• 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 Picture bought for shillings may be worth thousands

  • 2 Donkey work made easier at Clovelly

  • 3 Farewell to passenger trains

  • 4

    Jinxed School Trip
  • 5 All aboard the ark

  • 6 Sunshine and shade at Appledore

  • 7 Four sisters' nostalgic reunion

  • 8 Speeding communications: Bideford firm's new installation

  • 9 Eight and a half million pound Taw development scheme

  • 10 Colour TV salesman at eight

  • 11 Pretty pennies at Beaford

  • 12 Smiling welcome to Hartland visitors

  • 13 Council agree to demolition of Chanter's Folly

  • 14 Safety-first dipomas awarded to Torrington drivers

  • 15 Watch the dicky bird!

  • 16 Buckland goes to County Show

  • 17 Still hunting aged 80 and a Field Master

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

  • 19

    Youth Clubs Join Together For Entertainment
  • 20 They never miss a game at Torrington

  • 21 Torrington children build igloo
  • 22 Shipbuilding hobby at Hartland

  • 23 A story to tell!

  • 24 Bringing shopping home by goat

  • 25 Appledore's new lifeboat

  • 26 They are parted pro-tem

  • 27 Thrush builds nest in cauliflower

  • 28 New Lundy air-mail stamps

  • 29

    Mums protest in Coronation Road
  • 30 Works at craft he learned over 65 years ago

  • 31 Weare Giffard potato

  • 32 East-the-Water sets town an example

  • 33 One thousand visit zoo at Whitsun

  • 34 Boys win hockey on the sands challenge

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

  • 36 Westward Ho! public conveniences get go ahead
  • 37 Variety in summer weather

  • 38 Yelland potter's exhibition at Bideford

  • 39 Eleven million pound scheme's official opening

  • 40 Torrington to have first woman mayor

  • 41 Bideford's gift to Sir Francis

  • 42 Dismantling of wireless mast

  • 43 Just over a year old

  • 44 Record player of 80 years ago

  • 45 New look in the hayfields

  • 46 Safe door weighing two tons

  • 47 Ship-in-bottle world record

  • 48 Holiday traffic in Bideford High Street

  • 49 Life begins at 80

  • 50 Westward Ho! sand yacht to challenge speed record

  • 51 Puzzle corner at Bideford!

  • 52 Charter granted by Philip and Mary

  • 53 Six footed lamb

  • 54 Two kinds of hovercraft at Bideford

  • 55 Torrington Youth Club rewarded by party
  • 56 Joe the ginger tabby is 21

  • 57 Championship Trophy for Hartland
  • 58 A lost Bideford 'island'

  • 59 Police station view of Bideford

  • 60 Yeo vale road ruin provides a mystery

  • 61 Torrington's enterprise's new extensions

  • 62 Clovelly nightmare

  • 63 Where Bideford rope-makers walked>
  • 64

    Exhibition of school work
  • 65

    Was a missionary
  • 66 An early 'special' to Bideford

  • 67 Allhalland Street - then and now

  • 68 New gateway to King George's Fields

  • 69 Happy Days!

  • 70 A roof-top view - where?

  • 71 Panto time at Westward Ho!

  • 72

    Reds Womens Team Are First To Compete Throughout Season
  • 73 Huntshaw TV mast

  • 74 Bank Holiday weather was beach weather

  • 75 All for the love of a lady!

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

  • 77 Peter poses for TV film

  • 78 Yeoi Vale House finally demolished

  • 79 Church renovation rejoicing at Northam

  • 80 Bideford schoolboy's courage recognised

  • 81 No ancient Grecian temple this

  • 82

    Married in 1908
  • 83 Hartland Abbey outdoor staff 60 years ago

  • 84 Salmon netting at Bideford

  • 85 Landmark at Bradworthy

  • 86 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

  • 87 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

  • 88 Some mushroom!

  • 89 Thriving 'orphan of the storm'

  • 90 Bideford inquest on French trawlermen opens

  • 91 The creative urge on Saturday morning

  • 92 Alwington School closing after 120 years

  • 93 Bideford electricity window display qualifies for area competition

  • 94

    Relatives all over the world
  • 95 Town's second woman mayor in 392 years

  • 96

    Inter-school Road Safety Quiz Cup Winners
  • 97 Clovelly custom

  • 98 When horses score over the tractor

  • 99 Practical sympathy at Northam

  • 100 Mayor becomes engine driver>
  • 101

    Andre Veillett and Quentin Reed in Judo Demonstration
  • 102 Bideford - as Rowlandson saw it about 1810-15

  • 103 A Weare Giffard speciality - delicious strawberries

  • 104 It really was the 'last time'

  • 105 Torrington school's sundial - fashioned by Headmaster

  • 106 Loads of black and white

  • 107 Children's procession with foxgloves

  • 108 Spray dodging - the new pastime

  • 109 Television comes to Torridge District

  • 110 Northam loses thatched cottage landmark

  • 111 Meeting at 10 Downing Street

  • 112 Down at the dump something stirs

  • 113 Boys from Bideford school complete Ten Tors

  • 114 So this is the mainland!

