• 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 No ancient Grecian temple this

  • 2 Old Girls revisit Edgehill

  • 3 Repair work on Long Bridge
  • 4 Down at the 'Donkey House'

  • 5 Daisy's pride and joy

  • 6 Service with a smile

  • 7 Torrington school's sundial - fashioned by Headmaster

  • 8 Yeoi Vale House finally demolished

  • 9 Celebrations for 103rd birthday

  • 10 Unique holiday adventure!

  • 11 Cement-clad boats being built at Northam

  • 12 Clovelly's 91 year old horseman

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

  • 14 TV contest means big job for Bideford Guides

  • 15 Bideford shipyard workers cheer new minesweeper

  • 16 Bideford's gift to Sir Francis

  • 17 Space dominates Hartland carnival

  • 18 Finished in 1876

  • 19 Hartland Dancers
  • 20 New choral society's growing response

  • 21

    Gift from Bideford Town Council
  • 22 End of the line

  • 23 Six footed lamb

  • 24 Wishing well is pixielated

  • 25 Waldon Triplets
  • 26 Still hunting aged 80 and a Field Master

  • 27 Bideford firm develops new non-spill paint

  • 28 Birds' convalescent home at Instow

  • 29 Eleventh hour bid to save last sailing barge

  • 30 Ancestral home nestling in lovely combe

  • 31 Television comes to Torridge District

  • 32 Northam's almshouse

  • 33 Northam wants to continue pumping from river

  • 34 Last train from Torrington

  • 35 Bideford Zoo's first baby is big draw

  • 36 A roof-top view - where?

  • 37 Bideford schoolboy's courage recognised

  • 38 Escaped crane moves into Kenwith Valley

  • 39 First tankers arrive at new depot

  • 40 Head Barman appointed Torrington Town Crier
  • 41 By pony and trap to market

  • 42 Thorn-apple found in Littleham conservatory

  • 43 New gateway to King George's Fields

  • 44 Bideford computer stars

  • 45 Sight of a lifetime

  • 46 Huntshaw TV mast

  • 47 For crying out loud!

  • 48 Practical sympathy at Northam

  • 49 Mural in the whimsical fashion

  • 50 Last of Bideford factory chimney

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

  • 52 Calf thinks of mare as mum

  • 53 Bideford Liberals' fashion show

  • 54 Sweet success at Langtree School

  • 55 Designed and made in Bideford

  • 56 Photo mural in Bideford bank

  • 57 Jalopy joy for children of Shamwickshire

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

  • 59 Inscribed Bibles and silver spoons for babies

  • 60 Circus comes to town

  • 61

    FA Cup Match for the Robins
  • 62 A story to tell!

  • 63 Hartland postman retires

  • 64 Allhalland Street - then and now

  • 65 Farewell to passenger trains

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

  • 67 What's the time?

  • 68 Champagne send-off for Torrington new factory

  • 69 Barley from Bideford to Bonnie Scotland

  • 70 Mobile missionary

  • 71 Quads at Thornhillhead

  • 72 Off on a great adventure

  • 73 X-ray shoe fitting

  • 74 A sense of humour in advertising

  • 75 Tide sweeps under and over the old bridge

  • 76 Revived market off to splendid start

  • 77 Thunderstorm destruction of 25 years ago

  • 78 Cavaliers join the Hunt
  • 79 What is future of railway goods yard?

  • 80 Sooty is quick on the draw

  • 81 Weare Giffard potato

  • 82 A craftsman's 'potted' history

  • 83 Bideford has built over 500 post-war homes

  • 84 Death - and birth - of a telephone exchange

  • 85

    Successful motor cycling team
  • 86 Police station view of Bideford

  • 87 'Out of Appledore' sailing memories

  • 88 Record player of 80 years ago

  • 89 Bideford's first triplets for 12 years

  • 90 Ten year old scrambler

  • 91

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

  • 93 Appledore tugs fete London Tower

  • 94

    First Girls at Bideford Grammar School take part in Play
  • 95 They set out for Bideford and became lost

  • 96

    Cadets are given certificates
  • 97 Westward Ho! combined op

  • 98 So this is the mainland!

