• 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 Bideford's first triplets for 12 years

  • 2 Do recall the old windmill at Northam?

  • 3 Capers on the cobbles

  • 4 Mural in the whimsical fashion

  • 5 Hartland Abbey outdoor staff 60 years ago

  • 6

    Successful motor cycling team
  • 7 Torrington in 1967

  • 8 Bideford inquest on French trawlermen opens

  • 9 New choral society's growing response

  • 10 Landmark at Bradworthy

  • 11 Bideford shipyard workers cheer new minesweeper

  • 12 Eight to strike and a race to win

  • 13 For crying out loud!

  • 14

    Was a missionary
  • 15

    Birgitta Whittaker
  • 16 Bideford triplets' first birthday party

  • 17 Sweet success at Langtree School

  • 18 Hartland's invitation

  • 19 Rowing triumphs at Bideford

  • 20 Jalopy joy for children of Shamwickshire

  • 21 No laughing matter

  • 22 Northam's almshouse

  • 23 Northam loses thatched cottage landmark

  • 24 East-the-Water sets town an example

  • 25 First tankers arrive at new depot

  • 26 Lady Godiva comes to Torrington

  • 27 Six footed lamb

  • 28 Bideford School Junior Choir Sing in France at Twinning Ceremony in Landivisiau
  • 29 Children's procession with foxgloves

  • 30 Four sisters' nostalgic reunion

  • 31 Northam footballers of the future

  • 32 New life for Hartland organ

  • 33 Can spring be far away?

  • 34 Appledore's new lifeboat

  • 35 Appledore Juniors Football
  • 36 Westward Ho! Tennis Club Winners
  • 37 Artisans' Club

  • 38 Sight of a lifetime

  • 39 The creative urge on Saturday morning

  • 40

    Appledore boys beat mums at football
  • 41 All for the love of a lady!

  • 42 In the tortoise nursery - eight hatched at Bideford

  • 43 Donkey and horses enjoy carnival drink

  • 44 A story to tell!

  • 45 Ancestral home nestling in lovely combe

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

  • 47 Fleet of foot and fair of face

  • 48

    Married in 1908
  • 49

    Toasted with musical honours
  • 50 Bideford Bridge re-opens

  • 51 Television comes to Torridge District

  • 52 Littleham cow tops 70 tons mark in milk production

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

  • 54 No ancient Grecian temple this

  • 55 Some mushroom!

  • 56 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

  • 57 Designed and made in Bideford

  • 58 Calligrapher extraordinary

  • 59 Move for oldest boatyard on Torridge

  • 60 Bideford schoolboy's courage recognised

  • 61 What the television camera saw at Abbotsham

  • 62 Fundraising trip for RNLI

  • 63 Up-to-date Bideford!

  • 64 Gift plaque on Clovelly council houses

  • 65 Emergency ferry services

  • 66 Appledore's largest

  • 67 Childrens' model of Torrington

  • 68

    Cadets are given certificates
  • 69 They are parted pro-tem

  • 70

    New gateway
  • 71 X-ray shoe fitting

  • 72 Bridging the stream

  • 73 New art gallery opened

  • 74 Getting up steam for tomorrow

  • 75 In their new robes and hats

  • 76 No ancient Grecian temple this

  • 77 Dismantling of wireless mast

  • 78

    Inter-school Road Safety Quiz Cup Winners
  • 79 Fish nearly pulled him in

  • 80 Practical sympathy at Northam

  • 81 Spray dodging - the new pastime

  • 82 Tomorrow' night's skittles broadcast from Bideford

  • 83 Donkey work made easier at Clovelly

  • 84 Second Monte Carlo Rally

  • 85 Bideford Liberals' fashion show

  • 86 Huntshaw TV mast

  • 87

    Close associations with North Devon
  • 88 A sense of humour in advertising

  • 89 Centuries old but today busier than ever

  • 90 Smiling welcome to Hartland visitors

  • 91 Wine and beer merchants for 150 years

  • 92 Works at craft he learned over 65 years ago

  • 93 First ship in 8 years

  • 94

    Andre Veillett and Quentin Reed in Judo Demonstration
  • 95 Sooty is quick on the draw

  • 96 Wishing well is pixielated

  • 97 Lots drawn to prevent dog fight

  • 98 Little 'Big Ben'

  • 99 Traditions and skills still there

  • 100 Clovelly custom

  • 101 New fire and ambulance stations

  • 102 Celebrations for 103rd birthday

  • 103 Twenty-one yachts

  • 104 Appledore tugs fete London Tower

  • 105 Appledore schooner broadcast

  • 106 Bideford country dancers on TV

  • 107 Church renovation rejoicing at Northam

  • 108 Boys win hockey on the sands challenge

  • 109

    Youth Clubs Join Together For Entertainment
  • 110 Bravery against bull at Shebbear rewarded

  • 111 North Devon Driving School

  • 112 Designed all furnishing of new chapel

  • 113 When horses score over the tractor

  • 114 Thunderstorm destruction of 25 years ago

  • 115 Photo of town's first car wins prize

  • 116 Four hundred residents leave Bideford!

