• 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 Bideford Bridge re-opens

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    Toasted with musical honours
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    Youth Clubs Join Together For Entertainment
  • 4

    Reds Womens Team Are First To Compete Throughout Season
  • 5 Tibbles home again - and fish supper

  • 6 Parkham plan realised

  • 7 Photo of town's first car wins prize

  • 8 New look for Torrington Lane

  • 9 He beat the floods

  • 10 Picture bought for shillings may be worth thousands

  • 11 Bideford's private wharves busier

  • 12 Littleham cow tops 70 tons mark in milk production

  • 13 Lady Godiva comes to Torrington

  • 14 Torrington acclaims 400th anniversary of granting of charter

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

  • 16 Riverside mystery

  • 17 Smiling welcome to Hartland visitors

  • 18 Born 1883 - still going strong

  • 19 The art of the thatcher

  • 20 Last train from Torrington

  • 21 Panto time at Westward Ho!

  • 22 First tankers arrive at new depot

  • 23 A roof-top view - where?

  • 24 Centenary of Gazette

  • 25

    Building works
  • 26 Doing time - over 300 years of it - at Hartland

  • 27 Down at the 'Donkey House'

  • 28 Eight and a half million pound Taw development scheme

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

  • 30

    Lenwood Squash Club
  • 31 Sooty is quick on the draw

  • 32 Peter poses for TV film

  • 33 Celebrations for 103rd birthday

  • 34 Head Barman appointed Torrington Town Crier
  • 35 Death - and birth - of a telephone exchange

  • 36 New Post Office

  • 37 Thunderstorm destruction of 25 years ago

  • 38 Largest salmon caught in Torridge

  • 39 Devil sent packing

  • 40 New life for Hartland organ

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

  • 42 Five generations link Woolsery, Clovelly and Bideford

  • 43 Shipbuilding hobby at Hartland

  • 44 In their new robes and hats

  • 45 All for the love of a lady!

  • 46 Train returns to Westleigh straight

  • 47 New look in the hayfields

  • 48 Meredith's ironmongers

  • 49

    Successful motor cycling team
  • 50 Pannier Market's future?

  • 51 Rowing triumphs at Bideford

  • 52 Homage to a well-loved sovereign

  • 53 Hartland Dancers
  • 54 Childrens' model of Torrington

  • 55 A story to tell!

  • 56 Hartland postman retires

  • 57 In the tortoise nursery - eight hatched at Bideford

  • 58 Appledore schooner broadcast

  • 59 New fire and ambulance stations

  • 60 Mobile missionary

  • 61 A bird of their own!

  • 62 It really was the 'last time'

  • 63 New Lundy stamps

  • 64 Recognise this resort?

  • 65 Symbol of Lundy independence

  • 66 Westward Ho! sand yacht to challenge speed record

  • 67 Bideford's new market opens next week

  • 68

    Andre Veillett and Quentin Reed in Judo Demonstration
  • 69 Centenary of Landcross Methodist Chapel

  • 70 Huntshaw TV mast

  • 71 First steel ship built at Bideford

  • 72 Making way for the double-deckers

  • 73 Sweet success at Langtree School

  • 74 Calf thinks of mare as mum

  • 75 Bideford has built over 500 post-war homes

  • 76 Colour TV salesman at eight

  • 77 Weare Giffard potato

  • 78 First ship in 8 years

  • 79 Bideford firm develops new non-spill paint

  • 80 Success to Festival of the Arts

  • 81 Liked holidays here - so starts business

  • 82 Thirty bridges cross Torridge

  • 83 Move for oldest boatyard on Torridge

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

  • 85 No ancient Grecian temple this

  • 86 Speeding communications: Bideford firm's new installation

  • 87 Appledore's largest

  • 88 Buckland farm workers to receive long-service awards

  • 89 Photo mural in Bideford bank

  • 90 Bideford schoolboy's courage recognised

  • 91 Private home for public pump

  • 92 Escaped crane moves into Kenwith Valley

  • 93 New gateway to King George's Fields

  • 94 Last of Bideford factory chimney

  • 95 Torrington school's sundial - fashioned by Headmaster

  • 96 Second Monte Carlo Rally

  • 97 Council agree to demolition of Chanter's Folly

  • 98 A man and his wheel

  • 99 Bicycle now does donkey work

  • 100 Modern living at Bideford

  • 101

    Married in 1908
  • 102 Open-air art exhibition by 'under 40' group

  • 103 Jumble sale fever

  • 104 Unique holiday adventure!

  • 105 Fishermen of Greencliff

  • 106 Can-carrying over cobbles has disappeared

  • 107 Hartland's invitation

  • 108 'Les Girls' of Hartland

  • 109 Repair work on Long Bridge
  • 110 Happy Days!

