• 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 Quads at Thornhillhead

  • 3 Holiday scene near Sandymere

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    Birgitta Whittaker
  • 5 Homage to a well-loved sovereign

  • 6 Photo of town's first car wins prize

  • 7 Police station view of Bideford

  • 8 Children's procession with foxgloves

  • 9 Capers on the cobbles

  • 10 Dismantling of wireless mast

  • 11 Bideford-Torrington road gets 'carpet coat'

  • 12 Train returns to Westleigh straight

  • 13 Gloves fit for a king!

  • 14 Huntshaw TV mast

  • 15 A bird of their own!

  • 16 Bideford Liberal club new lounge bar opened

  • 17

    Building works
  • 18

    Relatives all over the world
  • 19 Puppet characters introduced

  • 20 Bridging the stream

  • 21 Four sisters' nostalgic reunion

  • 22 Larkworthy Family play in Shebbear's Football Team
  • 23 Designed all furnishing of new chapel

  • 24 School's link with cargo ship

  • 25 Beach search for mines takes longer

  • 26 New life for Hartland organ

  • 27 Centenary of Landcross Methodist Chapel

  • 28 Water Board mains spread through villages

  • 29 Boys from Bideford school complete Ten Tors

  • 30

    Exhibition of school work
  • 31 Jumble sale fever

  • 32 Torridge graveyard of wooden hulks

  • 33 Picking the pops

  • 34

    School of Dancing's Annual Display
  • 35 Can-carrying over cobbles has disappeared

  • 36 Big develolpment at Calveford

  • 37 Bideford's new market opens next week

  • 38 Celebrations for 103rd birthday

  • 39 Waldon Triplets
  • 40 Out of puff!

  • 41 Church renovation rejoicing at Northam

  • 42 Fish nearly pulled him in

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

  • 44 North Devon Driving School

  • 45 Bideford loses training ship

  • 46 Bideford childrens' cinema opens

  • 47 Faints as she wins national competition

  • 48 Clovelly custom

  • 49 Down at the 'Donkey House'

  • 50 Lady Godiva comes to Torrington

  • 51 Bideford's gift to Sir Francis

  • 52

    Mrs Whapham finds ferret in Bridgeland Street while shopping
  • 53 Olympic riders to compete at Bideford Horse Show

  • 54 On her 'maiden' trip from Bideford

  • 55 Up-to-date Bideford!

  • 56 Farewell to passenger trains

  • 57 Recognise this resort?

  • 58 Childrens' model of Torrington

  • 59 Barley from Bideford to Bonnie Scotland

  • 60 Decontrol of meat

  • 61 Wishing well is pixielated

  • 62 Do recall the old windmill at Northam?

  • 63 New look for Torrington Lane

  • 64 New shipyard on schedule

  • 65 Tramps camp by riverside throughout arctic weather

  • 66 Ancestral home nestling in lovely combe

  • 67 Boys win hockey on the sands challenge

  • 68 Tide sweeps under and over the old bridge

  • 69 Off on a great adventure

  • 70 Bideford Bridge re-opens

  • 71 Calf thinks of mare as mum

  • 72 Born 1883 - still going strong

  • 73

    Bidefordians
  • 74 Just over a year old

  • 75 Ten year old scrambler

  • 76

    Toasted with musical honours
  • 77 They set out for Bideford and became lost

  • 78 Spray dodging - the new pastime

  • 79 Riverside mystery

  • 80 Bideford has built over 500 post-war homes

  • 81 Westward Ho! sand yacht to challenge speed record

  • 82 Pretty pennies at Beaford

  • 83 Ships at Bideford

  • 84 Appledore boy is youngest recipient of RNLI vellun

  • 85 Service with a smile

  • 86 Thrush builds nest in cauliflower

  • 87 Battle of the gap at Westward Ho!

