• 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 Future of Torrington almshouses

  • 2 Bideford triplets' first birthday party

  • 3 Eleven million pound scheme's official opening

  • 4 Appledore's largest

  • 5 Weare Giffard potato

  • 6 Works at craft he learned over 65 years ago

  • 7 Jumble sale fever

  • 8 Bideford Liberal club new lounge bar opened

  • 9 No laughing matter

  • 10

    Jinxed School Trip
  • 11 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

  • 12

    FA Cup Match for the Robins
  • 13 Weare Giffard Hall sold for £11,300

  • 14 Torridge graveyard of wooden hulks

  • 15 Designed and made in Bideford

  • 16 Repair work on Long Bridge
  • 17 Speeding communications: Bideford firm's new installation

  • 18 Bideford's gift to Sir Francis

  • 19 Quads join a Langtree happy family

  • 20 First tankers arrive at new depot

  • 21

    School of Dancing's Annual Display
  • 22 Record player of 80 years ago

  • 23 Larkworthy Family play in Shebbear's Football Team
  • 24 Faints as she wins national competition

  • 25

    Married in 1908
  • 26 Pannier Market's future?

  • 27 Torrington children build igloo
  • 28

    Youth Clubs Join Together For Entertainment
  • 29 Bideford inquest on French trawlermen opens

  • 30 New choral society's growing response

  • 31 Torrington's new amenity

  • 32 Mobile missionary

  • 33 'Les Girls' of Hartland

  • 34 New Lundy air-mail stamps

  • 35 Bideford's new market opens next week

  • 36 The creative urge on Saturday morning

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

  • 38 New addition to Quay front

  • 39 Steep street of old Bideford

  • 40 New Estate's view of estuary activities

  • 41 Bicycle now does donkey work

  • 42 Salmon netting at Bideford

  • 43 Can spring be far away?

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

  • 45 Quads at Thornhillhead

  • 46 Riverside mystery

  • 47 Clovelly custom

  • 48 Some 240 exhibits

  • 49 Buckland farm workers to receive long-service awards

  • 50 Wishing well is pixielated

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

  • 52 They are parted pro-tem

  • 53 Police station view of Bideford

  • 54 All for the love of a lady!

  • 55 Donkey work made easier at Clovelly

  • 56 Westward Ho! sand yacht to challenge speed record

  • 57 North Devon author featured in TV documentary

  • 58 John Andrew Bread Charity
  • 59 Bideford 'What's my line?' challenger

  • 60 All aboard the ark

  • 61

    Womens Skittles Competition in Buckland Brewer
  • 62 Recognise this resort?

  • 63 Yeoi Vale House finally demolished

  • 64 Smiling welcome to Hartland visitors

  • 65 Torrington acclaims 400th anniversary of granting of charter

  • 66 Torrington to have first woman mayor

  • 67 Appledore boy is youngest recipient of RNLI vellun

  • 68 Saving money, wear and tear

  • 69 Train returns to Westleigh straight

  • 70 Vessel built 300 feet above sea level

  • 71 On her 'maiden' trip from Bideford

  • 72 Appledore Juniors Football
  • 73 Bideford has built over 500 post-war homes

  • 74 'Out of Appledore' sailing memories

  • 75 Yeo vale road ruin provides a mystery

  • 76 Battle of the gap at Westward Ho!

  • 77 Boys from Bideford school complete Ten Tors

  • 78 Burnard family reunion

  • 79 Just over a year old

  • 80 Light reading for the lighthouse

  • 81

    Lenwood Squash Club
  • 82 New Post Office

  • 83 What is future of railway goods yard?

  • 84 Peter poses for TV film

  • 85 Simple Item 138
  • 86 Lots drawn to prevent dog fight

  • 87 Westward Ho! Tennis Club Winners
  • 88 Diamond Jubilee of St Peter's Church, East-the-Water

  • 89 By pony and trap to market

  • 90 Huntshaw TV mast

  • 91 Preparations for new Clovelly Court

  • 92 It really was the 'last time'

  • 93 A man and his wheel

  • 94 Some mushroom!

  • 95 Getting up steam for tomorrow

  • 96 Inscribed Bibles and silver spoons for babies

  • 97 America's tribute to 'J.H.'

