• 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 Cavaliers join the Hunt
  • 2 Sunshine and shade at Appledore

  • 3 Can-carrying over cobbles has disappeared

  • 4 Up-to-date Bideford!

  • 5 Torrington in 1967

  • 6 Centuries old but today busier than ever

  • 7 A Weare Giffard speciality - delicious strawberries

  • 8 Twenty-one yachts

  • 9 Hartland Dancers
  • 10 Olympic riders to compete at Bideford Horse Show

  • 11 Lady Churchill congratulates Bideford artists at nursing exhibition

  • 12

    Bidefordians
  • 13 America's tribute to 'J.H.'

  • 14 What's the time?

  • 15 Fishermen of Greencliff

  • 16 So this is the mainland!

  • 17 Private home for public pump

  • 18 New Post Office

  • 19 Holiday traffic in Bideford High Street

  • 20 Bringing shopping home by goat

  • 21 Eleventh hour bid to save last sailing barge

  • 22

    Appledore boys beat mums at football
  • 23 TV features Bideford's New Year bread ceremony

  • 24 Picking the pops

  • 25 Torrington Youth Club rewarded by party
  • 26 Bideford 'What's my line?' challenger

  • 27 Bravery against bull at Shebbear rewarded

  • 28 Water Board mains spread through villages

  • 29 Simple Item 138
  • 30 Move for oldest boatyard on Torridge

  • 31 Cruising down the river

  • 32 Mobile missionary

  • 33 Little 'Big Ben'

  • 34 Daisy's pride and joy

  • 35 Four hundred residents leave Bideford!

  • 36 Finished in 1876

  • 37 Northam wants to continue pumping from river

  • 38 113 years at Instow

  • 39 Championship Trophy for Hartland
  • 40 Bideford shipyard workers cheer new minesweeper

  • 41 Hartland Abbey outdoor staff 60 years ago

  • 42 Torrington to have first woman mayor

  • 43 Still hunting aged 80 and a Field Master

  • 44 Some 240 exhibits

  • 45 When horses score over the tractor

  • 46 Calligrapher extraordinary

  • 47 Traditions and skills still there

  • 48 Hartland's invitation

  • 49 New look for Torrington Lane

  • 50 Wine and beer merchants for 150 years

  • 51 A man and his wheel

  • 52 Birds' convalescent home at Instow

  • 53 Littleham cow tops 70 tons mark in milk production

  • 54 Entente cordiale in Bideford

  • 55 The Geneva marionettes

  • 56 Practical sympathy at Northam

  • 57

    Mrs Whapham finds ferret in Bridgeland Street while shopping
  • 58 Spray dodging - the new pastime

  • 59 Bideford blacksmith wins English championship

  • 60 Wishing well is pixielated

  • 61 Speeding communications: Bideford firm's new installation

  • 62 Torrington's enterprise's new extensions

  • 63 Alderman Anstey's dream comes tru

  • 64 They never miss a game at Torrington

  • 65 Quads at Thornhillhead

  • 66 Artisans' Club

  • 67

    Relatives all over the world
  • 68 Grenville House for Bideford R.D.C.

  • 69 Death - and birth - of a telephone exchange

  • 70 Modern living at Bideford

  • 71 Broomhayes £1,000 Surprise
  • 72 Appledore schooner broadcast

  • 73 Circus comes to town

  • 74

    New gateway
  • 75 Bideford computer stars

  • 76 Yeo vale road ruin provides a mystery

  • 77 Riverside mystery

  • 78 Safe door weighing two tons

  • 79 No ancient Grecian temple this

  • 80

    Reds Womens Team Are First To Compete Throughout Season
  • 81 Appledore tugs fete London Tower

  • 82 A craftsman's 'potted' history

  • 83 Symbol of Lundy independence

  • 84

    Cadets are given certificates
  • 85 Some mushroom!

  • 86 Making way for the double-deckers

  • 87 Buckland goes to County Show

  • 88 Picture bought for shillings may be worth thousands

  • 89 Sight of a lifetime

  • 90 Yeoi Vale House finally demolished

  • 91 Farewell to passenger trains

  • 92 Television comes to Torridge District

  • 93 Light reading for the lighthouse

  • 94 The creative urge on Saturday morning

  • 95 Boys win hockey on the sands challenge

  • 96 Shoes certainly not made for walking

  • 97 Future of Torrington almshouses

  • 98 Bideford childrens' cinema opens

  • 99 It really was the 'last time'

  • 100 New look in the hayfields

  • 101 'Les Girls' of Hartland

  • 102

    Womens Skittles Competition in Buckland Brewer
  • 103 Panto time at Westward Ho!

  • 104 A roof-top view - where?

