• 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 Appledore tugs fete London Tower

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    Inter-school Road Safety Quiz Cup Winners
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    Youth Clubs Join Together For Entertainment
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    Lenwood Squash Club
  • 5 Town's second woman mayor in 392 years

  • 6 Bravery against bull at Shebbear rewarded

  • 7 Appledore Juniors Football
  • 8 Circus comes to town

  • 9 Thunderstorm destruction of 25 years ago

  • 10 Steep street of old Bideford

  • 11 Passing of a Torrington landmark

  • 12 What the television camera saw at Abbotsham

  • 13 Decontrol of meat

  • 14 Still hunting aged 80 and a Field Master

  • 15 Charter granted by Philip and Mary

  • 16 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

  • 17 Tide sweeps under and over the old bridge

  • 18 Broomhayes children will keep their winter pet

  • 19 Landmark at Bradworthy

  • 20 New life for Hartland organ

  • 21 Record pebble-throwing day

  • 22 Parkham plan realised

  • 23 Television comes to Torridge District

  • 24 Panel sprint for Bideford broadcast

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

  • 26 Smiling welcome to Hartland visitors

  • 27 Five generations link Woolsery, Clovelly and Bideford

  • 28 Photo mural in Bideford bank

  • 29 X-ray shoe fitting

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

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    10-year-old scrambler practices
  • 32 Big develolpment at Calveford

  • 33 Spring-cleaning the Ridge

  • 34 Record player of 80 years ago

  • 35 Instow local art show was 'tremendous success'

  • 36 Thirty bridges cross Torridge

  • 37

    Close associations with North Devon
  • 38 Bideford regatta

  • 39 Unique holiday adventure!

  • 40 Quads join a Langtree happy family

  • 41

    Reds Womens Team Are First To Compete Throughout Season
  • 42 Puzzle corner at Bideford!

  • 43 Lady Godiva comes to Torrington

  • 44 John Andrew Bread Charity
  • 45

    School of Dancing's Annual Display
  • 46 Centenary of Landcross Methodist Chapel

  • 47 No ancient Grecian temple this

  • 48 Rowing triumphs at Bideford

  • 49

    New gateway
  • 50 Symbol of Lundy independence

  • 51

    Holidaying in north Devon
  • 52 A craftsman's 'potted' history

  • 53 Northam loses thatched cottage landmark

  • 54 End of the line

  • 55 Harvest service in Bideford 'pub' bar

  • 56 Joe the ginger tabby is 21

  • 57 Childrens' model of Torrington

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

  • 59 River scenes that enchant the visitors

  • 60 Photo of town's first car wins prize

  • 61 Safe door weighing two tons

  • 62

    Cadets are given certificates
  • 63 Quads at Thornhillhead

  • 64 Bideford skifflers, they're no squares

  • 65 Torrington acclaims 400th anniversary of granting of charter

  • 66 A story to tell!

  • 67 Fishermen of Greencliff

  • 68 All for the love of a lady!

  • 69 Riverside mystery

  • 70 Some mushroom!

  • 71 Torrington's new amenity

  • 72 Panto time at Westward Ho!

  • 73 Last of Bideford factory chimney

  • 74 Torrington school's sundial - fashioned by Headmaster

  • 75 Down at the 'Donkey House'

  • 76 TV features Bideford's New Year bread ceremony

  • 77 Can-carrying over cobbles has disappeared

  • 78 Appledore's largest

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

  • 80 Just over a year old

  • 81 Alwington School closing after 120 years

  • 82 Designed and made in Bideford

  • 83 Liked holidays here - so starts business

  • 84 Bideford shipyard workers cheer new minesweeper

  • 85 Brothers reunion 1947
  • 86 Weare Giffard Hall sold for £11,300

  • 87 First ship in 8 years

  • 88 Bideford loses training ship

  • 89 Bideford firm develops new non-spill paint

  • 90 Ten year old scrambler

  • 91 New Lundy stamps

  • 92 A man and his wheel

  • 93 Yeo vale road ruin provides a mystery

  • 94 A lost Bideford 'island'

  • 95 Bideford schoolboy's courage recognised

  • 96 Up-to-date Bideford!