  • 98 Hartland Abbey outdoor staff 60 years ago

  • 99

    Mums protest in Coronation Road
  • 100 First ship in 8 years

  • 101 A craftsman's 'potted' history

  • 102 They set out for Bideford and became lost

  • 103 Charter granted by Philip and Mary

  • 104 Hartland postman retires

  • 105 Childrens' model of Torrington

  • 106 Sunshine and shade at Appledore

  • 107 Torrington's shelter for the aged

  • 108 Hartland Dancers
  • 109 Old Girls revisit Edgehill

  • 110 The art of the thatcher

  • 111 Bideford country dancers on TV

  • 112

    Wynne Olley's styles impress International Hair Fashion Designer
  • 113 Last train from Torrington

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

  • 115 Torridge wins on time schedule

  • 116 Space dominates Hartland carnival

  • 117 Polish custom on Pancake Day

  • 118 Church renovation rejoicing at Northam

  • 119 Allhalland Street - then and now

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

  • 121

    Inter-school Road Safety Quiz Cup Winners
  • 122 Practical sympathy at Northam

  • 123 Alverdiscott is proud of its new parish hall

  • 124

    Birgitta Whittaker
  • 125 Service with a smile

  • 126 Cement-clad boats being built at Northam

  • 127 Head Barman appointed Torrington Town Crier
  • 128 A bird of their own!

  • 129 Town's second woman mayor in 392 years

  • 130 Wine and beer merchants for 150 years

  • 131 Symbol of Lundy independence

  • 132 New fire and ambulance stations

  • 133 Fishing light goes out at close of poor season

  • 134 Colour TV salesman at eight

  • 135 Life begins at 80

  • 136 New look for Torrington Lane

  • 137 Tibbles home again - and fish supper

  • 138 Torrington's enterprise's new extensions

  • 139 Rowing triumphs at Bideford

  • 140 Five generations link Woolsery, Clovelly and Bideford

  • 141 Thrush builds nest in cauliflower

  • 142 Watch the dicky bird!

  • 143 Bravery against bull at Shebbear rewarded

  • 144 Thunderstorm destruction of 25 years ago

  • 145 Instow local art show was 'tremendous success'

  • 146 Alwington School closing after 120 years

  • 147 Bideford schoolboy's courage recognised

  • 148 Still hunting aged 80 and a Field Master

  • 149 Devil sent packing

  • 150 Modern living at Bideford

  • 151 A Weare Giffard speciality - delicious strawberries

  • 152 Spray dodging - the new pastime

  • 153 Bideford loses training ship

  • 154 Holiday traffic in Bideford High Street

  • 155 Penny for the guy

  • 156 Twenty-one yachts

  • 157 Bideford skifflers, they're no squares

  • 158 No sale of Springfield House

  • 159 Traditions and skills still there

  • 160 Barley from Bideford to Bonnie Scotland

  • 161 Picking the pops

  • 162 Big develolpment at Calveford

  • 163 Homage to a well-loved sovereign

  • 164

    Double Baptism on Torridge
  • 165 Capers on the cobbles

  • 166 Last of Bideford factory chimney

  • 167 Broomhayes children will keep their winter pet

  • 168 Variety in summer weather

  • 169 Bideford Zoo's first baby is big draw

  • 170 Bideford stock car racing entry comes in second

  • 171 Spring-cleaning the Ridge

  • 172 Lady Godiva comes to Torrington

  • 173 Northam wants to continue pumping from river

  • 174 Four hundred residents leave Bideford!

  • 175 Farewell to passenger trains

  • 176 Largest salmon caught in Torridge

  • 177

    Gus Honeybun meets local children
  • 178 New shipyard on schedule

  • 179

    Appledore boys beat mums at football
  • 180 One thousand visit zoo at Whitsun

  • 181 Yelland potter's exhibition at Bideford

  • 182 Up-to-date Bideford!

  • 183 Bideford's first triplets for 12 years

  • 184 River scenes that enchant the visitors

  • 185 Buckland goes to County Show

  • 186 Bridging the stream

  • 187 Eight and a half million pound Taw development scheme

  • 188 Meredith's ironmongers

  • 189 Celebrations for 103rd birthday

  • 190 Decontrol of meat

  • 191 Alderman Anstey's dream comes tru

  • 192 New look in the hayfields

  • 193 Littleham family's five generations

  • 194

    Exhibition of school work
  • 195 Bideford A.F.C annual dinner
  • 196 113 years at Instow

  • 197 For crying out loud!

  • 198 Centenary of Gazette

  • 199 Bideford regatta

  • 200 Northam footballers of the future

  • 201 Revenge in style

  • 202

    Cadets are given certificates
  • 203 Chess - their bridge over the years

  • 204 Bideford Liberals' fashion show

  • 205 Thirty bridges cross Torridge

  • 206 Death - and birth - of a telephone exchange

  • 207

    Successful motor cycling team
  • 208

    Mrs Whapham finds ferret in Bridgeland Street while shopping
  • 209 Mural in the whimsical fashion

  • 210 Clovelly donkey film star

  • 211

    New gateway
  • 212 A sense of humour in advertising

  • 213 Emergency ferry services

  • 214 Passing of a Torrington landmark

  • 215

    Holidaying in north Devon
  • 216 New gateway to King George's Fields

  • 217 X-ray shoe fitting

  • 218 Bringing shopping home by goat

  • 219 Ten year old scrambler

  • 220 Daisy's pride and joy

  • 221 Fundraising trip for RNLI

  • 222 Calf thinks of mare as mum

  • 223 Bideford electricity window display qualifies for area competition

  • 224 Sight of a lifetime

  • 225 Joe the ginger tabby is 21

  • 226 Launching the 'Golden Hinde'

  • 227 Teenager Peter Jackson Makes Horror Film
  • 228 Puzzle corner at Bideford!

