• 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 Fundraising trip for RNLI

  • 2 Safe door weighing two tons

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    Close associations with North Devon
  • 4 Head Barman appointed Torrington Town Crier
  • 5 Tramps camp by riverside throughout arctic weather

  • 6 Artisans' Club

  • 7 Children's procession with foxgloves

  • 8 Puppet characters introduced

  • 9 In the tortoise nursery - eight hatched at Bideford

  • 10 Championship Trophy for Hartland
  • 11 Bideford Zoo's first baby is big draw

  • 12 Six footed lamb

  • 13

    Wynne Olley's styles impress International Hair Fashion Designer
  • 14 Torrington's new amenity

  • 15 Northam's almshouse

  • 16 Polish custom on Pancake Day

  • 17 Landmark at Bradworthy

  • 18 Daisy's pride and joy

  • 19 Four hundred residents leave Bideford!

  • 20 First tankers arrive at new depot

  • 21 Hartland Dancers
  • 22 Torrington Youth Club rewarded by party
  • 23 Symbol of Lundy independence

  • 24 John Andrew Bread Charity
  • 25 No sale of Springfield House

  • 26 Pannier Market's future?

  • 27 New addition to Quay front

  • 28 A bird of their own!

  • 29 Private home for public pump

  • 30 Television comes to Torridge District

  • 31 Buckland farm workers to receive long-service awards

  • 32 Practical sympathy at Northam

  • 33 Bideford's new market opens next week

  • 34 Traditions and skills still there

  • 35 Parkham plan realised

  • 36 Bravery against bull at Shebbear rewarded

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

  • 38 Police station view of Bideford

  • 39

    Inter-school Road Safety Quiz Cup Winners
  • 40 Birds' convalescent home at Instow

  • 41 Torrington school's sundial - fashioned by Headmaster

  • 42

    Exhibition of school work
  • 43 Can-carrying over cobbles has disappeared

  • 44 Broomhayes £1,000 Surprise
  • 45 New gateway to King George's Fields

  • 46 Calf thinks of mare as mum

  • 47 X-ray shoe fitting

  • 48 Appledore Juniors Football
  • 49 One of the luckier farmers in getting in the problem harvest

  • 50 North Devon Driving School

  • 51 Happy Days!

  • 52 What the television camera saw at Abbotsham

  • 53 Bideford shipyard workers cheer new minesweeper

  • 54 Yeo vale road ruin provides a mystery

  • 55 Westward Ho! public conveniences get go ahead
  • 56 Works at craft he learned over 65 years ago

  • 57 Last train from Torrington

  • 58 Torrington acclaims 400th anniversary of granting of charter

  • 59

    Birgitta Whittaker
  • 60 Some mushroom!

  • 61 Huntshaw TV mast

  • 62 What's the time?

  • 63 Lady Churchill congratulates Bideford artists at nursing exhibition

  • 64 Northam loses thatched cottage landmark

  • 65 113 years at Instow

  • 66

    Mrs Whapham finds ferret in Bridgeland Street while shopping
  • 67 Future of Torrington almshouses

  • 68 First ship in 8 years

  • 69 Gift plaque on Clovelly council houses

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

  • 71 Panel sprint for Bideford broadcast

  • 72 Westward Ho! Tennis Club Winners
  • 73 Bringing shopping home by goat

  • 74 Getting up steam for tomorrow

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

  • 76 Shoes certainly not made for walking

  • 77 Riverside mystery

  • 78 New look for Torrington Lane

  • 79 Loads of black and white

  • 80

    Successful motor cycling team
  • 81 A sense of humour in advertising

  • 82 Circus comes to town

  • 83 Bideford's first triplets for 12 years

  • 84 Bideford regatta

  • 85 Still hunting aged 80 and a Field Master

  • 86 Puzzle corner at Bideford!

  • 87 Ship-in-bottle world record

  • 88 Beach search for mines takes longer

  • 89 He beat the floods

  • 90 In their new robes and hats

  • 91 Cavaliers join the Hunt
  • 92 Torrington's enterprise's new extensions

  • 93 Colour TV salesman at eight

  • 94 Bideford triplets' first birthday party

  • 95 Clovelly donkey film star

  • 96 Bideford schoolboy's courage recognised

  • 97 Off on a great adventure

  • 98 Unique holiday adventure!

  • 99 TV features Bideford's New Year bread ceremony

  • 100 Wine and beer merchants for 150 years

  • 101 Photo of town's first car wins prize

  • 102 Water Board mains spread through villages

  • 103 Emergency ferry services

  • 104 Second Monte Carlo Rally

  • 105 Liked holidays here - so starts business

  • 106 Quads at Thornhillhead

  • 107 Bideford childrens' cinema opens

  • 108 Five generations link Woolsery, Clovelly and Bideford

  • 109 Recognise this resort?