  • 111 Thrush builds nest in cauliflower

  • 112 Decontrol of meat

  • 113 Boys win hockey on the sands challenge

  • 114 Twenty-one yachts

  • 115

    Close associations with North Devon
  • 116 Puppet characters introduced

  • 117 Appledore tugs fete London Tower

  • 118 Life begins at 80

  • 119 Television comes to Torridge District

  • 120 Torrington's shelter for the aged

  • 121 Appledore boy is youngest recipient of RNLI vellun

  • 122

    Holidaying in north Devon
  • 123 Dismantling of wireless mast

  • 124 Yeoi Vale House finally demolished

  • 125 Bideford electricity window display qualifies for area competition

  • 126 Traditions and skills still there

  • 127 Bank Holiday weather was beach weather

  • 128 Bideford Liberals' fashion show

  • 129 Clovelly donkey film star

  • 130 Fish nearly pulled him in

  • 131 Panel sprint for Bideford broadcast

  • 132 Water Board mains spread through villages

  • 133 Gift plaque on Clovelly council houses

  • 134 Thorn-apple found in Littleham conservatory

  • 135 Torridge wins on time schedule

  • 136 Inscribed Bibles and silver spoons for babies

  • 137 Salmon netting at Bideford

  • 138 Children's procession with foxgloves

  • 139 Champagne send-off for Torrington new factory

  • 140 New Lundy air-mail stamps

  • 141

    Womens Skittles Competition in Buckland Brewer
  • 142 Sixty-two year old Picarooner makes ready for season

  • 143 A lost Bideford 'island'

  • 144 Broomhayes £1,000 Surprise
  • 145 Record player of 80 years ago

  • 146 113 years at Instow

  • 147 Safe door weighing two tons

  • 148 On her 'maiden' trip from Bideford

  • 149 A sense of humour in advertising

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

  • 151 By pony and trap to market

  • 152 Launching the 'Golden Hinde'

  • 153 Getting up steam for tomorrow

  • 154 Northam's almshouse

  • 155

    Wynne Olley's styles impress International Hair Fashion Designer
  • 156 Preparations for new Clovelly Court

  • 157 Jalopy joy for children of Shamwickshire

  • 158 One thousand visit zoo at Whitsun

  • 159 Four sisters' nostalgic reunion

  • 160 Variety in summer weather

  • 161 Bideford shipyard workers cheer new minesweeper

  • 162 Gloves fit for a king!

  • 163

    Gift from Bideford Town Council
  • 164 Torrington in 1967

  • 165 Bridging the stream

  • 166

    Exhibition of school work
  • 167 Farewell to passenger trains

  • 168 River scenes that enchant the visitors

  • 169 Yelland potter's exhibition at Bideford

  • 170 Northam footballers of the future

  • 171 No sale of Springfield House

  • 172 Signed scroll momento of Queen Mother's visit

  • 173

    Hamburger is part of modern life
  • 174 Sight of a lifetime

  • 175 Church renovation rejoicing at Northam

  • 176 Shoes certainly not made for walking

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

  • 178 America's tribute to 'J.H.'

  • 179 What is future of railway goods yard?

  • 180 Harvest service in Bideford 'pub' bar

  • 181 Boys from Bideford school complete Ten Tors

  • 182 Off on a great adventure

  • 183 Tide sweeps under and over the old bridge

  • 184

    Gus Honeybun meets local children
  • 185 Littleham family's five generations

  • 186 Picking the pops

  • 187 Bideford skifflers, they're no squares

  • 188 Record pebble-throwing day

  • 189 Bideford Zoo's first baby is big draw

  • 190 Olympic riders to compete at Bideford Horse Show

  • 191 Saving money, wear and tear

  • 192

    Relatives all over the world
  • 193 Pretty pennies at Beaford

  • 194

    First Girls at Bideford Grammar School take part in Play
  • 195 Buckland goes to County Show

  • 196 Fishing light goes out at close of poor season

  • 197 Some 240 exhibits

  • 198 Tramps camp by riverside throughout arctic weather

  • 199 Bideford country dancers on TV

  • 200 Artisans' Club

  • 201 Two kinds of hovercraft at Bideford

  • 202 Clovelly's 91 year old horseman

  • 203 Big develolpment at Calveford

  • 204

    Birgitta Whittaker
  • 205 What the television camera saw at Abbotsham

  • 206 North Devon author featured in TV documentary

  • 207

    Was a missionary
  • 208

    First prize
  • 209 A Weare Giffard speciality - delicious strawberries

  • 210 Torrington Youth Club rewarded by party
  • 211 Chess - their bridge over the years

  • 212 School's link with cargo ship

  • 213 A craftsman's 'potted' history

  • 214 Bideford triplets' first birthday party

  • 215 Ships at Bideford

  • 216 Bringing shopping home by goat

  • 217 Do recall the old windmill at Northam?

