• 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 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

  • 2 First tankers arrive at new depot

  • 3 Record pebble-throwing day

  • 4 Circus comes to town

  • 5 Signed scroll momento of Queen Mother's visit

  • 6 Thirty bridges cross Torridge

  • 7 For crying out loud!

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

  • 9 Appledore tugs fete London Tower

  • 10 Faints as she wins national competition

  • 11 Launching the 'Golden Hinde'

  • 12 Quads at Thornhillhead

  • 13 Out of puff!

  • 14 Northam loses thatched cottage landmark

  • 15 New Lundy air-mail stamps

  • 16 Success to Festival of the Arts

  • 17 Bideford inquest on French trawlermen opens

  • 18 Bideford schoolboy's courage recognised

  • 19 Barley from Bideford to Bonnie Scotland

  • 20

    Wynne Olley's styles impress International Hair Fashion Designer
  • 21 He beat the floods

  • 22 Largest salmon caught in Torridge

  • 23 Meredith's ironmongers

  • 24

    New gateway
  • 25 Panel sprint for Bideford broadcast

  • 26 Littleham family's five generations

  • 27 Spring-cleaning the Ridge

  • 28 Riverside mystery

  • 29 Cement-clad boats being built at Northam

  • 30 Torrington to have first woman mayor

  • 31 A Weare Giffard speciality - delicious strawberries

  • 32 Bideford computer stars

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

  • 34 Devil sent packing

  • 35 Lots drawn to prevent dog fight

  • 36 Jalopy joy for children of Shamwickshire

  • 37 Bridging the stream

  • 38 Variety in summer weather

  • 39 A sense of humour in advertising

  • 40 Water Board mains spread through villages

  • 41 Last of Bideford factory chimney

  • 42 Four sisters' nostalgic reunion

  • 43 On her 'maiden' trip from Bideford

  • 44 Bicycle now does donkey work

  • 45 Wilfred and Mabel visit schools and hospital

  • 46 Do recall the old windmill at Northam?

  • 47 Photo of town's first car wins prize

  • 48 A man and his wheel

  • 49 First ship in 8 years

  • 50 New art gallery opened

  • 51 Donkey work made easier at Clovelly

  • 52 Up-to-date Bideford!

  • 53 Bideford A.F.C annual dinner
  • 54 Homage to a well-loved sovereign

  • 55

    Cadets are given certificates
  • 56 Private home for public pump

  • 57 What's the time?

  • 58 Hartland's invitation

  • 59 Bideford firm develops new non-spill paint

  • 60

    Gift from Bideford Town Council
  • 61 All aboard the ark

  • 62 By pony and trap to market

  • 63

    Successful motor cycling team
  • 64 Dismantling of wireless mast

  • 65 It really was the 'last time'

  • 66 Photo mural in Bideford bank

  • 67 Torrington's new amenity

  • 68 Some mushroom!

  • 69 Weare Giffard potato

  • 70 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

  • 71 No sale of Springfield House

  • 72 Hartland Dancers
  • 73 All for the love of a lady!

  • 74 Clovelly donkey film star

  • 75 Pannier Market's future?

  • 76 Weare Giffard Hall sold for £11,300

  • 77

    Hamburger is part of modern life
  • 78 When horses score over the tractor

  • 79 Landmark at Bradworthy

  • 80 Revenge in style

  • 81 Loads of black and white

  • 82 Champagne send-off for Torrington new factory

  • 83 Appledore's largest

  • 84 Down at the 'Donkey House'

  • 85

    Toasted with musical honours
  • 86 Happy Days!

  • 87 Bideford's first triplets for 12 years

  • 88 Decontrol of meat

  • 89 Escaped crane moves into Kenwith Valley

  • 90 Thorn-apple found in Littleham conservatory

  • 91 Bideford childrens' cinema opens

  • 92 Instow local art show was 'tremendous success'

  • 93 In their new robes and hats

  • 94 Bideford-Torrington road gets 'carpet coat'

  • 95 New Post Office

  • 96 Jumble sale fever

  • 97

    Close associations with North Devon
  • 98 Bideford blacksmith wins English championship

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

  • 100 Daisy's pride and joy

  • 101 School's link with cargo ship

  • 102 Fishing light goes out at close of poor season

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

  • 104 Childrens' model of Torrington

  • 105 Safe door weighing two tons

  • 106 Designed all furnishing of new chapel

  • 107 Appledore boy is youngest recipient of RNLI vellun

  • 108 Harvest service in Bideford 'pub' bar

  • 109 Gift plaque on Clovelly council houses

  • 110 Westward Ho! Tennis Club Winners
  • 111 Bideford's gift to Sir Francis

  • 112 Students help model St Sidwell

  • 113 Children's procession with foxgloves

  • 114 Yeoi Vale House finally demolished

  • 115 Tibbles home again - and fish supper

  • 116 Council agree to demolition of Chanter's Folly

  • 117 Head Barman appointed Torrington Town Crier
  • 118 Bideford 'What's my line?' challenger

  • 119 They never miss a game at Torrington

  • 120 Appledore schooner broadcast

  • 121 Birds' convalescent home at Instow

  • 122 Peter poses for TV film

  • 123 Battle of the gap at Westward Ho!