  • 105 Fishing light goes out at close of poor season

  • 106 Largest salmon caught in Torridge

  • 107

    Married in 1908
  • 108 Pretty pennies at Beaford

  • 109 Rowing triumphs at Bideford

  • 110 Bideford-Torrington road gets 'carpet coat'

  • 111 Clovelly custom

  • 112 Yelland potter's exhibition at Bideford

  • 113 Eleven million pound scheme's official opening

  • 114 Success to Festival of the Arts

  • 115 Northam's almshouse

  • 116 Holiday scene near Sandymere

  • 117

    Inter-school Road Safety Quiz Cup Winners
  • 118 Two kinds of hovercraft at Bideford

  • 119 Capers on the cobbles

  • 120 New civic medallions

  • 121 Fleet of foot and fair of face

  • 122 Bideford schoolboy's courage recognised

  • 123 Burnard family reunion

  • 124 Ten year old scrambler

  • 125 New shipyard on schedule

  • 126 Head Barman appointed Torrington Town Crier
  • 127 Malibou boys are all-the-year-round surfers

  • 128 All for the love of a lady!

  • 129 New Lundy air-mail stamps

  • 130 Last of Bideford factory chimney

  • 131 Instow local art show was 'tremendous success'

  • 132

    Jinxed School Trip
  • 133 Allhalland Street - then and now

  • 134 They are parted pro-tem

  • 135 X-ray shoe fitting

  • 136 A story to tell!

  • 137 Ship-in-bottle world record

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

  • 139 Loads of black and white

  • 140 Meredith's ironmongers

  • 141 A bird of their own!

  • 142 Train returns to Westleigh straight

  • 143 Thirty bridges cross Torridge

  • 144 On her 'maiden' trip from Bideford

  • 145 Bideford's new market opens next week

  • 146

    FA Cup Match for the Robins
  • 147 Council agree to demolition of Chanter's Folly

  • 148 New choral society's growing response

  • 149 Childrens' model of Torrington

  • 150 Parkham plan realised

  • 151 New life for Hartland organ

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    Toasted with musical honours
  • 153

    School of Dancing's Annual Display
  • 154 Quads join a Langtree happy family

  • 155 A lost Bideford 'island'

  • 156 Emergency ferry services

  • 157 An early 'special' to Bideford

  • 158 Big develolpment at Calveford

  • 159 Designed all furnishing of new chapel

  • 160 Inscribed Bibles and silver spoons for babies

  • 161 Clovelly donkey film star

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

  • 163 Tibbles home again - and fish supper

  • 164

    Exhibition of school work
  • 165

    First Girls at Bideford Grammar School take part in Play
  • 166

    Birgitta Whittaker
  • 167 The art of the thatcher

  • 168 Watch the dicky bird!

  • 169 Bank Holiday weather was beach weather

  • 170 Bridging the stream

  • 171 Thunderstorm destruction of 25 years ago

  • 172 Town's second woman mayor in 392 years

  • 173 Torrington acclaims 400th anniversary of granting of charter

  • 174 Repair work on Long Bridge
  • 175 Torrington's shelter for the aged

  • 176 Unique holiday adventure!

  • 177 Fish nearly pulled him in

  • 178 Boys from Bideford school complete Ten Tors

  • 179 Peter poses for TV film

  • 180 Ships at Bideford

  • 181 Puzzle corner at Bideford!

  • 182 Torrington's new amenity

  • 183 Thrush builds nest in cauliflower

  • 184 One thousand visit zoo at Whitsun

  • 185 Bideford Bridge re-opens

  • 186 No laughing matter

  • 187 School crossing patrol begins

  • 188 No sale of Springfield House

  • 189 Donkey work made easier at Clovelly

  • 190 Appledore's largest

  • 191

    Andre Veillett and Quentin Reed in Judo Demonstration
  • 192 One of the luckier farmers in getting in the problem harvest

  • 193 Chess - their bridge over the years

  • 194 Do recall the old windmill at Northam?

  • 195 Out of puff!

  • 196 Torrington school's sundial - fashioned by Headmaster

  • 197 Sweet success at Langtree School

  • 198 Off on a great adventure

  • 199 Faints as she wins national competition

  • 200 Donkey and horses enjoy carnival drink

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    Gift from Bideford Town Council
  • 202 In the tortoise nursery - eight hatched at Bideford

  • 203 All aboard the ark

  • 204 First steel ship built at Bideford

  • 205 End of the line

  • 206

    10-year-old scrambler practices
  • 207 Charter granted by Philip and Mary

  • 208 Beach search for mines takes longer

  • 209 Waldon Triplets
  • 210 Bideford skifflers, they're no squares

  • 211 Spring-cleaning the Ridge

  • 212 Teenager Peter Jackson Makes Horror Film
  • 213 Revenge in style

  • 214 Shipbuilding hobby at Hartland

  • 215 Can spring be far away?

