• 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 Record player of 80 years ago

  • 2 Emergency ferry services

  • 3 Appledore schooner broadcast

  • 4 No ancient Grecian temple this

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    Holidaying in north Devon
  • 6 Entente cordiale in Bideford

  • 7 Traditions and skills still there

  • 8 Head Barman appointed Torrington Town Crier
  • 9 John Andrew Bread Charity
  • 10 Colour TV salesman at eight

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

  • 12 Police station view of Bideford

  • 13 Westward Ho! Tennis Club Winners
  • 14 New Lundy air-mail stamps

  • 15 New addition to Quay front

  • 16 Bideford computer stars

  • 17 Lady Godiva comes to Torrington

  • 18 Town's second woman mayor in 392 years

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

  • 20 Born 1883 - still going strong

  • 21 Liked holidays here - so starts business

  • 22 Clovelly custom

  • 23 One thousand visit zoo at Whitsun

  • 24 Last of Bideford factory chimney

  • 25 North Devon author featured in TV documentary

  • 26 113 years at Instow

  • 27 First ship in 8 years

  • 28 Buckland goes to County Show

  • 29 Escaped crane moves into Kenwith Valley

  • 30 Designed all furnishing of new chapel

  • 31 Parkham plan realised

  • 32 Bideford's private wharves busier

  • 33 TV features Bideford's New Year bread ceremony

  • 34 End of the line

  • 35 Torrington Youth Club rewarded by party
  • 36

    10-year-old scrambler practices
  • 37 To build racing cars in former blacksmith's shop

  • 38 Train returns to Westleigh straight

  • 39 Steep street of old Bideford

  • 40 First steel ship built at Bideford

  • 41 Alwington School closing after 120 years

  • 42 Hartland Abbey outdoor staff 60 years ago

  • 43 Gloves fit for a king!

  • 44 Wishing well is pixielated

  • 45 Old Girls revisit Edgehill

  • 46

    FA Cup Match for the Robins
  • 47 Eight and a half million pound Taw development scheme

  • 48

    Gift from Bideford Town Council
  • 49 Service with a smile

  • 50 Bideford regatta

  • 51 Water Board mains spread through villages

  • 52

    Womens Skittles Competition in Buckland Brewer
  • 53 Northam loses thatched cottage landmark

  • 54 Out of puff!

  • 55 Eleventh hour bid to save last sailing barge

  • 56

    Birgitta Whittaker
  • 57 Northam's almshouse

  • 58

    First Girls at Bideford Grammar School take part in Play
  • 59 Death - and birth - of a telephone exchange

  • 60 Yeoi Vale House finally demolished

  • 61 Bideford shipyard workers cheer new minesweeper

  • 62

    Double Baptism on Torridge
  • 63 Picking the pops

  • 64 Weare Giffard Hall sold for £11,300

  • 65 Ten year old scrambler

  • 66 Cruising down the river

  • 67 Six footed lamb

  • 68 Five generations link Woolsery, Clovelly and Bideford

  • 69 Little 'Big Ben'

  • 70

    School of Dancing's Annual Display
  • 71 Artisans' Club

  • 72 Torrington's enterprise's new extensions

  • 73 Pannier Market's future?

  • 74 Pretty pennies at Beaford

  • 75 Northam wants to continue pumping from river

  • 76 A lost Bideford 'island'

  • 77 Hartland Dancers
  • 78 Centenary of Landcross Methodist Chapel

  • 79 Fleet of foot and fair of face

  • 80 North Devon Driving School

  • 81 Up-to-date Bideford!

  • 82 Littleham cow tops 70 tons mark in milk production

  • 83 Four hundred residents leave Bideford!

  • 84 Faints as she wins national competition

  • 85 For crying out loud!

  • 86

    Married in 1908
  • 87 New Lundy stamps

  • 88

    Building works
  • 89 New choral society's growing response

  • 90

    Andre Veillett and Quentin Reed in Judo Demonstration
  • 91 Symbol of Lundy independence

  • 92 Meredith's ironmongers

  • 93 Happy Days!

  • 94 Childrens' model of Torrington

  • 95 Ancestral home nestling in lovely combe

  • 96 Down at the 'Donkey House'

  • 97 Jalopy joy for children of Shamwickshire

  • 98 Teenager Peter Jackson Makes Horror Film
  • 99 Signed scroll momento of Queen Mother's visit

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

  • 101 Torrington's shelter for the aged

  • 102 Instow local art show was 'tremendous success'

  • 103 Harvest service in Bideford 'pub' bar

  • 104 Celebrations for 103rd birthday

  • 105 Barley from Bideford to Bonnie Scotland

  • 106 Simple Item 138
  • 107

    Toasted with musical honours
  • 108

    Appledore boys beat mums at football
  • 109 Bideford skifflers, they're no squares

  • 110 East-the-Water sets town an example

  • 111 Variety in summer weather

  • 112 Bideford Liberals' fashion show

  • 113 Tomorrow' night's skittles broadcast from Bideford

  • 114 Just over a year old

  • 115 The creative urge on Saturday morning

  • 116 Repair work on Long Bridge
  • 117 Joe the ginger tabby is 21

  • 118

    Mums protest in Coronation Road
  • 119 Battle of the gap at Westward Ho!