  • 115 Westward Ho! Tennis Club Winners
  • 116 Community centre opened at Westward Ho!

  • 117 Calligrapher extraordinary

  • 118 Appledore Juniors Football
  • 119 Entente cordiale in Bideford

  • 120

    New gateway
  • 121

    Lenwood Squash Club
  • 122 Revenge in style

  • 123 Bideford shipyard workers cheer new minesweeper

  • 124 Floral dancing at Appledore

  • 125 Last train from Torrington

  • 126 Ancestral home nestling in lovely combe

  • 127 A bird of their own!

  • 128 They set out for Bideford and became lost

  • 129 New fire and ambulance stations

  • 130 Northam footballers of the future

  • 131 Fishermen of Greencliff

  • 132 Beach search for mines takes longer

  • 133 Bideford Liberal club new lounge bar opened

  • 134 Bideford triplets' first birthday party

  • 135 Artisans' Club

  • 136 Picking the pops

  • 137 Alderman Anstey's dream comes tru

  • 138 Littleham family's five generations

  • 139 Vessel built 300 feet above sea level

  • 140 Record pebble-throwing day

  • 141 By pony and trap to market

  • 142

    Gus Honeybun meets local children
  • 143 Making way for the double-deckers

  • 144 Getting up steam for tomorrow

  • 145 Out of puff!

  • 146 Bideford computer stars

  • 147 Sight of a lifetime

  • 148

    Holidaying in north Devon
  • 149 No sale of Springfield House

  • 150 Finished in 1876

  • 151 Wine and beer merchants for 150 years

  • 152 Centuries old but today busier than ever

  • 153 School's link with cargo ship

  • 154 Weare Giffard Hall sold for £11,300

  • 155 Designed and made in Bideford

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

  • 157 First tankers arrive at new depot

  • 158

    Appledore boys beat mums at football
  • 159 Fishing light goes out at close of poor season

  • 160

    Building works
  • 161 Jalopy joy for children of Shamwickshire

  • 162 School crossing patrol begins

  • 163 Five generations link Woolsery, Clovelly and Bideford

  • 164 Old Girls revisit Edgehill

  • 165 Homage to a well-loved sovereign

  • 166 Ten year old scrambler

  • 167 Success to Festival of the Arts

  • 168 Little 'Big Ben'

  • 169 Battle of the gap at Westward Ho!

  • 170 For crying out loud!

  • 171 What's the time?

  • 172 Four hundred residents leave Bideford!

  • 173 Lady Godiva comes to Torrington

  • 174 Torrington Church's new organ

  • 175 In their new robes and hats

  • 176 No ancient Grecian temple this

  • 177 Afternoon tea in the park

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

  • 179 Death - and birth - of a telephone exchange

  • 180 Signed scroll momento of Queen Mother's visit

  • 181 Jumble sale fever

  • 182 Do recall the old windmill at Northam?

  • 183

    Cadets are given certificates
  • 184 Parkham plan realised

  • 185 Puppet characters introduced

  • 186 Down at the 'Donkey House'

  • 187 Students help model St Sidwell

  • 188 Bridging the stream

  • 189 Bideford-Torrington road gets 'carpet coat'

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

  • 191

    Womens Skittles Competition in Buckland Brewer
  • 192 Launching the 'Golden Hinde'

  • 193 Burnard family reunion

  • 194 Northam's almshouse

  • 195 Simple Item 138
  • 196 Westward Ho! combined op

  • 197 Bideford has built over 500 post-war homes

  • 198 Traditions and skills still there

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

  • 200 Bideford Liberals' fashion show

  • 201 Amsterdam to Bideford double success

  • 202 Bideford blacksmith wins English championship

  • 203 TV features Bideford's New Year bread ceremony

  • 204 Tide sweeps under and over the old bridge

  • 205 Torrington's shelter for the aged

  • 206 Torridge wins on time schedule

  • 207 Bideford Zoo's first baby is big draw

  • 208 Picking the pops

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

  • 210 Saving money, wear and tear

  • 211 Cement-clad boats being built at Northam

  • 212 Bideford School Junior Choir Sing in France at Twinning Ceremony in Landivisiau
  • 213 Fish nearly pulled him in

