• 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 Fundraising trip for RNLI

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    Double Baptism on Torridge
  • 3 Baby Kate goes home to Lundy

  • 4 Panel sprint for Bideford broadcast

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

  • 6

    Womens Skittles Competition in Buckland Brewer
  • 7 Grenville House for Bideford R.D.C.

  • 8

    School of Dancing's Annual Display
  • 9 Panto time at Westward Ho!

  • 10 Farewell to passenger trains

  • 11 Born 1883 - still going strong

  • 12 Spray dodging - the new pastime

  • 13 North Devon Driving School

  • 14 Sweet success at Langtree School

  • 15 Fishermen of Greencliff

  • 16 Homage to a well-loved sovereign

  • 17 What's the time?

  • 18 Appledore's new lifeboat

  • 19 Alderman Anstey's dream comes tru

  • 20 Cavaliers join the Hunt
  • 21 Bideford country dancers on TV

  • 22 Vessel built 300 feet above sea level

  • 23 Happy Days!

  • 24 Bideford's first triplets for 12 years

  • 25 Torrington children build igloo
  • 26 Championship Trophy for Hartland
  • 27 Mobile missionary

  • 28 Littleham family's five generations

  • 29 Bideford shipyard workers cheer new minesweeper

  • 30 Bideford's gift to Sir Francis

  • 31 Brothers reunion 1947
  • 32 Torridge wins on time schedule

  • 33 Bank Holiday weather was beach weather

  • 34 Yelland potter's exhibition at Bideford

  • 35 Head Barman appointed Torrington Town Crier
  • 36 Revenge in style

  • 37 Inscribed Bibles and silver spoons for babies

  • 38 A lost Bideford 'island'

  • 39 By pony and trap to market

  • 40 A craftsman's 'potted' history

  • 41 Bideford blacksmith wins English championship

  • 42 Television comes to Torridge District

  • 43 Torrington's new amenity

  • 44 Torrington in 1967

  • 45

    10-year-old scrambler practices
  • 46

    Lenwood Squash Club
  • 47 Donkey and horses enjoy carnival drink

  • 48 Torrington's shelter for the aged

  • 49 Fleet of foot and fair of face

  • 50 Northam footballers of the future

  • 51 Traditions and skills still there

  • 52 Tomorrow' night's skittles broadcast from Bideford

  • 53 They set out for Bideford and became lost

  • 54 No ancient Grecian temple this

  • 55 Instow local art show was 'tremendous success'

  • 56

    Mrs Whapham finds ferret in Bridgeland Street while shopping
  • 57 They never miss a game at Torrington

  • 58 Old Girls revisit Edgehill

  • 59 Sooty is quick on the draw

  • 60 Meredith's ironmongers

  • 61 Holiday traffic in Bideford High Street

  • 62 Bicycle now does donkey work

  • 63 Record pebble-throwing day

  • 64 Bideford inquest on French trawlermen opens

  • 65 Can spring be far away?

  • 66 Wilfred and Mabel visit schools and hospital

  • 67 Students help model St Sidwell

  • 68 Tramps camp by riverside throughout arctic weather

  • 69 Polish custom on Pancake Day

  • 70 Chess - their bridge over the years

  • 71 Off on a great adventure

  • 72 New civic medallions

  • 73 A sense of humour in advertising

  • 74 Torridge graveyard of wooden hulks

  • 75 Rowing triumphs at Bideford

  • 76 Puppet characters introduced

  • 77 Shoes certainly not made for walking

  • 78 Bideford has built over 500 post-war homes

  • 79 Designed all furnishing of new chapel

  • 80 Centenary of Landcross Methodist Chapel

  • 81 Down at the 'Donkey House'

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

  • 83 Last train from Torrington

  • 84 New Lundy stamps

  • 85 They are parted pro-tem

  • 86 New Post Office

  • 87 Private home for public pump

  • 88 Bideford triplets' first birthday party

  • 89 Service with a smile

  • 90 Photo of town's first car wins prize

  • 91 Thirty bridges cross Torridge

  • 92 Council agree to demolition of Chanter's Folly

  • 93 New life for Hartland organ

  • 94 Jumble sale fever

  • 95 Eight and a half million pound Taw development scheme

  • 96 A man and his wheel

  • 97 Charter granted by Philip and Mary

  • 98 Bideford's new market opens next week

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

  • 100 Safe door weighing two tons

  • 101 Bideford electricity window display qualifies for area competition

  • 102 Dismantling of wireless mast

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    New gateway
  • 104 Westward Ho! public conveniences get go ahead
  • 105 What is future of railway goods yard?

