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

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    Close associations with North Devon
  • 3 Warmington's garage ad

  • 4 Fleet of foot and fair of face

  • 5 Photo mural in Bideford bank

  • 6

    Jinxed School Trip
  • 7 Thunderstorm destruction of 25 years ago

  • 8 Picture bought for shillings may be worth thousands

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

  • 10 Move for oldest boatyard on Torridge

  • 11 Tramps camp by riverside throughout arctic weather

  • 12 Torrington to have first woman mayor

  • 13 Clovelly nightmare

  • 14 New fire and ambulance stations

  • 15 Dismantling of wireless mast

  • 16 Calligrapher extraordinary

  • 17 Last of Bideford factory chimney

  • 18 Simple Item 138
  • 19 Bideford electricity window display qualifies for area competition

  • 20 Inscribed Bibles and silver spoons for babies

  • 21 Birds' convalescent home at Instow

  • 22 Bideford skifflers, they're no squares

  • 23 First ship in 8 years

  • 24 Weare Giffard potato

  • 25 Last train from Torrington

  • 26 Westward Ho! Tennis Club Winners
  • 27 New gateway to King George's Fields

  • 28 Passing of a Torrington landmark

  • 29 Police station view of Bideford

  • 30 Joe the ginger tabby is 21

  • 31 Off on a great adventure

  • 32 When horses score over the tractor

  • 33

    10-year-old scrambler practices
  • 34

    Youth Clubs Join Together For Entertainment
  • 35 Works at craft he learned over 65 years ago

  • 36 Farewell to passenger trains

  • 37 Life begins at 80

  • 38

    FA Cup Match for the Robins
  • 39 He beat the floods

  • 40 Puppet characters introduced

  • 41 Pet squirrels at Monkleigh

  • 42 Appledore Juniors Football
  • 43 Eight and a half million pound Taw development scheme

  • 44

    Womens Skittles Competition in Buckland Brewer
  • 45 Clovelly donkey film star

  • 46 Mobile missionary

  • 47 Bideford's private wharves busier

  • 48 Jumble sale fever

  • 49 Larkworthy Family play in Shebbear's Football Team
  • 50 New Estate's view of estuary activities

  • 51 Pannier Market's future?

  • 52 Bideford shipyard workers cheer new minesweeper

  • 53 Beach search for mines takes longer

  • 54 A sense of humour in advertising

  • 55 Smiling welcome to Hartland visitors

  • 56 Bideford Liberal club new lounge bar opened

  • 57 Parkham plan realised

  • 58 Torridge graveyard of wooden hulks

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

  • 60 River scenes that enchant the visitors

  • 61 A man and his wheel

  • 62 Safe door weighing two tons

  • 63

    Inter-school Road Safety Quiz Cup Winners
  • 64

    New gateway
  • 65

    Gift from Bideford Town Council
  • 66 Huntshaw TV mast

  • 67 Spring-cleaning the Ridge

  • 68 Cavaliers join the Hunt
  • 69 Championship Trophy for Hartland
  • 70 School crossing patrol begins

  • 71 America's tribute to 'J.H.'

  • 72 Head Barman appointed Torrington Town Crier
  • 73 Future of Torrington almshouses

  • 74 Revived market off to splendid start

  • 75 Weare Giffard Hall sold for £11,300

  • 76

    Reds Womens Team Are First To Compete Throughout Season
  • 77 What the television camera saw at Abbotsham

  • 78 Still hunting aged 80 and a Field Master

  • 79 Private home for public pump

  • 80 New Lundy air-mail stamps

  • 81 School's link with cargo ship

  • 82

    Bidefordians
  • 83 TV contest means big job for Bideford Guides

  • 84 Torrington Youth Club rewarded by party
  • 85 Littleham family's five generations

  • 86 So this is the mainland!

  • 87 Just over a year old

  • 88 A craftsman's 'potted' history

  • 89 Children's procession with foxgloves

  • 90 Bideford inquest on French trawlermen opens

  • 91 Success to Festival of the Arts

  • 92

    Successful motor cycling team
  • 93 Tomorrow' night's skittles broadcast from Bideford

  • 94 Space dominates Hartland carnival

  • 95 For crying out loud!

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

  • 97 Ten year old scrambler

  • 98 Eleven million pound scheme's official opening

  • 99 Water Board mains spread through villages

  • 100 Council agree to demolition of Chanter's Folly

  • 101 Gloves fit for a king!