  • 214 Move for oldest boatyard on Torridge

  • 215 Gift plaque on Clovelly council houses

  • 216 Space dominates Hartland carnival

  • 217

    Mrs Whapham finds ferret in Bridgeland Street while shopping
  • 218 Torrington's new amenity

  • 219 Lots drawn to prevent dog fight

  • 220

    First Girls at Bideford Grammar School take part in Play
  • 221 Sweet success at Langtree School

  • 222 Bicycle now does donkey work

  • 223 Warmington's garage ad

  • 224 Head Barman appointed Torrington Town Crier
  • 225 Bideford childrens' cinema opens

  • 226 Hartland postman retires

  • 227

    School of Dancing's Annual Display
  • 228 Appledore tugs fete London Tower

  • 229 Water Board mains spread through villages

  • 230

    Close associations with North Devon
  • 231 Olympic riders to compete at Bideford Horse Show

  • 232 Bideford's new market opens next week

  • 233 Bideford regatta

  • 234 Harvest service in Bideford 'pub' bar

  • 235 Golden Bay Hotel ad.>
  • 236 Can-carrying over cobbles has disappeared

  • 237 Housing progress at East-the-Water>
  • 238 'Les Girls' of Hartland

  • 239

    Successful motor cycling team
  • 240 Unique holiday adventure!

  • 241 Big develolpment at Calveford

  • 242 A craftsman's 'potted' history

  • 243 Filming at Hartland

  • 244 Buckland farm workers to receive long-service awards

  • 245 America's tribute to 'J.H.'

  • 246 Waldon Triplets
  • 247 A man and his wheel

  • 248 Calf thinks of mare as mum

  • 249 Broomhayes children will keep their winter pet

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    Toasted with musical honours
  • 251 Thorn-apple found in Littleham conservatory

  • 252 End of the line

  • 253 Recognise this resort?

  • 254

    Birgitta Whittaker
  • 255 New art gallery opened

  • 256 New shipyard on schedule

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

  • 258 No laughing matter

  • 259 Private home for public pump

  • 260 Passing of a Torrington landmark

  • 261 Mobile missionary

  • 262 Teenager Peter Jackson Makes Horror Film
  • 263 Sooty is quick on the draw

  • 264 Larkworthy Family play in Shebbear's Football Team
  • 265 Daisy's pride and joy

  • 266 Appledore's largest

  • 267 Prizewinning babies at Torrington

  • 268 Can spring be far away?

  • 269 Photo mural in Bideford bank

  • 270 Bideford's private wharves busier

  • 271 113 years at Instow

  • 272 What is future of railway goods yard?

  • 273 Littleham cow tops 70 tons mark in milk production

  • 274 Tomorrow' night's skittles broadcast from Bideford

  • 275 North Devon Driving School

  • 276 Twenty-one yachts

  • 277 Ships at Bideford

  • 278 Capers on the cobbles

  • 279 Up-to-date Bideford!

  • 280 First ship in 8 years

  • 281 Tramps camp by riverside throughout arctic weather

  • 282 New civic medallions

  • 283 Christmas tree on Bideford Quay>
  • 284 Torridge graveyard of wooden hulks

  • 285 Service with a smile

  • 286 At Bideford Arts Ball>
  • 287 Bideford stock car racing entry comes in second

  • 288 Pannier Market's future?

  • 289 New Lundy stamps

  • 290 Panel sprint for Bideford broadcast

  • 291 Last of Bideford factory chimney

  • 292 Bideford skifflers, they're no squares

  • 293 Meredith's ironmongers

  • 294 Penny for the guy

  • 295 Steep street of old Bideford

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    Double Baptism on Torridge
  • 297 Quads at Thornhillhead

  • 298 New Estate's view of estuary activities

  • 299 He beat the floods

  • 300 Champagne send-off for Torrington new factory

  • 301 Bideford Bridge re-opens

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

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

  • 304 Bravery against bull at Shebbear rewarded

  • 305 Devil sent packing

  • 306 Wilfred and Mabel visit schools and hospital

  • 307 Escaped crane moves into Kenwith Valley

  • 308 Hartland Dancers
  • 309 Brothers reunion 1947
  • 310 Appledore boy is youngest recipient of RNLI vellun

  • 311 Inscribed Bibles and silver spoons for babies

  • 312 Thirty bridges cross Torridge

  • 313 On her 'maiden' trip from Bideford

  • 314 Revived market off to splendid start

  • 315 Gloves fit for a king!

