• 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 A craftsman's 'potted' history

  • 2 Donkey and horses enjoy carnival drink

  • 3 Olympic riders to compete at Bideford Horse Show

  • 4 Bringing shopping home by goat

  • 5 New art gallery opened

  • 6 Watch the dicky bird!

  • 7 Fishing light goes out at close of poor season

  • 8 Shipbuilding hobby at Hartland

  • 9

    School of Dancing's Annual Display
  • 10 Off on a great adventure

  • 11 Childrens' model of Torrington

  • 12 Gift plaque on Clovelly council houses

  • 13 Alverdiscott is proud of its new parish hall

  • 14 Getting up steam for tomorrow

  • 15 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

  • 16 Revenge in style

  • 17 Two kinds of hovercraft at Bideford

  • 18 Record player of 80 years ago

  • 19 A bird of their own!

  • 20

    Andre Veillett and Quentin Reed in Judo Demonstration
  • 21 Holiday scene near Sandymere

  • 22 Fundraising trip for RNLI

  • 23

    Gift from Bideford Town Council
  • 24 Sight of a lifetime

  • 25

    Mums protest in Coronation Road
  • 26 Students help model St Sidwell

  • 27 Penny for the guy

  • 28 Second Monte Carlo Rally

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

  • 30 Smiling welcome to Hartland visitors

  • 31 Bideford computer stars

  • 32 Train returns to Westleigh straight

  • 33 Thriving 'orphan of the storm'

  • 34 Faints as she wins national competition

  • 35 Westward Ho! Tennis Club Winners
  • 36 Yeo vale road ruin provides a mystery

  • 37 Artisans' Club

  • 38 Celebrations for 103rd birthday

  • 39 Up-to-date Bideford!

  • 40 Bideford electricity window display qualifies for area competition

  • 41

    Wynne Olley's styles impress International Hair Fashion Designer
  • 42 Tide sweeps under and over the old bridge

  • 43 Can spring be far away?

  • 44 Out of puff!

  • 45 Photo mural in Bideford bank

  • 46 Passing of a Torrington landmark

  • 47 Yelland potter's exhibition at Bideford

  • 48

    Holidaying in north Devon
  • 49 Thorn-apple found in Littleham conservatory

  • 50 John Andrew Bread Charity
  • 51 Huntshaw TV mast

  • 52 Clovelly donkey film star

  • 53 Some 240 exhibits

  • 54 Service with a smile

  • 55 Finished in 1876

  • 56 First tankers arrive at new depot

  • 57 Afternoon tea in the park

  • 58 Pannier Market's future?

  • 59 Town's second woman mayor in 392 years

  • 60 Bideford Liberals' fashion show

  • 61 Bideford regatta

  • 62 Bridging the stream

  • 63

    10-year-old scrambler practices
  • 64 Four hundred residents leave Bideford!

  • 65 Landmark at Bradworthy

  • 66 A sense of humour in advertising

  • 67 Waldon Triplets
  • 68 Local glove-making factory advertising for staff

  • 69 East-the-Water sets town an example

  • 70 Safe door weighing two tons

  • 71 Fishermen of Greencliff

  • 72 Just over a year old

  • 73 From Bobby to Brian

  • 74 New life for Hartland organ

  • 75 Barley from Bideford to Bonnie Scotland

  • 76 Torrington's new amenity

  • 77 Bideford's new market opens next week

  • 78 Tramps camp by riverside throughout arctic weather

  • 79 Move for oldest boatyard on Torridge

  • 80 Sweet success at Langtree School

  • 81 Bideford's first woman councillor

  • 82

    Building works
  • 83 Lundy memorial to John Pennington Harman V.C.