  • 97 New choral society's growing response

  • 98 Lots drawn to prevent dog fight

  • 99 Holiday traffic in Bideford High Street

  • 100 Bridging the stream

  • 101 On her 'maiden' trip from Bideford

  • 102 Northam footballers of the future

  • 103 Salmon netting at Bideford

  • 104 Future of Torrington almshouses

  • 105

    Andre Veillett and Quentin Reed in Judo Demonstration
  • 106 Bideford School Junior Choir Sing in France at Twinning Ceremony in Landivisiau
  • 107 Train returns to Westleigh straight

  • 108 Torrington's enterprise's new extensions

  • 109 Fishing light goes out at close of poor season

  • 110 Hartland's invitation

  • 111 Yelland potter's exhibition at Bideford

  • 112 Tomorrow' night's skittles broadcast from Bideford

  • 113

    Mums protest in Coronation Road
  • 114 New civic medallions

  • 115 East-the-Water sets town an example

  • 116 Revenge in style

  • 117 Hartland postman retires

  • 118 Bideford Liberal club new lounge bar opened

  • 119 Barley from Bideford to Bonnie Scotland

  • 120

    Womens Skittles Competition in Buckland Brewer
  • 121 Students help model St Sidwell

  • 122 Clovelly donkey film star

  • 123 Six footed lamb

  • 124 Emergency ferry services

  • 125 Simple Item 138
  • 126 Eight to strike and a race to win

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    First prize
  • 128 Bideford Bridge re-opens

  • 129 Cruising down the river

  • 130 Eleven million pound scheme's official opening

  • 131 Bideford country dancers on TV

  • 132 Littleham cow tops 70 tons mark in milk production

  • 133 Colour TV salesman at eight

  • 134 Celebrations for 103rd birthday

  • 135

    Appledore boys beat mums at football
  • 136 New Estate's view of estuary activities

  • 137 Finished in 1876

  • 138 Practical sympathy at Northam

  • 139 Bideford Zoo's first baby is big draw

  • 140 Dismantling of wireless mast

  • 141 What is future of railway goods yard?

  • 142 Bideford electricity window display qualifies for area competition

  • 143 Move for oldest boatyard on Torridge

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    Gift from Bideford Town Council
  • 145 Bideford stock car racing entry comes in second

  • 146 Bideford's gift to Sir Francis

  • 147 Do recall the old windmill at Northam?

  • 148 Farewell to passenger trains

  • 149

    Jinxed School Trip
  • 150

    Successful motor cycling team
  • 151 New Lundy air-mail stamps

  • 152 No laughing matter

  • 153 Repair work on Long Bridge
  • 154 Yeoi Vale House finally demolished

  • 155 He beat the floods

  • 156 Picture bought for shillings may be worth thousands

  • 157 Service with a smile

  • 158 Allhalland Street - then and now

  • 159 Sunshine and shade at Appledore

  • 160 Buckland goes to County Show

  • 161 Centenary of Gazette

  • 162 Traditions and skills still there

  • 163 Burnard family reunion

  • 164 Jumble sale fever

  • 165 Puppet characters introduced

  • 166 Pet squirrels at Monkleigh

  • 167 Baby Kate goes home to Lundy

  • 168 School's link with cargo ship

  • 169 New fire and ambulance stations

  • 170 Some 240 exhibits

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

  • 172 Watch the dicky bird!

  • 173

    Toasted with musical honours
  • 174 East-the-Water's call for new school

  • 175 Designed all furnishing of new chapel

  • 176 Wishing well is pixielated

  • 177

    Birgitta Whittaker
  • 178 Mobile missionary

  • 179 Donkey and horses enjoy carnival drink

  • 180 Bideford inquest on French trawlermen opens

  • 181 Bideford has built over 500 post-war homes

  • 182 Westward Ho! Tennis Club Winners
  • 183 For crying out loud!

  • 184 Westward Ho! combined op

  • 185 One thousand visit zoo at Whitsun

  • 186 Bringing shopping home by goat

  • 187

    Mrs Whapham finds ferret in Bridgeland Street while shopping
  • 188 Preparations for new Clovelly Court

  • 189 Fish nearly pulled him in

  • 190 Cement-clad boats being built at Northam

  • 191 Championship Trophy for Hartland
  • 192 Children's procession with foxgloves

  • 193

    Wynne Olley's styles impress International Hair Fashion Designer
  • 194 Faints as she wins national competition

  • 195 Light reading for the lighthouse

  • 196 Council agree to demolition of Chanter's Folly

  • 197

    Relatives all over the world
  • 198 New look in the hayfields

  • 199 Northam wants to continue pumping from river

  • 200 Vessel built 300 feet above sea level

  • 201 Little 'Big Ben'