  • 216 Bideford School Junior Choir Sing in France at Twinning Ceremony in Landivisiau
  • 217 Just over a year old

  • 218 Harvest service in Bideford 'pub' bar

  • 219 Clovelly's 91 year old horseman

  • 220 Larkworthy Family play in Shebbear's Football Team
  • 221 Torridge wins on time schedule

  • 222 Celebrations for 103rd birthday

  • 223 Westward Ho! combined op

  • 224 Bicycle now does donkey work

  • 225 Buckland farm workers to receive long-service awards

  • 226 Brothers reunion 1947
  • 227 Colour TV salesman at eight

  • 228 First ship in 8 years

  • 229 What is future of railway goods yard?

  • 230 Steep street of old Bideford

  • 231

    Gus Honeybun meets local children
  • 232 Bideford has built over 500 post-war homes

  • 233 Life begins at 80

  • 234 Homage to a well-loved sovereign

  • 235 Torridge graveyard of wooden hulks

  • 236 Bideford electricity window display qualifies for area competition

  • 237 Torrington children build igloo
  • 238 Bideford Zoo's first baby is big draw

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    Youth Clubs Join Together For Entertainment
  • 240 Space dominates Hartland carnival

  • 241 River scenes that enchant the visitors

  • 242 Variety in summer weather

  • 243 Lady Godiva comes to Torrington

  • 244 Children's procession with foxgloves

  • 245 Revived market off to splendid start

  • 246 Dismantling of wireless mast

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

  • 248 Church renovation rejoicing at Northam

  • 249 He beat the floods

  • 250 Joe the ginger tabby is 21

  • 251 Tramps camp by riverside throughout arctic weather

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

  • 253 Bideford's gift to Sir Francis

  • 254

    Holidaying in north Devon
  • 255 Saving money, wear and tear

  • 256 Appledore Juniors Football
  • 257 Six footed lamb

  • 258 Old Girls revisit Edgehill

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

  • 260 Vessel built 300 feet above sea level

  • 261 Gift plaque on Clovelly council houses

  • 262 Eight and a half million pound Taw development scheme

  • 263 Westward Ho! Tennis Club Winners
  • 264 School's link with cargo ship

  • 265 Bideford inquest on French trawlermen opens

  • 266 For crying out loud!

  • 267 Alwington School closing after 120 years

  • 268 Mural in the whimsical fashion

  • 269 No ancient Grecian temple this

  • 270 Happy Days!

  • 271 Sooty is quick on the draw

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    Building works
  • 273 Thorn-apple found in Littleham conservatory

  • 274 Four sisters' nostalgic reunion

  • 275 Ancestral home nestling in lovely combe

  • 276

    Hamburger is part of modern life
  • 277 Appledore's new lifeboat

  • 278 Landmark at Bradworthy

  • 279 They set out for Bideford and became lost

  • 280 Clovelly nightmare

  • 281 Signed scroll momento of Queen Mother's visit

  • 282 Pet squirrels at Monkleigh

  • 283 'Out of Appledore' sailing memories

  • 284 Bideford triplets' first birthday party

  • 285 John Andrew Bread Charity
  • 286 New Estate's view of estuary activities

  • 287 Last train from Torrington

  • 288 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

  • 289 Picking the pops

  • 290

    Close associations with North Devon
  • 291 Battle of the gap at Westward Ho!

  • 292 Students help model St Sidwell

  • 293 Getting up steam for tomorrow

  • 294 Puppet characters introduced

  • 295 Gloves fit for a king!

  • 296 Appledore boy is youngest recipient of RNLI vellun

  • 297 Bideford loses training ship

  • 298 Designed and made in Bideford

  • 299 Record pebble-throwing day

  • 300 Huntshaw TV mast

  • 301 Fundraising trip for RNLI

  • 302 Penny for the guy

  • 303 Northam footballers of the future

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

  • 305 Tomorrow' night's skittles broadcast from Bideford

  • 306 Jalopy joy for children of Shamwickshire

  • 307 Weare Giffard Hall sold for £11,300

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

  • 309 Polish custom on Pancake Day

  • 310 Barley from Bideford to Bonnie Scotland

  • 311 New gateway to King George's Fields

  • 312 Bideford regatta

  • 313 New fire and ambulance stations

  • 314 Northam loses thatched cottage landmark

  • 315 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

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    Lenwood Squash Club
  • 317 Bideford stock car racing entry comes in second

  • 318 Hartland postman retires

  • 319

    First prize
  • 320 Devil sent packing

  • 321 New art gallery opened

  • 322 Panel sprint for Bideford broadcast

  • 323 Photo mural in Bideford bank

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    Successful motor cycling team
  • 325 Westward Ho! sand yacht to challenge speed record

