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

  • 2 Puppet characters introduced

  • 3 TV contest means big job for Bideford Guides

  • 4 Happy Days!

  • 5 School crossing patrol begins

  • 6 New Post Office

  • 7 Sweets derationing

  • 8 Bideford childrens' cinema opens

  • 9 Bideford blacksmith wins English championship

  • 10 Harvest service in Bideford 'pub' bar

  • 11 Amsterdam to Bideford double success

  • 12 Off on a great adventure

  • 13 Barley from Bideford to Bonnie Scotland

  • 14 Weare Giffard potato

  • 15 Donkey work made easier at Clovelly

  • 16 Torrington's shelter for the aged

  • 17 Bideford A.F.C annual dinner
  • 18 For South Africa from Westward Ho!

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

  • 20 Unique holiday adventure!

  • 21 Ancestral home nestling in lovely combe

  • 22 Clovelly's 91 year old horseman

  • 23 All for the love of a lady!

  • 24 Bravery against bull at Shebbear rewarded

  • 25 First steel ship built at Bideford

  • 26 Thunderstorm destruction of 25 years ago

  • 27 Bideford's gift to Sir Francis

  • 28 Allhalland Street - then and now

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

  • 30 Jalopy joy for children of Shamwickshire

  • 31 Waldon Triplets
  • 32 Church renovation rejoicing at Northam

  • 33 Appledore's largest

  • 34 Cruising down the river

  • 35 Westward Ho! public conveniences get go ahead
  • 36 Where Bideford rope-makers walked>
  • 37 Bideford Liberals' fashion show

  • 38 Thrush builds nest in cauliflower

  • 39 Finished in 1876

  • 40 Thorn-apple found in Littleham conservatory

  • 41 Traditions and skills still there

  • 42 Big develolpment at Calveford

  • 43

    Toasted with musical honours
  • 44 Television comes to Torridge District

  • 45 Hartland Abbey outdoor staff 60 years ago

  • 46 Larkworthy Family play in Shebbear's Football Team
  • 47 Broomhayes children will keep their winter pet

  • 48 Head Barman appointed Torrington Town Crier
  • 49 Yeo vale road ruin provides a mystery

  • 50 Five generations link Woolsery, Clovelly and Bideford

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

  • 52 Westward Ho! sand yacht to challenge speed record

  • 53 Bideford has built over 500 post-war homes

  • 54 Penny for the guy

  • 55

    Gift from Bideford Town Council
  • 56 They set out for Bideford and became lost

  • 57 Bideford Liberal club new lounge bar opened

  • 58 Bideford firm develops new non-spill paint

  • 59 Bideford skifflers, they're no squares

  • 60 Steep street of old Bideford

  • 61 Torridge wins on time schedule

  • 62 Beach search for mines takes longer

  • 63 Launching the 'Golden Hinde'

  • 64 Little 'Big Ben'

  • 65 Service with a smile

  • 66 Weare Giffard Hall sold for £11,300

  • 67 Six footed lamb

  • 68 Local glove-making factory advertising for staff

  • 69 Pretty pennies at Beaford

  • 70

    Double Baptism on Torridge
  • 71 'Out of Appledore' sailing memories

  • 72 Bideford School Junior Choir Sing in France at Twinning Ceremony in Landivisiau
  • 73 One thousand visit zoo at Whitsun

  • 74 First ship in 8 years

  • 75 A roof-top view - where?

  • 76 It really was the 'last time'

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

  • 78 Modern living at Bideford

  • 79 Northam wants to continue pumping from river

  • 80 Littleham family's five generations

  • 81 Bridging the stream

  • 82 Hartland's invitation

  • 83 New Lundy stamps

  • 84 Inscribed Bibles and silver spoons for babies

  • 85 By pony and trap to market

  • 86 Picking the pops

  • 87 Safety-first dipomas awarded to Torrington drivers

  • 88 A story to tell!

  • 89 A man and his wheel

  • 90

    Wynne Olley's styles impress International Hair Fashion Designer
  • 91 Recognise this resort?

