• 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 Fishing light goes out at close of poor season

  • 2 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

  • 3 Broomhayes £1,000 Surprise
  • 4 Huntshaw TV mast

  • 5 Westward Ho! public conveniences get go ahead
  • 6 Hartland postman retires

  • 7

    Reds Womens Team Are First To Compete Throughout Season
  • 8 Bideford's first triplets for 12 years

  • 9 Little 'Big Ben'

  • 10 Last train from Torrington

  • 11

    Relatives all over the world
  • 12 Jumble sale fever

  • 13

    Double Baptism on Torridge
  • 14 Bideford School Junior Choir Sing in France at Twinning Ceremony in Landivisiau
  • 15 They never miss a game at Torrington

  • 16 Fleet of foot and fair of face

  • 17 End of the line

  • 18 Torrington Youth Club rewarded by party
  • 19 Last of Bideford factory chimney

  • 20 Space dominates Hartland carnival

  • 21 Pannier Market's future?

  • 22 Television comes to Torridge District

  • 23 Photo mural in Bideford bank

  • 24 Baby Kate goes home to Lundy

  • 25 Service with a smile

  • 26 Bideford blacksmith wins English championship

  • 27 Clovelly donkey film star

  • 28 Bideford's gift to Sir Francis

  • 29 Bideford skifflers, they're no squares

  • 30 Fish nearly pulled him in

  • 31 First ship in 8 years

  • 32 No ancient Grecian temple this

  • 33 Four sisters' nostalgic reunion

  • 34 Speeding communications: Bideford firm's new installation

  • 35 Hartland Abbey outdoor staff 60 years ago

  • 36 Finished in 1876

  • 37 Birds' convalescent home at Instow

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

  • 39 Westward Ho! Tennis Club Winners
  • 40 Bideford Bridge re-opens

  • 41 Alderman Anstey's dream comes tru

  • 42 Town's second woman mayor in 392 years

  • 43 Polish custom on Pancake Day

  • 44 North Devon Driving School

  • 45 Quads join a Langtree happy family

  • 46 No sale of Springfield House

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

  • 48 Cruising down the river

  • 49 Penny for the guy

  • 50 One thousand visit zoo at Whitsun

  • 51 Head Barman appointed Torrington Town Crier
  • 52 Works at craft he learned over 65 years ago

  • 53

    First Girls at Bideford Grammar School take part in Play
  • 54 Weare Giffard potato

  • 55 For crying out loud!

  • 56 Emergency ferry services

  • 57 Battle of the gap at Westward Ho!

  • 58 Bideford electricity window display qualifies for area competition

  • 59 Riverside mystery

  • 60 Capers on the cobbles

  • 61 School crossing patrol begins

  • 62 Four hundred residents leave Bideford!

  • 63

    New gateway
  • 64 Bideford A.F.C annual dinner
  • 65 All for the love of a lady!

  • 66 Farewell to passenger trains

  • 67 Salmon netting at Bideford

  • 68 Holiday traffic in Bideford High Street

  • 69 Bideford stock car racing entry comes in second

  • 70 The creative urge on Saturday morning

  • 71 New Lundy stamps

  • 72 A sense of humour in advertising

  • 73 Barley from Bideford to Bonnie Scotland

  • 74 Littleham family's five generations

  • 75 Sunshine and shade at Appledore

  • 76 Repair work on Long Bridge
  • 77 Tomorrow' night's skittles broadcast from Bideford

  • 78 Champagne send-off for Torrington new factory

  • 79 Bideford Zoo's first baby is big draw

  • 80 TV contest means big job for Bideford Guides

  • 81 Larkworthy Family play in Shebbear's Football Team
  • 82 Peter poses for TV film

  • 83 North Devon author featured in TV documentary

  • 84 Tide sweeps under and over the old bridge

  • 85 Boys win hockey on the sands challenge

  • 86 School's link with cargo ship

  • 87 Simple Item 138
  • 88

    Andre Veillett and Quentin Reed in Judo Demonstration
  • 89 Ancestral home nestling in lovely combe

  • 90 Meredith's ironmongers

  • 91 Waldon Triplets
  • 92 Old Girls revisit Edgehill

  • 93 Homage to a well-loved sovereign

  • 94 Charter granted by Philip and Mary

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

  • 96 Calf thinks of mare as mum

  • 97 Torrington's new amenity

  • 98 Torrington's enterprise's new extensions

  • 99 Instow local art show was 'tremendous success'

  • 100 Colour TV salesman at eight

  • 101 Two kinds of hovercraft at Bideford

  • 102 Boys from Bideford school complete Ten Tors

  • 103

    Appledore boys beat mums at football
  • 104 Wilfred and Mabel visit schools and hospital

  • 105 It really was the 'last time'

  • 106 Private home for public pump

  • 107 Variety in summer weather

  • 108 Signed scroll momento of Queen Mother's visit

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

  • 110

    Youth Clubs Join Together For Entertainment
  • 111 Smiling welcome to Hartland visitors

  • 112 America's tribute to 'J.H.'

