• 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 Beach search for mines takes longer

  • 2 Donkey and horses enjoy carnival drink

  • 3 Devil sent packing

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    Holidaying in north Devon
  • 5 Homage to a well-loved sovereign

  • 6 Bideford's first triplets for 12 years

  • 7 Teenager Peter Jackson Makes Horror Film
  • 8 Light reading for the lighthouse

  • 9 New fire and ambulance stations

  • 10 Bideford stock car racing entry comes in second

  • 11 Bideford's gift to Sir Francis

  • 12 A bird of their own!

  • 13 Cruising down the river

  • 14 Mural in the whimsical fashion

  • 15 Community centre opened at Westward Ho!

  • 16 By pony and trap to market

  • 17 Meeting at 10 Downing Street

  • 18 Gift plaque on Clovelly council houses

  • 19

    First Girls at Bideford Grammar School take part in Play
  • 20 Thunderstorm destruction of 25 years ago

  • 21

    Mums protest in Coronation Road
  • 22 Centenary of Landcross Methodist Chapel

  • 23 Capers on the cobbles

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

  • 25 Rowing triumphs at Bideford

  • 26 An early 'special' to Bideford

  • 27 Cavaliers join the Hunt
  • 28 Riverside mystery

  • 29 Championship Trophy for Hartland
  • 30 Bridging the stream

  • 31 Eight and a half million pound Taw development scheme

  • 32 Picture bought for shillings may be worth thousands

  • 33 Centenary of Gazette

  • 34 He beat the floods

  • 35 A man and his wheel

  • 36 Born 1883 - still going strong

  • 37 Service with a smile

  • 38 Wasps' nest in sewing machine

  • 39 Out of puff!

  • 40

    Relatives all over the world
  • 41 Bideford childrens' cinema opens

  • 42 Lots drawn to prevent dog fight

  • 43 New addition to Quay front

  • 44

    Toasted with musical honours
  • 45 Afternoon tea in the park

  • 46 Boys from Bideford school complete Ten Tors

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

  • 48 Found the answer waiting for him>
  • 49 New shipyard on schedule

  • 50 Bideford schoolboy's courage recognised

  • 51 Bideford triplets' first birthday party

  • 52 Bideford country dancers on TV

  • 53 Ship-in-bottle world record

  • 54 Appledore boy is youngest recipient of RNLI vellun

  • 55

    Andre Veillett and Quentin Reed in Judo Demonstration
  • 56 Down at the 'Donkey House'

  • 57 A craftsman's 'potted' history

  • 58 Weare Giffard Hall sold for £11,300

  • 59 Students help model St Sidwell

  • 60 Wilfred and Mabel visit schools and hospital

  • 61 A sense of humour in advertising

  • 62 Donkey work made easier at Clovelly

  • 63 Just over a year old

  • 64 Northam's almshouse

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

  • 66 Bideford's private wharves busier

  • 67 Success to Festival of the Arts

  • 68 Calf thinks of mare as mum

  • 69 Church renovation rejoicing at Northam

  • 70 Tibbles home again - and fish supper

  • 71

    Youth Clubs Join Together For Entertainment
  • 72 New look in the hayfields

  • 73 Broomhayes £1,000 Surprise
  • 74 Westward Ho! Tennis Club Winners
  • 75 Warmington's garage ad

  • 76 Yeo vale road ruin provides a mystery

  • 77 Record pebble-throwing day

  • 78 Emergency ferry services

  • 79 Modern living at Bideford

  • 80

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

  • 82 Recognise this resort?

  • 83 Mayor becomes engine driver>
  • 84 Entente cordiale in Bideford

  • 85 Making way for the double-deckers

  • 86 Children's procession with foxgloves

  • 87 Weare Giffard potato

  • 88 Steep street of old Bideford

  • 89 Hartland postman retires

  • 90 Last train from Torrington

  • 91 Unique holiday adventure!