  • 202 Water Board mains spread through villages

  • 203 Ship-in-bottle world record

  • 204 Church renovation rejoicing at Northam

  • 205 Centuries old but today busier than ever

  • 206 In the tortoise nursery - eight hatched at Bideford

  • 207 Bideford A.F.C annual dinner
  • 208

    Hamburger is part of modern life
  • 209 Space dominates Hartland carnival

  • 210 Works at craft he learned over 65 years ago

  • 211 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

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

  • 213 North Devon Driving School

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

  • 215 Private home for public pump

  • 216 Warmington's garage ad

  • 217 New gateway to King George's Fields

  • 218 Olympic riders to compete at Bideford Horse Show

  • 219 Bideford-Torrington road gets 'carpet coat'

  • 220 Bank Holiday weather was beach weather

  • 221 Speeding communications: Bideford firm's new installation

  • 222 New addition to Quay front

  • 223 Torrington children build igloo
  • 224 Tramps camp by riverside throughout arctic weather

  • 225 School crossing patrol begins

  • 226 Torrington to have first woman mayor

  • 227 Cavaliers join the Hunt
  • 228 Broomhayes £1,000 Surprise
  • 229 Loads of black and white

  • 230 Bideford's new market opens next week

  • 231 America's tribute to 'J.H.'

  • 232 Clovelly's 91 year old horseman

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    Married in 1908
  • 234 'Out of Appledore' sailing memories

  • 235 Weare Giffard potato

  • 236 Police station view of Bideford

  • 237 Boys win hockey on the sands challenge

  • 238 Revived market off to splendid start

  • 239 Fundraising trip for RNLI

  • 240 Old Girls revisit Edgehill

  • 241 A roof-top view - where?

  • 242 Picking the pops

  • 243 Jalopy joy for children of Shamwickshire

  • 244 Champagne send-off for Torrington new factory

  • 245 The Geneva marionettes

  • 246 Thorn-apple found in Littleham conservatory

  • 247 Bicycle now does donkey work

  • 248 Four sisters' nostalgic reunion

  • 249 No sale of Springfield House

  • 250 No ancient Grecian temple this

  • 251 Appledore schooner broadcast

  • 252 Torrington in 1967

  • 253 Recognise this resort?

  • 254 Head Barman appointed Torrington Town Crier
  • 255 Clovelly custom

  • 256 Daisy's pride and joy

  • 257 Calligrapher extraordinary

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

  • 259 Westward Ho! public conveniences get go ahead
  • 260 Bideford's private wharves busier

  • 261 113 years at Instow

  • 262 Modern living at Bideford

  • 263 Happy Days!

  • 264 Largest salmon caught in Torridge

  • 265 Meredith's ironmongers

  • 266

    Was a missionary
  • 267 In their new robes and hats

  • 268 Homage to a well-loved sovereign

  • 269 It really was the 'last time'

  • 270 Holiday scene near Sandymere

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

  • 272 Saving money, wear and tear

  • 273 Ships at Bideford

  • 274 By pony and trap to market

  • 275 Westward Ho! sand yacht to challenge speed record

  • 276 Torridge wins on time schedule

  • 277 Torridge graveyard of wooden hulks

  • 278 North Devon author featured in TV documentary

  • 279 TV contest means big job for Bideford Guides

  • 280 Lady Churchill congratulates Bideford artists at nursing exhibition

  • 281 Eight and a half million pound Taw development scheme

  • 282 New shipyard on schedule

  • 283 Bideford triplets' first birthday party

  • 284 They never miss a game at Torrington

  • 285 When horses score over the tractor

  • 286 Littleham family's five generations

  • 287 New art gallery opened

  • 288 Can spring be far away?

  • 289 Spray dodging - the new pastime

  • 290 Boys from Bideford school complete Ten Tors

  • 291 Teenager Peter Jackson Makes Horror Film
  • 292 Beach search for mines takes longer

  • 293 They are parted pro-tem

  • 294 Bideford computer stars

  • 295 So this is the mainland!

  • 296 They set out for Bideford and became lost

  • 297 Variety in summer weather

  • 298 Donkey work made easier at Clovelly

  • 299 Picking the pops

  • 300 A Weare Giffard speciality - delicious strawberries

  • 301 Tibbles home again - and fish supper

  • 302 Waldon Triplets
  • 303

    Double Baptism on Torridge
  • 304 Out of puff!

  • 305 Bideford's first triplets for 12 years

  • 306 Torrington Youth Club rewarded by party
  • 307 To build racing cars in former blacksmith's shop

  • 308 Born 1883 - still going strong

  • 309 Sight of a lifetime

  • 310 Ancestral home nestling in lovely combe

  • 311 Eleventh hour bid to save last sailing barge

  • 312 Appledore's new lifeboat

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    Bidefordians
  • 314 An early 'special' to Bideford

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

  • 316 Pannier Market's future?