  • 106 Saving money, wear and tear

  • 107

    Hamburger is part of modern life
  • 108 Clovelly custom

  • 109 Quads join a Langtree happy family

  • 110 Train returns to Westleigh straight

  • 111

    Wynne Olley's styles impress International Hair Fashion Designer
  • 112 Success to Festival of the Arts

  • 113 Watch the dicky bird!

  • 114 Life begins at 80

  • 115 Passing of a Torrington landmark

  • 116 Eleven million pound scheme's official opening

  • 117 Daisy's pride and joy

  • 118 Torrington acclaims 400th anniversary of granting of charter

  • 119 Broomhayes £1,000 Surprise
  • 120 Five generations link Woolsery, Clovelly and Bideford

  • 121 Broomhayes children will keep their winter pet

  • 122 Bideford-Torrington road gets 'carpet coat'

  • 123 Launching the 'Golden Hinde'

  • 124 New addition to Quay front

  • 125 No ancient Grecian temple this

  • 126 Bideford schoolboy's courage recognised

  • 127

    Inter-school Road Safety Quiz Cup Winners
  • 128

    Appledore boys beat mums at football
  • 129 Celebrations for 103rd birthday

  • 130 Capers on the cobbles

  • 131 Buckland goes to County Show

  • 132 Boys from Bideford school complete Ten Tors

  • 133 An early 'special' to Bideford

  • 134 He beat the floods

  • 135 Salmon netting at Bideford

  • 136 Barley from Bideford to Bonnie Scotland

  • 137 Do recall the old windmill at Northam?

  • 138 Picking the pops

  • 139 Recognise this resort?

  • 140 Signed scroll momento of Queen Mother's visit

  • 141 Escaped crane moves into Kenwith Valley

  • 142

    First prize
  • 143 Burnard family reunion

  • 144 Photo mural in Bideford bank

  • 145 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

  • 146 Police station view of Bideford

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

  • 148

    Bidefordians
  • 149

    Jinxed School Trip
  • 150

    Close associations with North Devon
  • 151 Westward Ho! combined op

  • 152 Just over a year old

  • 153 Ten year old scrambler

  • 154 John Andrew Bread Charity
  • 155 New look for Torrington Lane

  • 156 All aboard the ark

  • 157 TV features Bideford's New Year bread ceremony

  • 158 Second Monte Carlo Rally

  • 159 The creative urge on Saturday morning

  • 160 Little 'Big Ben'

  • 161 Six footed lamb

  • 162 Hartland's invitation

  • 163 Speeding communications: Bideford firm's new installation

  • 164

    Married in 1908
  • 165 Bideford School Junior Choir Sing in France at Twinning Ceremony in Landivisiau
  • 166 Smiling welcome to Hartland visitors

  • 167 For crying out loud!

  • 168 Bideford Bridge re-opens

  • 169 Fishing light goes out at close of poor season

  • 170 Some mushroom!

  • 171 Steep street of old Bideford

  • 172 No laughing matter

  • 173 Future of Torrington almshouses

  • 174 America's tribute to 'J.H.'

  • 175 Calligrapher extraordinary

  • 176 No sale of Springfield House

  • 177 TV contest means big job for Bideford Guides

  • 178 Works at craft he learned over 65 years ago

  • 179 Weare Giffard potato

  • 180 Bringing shopping home by goat

  • 181 It really was the 'last time'

  • 182 Landmark at Bradworthy

  • 183 Lady Godiva comes to Torrington

  • 184 One thousand visit zoo at Whitsun

  • 185

    Youth Clubs Join Together For Entertainment
  • 186 Boys win hockey on the sands challenge

  • 187 Riverside mystery

  • 188 Some 240 exhibits

  • 189 Hartland postman retires

  • 190 Ships at Bideford

  • 191 Bideford skifflers, they're no squares

  • 192 Quads at Thornhillhead

  • 193 Thrush builds nest in cauliflower

  • 194 A bird of their own!

  • 195 Can-carrying over cobbles has disappeared

  • 196 Puzzle corner at Bideford!

  • 197 Weare Giffard Hall sold for £11,300

  • 198 Modern living at Bideford

  • 199 Torrington school's sundial - fashioned by Headmaster

  • 200 New look in the hayfields

  • 201 Harvest service in Bideford 'pub' bar

  • 202 Shipbuilding hobby at Hartland

  • 203 Appledore Juniors Football
  • 204 Torrington Youth Club rewarded by party
  • 205 Bideford regatta

  • 206

    FA Cup Match for the Robins
  • 207 Pannier Market's future?