  • 92 Penny for the guy

  • 93 Big develolpment at Calveford

  • 94 Sweet success at Langtree School

  • 95

    Appledore boys beat mums at football
  • 96 Open-air art exhibition by 'under 40' group

  • 97 Train returns to Westleigh straight

  • 98 East-the-Water sets town an example

  • 99 Charter granted by Philip and Mary

  • 100 School crossing patrol begins

  • 101 Cement-clad boats being built at Northam

  • 102 Appledore Juniors Football
  • 103 Revenge in style

  • 104 Fish nearly pulled him in

  • 105 Still hunting aged 80 and a Field Master

  • 106 Local glove-making factory advertising for staff

  • 107 Panto time at Westward Ho!

  • 108 North Devon author featured in TV documentary

  • 109 Harvest service in Bideford 'pub' bar

  • 110 Bideford regatta

  • 111 Torrington Church's new organ

  • 112 Hartland Dancers
  • 113 Bringing shopping home by goat

  • 114 They never miss a game at Torrington

  • 115 Colour TV salesman at eight

  • 116 Smiling welcome to Hartland visitors

  • 117 What's the time?

  • 118 Photo of town's first car wins prize

  • 119 Jumble sale fever

  • 120 Sight of a lifetime

  • 121 Eleventh hour bid to save last sailing barge

  • 122 Fishing light goes out at close of poor season

  • 123 Preparations for new Clovelly Court

  • 124 Holiday traffic in Bideford High Street

  • 125 Barley from Bideford to Bonnie Scotland

  • 126 Bicycle now does donkey work

  • 127 Safety-first dipomas awarded to Torrington drivers

  • 128

    Mrs Whapham finds ferret in Bridgeland Street while shopping
  • 129 North Devon Driving School

  • 130 Sweets derationing

  • 131 Practical sympathy at Northam

  • 132 Circus comes to town

  • 133 Bideford inquest on French trawlermen opens

  • 134 Ancestral home nestling in lovely combe

  • 135 Second Monte Carlo Rally

  • 136 The cab at the corner>
  • 137 End of the line

  • 138 Water Board mains spread through villages

  • 139 Designed all furnishing of new chapel

  • 140 Bideford skifflers, they're no squares

  • 141 Life begins at 80

  • 142 Clovelly custom

  • 143 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

  • 144 Birds' convalescent home at Instow

  • 145 Golden Bay Hotel ad.>
  • 146

    Double Baptism on Torridge
  • 147 Battle of the gap at Westward Ho!

  • 148 Hartland Abbey outdoor staff 60 years ago

  • 149 Childrens' model of Torrington

  • 150 River scenes that enchant the visitors

  • 151 Torrington children build igloo
  • 152 Record player of 80 years ago

  • 153 Symbol of Lundy independence

  • 154 Appledore tugs fete London Tower

  • 155 Up-to-date Bideford!

  • 156 Some mushroom!

  • 157 Westward Ho! public conveniences get go ahead
  • 158 Television comes to Torridge District

  • 159 Sooty is quick on the draw

  • 160 Last of Bideford factory chimney

  • 161 Champagne send-off for Torrington new factory

  • 162 Alwington School closing after 120 years

  • 163 Landmark at Bradworthy

  • 164 Police station view of Bideford

  • 165 Four sisters' nostalgic reunion

  • 166 Broomhayes children will keep their winter pet

  • 167

    Was a missionary
  • 168

    Close associations with North Devon
  • 169 Bideford Zoo's first baby is big draw

  • 170 Calligrapher extraordinary

  • 171 Jalopy joy for children of Shamwickshire

  • 172 Instow local art show was 'tremendous success'

  • 173 Fishermen of Greencliff

  • 174 Farewell to passenger trains

  • 175 Clovelly nightmare

  • 176 It really was the 'last time'

  • 177 'Les Girls' of Hartland

  • 178 Puzzle corner at Bideford!

