• 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 What is future of railway goods yard?

  • 2 Eight and a half million pound Taw development scheme

  • 3 Unique holiday adventure!

  • 4 A lost Bideford 'island'

  • 5 What's the time?

  • 6 Two kinds of hovercraft at Bideford

  • 7 Simple Item 138
  • 8 New Post Office

  • 9

    Mrs Whapham finds ferret in Bridgeland Street while shopping
  • 10

    Reds Womens Team Are First To Compete Throughout Season
  • 11 Landmark at Bradworthy

  • 12 Alwington School closing after 120 years

  • 13 Artisans' Club

  • 14 Second Monte Carlo Rally

  • 15 Big develolpment at Calveford

  • 16 Westward Ho! public conveniences get go ahead
  • 17 Torrington in 1967

  • 18 Bideford's new market opens next week

  • 19 Hartland Abbey outdoor staff 60 years ago

  • 20 One thousand visit zoo at Whitsun

  • 21 Train returns to Westleigh straight

  • 22 Future of Torrington almshouses

  • 23 Donkey and horses enjoy carnival drink

  • 24 Mural in the whimsical fashion

  • 25 Colour TV salesman at eight

  • 26 Fishing light goes out at close of poor season

  • 27 New choral society's growing response

  • 28 Sight of a lifetime

  • 29 Panel sprint for Bideford broadcast

  • 30

    Womens Skittles Competition in Buckland Brewer
  • 31

    Wynne Olley's styles impress International Hair Fashion Designer
  • 32 Devil sent packing

  • 33 Council agree to demolition of Chanter's Folly

  • 34 Beach search for mines takes longer

  • 35 Four sisters' nostalgic reunion

  • 36 Wine and beer merchants for 150 years

  • 37 Up-to-date Bideford!

  • 38 Bideford firm develops new non-spill paint

  • 39 Passing of a Torrington landmark

  • 40 Six footed lamb

  • 41 Four hundred residents leave Bideford!

  • 42 Traditions and skills still there

  • 43 Baby Kate goes home to Lundy

  • 44 Holiday scene near Sandymere

  • 45 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

  • 46 Shipbuilding hobby at Hartland

  • 47

    Gift from Bideford Town Council
  • 48 Appledore's largest

  • 49 Peter poses for TV film

  • 50

    Bidefordians
  • 51 New gateway to King George's Fields

  • 52 Joe the ginger tabby is 21

  • 53 The creative urge on Saturday morning

  • 54 Last train from Torrington

  • 55 Students help model St Sidwell

  • 56 Bideford computer stars

  • 57 Yelland potter's exhibition at Bideford

  • 58 Church renovation rejoicing at Northam

  • 59 Yeo vale road ruin provides a mystery

  • 60 Gift plaque on Clovelly council houses

  • 61 Thirty bridges cross Torridge

  • 62 Buckland farm workers to receive long-service awards

  • 63 East-the-Water sets town an example

  • 64 Tomorrow' night's skittles broadcast from Bideford

  • 65 TV contest means big job for Bideford Guides

  • 66 Boys win hockey on the sands challenge

  • 67 Torrington's new amenity

  • 68 Boys from Bideford school complete Ten Tors

  • 69 Off on a great adventure

  • 70 End of the line

  • 71 It really was the 'last time'

  • 72 Westward Ho! Tennis Club Winners
  • 73 Water Board mains spread through villages

  • 74 Chess - their bridge over the years

  • 75 Bideford Liberals' fashion show

  • 76 Watch the dicky bird!

  • 77 Mobile missionary

  • 78 They are parted pro-tem

  • 79 Speeding communications: Bideford firm's new installation

  • 80 Thorn-apple found in Littleham conservatory

  • 81 Emergency ferry services

  • 82 Sweet success at Langtree School

  • 83 Torrington to have first woman mayor

  • 84 Circus comes to town

  • 85 Torrington school's sundial - fashioned by Headmaster

  • 86 Centenary of Landcross Methodist Chapel

  • 87 Penny for the guy

  • 88 Appledore tugs fete London Tower

  • 89 First tankers arrive at new depot

  • 90 Calf thinks of mare as mum

  • 91 Bideford loses training ship

  • 92

    Inter-school Road Safety Quiz Cup Winners
  • 93 Head Barman appointed Torrington Town Crier
  • 94 No ancient Grecian temple this

  • 95 Parkham plan realised

  • 96 Thunderstorm destruction of 25 years ago

  • 97 Getting up steam for tomorrow

  • 98 Happy Days!

  • 99 Works at craft he learned over 65 years ago

  • 100 Battle of the gap at Westward Ho!

