• 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 Brothers reunion 1947
  • 2 Bideford skifflers, they're no squares

  • 3 New civic medallions

  • 4

    Mums protest in Coronation Road
  • 5 Appledore tugs fete London Tower

  • 6 Bideford's gift to Sir Francis

  • 7 Mobile missionary

  • 8 No laughing matter

  • 9 The Geneva marionettes

  • 10

    Jinxed School Trip
  • 11 Entente cordiale in Bideford

  • 12 Appledore Juniors Football
  • 13 By pony and trap to market

  • 14 Bank Holiday weather was beach weather

  • 15 North Devon Driving School

  • 16 Sweet success at Langtree School

  • 17 Out of puff!

  • 18 New look for Torrington Lane

  • 19 Record player of 80 years ago

  • 20 Cavaliers join the Hunt
  • 21 Shoes certainly not made for walking

  • 22 Polish custom on Pancake Day

  • 23 What is future of railway goods yard?

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

  • 25 Bideford firm develops new non-spill paint

  • 26 Childrens' model of Torrington

  • 27 Celebrations for 103rd birthday

  • 28 Six footed lamb

  • 29 When horses score over the tractor

  • 30 Buckland farm workers to receive long-service awards

  • 31 Panto time at Westward Ho!

  • 32 A story to tell!

  • 33 Weare Giffard Hall sold for £11,300

  • 34

    Lenwood Squash Club
  • 35 Littleham family's five generations

  • 36 Fleet of foot and fair of face

  • 37

    Cadets are given certificates
  • 38 Wilfred and Mabel visit schools and hospital

  • 39 Water Board mains spread through villages

  • 40 What the television camera saw at Abbotsham

  • 41 Centuries old but today busier than ever

  • 42 New gateway to King George's Fields

  • 43

    Double Baptism on Torridge
  • 44 Torrington Youth Club rewarded by party
  • 45 Down at the 'Donkey House'

  • 46 Eleventh hour bid to save last sailing barge

  • 47 In the tortoise nursery - eight hatched at Bideford

  • 48 All for the love of a lady!

  • 49 Photo of town's first car wins prize

  • 50 On her 'maiden' trip from Bideford

  • 51 Bideford schoolboy's courage recognised

  • 52 Town's second woman mayor in 392 years

  • 53 Charter granted by Philip and Mary

  • 54 Speeding communications: Bideford firm's new installation

  • 55 Riverside mystery

  • 56 New choral society's growing response

  • 57 Farewell to passenger trains

  • 58 Bideford Bridge re-opens

  • 59 Launching the 'Golden Hinde'

  • 60 Lady Godiva comes to Torrington

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

  • 62 It really was the 'last time'

  • 63 Yelland potter's exhibition at Bideford

  • 64 No ancient Grecian temple this

  • 65 Bideford computer stars

  • 66 Torrington children build igloo
  • 67 Works at craft he learned over 65 years ago

  • 68 Championship Trophy for Hartland
  • 69 Colour TV salesman at eight

  • 70 Fishermen of Greencliff

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

  • 72 Donkey and horses enjoy carnival drink

  • 73 Fish nearly pulled him in

  • 74 Huntshaw TV mast

  • 75 Preparations for new Clovelly Court

  • 76 Lady Churchill congratulates Bideford artists at nursing exhibition

  • 77 Homage to a well-loved sovereign

  • 78 Bideford triplets' first birthday party

  • 79 Council agree to demolition of Chanter's Folly

  • 80 Sooty is quick on the draw

  • 81 North Devon author featured in TV documentary

  • 82 Burnard family reunion

  • 83 New look in the hayfields

  • 84 Liked holidays here - so starts business

  • 85 Holiday traffic in Bideford High Street

  • 86 Tide sweeps under and over the old bridge

  • 87 Torrington's new amenity

  • 88 Instow local art show was 'tremendous success'

  • 89

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

  • 91 Boys from Bideford school complete Ten Tors

  • 92 Westward Ho! public conveniences get go ahead
  • 93 Some 240 exhibits

  • 94 Bringing shopping home by goat

  • 95 No sale of Springfield House

  • 96 Second Monte Carlo Rally

  • 97 Bideford blacksmith wins English championship

  • 98 Train returns to Westleigh straight

  • 99 Sight of a lifetime

  • 100 Calligrapher extraordinary

  • 101 Northam footballers of the future

  • 102

    10-year-old scrambler practices
  • 103 Life begins at 80

  • 104 Steep street of old Bideford

  • 105 Rowing triumphs at Bideford

  • 106 A bird of their own!

  • 107 Can-carrying over cobbles has disappeared

  • 108 Unique holiday adventure!

