 201 Torrington school's sundial - fashioned by Headmaster

  • 202 Simple Item 138
  • 203 'Les Girls' of Hartland

  • 204 Buckland farm workers to receive long-service awards

  • 205 Thrush builds nest in cauliflower

  • 206 Torrington to have first woman mayor

  • 207 TV features Bideford's New Year bread ceremony

  • 208 Bideford firm develops new non-spill paint

  • 209 Down at the 'Donkey House'

  • 210 Teenager Peter Jackson Makes Horror Film
  • 211 North Devon Driving School

  • 212 Council agree to demolition of Chanter's Folly

  • 213 Children's procession with foxgloves

  • 214 Broomhayes £1,000 Surprise
  • 215 New art gallery opened

  • 216 Six footed lamb

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

  • 218 Shipbuilding hobby at Hartland

  • 219 Last of Bideford factory chimney

  • 220 Wine and beer merchants for 150 years

  • 221

    Wynne Olley's styles impress International Hair Fashion Designer
  • 222 Modern living at Bideford

  • 223 A sense of humour in advertising

  • 224 New fire and ambulance stations

  • 225 Loads of black and white

  • 226 Torrington acclaims 400th anniversary of granting of charter

  • 227 Bideford stock car racing entry comes in second

  • 228 Harvest service in Bideford 'pub' bar

  • 229 Yelland potter's exhibition at Bideford

  • 230 Clovelly's 91 year old horseman

  • 231 Two kinds of hovercraft at Bideford

  • 232

    First Girls at Bideford Grammar School take part in Play
  • 233 Photo mural in Bideford bank

  • 234 Bideford loses training ship

  • 235 Eleven million pound scheme's official opening

  • 236 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

  • 237 Speeding communications: Bideford firm's new installation

  • 238 Launching the 'Golden Hinde'

  • 239 Shoes certainly not made for walking

  • 240 Service with a smile

  • 241 Cavaliers join the Hunt
  • 242

    School of Dancing's Annual Display
  • 243 Eight and a half million pound Taw development scheme

  • 244 Landmark at Bradworthy

  • 245 Appledore's new lifeboat

  • 246 Spring-cleaning the Ridge

  • 247 Space dominates Hartland carnival

  • 248 End of the line

  • 249 Bideford's gift to Sir Francis

  • 250 Recognise this resort?

  • 251 Do recall the old windmill at Northam?

  • 252 Larkworthy Family play in Shebbear's Football Team
  • 253 Some 240 exhibits

  • 254 Artisans' Club

  • 255 On her 'maiden' trip from Bideford

  • 256 Town's second woman mayor in 392 years

  • 257

    FA Cup Match for the Robins
  • 258 Barley from Bideford to Bonnie Scotland

  • 259 Birds' convalescent home at Instow

  • 260

    Holidaying in north Devon
  • 261 New addition to Quay front

  • 262

    Andre Veillett and Quentin Reed in Judo Demonstration
  • 263 Sooty is quick on the draw

  • 264 Vessel built 300 feet above sea level

  • 265 Bideford School Junior Choir Sing in France at Twinning Ceremony in Landivisiau
  • 266 No ancient Grecian temple this

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

  • 268 Hartland's invitation

  • 269 Designed and made in Bideford

  • 270 Boys from Bideford school complete Ten Tors

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

  • 272

    Jinxed School Trip
  • 273

    Mrs Whapham finds ferret in Bridgeland Street while shopping
  • 274 Clovelly donkey film star

  • 275 Chess - their bridge over the years

  • 276 Homage to a well-loved sovereign

  • 277 Spray dodging - the new pastime

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

  • 279 Hartland postman retires

  • 280 Tide sweeps under and over the old bridge

  • 281 Future of Torrington almshouses

  • 282 Bridging the stream

  • 283 Northam footballers of the future

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

  • 285 Safe door weighing two tons

  • 286 Preparations for new Clovelly Court

  • 287 Torrington in 1967

  • 288 Can spring be far away?

  • 289 Torrington children build igloo
  • 290 Eight to strike and a race to win

  • 291 Bideford blacksmith wins English championship

  • 292 River scenes that enchant the visitors

  • 293 Boys win hockey on the sands challenge

  • 294 A story to tell!