  • 110 Fleet of foot and fair of face

  • 111 Ten year old scrambler

  • 112 Alwington School closing after 120 years

  • 113 Eight and a half million pound Taw development scheme

  • 114 Modern living at Bideford

  • 115 Cruising down the river

  • 116 Waldon Triplets
  • 117 Ships at Bideford

  • 118 Bideford-Torrington road gets 'carpet coat'

  • 119 Bideford's private wharves busier

  • 120 Littleham cow tops 70 tons mark in milk production

  • 121 Four sisters' nostalgic reunion

  • 122 Cement-clad boats being built at Northam

  • 123 Fishermen of Greencliff

  • 124 America's tribute to 'J.H.'

  • 125 It really was the 'last time'

  • 126 New fire and ambulance stations

  • 127 New life for Hartland organ

  • 128 A man and his wheel

  • 129 Weare Giffard potato

  • 130 North Devon author featured in TV documentary

  • 131 Farewell to passenger trains

  • 132 Can spring be far away?

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

  • 134 Yeoi Vale House finally demolished

  • 135 All aboard the ark

  • 136 Lady Godiva comes to Torrington

  • 137 Record player of 80 years ago

  • 138

    Building works
  • 139 Watch the dicky bird!

  • 140 Passing of a Torrington landmark

  • 141 Some 240 exhibits

  • 142 A roof-top view - where?

  • 143 Clovelly's 91 year old horseman

  • 144 Death - and birth - of a telephone exchange

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

  • 146 Preparations for new Clovelly Court

  • 147 They never miss a game at Torrington

  • 148 New Lundy stamps

  • 149

    Andre Veillett and Quentin Reed in Judo Demonstration
  • 150 Simple Item 138
  • 151 Two kinds of hovercraft at Bideford

  • 152

    Gift from Bideford Town Council
  • 153 New art gallery opened

  • 154 Wilfred and Mabel visit schools and hospital

  • 155 By pony and trap to market

  • 156 Bideford's gift to Sir Francis

  • 157 Move for oldest boatyard on Torridge

  • 158 Boys win hockey on the sands challenge

  • 159

    School of Dancing's Annual Display
  • 160 Signed scroll momento of Queen Mother's visit

  • 161

    Lenwood Squash Club
  • 162 Warmington's garage ad

  • 163 Bideford blacksmith wins English championship

  • 164 New civic medallions

  • 165

    Holidaying in north Devon
  • 166 Jumble sale fever

  • 167 Sunshine and shade at Appledore

  • 168 River scenes that enchant the visitors

  • 169 Instow local art show was 'tremendous success'

  • 170 Westward Ho! sand yacht to challenge speed record

  • 171 For crying out loud!

  • 172 New choral society's growing response

  • 173 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

  • 174 Thunderstorm destruction of 25 years ago

  • 175 'Out of Appledore' sailing memories

  • 176 Donkey and horses enjoy carnival drink

  • 177 On her 'maiden' trip from Bideford

  • 178 Capers on the cobbles

  • 179 Centenary of Landcross Methodist Chapel

  • 180 Faints as she wins national competition

  • 181 New look in the hayfields

  • 182 Holiday scene near Sandymere

  • 183

    FA Cup Match for the Robins
  • 184 Bideford electricity window display qualifies for area competition

  • 185 No laughing matter

  • 186 Weare Giffard Hall sold for £11,300

  • 187 Torrington children build igloo
  • 188 Largest salmon caught in Torridge

  • 189 Bicycle now does donkey work

  • 190 The creative urge on Saturday morning

  • 191 Bideford Liberal club new lounge bar opened

  • 192 Mobile missionary

  • 193 Picture bought for shillings may be worth thousands

  • 194 Last of Bideford factory chimney

  • 195 Tomorrow' night's skittles broadcast from Bideford

  • 196 Eleven million pound scheme's official opening

  • 197 All for the love of a lady!