  • 229 Fishermen of Greencliff

  • 230 What the television camera saw at Abbotsham

  • 231 Champagne send-off for Torrington new factory

  • 232 Littleham cow tops 70 tons mark in milk production

  • 233 Beach search for mines takes longer

  • 234 End of the line

  • 235 A story to tell!

  • 236 School crossing patrol begins

  • 237 Can-carrying over cobbles has disappeared

  • 238 In their new robes and hats

  • 239 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

  • 240 Sooty is quick on the draw

  • 241 New Lundy stamps

  • 242 Northam loses thatched cottage landmark

  • 243 Sweet success at Langtree School

  • 244 Bideford School Junior Choir Sing in France at Twinning Ceremony in Landivisiau
  • 245 Do recall the old windmill at Northam?

  • 246 Centuries old but today busier than ever

  • 247 Children's procession with foxgloves

  • 248 Torrington Youth Club rewarded by party
  • 249 Waldon Triplets
  • 250 Boys win hockey on the sands challenge

  • 251 The Geneva marionettes

  • 252 Pet squirrels at Monkleigh

  • 253 Clovelly's 91 year old horseman

  • 254 Brothers reunion 1947
  • 255 Landmark at Bradworthy

  • 256

    10-year-old scrambler practices
  • 257 Council agree to demolition of Chanter's Folly

  • 258

    Building works
  • 259 North Devon Driving School

  • 260 Little 'Big Ben'

  • 261 Making way for the double-deckers

  • 262 Lady Churchill congratulates Bideford artists at nursing exhibition

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

  • 264 Olympic riders to compete at Bideford Horse Show

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    Toasted with musical honours
  • 266 Ships at Bideford

  • 267 Northam's almshouse

  • 268 New life for Hartland organ

  • 269 Success to Festival of the Arts

  • 270 Escaped crane moves into Kenwith Valley

  • 271 TV features Bideford's New Year bread ceremony

  • 272 He beat the floods

  • 273 New civic medallions

  • 274 Westward Ho! combined op

  • 275 New art gallery opened

  • 276 No ancient Grecian temple this

  • 277 An early 'special' to Bideford

  • 278 Entente cordiale in Bideford

  • 279 Baby Kate goes home to Lundy

  • 280 Cavaliers join the Hunt
  • 281 Artisans' Club

  • 282 Record pebble-throwing day

  • 283 Championship Trophy for Hartland
  • 284

    Close associations with North Devon
  • 285 Happy Days!

  • 286 Bideford computer stars

  • 287 Fleet of foot and fair of face

  • 288 No ancient Grecian temple this

  • 289 Hartland's invitation

  • 290 In the tortoise nursery - eight hatched at Bideford

  • 291 Bideford firm develops new non-spill paint

  • 292 Birds' convalescent home at Instow

  • 293 So this is the mainland!

  • 294 A lost Bideford 'island'

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    Relatives all over the world
  • 296 Clovelly nightmare

  • 297 Pretty pennies at Beaford

  • 298 Born 1883 - still going strong

  • 299 Puppet characters introduced

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

  • 301 Off on a great adventure

  • 302 Tomorrow' night's skittles broadcast from Bideford

  • 303 Picking the pops

  • 304 Appledore schooner broadcast

  • 305 Eight to strike and a race to win

  • 306 They never miss a game at Torrington

  • 307 Fish nearly pulled him in

  • 308

    Gift from Bideford Town Council
  • 309 Bideford childrens' cinema opens

  • 310

    Reds Womens Team Are First To Compete Throughout Season
  • 311 Safe door weighing two tons

  • 312 Eleventh hour bid to save last sailing barge

  • 313 Picture bought for shillings may be worth thousands

  • 314 Two kinds of hovercraft at Bideford

  • 315 Ancestral home nestling in lovely combe

  • 316 When horses score over the tractor

  • 317 Tide sweeps under and over the old bridge

  • 318

    Was a missionary
  • 319 Revived market off to splendid start

  • 320 Dismantling of wireless mast

  • 321 Bideford's private wharves busier

  • 322 Appledore's new lifeboat

  • 323 Bideford blacksmith wins English championship

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

  • 325 Unique holiday adventure!