  • 124 America's tribute to 'J.H.'

  • 125 Thrush builds nest in cauliflower

  • 126 Simple Item 138
  • 127 Bideford Liberals' fashion show

  • 128 Symbol of Lundy independence

  • 129 TV features Bideford's New Year bread ceremony

  • 130 Torrington school's sundial - fashioned by Headmaster

  • 131 Mobile missionary

  • 132 Celebrations for 103rd birthday

  • 133 Some 240 exhibits

  • 134 Eight to strike and a race to win

  • 135 Fundraising trip for RNLI

  • 136 They set out for Bideford and became lost

  • 137 Big develolpment at Calveford

  • 138 X-ray shoe fitting

  • 139 Traditions and skills still there

  • 140 Brothers reunion 1947
  • 141 Emergency ferry services

  • 142 Practical sympathy at Northam

  • 143 Television comes to Torridge District

  • 144

    School of Dancing's Annual Display
  • 145 Joe the ginger tabby is 21

  • 146 Revived market off to splendid start

  • 147 Can spring be far away?

  • 148 Move for oldest boatyard on Torridge

  • 149 Huntshaw TV mast

  • 150 Speeding communications: Bideford firm's new installation

  • 151 Getting up steam for tomorrow

  • 152 Torridge wins on time schedule

  • 153 New fire and ambulance stations

  • 154 Recognise this resort?

  • 155 Cruising down the river

  • 156 Centuries old but today busier than ever

  • 157

    Birgitta Whittaker
  • 158

    Lenwood Squash Club
  • 159 Sweet success at Langtree School

  • 160 Burnard family reunion

  • 161 'Les Girls' of Hartland

  • 162 Train returns to Westleigh straight

  • 163 Hartland postman retires

  • 164 Fish nearly pulled him in

  • 165 Bideford Bridge re-opens

  • 166 Broomhayes £1,000 Surprise
  • 167 Watch the dicky bird!

  • 168 Bravery against bull at Shebbear rewarded

  • 169 East-the-Water sets town an example

  • 170 Yelland potter's exhibition at Bideford

  • 171

    10-year-old scrambler practices
  • 172 Future of Torrington almshouses

  • 173

    First Girls at Bideford Grammar School take part in Play
  • 174 Eleventh hour bid to save last sailing barge

  • 175 Northam wants to continue pumping from river

  • 176 Farewell to passenger trains

  • 177 Eleven million pound scheme's official opening

  • 178 Centenary of Landcross Methodist Chapel

  • 179 Torrington in 1967

  • 180 A roof-top view - where?

  • 181 Repair work on Long Bridge
  • 182 Bideford Zoo's first baby is big draw

  • 183 Picking the pops

  • 184 Holiday traffic in Bideford High Street

  • 185 Yeo vale road ruin provides a mystery

  • 186 Light reading for the lighthouse

  • 187 Wine and beer merchants for 150 years

  • 188

    Andre Veillett and Quentin Reed in Judo Demonstration
  • 189 Second Monte Carlo Rally

  • 190 New shipyard on schedule

  • 191 In the tortoise nursery - eight hatched at Bideford

  • 192 Bideford Liberal club new lounge bar opened

  • 193 A bird of their own!

  • 194 'Out of Appledore' sailing memories

  • 195 What is future of railway goods yard?

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

  • 197 Ancestral home nestling in lovely combe

  • 198 Centenary of Gazette

  • 199 Mural in the whimsical fashion

  • 200

    Jinxed School Trip
  • 201 Inscribed Bibles and silver spoons for babies

  • 202 Torrington's shelter for the aged

  • 203 A lost Bideford 'island'

  • 204 Shipbuilding hobby at Hartland

  • 205 Still hunting aged 80 and a Field Master

  • 206 Buckland goes to County Show

  • 207

    Married in 1908
  • 208 New addition to Quay front

  • 209 Ships at Bideford

  • 210 Little 'Big Ben'

  • 211 Eight and a half million pound Taw development scheme

  • 212 Four hundred residents leave Bideford!