  • 198 New Estate's view of estuary activities

  • 199 Eleventh hour bid to save last sailing barge

  • 200 Thorn-apple found in Littleham conservatory

  • 201 Town's second woman mayor in 392 years

  • 202 Torridge wins on time schedule

  • 203 Tide sweeps under and over the old bridge

  • 204 New Lundy air-mail stamps

  • 205 Mural in the whimsical fashion

  • 206 Allhalland Street - then and now

  • 207 Bideford stock car racing entry comes in second

  • 208 Pet squirrels at Monkleigh

  • 209 No ancient Grecian temple this

  • 210

    Jinxed School Trip
  • 211 School's link with cargo ship

  • 212 No ancient Grecian temple this

  • 213 Vessel built 300 feet above sea level

  • 214 Sooty is quick on the draw

  • 215 Twenty-one yachts

  • 216 Rowing triumphs at Bideford

  • 217 Northam wants to continue pumping from river

  • 218 Bideford skifflers, they're no squares

  • 219

    Cadets are given certificates
  • 220 'Les Girls' of Hartland

  • 221 Devil sent packing

  • 222 Designed and made in Bideford

  • 223 Hartland's invitation

  • 224 TV contest means big job for Bideford Guides

  • 225 Finished in 1876

  • 226 Service with a smile

  • 227 Alverdiscott is proud of its new parish hall

  • 228

    Mums protest in Coronation Road
  • 229 Down at the 'Donkey House'

  • 230

    First Girls at Bideford Grammar School take part in Play
  • 231 Yelland potter's exhibition at Bideford

  • 232 They set out for Bideford and became lost

  • 233 Speeding communications: Bideford firm's new installation

  • 234 Steep street of old Bideford

  • 235

    Relatives all over the world
  • 236 Bideford firm develops new non-spill paint

  • 237 First steel ship built at Bideford

  • 238

    First prize
  • 239 Ancestral home nestling in lovely combe

  • 240 Born 1883 - still going strong

  • 241 End of the line

  • 242 Littleham family's five generations

  • 243 Old Girls revisit Edgehill

  • 244 What is future of railway goods yard?

  • 245 Light reading for the lighthouse

  • 246 Little 'Big Ben'

  • 247 Hartland Abbey outdoor staff 60 years ago

  • 248 Northam footballers of the future

  • 249 Council agree to demolition of Chanter's Folly

  • 250 Pretty pennies at Beaford

  • 251 Holiday traffic in Bideford High Street

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    New gateway
  • 253 Thrush builds nest in cauliflower

  • 254 Donkey work made easier at Clovelly

  • 255 Chess - their bridge over the years

  • 256 Students help model St Sidwell

  • 257 Smiling welcome to Hartland visitors

  • 258

    Womens Skittles Competition in Buckland Brewer
  • 259 Life begins at 80

  • 260 Revenge in style

  • 261 Spray dodging - the new pastime

  • 262 Barley from Bideford to Bonnie Scotland

  • 263 Inscribed Bibles and silver spoons for babies

  • 264 When horses score over the tractor

  • 265 Train returns to Westleigh straight

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

  • 267 Bideford computer stars

  • 268 An early 'special' to Bideford

  • 269 Picking the pops

  • 270 Appledore tugs fete London Tower

  • 271 Shipbuilding hobby at Hartland

  • 272 Bideford Bridge re-opens

  • 273 Hartland postman retires

  • 274 Torridge graveyard of wooden hulks

  • 275 Saving money, wear and tear

  • 276 A lost Bideford 'island'

  • 277 Panto time at Westward Ho!

  • 278 Do recall the old windmill at Northam?

  • 279 Picking the pops

  • 280 One thousand visit zoo at Whitsun

  • 281 Bank Holiday weather was beach weather

  • 282

    Married in 1908
  • 283 Champagne send-off for Torrington new factory

  • 284 Quads join a Langtree happy family

  • 285

    Toasted with musical honours
  • 286 Sweet success at Langtree School

  • 287 Photo mural in Bideford bank

  • 288 Thirty bridges cross Torridge

  • 289 Teenager Peter Jackson Makes Horror Film
  • 290 Penny for the guy

  • 291 A Weare Giffard speciality - delicious strawberries

  • 292

    Bidefordians
  • 293 Clovelly nightmare

  • 294 Bideford has built over 500 post-war homes

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

  • 296 Boys from Bideford school complete Ten Tors

  • 297

    Was a missionary
  • 298 Escaped crane moves into Kenwith Valley

  • 299 Battle of the gap at Westward Ho!

  • 300 The art of the thatcher

  • 301 Space dominates Hartland carnival

  • 302 Entente cordiale in Bideford

  • 303 Alderman Anstey's dream comes tru

  • 304 Launching the 'Golden Hinde'

  • 305 Church renovation rejoicing at Northam

  • 306 Just over a year old

  • 307 Success to Festival of the Arts

  • 308

    Hamburger is part of modern life
  • 309 A craftsman's 'potted' history

  • 310 Fishing light goes out at close of poor season

  • 311 Designed all furnishing of new chapel

  • 312 A story to tell!