  • 88 In their new robes and hats

  • 89 Fundraising trip for RNLI

  • 90 A lost Bideford 'island'

  • 91 New art gallery opened

  • 92 Move for oldest boatyard on Torridge

  • 93 Entente cordiale in Bideford

  • 94 Bravery against bull at Shebbear rewarded

  • 95 Thorn-apple found in Littleham conservatory

  • 96 Life begins at 80

  • 97 Picture bought for shillings may be worth thousands

  • 98 They never miss a game at Torrington

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

  • 100 Repair work on Long Bridge
  • 101 New Lundy stamps

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

  • 103 All for the love of a lady!

  • 104 A story to tell!

  • 105 Brothers reunion 1947
  • 106 School crossing patrol begins

  • 107

    Close associations with North Devon
  • 108 Bideford skifflers, they're no squares

  • 109 Sooty is quick on the draw

  • 110 Bideford triplets' first birthday party

  • 111 Jalopy joy for children of Shamwickshire

  • 112 Bideford regatta

  • 113 Escaped crane moves into Kenwith Valley

  • 114 Mobile missionary

  • 115 Eleventh hour bid to save last sailing barge

  • 116 Hartland Abbey outdoor staff 60 years ago

  • 117 Light reading for the lighthouse

  • 118 Panel sprint for Bideford broadcast

  • 119

    Hamburger is part of modern life
  • 120 In the tortoise nursery - eight hatched at Bideford

  • 121 Designed and made in Bideford

  • 122 Making way for the double-deckers

  • 123 Town's second woman mayor in 392 years

  • 124 He beat the floods

  • 125 Westward Ho! combined op

  • 126 Weare Giffard Hall sold for £11,300

  • 127 Joe the ginger tabby is 21

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

  • 129 'Les Girls' of Hartland

  • 130 Bideford blacksmith wins English championship

  • 131 Baby Kate goes home to Lundy

  • 132 Wilfred and Mabel visit schools and hospital

  • 133 North Devon author featured in TV documentary

  • 134 Polish custom on Pancake Day

  • 135 Finished in 1876

  • 136 Yelland potter's exhibition at Bideford

  • 137 Steep street of old Bideford

  • 138

    Jinxed School Trip
  • 139 Revenge in style

  • 140 Penny for the guy

  • 141 Tomorrow' night's skittles broadcast from Bideford

  • 142 Quads join a Langtree happy family

  • 143 New Post Office

  • 144 What the television camera saw at Abbotsham

  • 145 Colour TV salesman at eight

  • 146 Eight and a half million pound Taw development scheme

  • 147 Can spring be far away?

  • 148 First tankers arrive at new depot

  • 149 First ship in 8 years

  • 150 A Weare Giffard speciality - delicious strawberries

  • 151 Signed scroll momento of Queen Mother's visit

  • 152 Still hunting aged 80 and a Field Master

  • 153 New Lundy air-mail stamps

  • 154 Smiling welcome to Hartland visitors

  • 155 Lots drawn to prevent dog fight

  • 156 Old Girls revisit Edgehill

  • 157 Artisans' Club

  • 158 No laughing matter

  • 159 Bideford electricity window display qualifies for area competition

  • 160 Centuries old but today busier than ever

  • 161 No ancient Grecian temple this

  • 162

    First Girls at Bideford Grammar School take part in Play
  • 163 Cavaliers join the Hunt
  • 164 Torrington Youth Club rewarded by party
  • 165 Alverdiscott is proud of its new parish hall

  • 166 Torrington's new amenity

  • 167 Allhalland Street - then and now

  • 168 Four hundred residents leave Bideford!