  • 109 Circus comes to town

  • 110 Off on a great adventure

  • 111 A craftsman's 'potted' history

  • 112 Donkey work made easier at Clovelly

  • 113 'Les Girls' of Hartland

  • 114

    Relatives all over the world
  • 115 Torrington's shelter for the aged

  • 116 Photo mural in Bideford bank

  • 117 School's link with cargo ship

  • 118 He beat the floods

  • 119 So this is the mainland!

  • 120 Future of Torrington almshouses

  • 121 Symbol of Lundy independence

  • 122 Clovelly custom

  • 123 Safe door weighing two tons

  • 124 Big develolpment at Calveford

  • 125 Inscribed Bibles and silver spoons for babies

  • 126 Bideford-Torrington road gets 'carpet coat'

  • 127 Clovelly nightmare

  • 128 Appledore's new lifeboat

  • 129 Bideford Liberals' fashion show

  • 130 Alverdiscott is proud of its new parish hall

  • 131 Buckland goes to County Show

  • 132 Eight to strike and a race to win

  • 133 Puppet characters introduced

  • 134 Allhalland Street - then and now

  • 135 Jumble sale fever

  • 136

    Gift from Bideford Town Council
  • 137

    New gateway
  • 138 Capers on the cobbles

  • 139 Loads of black and white

  • 140

    Successful motor cycling team
  • 141 Torrington in 1967

  • 142 New addition to Quay front

  • 143

    School of Dancing's Annual Display
  • 144 Chess - their bridge over the years

  • 145 Wishing well is pixielated

  • 146

    First prize
  • 147 Salmon netting at Bideford

  • 148 Olympic riders to compete at Bideford Horse Show

  • 149 Fundraising trip for RNLI

  • 150 Death - and birth - of a telephone exchange

  • 151 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

  • 152 Born 1883 - still going strong

  • 153 First steel ship built at Bideford

  • 154 They never miss a game at Torrington

  • 155 Little 'Big Ben'

  • 156 Bridging the stream

  • 157 Appledore boy is youngest recipient of RNLI vellun

  • 158 Holiday scene near Sandymere

  • 159 TV features Bideford's New Year bread ceremony

  • 160 East-the-Water sets town an example

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

  • 162 Yeoi Vale House finally demolished

  • 163 Largest salmon caught in Torridge

  • 164 Torridge wins on time schedule

  • 165 Practical sympathy at Northam

  • 166 Bideford shipyard workers cheer new minesweeper

  • 167

    FA Cup Match for the Robins
  • 168 Mural in the whimsical fashion

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

  • 170 Service with a smile

  • 171 Torrington acclaims 400th anniversary of granting of charter

  • 172 The art of the thatcher

  • 173 A lost Bideford 'island'

  • 174 Bideford's new market opens next week

  • 175 Ship-in-bottle world record

  • 176 John Andrew Bread Charity
  • 177 Still hunting aged 80 and a Field Master

  • 178 Clovelly's 91 year old horseman

  • 179 Beach search for mines takes longer

  • 180 Happy Days!

  • 181 Torrington's enterprise's new extensions

  • 182 Thirty bridges cross Torridge

  • 183 New Estate's view of estuary activities

  • 184 Centenary of Gazette

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

  • 186 Appledore schooner broadcast

  • 187 Record pebble-throwing day

  • 188 Bideford electricity window display qualifies for area competition

  • 189 Escaped crane moves into Kenwith Valley

  • 190 Picking the pops

  • 191 Alderman Anstey's dream comes tru

  • 192 Picking the pops

  • 193 Just over a year old

  • 194 Peter poses for TV film

  • 195

    Andre Veillett and Quentin Reed in Judo Demonstration
  • 196 New shipyard on schedule

  • 197 Spring-cleaning the Ridge

  • 198 Bideford regatta

  • 199

    Hamburger is part of modern life
  • 200 Bideford inquest on French trawlermen opens

  • 201 Gift plaque on Clovelly council houses

  • 202 Teenager Peter Jackson Makes Horror Film
  • 203 Last train from Torrington

  • 204 Dismantling of wireless mast

  • 205 Passing of a Torrington landmark

  • 206 New fire and ambulance stations

  • 207 Northam's almshouse

  • 208 Police station view of Bideford

  • 209 Lots drawn to prevent dog fight

  • 210 Wine and beer merchants for 150 years

  • 211 Tomorrow' night's skittles broadcast from Bideford

  • 212 A Weare Giffard speciality - delicious strawberries

  • 213 No ancient Grecian temple this

  • 214 Four sisters' nostalgic reunion

  • 215 Hartland Abbey outdoor staff 60 years ago

  • 216 Parkham plan realised

  • 217 Boys win hockey on the sands challenge

  • 218 TV contest means big job for Bideford Guides

  • 219 What's the time?