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

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

  • 104 Harvest service in Bideford 'pub' bar

  • 105 Colour TV salesman at eight

  • 106 Emergency ferry services

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

  • 108 Bicycle now does donkey work

  • 109 Bideford blacksmith wins English championship

  • 110 Mural in the whimsical fashion

  • 111 A roof-top view - where?

  • 112 Bringing shopping home by goat

  • 113 Yeo vale road ruin provides a mystery

  • 114 Northam footballers of the future

  • 115 No ancient Grecian temple this

  • 116 Record pebble-throwing day

  • 117 Torrington school's sundial - fashioned by Headmaster

  • 118 Hartland's invitation

  • 119 Eight to strike and a race to win

  • 120 North Devon author featured in TV documentary

  • 121 Meredith's ironmongers

  • 122 Torrington's shelter for the aged

  • 123 Preparations for new Clovelly Court

  • 124 Westward Ho! sand yacht to challenge speed record

  • 125 Escaped crane moves into Kenwith Valley

  • 126 New shipyard on schedule

  • 127 Bideford Liberals' fashion show

  • 128 Light reading for the lighthouse

  • 129

    Double Baptism on Torridge
  • 130 Riverside mystery

  • 131 Hartland postman retires

  • 132 Teenager Peter Jackson Makes Horror Film
  • 133 On her 'maiden' trip from Bideford

  • 134 A story to tell!

  • 135 What is future of railway goods yard?

  • 136 All for the love of a lady!

  • 137 What's the time?

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

  • 139 Saving money, wear and tear

  • 140 Ship-in-bottle world record

  • 141 It really was the 'last time'

  • 142

    Holidaying in north Devon
  • 143 They set out for Bideford and became lost

  • 144 Centuries old but today busier than ever

  • 145 Sight of a lifetime

  • 146

    First prize
  • 147 New civic medallions

  • 148

    Relatives all over the world
  • 149 Wishing well is pixielated

  • 150 Entente cordiale in Bideford

  • 151 Hartland Abbey outdoor staff 60 years ago

  • 152 Old Girls revisit Edgehill

  • 153 First steel ship built at Bideford

  • 154 In the tortoise nursery - eight hatched at Bideford

  • 155

    School of Dancing's Annual Display
  • 156 Northam wants to continue pumping from river

  • 157 Centenary of Gazette

  • 158 Photo of town's first car wins prize

  • 159 Can spring be far away?

  • 160 Panto time at Westward Ho!

  • 161 New art gallery opened

  • 162

    Wynne Olley's styles impress International Hair Fashion Designer
  • 163 Penny for the guy

  • 164 Torrington's new amenity

  • 165 Lady Churchill congratulates Bideford artists at nursing exhibition

  • 166 Bideford loses training ship

  • 167 Cement-clad boats being built at Northam

  • 168 Waldon Triplets
  • 169 New Lundy stamps

  • 170

    Toasted with musical honours
  • 171 Repair work on Long Bridge
  • 172 All aboard the ark

  • 173

    Exhibition of school work
  • 174

    Lenwood Squash Club
  • 175 Modern living at Bideford

  • 176 Launching the 'Golden Hinde'

  • 177 No sale of Springfield House

  • 178 Shipbuilding hobby at Hartland

  • 179 Eleventh hour bid to save last sailing barge

  • 180 Service with a smile

  • 181 Fishing light goes out at close of poor season

  • 182 Symbol of Lundy independence

  • 183 Fishermen of Greencliff

  • 184 Westward Ho! combined op

  • 185 Childrens' model of Torrington

  • 186 East-the-Water sets town an example

  • 187 A bird of their own!

  • 188 Torrington's enterprise's new extensions

  • 189 Tide sweeps under and over the old bridge

  • 190 Bideford has built over 500 post-war homes

  • 191 113 years at Instow

  • 192 Burnard family reunion

  • 193 By pony and trap to market

  • 194 Five generations link Woolsery, Clovelly and Bideford

  • 195 Some 240 exhibits

  • 196 Fundraising trip for RNLI

  • 197 Speeding communications: Bideford firm's new installation

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

  • 199

    Married in 1908
  • 200 'Les Girls' of Hartland

  • 201 Instow local art show was 'tremendous success'

  • 202 Alwington School closing after 120 years

  • 203 Unique holiday adventure!