  • 84 Northam's almshouse

  • 85 Appledore Juniors Football
  • 86 Weare Giffard potato

  • 87 Last of Bideford factory chimney

  • 88 In their new robes and hats

  • 89 Four sisters' nostalgic reunion

  • 90 Westward Ho! combined op

  • 91 Cruising down the river

  • 92 River scenes that enchant the visitors

  • 93 Buckland farm workers to receive long-service awards

  • 94

    Successful motor cycling team
  • 95 Loads of black and white

  • 96

    First prize
  • 97 Diamond Jubilee of St Peter's Church, East-the-Water

  • 98 Picture bought for shillings may be worth thousands

  • 99 It really was the 'last time'

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    Toasted with musical honours
  • 101 Doing time - over 300 years of it - at Hartland

  • 102 Northam footballers of the future

  • 103 Little 'Big Ben'

  • 104 Spray dodging - the new pastime

  • 105 Sunshine and shade at Appledore

  • 106 Ships at Bideford

  • 107 Mural in the whimsical fashion

  • 108 Quads at Thornhillhead

  • 109 Meeting at 10 Downing Street

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

  • 111 Larkworthy Family play in Shebbear's Football Team
  • 112 Thunderstorm destruction of 25 years ago

  • 113 Entente cordiale in Bideford

  • 114 Yeoi Vale House finally demolished

  • 115 Bideford's private wharves busier

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

  • 117 Birds' convalescent home at Instow

  • 118 Puppet characters introduced

  • 119 Holiday traffic in Bideford High Street

  • 120 Success to Festival of the Arts

  • 121 Panto time at Westward Ho!

  • 122 Polish custom on Pancake Day

  • 123 Bideford firm develops new non-spill paint

  • 124 Buckland goes to County Show

  • 125 Eleven million pound scheme's official opening

  • 126 Championship Trophy for Hartland
  • 127 Northam wants to continue pumping from river

  • 128 Bank Holiday weather was beach weather

  • 129 Appledore schooner broadcast

  • 130 Burnard family reunion

  • 131 Largest salmon caught in Torridge

  • 132 Bideford's gift to Sir Francis

  • 133 Clovelly custom

  • 134 When horses score over the tractor

  • 135 Unique holiday adventure!

  • 136 Signed scroll momento of Queen Mother's visit

  • 137

    Womens Skittles Competition in Buckland Brewer
  • 138 By pony and trap to market

  • 139 Twenty-one yachts

  • 140 Found the answer waiting for him>
  • 141 Hartland Dancers
  • 142 Daisy's pride and joy

  • 143 Designed all furnishing of new chapel

  • 144

    Hamburger is part of modern life
  • 145 Westward Ho! public conveniences get go ahead
  • 146 Bideford blacksmith wins English championship

  • 147 Farewell to passenger trains

  • 148 Beach search for mines takes longer

  • 149 Teenager Peter Jackson Makes Horror Film
  • 150 First steel ship built at Bideford

  • 151 Bideford A.F.C annual dinner
  • 152 A roof-top view - where?

  • 153

    Double Baptism on Torridge
  • 154 Bideford's first triplets for 12 years

  • 155 Wishing well is pixielated

  • 156 Some mushroom!

  • 157 The Geneva marionettes

  • 158 Homage to a well-loved sovereign

  • 159

    Mrs Whapham finds ferret in Bridgeland Street while shopping
  • 160 No ancient Grecian temple this

  • 161 Centuries old but today busier than ever

  • 162 Mayor becomes engine driver>
  • 163 Wilfred and Mabel visit schools and hospital

  • 164 Pretty pennies at Beaford

  • 165 'Les Girls' of Hartland

  • 166 New Post Office

  • 167 Symbol of Lundy independence

  • 168 Parkham plan realised

  • 169 Five generations link Woolsery, Clovelly and Bideford

  • 170 Water Board mains spread through villages

  • 171 Tomorrow' night's skittles broadcast from Bideford

  • 172 Lady Churchill congratulates Bideford artists at nursing exhibition

  • 173 Mobile missionary

  • 174 What's the time?

  • 175 Steep street of old Bideford

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

  • 177

    FA Cup Match for the Robins
  • 178 Torrington children build igloo
  • 179 Thrush builds nest in cauliflower

  • 180 He beat the floods

  • 181 Big develolpment at Calveford

  • 182 Torrington in 1967

  • 183 Bideford School Junior Choir Sing in France at Twinning Ceremony in Landivisiau
  • 184 'Out of Appledore' sailing memories

  • 185 Revived market off to splendid start

  • 186 In the tortoise nursery - eight hatched at Bideford

  • 187 Prizewinning babies at Torrington

  • 188 Sailing to victory at Appledore

  • 189 Bideford loses training ship

  • 190 Puzzle corner at Bideford!

