• 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 Eleven million pound scheme's official opening

  • 2 Revenge in style

  • 3 Torrington Youth Club rewarded by party
  • 4 Wilfred and Mabel visit schools and hospital

  • 5 Parkham plan realised

  • 6 Record pebble-throwing day

  • 7 Six footed lamb

  • 8 Brothers reunion 1947
  • 9 A sense of humour in advertising

  • 10

    School of Dancing's Annual Display
  • 11 Ships at Bideford

  • 12

    Building works
  • 13 Northam wants to continue pumping from river

  • 14 Littleham cow tops 70 tons mark in milk production

  • 15 Birds' convalescent home at Instow

  • 16 Gift plaque on Clovelly council houses

  • 17 Clovelly nightmare

  • 18

    Gus Honeybun meets local children
  • 19 Bideford loses training ship

  • 20 Buckland goes to County Show

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

  • 22 Salmon netting at Bideford

  • 23 Bideford shipyard workers cheer new minesweeper

  • 24 For crying out loud!

  • 25 One thousand visit zoo at Whitsun

  • 26 Torrington school's sundial - fashioned by Headmaster

  • 27 Westward Ho! sand yacht to challenge speed record

  • 28 Broomhayes £1,000 Surprise
  • 29 No laughing matter

  • 30 Vessel built 300 feet above sea level

  • 31 Thunderstorm destruction of 25 years ago

  • 32 Yeoi Vale House finally demolished

  • 33 River scenes that enchant the visitors

  • 34 Fish nearly pulled him in

  • 35 Holiday traffic in Bideford High Street

  • 36 Smiling welcome to Hartland visitors

  • 37 In the tortoise nursery - eight hatched at Bideford

  • 38 Yeo vale road ruin provides a mystery

  • 39 Head Barman appointed Torrington Town Crier
  • 40 Waldon Triplets
  • 41 Bideford's gift to Sir Francis

  • 42 Bank Holiday weather was beach weather

  • 43 Holiday scene near Sandymere

  • 44

    Successful motor cycling team
  • 45 Picking the pops

  • 46 Childrens' model of Torrington

  • 47 Riverside mystery

  • 48

    New gateway
  • 49 North Devon author featured in TV documentary

  • 50 On her 'maiden' trip from Bideford

  • 51 Bideford Liberal club new lounge bar opened

  • 52

    Exhibition of school work
  • 53 Old Girls revisit Edgehill

  • 54 New gateway to King George's Fields

  • 55

    Mums protest in Coronation Road
  • 56 Beach search for mines takes longer

  • 57 America's tribute to 'J.H.'

  • 58 Traditions and skills still there

  • 59 Barley from Bideford to Bonnie Scotland

  • 60 Modern living at Bideford

  • 61 Two kinds of hovercraft at Bideford

  • 62 Safe door weighing two tons

  • 63 Champagne send-off for Torrington new factory

  • 64 Appledore's largest

  • 65 New Lundy air-mail stamps

  • 66 Fishermen of Greencliff

  • 67 A man and his wheel

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

  • 69 Lots drawn to prevent dog fight

  • 70 A roof-top view - where?

  • 71 Joe the ginger tabby is 21

  • 72 Hartland postman retires

  • 73 Still hunting aged 80 and a Field Master

  • 74 Works at craft he learned over 65 years ago

  • 75 Can-carrying over cobbles has disappeared

  • 76

    Lenwood Squash Club
  • 77

    Close associations with North Devon
  • 78 Appledore Juniors Football
  • 79 Fishing light goes out at close of poor season

  • 80 Children's procession with foxgloves

  • 81 Jalopy joy for children of Shamwickshire

  • 82 Second Monte Carlo Rally

  • 83 Symbol of Lundy independence

  • 84 Polish custom on Pancake Day

  • 85 Bideford's private wharves busier

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

  • 87 Last of Bideford factory chimney

  • 88 Service with a smile

  • 89 Bringing shopping home by goat

  • 90 Unique holiday adventure!

  • 91 Tramps camp by riverside throughout arctic weather

  • 92 Westward Ho! combined op

  • 93 North Devon Driving School

  • 94 Harvest service in Bideford 'pub' bar

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

  • 96 Instow local art show was 'tremendous success'

  • 97 Bideford country dancers on TV

  • 98 Bideford blacksmith wins English championship

  • 99 Death - and birth - of a telephone exchange

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

  • 101 New addition to Quay front

  • 102 End of the line

  • 103 Life begins at 80

  • 104 New art gallery opened

  • 105 Bideford-Torrington road gets 'carpet coat'

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

  • 107

    Cadets are given certificates
  • 108 Bideford 'What's my line?' challenger

  • 109 What's the time?