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

  • 180 Panel sprint for Bideford broadcast

  • 181 Quads at Thornhillhead

  • 182 Filming at Hartland

  • 183 Torrington Youth Club rewarded by party
  • 184 New life for Hartland organ

  • 185 Bank Holiday weather was beach weather

  • 186 Alderman Anstey's dream comes tru

  • 187

    Bidefordians
  • 188 Chess - their bridge over the years

  • 189 Housing progress at East-the-Water>
  • 190

    School of Dancing's Annual Display
  • 191 Happy Days!

  • 192 All for the love of a lady!

  • 193 Christmas tree on Bideford Quay>
  • 194

    Jinxed School Trip
  • 195 Twenty-one yachts

  • 196 Bideford's first woman councillor

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

  • 198 No ancient Grecian temple this

  • 199 Parkham plan realised

  • 200 Appledore's largest

  • 201 When horses score over the tractor

  • 202

    10-year-old scrambler practices
  • 203 Bideford computer stars

  • 204 Mobile missionary

  • 205 Torridge wins on time schedule

  • 206 Bideford Bridge re-opens

  • 207 Move for oldest boatyard on Torridge

  • 208 Signed scroll momento of Queen Mother's visit

  • 209

    New gateway
  • 210 School's link with cargo ship

  • 211 Clovelly's 91 year old horseman

  • 212 Death - and birth - of a telephone exchange

  • 213

    Inter-school Road Safety Quiz Cup Winners
  • 214 Pannier Market's future?

  • 215 Pretty pennies at Beaford

  • 216 Bideford Liberals' fashion show

  • 217 What the television camera saw at Abbotsham

  • 218 Repair work on Long Bridge
  • 219 Ships at Bideford

  • 220 Bideford electricity window display qualifies for area competition

  • 221 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

  • 222 For crying out loud!

  • 223 Future of Torrington almshouses

  • 224 Designed and made in Bideford

  • 225 No ancient Grecian temple this

  • 226 Largest salmon caught in Torridge

  • 227 Can spring be far away?

  • 228 Shipbuilding hobby at Hartland

  • 229 Lady Godiva comes to Torrington

  • 230 Huntshaw TV mast

  • 231 Clovelly donkey film star

  • 232 Little 'Big Ben'

  • 233 Torrington to have first woman mayor

  • 234 Baby Kate goes home to Lundy

  • 235 Safe door weighing two tons

  • 236 Revived market off to splendid start

  • 237 Bideford A.F.C annual dinner
  • 238 Tomorrow' night's skittles broadcast from Bideford

  • 239 Bideford shipyard workers cheer new minesweeper

  • 240 Eight to strike and a race to win

  • 241 Council agree to demolition of Chanter's Folly

  • 242 Four hundred residents leave Bideford!

  • 243 Photo mural in Bideford bank

  • 244 Buckland goes to County Show

  • 245 Prizewinning babies at Torrington

  • 246 Down at the dump something stirs

  • 247 Bideford has built over 500 post-war homes

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

  • 249 New choral society's growing response

  • 250

    Cadets are given certificates
  • 251 Tramps camp by riverside throughout arctic weather

  • 252 Olympic riders to compete at Bideford Horse Show

  • 253 Tide sweeps under and over the old bridge

  • 254 Simple Item 138
  • 255 Eleven million pound scheme's official opening

  • 256

    Birgitta Whittaker
  • 257 Wishing well is pixielated

  • 258 John Andrew Bread Charity
  • 259 They are parted pro-tem

  • 260 From Bobby to Brian

  • 261 113 years at Instow

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

  • 263 Two kinds of hovercraft at Bideford

  • 264 Bideford blacksmith wins English championship

  • 265 Spray dodging - the new pastime

  • 266 Picking the pops

  • 267 Vessel built 300 feet above sea level

  • 268 TV contest means big job for Bideford Guides

  • 269 Bideford's new market opens next week

  • 270 Pet squirrels at Monkleigh

  • 271 Northam wants to continue pumping from river

  • 272 A roof-top view - where?