  • 101 Smiling welcome to Hartland visitors

  • 102

    Successful motor cycling team
  • 103 Can-carrying over cobbles has disappeared

  • 104 Spray dodging - the new pastime

  • 105 Barley from Bideford to Bonnie Scotland

  • 106

    Was a missionary
  • 107 Loads of black and white

  • 108 Bideford country dancers on TV

  • 109 Launching the 'Golden Hinde'

  • 110

    Gus Honeybun meets local children
  • 111 Warmington's garage ad

  • 112

    Hamburger is part of modern life
  • 113 Teenager Peter Jackson Makes Horror Film
  • 114 He beat the floods

  • 115 Bideford schoolboy's courage recognised

  • 116 Town's second woman mayor in 392 years

  • 117 Bideford's private wharves busier

  • 118

    New gateway
  • 119 Bridging the stream

  • 120 Some mushroom!

  • 121 Yeoi Vale House finally demolished

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

  • 123 Polish custom on Pancake Day

  • 124 Cement-clad boats being built at Northam

  • 125

    Lenwood Squash Club
  • 126 Faints as she wins national competition

  • 127 A story to tell!

  • 128 Eight to strike and a race to win

  • 129

    10-year-old scrambler practices
  • 130 Pretty pennies at Beaford

  • 131 Pet squirrels at Monkleigh

  • 132 A man and his wheel

  • 133 Olympic riders to compete at Bideford Horse Show

  • 134 Farewell to passenger trains

  • 135 Weare Giffard Hall sold for £11,300

  • 136 Born 1883 - still going strong

  • 137 Fundraising trip for RNLI

  • 138 Inscribed Bibles and silver spoons for babies

  • 139 Littleham cow tops 70 tons mark in milk production

  • 140 Recognise this resort?

  • 141

    Double Baptism on Torridge
  • 142 Bideford stock car racing entry comes in second

  • 143 Quads at Thornhillhead

  • 144 Torrington's enterprise's new extensions

  • 145 Lady Churchill congratulates Bideford artists at nursing exhibition

  • 146 Hartland's invitation

  • 147 Puppet characters introduced

  • 148 Bideford Liberal club new lounge bar opened

  • 149 'Out of Appledore' sailing memories

  • 150 Variety in summer weather

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

  • 152 Northam footballers of the future

  • 153 Meredith's ironmongers

  • 154

    Close associations with North Devon
  • 155

    Exhibition of school work
  • 156 First ship in 8 years

  • 157 Bideford Bridge re-opens

  • 158 Clovelly donkey film star

  • 159 The Geneva marionettes

  • 160 Torrington acclaims 400th anniversary of granting of charter

  • 161

    School of Dancing's Annual Display
  • 162 Bideford A.F.C annual dinner
  • 163 Designed and made in Bideford

  • 164 Buckland goes to County Show

  • 165 They set out for Bideford and became lost

  • 166 Cruising down the river

  • 167 Photo mural in Bideford bank

  • 168

    Married in 1908
  • 169 Hartland postman retires

  • 170 A roof-top view - where?

  • 171 In their new robes and hats

  • 172 Five generations link Woolsery, Clovelly and Bideford

  • 173 Just over a year old

  • 174 Shoes certainly not made for walking

  • 175 Cavaliers join the Hunt
  • 176 Jalopy joy for children of Shamwickshire

  • 177 Old Girls revisit Edgehill

  • 178 Eleventh hour bid to save last sailing barge

  • 179 Appledore schooner broadcast

  • 180 Torrington's shelter for the aged

  • 181 Bideford electricity window display qualifies for area competition

  • 182 Tibbles home again - and fish supper

  • 183

    Andre Veillett and Quentin Reed in Judo Demonstration
  • 184 Bideford inquest on French trawlermen opens

  • 185 Alderman Anstey's dream comes tru

  • 186 Bravery against bull at Shebbear rewarded

  • 187 New Estate's view of estuary activities

  • 188 Gloves fit for a king!

  • 189 Instow local art show was 'tremendous success'

  • 190 Move for oldest boatyard on Torridge

  • 191 Escaped crane moves into Kenwith Valley

  • 192 New life for Hartland organ

  • 193 A bird of their own!

  • 194 Allhalland Street - then and now

  • 195 Donkey work made easier at Clovelly

  • 196 New civic medallions

  • 197 Preparations for new Clovelly Court

  • 198 So this is the mainland!