  • 110 First ship in 8 years

  • 111 Emergency ferry services

  • 112 Launching the 'Golden Hinde'

  • 113 Penny for the guy

  • 114 Steep street of old Bideford

  • 115 Hartland Dancers
  • 116 Loads of black and white

  • 117 Finished in 1876

  • 118 Sooty is quick on the draw

  • 119

    Double Baptism on Torridge
  • 120 By pony and trap to market

  • 121

    Mrs Whapham finds ferret in Bridgeland Street while shopping
  • 122 Quads join a Langtree happy family

  • 123 Appledore boy is youngest recipient of RNLI vellun

  • 124 Big develolpment at Calveford

  • 125 Chess - their bridge over the years

  • 126 Warmington's garage ad

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

  • 128 A story to tell!

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

  • 130 East-the-Water sets town an example

  • 131 The creative urge on Saturday morning

  • 132

    Gift from Bideford Town Council
  • 133 Olympic riders to compete at Bideford Horse Show

  • 134 'Les Girls' of Hartland

  • 135 Battle of the gap at Westward Ho!

  • 136 Bideford schoolboy's courage recognised

  • 137 Spray dodging - the new pastime

  • 138 Largest salmon caught in Torridge

  • 139 Mobile missionary

  • 140 Donkey and horses enjoy carnival drink

  • 141 Getting up steam for tomorrow

  • 142 Bideford computer stars

  • 143 The art of the thatcher

  • 144 All aboard the ark

  • 145

    Bidefordians
  • 146 Church renovation rejoicing at Northam

  • 147 Record player of 80 years ago

  • 148 Hartland's invitation

  • 149 TV features Bideford's New Year bread ceremony

  • 150 Boys from Bideford school complete Ten Tors

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

  • 152 Pretty pennies at Beaford

  • 153 Eight to strike and a race to win

  • 154 Can spring be far away?

  • 155 Burnard family reunion

  • 156

    FA Cup Match for the Robins
  • 157 Ancestral home nestling in lovely combe

  • 158 Teenager Peter Jackson Makes Horror Film
  • 159 All for the love of a lady!

  • 160 Preparations for new Clovelly Court

  • 161

    Married in 1908
  • 162 Sunshine and shade at Appledore

  • 163 What is future of railway goods yard?

  • 164 Out of puff!

  • 165 Eleventh hour bid to save last sailing barge

  • 166 Cavaliers join the Hunt
  • 167 Council agree to demolition of Chanter's Folly

  • 168 Centenary of Landcross Methodist Chapel

  • 169 Artisans' Club

  • 170 Calligrapher extraordinary

  • 171 X-ray shoe fitting

  • 172 Appledore tugs fete London Tower

  • 173 Cruising down the river

  • 174 New Estate's view of estuary activities

  • 175 Happy Days!

  • 176 Tibbles home again - and fish supper

  • 177 No sale of Springfield House

  • 178 No ancient Grecian temple this

  • 179

    Reds Womens Team Are First To Compete Throughout Season
  • 180 Private home for public pump

  • 181 Lady Godiva comes to Torrington

  • 182

    Toasted with musical honours
  • 183 Northam footballers of the future

  • 184

    First Girls at Bideford Grammar School take part in Play
  • 185 Water Board mains spread through villages

  • 186 Born 1883 - still going strong

  • 187 Jumble sale fever

  • 188 Clovelly custom

  • 189 First steel ship built at Bideford

  • 190 Designed and made in Bideford

  • 191 Shoes certainly not made for walking

  • 192 Liked holidays here - so starts business

  • 193

    Birgitta Whittaker
  • 194 Clovelly donkey film star

  • 195 Bideford triplets' first birthday party

  • 196 Sweet success at Langtree School

  • 197 Repair work on Long Bridge
  • 198 Bideford firm develops new non-spill paint

  • 199 Circus comes to town

  • 200 Centenary of Gazette

  • 201 Down at the 'Donkey House'

  • 202 Recognise this resort?

  • 203 Charter granted by Philip and Mary

  • 204 Ship-in-bottle world record

  • 205 Clovelly's 91 year old horseman

  • 206 Variety in summer weather

  • 207 Bideford has built over 500 post-war homes

  • 208 Bideford electricity window display qualifies for area competition

  • 209

    Wynne Olley's styles impress International Hair Fashion Designer
  • 210 Torrington to have first woman mayor

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

  • 212 113 years at Instow

  • 213 They are parted pro-tem

  • 214 They set out for Bideford and became lost

  • 215 Lady Churchill congratulates Bideford artists at nursing exhibition

  • 216 Centuries old but today busier than ever

  • 217 New Lundy stamps

  • 218 Bideford A.F.C annual dinner
  • 219 Torrington's enterprise's new extensions