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

  • 327 Centenary of Gazette

  • 328 Broomhayes children will keep their winter pet

  • 329 Bideford A.F.C annual dinner
  • 330 Westward Ho! public conveniences get go ahead
  • 331

    Wynne Olley's styles impress International Hair Fashion Designer
  • 332 Bideford's private wharves busier

  • 333 Liked holidays here - so starts business

  • 334

    Double Baptism on Torridge
  • 335 Calf thinks of mare as mum

  • 336 Bideford Liberal club new lounge bar opened

  • 337 Centenary of Landcross Methodist Chapel

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    Was a missionary
  • 339 Five generations link Woolsery, Clovelly and Bideford

  • 340 Service with a smile

  • 341 Lots drawn to prevent dog fight

  • 342 New addition to Quay front

  • 343 Baby Kate goes home to Lundy

  • 344 Escaped crane moves into Kenwith Valley

  • 345 Wilfred and Mabel visit schools and hospital

  • 346 Warmington's garage ad

  • 347 By pony and trap to market

  • 348 Recognise this resort?

  • 349 What the television camera saw at Abbotsham

  • 350 Second Monte Carlo Rally

  • 351 Bideford country dancers on TV

  • 352 Jumble sale fever

  • 353 North Devon Driving School

  • 354 First tankers arrive at new depot

  • 355 Bideford's first triplets for 12 years

  • 356 A sense of humour in advertising

  • 357 Eight to strike and a race to win

  • 358 Smiling welcome to Hartland visitors

  • 359 North Devon author featured in TV documentary

  • 360 Weare Giffard potato

  • 361 Launching the 'Golden Hinde'

  • 362 Tide sweeps under and over the old bridge

  • 363 In their new robes and hats

  • 364 TV contest means big job for Bideford Guides

  • 365 Champagne send-off for Torrington new factory

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

  • 367 Alverdiscott is proud of its new parish hall

  • 368 Decontrol of meat

  • 369 Cement-clad boats being built at Northam

  • 370 East-the-Water sets town an example

  • 371 Down at the 'Donkey House'

  • 372 Photo of town's first car wins prize

  • 373 Works at craft he learned over 65 years ago

  • 374 Salmon netting at Bideford

  • 375 Bideford firm develops new non-spill paint

  • 376 Pannier Market's future?

  • 377 Born 1883 - still going strong

  • 378 New Lundy stamps

  • 379 Record player of 80 years ago

  • 380 Bideford Liberals' fashion show

  • 381 Passing of a Torrington landmark

  • 382

    Mums protest in Coronation Road
  • 383 Preparations for new Clovelly Court

  • 384 Police station view of Bideford

  • 385 Littleham family's five generations

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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  • 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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  • 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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Meredith’s ironmongers here for 110 years!

North Devon's largest ironmongers

Meredith’s, locally owned and locally staffed for 110 years! North Devon’s largest ironmongers. Since 1848 Meredith’s in High Street Bideford, have provided an up-to-date ironmongery service second-to-none and from an extensive knowledge of local needs have built up a stock of which any district could well be proud.

18 July 1958 Merediths ironmongers

Gazette advert 18 July 1958

 

Tomorrow night’s skittles broadcast from Bideford

First direct broadcast skittles match

From the Maltscoop Inn alley in Cooper Street, Bideford, tomorrow evening what is believed to be the first direct broadcast skittles match in the BBC West Region will take place as part of the regular sound broadcast feature ‘Sport in the West.’

It will be provided by a light-hearted challenge match between a team representing Bideford and District Skittles League playing on this alley, and the Bath and District Skittles League playing on an alley in Bath.

4 July 1958 Tomorrow nights skittles broadcast

In the photograph (left to right) the local team consists of: Seated – C. Lyle (Littleham), J.P. Cleverdon (Penpushers), E. Glover (Northam). Standing – L. Elston (Fairy Cross), C.G. Metherell (Penpushers), W. Hockin (Abbotsham).

Gazette article 4 July 1958

 

New life for Hartland organ

St Nectan's organ overhaul

An extensive overhaul of the organ at St Nectan’s Church, Stoke, Hartland, has been taking place and our photograph shows some of the hundreds of parts in the process of being re-assembled. From left to right are Messrs. J.E. Sansome, B.H.G. Hooper and M.J. Jenkins of Messrs. Osmonds’ organ works, Taunton.

23 May 1958 New life for Hartland organ

On June 17 a special gift day for the organ fund is to be held at the Church when Dr H. Sumsion of Gloucester Cathedral will give the opening recital on the restored organ.

Gazette article 23 May 1958

 

 

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