  • 120 Do recall the old windmill at Northam?

  • 121 Spray dodging - the new pastime

  • 122 Practical sympathy at Northam

  • 123 Private home for public pump

  • 124

    Mrs Whapham finds ferret in Bridgeland Street while shopping
  • 125

    Jinxed School Trip
  • 126 He beat the floods

  • 127 Bideford Liberal club new lounge bar opened

  • 128 Boys from Bideford school complete Ten Tors

  • 129 Spring-cleaning the Ridge

  • 130 Bideford electricity window display qualifies for area competition

  • 131 All for the love of a lady!

  • 132 Decontrol of meat

  • 133 Farewell to passenger trains

  • 134 Mural in the whimsical fashion

  • 135 Big develolpment at Calveford

  • 136 Quads at Thornhillhead

  • 137 Space dominates Hartland carnival

  • 138 Sight of a lifetime

  • 139 Appledore tugs fete London Tower

  • 140 Designed and made in Bideford

  • 141 Alverdiscott is proud of its new parish hall

  • 142 When horses score over the tractor

  • 143 Puppet characters introduced

  • 144 Sooty is quick on the draw

  • 145 Westward Ho! combined op

  • 146 Warmington's garage ad

  • 147 Recognise this resort?

  • 148 What the television camera saw at Abbotsham

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

  • 150 Last train from Torrington

  • 151 Fundraising trip for RNLI

  • 152 Cavaliers join the Hunt
  • 153

    Gus Honeybun meets local children
  • 154 New Estate's view of estuary activities

  • 155 X-ray shoe fitting

  • 156 Sweet success at Langtree School

  • 157 School crossing patrol begins

  • 158 Still hunting aged 80 and a Field Master

  • 159 New gateway to King George's Fields

  • 160 Bideford has built over 500 post-war homes

  • 161 Bideford Zoo's first baby is big draw

  • 162 Students help model St Sidwell

  • 163 Loads of black and white

  • 164 New art gallery opened

  • 165 Dismantling of wireless mast

  • 166 Eleven million pound scheme's official opening

  • 167 Wilfred and Mabel visit schools and hospital

  • 168 A man and his wheel

  • 169 Charter granted by Philip and Mary

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

  • 171 Lady Churchill congratulates Bideford artists at nursing exhibition

  • 172 Tibbles home again - and fish supper

  • 173 Bideford childrens' cinema opens

  • 174 Capers on the cobbles

  • 175

    First prize
  • 176 Church renovation rejoicing at Northam

  • 177 Thrush builds nest in cauliflower

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

  • 179 Mobile missionary

  • 180

    Youth Clubs Join Together For Entertainment
  • 181 Fish nearly pulled him in

  • 182 Sunshine and shade at Appledore

  • 183 TV contest means big job for Bideford Guides

  • 184 Largest salmon caught in Torridge

  • 185 Championship Trophy for Hartland
  • 186 River scenes that enchant the visitors

  • 187 Torrington children build igloo
  • 188 Fishing light goes out at close of poor season

  • 189 Clovelly donkey film star

  • 190 Bicycle now does donkey work

  • 191 Jumble sale fever

  • 192 A story to tell!

  • 193 Yeo vale road ruin provides a mystery

  • 194 School's link with cargo ship

  • 195 Success to Festival of the Arts

  • 196 Bideford stock car racing entry comes in second

  • 197 Getting up steam for tomorrow

  • 198 They never miss a game at Torrington

  • 199 Weare Giffard potato

  • 200 Chess - their bridge over the years

  • 201 Finished in 1876

  • 202 America's tribute to 'J.H.'

  • 203 Bideford country dancers on TV

  • 204 Bideford loses training ship

  • 205 Appledore Juniors Football
  • 206 All aboard the ark

  • 207 Off on a great adventure

  • 208 Donkey work made easier at Clovelly

  • 209 Ships at Bideford

  • 210 On her 'maiden' trip from Bideford

  • 211 Panto time at Westward Ho!

  • 212 An early 'special' to Bideford

  • 213 What's the time?

  • 214 Pet squirrels at Monkleigh

  • 215 Record pebble-throwing day

  • 216 New life for Hartland organ

  • 217

    Hamburger is part of modern life
  • 218 Can spring be far away?