  • 317 Wine and beer merchants for 150 years

  • 318 'Les Girls' of Hartland

  • 319 A bird of their own!

  • 320 Getting up steam for tomorrow

  • 321 Bideford childrens' cinema opens

  • 322 Signed scroll momento of Queen Mother's visit

  • 323 Battle of the gap at Westward Ho!

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

  • 325 Devil sent packing

  • 326 The creative urge on Saturday morning

  • 327 Alderman Anstey's dream comes tru

  • 328 Clovelly nightmare

  • 329 Polish custom on Pancake Day

  • 330 New look for Torrington Lane

  • 331 Capers on the cobbles

  • 332 Alverdiscott is proud of its new parish hall

  • 333 First steel ship built at Bideford

  • 334 Bideford Liberals' fashion show

  • 335 Last train from Torrington

  • 336 Calf thinks of mare as mum

  • 337 Two kinds of hovercraft at Bideford

  • 338 Birds' convalescent home at Instow

  • 339 Chess - their bridge over the years

  • 340 Fleet of foot and fair of face

  • 341

    First Girls at Bideford Grammar School take part in Play
  • 342 Larkworthy Family play in Shebbear's Football Team
  • 343 Escaped crane moves into Kenwith Valley

  • 344 Twenty-one yachts

  • 345 Penny for the guy

  • 346 Second Monte Carlo Rally

  • 347

    FA Cup Match for the Robins
  • 348 Hartland Dancers
  • 349 Gift plaque on Clovelly council houses

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    Gus Honeybun meets local children
  • 351 Inscribed Bibles and silver spoons for babies

  • 352 Making way for the double-deckers

  • 353 Death - and birth - of a telephone exchange

  • 354 Sweet success at Langtree School

  • 355 Launching the 'Golden Hinde'

  • 356 Success to Festival of the Arts

  • 357 Thrush builds nest in cauliflower

  • 358 Off on a great adventure

  • 359 A sense of humour in advertising

  • 360 Artisans' Club

  • 361 Huntshaw TV mast

  • 362 Pretty pennies at Beaford

  • 363 Gloves fit for a king!

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    Building works
  • 365 The art of the thatcher

  • 366 Sooty is quick on the draw

  • 367 Northam's almshouse

  • 368 Hartland Abbey outdoor staff 60 years ago

  • 369 Torrington's shelter for the aged

  • 370 Wilfred and Mabel visit schools and hospital

  • 371 Appledore boy is youngest recipient of RNLI vellun

  • 372 What's the time?

  • 373 Entente cordiale in Bideford

  • 374 Shipbuilding hobby at Hartland

  • 375 Bideford blacksmith wins English championship

  • 376 Buckland farm workers to receive long-service awards

  • 377 New Post Office

  • 378 Four hundred residents leave Bideford!

  • 379 Life begins at 80

  • 380 Shoes certainly not made for walking

  • 381 Mural in the whimsical fashion

  • 382 First tankers arrive at new depot

  • 383 All aboard the ark

  • 384

    Exhibition of school work
  • 385 Peter poses for TV film

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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Surgery in stone

Repairs to statue

Mr Charles Morris (right), a Bideford stonemason, repairs the broken finger on Charles Kingsley’s statue on the River Bank, assisted by Mr Ron Dymond. At the same time a new
nib was fitted to the statue’s quill pen.

18 April 1958 Surgery in stone

Gazette article 18 April 1958

 

No ancient Grecian temple this

Boat building sheds demolished

Just the brick pillars that were all that remained last week of Universal Launches boatbuilding sheds on the banks of the Torridge, a site that has now been bought by M.W. Blackmore and Sons Ltd. who are now constructing a fitting-out slipway there.

11 April 1958 No ancient Grecian temple this

Gazette article 11 April 1958

First tankers arrive at new depot

Two million gallons petroleum storage at Yelland.

Easter saw the arrival of the first five tankers at the new Shell-Mex and B.P. Ltd. depot at East Yelland . The new depot receives its supplies by sea from the B.P. Refinery at Llandarcy and the Shell refinery at Stanlow and one of the first arrivals is pictured moored alongside the small quay at the end of the long jetty discharging her cargo of petroleum through one of the three pipe lines that run alongside the jetty back to the cluster of storage tanks which have a capacity of 2,000,000 gallons.

11 April 1958 First tankers arrive at new depot

Gazette article 11 April 1958

 

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