  • 208 New fire and ambulance stations

  • 209 Warmington's garage ad

  • 210

    Building works
  • 211 New shipyard on schedule

  • 212 Liked holidays here - so starts business

  • 213

    Exhibition of school work
  • 214 Tide sweeps under and over the old bridge

  • 215 Emergency ferry services

  • 216 Gloves fit for a king!

  • 217 New art gallery opened

  • 218 Centenary of Gazette

  • 219 Light reading for the lighthouse

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

  • 221 Finished in 1876

  • 222

    Was a missionary
  • 223 Revived market off to splendid start

  • 224 Bideford Liberal club new lounge bar opened

  • 225 Lots drawn to prevent dog fight

  • 226 Tibbles home again - and fish supper

  • 227 Peter poses for TV film

  • 228 Battle of the gap at Westward Ho!

  • 229 Bideford Liberals' fashion show

  • 230 Olympic riders to compete at Bideford Horse Show

  • 231 School crossing patrol begins

  • 232 'Les Girls' of Hartland

  • 233 New gateway to King George's Fields

  • 234 Town's second woman mayor in 392 years

  • 235 Record player of 80 years ago

  • 236 What the television camera saw at Abbotsham

  • 237 New Lundy air-mail stamps

  • 238 A roof-top view - where?

  • 239 Still hunting aged 80 and a Field Master

  • 240 East-the-Water sets town an example

  • 241 Getting up steam for tomorrow

  • 242 Designed and made in Bideford

  • 243 Bravery against bull at Shebbear rewarded

  • 244 Bideford firm develops new non-spill paint

  • 245 Up-to-date Bideford!

  • 246 X-ray shoe fitting

  • 247 Pet squirrels at Monkleigh

  • 248 Westward Ho! sand yacht to challenge speed record

  • 249 Picking the pops

  • 250 Huntshaw TV mast

  • 251

    Successful motor cycling team
  • 252 Sight of a lifetime

  • 253 Thorn-apple found in Littleham conservatory

  • 254

    Cadets are given certificates
  • 255 North Devon author featured in TV documentary

  • 256 Clovelly's 91 year old horseman

  • 257 When horses score over the tractor

  • 258 A story to tell!

  • 259 Buckland farm workers to receive long-service awards

  • 260 Littleham cow tops 70 tons mark in milk production

  • 261 Decontrol of meat

  • 262 Making way for the double-deckers

  • 263 Entente cordiale in Bideford

  • 264 Repair work on Long Bridge
  • 265 Four sisters' nostalgic reunion

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

  • 267 Clovelly nightmare

  • 268 Calf thinks of mare as mum

  • 269 Wishing well is pixielated

  • 270 Torrington's enterprise's new extensions

  • 271 113 years at Instow

  • 272 School's link with cargo ship

  • 273 Ancestral home nestling in lovely combe

  • 274 Fish nearly pulled him in

  • 275 All for the love of a lady!

  • 276 Artisans' Club

  • 277 Appledore schooner broadcast

  • 278 Appledore tugs fete London Tower

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    First Girls at Bideford Grammar School take part in Play
  • 280 Thunderstorm destruction of 25 years ago

  • 281 Beach search for mines takes longer

  • 282 Penny for the guy

  • 283 Northam loses thatched cottage landmark

  • 284 'Out of Appledore' sailing memories

  • 285 First ship in 8 years

  • 286 Twenty-one yachts

  • 287 Birds' convalescent home at Instow

  • 288 Centuries old but today busier than ever

  • 289 Bideford loses training ship

  • 290 Joe the ginger tabby is 21

  • 291

    Andre Veillett and Quentin Reed in Judo Demonstration
  • 292 Practical sympathy at Northam

  • 293 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

  • 294

    Reds Womens Team Are First To Compete Throughout Season
  • 295 Bideford - as Rowlandson saw it about 1810-15

  • 296 Bridging the stream

  • 297 Last of Bideford factory chimney

  • 298 Hartland Abbey outdoor staff 60 years ago

  • 299

    Gift from Bideford Town Council
  • 300 Devil sent packing

  • 301 Northam's almshouse

  • 302 Torrington to have first woman mayor

  • 303 Sunshine and shade at Appledore

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

  • 305 Donkey work made easier at Clovelly

  • 306 Preparations for new Clovelly Court

  • 307

    Holidaying in north Devon
  • 308 The art of the thatcher

  • 309 Eight to strike and a race to win

  • 310 Loads of black and white

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

  • 312 Waldon Triplets
  • 313 Westward Ho! Tennis Club Winners
  • 314 Hartland Dancers
  • 315 Wine and beer merchants for 150 years