  • 273 New look for Torrington Lane

  • 274 New Post Office

  • 275 First ship in 8 years

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

  • 277 X-ray shoe fitting

  • 278

    Womens Skittles Competition in Buckland Brewer
  • 279 Boys win hockey on the sands challenge

  • 280 New gateway to King George's Fields

  • 281 A story to tell!

  • 282 Allhalland Street - then and now

  • 283 Northam loses thatched cottage landmark

  • 284 'Out of Appledore' sailing memories

  • 285 What is future of railway goods yard?

  • 286 For South Africa from Westward Ho!

  • 287 Brothers reunion 1947
  • 288 New civic medallions

  • 289 First steel ship built at Bideford

  • 290 Do recall the old windmill at Northam?

  • 291 Peter poses for TV film

  • 292 Bideford-Torrington road gets 'carpet coat'

  • 293

    Lenwood Squash Club
  • 294 Ten year old scrambler

  • 295 Centuries old but today busier than ever

  • 296 Alverdiscott is proud of its new parish hall

  • 297 Celebrations for 103rd birthday

  • 298 Torridge graveyard of wooden hulks

  • 299 All aboard the ark

  • 300 Torrington in 1967

  • 301 Gloves fit for a king!

  • 302 Northam footballers of the future

  • 303 Meredith's ironmongers

  • 304 The creative urge on Saturday morning

  • 305 The art of the thatcher

  • 306 Five generations link Woolsery, Clovelly and Bideford

  • 307 Six footed lamb

  • 308 New Lundy stamps

  • 309 Appledore schooner broadcast

  • 310

    FA Cup Match for the Robins
  • 311 They set out for Bideford and became lost

  • 312 Sunshine and shade at Appledore

  • 313 Sailing to victory at Appledore

  • 314 Spring-cleaning the Ridge

  • 315 Faints as she wins national competition

  • 316 A lost Bideford 'island'

  • 317 Torrington school's sundial - fashioned by Headmaster

  • 318 Fleet of foot and fair of face

  • 319 Off on a great adventure

  • 320 Torrington acclaims 400th anniversary of granting of charter

  • 321 Passing of a Torrington landmark

  • 322 No laughing matter

  • 323

    Building works
  • 324 Town's second woman mayor in 392 years

  • 325 Appledore skill brings 'Hispaniola' to life

  • 326 Head Barman appointed Torrington Town Crier
  • 327 Torrington's new amenity

  • 328 No sale of Springfield House

  • 329 Salmon netting at Bideford

  • 330 Saving money, wear and tear

  • 331 Lady Churchill congratulates Bideford artists at nursing exhibition

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

  • 333 Thrush builds nest in cauliflower

  • 334 Where Bideford rope-makers walked>
  • 335 To build racing cars in former blacksmith's shop

  • 336 Space dominates Hartland carnival

  • 337 Works at craft he learned over 65 years ago

  • 338 New Estate's view of estuary activities

  • 339

    Successful motor cycling team
  • 340 Shoes certainly not made for walking

  • 341 Burnard family reunion

  • 342 Some 240 exhibits

  • 343 Thorn-apple found in Littleham conservatory

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

  • 345 Larkworthy Family play in Shebbear's Football Team
  • 346 On her 'maiden' trip from Bideford

  • 347 In their new robes and hats

  • 348 Thriving 'orphan of the storm'

  • 349 Wine and beer merchants for 150 years

  • 350

    Gift from Bideford Town Council
  • 351 Watch the dicky bird!

  • 352 Floral dancing at Appledore

  • 353 Bideford loses training ship

  • 354 Loads of black and white

  • 355 Bideford Liberal club new lounge bar opened

  • 356 Torrington's shelter for the aged

  • 357 Littleham cow tops 70 tons mark in milk production

  • 358 Escaped crane moves into Kenwith Valley

  • 359 New art gallery opened

  • 360 Hartland's invitation

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

  • 362 So this is the mainland!