  • 326 Water Board mains spread through villages

  • 327 Ship-in-bottle world record

  • 328 Bank Holiday weather was beach weather

  • 329 Cruising down the river

  • 330 Six footed lamb

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    First prize
  • 332 Panto time at Westward Ho!

  • 333 Down at the 'Donkey House'

  • 334 Bideford shipyard workers cheer new minesweeper

  • 335 Out of puff!

  • 336 East-the-Water sets town an example

  • 337 TV contest means big job for Bideford Guides

  • 338

    Hamburger is part of modern life
  • 339 A roof-top view - where?

  • 340 Gift plaque on Clovelly council houses

  • 341 Wilfred and Mabel visit schools and hospital

  • 342 Second Monte Carlo Rally

  • 343 School's link with cargo ship

  • 344 Finished in 1876

  • 345 Circus comes to town

  • 346 Private home for public pump

  • 347 Gloves fit for a king!

  • 348 Loads of black and white

  • 349

    Andre Veillett and Quentin Reed in Judo Demonstration
  • 350 Shipbuilding hobby at Hartland

  • 351 Parkham plan realised

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

  • 353 Warmington's garage ad

  • 354 First steel ship built at Bideford

  • 355 Signed scroll momento of Queen Mother's visit

  • 356 Westward Ho! public conveniences get go ahead
  • 357 Tramps camp by riverside throughout arctic weather

  • 358 Holiday scene near Sandymere

  • 359 Centenary of Landcross Methodist Chapel

  • 360 Television comes to Torridge District

  • 361 Bideford Bridge re-opens

  • 362 Panel sprint for Bideford broadcast

  • 363 Jalopy joy for children of Shamwickshire

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

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

  • 366 Shoes certainly not made for walking

  • 367 Thorn-apple found in Littleham conservatory

  • 368 Torrington in 1967

  • 369 What's the time?

  • 370 Calligrapher extraordinary

  • 371 Harvest service in Bideford 'pub' bar

  • 372 Liked holidays here - so starts business

  • 373 Designed all furnishing of new chapel

  • 374

    Bidefordians
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    First Girls at Bideford Grammar School take part in Play
  • 376 Four sisters' nostalgic reunion

  • 377 Appledore tugs fete London Tower

  • 378 Photo of town's first car wins prize

  • 379 Broomhayes £1,000 Surprise
  • 380 Move for oldest boatyard on Torridge

  • 381 Torrington school's sundial - fashioned by Headmaster

  • 382 Donkey and horses enjoy carnival drink

  • 383 Bideford-Torrington road gets 'carpet coat'

  • 384 Photo mural in Bideford bank

  • 385 Students help model St Sidwell

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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Quads join a Langtree happy family

All pals together on Barns Farm, Langtree, the home of the Mills family

The proud mother of quads is a Closewool and she is the first ewe to present Mr L.G. Mills with a foursome since he began farming about 18 years ago. All the offspring are thriving, for which three-year-old Helen, Mr and Mrs Mills’ youngest child, can take some credit. She is always on hand with the feeding bottle when the need arises.

Quads join a Langtree happy family

The rabbits being held by sons Brian and Peter were given to the sons some three years ago and after a while they were found a home in a disused fowl pen. They soon got out and they have never been penned since and roam the farm at will. They help themselves to food from the fowl pen and the meal house but have remained as tame as when in a hutch.

Gazette article 2 March 1962

 

Littleham family’s five generations

Visitors around the chair

of 96-year-old Mrs Eliza Wise, a patient at the Torridge Hospital, Bideford, represent, with her, five generations of a Littleham family.

Littleham familys five generations

Mrs Wise will be 97 next month, is enjoying life and possesses all her faculties.

Her daughter is Mrs Mary Ann Beer of Mouth Pleasant, Littleham, who is 77. She and her husband John celebrated their golden wedding last April. Their son, 46 year old Mr Arthur Beer also lives at Mount Pleasant and has a daughter Mrs Margaret Ann Smale of the same address, who a month ago gave birth to a daughter, Mrs Wise’s great-great-grand-daughter, christened Mandy Sylvia Mary.

Gazette article 16 February 1962

 

Bideford country dancers on TV

Bideford country dancers ‘came to life’ on Westward Television in a recent programme.

Left is Mr Peter Trapnell with Mrs Jo Trapnell; in the centre is a dancer from Okehampton, whose partner is Miss Frances Turner of Bideford. On the right in the foreground are two dancers from Exeter and behind them is Mr Michael Gentry (Barnstaple) dancing with his partner (obscured) Miss Andy Thurston (Bideford).

Bideford country dancers on TV

Gazette article 19 January 1962

 

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