  • 191 Gloves fit for a king!

  • 192

    Relatives all over the world
  • 193 Allhalland Street - then and now

  • 194 Children's procession with foxgloves

  • 195 Lots drawn to prevent dog fight

  • 196 Bideford childrens' cinema opens

  • 197 113 years at Instow

  • 198 Bravery against bull at Shebbear rewarded

  • 199 Torrington's enterprise's new extensions

  • 200 Inscribed Bibles and silver spoons for babies

  • 201 Record pebble-throwing day

  • 202 Quads join a Langtree happy family

  • 203 Liked holidays here - so starts business

  • 204 Christmas tree on Bideford Quay>
  • 205 Brothers reunion 1947
  • 206 Capers on the cobbles

  • 207 Littleham family's five generations

  • 208 A story to tell!

  • 209 Housing progress at East-the-Water>
  • 210 New Estate's view of estuary activities

  • 211 Bideford schoolboy's courage recognised

  • 212 Photo of town's first car wins prize

  • 213 Donkey work made easier at Clovelly

  • 214 No sale of Springfield House

  • 215 So this is the mainland!

  • 216 Panel sprint for Bideford broadcast

  • 217 Picking the pops

  • 218 Space dominates Hartland carnival

  • 219 Bideford stock car racing entry comes in second

  • 220 Torrington to have first woman mayor

  • 221 Still hunting aged 80 and a Field Master

  • 222 Jalopy joy for children of Shamwickshire

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

  • 224 Amsterdam to Bideford double success

  • 225 Modern living at Bideford

  • 226 The creative urge on Saturday morning

  • 227 Bideford country dancers on TV

  • 228 Do recall the old windmill at Northam?

  • 229 An early 'special' to Bideford

  • 230 Council agree to demolition of Chanter's Folly

  • 231 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

  • 232 North Devon Driving School

  • 233 New shipyard on schedule

  • 234 TV contest means big job for Bideford Guides

  • 235 What the television camera saw at Abbotsham

  • 236 Circus comes to town

  • 237 Appledore's largest

  • 238 They are parted pro-tem

  • 239 The cab at the corner>
  • 240 Salmon netting at Bideford

  • 241 Golden Bay Hotel ad.>
  • 242 Repair work on Long Bridge
  • 243 To build racing cars in former blacksmith's shop

  • 244 New Lundy stamps

  • 245 Making way for the double-deckers

  • 246 Calligrapher extraordinary

  • 247 Northam loses thatched cottage landmark

  • 248 Jumble sale fever

  • 249 Joe the ginger tabby is 21

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

  • 251 Boys from Bideford school complete Ten Tors

  • 252 Warmington's garage ad

  • 253 One thousand visit zoo at Whitsun

  • 254 New civic medallions

  • 255

    Gus Honeybun meets local children
  • 256 Broomhayes £1,000 Surprise
  • 257 No laughing matter

  • 258 Battle of the gap at Westward Ho!

  • 259 Preparations for new Clovelly Court

  • 260 North Devon author featured in TV documentary

  • 261 Torridge wins on time schedule

  • 262 Appledore's new lifeboat

  • 263 On her 'maiden' trip from Bideford

  • 264 Torridge graveyard of wooden hulks

  • 265 Hartland Abbey outdoor staff 60 years ago

  • 266 Wasps' nest in sewing machine

  • 267 Riverside mystery

  • 268 End of the line

  • 269 Hartland's invitation

  • 270 Bicycle now does donkey work

  • 271 X-ray shoe fitting

  • 272 Escaped crane moves into Kenwith Valley

  • 273 For South Africa from Westward Ho!