  • 204 Panel sprint for Bideford broadcast

  • 205 An early 'special' to Bideford

  • 206 The Geneva marionettes

  • 207 Down at the 'Donkey House'

  • 208 Thorn-apple found in Littleham conservatory

  • 209 Wilfred and Mabel visit schools and hospital

  • 210 The art of the thatcher

  • 211 Fish nearly pulled him in

  • 212 Picking the pops

  • 213 Homage to a well-loved sovereign

  • 214 Hartland Dancers
  • 215

    Mums protest in Coronation Road
  • 216 Allhalland Street - then and now

  • 217 Alverdiscott is proud of its new parish hall

  • 218 New Post Office

  • 219 Alderman Anstey's dream comes tru

  • 220 Twenty-one yachts

  • 221 Some mushroom!

  • 222 The creative urge on Saturday morning

  • 223 Second Monte Carlo Rally

  • 224 They never miss a game at Torrington

  • 225 Variety in summer weather

  • 226 Bideford childrens' cinema opens

  • 227 End of the line

  • 228 Gift plaque on Clovelly council houses

  • 229 Circus comes to town

  • 230 Puzzle corner at Bideford!

  • 231 Getting up steam for tomorrow

  • 232 Decontrol of meat

  • 233 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

  • 234 Bideford-Torrington road gets 'carpet coat'

  • 235 Loads of black and white

  • 236 New life for Hartland organ

  • 237 Practical sympathy at Northam

  • 238 Making way for the double-deckers

  • 239 Thrush builds nest in cauliflower

  • 240 Olympic riders to compete at Bideford Horse Show

  • 241 Buckland farm workers to receive long-service awards

  • 242 Out of puff!

  • 243 Traditions and skills still there

  • 244 Bank Holiday weather was beach weather

  • 245 Torridge wins on time schedule

  • 246 Picking the pops

  • 247 Landmark at Bradworthy

  • 248 In their new robes and hats

  • 249 Calf thinks of mare as mum

  • 250 Champagne send-off for Torrington new factory

  • 251 Big develolpment at Calveford

  • 252 Designed and made in Bideford

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

  • 254 Appledore's new lifeboat

  • 255 Two kinds of hovercraft at Bideford

  • 256 Recognise this resort?

  • 257 Buckland goes to County Show

  • 258 Largest salmon caught in Torridge

  • 259 Bideford country dancers on TV

  • 260

    First Girls at Bideford Grammar School take part in Play
  • 261 Town's second woman mayor in 392 years

  • 262 A Weare Giffard speciality - delicious strawberries

  • 263 Tibbles home again - and fish supper

  • 264 Capers on the cobbles

  • 265 Signed scroll momento of Queen Mother's visit

  • 266 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

  • 267 Bravery against bull at Shebbear rewarded

  • 268 Vessel built 300 feet above sea level

  • 269 Wine and beer merchants for 150 years

  • 270 Westward Ho! public conveniences get go ahead
  • 271 Diamond Jubilee of St Peter's Church, East-the-Water

  • 272 Quads at Thornhillhead

  • 273 Bideford's gift to Sir Francis

  • 274 Appledore schooner broadcast

  • 275 New addition to Quay front

  • 276 Six footed lamb

  • 277 Lady Godiva comes to Torrington

  • 278 Artisans' Club

  • 279 Donkey and horses enjoy carnival drink

  • 280 Bideford triplets' first birthday party

  • 281 Ancestral home nestling in lovely combe

  • 282 No ancient Grecian temple this

  • 283 Bridging the stream

  • 284 Students help model St Sidwell

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

  • 286 Liked holidays here - so starts business

  • 287 Barley from Bideford to Bonnie Scotland

  • 288 Bideford's first triplets for 12 years

  • 289 One thousand visit zoo at Whitsun

  • 290 TV features Bideford's New Year bread ceremony

  • 291 Spray dodging - the new pastime

  • 292 Northam's almshouse

  • 293

    Gus Honeybun meets local children
  • 294 Train returns to Westleigh straight

  • 295 No laughing matter

  • 296 Cruising down the river

  • 297 Designed all furnishing of new chapel

  • 298 Baby Kate goes home to Lundy

  • 299 Happy Days!

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    Mrs Whapham finds ferret in Bridgeland Street while shopping
  • 301 Do recall the old windmill at Northam?