  • 99 Buckland farm workers to receive long-service awards

  • 100 Boys win hockey on the sands challenge

  • 101 On her 'maiden' trip from Bideford

  • 102 New life for Hartland organ

  • 103 Water Board mains spread through villages

  • 104 Loads of black and white

  • 105 Five generations link Woolsery, Clovelly and Bideford

  • 106 Championship Trophy for Hartland
  • 107 Two kinds of hovercraft at Bideford

  • 108 New fire and ambulance stations

  • 109 Holiday traffic in Bideford High Street

  • 110

    Womens Skittles Competition in Buckland Brewer
  • 111 Record pebble-throwing day

  • 112 Holiday scene near Sandymere

  • 113 Broomhayes £1,000 Surprise
  • 114 Born 1883 - still going strong

  • 115 Fish nearly pulled him in

  • 116 Future of Torrington almshouses

  • 117

    Birgitta Whittaker
  • 118 Fleet of foot and fair of face

  • 119 Westward Ho! sand yacht to challenge speed record

  • 120 Bringing shopping home by goat

  • 121 A lost Bideford 'island'

  • 122 Bridging the stream

  • 123 Eleven million pound scheme's official opening

  • 124 New Estate's view of estuary activities

  • 125 America's tribute to 'J.H.'

  • 126 Church renovation rejoicing at Northam

  • 127 Students help model St Sidwell

  • 128 Bank Holiday weather was beach weather

  • 129 Gloves fit for a king!

  • 130 A bird of their own!

  • 131 Panto time at Westward Ho!

  • 132 Fundraising trip for RNLI

  • 133 Weare Giffard Hall sold for £11,300

  • 134

    Building works
  • 135 All for the love of a lady!

  • 136 Littleham cow tops 70 tons mark in milk production

  • 137 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

  • 138 North Devon author featured in TV documentary

  • 139 New civic medallions

  • 140

    10-year-old scrambler practices
  • 141 Bideford triplets' first birthday party

  • 142 Bideford childrens' cinema opens

  • 143 No ancient Grecian temple this

  • 144 New look in the hayfields

  • 145 Symbol of Lundy independence

  • 146

    Youth Clubs Join Together For Entertainment
  • 147 Gift plaque on Clovelly council houses

  • 148 TV features Bideford's New Year bread ceremony

  • 149

    Mums protest in Coronation Road
  • 150 Panel sprint for Bideford broadcast

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

  • 152 An early 'special' to Bideford

  • 153 Littleham family's five generations

  • 154 Clovelly custom

  • 155

    Lenwood Squash Club
  • 156 Eight to strike and a race to win

  • 157 Entente cordiale in Bideford

  • 158 Centenary of Landcross Methodist Chapel

  • 159 Riverside mystery

  • 160 Torrington in 1967

  • 161 Thirty bridges cross Torridge

  • 162 Wine and beer merchants for 150 years

  • 163 Larkworthy Family play in Shebbear's Football Team
  • 164 Colour TV salesman at eight

  • 165 First ship in 8 years

  • 166 Westward Ho! public conveniences get go ahead
  • 167 It really was the 'last time'

  • 168 Spring-cleaning the Ridge

  • 169 Salmon netting at Bideford

  • 170 Launching the 'Golden Hinde'

  • 171 Fishing light goes out at close of poor season

  • 172

    Gus Honeybun meets local children
  • 173 Getting up steam for tomorrow

  • 174 Passing of a Torrington landmark

  • 175 A Weare Giffard speciality - delicious strawberries

  • 176 Artisans' Club

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

  • 178 Appledore boy is youngest recipient of RNLI vellun

  • 179

    Mrs Whapham finds ferret in Bridgeland Street while shopping
  • 180 Traditions and skills still there

  • 181 Steep street of old Bideford

  • 182 Olympic riders to compete at Bideford Horse Show

  • 183 113 years at Instow

  • 184 Peter poses for TV film

  • 185 Do recall the old windmill at Northam?