  • 220 A man and his wheel

  • 221 Northam wants to continue pumping from river

  • 222 Last of Bideford factory chimney

  • 223 School crossing patrol begins

  • 224 Bideford's first triplets for 12 years

  • 225 Do recall the old windmill at Northam?

  • 226 Champagne send-off for Torrington new factory

  • 227 An early 'special' to Bideford

  • 228

    Exhibition of school work
  • 229

    Building works
  • 230 Penny for the guy

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

  • 232 Hartland's invitation

  • 233 Bideford's private wharves busier

  • 234

    Toasted with musical honours
  • 235 New art gallery opened

  • 236

    Birgitta Whittaker
  • 237 Ten year old scrambler

  • 238 Devil sent packing

  • 239 Some mushroom!

  • 240 Bideford country dancers on TV

  • 241 Four hundred residents leave Bideford!

  • 242

    Inter-school Road Safety Quiz Cup Winners
  • 243 New Post Office

  • 244 Weare Giffard potato

  • 245 Bravery against bull at Shebbear rewarded

  • 246 Puzzle corner at Bideford!

  • 247 Broomhayes £1,000 Surprise
  • 248 Broomhayes children will keep their winter pet

  • 249

    First Girls at Bideford Grammar School take part in Play
  • 250 Revived market off to splendid start

  • 251 For crying out loud!

  • 252 Cruising down the river

  • 253 The creative urge on Saturday morning

  • 254 Bideford Liberal club new lounge bar opened

  • 255 They are parted pro-tem

  • 256 Meredith's ironmongers

  • 257 Variety in summer weather

  • 258 Bideford School Junior Choir Sing in France at Twinning Ceremony in Landivisiau
  • 259 Can spring be far away?

  • 260 Harvest service in Bideford 'pub' bar

  • 261 Bideford loses training ship

  • 262 They set out for Bideford and became lost

  • 263 Torrington to have first woman mayor

  • 264 Finished in 1876

  • 265 Revenge in style

  • 266 Five generations link Woolsery, Clovelly and Bideford

  • 267 Twenty-one yachts

  • 268 Signed scroll momento of Queen Mother's visit

  • 269

    Bidefordians
  • 270 Thrush builds nest in cauliflower

  • 271 Success to Festival of the Arts

  • 272 Bideford Zoo's first baby is big draw

  • 273 Gloves fit for a king!

  • 274 Pannier Market's future?

  • 275 Repair work on Long Bridge
  • 276 Malibou boys are all-the-year-round surfers

  • 277 Old Girls revisit Edgehill

  • 278

    Close associations with North Devon
  • 279 Pretty pennies at Beaford

  • 280 Calf thinks of mare as mum

  • 281 New Lundy air-mail stamps

  • 282 Centenary of Landcross Methodist Chapel

  • 283 River scenes that enchant the visitors

  • 284 Bideford has built over 500 post-war homes

  • 285 X-ray shoe fitting

  • 286 Vessel built 300 feet above sea level

  • 287 Students help model St Sidwell

  • 288

    Womens Skittles Competition in Buckland Brewer
  • 289 Westward Ho! Tennis Club Winners
  • 290 Joe the ginger tabby is 21

  • 291 Westward Ho! sand yacht to challenge speed record

  • 292 Head Barman appointed Torrington Town Crier
  • 293 Westward Ho! combined op

  • 294 Simple Item 138
  • 295 Quads join a Langtree happy family

  • 296 All aboard the ark

  • 297 Tibbles home again - and fish supper

  • 298 Tramps camp by riverside throughout arctic weather

  • 299

    Appledore boys beat mums at football
  • 300 Northam loses thatched cottage landmark

  • 301 Bideford childrens' cinema opens

  • 302 Light reading for the lighthouse

  • 303 A sense of humour in advertising

  • 304

    Youth Clubs Join Together For Entertainment
  • 305 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

  • 306 Torridge graveyard of wooden hulks

  • 307 113 years at Instow

  • 308 Ships at Bideford

  • 309 In their new robes and hats

  • 310 First ship in 8 years

  • 311 Emergency ferry services

  • 312 Modern living at Bideford

  • 313 Thorn-apple found in Littleham conservatory

  • 314 Baby Kate goes home to Lundy

  • 315 'Out of Appledore' sailing memories

  • 316

    Mrs Whapham finds ferret in Bridgeland Street while shopping
  • 317 Traditions and skills still there

  • 318 Spray dodging - the new pastime

  • 319 Larkworthy Family play in Shebbear's Football Team
  • 320 America's tribute to 'J.H.'

