• 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 Pet squirrels at Monkleigh

  • 2 Eight to strike and a race to win

  • 3 First ship in 8 years

  • 4

    FA Cup Match for the Robins
  • 5 Bideford A.F.C annual dinner
  • 6 Huntshaw TV mast

  • 7 'Out of Appledore' sailing memories

  • 8 Torrington Youth Club rewarded by party
  • 9 Panto time at Westward Ho!

  • 10

    Lenwood Squash Club
  • 11 Bideford-Torrington road gets 'carpet coat'

  • 12 Eleven million pound scheme's official opening

  • 13 Police station view of Bideford

  • 14 What's the time?

  • 15 Clovelly custom

  • 16 Bicycle now does donkey work

  • 17 Bideford shipyard workers cheer new minesweeper

  • 18 Northam loses thatched cottage landmark

  • 19 Revived market off to splendid start

  • 20 Weare Giffard potato

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

  • 22 Happy Days!

  • 23 Town's second woman mayor in 392 years

  • 24 The Geneva marionettes

  • 25 Do recall the old windmill at Northam?

  • 26

    Jinxed School Trip
  • 27 Teenager Peter Jackson Makes Horror Film
  • 28 Can-carrying over cobbles has disappeared

  • 29 Torrington school's sundial - fashioned by Headmaster

  • 30 Broomhayes £1,000 Surprise
  • 31 Safe door weighing two tons

  • 32 Escaped crane moves into Kenwith Valley

  • 33 Torrington's shelter for the aged

  • 34

    Gus Honeybun meets local children
  • 35 Waldon Triplets
  • 36 Finished in 1876

  • 37 Launching the 'Golden Hinde'

  • 38 Bideford stock car racing entry comes in second

  • 39 Steep street of old Bideford

  • 40

    Holidaying in north Devon
  • 41

    Exhibition of school work
  • 42 A roof-top view - where?

  • 43 Thirty bridges cross Torridge

  • 44 A bird of their own!

  • 45 Charter granted by Philip and Mary

  • 46 Torrington in 1967

  • 47 Traditions and skills still there

  • 48 No ancient Grecian temple this

  • 49 Riverside mystery

  • 50 Fleet of foot and fair of face

  • 51 Landmark at Bradworthy

  • 52 Bank Holiday weather was beach weather

  • 53 Speeding communications: Bideford firm's new installation

  • 54 Torridge graveyard of wooden hulks

  • 55 Church renovation rejoicing at Northam

  • 56 So this is the mainland!

  • 57 Success to Festival of the Arts

  • 58 Bideford Bridge re-opens

  • 59 Fishing light goes out at close of poor season

  • 60 Bideford computer stars

  • 61 End of the line

  • 62 Six footed lamb

  • 63 Alwington School closing after 120 years

  • 64 Revenge in style

  • 65 What the television camera saw at Abbotsham

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

  • 67 Baby Kate goes home to Lundy

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

  • 69

    Successful motor cycling team
  • 70 Hartland's invitation

  • 71 Unique holiday adventure!

  • 72 Space dominates Hartland carnival

  • 73 'Les Girls' of Hartland

  • 74 Gift plaque on Clovelly council houses

  • 75 Cruising down the river

  • 76 Homage to a well-loved sovereign

  • 77 Beach search for mines takes longer

  • 78 Westward Ho! Tennis Club Winners
  • 79 They never miss a game at Torrington

  • 80 New choral society's growing response

  • 81 North Devon author featured in TV documentary

  • 82 Simple Item 138
  • 83 Picking the pops

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

  • 85 Champagne send-off for Torrington new factory

  • 86

    Inter-school Road Safety Quiz Cup Winners
  • 87 Bideford regatta

  • 88 John Andrew Bread Charity
  • 89 Bideford firm develops new non-spill paint

  • 90

    First Girls at Bideford Grammar School take part in Play
  • 91 Old Girls revisit Edgehill

  • 92 Donkey work made easier at Clovelly

  • 93 Eight and a half million pound Taw development scheme

  • 94 Bideford's gift to Sir Francis

  • 95 Yeo vale road ruin provides a mystery

  • 96 Pretty pennies at Beaford

  • 97 Tide sweeps under and over the old bridge

  • 98 X-ray shoe fitting

  • 99

    Married in 1908
  • 100 Daisy's pride and joy

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

  • 102 Appledore boy is youngest recipient of RNLI vellun

  • 103 Puppet characters introduced

  • 104 Broomhayes children will keep their winter pet

  • 105 Childrens' model of Torrington

  • 106 North Devon Driving School

  • 107 Appledore Juniors Football
  • 108 Alverdiscott is proud of its new parish hall