  • 186 Cruising down the river

  • 187

    First prize
  • 188 Chess - their bridge over the years

  • 189

    Andre Veillett and Quentin Reed in Judo Demonstration
  • 190 Shipbuilding hobby at Hartland

  • 191 Bideford regatta

  • 192 Torrington children build igloo
  • 193 Bravery against bull at Shebbear rewarded

  • 194 Shoes certainly not made for walking

  • 195

    Reds Womens Team Are First To Compete Throughout Season
  • 196 Hartland Abbey outdoor staff 60 years ago

  • 197

    Married in 1908
  • 198 No sale of Springfield House

  • 199 Bideford A.F.C annual dinner
  • 200 Emergency ferry services

  • 201 Happy Days!

  • 202 New Post Office

  • 203 Capers on the cobbles

  • 204 No laughing matter

  • 205 Bideford's new market opens next week

  • 206 Bideford inquest on French trawlermen opens

  • 207 When horses score over the tractor

  • 208

    Wynne Olley's styles impress International Hair Fashion Designer
  • 209 Largest salmon caught in Torridge

  • 210 What the television camera saw at Abbotsham

  • 211 Liked holidays here - so starts business

  • 212

    Exhibition of school work
  • 213 New Lundy air-mail stamps

  • 214 New shipyard on schedule

  • 215 Children's procession with foxgloves

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

  • 217 Out of puff!

  • 218 Appledore schooner broadcast

  • 219 Pannier Market's future?

  • 220 He beat the floods

  • 221 Burnard family reunion

  • 222 Bideford electricity window display qualifies for area competition

  • 223 All aboard the ark

  • 224 Variety in summer weather

  • 225

    Hamburger is part of modern life
  • 226 Speeding communications: Bideford firm's new installation

  • 227 Twenty-one yachts

  • 228 Some mushroom!

  • 229 Town's second woman mayor in 392 years

  • 230 Can-carrying over cobbles has disappeared

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

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    New gateway
  • 233 Sunshine and shade at Appledore

  • 234 School crossing patrol begins

  • 235 Torrington to have first woman mayor

  • 236 Meredith's ironmongers

  • 237 Rowing triumphs at Bideford

  • 238 Designed all furnishing of new chapel

  • 239 Landmark at Bradworthy

  • 240 Tibbles home again - and fish supper

  • 241 Lady Godiva comes to Torrington

  • 242 Torrington's enterprise's new extensions

  • 243 Battle of the gap at Westward Ho!

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

  • 245 Light reading for the lighthouse

  • 246 Bideford blacksmith wins English championship

  • 247 They never miss a game at Torrington

  • 248 Pretty pennies at Beaford

  • 249 Making way for the double-deckers

  • 250 Pet squirrels at Monkleigh

  • 251 Life begins at 80

  • 252

    Double Baptism on Torridge
  • 253

    Close associations with North Devon
  • 254 Appledore's largest

  • 255

    Inter-school Road Safety Quiz Cup Winners
  • 256 Photo of town's first car wins prize

  • 257 Northam loses thatched cottage landmark

  • 258 Baby Kate goes home to Lundy

  • 259 Clovelly nightmare

  • 260 Puppet characters introduced

  • 261

    Was a missionary
  • 262 River scenes that enchant the visitors

  • 263 Success to Festival of the Arts

  • 264 Works at craft he learned over 65 years ago

  • 265 Warmington's garage ad

  • 266 Calligrapher extraordinary

  • 267 Devil sent packing

  • 268 Hartland's invitation

  • 269 Brothers reunion 1947
  • 270 Bideford stock car racing entry comes in second

  • 271 New Lundy stamps

  • 272 Torridge wins on time schedule

  • 273 Torridge graveyard of wooden hulks

  • 274 Ship-in-bottle world record

  • 275 Move for oldest boatyard on Torridge

  • 276 Bideford loses training ship

  • 277 Quads join a Langtree happy family

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

  • 279 Bideford country dancers on TV

  • 280 Tomorrow' night's skittles broadcast from Bideford

  • 281 East-the-Water sets town an example

  • 282

    Holidaying in north Devon
  • 283 Bicycle now does donkey work

  • 284 Joe the ginger tabby is 21

  • 285 Bideford-Torrington road gets 'carpet coat'

  • 286 New addition to Quay front

  • 287 Vessel built 300 feet above sea level

  • 288 Faints as she wins national competition

  • 289 Parkham plan realised

  • 290 Alderman Anstey's dream comes tru

  • 291 Fishermen of Greencliff

  • 292 Tramps camp by riverside throughout arctic weather

  • 293 Jumble sale fever

  • 294 Centenary of Gazette

  • 295

    School of Dancing's Annual Display
  • 296 New look for Torrington Lane

  • 297 New art gallery opened

  • 298 The art of the thatcher

  • 299 Recognise this resort?