  • 92 Meeting at 10 Downing Street

  • 93 No laughing matter

  • 94 Wilfred and Mabel visit schools and hospital

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

  • 96 Bideford triplets' first birthday party

  • 97 Riverside mystery

  • 98

    Close associations with North Devon
  • 99 New look for Torrington Lane

  • 100 Buckland farm workers to receive long-service awards

  • 101 A bird of their own!

  • 102 New Estate's view of estuary activities

  • 103 Tide sweeps under and over the old bridge

  • 104 Bideford's private wharves busier

  • 105 Wasps' nest in sewing machine

  • 106 Some 240 exhibits

  • 107 Centuries old but today busier than ever

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

  • 109 Bideford-Torrington road gets 'carpet coat'

  • 110 Torrington in 1967

  • 111 Private home for public pump

  • 112 Huntshaw TV mast

  • 113 Mobile missionary

  • 114 Water Board mains spread through villages

  • 115 Quads join a Langtree happy family

  • 116 Clovelly nightmare

  • 117 An early 'special' to Bideford

  • 118 Circus comes to town

  • 119 Up-to-date Bideford!

  • 120 Devil sent packing

  • 121 Photo mural in Bideford bank

  • 122 Children's procession with foxgloves

  • 123 Boys win hockey on the sands challenge

  • 124 Death - and birth - of a telephone exchange

  • 125 Golden Bay Hotel ad.>
  • 126 Celebrations for 103rd birthday

  • 127 Birds' convalescent home at Instow

  • 128 Yelland potter's exhibition at Bideford

  • 129

    First Girls at Bideford Grammar School take part in Play
  • 130 Mayor becomes engine driver>
  • 131 Fleet of foot and fair of face

  • 132 Light reading for the lighthouse

  • 133 Thriving 'orphan of the storm'

  • 134 Northam's almshouse

  • 135 Northam footballers of the future

  • 136 Floral dancing at Appledore

  • 137 Sunshine and shade at Appledore

  • 138 Ships at Bideford

  • 139 Clovelly donkey film star

  • 140

    Was a missionary
  • 141 Fishermen of Greencliff

  • 142

    School of Dancing's Annual Display
  • 143 TV features Bideford's New Year bread ceremony

  • 144 Can-carrying over cobbles has disappeared

  • 145 The creative urge on Saturday morning

  • 146 Safe door weighing two tons

  • 147 Town's second woman mayor in 392 years

  • 148 Bideford regatta

  • 149 Salmon netting at Bideford

  • 150 Filming at Hartland

  • 151 Torrington's new amenity

  • 152 Bicycle now does donkey work

  • 153 Space dominates Hartland carnival

  • 154 For crying out loud!

  • 155

    Jinxed School Trip
  • 156 From Bobby to Brian

  • 157 Farewell to passenger trains

  • 158 Works at craft he learned over 65 years ago

  • 159 Sweet success at Langtree School

  • 160 A Weare Giffard speciality - delicious strawberries

  • 161

    Youth Clubs Join Together For Entertainment
  • 162 Practical sympathy at Northam

  • 163 Down at the dump something stirs

  • 164 What the television camera saw at Abbotsham

  • 165 New choral society's growing response

  • 166 Watch the dicky bird!

  • 167 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

  • 168 North Devon Driving School

  • 169 Bank Holiday weather was beach weather

  • 170 Police station view of Bideford

  • 171 Symbol of Lundy independence

  • 172 Pet squirrels at Monkleigh

  • 173 Appledore boy is youngest recipient of RNLI vellun

  • 174 Bideford country dancers on TV

  • 175 Fishing light goes out at close of poor season

  • 176 Vessel built 300 feet above sea level

  • 177 Revived market off to splendid start

  • 178 Future of Torrington almshouses

  • 179 Torridge graveyard of wooden hulks

  • 180 Torrington Youth Club rewarded by party
  • 181 Centenary of Gazette

  • 182 Tomorrow' night's skittles broadcast from Bideford

  • 183 Bideford schoolboy's courage recognised

  • 184 New shipyard on schedule

  • 185 Torrington to have first woman mayor

  • 186 Ten year old scrambler

  • 187 In their new robes and hats

  • 188 Fundraising trip for RNLI

  • 189 Sooty is quick on the draw

  • 190

    Birgitta Whittaker
  • 191 Signed scroll momento of Queen Mother's visit

  • 192 In the tortoise nursery - eight hatched at Bideford

  • 193 Photo of town's first car wins prize

  • 194 Brothers reunion 1947
  • 195 Down at the 'Donkey House'