  • 213 Cavaliers join the Hunt
  • 214 Westward Ho! public conveniences get go ahead
  • 215 Capers on the cobbles

  • 216 New Estate's view of estuary activities

  • 217 Lady Churchill congratulates Bideford artists at nursing exhibition

  • 218 Finished in 1876

  • 219 Vessel built 300 feet above sea level

  • 220 Old Girls revisit Edgehill

  • 221

    Gus Honeybun meets local children
  • 222 Can-carrying over cobbles has disappeared

  • 223 Passing of a Torrington landmark

  • 224

    Exhibition of school work
  • 225 New choral society's growing response

  • 226 New Lundy stamps

  • 227 New life for Hartland organ

  • 228 Tomorrow' night's skittles broadcast from Bideford

  • 229 Space dominates Hartland carnival

  • 230 The creative urge on Saturday morning

  • 231 Picking the pops

  • 232 Bringing shopping home by goat

  • 233 Unique holiday adventure!

  • 234 No laughing matter

  • 235 Just over a year old

  • 236 Liked holidays here - so starts business

  • 237 Making way for the double-deckers

  • 238

    Inter-school Road Safety Quiz Cup Winners
  • 239 Penny for the guy

  • 240 River scenes that enchant the visitors

  • 241 Waldon Triplets
  • 242 Donkey and horses enjoy carnival drink

  • 243

    Bidefordians
  • 244 Wishing well is pixielated

  • 245 Rowing triumphs at Bideford

  • 246 Sooty is quick on the draw

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

  • 248

    Reds Womens Team Are First To Compete Throughout Season
  • 249 Lady Godiva comes to Torrington

  • 250 Fishermen of Greencliff

  • 251 They are parted pro-tem

  • 252

    Building works
  • 253 A story to tell!

  • 254 First steel ship built at Bideford

  • 255 Bideford triplets' first birthday party

  • 256 Steep street of old Bideford

  • 257 Polish custom on Pancake Day

  • 258 Bank Holiday weather was beach weather

  • 259 Allhalland Street - then and now

  • 260 Alderman Anstey's dream comes tru

  • 261

    Double Baptism on Torridge
  • 262 Chess - their bridge over the years

  • 263 Five generations link Woolsery, Clovelly and Bideford

  • 264 Police station view of Bideford

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

  • 266 North Devon Driving School

  • 267 Church renovation rejoicing at Northam

  • 268 Warmington's garage ad

  • 269 Bideford has built over 500 post-war homes

  • 270 Twenty-one yachts

  • 271 Spray dodging - the new pastime

  • 272 Puppet characters introduced

  • 273 Clovelly nightmare

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    Was a missionary
  • 275 Bideford's new market opens next week

  • 276 Sunshine and shade at Appledore

  • 277 Torrington Youth Club rewarded by party
  • 278 No ancient Grecian temple this

  • 279 Parkham plan realised

  • 280 Olympic riders to compete at Bideford Horse Show

  • 281 Northam's almshouse

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

  • 283 Bideford shipyard workers cheer new minesweeper

  • 284 A craftsman's 'potted' history

  • 285

    Mums protest in Coronation Road
  • 286 So this is the mainland!

  • 287 Quads join a Langtree happy family

  • 288 Buckland farm workers to receive long-service awards

  • 289 Six footed lamb

  • 290 Baby Kate goes home to Lundy

  • 291 John Andrew Bread Charity
  • 292 Bideford - as Rowlandson saw it about 1810-15

  • 293 Appledore Juniors Football
  • 294 Designed and made in Bideford

  • 295 Alverdiscott is proud of its new parish hall

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

  • 297 Puzzle corner at Bideford!

  • 298 Saving money, wear and tear

  • 299 TV contest means big job for Bideford Guides

  • 300 Bideford's private wharves busier

  • 301 Bideford country dancers on TV

  • 302 Bideford skifflers, they're no squares

  • 303 Holiday scene near Sandymere

  • 304 Thunderstorm destruction of 25 years ago

  • 305 Smiling welcome to Hartland visitors

  • 306 Bideford stock car racing entry comes in second

  • 307 Born 1883 - still going strong

  • 308 Boys win hockey on the sands challenge

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

  • 310 Bideford regatta

  • 311 Pet squirrels at Monkleigh

  • 312 Ten year old scrambler

  • 313 Two kinds of hovercraft at Bideford

  • 314 Entente cordiale in Bideford

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

  • 316 Torrington acclaims 400th anniversary of granting of charter

  • 317

    Youth Clubs Join Together For Entertainment
  • 318 What the television camera saw at Abbotsham

  • 319 Last train from Torrington

  • 320 Life begins at 80

  • 321 Modern living at Bideford

  • 322 Record player of 80 years ago

  • 323 Works at craft he learned over 65 years ago

  • 324

    Mrs Whapham finds ferret in Bridgeland Street while shopping
  • 325 Torridge graveyard of wooden hulks

  • 326 Teenager Peter Jackson Makes Horror Film
  • 327 The art of the thatcher

  • 328 New civic medallions

  • 329 Tide sweeps under and over the old bridge

  • 330 Service with a smile

  • 331 Beach search for mines takes longer

  • 332 Larkworthy Family play in Shebbear's Football Team
  • 333 Bideford School Junior Choir Sing in France at Twinning Ceremony in Landivisiau
  • 334 Clovelly custom