  • 316 Cruising down the river

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

  • 318 Bideford childrens' cinema opens

  • 319 Bideford computer stars

  • 320 Yeoi Vale House finally demolished

  • 321 First tankers arrive at new depot

  • 322 Jalopy joy for children of Shamwickshire

  • 323 Appledore boy is youngest recipient of RNLI vellun

  • 324 Picture bought for shillings may be worth thousands

  • 325 Larkworthy Family play in Shebbear's Football Team
  • 326 Move for oldest boatyard on Torridge

  • 327 Water Board mains spread through villages

  • 328 Ship-in-bottle world record

  • 329 Spring-cleaning the Ridge

  • 330 In their new robes and hats

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

  • 332 Cement-clad boats being built at Northam

  • 333 Children's procession with foxgloves

  • 334 Gift plaque on Clovelly council houses

  • 335 A Weare Giffard speciality - delicious strawberries

  • 336 Church renovation rejoicing at Northam

  • 337 Appledore's largest

  • 338 Bideford's private wharves busier

  • 339 Simple Item 138
  • 340 Yeo vale road ruin provides a mystery

  • 341 Unique holiday adventure!

  • 342 Variety in summer weather

  • 343 Space dominates Hartland carnival

  • 344 Eleventh hour bid to save last sailing barge

  • 345 Alwington School closing after 120 years

  • 346 Clovelly donkey film star

  • 347

    Birgitta Whittaker
  • 348 Childrens' model of Torrington

  • 349 First steel ship built at Bideford

  • 350 On her 'maiden' trip from Bideford

  • 351 In the tortoise nursery - eight hatched at Bideford

  • 352 Faints as she wins national competition

  • 353 Bideford Zoo's first baby is big draw

  • 354 Pretty pennies at Beaford

  • 355 River scenes that enchant the visitors

  • 356 Holiday scene near Sandymere

  • 357 So this is the mainland!

  • 358 Alverdiscott is proud of its new parish hall

  • 359 New choral society's growing response

  • 360 Champagne send-off for Torrington new factory

  • 361 Bideford A.F.C annual dinner
  • 362

    Mums protest in Coronation Road
  • 363 East-the-Water's call for new school

  • 364 Largest salmon caught in Torridge

  • 365

    Toasted with musical honours
  • 366 Allhalland Street - then and now

  • 367

    Relatives all over the world
  • 368 Teenager Peter Jackson Makes Horror Film
  • 369 Symbol of Lundy independence

  • 370 Bideford stock car racing entry comes in second

  • 371 Circus comes to town

  • 372

    Gus Honeybun meets local children
  • 373 The Geneva marionettes

  • 374 New Estate's view of estuary activities

  • 375 Northam wants to continue pumping from river

  • 376 Lady Churchill congratulates Bideford artists at nursing exhibition

  • 377 Colour TV salesman at eight

  • 378 Two kinds of hovercraft at Bideford

  • 379 Four hundred residents leave Bideford!

  • 380 Death - and birth - of a telephone exchange

  • 381 Out of puff!

  • 382 End of the line

  • 383 Big develolpment at Calveford

  • 384 Mural in the whimsical fashion

  • 385 Parkham plan realised

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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New gateway to King George’s Fields

Development of Bideford park extension 

This handsome new gateway to the Bideford Park Extension, to be known as King George’s Fields, has recently made its appearance. It is perhaps not generally known that one of the conditions of the grant from the King George’s Fields Foundation towards the development of the park extension was that a suitable gateway to the fields should be erected bearing two approved plaques. All the land to the north of this gateway and the one to the river bank opposite is King George’s Fields.

21 September 1951 New gateway to King Georges Fields

Gazette article 21 September 1951

 

 

Sunshine and shade at Appledore

 New housing estate

A heartening sight of post-war enterprise at Appledore is part of Northam Urban District Council’s housing estate at Tomouth. Trees on the estate were undisturbed and, as is seen above, add a delightful framework to the picture.

31 August 1951 Sunshine and shade at Appledore

Gazette article 31 August 1951

 

 

 

Thirty bridges cross Torridge

Torridge flows through 36 parishes

That the Torridge rises in Cornwall on the same ridge as the river Tamar may come as a surprise as well as the fact that thirty bridges cross it during its 50-mile length.

24 August 1951

Above is a sketch plan with which Miss S.L. Hutchinson introduces her pictorial study of the river in water colours exhibited at Bideford School of Art under the auspices of Bideford Festival of Britain committee. Visitors have included a large proportion from the 36 parishes through which the Torridge flows.

Gazette article 24 August 1951

 

 

 

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