  • 196 Largest salmon caught in Torridge

  • 197 Students help model St Sidwell

  • 198 Pannier Market's future?

  • 199 Cement-clad boats being built at Northam

  • 200 Bideford computer stars

  • 201 At Bideford Arts Ball>
  • 202 Getting up steam for tomorrow

  • 203 Found the answer waiting for him>
  • 204 Designed and made in Bideford

  • 205 Daisy's pride and joy

  • 206 Four sisters' nostalgic reunion

  • 207 Liked holidays here - so starts business

  • 208 America's tribute to 'J.H.'

  • 209

    Lenwood Squash Club
  • 210 Cavaliers join the Hunt
  • 211 New fire and ambulance stations

  • 212 Wine and beer merchants for 150 years

  • 213 Lundy memorial to John Pennington Harman V.C.

  • 214 A lost Bideford 'island'

  • 215 Joe the ginger tabby is 21

  • 216 New look in the hayfields

  • 217 On her 'maiden' trip from Bideford

  • 218

    Holidaying in north Devon
  • 219 Train returns to Westleigh straight

  • 220 Can spring be far away?

  • 221 Torrington Church's new organ

  • 222 Lady Godiva comes to Torrington

  • 223 Alwington School closing after 120 years

  • 224 Dismantling of wireless mast

  • 225 Bideford's first woman councillor

  • 226 Housing progress at East-the-Water>
  • 227

    Womens Skittles Competition in Buckland Brewer
  • 228 Old Girls revisit Edgehill

  • 229 New art gallery opened

  • 230 Picking the pops

  • 231

    Inter-school Road Safety Quiz Cup Winners
  • 232 Move for oldest boatyard on Torridge

  • 233 Preparations for new Clovelly Court

  • 234 Bideford's new market opens next week

  • 235 Charter granted by Philip and Mary

  • 236 Instow local art show was 'tremendous success'

  • 237

    Mums protest in Coronation Road
  • 238

    10-year-old scrambler practices
  • 239 Designed all furnishing of new chapel

  • 240 Donkey and horses enjoy carnival drink

  • 241 Mural in the whimsical fashion

  • 242 'Les Girls' of Hartland

  • 243 Landmark at Bradworthy

  • 244 Spray dodging - the new pastime

  • 245 River scenes that enchant the visitors

  • 246 Faints as she wins national competition

  • 247 Still hunting aged 80 and a Field Master

  • 248 They are parted pro-tem

  • 249 Jumble sale fever

  • 250 School's link with cargo ship

  • 251 Rowing triumphs at Bideford

  • 252

    First prize
  • 253 Alderman Anstey's dream comes tru

  • 254 Last train from Torrington

  • 255 Hartland Dancers
  • 256

    Relatives all over the world
  • 257 Tramps camp by riverside throughout arctic weather

  • 258 Bideford's first triplets for 12 years

  • 259 Record pebble-throwing day

  • 260 Shipbuilding hobby at Hartland

  • 261 Torrington's enterprise's new extensions

  • 262

    FA Cup Match for the Robins
  • 263

    Gus Honeybun meets local children
  • 264 Fish nearly pulled him in

  • 265 Passing of a Torrington landmark

  • 266 Thirty bridges cross Torridge

  • 267

    Reds Womens Team Are First To Compete Throughout Season
  • 268 Spring-cleaning the Ridge

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

  • 270

    Andre Veillett and Quentin Reed in Judo Demonstration
  • 271 Holiday traffic in Bideford High Street

  • 272 Westward Ho! Tennis Club Winners
  • 273 No sale of Springfield House

  • 274 Some mushroom!