  • 335 Torrington children build igloo
  • 336 One thousand visit zoo at Whitsun

  • 337 Boys from Bideford school complete Ten Tors

  • 338 Ship-in-bottle world record

  • 339 Westward Ho! combined op

  • 340 Championship Trophy for Hartland
  • 341 Alwington School closing after 120 years

  • 342 Charter granted by Philip and Mary

  • 343 Broomhayes children will keep their winter pet

  • 344 Clovelly's 91 year old horseman

  • 345 Town's second woman mayor in 392 years

  • 346 Littleham cow tops 70 tons mark in milk production

  • 347 Picture bought for shillings may be worth thousands

  • 348 Shoes certainly not made for walking

  • 349

    Relatives all over the world
  • 350 No ancient Grecian temple this

  • 351 Preparations for new Clovelly Court

  • 352

    FA Cup Match for the Robins
  • 353

    Womens Skittles Competition in Buckland Brewer
  • 354 School crossing patrol begins

  • 355 Fleet of foot and fair of face

  • 356 New gateway to King George's Fields

  • 357 Colour TV salesman at eight

  • 358 Bideford loses training ship

  • 359 End of the line

  • 360 Panto time at Westward Ho!

  • 361 Tramps camp by riverside throughout arctic weather

  • 362 Northam footballers of the future

  • 363 Westward Ho! sand yacht to challenge speed record

  • 364 Calligrapher extraordinary

  • 365 Salmon netting at Bideford

  • 366

    First prize
  • 367 New look for Torrington Lane

  • 368 Sight of a lifetime

  • 369 Bideford electricity window display qualifies for area competition

  • 370 The Geneva marionettes

  • 371 Death - and birth - of a telephone exchange

  • 372 113 years at Instow

  • 373 Torrington's enterprise's new extensions

  • 374 New look in the hayfields

  • 375 North Devon author featured in TV documentary

  • 376 Gloves fit for a king!

  • 377 Appledore's new lifeboat

  • 378 Pretty pennies at Beaford

  • 379 An early 'special' to Bideford

  • 380 Off on a great adventure

  • 381 Hartland Abbey outdoor staff 60 years ago

  • 382 Calf thinks of mare as mum

  • 383 Artisans' Club

  • 384

    Appledore boys beat mums at football
  • 385

    Holidaying in north Devon
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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90 Minutes Squash Marathon

Some of the West country’s leading players

competed in an invitation competition at the Lenwood Squash Club over the weekend.

Winner of the Robin Gale cup was Nigel Foulkes who defeated Clive Stiff in a hard fought match. Semi-finalists were Nick Barrington and George Ackland. Best performance by a local player was by teacher Simon Lloyd who beat Mike Keech. A plate competition was won by Tim Langdon after a five game final with Andrew Joynson.

1.3.1974 squash competition

In the photograph are: David Allsop, Brian French, E Tudor, T Langdon, N Foulkes, D Pike, C Stiff, C Stockman, P Cross, K Spencer and M King.

The full Gazette article is dated 1 March 1974

Local Riders Are TA Champions

Culmination of most successful season

Saturday saw the culmination of the most successful season the local TA motor-cycling team has ever had when, at Aldershot, they won the Territorial Army championship, which the unit last held three years ago.

The team comprised Capt A Harman, Sergt C O Lockyer and Craftsman K Jeffery.

19.10.1956 Military TA riders

The end of the day saw a tie between 296 Field Regiment and the Black Watch on points but the Graham Walker trophy went to the Devon team who had the best returns on the timed section.

Article dated 19 October 1956

Robin’s Chance To Make Local History

Tomorrow’s FA Cup match with Dorchester

2.11.1956 Sport football Robins

In each of the two seasons he has been with the club, player-manager Sam Booth has taken Bideford AFC as far as they have ever gone in the FA Cup competition – to the fourth qualifying round.

Last year, in the fourth qualifying round match with Yeovil, Bideford came very near in the first half to upsetting the Southern League side but this year’s draw at home to fellow Western Leaguers, Dorchester, at the Sports Ground tomorrow, gives the Robins their best chance to make history by reaching the first round proper for the first time.

A canny Scott if ever there was one, player-manager Booth’s only comment yesterday as ‘Our lads are playing well and I anticipate a good, hard game.’

Bideford’s cup team for tomorrow: Sam Booth, Bill Hocking, Stan Rowe, Harry Scott, Paddy Doyle, Bill Harrower, Paddy Blatchford, Bill Dunlop, Albert Calland, Angus Mackay, Cyril Higgins.

2.11.1956 Sport football Robins

Article dated 2 November 1956

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