  • 109 Sight of a lifetime

  • 110 Torrington's enterprise's new extensions

  • 111 Works at craft he learned over 65 years ago

  • 112 Holiday traffic in Bideford High Street

  • 113 Entente cordiale in Bideford

  • 114 Bideford's private wharves busier

  • 115 Last train from Torrington

  • 116 It really was the 'last time'

  • 117

    Womens Skittles Competition in Buckland Brewer
  • 118 Centenary of Gazette

  • 119 School crossing patrol begins

  • 120 Thorn-apple found in Littleham conservatory

  • 121 Torrington children build igloo
  • 122 Bideford childrens' cinema opens

  • 123

    Relatives all over the world
  • 124 Faints as she wins national competition

  • 125 Bideford loses training ship

  • 126 River scenes that enchant the visitors

  • 127 Four hundred residents leave Bideford!

  • 128 Fishermen of Greencliff

  • 129 Record pebble-throwing day

  • 130 Centenary of Landcross Methodist Chapel

  • 131 Holiday scene near Sandymere

  • 132 Northam's almshouse

  • 133 Brothers reunion 1947
  • 134 Just over a year old

  • 135 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

  • 136 Bideford Liberal club new lounge bar opened

  • 137 Lots drawn to prevent dog fight

  • 138 Sooty is quick on the draw

  • 139 Fundraising trip for RNLI

  • 140 Train returns to Westleigh straight

  • 141 New look in the hayfields

  • 142 On her 'maiden' trip from Bideford

  • 143 Northam wants to continue pumping from river

  • 144 Birds' convalescent home at Instow

  • 145 Shipbuilding hobby at Hartland

  • 146 Weare Giffard Hall sold for £11,300

  • 147 Artisans' Club

  • 148 Bideford blacksmith wins English championship

  • 149 Parkham plan realised

  • 150 Torrington to have first woman mayor

  • 151 Ancestral home nestling in lovely combe

  • 152

    Was a missionary
  • 153 Out of puff!

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

  • 155 Photo of town's first car wins prize

  • 156 Bravery against bull at Shebbear rewarded

  • 157 Four sisters' nostalgic reunion

  • 158 Decontrol of meat

  • 159

    10-year-old scrambler practices
  • 160 Passing of a Torrington landmark

  • 161 Sunshine and shade at Appledore

  • 162

    Reds Womens Team Are First To Compete Throughout Season
  • 163 Liked holidays here - so starts business

  • 164 The creative urge on Saturday morning

  • 165

    Mums protest in Coronation Road
  • 166 Light reading for the lighthouse

  • 167 Shoes certainly not made for walking

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

  • 169 Repair work on Long Bridge
  • 170 Appledore's new lifeboat

  • 171 Smiling welcome to Hartland visitors

  • 172 He beat the floods

  • 173 Littleham cow tops 70 tons mark in milk production

  • 174 Donkey and horses enjoy carnival drink

  • 175 A man and his wheel

  • 176 Thunderstorm destruction of 25 years ago

  • 177 Panel sprint for Bideford broadcast

  • 178 Making way for the double-deckers

  • 179 Chess - their bridge over the years

  • 180

    Close associations with North Devon
  • 181 Can spring be far away?

  • 182 Bideford Zoo's first baby is big draw

  • 183 Larkworthy Family play in Shebbear's Football Team
  • 184

    Wynne Olley's styles impress International Hair Fashion Designer
  • 185 Down at the 'Donkey House'

  • 186

    Bidefordians
  • 187

    Birgitta Whittaker
  • 188 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

  • 189 Capers on the cobbles

  • 190 Little 'Big Ben'

  • 191 Emergency ferry services

  • 192 Bideford School Junior Choir Sing in France at Twinning Ceremony in Landivisiau
  • 193 Vessel built 300 feet above sea level

  • 194 They are parted pro-tem

  • 195 Championship Trophy for Hartland
  • 196 Bideford inquest on French trawlermen opens

  • 197 A lost Bideford 'island'

  • 198 Bideford schoolboy's courage recognised

  • 199 Torrington's new amenity

  • 200 Picture bought for shillings may be worth thousands

  • 201 Recognise this resort?

  • 202 By pony and trap to market

  • 203 Photo mural in Bideford bank

  • 204 Sweet success at Langtree School

  • 205 Buckland goes to County Show

  • 206 Farewell to passenger trains

  • 207 For crying out loud!

  • 208 Cement-clad boats being built at Northam

  • 209 The art of the thatcher

  • 210 In the tortoise nursery - eight hatched at Bideford

  • 211 New life for Hartland organ

  • 212 Battle of the gap at Westward Ho!