  • 275 Council agree to demolition of Chanter's Folly

  • 276 Bideford Zoo's first baby is big draw

  • 277 Twenty-one yachts

  • 278 No ancient Grecian temple this

  • 279 New addition to Quay front

  • 280 They never miss a game at Torrington

  • 281 Baby Kate goes home to Lundy

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

  • 283 Christmas tree on Bideford Quay>
  • 284 Holiday scene near Sandymere

  • 285 John Andrew Bread Charity
  • 286 Peter poses for TV film

  • 287 Lots drawn to prevent dog fight

  • 288 Sight of a lifetime

  • 289 Record player of 80 years ago

  • 290

    Mrs Whapham finds ferret in Bridgeland Street while shopping
  • 291 Loads of black and white

  • 292 Just over a year old

  • 293 Meredith's ironmongers

  • 294 Emergency ferry services

  • 295 Picture bought for shillings may be worth thousands

  • 296 What is future of railway goods yard?

  • 297 Appledore's new lifeboat

  • 298 Burnard family reunion

  • 299

    Appledore boys beat mums at football
  • 300 Eleven million pound scheme's official opening

  • 301 Clovelly custom

  • 302 Chess - their bridge over the years

  • 303 Wishing well is pixielated

  • 304 Childrens' model of Torrington

  • 305 Bideford Bridge re-opens

  • 306 Westward Ho! combined op

  • 307 113 years at Instow

  • 308 Homage to a well-loved sovereign

  • 309 Bideford electricity window display qualifies for area competition

  • 310 East-the-Water sets town an example

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    Cadets are given certificates
  • 312 Bideford stock car racing entry comes in second

  • 313 The cab at the corner>
  • 314 Lady Churchill congratulates Bideford artists at nursing exhibition

  • 315 North Devon author featured in TV documentary

  • 316 The art of the thatcher

  • 317 Appledore Juniors Football
  • 318 Artisans' Club

  • 319 Repair work on Long Bridge
  • 320 What's the time?

  • 321 Variety in summer weather

  • 322 Life begins at 80

  • 323 Calligrapher extraordinary

  • 324 A sense of humour in advertising

  • 325 Olympic riders to compete at Bideford Horse Show

  • 326 Gloves fit for a king!

  • 327 Saving money, wear and tear

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

  • 329 Alverdiscott is proud of its new parish hall

  • 330

    Hamburger is part of modern life
  • 331 Broomhayes £1,000 Surprise
  • 332 Decontrol of meat

  • 333 Panel sprint for Bideford broadcast

  • 334 Colour TV salesman at eight

  • 335

    Married in 1908
  • 336 Shoes certainly not made for walking

  • 337 Sailing to victory at Appledore

  • 338 New life for Hartland organ

  • 339 Appledore skill brings 'Hispaniola' to life

  • 340 Prizewinning babies at Torrington

  • 341 Calf thinks of mare as mum

  • 342 Teenager Peter Jackson Makes Horror Film
  • 343 Success to Festival of the Arts

  • 344 Two kinds of hovercraft at Bideford

  • 345 End of the line

  • 346 Do recall the old windmill at Northam?

  • 347 Out of puff!

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

  • 349 Championship Trophy for Hartland
  • 350 Buckland goes to County Show

  • 351 Champagne send-off for Torrington new factory

  • 352 Speeding communications: Bideford firm's new installation

  • 353 Battle of the gap at Westward Ho!