  • 274 Emergency ferry services

  • 275 Appledore skill brings 'Hispaniola' to life

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    New gateway
  • 277 Eight to strike and a race to win

  • 278 Down at the dump something stirs

  • 279 Chess - their bridge over the years

  • 280 New gateway to King George's Fields

  • 281 New Lundy air-mail stamps

  • 282 Down at the 'Donkey House'

  • 283 New addition to Quay front

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    Close associations with North Devon
  • 285 Harvest service in Bideford 'pub' bar

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

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

  • 288 Alderman Anstey's dream comes tru

  • 289 Ship-in-bottle world record

  • 290 Fleet of foot and fair of face

  • 291 Works at craft he learned over 65 years ago

  • 292

    Cadets are given certificates
  • 293 School crossing patrol begins

  • 294 Pet squirrels at Monkleigh

  • 295 Floral dancing at Appledore

  • 296 Bideford skifflers, they're no squares

  • 297 Filming at Hartland

  • 298 They set out for Bideford and became lost

  • 299 Ancestral home nestling in lovely combe

  • 300 Recognise this resort?

  • 301 TV features Bideford's New Year bread ceremony

  • 302 Church renovation rejoicing at Northam

  • 303 Alwington School closing after 120 years

  • 304 No ancient Grecian temple this

  • 305

    Exhibition of school work
  • 306

    Youth Clubs Join Together For Entertainment
  • 307 Tibbles home again - and fish supper

  • 308 Practical sympathy at Northam

  • 309

    Birgitta Whittaker
  • 310 Clovelly's 91 year old horseman

  • 311 Six footed lamb

  • 312 Picking the pops

  • 313 Community centre opened at Westward Ho!

  • 314 Spring-cleaning the Ridge

  • 315

    Lenwood Squash Club
  • 316 Wine and beer merchants for 150 years

  • 317 They never miss a game at Torrington

  • 318 At Bideford Arts Ball>
  • 319 The art of the thatcher

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

  • 321 What is future of railway goods yard?

  • 322 Bideford inquest on French trawlermen opens

  • 323 Appledore tugs fete London Tower

  • 324 Boys win hockey on the sands challenge

  • 325 Life begins at 80

  • 326 Instow local art show was 'tremendous success'

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

  • 328 Bideford shipyard workers cheer new minesweeper

  • 329 Meredith's ironmongers

  • 330 Baby Kate goes home to Lundy

  • 331 Death - and birth - of a telephone exchange

  • 332 New look for Torrington Lane

  • 333 New fire and ambulance stations

  • 334 Hartland postman retires

  • 335 Sweets derationing

  • 336 Safety-first dipomas awarded to Torrington drivers

  • 337 Variety in summer weather

  • 338 Last train from Torrington

  • 339 Born 1883 - still going strong

  • 340 All aboard the ark

  • 341 Devil sent packing

  • 342 Eleventh hour bid to save last sailing barge

  • 343 Bideford Zoo's first baby is big draw

  • 344 Designed and made in Bideford

  • 345 Can-carrying over cobbles has disappeared

  • 346

    Reds Womens Team Are First To Compete Throughout Season
  • 347 Simple Item 138
  • 348 Head Barman appointed Torrington Town Crier
  • 349 New choral society's growing response

  • 350 Sooty is quick on the draw

  • 351 Police station view of Bideford

  • 352 Shoes certainly not made for walking

  • 353 Dismantling of wireless mast

  • 354

    Was a missionary
  • 355 Peter poses for TV film

  • 356 Bideford triplets' first birthday party

  • 357 Bideford-Torrington road gets 'carpet coat'

  • 358 Traditions and skills still there

  • 359 Bideford has built over 500 post-war homes

  • 360 America's tribute to 'J.H.'

  • 361 Clovelly nightmare

  • 362 Saving money, wear and tear

  • 363 Eight and a half million pound Taw development scheme

  • 364 Torrington acclaims 400th anniversary of granting of charter

  • 365 First ship in 8 years

  • 366 Launching the 'Golden Hinde'

  • 367 Centenary of Gazette

  • 368 Rowing triumphs at Bideford

  • 369 Bideford Liberal club new lounge bar opened

  • 370

    Appledore boys beat mums at football
  • 371 School's link with cargo ship

  • 372 Private home for public pump

  • 373 Lady Godiva comes to Torrington

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    Bidefordians
  • 375

    First Girls at Bideford Grammar School take part in Play
  • 376

    Married in 1908
  • 377 All for the love of a lady!