  • 213 Bridging the stream

  • 214 Practical sympathy at Northam

  • 215

    Hamburger is part of modern life
  • 216 Clovelly nightmare

  • 217 New civic medallions

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

  • 219 Thrush builds nest in cauliflower

  • 220 Students help model St Sidwell

  • 221 Polish custom on Pancake Day

  • 222 Westward Ho! combined op

  • 223 East-the-Water sets town an example

  • 224 Fish nearly pulled him in

  • 225 Spray dodging - the new pastime

  • 226 In their new robes and hats

  • 227 Harvest service in Bideford 'pub' bar

  • 228 Symbol of Lundy independence

  • 229 Wine and beer merchants for 150 years

  • 230

    Cadets are given certificates
  • 231 Head Barman appointed Torrington Town Crier
  • 232 Record player of 80 years ago

  • 233 Inscribed Bibles and silver spoons for babies

  • 234 Council agree to demolition of Chanter's Folly

  • 235 Jumble sale fever

  • 236 Boys win hockey on the sands challenge

  • 237 Barley from Bideford to Bonnie Scotland

  • 238 Instow local art show was 'tremendous success'

  • 239 Joe the ginger tabby is 21

  • 240 Bringing shopping home by goat

  • 241 Loads of black and white

  • 242

    Mrs Whapham finds ferret in Bridgeland Street while shopping
  • 243 Westward Ho! sand yacht to challenge speed record

  • 244 Appledore schooner broadcast

  • 245 Bideford Liberals' fashion show

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

  • 247 Saving money, wear and tear

  • 248 Buckland farm workers to receive long-service awards

  • 249 Circus comes to town

  • 250 Meredith's ironmongers

  • 251 Bideford skifflers, they're no squares

  • 252 Watch the dicky bird!

  • 253 Ship-in-bottle world record

  • 254 What is future of railway goods yard?

  • 255

    Youth Clubs Join Together For Entertainment
  • 256

    Andre Veillett and Quentin Reed in Judo Demonstration
  • 257

    Building works
  • 258 TV contest means big job for Bideford Guides

  • 259 Bideford electricity window display qualifies for area competition

  • 260 TV features Bideford's New Year bread ceremony

  • 261 Born 1883 - still going strong

  • 262 Centuries old but today busier than ever

  • 263 Children's procession with foxgloves

  • 264 Hartland postman retires

  • 265 Tomorrow' night's skittles broadcast from Bideford

  • 266 Wishing well is pixielated

  • 267 Appledore's largest

  • 268 A story to tell!

  • 269

    Toasted with musical honours
  • 270 Olympic riders to compete at Bideford Horse Show

  • 271 Colour TV salesman at eight

  • 272 Signed scroll momento of Queen Mother's visit

  • 273 No sale of Springfield House

  • 274 Penny for the guy

  • 275 Northam footballers of the future

  • 276 Second Monte Carlo Rally

  • 277 New Lundy stamps

  • 278 Calf thinks of mare as mum

  • 279 Jalopy joy for children of Shamwickshire

  • 280 Eleventh hour bid to save last sailing barge

  • 281 No ancient Grecian temple this

  • 282 First tankers arrive at new depot

  • 283

    School of Dancing's Annual Display
  • 284 Salmon netting at Bideford

  • 285 Clovelly's 91 year old horseman

  • 286 Puzzle corner at Bideford!

  • 287 Quads at Thornhillhead

  • 288 Preparations for new Clovelly Court

  • 289 Designed and made in Bideford

  • 290 Hartland Abbey outdoor staff 60 years ago

  • 291 New fire and ambulance stations

  • 292 Bideford's new market opens next week

  • 293 New Estate's view of estuary activities

  • 294 Cavaliers join the Hunt
  • 295 Water Board mains spread through villages

  • 296 Quads join a Langtree happy family

  • 297 Private home for public pump

  • 298

    Gift from Bideford Town Council
  • 299 An early 'special' to Bideford

  • 300 Torrington acclaims 400th anniversary of granting of charter

  • 301 Designed all furnishing of new chapel

  • 302 Lady Godiva comes to Torrington

  • 303 Bideford has built over 500 post-war homes

  • 304 Move for oldest boatyard on Torridge

  • 305 Spring-cleaning the Ridge

  • 306 Big develolpment at Calveford

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

  • 308 Twenty-one yachts

  • 309 New art gallery opened

  • 310 New gateway to King George's Fields

  • 311 Littleham family's five generations

  • 312 Gloves fit for a king!