  • 117

    Hamburger is part of modern life
  • 118 One thousand visit zoo at Whitsun

  • 119 Quads join a Langtree happy family

  • 120 Pet squirrels at Monkleigh

  • 121 Colour TV salesman at eight

  • 122 Bringing shopping home by goat

  • 123 Olympic riders to compete at Bideford Horse Show

  • 124 Warmington's garage ad

  • 125 North Devon author featured in TV documentary

  • 126 Pannier Market's future?

  • 127

    Lenwood Squash Club
  • 128

    First prize
  • 129

    Gus Honeybun meets local children
  • 130 Westward Ho! public conveniences get go ahead
  • 131 Loads of black and white

  • 132 By pony and trap to market

  • 133 Students help model St Sidwell

  • 134 Championship Trophy for Hartland
  • 135 Wilfred and Mabel visit schools and hospital

  • 136

    Bidefordians
  • 137

    Womens Skittles Competition in Buckland Brewer
  • 138 Future of Torrington almshouses

  • 139 Out of puff!

  • 140 Unique holiday adventure!

  • 141 Modern living at Bideford

  • 142 Down at the 'Donkey House'

  • 143 Bank Holiday weather was beach weather

  • 144 A craftsman's 'potted' history

  • 145

    Gift from Bideford Town Council
  • 146

    First Girls at Bideford Grammar School take part in Play
  • 147 Torrington school's sundial - fashioned by Headmaster

  • 148 Picking the pops

  • 149 Peter poses for TV film

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

  • 151 New shipyard on schedule

  • 152 Puppet characters introduced

  • 153 John Andrew Bread Charity
  • 154 Sunshine and shade at Appledore

  • 155 End of the line

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

  • 157 They set out for Bideford and became lost

  • 158 Bideford regatta

  • 159

    Jinxed School Trip
  • 160 Clovelly nightmare

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

  • 162 Still hunting aged 80 and a Field Master

  • 163 Bideford firm develops new non-spill paint

  • 164 Circus comes to town

  • 165 Train returns to Westleigh straight

  • 166 Record player of 80 years ago

  • 167 Steep street of old Bideford

  • 168 Cavaliers join the Hunt
  • 169 Making way for the double-deckers

  • 170 A man and his wheel

  • 171 Private home for public pump

  • 172 Shoes certainly not made for walking

  • 173 Yelland potter's exhibition at Bideford

  • 174 Five generations link Woolsery, Clovelly and Bideford

  • 175 Bideford's gift to Sir Francis

  • 176 Space dominates Hartland carnival

  • 177

    Holidaying in north Devon
  • 178 Torrington's shelter for the aged

  • 179 Bideford's private wharves busier

  • 180 Larkworthy Family play in Shebbear's Football Team
  • 181 Passing of a Torrington landmark

  • 182 Service with a smile

  • 183 Light reading for the lighthouse

  • 184 Holiday traffic in Bideford High Street

  • 185 New addition to Quay front

  • 186 Panto time at Westward Ho!

  • 187 Preparations for new Clovelly Court

  • 188 New civic medallions

  • 189 Tramps camp by riverside throughout arctic weather

  • 190 Beach search for mines takes longer

  • 191 Revived market off to splendid start

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

  • 193 Weare Giffard potato

  • 194 Speeding communications: Bideford firm's new installation

  • 195 The Geneva marionettes

  • 196 Happy Days!

  • 197 Westward Ho! sand yacht to challenge speed record

  • 198 Variety in summer weather

  • 199 Cement-clad boats being built at Northam

  • 200 Picture bought for shillings may be worth thousands

  • 201 A lost Bideford 'island'

  • 202 Torrington Youth Club rewarded by party
  • 203 Picking the pops

  • 204 Alwington School closing after 120 years

  • 205 Daisy's pride and joy

  • 206 Ten year old scrambler

  • 207 Inscribed Bibles and silver spoons for babies

  • 208 Northam wants to continue pumping from river

  • 209 Torridge graveyard of wooden hulks

  • 210 Water Board mains spread through villages

  • 211 Mobile missionary

  • 212 Record pebble-throwing day

  • 213 Burnard family reunion

  • 214 Bideford-Torrington road gets 'carpet coat'

  • 215 Torrington children build igloo
  • 216 Lady Churchill congratulates Bideford artists at nursing exhibition

  • 217 Panel sprint for Bideford broadcast

  • 218 Farewell to passenger trains

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

  • 220 Holiday scene near Sandymere

  • 221 Cruising down the river

  • 222 What is future of railway goods yard?