  • 354 The Geneva marionettes

  • 355 Eleventh hour bid to save last sailing barge

  • 356 All aboard the ark

  • 357 Making way for the double-deckers

  • 358 Centenary of Landcross Methodist Chapel

  • 359 Escaped crane moves into Kenwith Valley

  • 360 Second Monte Carlo Rally

  • 361 Northam loses thatched cottage landmark

  • 362 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

  • 363 Entente cordiale in Bideford

  • 364 Torrington school's sundial - fashioned by Headmaster

  • 365 Hartland postman retires

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    Building works
  • 367 Parkham plan realised

  • 368 Quads at Thornhillhead

  • 369 Littleham cow tops 70 tons mark in milk production

  • 370 Eight to strike and a race to win

  • 371 New civic medallions

  • 372 Bideford loses training ship

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

  • 374 New gateway to King George's Fields

  • 375 When horses score over the tractor

  • 376 Bringing shopping home by goat

  • 377 Simple Item 138
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    Bidefordians
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    New gateway
  • 380 Torrington acclaims 400th anniversary of granting of charter

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    Exhibition of school work
  • 382 Yeoi Vale House finally demolished

  • 383 X-ray shoe fitting

  • 384 Torrington children build igloo
  • 385

    Successful motor cycling team
  • 386 One of the luckier farmers in getting in the problem harvest

  • 387 Capers on the cobbles

  • 388 Panto time at Westward Ho!

  • 389 Community centre opened at Westward Ho!

  • 390 Bideford inquest on French trawlermen opens

  • 391 Last of Bideford factory chimney

  • 392 Eight and a half million pound Taw development scheme

  • 393 Polish custom on Pancake Day

  • 394 Appledore schooner broadcast

  • 395 A craftsman's 'potted' history

  • 396 So this is the mainland!

  • 397 First tankers arrive at new depot

  • 398 Warmington's garage ad

  • 399 No ancient Grecian temple this

  • 400 Gift plaque on Clovelly council houses

  • 401 He beat the floods

  • 402 Afternoon tea in the park

  • 403 Ship-in-bottle world record

  • 404 Smiling welcome to Hartland visitors

  • 405 Puzzle corner at Bideford!

  • 406 Bideford shipyard workers cheer new minesweeper

  • 407 Tibbles home again - and fish supper

  • 408 Four hundred residents leave Bideford!

  • 409 Boys from Bideford school complete Ten Tors

  • 410 New Lundy air-mail stamps

  • 411 Appledore tugs fete London Tower

  • 412 Born 1883 - still going strong

  • 413 Revenge in style

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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Buckland farm workers to receive long-service awards

Forty years of service

The end of another day on the farm and shepherd and cattleman – Mr Fred Brock, on the left, and Mr Alfred Prance – stop to exchange news at Bowden Farm, Buckland Brewer and to discuss the visit they will be paying to the Royal Show at Nottingham to receive Royal Agricultural Association awards for forty years’ service on the same farm.

24 June 1955 Buckland farm workers to receive awards

Mr Brock came to work at Bowden Farm for Mr George Heywood 40 years ago. As shepherd Mr Brock has charge of the flock of Devon Closewool ewes and Southdown rams.

Mr Prance has been 42 years at Burrough Farm, Buckland Brewer where he first worked for the late Mr Robert Tucker before the farm was bought by Mr George Heywood. He now works with the pedigree Ayrshire herd.

Gazette article 24 June 1955

 

Torrington enterprise’s new extensions

Now one of the country’s biggest and most modern creameries

Born seventy years ago out of the enterprise of a Torrington grocer and provision merchant, Mr Robert Sandford, bartering groceries for butter, eggs and poultry from local farmers, the Torridge Vale Dairies’ factory has grown into one of the biggest and most modern creameries in the country.

24 June 1955 Torringtons enterprises new extensions

Fifty farms began supplying cream to the dairy in 1931 but now the company buys milk from some 2,600 farms, the collections by its fleet of 50 lorries along the network of roads over an area extending from Hartland to Lynton, down east of South Molton, to the boundaries of Okehampton and across to the coast in North Cornwall south of Bude and Marhamchurch.

Gazette article 24 June 1955

 

 

Success to Festival of the Arts 20 June to 3 July

Booking office on Torridge-side

Customers have been trooping in to book seats this past week for the Taw and Torridge Society’s Devon Festival of the Arts.

17 June 1955 Success to festival of the arts

The above photograph shows some of the enthusiastic supporters of the Bideford section cheering the opening of the Bideford Booking Office adjoining the Rose of Torridge café.

Gazette article 17 June 1955

 

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