  • 113 Cavaliers join the Hunt
  • 114 Bideford computer stars

  • 115 Torridge graveyard of wooden hulks

  • 116 Life begins at 80

  • 117 Recognise this resort?

  • 118 Yelland potter's exhibition at Bideford

  • 119 A bird of their own!

  • 120 Death - and birth - of a telephone exchange

  • 121 Revived market off to splendid start

  • 122 A lost Bideford 'island'

  • 123 All aboard the ark

  • 124 Steep street of old Bideford

  • 125

    Successful motor cycling team
  • 126 Bideford firm develops new non-spill paint

  • 127 Thirty bridges cross Torridge

  • 128 Panel sprint for Bideford broadcast

  • 129

    Wynne Olley's styles impress International Hair Fashion Designer
  • 130 Picture bought for shillings may be worth thousands

  • 131 Train returns to Westleigh straight

  • 132 Mural in the whimsical fashion

  • 133 John Andrew Bread Charity
  • 134 East-the-Water sets town an example

  • 135 Weare Giffard Hall sold for £11,300

  • 136 Torrington school's sundial - fashioned by Headmaster

  • 137 Torridge wins on time schedule

  • 138 Lady Godiva comes to Torrington

  • 139 'Les Girls' of Hartland

  • 140 A story to tell!

  • 141 Faints as she wins national competition

  • 142 Hartland Dancers
  • 143 New Estate's view of estuary activities

  • 144 Westward Ho! sand yacht to challenge speed record

  • 145 Jalopy joy for children of Shamwickshire

  • 146 Lady Churchill congratulates Bideford artists at nursing exhibition

  • 147 Mobile missionary

  • 148 Designed and made in Bideford

  • 149 Quads at Thornhillhead

  • 150 Picking the pops

  • 151

    Gift from Bideford Town Council
  • 152

    Hamburger is part of modern life
  • 153 A Weare Giffard speciality - delicious strawberries

  • 154 Donkey and horses enjoy carnival drink

  • 155 Torrington in 1967

  • 156 Spray dodging - the new pastime

  • 157 No ancient Grecian temple this

  • 158 Do recall the old windmill at Northam?

  • 159 Bideford inquest on French trawlermen opens

  • 160

    FA Cup Match for the Robins
  • 161 Devil sent packing

  • 162 Wishing well is pixielated

  • 163 Escaped crane moves into Kenwith Valley

  • 164 Big develolpment at Calveford

  • 165 Pet squirrels at Monkleigh

  • 166 Pretty pennies at Beaford

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

  • 168

    Cadets are given certificates
  • 169 Appledore's new lifeboat

  • 170 Shoes certainly not made for walking

  • 171 Beach search for mines takes longer

  • 172 Bideford's new market opens next week

  • 173 Eleven million pound scheme's official opening

  • 174 Five generations link Woolsery, Clovelly and Bideford

  • 175 Bideford has built over 500 post-war homes

  • 176 Buckland goes to County Show

  • 177 Ships at Bideford

  • 178 Inscribed Bibles and silver spoons for babies

  • 179 Happy Days!

  • 180 Rowing triumphs at Bideford

  • 181 Eight to strike and a race to win

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

  • 183 'Out of Appledore' sailing memories

  • 184 New art gallery opened

  • 185 Appledore boy is youngest recipient of RNLI vellun

  • 186 New addition to Quay front

  • 187 Children's procession with foxgloves

  • 188 Bideford schoolboy's courage recognised

  • 189 Centenary of Gazette

  • 190 Dismantling of wireless mast

  • 191 Centuries old but today busier than ever

  • 192 Allhalland Street - then and now

  • 193 They are parted pro-tem

  • 194 Sooty is quick on the draw

  • 195 Some mushroom!

  • 196 New life for Hartland organ

  • 197

    Jinxed School Trip
  • 198 Bideford country dancers on TV

  • 199 Puppet characters introduced

  • 200 First steel ship built at Bideford

  • 201 Northam footballers of the future

  • 202 Bideford childrens' cinema opens

  • 203 Eleventh hour bid to save last sailing barge

  • 204 Can-carrying over cobbles has disappeared

  • 205 Buckland farm workers to receive long-service awards

  • 206 A roof-top view - where?