  • 378 Torrington's shelter for the aged

  • 379 Television comes to Torridge District

  • 380 Charter granted by Philip and Mary

  • 381 Happy Days!

  • 382 Centenary of Landcross Methodist Chapel

  • 383 Vessel built 300 feet above sea level

  • 384 Decontrol of meat

  • 385 A man and his wheel

  • 386 Broomhayes children will keep their winter pet

  • 387 Weare Giffard Hall sold for £11,300

  • 388 Speeding communications: Bideford firm's new installation

  • 389 For crying out loud!

  • 390 Torrington Church's new organ

  • 391 Littleham cow tops 70 tons mark in milk production

  • 392 Light reading for the lighthouse

  • 393 Old Girls revisit Edgehill

  • 394 Colour TV salesman at eight

  • 395 Torrington Youth Club rewarded by party
  • 396 Fish nearly pulled him in

  • 397 Cavaliers join the Hunt
  • 398 Ten year old scrambler

  • 399 Cement-clad boats being built at Northam

  • 400 Bideford Bridge re-opens

  • 401 A Weare Giffard speciality - delicious strawberries

  • 402 Future of Torrington almshouses

  • 403 Westward Ho! sand yacht to challenge speed record

  • 404 Appledore boy is youngest recipient of RNLI vellun

  • 405 Thirty bridges cross Torridge

  • 406 Calf thinks of mare as mum

  • 407

    Jinxed School Trip
  • 408 Torrington school's sundial - fashioned by Headmaster

  • 409

    Inter-school Road Safety Quiz Cup Winners
  • 410 Champagne send-off for Torrington new factory

  • 411 Where Bideford rope-makers walked>
  • 412 A lost Bideford 'island'

  • 413 New look in the hayfields

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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Shipbuilding hobby at Hartland

Building models for 40 years

Mr Thomas John Henwood, of No. 2 Northgate, Hartland, has been answering a call of the sea for more than 40 years and has still kept his feet firmly on the ground.

He was 17 when he made his first model boat, his subject the ill-fated Titanic and he has since devoted most of his spare time during the winter months to his fascinating hobby.

Cunarders have always had a special appeal and because of intricate detail, each occupies him for about three years. After the Titanic came the Mauretania, the Lusitania, the Queen Mary and the Queen Elizabeth seen with him in the picture. This winter he has begun his latest work, the Queen Elizabeth II.

Hartland shipbuilding hobby

The models are made entirely by hand, Mr Henwood boasts that he has never used a power tool, some of his tools being 100 years old.

Gazette article dated 28 March 1969

 

Record player of 80 years ago

Record player of 80 years ago

A phonograph has been offered by an Instow man to Bideford Museum. Mr Charles Martin of Bridge Lane, Instow, was given the phonograph over 50 years ago by his uncle Mr John Martin who bought it in Australia in the early 1890s.

Record player of 80 years

In the photograph Mr Martin is seen playing the phonograph at his home. The cylindrical objects in the case are records made of a hard wax-like substance. For playing they are placed on to a rolling pin cylinder and the needle fitted in the groove on the recording makes its way along as it plays.

Gazette article dated 11 April 1969

Westward Ho! WI 21st birthday

Westward Ho! WI celebrates

‘Coming of age’ is an important event in the life of a Women’s Institute and Westward Ho! members celebrated their institute’s 21st birthday at the Kingsley Hall.

A cake bearing 21 red roses, made by Mrs A. Powell, was cut by the President Mrs L. Pope who was a member of the first committee and founder of the music and drama group. Guests included past presidents Mesdames Stallabrass, Hilder and Stevens and Mesdames Hemmel, Courtney and Violet (all V.C.Os.)

Westward Ho WI 21st birthday

The photograph above shows the President and past presidents, officers, committee members and V.C.Os.

Gazette article dated 25 April 1969

 

 

 

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