  • 220 Northam's almshouse

  • 221

    Andre Veillett and Quentin Reed in Judo Demonstration
  • 222 Thirty bridges cross Torridge

  • 223 Donkey work made easier at Clovelly

  • 224 Landmark at Bradworthy

  • 225 Bideford Bridge re-opens

  • 226 Four sisters' nostalgic reunion

  • 227 Calf thinks of mare as mum

  • 228 Police station view of Bideford

  • 229 Alderman Anstey's dream comes tru

  • 230 An early 'special' to Bideford

  • 231 Signed scroll momento of Queen Mother's visit

  • 232 Off on a great adventure

  • 233 Torrington in 1967

  • 234 Weare Giffard Hall sold for £11,300

  • 235 Littleham family's five generations

  • 236 Larkworthy Family play in Shebbear's Football Team
  • 237 Torrington children build igloo
  • 238 New choral society's growing response

  • 239 Last train from Torrington

  • 240 Torridge wins on time schedule

  • 241 A craftsman's 'potted' history

  • 242

    Holidaying in north Devon
  • 243 New shipyard on schedule

  • 244 New fire and ambulance stations

  • 245 Spring-cleaning the Ridge

  • 246 Space dominates Hartland carnival

  • 247 Cement-clad boats being built at Northam

  • 248 Panto time at Westward Ho!

  • 249 They never miss a game at Torrington

  • 250

    Hamburger is part of modern life
  • 251 Panel sprint for Bideford broadcast

  • 252 Picking the pops

  • 253 Westward Ho! Tennis Club Winners
  • 254

    Womens Skittles Competition in Buckland Brewer
  • 255 Buckland farm workers to receive long-service awards

  • 256 A lost Bideford 'island'

  • 257 Hartland Abbey outdoor staff 60 years ago

  • 258 Photo of town's first car wins prize

  • 259 Shipbuilding hobby at Hartland

  • 260 First tankers arrive at new depot

  • 261 Bideford regatta

  • 262 Bideford Zoo's first baby is big draw

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    Relatives all over the world
  • 264 New life for Hartland organ

  • 265 Watch the dicky bird!

  • 266 Bideford skifflers, they're no squares

  • 267 Students help model St Sidwell

  • 268 Move for oldest boatyard on Torridge

  • 269 Peter poses for TV film

  • 270 Train returns to Westleigh straight

  • 271 Farewell to passenger trains

  • 272 Television comes to Torridge District

  • 273 Town's second woman mayor in 392 years

  • 274 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

  • 275

    Was a missionary
  • 276 Twenty-one yachts

  • 277 Alwington School closing after 120 years

  • 278 Championship Trophy for Hartland
  • 279 Celebrations for 103rd birthday

  • 280 New civic medallions

  • 281 Dismantling of wireless mast

  • 282 In their new robes and hats

  • 283 Fleet of foot and fair of face

  • 284 Practical sympathy at Northam

  • 285 Westward Ho! public conveniences get go ahead
  • 286 Appledore schooner broadcast

  • 287 A bird of their own!

  • 288 Thorn-apple found in Littleham conservatory

  • 289 Allhalland Street - then and now

  • 290 Bideford Liberals' fashion show

  • 291 Future of Torrington almshouses

  • 292 Revived market off to splendid start

  • 293 Success to Festival of the Arts

  • 294 New look in the hayfields

  • 295 Simple Item 138
  • 296 Capers on the cobbles

  • 297 It really was the 'last time'

  • 298 Boys win hockey on the sands challenge

  • 299 John Andrew Bread Charity
  • 300 Faints as she wins national competition

  • 301 Torrington acclaims 400th anniversary of granting of charter

  • 302 Passing of a Torrington landmark

  • 303 Rowing triumphs at Bideford

  • 304 Tomorrow' night's skittles broadcast from Bideford

  • 305 Daisy's pride and joy

  • 306 Wishing well is pixielated

  • 307 Wine and beer merchants for 150 years

  • 308

    First prize
  • 309 Little 'Big Ben'

  • 310 Appledore's new lifeboat

  • 311 Light reading for the lighthouse

  • 312 New look for Torrington Lane

  • 313 No ancient Grecian temple this

  • 314 Tide sweeps under and over the old bridge

  • 315 Bideford's first triplets for 12 years

  • 316 When horses score over the tractor

  • 317 Puzzle corner at Bideford!

  • 318 School crossing patrol begins

  • 319 Speeding communications: Bideford firm's new installation

  • 320 Just over a year old

  • 321 Baby Kate goes home to Lundy

  • 322 Torrington's shelter for the aged

  • 323 Four hundred residents leave Bideford!

  • 324 A Weare Giffard speciality - delicious strawberries

  • 325 Bideford stock car racing entry comes in second

  • 326 Some mushroom!