  • 219 Waldon Triplets
  • 220 Larkworthy Family play in Shebbear's Football Team
  • 221 Westward Ho! sand yacht to challenge speed record

  • 222 Life begins at 80

  • 223 Gift plaque on Clovelly council houses

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    Inter-school Road Safety Quiz Cup Winners
  • 225 'Les Girls' of Hartland

  • 226 Peter poses for TV film

  • 227 Fishermen of Greencliff

  • 228 Polish custom on Pancake Day

  • 229 Future of Torrington almshouses

  • 230 Bridging the stream

  • 231 Television comes to Torridge District

  • 232 Saving money, wear and tear

  • 233 Bideford blacksmith wins English championship

  • 234 New fire and ambulance stations

  • 235 Bank Holiday weather was beach weather

  • 236 Torrington in 1967

  • 237 Thorn-apple found in Littleham conservatory

  • 238 Move for oldest boatyard on Torridge

  • 239 Boys win hockey on the sands challenge

  • 240 Salmon netting at Bideford

  • 241 Bideford's first triplets for 12 years

  • 242 No laughing matter

  • 243 Rowing triumphs at Bideford

  • 244 Appledore's new lifeboat

  • 245 Bideford-Torrington road gets 'carpet coat'

  • 246 Torridge wins on time schedule

  • 247 Allhalland Street - then and now

  • 248 Bravery against bull at Shebbear rewarded

  • 249 Calligrapher extraordinary

  • 250 New civic medallions

  • 251 Photo mural in Bideford bank

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

  • 253 Bideford's new market opens next week

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

  • 255 Bideford A.F.C annual dinner
  • 256 Smiling welcome to Hartland visitors

  • 257 Landmark at Bradworthy

  • 258 Olympic riders to compete at Bideford Horse Show

  • 259 Clovelly nightmare

  • 260 Littleham family's five generations

  • 261 Devil sent packing

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

  • 263 Can-carrying over cobbles has disappeared

  • 264 Hartland's invitation

  • 265 New look for Torrington Lane

  • 266 Daisy's pride and joy

  • 267

    New gateway
  • 268

    Lenwood Squash Club
  • 269 Picking the pops

  • 270 Shoes certainly not made for walking

  • 271 Yelland potter's exhibition at Bideford

  • 272 Penny for the guy

  • 273 A Weare Giffard speciality - delicious strawberries

  • 274 Revived market off to splendid start

  • 275 They are parted pro-tem

  • 276 Hartland postman retires

  • 277 Alderman Anstey's dream comes tru

  • 278 Torridge graveyard of wooden hulks

  • 279 Bideford schoolboy's courage recognised

  • 280 In their new robes and hats

  • 281 Clovelly's 91 year old horseman

  • 282 Appledore's largest

  • 283 Torrington acclaims 400th anniversary of granting of charter

  • 284 Speeding communications: Bideford firm's new installation

  • 285

    Close associations with North Devon
  • 286 Revenge in style

  • 287 No sale of Springfield House

  • 288 Preparations for new Clovelly Court

  • 289 Broomhayes children will keep their winter pet

  • 290 Homage to a well-loved sovereign

  • 291 It really was the 'last time'

  • 292 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

  • 293 Picture bought for shillings may be worth thousands

  • 294 The Geneva marionettes

  • 295 Works at craft he learned over 65 years ago

  • 296 Burnard family reunion

  • 297 Lots drawn to prevent dog fight

  • 298 A sense of humour in advertising

  • 299 Centenary of Gazette

  • 300 Torrington to have first woman mayor

  • 301 Second Monte Carlo Rally

  • 302 Two kinds of hovercraft at Bideford

  • 303 Birds' convalescent home at Instow

  • 304 A bird of their own!

  • 305 Vessel built 300 feet above sea level

  • 306 New shipyard on schedule

  • 307 Panel sprint for Bideford broadcast

  • 308 Tramps camp by riverside throughout arctic weather

  • 309

    Was a missionary
  • 310 Eight to strike and a race to win

  • 311 Quads join a Langtree happy family

  • 312 Calf thinks of mare as mum

  • 313 Puzzle corner at Bideford!

  • 314 What is future of railway goods yard?

  • 315 First tankers arrive at new depot

  • 316 A craftsman's 'potted' history

  • 317 Launching the 'Golden Hinde'

  • 318

    Reds Womens Team Are First To Compete Throughout Season
  • 319 Beach search for mines takes longer

  • 320 Donkey and horses enjoy carnival drink

  • 321 In the tortoise nursery - eight hatched at Bideford

  • 322 Light reading for the lighthouse

  • 323 Twenty-one yachts

  • 324 Thunderstorm destruction of 25 years ago

  • 325 Centuries old but today busier than ever

  • 326 Modern living at Bideford

  • 327 Children's procession with foxgloves

  • 328 Four sisters' nostalgic reunion

  • 329 Some mushroom!