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    Inter-school Road Safety Quiz Cup Winners
  • 296 Jumble sale fever

  • 297 Cement-clad boats being built at Northam

  • 298 Bicycle now does donkey work

  • 299

    Relatives all over the world
  • 300 No ancient Grecian temple this

  • 301 An early 'special' to Bideford

  • 302 Water Board mains spread through villages

  • 303 Getting up steam for tomorrow

  • 304

    Gift from Bideford Town Council
  • 305

    Bidefordians
  • 306 Bideford regatta

  • 307 Centuries old but today busier than ever

  • 308 TV contest means big job for Bideford Guides

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

  • 310 Head Barman appointed Torrington Town Crier
  • 311 Capers on the cobbles

  • 312 Warmington's garage ad

  • 313 Bideford skifflers, they're no squares

  • 314 Centenary of Gazette

  • 315 New life for Hartland organ

  • 316 Bideford Zoo's first baby is big draw

  • 317

    Hamburger is part of modern life
  • 318 Alderman Anstey's dream comes tru

  • 319 Northam loses thatched cottage landmark

  • 320 So this is the mainland!

  • 321 Thunderstorm destruction of 25 years ago

  • 322 Cruising down the river

  • 323 Old Girls revisit Edgehill

  • 324 Repair work on Long Bridge
  • 325 Bideford schoolboy's courage recognised

  • 326

    Building works
  • 327 Waldon Triplets
  • 328 Record pebble-throwing day

  • 329 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

  • 330 Bideford Bridge re-opens

  • 331 Some mushroom!

  • 332 Record player of 80 years ago

  • 333 Westward Ho! sand yacht to challenge speed record

  • 334 Watch the dicky bird!

  • 335 Centenary of Landcross Methodist Chapel

  • 336 Farewell to passenger trains

  • 337 They set out for Bideford and became lost

  • 338 Bideford Liberal club new lounge bar opened

  • 339 Torridge wins on time schedule

  • 340 Olympic riders to compete at Bideford Horse Show

  • 341 Bideford country dancers on TV

  • 342

    New gateway
  • 343 Allhalland Street - then and now

  • 344 For crying out loud!

  • 345 Signed scroll momento of Queen Mother's visit

  • 346 Hartland Abbey outdoor staff 60 years ago

  • 347 Circus comes to town

  • 348 Bideford's private wharves busier

  • 349 Calligrapher extraordinary

  • 350 Peter poses for TV film

  • 351 Panto time at Westward Ho!

  • 352 Entente cordiale in Bideford

  • 353 The Geneva marionettes

  • 354 School crossing patrol begins

  • 355 A roof-top view - where?

  • 356 Lady Godiva comes to Torrington

  • 357 Four sisters' nostalgic reunion

  • 358

    Reds Womens Team Are First To Compete Throughout Season
  • 359 Train returns to Westleigh straight

  • 360

    First prize
  • 361 Brothers reunion 1947
  • 362 In the tortoise nursery - eight hatched at Bideford

  • 363

    Gus Honeybun meets local children
  • 364 Appledore tugs fete London Tower

  • 365 Ships at Bideford

  • 366

    10-year-old scrambler practices
  • 367 Bideford electricity window display qualifies for area competition

  • 368 Buckland goes to County Show

  • 369 Daisy's pride and joy

  • 370 Bideford's new market opens next week

  • 371 Police station view of Bideford

  • 372 Escaped crane moves into Kenwith Valley

  • 373 Holiday scene near Sandymere

  • 374 Beach search for mines takes longer

  • 375 Twenty-one yachts

  • 376 Bideford inquest on French trawlermen opens

  • 377 Appledore Juniors Football
  • 378 Torrington's new amenity

  • 379 'Out of Appledore' sailing memories

  • 380 Variety in summer weather

  • 381 By pony and trap to market

  • 382 Weare Giffard potato

  • 383 Weare Giffard Hall sold for £11,300

  • 384 Can-carrying over cobbles has disappeared

  • 385 New Lundy air-mail stamps

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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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