  • 223 Spring-cleaning the Ridge

  • 224 Bideford Zoo's first baby is big draw

  • 225 Joe the ginger tabby is 21

  • 226 School's link with cargo ship

  • 227 A Weare Giffard speciality - delicious strawberries

  • 228 Recognise this resort?

  • 229 Appledore boy is youngest recipient of RNLI vellun

  • 230 An early 'special' to Bideford

  • 231 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

  • 232 Signed scroll momento of Queen Mother's visit

  • 233 Council agree to demolition of Chanter's Folly

  • 234 Police station view of Bideford

  • 235

    Wynne Olley's styles impress International Hair Fashion Designer
  • 236 Watch the dicky bird!

  • 237 Champagne send-off for Torrington new factory

  • 238 Instow local art show was 'tremendous success'

  • 239 School crossing patrol begins

  • 240 Bideford electricity window display qualifies for area competition

  • 241 Hartland postman retires

  • 242 He beat the floods

  • 243 Chess - their bridge over the years

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

  • 245 Bideford blacksmith wins English championship

  • 246 Torrington acclaims 400th anniversary of granting of charter

  • 247 Simple Item 138
  • 248

    FA Cup Match for the Robins
  • 249 New gateway to King George's Fields

  • 250 Fishing light goes out at close of poor season

  • 251 Homage to a well-loved sovereign

  • 252 Bideford has built over 500 post-war homes

  • 253 Old Girls revisit Edgehill

  • 254 What's the time?

  • 255 Ship-in-bottle world record

  • 256 All aboard the ark

  • 257 Liked holidays here - so starts business

  • 258 Devil sent packing

  • 259 Photo mural in Bideford bank

  • 260 Largest salmon caught in Torridge

  • 261 Bideford computer stars

  • 262 New Lundy air-mail stamps

  • 263 Allhalland Street - then and now

  • 264 Repair work on Long Bridge
  • 265

    10-year-old scrambler practices
  • 266 Bideford A.F.C annual dinner
  • 267 They never miss a game at Torrington

  • 268 Bideford stock car racing entry comes in second

  • 269 Clovelly donkey film star

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

  • 271 New Post Office

  • 272 Centenary of Gazette

  • 273 New look for Torrington Lane

  • 274 The art of the thatcher

  • 275

    Relatives all over the world
  • 276 Ships at Bideford

  • 277 Yeo vale road ruin provides a mystery

  • 278 Thirty bridges cross Torridge

  • 279 Success to Festival of the Arts

  • 280 Faints as she wins national competition

  • 281 Eleven million pound scheme's official opening

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

  • 283 Buckland farm workers to receive long-service awards

  • 284 Revenge in style

  • 285 Broomhayes children will keep their winter pet

  • 286 Launching the 'Golden Hinde'

  • 287 Two kinds of hovercraft at Bideford

  • 288 On her 'maiden' trip from Bideford

  • 289

    Exhibition of school work
  • 290 'Les Girls' of Hartland

  • 291 Shipbuilding hobby at Hartland

  • 292 Barley from Bideford to Bonnie Scotland

  • 293 Some 240 exhibits

  • 294 Puzzle corner at Bideford!

  • 295 America's tribute to 'J.H.'

  • 296 A bird of their own!

  • 297 Escaped crane moves into Kenwith Valley

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

  • 299 Finished in 1876

  • 300 New look in the hayfields

  • 301 Vessel built 300 feet above sea level

  • 302 Westward Ho! combined op

  • 303 TV contest means big job for Bideford Guides

  • 304 Hartland Dancers
  • 305 Meredith's ironmongers

  • 306 Alverdiscott is proud of its new parish hall

  • 307 Alderman Anstey's dream comes tru

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

  • 309 Tide sweeps under and over the old bridge

  • 310 Polish custom on Pancake Day

  • 311 Parkham plan realised

  • 312 Symbol of Lundy independence

  • 313 So this is the mainland!