  • 207 Record player of 80 years ago

  • 208

    Exhibition of school work
  • 209 Chess - their bridge over the years

  • 210 Getting up steam for tomorrow

  • 211

    Married in 1908
  • 212 Preparations for new Clovelly Court

  • 213 Bideford Liberal club new lounge bar opened

  • 214 Appledore's largest

  • 215 Donkey work made easier at Clovelly

  • 216 Olympic riders to compete at Bideford Horse Show

  • 217 Just over a year old

  • 218

    First prize
  • 219 Childrens' model of Torrington

  • 220 New look in the hayfields

  • 221

    10-year-old scrambler practices
  • 222 New look for Torrington Lane

  • 223 Hartland's invitation

  • 224 Appledore Juniors Football
  • 225 Saving money, wear and tear

  • 226 Police station view of Bideford

  • 227 Yeoi Vale House finally demolished

  • 228 Practical sympathy at Northam

  • 229 Born 1883 - still going strong

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

  • 231 Littleham cow tops 70 tons mark in milk production

  • 232 Vessel built 300 feet above sea level

  • 233 River scenes that enchant the visitors

  • 234 Safe door weighing two tons

  • 235

    Gus Honeybun meets local children
  • 236 Parkham plan realised

  • 237 Cement-clad boats being built at Northam

  • 238 Burnard family reunion

  • 239 A man and his wheel

  • 240 What's the time?

  • 241 New civic medallions

  • 242 A craftsman's 'potted' history

  • 243 Daisy's pride and joy

  • 244 The art of the thatcher

  • 245

    Birgitta Whittaker
  • 246 Puzzle corner at Bideford!

  • 247 Thrush builds nest in cauliflower

  • 248 Twenty-one yachts

  • 249 Gift plaque on Clovelly council houses

  • 250 An early 'special' to Bideford

  • 251 Water Board mains spread through villages

  • 252 Torrington's shelter for the aged

  • 253 New fire and ambulance stations

  • 254 Alverdiscott is proud of its new parish hall

  • 255 Teenager Peter Jackson Makes Horror Film
  • 256 Warmington's garage ad

  • 257 Northam loses thatched cottage landmark

  • 258 Sight of a lifetime

  • 259 Council agree to demolition of Chanter's Folly

  • 260 In the tortoise nursery - eight hatched at Bideford

  • 261 Traditions and skills still there

  • 262 Students help model St Sidwell

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    Toasted with musical honours
  • 264 Bank Holiday weather was beach weather

  • 265 Bicycle now does donkey work

  • 266 X-ray shoe fitting

  • 267 Church renovation rejoicing at Northam

  • 268 What is future of railway goods yard?

  • 269 Broomhayes children will keep their winter pet

  • 270 Centenary of Landcross Methodist Chapel

  • 271 Bideford-Torrington road gets 'carpet coat'

  • 272 113 years at Instow

  • 273 Spring-cleaning the Ridge

  • 274 Up-to-date Bideford!

  • 275 Revenge in style

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

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

  • 278 Launching the 'Golden Hinde'

  • 279 Modern living at Bideford

  • 280 Brothers reunion 1947
  • 281 Making way for the double-deckers

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    Bidefordians
  • 283 Harvest service in Bideford 'pub' bar

  • 284 Off on a great adventure

  • 285

    Close associations with North Devon
  • 286 Bridging the stream

  • 287 Championship Trophy for Hartland
  • 288 Calligrapher extraordinary

  • 289 Fundraising trip for RNLI

  • 290 Circus comes to town

  • 291 Bravery against bull at Shebbear rewarded

  • 292 Down at the 'Donkey House'

  • 293 Yeo vale road ruin provides a mystery

  • 294 Wine and beer merchants for 150 years

  • 295 Clovelly's 91 year old horseman

  • 296 Panto time at Westward Ho!

  • 297 Tibbles home again - and fish supper

  • 298 He beat the floods

  • 299 Largest salmon caught in Torridge

  • 300 Symbol of Lundy independence

  • 301 The Geneva marionettes

  • 302 Holiday scene near Sandymere

  • 303 Some 240 exhibits

  • 304 Lots drawn to prevent dog fight

  • 305 Bideford's private wharves busier

  • 306 Joe the ginger tabby is 21

  • 307 Torrington to have first woman mayor

  • 308 New Lundy air-mail stamps

  • 309 Passing of a Torrington landmark

  • 310 Torrington acclaims 400th anniversary of granting of charter

  • 311 Future of Torrington almshouses

  • 312 In their new robes and hats

  • 313 Decontrol of meat

  • 314 Clovelly custom

  • 315 So this is the mainland!