  • 302 Devil sent packing

  • 303 Clovelly's 91 year old horseman

  • 304 John Andrew Bread Charity
  • 305

    Appledore boys beat mums at football
  • 306 Polish custom on Pancake Day

  • 307 Holiday scene near Sandymere

  • 308 Sooty is quick on the draw

  • 309 Faints as she wins national competition

  • 310 'Out of Appledore' sailing memories

  • 311 North Devon Driving School

  • 312 Death - and birth - of a telephone exchange

  • 313 Pretty pennies at Beaford

  • 314 Rowing triumphs at Bideford

  • 315 Peter poses for TV film

  • 316 Broomhayes £1,000 Surprise
  • 317 Appledore's largest

  • 318 Torrington children build igloo
  • 319 Bideford A.F.C annual dinner
  • 320 Finished in 1876

  • 321 Can-carrying over cobbles has disappeared

  • 322 Little 'Big Ben'

  • 323 Bideford regatta

  • 324

    Andre Veillett and Quentin Reed in Judo Demonstration
  • 325 Clovelly custom

  • 326 They are parted pro-tem

  • 327 Brothers reunion 1947
  • 328 Quads join a Langtree happy family

  • 329

    Hamburger is part of modern life
  • 330 Boys win hockey on the sands challenge

  • 331 Bideford firm develops new non-spill paint

  • 332 Centenary of Landcross Methodist Chapel

  • 333 Sweet success at Langtree School

  • 334 Record player of 80 years ago

  • 335

    Birgitta Whittaker
  • 336 Donkey work made easier at Clovelly

  • 337 Torrington acclaims 400th anniversary of granting of charter

  • 338 Four hundred residents leave Bideford!

  • 339 New look in the hayfields

  • 340 Battle of the gap at Westward Ho!

  • 341 Up-to-date Bideford!

  • 342 Four sisters' nostalgic reunion

  • 343 Holiday traffic in Bideford High Street

  • 344 Chess - their bridge over the years

  • 345 Born 1883 - still going strong

  • 346 Northam loses thatched cottage landmark

  • 347 New choral society's growing response

  • 348 Bideford Zoo's first baby is big draw

  • 349 A lost Bideford 'island'

  • 350 Appledore tugs fete London Tower

  • 351 Littleham cow tops 70 tons mark in milk production

  • 352 Yeoi Vale House finally demolished

  • 353 Steep street of old Bideford

  • 354 Broomhayes children will keep their winter pet

  • 355 Ships at Bideford

  • 356 Revenge in style

  • 357 Shoes certainly not made for walking

  • 358 Bideford Bridge re-opens

  • 359 Torrington in 1967

  • 360 Lots drawn to prevent dog fight

  • 361 Yelland potter's exhibition at Bideford

  • 362 First tankers arrive at new depot

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    Building works
  • 364 Bideford stock car racing entry comes in second

  • 365 Daisy's pride and joy

  • 366 Jalopy joy for children of Shamwickshire

  • 367 Bideford computer stars

  • 368 New look for Torrington Lane

  • 369

    Was a missionary
  • 370 Thirty bridges cross Torridge

  • 371 X-ray shoe fitting

  • 372 Bideford School Junior Choir Sing in France at Twinning Ceremony in Landivisiau
  • 373 Television comes to Torridge District

  • 374 Bideford schoolboy's courage recognised

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

  • 376 Church renovation rejoicing at Northam

  • 377 Watch the dicky bird!

  • 378 Celebrations for 103rd birthday

  • 379 Charter granted by Philip and Mary

  • 380 Boys from Bideford school complete Ten Tors

  • 381 Sunshine and shade at Appledore

  • 382 Appledore boy is youngest recipient of RNLI vellun

  • 383 Bideford's new market opens next week

  • 384

    Cadets are given certificates
  • 385 Salmon netting at Bideford

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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10-year-old Scrambler

10-year-old Scrambler

10-year-old scrambler

 10-year-old scrambler

Anthony Raymont, age 10, on his 70cc, and 14-year-old Roger Tuck join riders Terry Osbourne and Tony Screech for a practice.

Wynne Olley Hair-styling Demonstration

Wynne Olley Hair-styling Demonstration

Wynne Olley hairdressing demo photo

Local women impress International World-cup Winning Hair-stylist

Martin Hurst, International Hair Fashion Designer, and member of the British World Cup Squad, spent a day in Bideford training local hair dressers at Wynne Olley's salon. He demonstrated up-to-the-minute techniques to 20 hair stylists, and commented how impressed he was at the styles he saw worn by women in the town.

 

Bideford Reds Womens Team First to Compete Throughout Whole Season

Bideford Reds Womens Team First to Compete Throughout Whole Season 4th August 1978

Bideford Reds Womens Team Photo

Although the local womens team have taken part in occasional races in the past, this women's rowing team are the first to have competed for the entire season. The crew were Linda Fishleigh, Beverley Paddon, Diane Hooper and Margaret Hutchings. 

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