  • 363

    Exhibition of school work
  • 364 Liked holidays here - so starts business

  • 365 At Bideford Arts Ball>
  • 366

    Hamburger is part of modern life
  • 367 Torrington's enterprise's new extensions

  • 368 Bideford School Junior Choir Sing in France at Twinning Ceremony in Landivisiau
  • 369 Amsterdam to Bideford double success

  • 370 Joe the ginger tabby is 21

  • 371 Decontrol of meat

  • 372 Bravery against bull at Shebbear rewarded

  • 373 Holiday scene near Sandymere

  • 374 Finished in 1876

  • 375 Private home for public pump

  • 376 TV features Bideford's New Year bread ceremony

  • 377 Artisans' Club

  • 378 Variety in summer weather

  • 379

    Wynne Olley's styles impress International Hair Fashion Designer
  • 380 Dismantling of wireless mast

  • 381

    Married in 1908
  • 382 Puppet characters introduced

  • 383 Westward Ho! sand yacht to challenge speed record

  • 384 Littleham family's five generations

  • 385 Picking the pops

  • 386 America's tribute to 'J.H.'

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

  • 388 One thousand visit zoo at Whitsun

  • 389 Yeoi Vale House finally demolished

  • 390 Appledore's new lifeboat

  • 391 Thirty bridges cross Torridge

  • 392 Old Girls revisit Edgehill

  • 393 Daisy's pride and joy

  • 394 Yelland potter's exhibition at Bideford

  • 395 Launching the 'Golden Hinde'

  • 396 The Geneva marionettes

  • 397 First tankers arrive at new depot

  • 398 In the tortoise nursery - eight hatched at Bideford

  • 399 Bideford firm develops new non-spill paint

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    First prize
  • 401 Quads join a Langtree happy family

  • 402 Inscribed Bibles and silver spoons for babies

  • 403 Westward Ho! combined op

  • 404 A Weare Giffard speciality - delicious strawberries

  • 405 Traditions and skills still there

  • 406 Speeding communications: Bideford firm's new installation

  • 407 Waldon Triplets
  • 408 New Lundy air-mail stamps

  • 409 Fundraising trip for RNLI

  • 410

    Reds Womens Team Are First To Compete Throughout Season
  • 411 Polish custom on Pancake Day

  • 412 Buckland farm workers to receive long-service awards

  • 413 Can-carrying over cobbles has disappeared

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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Quads at Thornhillhead

First for Mr Poole

These quadruplet lambs pictured with their Devon Closewool mother were born last week on the arm of Mr Reggie Poole of Vellstone, Buckland Brewer, and none are more proud than Mr and Mrs Poole’s five children, who are only too eager to help with the bottle feeding of the lambs. The eldest of them, eight year old Frederick, is seen with his father.

11 March 1955 Quads at Thornhillhead

Despite the snow and bitter cold on this farm situated on the edge of Thorhillhead Moor, Mr Poole has had a very good lambing season and the quads are the first his flock has produced.

Gazette article 11 March 1955

 

 

North Devon Driving school

New fleet for driving school

Mrs J.G. Bettison and Mrs M.H. Tucker, joint proprietors of the RAC registered North Devon Driving School selected these Standard 8 h.p. saloons as the basis of a new fleet, some fitted with dual control. Supplied and regularly serviced by Elliotts, the Standard main dealers.

4 March 1955 North Devon Driving school

Gazette article 4 March 1955

 

Can spring be far away?

Heavy snow in Hartland

Part of the legacy of last week’s blizzard which swept with particular violence over South-West Hartland, Welcome and Woolsery districts. The top picture shows typical drifting of snow in a farm gateway; the bottom picture is of the road between Elmscott and Docton banked by cold avenues of cleared and drifted snow.

4 March 1955 Can spring be far away

But spring approaches! In the snow at Hartland on Sunday the early primroses were to be found.

Gazette article 4 March 1955

 

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