  • 330

    Bidefordians
  • 331

    Wynne Olley's styles impress International Hair Fashion Designer
  • 332 Broomhayes £1,000 Surprise
  • 333 Bideford School Junior Choir Sing in France at Twinning Ceremony in Landivisiau
  • 334 Baby Kate goes home to Lundy

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

  • 336 Ship-in-bottle world record

  • 337 Riverside mystery

  • 338

    Cadets are given certificates
  • 339 They set out for Bideford and became lost

  • 340 'Out of Appledore' sailing memories

  • 341 Holiday traffic in Bideford High Street

  • 342 Safe door weighing two tons

  • 343 Buckland farm workers to receive long-service awards

  • 344 Champagne send-off for Torrington new factory

  • 345 Bideford Bridge re-opens

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

  • 347

    Relatives all over the world
  • 348 Holiday scene near Sandymere

  • 349 New look in the hayfields

  • 350

    Successful motor cycling team
  • 351 Photo of town's first car wins prize

  • 352 Torrington's new amenity

  • 353 Thirty bridges cross Torridge

  • 354 Westward Ho! public conveniences get go ahead
  • 355 Bideford firm develops new non-spill paint

  • 356 A roof-top view - where?

  • 357 Northam footballers of the future

  • 358 By pony and trap to market

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

  • 360 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

  • 361 Passing of a Torrington landmark

  • 362 So this is the mainland!

  • 363 Shipbuilding hobby at Hartland

  • 364 Making way for the double-deckers

  • 365

    Exhibition of school work
  • 366 Circus comes to town

  • 367 Tide sweeps under and over the old bridge

  • 368 New Post Office

  • 369 Bideford's gift to Sir Francis

  • 370 Unique holiday adventure!

  • 371 Torrington school's sundial - fashioned by Headmaster

  • 372 Appledore boy is youngest recipient of RNLI vellun

  • 373 No ancient Grecian temple this

  • 374 Huntshaw TV mast

  • 375 Brothers reunion 1947
  • 376 Cement-clad boats being built at Northam

  • 377 Inscribed Bibles and silver spoons for babies

  • 378 Wine and beer merchants for 150 years

  • 379 Bringing shopping home by goat

  • 380 Bideford triplets' first birthday party

  • 381 Some 240 exhibits

  • 382 Bideford inquest on French trawlermen opens

  • 383 Watch the dicky bird!

  • 384 Council agree to demolition of Chanter's Folly

  • 385 The art of the thatcher

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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Harvest service in Bideford ‘pub’ bar

Service at Ship-on-Launch inn

On Sunday, for the first time, a harvest service was held in the bar of the Ship-on-Launch Inn at East-the-Water, Bideford. The bar was decorated with produce, including poultry and fruit and 120 people attended the bar service at eight o’clock in the evening. The produce was given by customers of the inn.

The Rev. W.T. Brewster of St Peter’s Church, East-the-Water, conducted the service and Post Office employee, Mr Douglas Bliman, read the lesson.

25 September 1959 Harvest service in Bideford pub bar

Our photograph shows (left to right) Mr A. Bond (licensee), Mr D. Bliman, Mr F.L. (Timmy) Mayne and the Rev. W.T. Brewster, getting ready for Monday’s auction of the produce which raised £18 for St Peter’s Church.

Gazette article 25 September 1959

 

Sweet success at Langtree School

Bee-Keepers' record harvest

Members of Langtree Primary School Bee-Keepers’ Club have every reason to be proud of their first year’s harvest, for well over 60 lb. of honey and a number of sections of comb honey were taken off the School hive.

25 September 1959 Sweet success at Langtree school

The hive and bees were loaned by the North Devon Bee Keeping Association to the School and the headmaster (Mr R.A. Yeo Jenn) has supervised the work of the Club. The pupils have themselves carried out all the necessary jobs in connection with the bees.

Gazette article 25 September 1959

 

 

 

Five generations link Woolsery, Clovelly and Bideford

Five generations of local family

When, five months ago, Paul was born to Mrs P. Jeffery, wife of Mr Jeffery, of Clovelly Road, Bideford, he made the fifth generation of a family that has lived in the Woolsery and Clovelly areas for many years.

4 September 1959 Five generations

In this celebration picture great-great-grandmother Mrs C. Prouse, aged 92, is seen nursing young Paul. On the top left is her only daughter, Mrs F. Knight of Sunnyside, Woolsery, with whom she makes her home. Next to Mrs Knight is her only daughter, Mrs W. Jewell, of Lower Burscott Farm, Clovelly, and, bottom left, is Mrs Jeffery, Mrs Jewell’s daughter, who has a sister and a brother.

Gazette article 4 September 1959

 

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