  • 314 Big develolpment at Calveford

  • 315 Weare Giffard Hall sold for £11,300

  • 316 Bideford's new market opens next week

  • 317 Broomhayes £1,000 Surprise
  • 318 Last train from Torrington

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

  • 320 It really was the 'last time'

  • 321 Bideford skifflers, they're no squares

  • 322 Calf thinks of mare as mum

  • 323 Thrush builds nest in cauliflower

  • 324 Harvest service in Bideford 'pub' bar

  • 325 Eleventh hour bid to save last sailing barge

  • 326 No sale of Springfield House

  • 327 Off on a great adventure

  • 328 TV features Bideford's New Year bread ceremony

  • 329 Torrington to have first woman mayor

  • 330 Death - and birth - of a telephone exchange

  • 331 Eight and a half million pound Taw development scheme

  • 332 Tibbles home again - and fish supper

  • 333 Head Barman appointed Torrington Town Crier
  • 334 Baby Kate goes home to Lundy

  • 335

    Building works
  • 336 Riverside mystery

  • 337 Quads at Thornhillhead

  • 338

    Reds Womens Team Are First To Compete Throughout Season
  • 339 Bideford Liberal club new lounge bar opened

  • 340 Gloves fit for a king!

  • 341 Decontrol of meat

  • 342 Buckland goes to County Show

  • 343 Teenager Peter Jackson Makes Horror Film
  • 344 Torridge wins on time schedule

  • 345 Saving money, wear and tear

  • 346 Town's second woman mayor in 392 years

  • 347

    Double Baptism on Torridge
  • 348 First steel ship built at Bideford

  • 349 New Estate's view of estuary activities

  • 350

    School of Dancing's Annual Display
  • 351 Bicycle now does donkey work

  • 352 River scenes that enchant the visitors

  • 353 Salmon netting at Bideford

  • 354 Brothers reunion 1947
  • 355 Bideford loses training ship

  • 356 Jumble sale fever

  • 357 Can-carrying over cobbles has disappeared

  • 358 113 years at Instow

  • 359 A roof-top view - where?

  • 360 Clovelly's 91 year old horseman

  • 361 Fishermen of Greencliff

  • 362 Entente cordiale in Bideford

  • 363 Born 1883 - still going strong

  • 364 Birds' convalescent home at Instow

  • 365 Penny for the guy

  • 366 Torrington's enterprise's new extensions

  • 367 Pretty pennies at Beaford

  • 368 Just over a year old

  • 369

    Mrs Whapham finds ferret in Bridgeland Street while shopping
  • 370 Thorn-apple found in Littleham conservatory

  • 371 Life begins at 80

  • 372 Centenary of Landcross Methodist Chapel

  • 373 Waldon Triplets
  • 374 Littleham family's five generations

  • 375 Bideford childrens' cinema opens

  • 376 Battle of the gap at Westward Ho!

  • 377 'Out of Appledore' sailing memories

  • 378 Boys from Bideford school complete Ten Tors

  • 379 Last of Bideford factory chimney

  • 380 Torrington's new amenity

  • 381 Charter granted by Philip and Mary

  • 382 Yeoi Vale House finally demolished

  • 383

    Mums protest in Coronation Road
  • 384 Safe door weighing two tons

  • 385 New Lundy stamps

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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  • 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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  • 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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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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Buckland Brewer Womens Skittles Competition

Hermoine Dennis in the Buckland Brewer Womens Skittles Competition 10th March 1972

Buckland Brewer Womens Skittle Competition 10 Mar 1972

Shopper Finds Ferret in Bridgeland Street

Ferret found in Bridgeland Street 14th January 1972

Housewife finds ferret 14 Jan 1972

Mrs A Whapham picked up a friendly ferret while shopping in Bideford.

"It had beautiful fur and was in fine condition and quite tame" so Mrs Whapham borrowed a box from a shopkeeper and took it home, while the police located the owner. Mrs Whapham said that her two sons, Paul (3) and Mark (8) would have loved to have kept the ferret, but the family already had a cat and a dog.  The ferret's owner reported that the ferret, who was used to children despite being a working animal, had nibbled its way out of a sack to freedom while on the back of a lorry in the centre of town.

Mums bar cars from Coronation Road school playground

Mums bar cars from school playground 9th June 1972

Angry Mums Bar Cars from School Playground 9 June 1972

Mums Bar Cars from School Playground at Pynes Infants and Westcroft Junior in Coronation Road 9th June 1972

About 30 to 40 placard-carrying mums bar the entrance to the children's school playground to stop other parents, in about 60 cars each morning, turning around their cars there and putting children in danger as they walk to school. 

Mrs P Fishleigh said that when a five year old child was hit by a car a couple of weeks ago, it had 'really set the cat among the pigeons' so the parents were taking action in the mornings and afternoons.  Their petition to the council bears over 500 signatures and they have the support of the heads of both schools, Mr Molesorth and Miss Durant.  Later, the blockade was extended to cover the lunchtime period during which time cars were also using the full children's playground to reverse.

 

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