  • 316 Celebrations for 103rd birthday

  • 317 TV features Bideford's New Year bread ceremony

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

  • 319 New gateway to King George's Fields

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    Inter-school Road Safety Quiz Cup Winners
  • 321

    Mums protest in Coronation Road
  • 322 Picking the pops

  • 323 Fishermen of Greencliff

  • 324 Northam's almshouse

  • 325 Loads of black and white

  • 326 Watch the dicky bird!

  • 327 Record pebble-throwing day

  • 328

    Lenwood Squash Club
  • 329 New Post Office

  • 330 Shipbuilding hobby at Hartland

  • 331 Gloves fit for a king!

  • 332 Success to Festival of the Arts

  • 333 New shipyard on schedule

  • 334 Liked holidays here - so starts business

  • 335 Landmark at Bradworthy

  • 336 Bringing shopping home by goat

  • 337 New choral society's growing response

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

  • 339 Tramps camp by riverside throughout arctic weather

  • 340 Appledore schooner broadcast

  • 341 Bideford Liberals' fashion show

  • 342 Bideford regatta

  • 343 Thorn-apple found in Littleham conservatory

  • 344 Unique holiday adventure!

  • 345 When horses score over the tractor

  • 346

    Holidaying in north Devon
  • 347 Torrington children build igloo
  • 348 What the television camera saw at Abbotsham

  • 349 Can spring be far away?

  • 350 First tankers arrive at new depot

  • 351 Bideford triplets' first birthday party

  • 352

    Was a missionary
  • 353 Move for oldest boatyard on Torridge

  • 354 Bideford shipyard workers cheer new minesweeper

  • 355 Alwington School closing after 120 years

  • 356 On her 'maiden' trip from Bideford

  • 357 Ship-in-bottle world record

  • 358 Ten year old scrambler

  • 359 Northam wants to continue pumping from river

  • 360 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

  • 361 Designed all furnishing of new chapel

  • 362 By pony and trap to market

  • 363 Sweet success at Langtree School

  • 364

    School of Dancing's Annual Display
  • 365 Bideford loses training ship

  • 366

    Mrs Whapham finds ferret in Bridgeland Street while shopping
  • 367 Westward Ho! combined op

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

  • 369 Entente cordiale in Bideford

  • 370 Thunderstorm destruction of 25 years ago

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

  • 372 Second Monte Carlo Rally

  • 373 Light reading for the lighthouse

  • 374 Six footed lamb

  • 375 Appledore tugs fete London Tower

  • 376 Out of puff!

  • 377 They set out for Bideford and became lost

  • 378

    Womens Skittles Competition in Buckland Brewer
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    Building works
  • 380 Eight and a half million pound Taw development scheme

  • 381 Photo of town's first car wins prize

  • 382 Still hunting aged 80 and a Field Master

  • 383 Clovelly nightmare

  • 384 Artisans' Club

  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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Bideford blacksmith wins English championship

Multiple medallist 

At the Royal Show at Cambridge last week, Mr H.J. Newberry of Old Town Smithy, Bideford, won the Show championship for the highest number of points for horse-shoeing over the three days of the competition.

13 July 1951 Bideford blacksmith wins English championship

Mr Newberry also won the cup for the best fitted shoes and one gold, two silver and one bronze medal, obtaining a first in hunter shoeing, third in carthorse shoeing and v.h.c. in horse-shoe making.

Mr Newberry, aged 31, came to Bideford from Reading in 1949.

Gazette article 13 July 1951

 

 

 

Mural in the Whimsical Mood

 Mural displayed at Bideford Trades Exhibition

Pictured are students of Bideford School of Art at work on a thirty-foot long mural now displayed at the Bideford District Trades exhibition.

15 June 1951 Mural in the whimsical mood

The mural represents, in whimsical manner, the Festivals of 1851 and 1951 and the trades of Bideford, with a centre theme showing Art coming into its own.

Gazette article 15 June 1951

 

 

Off on a great adventure

 Bideford pupils on a fortnight’s exchange visit to London

Twenty-three pupils of Bideford Secondary Modern School are in London for an educational visit. They come from a wide area served by the school, including Clovelly, Appledore and Northam as well as Bideford and are going on an exchange visit with the same number of children at the Kilmorie Secondary School, Forest Hill, London whose headmaster, Mr Robert B. Hills, was a teacher evacuated to Bideford Secondary Mordern School during the war.

25 May 1951 Off to a great adventure

If this visit is a success it is hoped to make others an annual feature of Bideford Secondary Modern School’s programme. The pupils are a cross-section of the school, ages ranging from 11 to 15. For many of the children it will be their first visit to London.

Gazette article 25 May 1951

 

 

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