  • 218 Revenge in style

  • 219 Donkey work made easier at Clovelly

  • 220 TV contest means big job for Bideford Guides

  • 221 Torrington's enterprise's new extensions

  • 222

    Inter-school Road Safety Quiz Cup Winners
  • 223 Quads join a Langtree happy family

  • 224 Tomorrow' night's skittles broadcast from Bideford

  • 225 Clovelly custom

  • 226 Eleven million pound scheme's official opening

  • 227 Daisy's pride and joy

  • 228 Torridge graveyard of wooden hulks

  • 229 Torrington's new amenity

  • 230 North Devon Driving School

  • 231 Hartland Abbey outdoor staff 60 years ago

  • 232 Calligrapher extraordinary

  • 233 Wishing well is pixielated

  • 234 Can spring be far away?

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    Cadets are given certificates
  • 236 Bideford's gift to Sir Francis

  • 237 TV features Bideford's New Year bread ceremony

  • 238 Spray dodging - the new pastime

  • 239 Mural in the whimsical fashion

  • 240 For crying out loud!

  • 241 Alverdiscott is proud of its new parish hall

  • 242 Warmington's garage ad

  • 243 Some mushroom!

  • 244 Designed all furnishing of new chapel

  • 245 No ancient Grecian temple this

  • 246 Works at craft he learned over 65 years ago

  • 247 Circus comes to town

  • 248 School crossing patrol begins

  • 249 Westward Ho! Tennis Club Winners
  • 250

    Mrs Whapham finds ferret in Bridgeland Street while shopping
  • 251 Bideford Liberal club new lounge bar opened

  • 252 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

  • 253 Cavaliers join the Hunt
  • 254 Baby Kate goes home to Lundy

  • 255 Instow local art show was 'tremendous success'

  • 256 Future of Torrington almshouses

  • 257 Centuries old but today busier than ever

  • 258 Wilfred and Mabel visit schools and hospital

  • 259 Designed and made in Bideford

  • 260 Six footed lamb

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    New gateway
  • 262 Charter granted by Philip and Mary

  • 263 When horses score over the tractor

  • 264 Alderman Anstey's dream comes tru

  • 265 All aboard the ark

  • 266 Birds' convalescent home at Instow

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

  • 268 Allhalland Street - then and now

  • 269 They set out for Bideford and became lost

  • 270 Finished in 1876

  • 271 Appledore's new lifeboat

  • 272 No laughing matter

  • 273 Spring-cleaning the Ridge

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    Mums protest in Coronation Road
  • 275 John Andrew Bread Charity
  • 276 Bideford blacksmith wins English championship

  • 277 X-ray shoe fitting

  • 278 Broomhayes children will keep their winter pet

  • 279 Landmark at Bradworthy

  • 280 Loads of black and white

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

  • 282 Westward Ho! combined op

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    Bidefordians
  • 284 Emergency ferry services

  • 285 Bideford loses training ship

  • 286 Alwington School closing after 120 years

  • 287 Lots drawn to prevent dog fight

  • 288 Revived market off to splendid start

  • 289 Town's second woman mayor in 392 years

  • 290 Weare Giffard Hall sold for £11,300

  • 291 Bideford A.F.C annual dinner
  • 292 Cruising down the river

  • 293 Penny for the guy

  • 294 Appledore Juniors Football
  • 295 Cement-clad boats being built at Northam

  • 296 Teenager Peter Jackson Makes Horror Film
  • 297 Faints as she wins national competition

  • 298 Holiday traffic in Bideford High Street

  • 299 End of the line

  • 300 Eight to strike and a race to win

  • 301 Out of puff!

  • 302 Practical sympathy at Northam

  • 303 Old Girls revisit Edgehill

  • 304 Northam loses thatched cottage landmark

  • 305 Torrington children build igloo
  • 306 So this is the mainland!

  • 307 Bravery against bull at Shebbear rewarded

  • 308 Donkey and horses enjoy carnival drink

  • 309 Space dominates Hartland carnival

  • 310 They never miss a game at Torrington

  • 311 New Estate's view of estuary activities

  • 312 Puzzle corner at Bideford!