  • 313 Last of Bideford factory chimney

  • 314 One thousand visit zoo at Whitsun

  • 315 A craftsman's 'potted' history

  • 316 Torridge wins on time schedule

  • 317 Bideford's first triplets for 12 years

  • 318 Celebrations for 103rd birthday

  • 319 Off on a great adventure

  • 320 Bideford country dancers on TV

  • 321 Peter poses for TV film

  • 322 New shipyard on schedule

  • 323 Picking the pops

  • 324 Five generations link Woolsery, Clovelly and Bideford

  • 325 New Lundy air-mail stamps

  • 326 New look for Torrington Lane

  • 327 Some mushroom!

  • 328 Service with a smile

  • 329 Appledore tugs fete London Tower

  • 330 Hartland Dancers
  • 331 Clovelly donkey film star

  • 332 Modern living at Bideford

  • 333 Yelland potter's exhibition at Bideford

  • 334 Lady Churchill congratulates Bideford artists at nursing exhibition

  • 335 Yeoi Vale House finally demolished

  • 336 When horses score over the tractor

  • 337 Bideford triplets' first birthday party

  • 338 School's link with cargo ship

  • 339 Largest salmon caught in Torridge

  • 340 Death - and birth - of a telephone exchange

  • 341 Burnard family reunion

  • 342

    First prize
  • 343

    Double Baptism on Torridge
  • 344 Mural in the whimsical fashion

  • 345 All for the love of a lady!

  • 346 Tramps camp by riverside throughout arctic weather

  • 347 Alderman Anstey's dream comes tru

  • 348 A Weare Giffard speciality - delicious strawberries

  • 349

    New gateway
  • 350 Ten year old scrambler

  • 351

    Appledore boys beat mums at football
  • 352 Boys from Bideford school complete Ten Tors

  • 353 Some 240 exhibits

  • 354 Pannier Market's future?

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

  • 356 America's tribute to 'J.H.'

  • 357 Future of Torrington almshouses

  • 358 First steel ship built at Bideford

  • 359 They set out for Bideford and became lost

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

  • 361 Variety in summer weather

  • 362 Getting up steam for tomorrow

  • 363 Mobile missionary

  • 364 New Post Office

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

  • 366 Westward Ho! public conveniences get go ahead
  • 367 Two kinds of hovercraft at Bideford

  • 368 New addition to Quay front

  • 369 Life begins at 80

  • 370 Dismantling of wireless mast

  • 371 Allhalland Street - then and now

  • 372 Wilfred and Mabel visit schools and hospital

  • 373 A sense of humour in advertising

  • 374 Tibbles home again - and fish supper

  • 375 All aboard the ark

  • 376 113 years at Instow

  • 377 Television comes to Torridge District

  • 378 Still hunting aged 80 and a Field Master

  • 379 Up-to-date Bideford!

  • 380 No laughing matter

  • 381 Calligrapher extraordinary

  • 382 Rowing triumphs at Bideford

  • 383 Warmington's garage ad

  • 384 Ships at Bideford

  • 385 Devil sent packing

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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The battle of the gap at Westward Ho!

The dramatic scene on Friday morning,

shortly after the discovery of the breach in the Pebble Ridge near Sandymere, as bulldozers sought to narrow, if not close, the gap as the high tide whipped by gales, punched away all along the line.

Battle of the gap at Westward Ho!

At Westward Ho! after a night which brought gusts of over 100 m.p.h. huts next to the cricket fields have been swept away and large pebbles thrown about like marbles.

Gazette article 19 January 1962

 

Eleventh-hour bid to save last sailing barge

North Devon Museum Project funding appeal

The first major acquisition by the North Devon Museum Project is the Taw and Torridge lighter JJRP, the last of the local sailing gravel barges. An appeal has been launched for funds to restore and preserve the boat, the Jack and Julie Rapson Pile. ‘It has been lying in the river for ages and it is just on the border line where something can still be done with it,’ said Mr Barry Hughes one of the prime movers in the Project.

Bid to save last sailing barge

It is hoped that the barge can become a floating exhibit. A good deal of voluntary work will be needed. Mr Felton Vowler of Bideford Grammar School is seen in the picture with some of the boys assessing the task ahead.

Gazette article 10 May 1974

 

Lady Godiva comes to Torrington

Unusual start to May Fair

‘Eyes front’ may or may not have been on the mind of Torrington Cavaliers’ captain Dave Kelly as Bournemouth stripper Honey West waved for the photographer before setting off on her Lady Godiva trip around the streets of Torrington to give the annual May Fair an early and unusual start.

Lady Godiva comes to Torrington

As far as the Cavaliers were concerned it was a gimmick that proved successful. Mr Kelly reported yesterday that there had been no direct complaints to him although in protest one customer had cancelled a standing order with a local businessman with Cavalier associations.

Will Lady Godiva return to Torrington? Barely no chance at all, says Mr Kelly.

Gazette article 10.5.74

 

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