  • 313 The Geneva marionettes

  • 314 Dismantling of wireless mast

  • 315 Bideford School Junior Choir Sing in France at Twinning Ceremony in Landivisiau
  • 316 New shipyard on schedule

  • 317 Bideford country dancers on TV

  • 318 Buckland goes to County Show

  • 319 They are parted pro-tem

  • 320 Torrington to have first woman mayor

  • 321 Fish nearly pulled him in

  • 322 Appledore boy is youngest recipient of RNLI vellun

  • 323 Out of puff!

  • 324 Bideford A.F.C annual dinner
  • 325 Charter granted by Philip and Mary

  • 326 Spring-cleaning the Ridge

  • 327

    Double Baptism on Torridge
  • 328 Eight to strike and a race to win

  • 329 Westward Ho! combined op

  • 330 Bideford Liberals' fashion show

  • 331 Salmon netting at Bideford

  • 332 Calligrapher extraordinary

  • 333 Homage to a well-loved sovereign

  • 334 Up-to-date Bideford!

  • 335 Meredith's ironmongers

  • 336 New Post Office

  • 337 Harvest service in Bideford 'pub' bar

  • 338 Tibbles home again - and fish supper

  • 339 Variety in summer weather

  • 340 Brothers reunion 1947
  • 341 Broomhayes children will keep their winter pet

  • 342 So this is the mainland!

  • 343 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

  • 344 Lots drawn to prevent dog fight

  • 345 Making way for the double-deckers

  • 346 Sight of a lifetime

  • 347 Appledore's largest

  • 348 Revived market off to splendid start

  • 349 Gloves fit for a king!

  • 350 Big develolpment at Calveford

  • 351 Jalopy joy for children of Shamwickshire

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

  • 353 Olympic riders to compete at Bideford Horse Show

  • 354 Torrington's shelter for the aged

  • 355 Wishing well is pixielated

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

  • 357

    Gus Honeybun meets local children
  • 358 Doing time - over 300 years of it - at Hartland

  • 359 Bridging the stream

  • 360 Childrens' model of Torrington

  • 361 Centuries old but today busier than ever

  • 362 East-the-Water sets town an example

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

  • 364 Clovelly custom

  • 365 Appledore's new lifeboat

  • 366 Celebrations for 103rd birthday

  • 367 Peter poses for TV film

  • 368 Baby Kate goes home to Lundy

  • 369

    10-year-old scrambler practices
  • 370 Burnard family reunion

  • 371 Bideford loses training ship

  • 372 Bideford inquest on French trawlermen opens

  • 373 Torrington in 1967

  • 374 School crossing patrol begins

  • 375

    Appledore boys beat mums at football
  • 376

    Reds Womens Team Are First To Compete Throughout Season
  • 377 Record pebble-throwing day

  • 378 Appledore schooner broadcast

  • 379

    Youth Clubs Join Together For Entertainment
  • 380 Joe the ginger tabby is 21

  • 381 Decontrol of meat

  • 382 Repair work on Long Bridge
  • 383 Centenary of Gazette

  • 384 Larkworthy Family play in Shebbear's Football Team
  • 385 Reed threshing 'putting the clock back' at Weare Giffard

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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Yeo Vale road ruin provides a mystery

Ruins on Bideford-Bradworthy road

Peeping from the edge of a wood on rising land above the Bideford-Bradworthy road opposite Yeo Vale are these picturesque ivy-clad ruins.

6 September 1957 Yeo Vale Road ruin

The chapel used to stand on the lawn at the left-hand side of the path leading up to Yeo Vale House but remains of the building were removed to their present side by Mrs Morrison, widow of the Rev. Hooper Morrison in about 1820, perhaps to provide a landscape feature to be viewed from the house. In the east wall and seen on the right of our picture is the tombstone of William Gifford, Justice of the King’s Bench, who died on December 12th, 1400.

Gazette article 6 September 1957

 

 

River scenes that enchant the visitors

All eyes on the Torridge river

Mr G.H. Jolliffe has given us permission to reproduce one of his pictures which shows a typical Bideford quayside departure of the Bristol Queen. The beauty of the Quay-side promenade with its shopping frontage flanked by the line of shipping and avenues of trees has been much commented upon by visitors and residents alike.

6 September 1957 River scenes that enchant the visitors

Gazette article 6 September 1957

 

Spray dodging – the new pastime

Stormy seas at Westward Ho!

High tides whipped by gale-force winds provided visitors and residents alike with a new source of entertainment during the early days of this week.

30 August 1957 Spray dodging the new pastime

Spray was being flung high inshore over the roofs of Springfield Terrace and Westbourne Terrace. The tips of the spray waves reached 15 feet above the roofs of the houses before they broke.

Gazette article 30 August 1957

 

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