  • 316 Bideford's first woman councillor

  • 317 Hartland's invitation

  • 318 Northam wants to continue pumping from river

  • 319 Baby Kate goes home to Lundy

  • 320 Photo of town's first car wins prize

  • 321 Bideford A.F.C annual dinner
  • 322 Chess - their bridge over the years

  • 323 Centenary of Landcross Methodist Chapel

  • 324

    FA Cup Match for the Robins
  • 325 Fundraising trip for RNLI

  • 326 Appledore skill brings 'Hispaniola' to life

  • 327 Sweets derationing

  • 328 X-ray shoe fitting

  • 329

    Bidefordians
  • 330 Wasps' nest in sewing machine

  • 331 Largest salmon caught in Torridge

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

  • 333 Designed all furnishing of new chapel

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

  • 335 In the tortoise nursery - eight hatched at Bideford

  • 336 River scenes that enchant the visitors

  • 337 The Geneva marionettes

  • 338 Second Monte Carlo Rally

  • 339 Broomhayes £1,000 Surprise
  • 340 Lady Churchill congratulates Bideford artists at nursing exhibition

  • 341 Modern living at Bideford

  • 342 Mural in the whimsical fashion

  • 343 A sense of humour in advertising

  • 344 Born 1883 - still going strong

  • 345 Repair work on Long Bridge
  • 346 Celebrations for 103rd birthday

  • 347 Spring-cleaning the Ridge

  • 348 Barley from Bideford to Bonnie Scotland

  • 349 Holiday scene near Sandymere

  • 350 Circus comes to town

  • 351 Some 240 exhibits

  • 352

    Hamburger is part of modern life
  • 353 Bideford country dancers on TV

  • 354 Donkey and horses enjoy carnival drink

  • 355 New life for Hartland organ

  • 356 Emergency ferry services

  • 357 New look for Torrington Lane

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    First prize
  • 359 Symbol of Lundy independence

  • 360 Centenary of Gazette

  • 361 'Out of Appledore' sailing memories

  • 362 Clovelly donkey film star

  • 363 First steel ship built at Bideford

  • 364 Appledore schooner broadcast

  • 365 Rowing triumphs at Bideford

  • 366 Shoes certainly not made for walking

  • 367 The art of the thatcher

  • 368 From Bobby to Brian

  • 369 The cab at the corner>
  • 370 Preparations for new Clovelly Court

  • 371 John Andrew Bread Charity
  • 372 Childrens' model of Torrington

  • 373 Local glove-making factory advertising for staff

  • 374 Found the answer waiting for him>
  • 375 Faints as she wins national competition

  • 376 Bideford firm develops new non-spill paint

  • 377 Sailing to victory at Appledore

  • 378 Liked holidays here - so starts business

  • 379

    10-year-old scrambler practices
  • 380 New choral society's growing response

  • 381 Instow local art show was 'tremendous success'

  • 382 TV contest means big job for Bideford Guides

  • 383

    Wynne Olley's styles impress International Hair Fashion Designer
  • 384 Pet squirrels at Monkleigh

  • 385 Torrington in 1967

  • 386 New addition to Quay front

  • 387 Cruising down the river

  • 388 Eleventh hour bid to save last sailing barge

  • 389 Clovelly's 91 year old horseman

  • 390 Eight to strike and a race to win

  • 391 North Devon author featured in TV documentary

  • 392 Polish custom on Pancake Day

  • 393 Riverside mystery

  • 394 Torrington acclaims 400th anniversary of granting of charter

  • 395 Decontrol of meat

  • 396 Tibbles home again - and fish supper

  • 397 Bideford loses training ship

  • 398 Thunderstorm destruction of 25 years ago

  • 399 Bideford's first triplets for 12 years

  • 400 For South Africa from Westward Ho!

  • 401 Future of Torrington almshouses

  • 402 Wishing well is pixielated

  • 403

    Gift from Bideford Town Council
  • 404 What the television camera saw at Abbotsham

  • 405 Light reading for the lighthouse

  • 406 Cavaliers join the Hunt
  • 407 Off on a great adventure

  • 408 Fleet of foot and fair of face

  • 409 Alverdiscott is proud of its new parish hall

  • 410 Birds' convalescent home at Instow

  • 411 New Post Office

  • 412 Quads join a Langtree happy family

  • 413 Train returns to Westleigh straight

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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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

 

Four hundred residents leave Bideford!

Schoolchildren go on holiday

Its true enough, 400 Bideford residents are leaving town this week and the picture shows one of several lorries of luggage that need to be handled at Bideford railway station. Six times a year the railway staff face this transport item for it reflects the to and fro of 400 boy and girl boarders at Bideford schools from holidays at home.

28 March 1958 Four hundred residents leave Bideford

Seen in the photograph are (left to right) the Stationmaster Mr W.J.O. Hatherell, Porter A.G. Steer, and Leading Porter A. Ware.

Gazette article 28 March 1958

 

 

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