  • 199 Childrens' model of Torrington

  • 200 Westward Ho! combined op

  • 201 An early 'special' to Bideford

  • 202 New art gallery opened

  • 203 Burnard family reunion

  • 204 Service with a smile

  • 205 Bicycle now does donkey work

  • 206 Harvest service in Bideford 'pub' bar

  • 207 Wishing well is pixielated

  • 208

    Birgitta Whittaker
  • 209 Centenary of Gazette

  • 210

    Mums protest in Coronation Road
  • 211 Wilfred and Mabel visit schools and hospital

  • 212 Life begins at 80

  • 213 New fire and ambulance stations

  • 214 Fishermen of Greencliff

  • 215 Spring-cleaning the Ridge

  • 216 Repair work on Long Bridge
  • 217

    Relatives all over the world
  • 218 Success to Festival of the Arts

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

  • 220 Northam wants to continue pumping from river

  • 221 Alverdiscott is proud of its new parish hall

  • 222 Daisy's pride and joy

  • 223 Larkworthy Family play in Shebbear's Football Team
  • 224 Largest salmon caught in Torridge

  • 225 School crossing patrol begins

  • 226 Bideford-Torrington road gets 'carpet coat'

  • 227

    First Girls at Bideford Grammar School take part in Play
  • 228 Quads join a Langtree happy family

  • 229 Bank Holiday weather was beach weather

  • 230 Clovelly nightmare

  • 231 Signed scroll momento of Queen Mother's visit

  • 232 Private home for public pump

  • 233 A craftsman's 'potted' history

  • 234 New addition to Quay front

  • 235 Symbol of Lundy independence

  • 236 Record player of 80 years ago

  • 237 Bideford regatta

  • 238 Picking the pops

  • 239 Ships at Bideford

  • 240 Broomhayes children will keep their winter pet

  • 241 TV features Bideford's New Year bread ceremony

  • 242 Brothers reunion 1947
  • 243 Homage to a well-loved sovereign

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

  • 245

    FA Cup Match for the Robins
  • 246 Hartland Dancers
  • 247 Bideford's gift to Sir Francis

  • 248 X-ray shoe fitting

  • 249 Torrington Youth Club rewarded by party
  • 250 Riverside mystery

  • 251 A Weare Giffard speciality - delicious strawberries

  • 252 Some 240 exhibits

  • 253 Torridge wins on time schedule

  • 254 Bideford Zoo's first baby is big draw

  • 255 North Devon Driving School

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

  • 257 Saving money, wear and tear

  • 258 Sunshine and shade at Appledore

  • 259 Designed all furnishing of new chapel

  • 260 New Lundy stamps

  • 261 Littleham family's five generations

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    Toasted with musical honours
  • 263 Bideford skifflers, they're no squares

  • 264 'Les Girls' of Hartland

  • 265

    Building works
  • 266 Appledore Juniors Football
  • 267

    Cadets are given certificates
  • 268 Revenge in style

  • 269 Making way for the double-deckers

  • 270 Ship-in-bottle world record

  • 271 Eleven million pound scheme's official opening

  • 272 School's link with cargo ship

  • 273

    Holidaying in north Devon
  • 274 Light reading for the lighthouse

  • 275 Bideford childrens' cinema opens

  • 276 Space dominates Hartland carnival

  • 277 Fish nearly pulled him in

  • 278 Panto time at Westward Ho!

  • 279

    Youth Clubs Join Together For Entertainment
  • 280 Twenty-one yachts

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

  • 282 Huntshaw TV mast

  • 283 Decontrol of meat

  • 284 Northam loses thatched cottage landmark

  • 285 Down at the 'Donkey House'

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

  • 287 Tide sweeps under and over the old bridge

  • 288 Lady Godiva comes to Torrington

  • 289 Westward Ho! sand yacht to challenge speed record

  • 290 Puzzle corner at Bideford!

  • 291 Bideford School Junior Choir Sing in France at Twinning Ceremony in Landivisiau
  • 292 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

  • 293 America's tribute to 'J.H.'

  • 294 Steep street of old Bideford

  • 295 Torridge graveyard of wooden hulks

  • 296 Dismantling of wireless mast

  • 297 All for the love of a lady!

  • 298 Bideford shipyard workers cheer new minesweeper

  • 299 Do recall the old windmill at Northam?

  • 300 No sale of Springfield House

  • 301 Television comes to Torridge District

  • 302 Tramps camp by riverside throughout arctic weather

  • 303 All aboard the ark

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    First prize
  • 305 Fleet of foot and fair of face

  • 306 Sooty is quick on the draw

  • 307 Can spring be far away?