  • 313 Waldon Triplets
  • 314

    FA Cup Match for the Robins
  • 315 Bideford-Torrington road gets 'carpet coat'

  • 316 New art gallery opened

  • 317 Fundraising trip for RNLI

  • 318

    Appledore boys beat mums at football
  • 319 The Geneva marionettes

  • 320 Holiday scene near Sandymere

  • 321 Passing of a Torrington landmark

  • 322 Bideford stock car racing entry comes in second

  • 323 New shipyard on schedule

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

  • 325 Bideford regatta

  • 326 Wine and beer merchants for 150 years

  • 327 New addition to Quay front

  • 328 Little 'Big Ben'

  • 329 Barley from Bideford to Bonnie Scotland

  • 330 'Out of Appledore' sailing memories

  • 331 Brothers reunion 1947
  • 332 Yeo vale road ruin provides a mystery

  • 333 Still hunting aged 80 and a Field Master

  • 334 Ten year old scrambler

  • 335 Light reading for the lighthouse

  • 336 Joe the ginger tabby is 21

  • 337 Ancestral home nestling in lovely combe

  • 338 Service with a smile

  • 339 Steep street of old Bideford

  • 340 Fleet of foot and fair of face

  • 341 Watch the dicky bird!

  • 342 Capers on the cobbles

  • 343

    Double Baptism on Torridge
  • 344 Westward Ho! public conveniences get go ahead
  • 345 To build racing cars in former blacksmith's shop

  • 346 Beach search for mines takes longer

  • 347 Pet squirrels at Monkleigh

  • 348 Bideford childrens' cinema opens

  • 349 Quads at Thornhillhead

  • 350 New civic medallions

  • 351 What's the time?

  • 352 Burnard family reunion

  • 353 Championship Trophy for Hartland
  • 354 They are parted pro-tem

  • 355 Just over a year old

  • 356 Four hundred residents leave Bideford!

  • 357 Northam wants to continue pumping from river

  • 358 Students help model St Sidwell

  • 359 Eleventh hour bid to save last sailing barge

  • 360 Bideford School Junior Choir Sing in France at Twinning Ceremony in Landivisiau
  • 361

    Jinxed School Trip
  • 362

    10-year-old scrambler practices
  • 363 Battle of the gap at Westward Ho!

  • 364 Up-to-date Bideford!

  • 365 An early 'special' to Bideford

  • 366

    School of Dancing's Annual Display
  • 367 Bideford's first triplets for 12 years

  • 368 Simple Item 138
  • 369 Sunshine and shade at Appledore

  • 370 The creative urge on Saturday morning

  • 371 East-the-Water sets town an example

  • 372 Clovelly nightmare

  • 373 Vessel built 300 feet above sea level

  • 374 Larkworthy Family play in Shebbear's Football Team
  • 375 Torrington to have first woman mayor

  • 376 Polish custom on Pancake Day

  • 377 Lady Churchill congratulates Bideford artists at nursing exhibition

  • 378 Entente cordiale in Bideford

  • 379 Ship-in-bottle world record

  • 380 Bideford inquest on French trawlermen opens

  • 381 Picking the pops

  • 382 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

  • 383 Bideford computer stars

  • 384 Police station view of Bideford

  • 385 New choral society's growing response

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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  • 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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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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On her ‘maiden trip’ from Bideford

Former trawler is new link with Lundy

This photograph looks down on the deck of the ‘Lundy Gannet’ preparing to make her maiden trip to Lundy as the new link between the mainland and the Island. Before she left on Wednesday’s morning tide the Rev. R.C. Dixon (Vicar of Appledore and Priest-in-charge of Lundy) blessed the vessel on its new mission.

29 June 1956 On her maiden trip from Bideford

Those in the picture, gathered round the hold from left to right are: Mr Dan Crawford, retired trawler skipper, who brought the craft round from Scarborough; Mr W. Pickett, Customs and Excise Officer at Appledore; Mr Peter M. Lecky, deckhand; Mr Trevor Davey, of Bucks, coxswain of the Clovelly lifeboat, who is the new skipper; Mr Stanley Smith, who manages the Marisco Tavern on Lundy and the Rev. R.C. Dixon.

Gazette article 29 June 1956

 

Vessel built 300 feet above sea level

New bar at Westward Ho! Holiday Centre

8 June 1956 Vessel built 300 feet above sea level

Above is a photograph of the new Grenville Bar at Westward Ho! Holiday Centre, which has been built in the shape of half a galleon which was opened last week.

Among the club members and guests present were Mr Gordon Harris and Mr Ted Harris of Messrs. P.K. Harris and Sons, the Appledore shipbuilders were responsible for its realistic construction.

Gazette article 8 June 1956

 

 

Northam wants to continue pumping from river

Water pumped from Torridge

Beside the river Torridge at Kismeldon Bridge on the Bideford-Bradworthy road stands this pump house from which water is sent from the river through the pipe (seen in the right background of the picture) up and down the roadside to augment, as required, Melbury reservoir, Parkham, from which Northam Urban District draws its supply.

1 June 1956 Northam wants to continue pumping

A public local enquiry was held into the Council’s application for a water abstraction order which will permit them to take water and to borrow £10,000 to meet the cost of relaying and renewing the pipeline.

Gazette article 1 June 1956

 

 

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