  • 300 John Andrew Bread Charity
  • 301 Up-to-date Bideford!

  • 302 Puzzle corner at Bideford!

  • 303 Watch the dicky bird!

  • 304 Eight and a half million pound Taw development scheme

  • 305 Northam footballers of the future

  • 306 Thrush builds nest in cauliflower

  • 307 Torrington Youth Club rewarded by party
  • 308 Donkey and horses enjoy carnival drink

  • 309 Teenager Peter Jackson Makes Horror Film
  • 310 Polish custom on Pancake Day

  • 311 Private home for public pump

  • 312 School's link with cargo ship

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

  • 314 Bideford's private wharves busier

  • 315 Train returns to Westleigh straight

  • 316 They are parted pro-tem

  • 317

    Bidefordians
  • 318 'Les Girls' of Hartland

  • 319 In the tortoise nursery - eight hatched at Bideford

  • 320 Smiling welcome to Hartland visitors

  • 321 Spray dodging - the new pastime

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

  • 323 Bideford skifflers, they're no squares

  • 324 Some 240 exhibits

  • 325 Signed scroll momento of Queen Mother's visit

  • 326 Appledore's new lifeboat

  • 327 The Geneva marionettes

  • 328 Second Monte Carlo Rally

  • 329 Torrington's new amenity

  • 330 Four hundred residents leave Bideford!

  • 331 Decontrol of meat

  • 332 Childrens' model of Torrington

  • 333 Appledore Juniors Football
  • 334 Boys from Bideford school complete Ten Tors

  • 335 Four sisters' nostalgic reunion

  • 336

    Appledore boys beat mums at football
  • 337 Bideford Bridge re-opens

  • 338 One thousand visit zoo at Whitsun

  • 339 Charter granted by Philip and Mary

  • 340 Penny for the guy

  • 341 Simple Item 138
  • 342 Centuries old but today busier than ever

  • 343 First steel ship built at Bideford

  • 344 Dismantling of wireless mast

  • 345 Instow local art show was 'tremendous success'

  • 346 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

  • 347 Wilfred and Mabel visit schools and hospital

  • 348 Just over a year old

  • 349 Bideford Liberal club new lounge bar opened

  • 350 A man and his wheel

  • 351 Council agree to demolition of Chanter's Folly

  • 352 Modern living at Bideford

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

  • 354 Saving money, wear and tear

  • 355 Yeo vale road ruin provides a mystery

  • 356 Westward Ho! Tennis Club Winners
  • 357 Clovelly donkey film star

  • 358 Torrington's shelter for the aged

  • 359 Harvest service in Bideford 'pub' bar

  • 360 In their new robes and hats

  • 361 Little 'Big Ben'

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    Toasted with musical honours
  • 363 Alwington School closing after 120 years

  • 364 Picking the pops

  • 365 Picture bought for shillings may be worth thousands

  • 366 North Devon Driving School

  • 367 Preparations for new Clovelly Court

  • 368 Lots drawn to prevent dog fight

  • 369 Revenge in style

  • 370

    Relatives all over the world
  • 371 Buckland goes to County Show

  • 372 The creative urge on Saturday morning

  • 373 Safe door weighing two tons

  • 374 Can spring be far away?

  • 375 Lady Churchill congratulates Bideford artists at nursing exhibition

  • 376 Donkey work made easier at Clovelly

  • 377 Picking the pops

  • 378 Beach search for mines takes longer

  • 379 Big develolpment at Calveford

  • 380 Yelland potter's exhibition at Bideford

  • 381 Torrington acclaims 400th anniversary of granting of charter

  • 382 Ships at Bideford

  • 383 Bideford School Junior Choir Sing in France at Twinning Ceremony in Landivisiau
  • 384 Homage to a well-loved sovereign

  • 385 Alverdiscott is proud of its new parish hall

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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  • 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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  • 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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