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

  • 309 Death - and birth - of a telephone exchange

  • 310 The art of the thatcher

  • 311 River scenes that enchant the visitors

  • 312 Torrington children build igloo
  • 313 No ancient Grecian temple this

  • 314 Safe door weighing two tons

  • 315 Salmon netting at Bideford

  • 316 What the television camera saw at Abbotsham

  • 317 Practical sympathy at Northam

  • 318 Celebrations for 103rd birthday

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

  • 320 Charter granted by Philip and Mary

  • 321 First steel ship built at Bideford

  • 322 Vessel built 300 feet above sea level

  • 323 They never miss a game at Torrington

  • 324 Last of Bideford factory chimney

  • 325 Liked holidays here - so starts business

  • 326 When horses score over the tractor

  • 327 Out of puff!

  • 328

    Appledore boys beat mums at football
  • 329 Appledore boy is youngest recipient of RNLI vellun

  • 330 Lots drawn to prevent dog fight

  • 331 Championship Trophy for Hartland
  • 332 Centuries old but today busier than ever

  • 333 Bideford blacksmith wins English championship

  • 334 Waldon Triplets
  • 335 Photo of town's first car wins prize

  • 336 Finished in 1876

  • 337 Record pebble-throwing day

  • 338 By pony and trap to market

  • 339 Little 'Big Ben'

  • 340 Broomhayes £1,000 Surprise
  • 341 Clovelly custom

  • 342 Picture bought for shillings may be worth thousands

  • 343 Ten year old scrambler

  • 344 New Lundy air-mail stamps

  • 345 For crying out loud!

  • 346 Weare Giffard potato

  • 347 Police station view of Bideford

  • 348 New shipyard on schedule

  • 349 Holiday traffic in Bideford High Street

  • 350 North Devon author featured in TV documentary

  • 351 Picking the pops

  • 352 New look for Torrington Lane

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

  • 354 Still hunting aged 80 and a Field Master

  • 355 Jumble sale fever

  • 356 In the tortoise nursery - eight hatched at Bideford

  • 357 Children's procession with foxgloves

  • 358 Modern living at Bideford

  • 359 Birds' convalescent home at Instow

  • 360 Clovelly's 91 year old horseman

  • 361 A sense of humour in advertising

  • 362 Calligrapher extraordinary

  • 363 Capers on the cobbles

  • 364 Northam's almshouse

  • 365 Appledore's new lifeboat

  • 366 Champagne send-off for Torrington new factory

  • 367 Pannier Market's future?

  • 368 Bideford has built over 500 post-war homes

  • 369 Thrush builds nest in cauliflower

  • 370 Entente cordiale in Bideford

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

  • 372 Rowing triumphs at Bideford

  • 373 Ancestral home nestling in lovely combe

  • 374

    Jinxed School Trip
  • 375 New look in the hayfields

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

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

  • 378 Revived market off to splendid start

  • 379 Bideford's first triplets for 12 years

  • 380 Bideford triplets' first birthday party

  • 381 John Andrew Bread Charity
  • 382 113 years at Instow

  • 383 On her 'maiden' trip from Bideford

  • 384 Bringing shopping home by goat

  • 385 No laughing matter

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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  • 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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  • 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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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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They never miss a game at Torrington

Veterans William Reed, 90 (right) and Tom Cudmore, 83,

have been Torrington supporters for years and still never miss a match, come rain or shine.

6 November 1964 90 and 83 they never miss a game

Mr Reed says that Torrington’s best team played soon after the first world war and can remember practically every player who has turned out for Torrington.

His friend Mr Tom Cudmore also never misses a match, come rain, hail or snow.

Gazette article 6 November 1964

Penny for the guy

Coming events cast their shadows before earlier every year, or so it seems,

and these youngsters were out in Bideford’s High Street on Saturday with their guys in anticipation of November 5th. But perhaps there is a special excuse this year in view of the political fireworks of recent weeks!

16 October 1964 Penny for the guy

Gazette article 16 October 1964

Lots drawn to prevent dog fight

No complications when Northam pets go to school

Children at Northam County Primary school drew lots last week to prevent a fight – a dog fight in fact!

The children were invited to take their pets to school, the visit to coincide with the launching of a branch of the Panda Club – a junior section of the World Wild Life Youth Service – at the school.

9 October 1964 Lots drawn to prevent dog fight

But amongst the cats, kittens, tortoises, white mice, guinea pigs and cage-birds there was only one lone dog – a white poodle. The headmistress, Mrs M.A. Crombie explained: ‘We decided to have just one dog so that we wouldn’t have any fights in school. The children with pet dogs drew lots.’

Gazette article 9 October 1964

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