  • 327 Up-to-date Bideford!

  • 328 Weare Giffard potato

  • 329

    Youth Clubs Join Together For Entertainment
  • 330

    Appledore boys beat mums at football
  • 331 Making way for the double-deckers

  • 332 School's link with cargo ship

  • 333 'Out of Appledore' sailing memories

  • 334 Meredith's ironmongers

  • 335 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

  • 336 Inscribed Bibles and silver spoons for babies

  • 337 Devil sent packing

  • 338 Bicycle now does donkey work

  • 339

    Jinxed School Trip
  • 340 Puppet characters introduced

  • 341 Bideford's new market opens next week

  • 342

    10-year-old scrambler practices
  • 343 Five generations link Woolsery, Clovelly and Bideford

  • 344 Photo mural in Bideford bank

  • 345 Huntshaw TV mast

  • 346 Entente cordiale in Bideford

  • 347 Bridging the stream

  • 348 Pannier Market's future?

  • 349 TV contest means big job for Bideford Guides

  • 350 Do recall the old windmill at Northam?

  • 351 Designed all furnishing of new chapel

  • 352 Pet squirrels at Monkleigh

  • 353 Gloves fit for a king!

  • 354 Sight of a lifetime

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

  • 356 Torridge graveyard of wooden hulks

  • 357 Alverdiscott is proud of its new parish hall

  • 358 Bideford childrens' cinema opens

  • 359 Colour TV salesman at eight

  • 360 Bideford School Junior Choir Sing in France at Twinning Ceremony in Landivisiau
  • 361 Eight and a half million pound Taw development scheme

  • 362 Saving money, wear and tear

  • 363 Thrush builds nest in cauliflower

  • 364 Mural in the whimsical fashion

  • 365 Northam loses thatched cottage landmark

  • 366 Decontrol of meat

  • 367 Quads at Thornhillhead

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    Inter-school Road Safety Quiz Cup Winners
  • 369 Torrington's new amenity

  • 370 Escaped crane moves into Kenwith Valley

  • 371 Broomhayes children will keep their winter pet

  • 372 Some 240 exhibits

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

  • 374 Bravery against bull at Shebbear rewarded

  • 375 Homage to a well-loved sovereign

  • 376 Ten year old scrambler

  • 377 He beat the floods

  • 378 New Post Office

  • 379 Picture bought for shillings may be worth thousands

  • 380 The Geneva marionettes

  • 381 So this is the mainland!

  • 382 Bideford inquest on French trawlermen opens

  • 383 What the television camera saw at Abbotsham

  • 384 Fundraising trip for RNLI

  • 385 Yelland potter's exhibition at Bideford

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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  • 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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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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Thunderstorm destruction of 25 years ago

Landmarks struck by lightning

Two familiar Torridge landmarks were badly damaged in a thunderstorm that occurred during the summer heat of just 25 years ago. Lightning struck the same time at Chanter’s Folly, causing a vertical rift which resulted in its ultimate demolition a year or two ago, and destroyed the Clevland obelisk (as shown in the picture). The obelisk stood high over the river at Tapeley Park.

28 June 1957 Thunderstorm destruction of 25 years ago

The obelisk was erected in 1856 by public subscription in memory of Archibald Clevland, Cornet of the 17th Lancers, one of the three officers of his regiment to survive the charge of the Light Brigade at Balaclava but who fell victim to a shell early the next month at Inkerman.

Gazette article 28 June 1957

 

Parkham plan realised

Opening of ‘Allardice’ parish hall

An idea put forward fifteen years ago became reality at Parkham on Wednesday afternoon with the opening of an attractive Parish Hall, next door to the village school, before a large assembly of parishioners and people from the surrounding parishes.

10 May 1957 Parkham plan realised

As a tribute to the initial help and encouragement given to the project by the Allardice family, who lived at Foxdown, Parkham, the new hall, contemporary in design and costing a total of £4,750, was named ‘The Allardice Hall.’

Gazette article 10 May 1957

 

Speeding communications: Bideford firm’s new installation

First telex machine in Bideford

Miss Yvonne Johns watches her colleague Mrs Eileen Woodland practising on what looks like an ‘overgrown’ typewriter at the offices of the blouse and dress-making factory of Jaquemand Ltd., Westcombe Bideford.

26 April 1957 Speeding communications

The ‘overgrown typewriter’ is a telex, one of the latest types of teleprinter. The machine, the first of its kind to be used anywhere in the Bideford district, was installed by the London managing director or Jaquemand Ltd. After contact has been made with another machine a message is typed out and appears on the ‘receiving’ machine’s paper fixed in its roller.

Gazette article 26 April 1957

 

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