  • 321 Birds' convalescent home at Instow

  • 322 Appledore's largest

  • 323 Move for oldest boatyard on Torridge

  • 324 One thousand visit zoo at Whitsun

  • 325 Getting up steam for tomorrow

  • 326 Up-to-date Bideford!

  • 327

    Holidaying in north Devon
  • 328 Clovelly donkey film star

  • 329 Hartland Dancers
  • 330 Panel sprint for Bideford broadcast

  • 331 Decontrol of meat

  • 332 Faints as she wins national competition

  • 333 Jalopy joy for children of Shamwickshire

  • 334 Space dominates Hartland carnival

  • 335 Watch the dicky bird!

  • 336 Thunderstorm destruction of 25 years ago

  • 337

    Married in 1908
  • 338 Church renovation rejoicing at Northam

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

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

  • 341 Shipbuilding hobby at Hartland

  • 342 Waldon Triplets
  • 343 Torrington school's sundial - fashioned by Headmaster

  • 344 Artisans' Club

  • 345 Bicycle now does donkey work

  • 346 New life for Hartland organ

  • 347 Sunshine and shade at Appledore

  • 348 End of the line

  • 349 Barley from Bideford to Bonnie Scotland

  • 350 Daisy's pride and joy

  • 351 Saving money, wear and tear

  • 352 Recognise this resort?

  • 353 Landmark at Bradworthy

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

  • 355 New Lundy stamps

  • 356 Warmington's garage ad

  • 357 Children's procession with foxgloves

  • 358

    Was a missionary
  • 359 Smiling welcome to Hartland visitors

  • 360 Quads at Thornhillhead

  • 361 Bideford A.F.C annual dinner
  • 362 Yeo vale road ruin provides a mystery

  • 363 Designed all furnishing of new chapel

  • 364 Fishing light goes out at close of poor season

  • 365 First tankers arrive at new depot

  • 366 Eight and a half million pound Taw development scheme

  • 367 Two kinds of hovercraft at Bideford

  • 368 A roof-top view - where?

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

  • 370

    Wynne Olley's styles impress International Hair Fashion Designer
  • 371 Designed and made in Bideford

  • 372 Alwington School closing after 120 years

  • 373 Hartland postman retires

  • 374 Picture bought for shillings may be worth thousands

  • 375 Cement-clad boats being built at Northam

  • 376

    Reds Womens Team Are First To Compete Throughout Season
  • 377 Private home for public pump

  • 378 Pet squirrels at Monkleigh

  • 379 Battle of the gap at Westward Ho!

  • 380 Television comes to Torridge District

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

  • 382 Bideford stock car racing entry comes in second

  • 383 Littleham cow tops 70 tons mark in milk production

  • 384 Eleven million pound scheme's official opening

  • 385 Ancestral home nestling in lovely combe

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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New addition to Quay front

An artist’s impression

of what the new head office building of the Western Counties Building Society on Bideford Quay will look like when completed in a little over a year’s time.

New addition to Quay front

Preliminary work has already begun on the demolition of the present premises, formerly occupied by Messrs. Perkins and Son, fruiter and florist. Only the back wall of the present building will be retained.

The society, now in its 100th year and Devon’s largest, has been in its present premises at the corner of Grenville Street and Market Place since September 1934. Earlier it was in premises lower down Grenville Street, and its first office 100 years ago was No. 2, Mill Street.

Gazette articled 10 August 1962

 

 

Gazette article 10 August 1962

Has designed all furnishings of new chapel

Bideford artist Reginald Lloyd

and his work featured in a recent issue of ‘Canvas’ Westward Television’s monthly magazine of the arts. He finds his inspiration as an artist in the Westcountry, painting abstract landscapes, sculpting and – one of his keenest interests – gaining international recognition as a designer of church interiors.

Designs all furnishings of new chapel

In the new chapel at the Stella Maris Convent School at Bideford he is doing something he believes no other artist has had the chance to do – design every article and piece of furniture and paint the pictures. This will include the altar, the ironwork altar rails and screen, the pews, the candlesticks and the paining of the Crucifixion.

Gazette article 27 April 1962

Appledore’s new lifeboat

Appledore’s new lifeboat,

which has undergone engine trials, will, it is hoped, be ready to leave the yards of her Isle of Wight builders next month. Provisional date for delivery is 15 May. Travelling to the Isle of Wight to fetch her will probably be Coxswain Sydney Cann, the mechanic Mr Leon Richards and Capt. Pat Brennan (local secretary of the R.N.L.I.). Provisional date for the naming ceremony is 27 June. She will be handed over by Sir Eric Seal, representing the committee of management.

Appledores new lifeboat

Gazette article 19 April 1962

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