  • 169 Calligrapher extraordinary

  • 170 Bideford inquest on French trawlermen opens

  • 171 113 years at Instow

  • 172 Chess - their bridge over the years

  • 173 Pet squirrels at Monkleigh

  • 174

    Gift from Bideford Town Council
  • 175 When horses score over the tractor

  • 176 Appledore tugs fete London Tower

  • 177

    Cadets are given certificates
  • 178 Wine and beer merchants for 150 years

  • 179 Weare Giffard potato

  • 180 Westward Ho! public conveniences get go ahead
  • 181 Sunshine and shade at Appledore

  • 182 No sale of Springfield House

  • 183 TV features Bideford's New Year bread ceremony

  • 184 Bideford Liberals' fashion show

  • 185 Bideford shipyard workers cheer new minesweeper

  • 186 Revived market off to splendid start

  • 187 Birds' convalescent home at Instow

  • 188 Photo mural in Bideford bank

  • 189 Two kinds of hovercraft at Bideford

  • 190 Twenty-one yachts

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

  • 192 Daisy's pride and joy

  • 193 Bicycle now does donkey work

  • 194 Practical sympathy at Northam

  • 195 Peter poses for TV film

  • 196 Ship-in-bottle world record

  • 197 Cruising down the river

  • 198 Burnard family reunion

  • 199 Champagne send-off for Torrington new factory

  • 200 All aboard the ark

  • 201 A sense of humour in advertising

  • 202 For crying out loud!

  • 203 TV contest means big job for Bideford Guides

  • 204 Hartland's invitation

  • 205

    Married in 1908
  • 206 What's the time?

  • 207

    Inter-school Road Safety Quiz Cup Winners
  • 208 Littleham family's five generations

  • 209 Torridge wins on time schedule

  • 210 A roof-top view - where?

  • 211 Northam loses thatched cottage landmark

  • 212 Northam wants to continue pumping from river

  • 213 Six footed lamb

  • 214 Sweet success at Langtree School

  • 215 Buckland goes to County Show

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

  • 217 Some 240 exhibits

  • 218 Thirty bridges cross Torridge

  • 219 Bideford stock car racing entry comes in second

  • 220 Launching the 'Golden Hinde'

  • 221 End of the line

  • 222

    FA Cup Match for the Robins
  • 223 New fire and ambulance stations

  • 224 New Estate's view of estuary activities

  • 225 Television comes to Torridge District

  • 226 Lady Churchill congratulates Bideford artists at nursing exhibition

  • 227 Simple Item 138
  • 228 River scenes that enchant the visitors

  • 229 Appledore's new lifeboat

  • 230 Picking the pops

  • 231 Little 'Big Ben'

  • 232 Donkey and horses enjoy carnival drink

  • 233 Parkham plan realised

  • 234

    Reds Womens Team Are First To Compete Throughout Season
  • 235 Students help model St Sidwell

  • 236 Alderman Anstey's dream comes tru

  • 237

    Double Baptism on Torridge
  • 238 Largest salmon caught in Torridge

  • 239 Bideford A.F.C annual dinner
  • 240 Torrington children build igloo
  • 241 Bideford country dancers on TV

  • 242

    Gus Honeybun meets local children
  • 243 Bringing shopping home by goat

  • 244

    10-year-old scrambler practices
  • 245 One thousand visit zoo at Whitsun

  • 246 Record player of 80 years ago

  • 247 East-the-Water sets town an example

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

  • 249 Donkey work made easier at Clovelly

  • 250 Teenager Peter Jackson Makes Horror Film
  • 251 Speeding communications: Bideford firm's new installation

  • 252 Broomhayes children will keep their winter pet

  • 253 Future of Torrington almshouses

  • 254 New civic medallions

  • 255 Modern living at Bideford

  • 256 Pannier Market's future?

  • 257 New look in the hayfields

  • 258 Instow local art show was 'tremendous success'

  • 259 Torrington's shelter for the aged

  • 260 Sight of a lifetime

  • 261 A craftsman's 'potted' history

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    New gateway
  • 263 Liked holidays here - so starts business

  • 264 Rowing triumphs at Bideford

  • 265 Passing of a Torrington landmark

  • 266 First steel ship built at Bideford

  • 267

    Youth Clubs Join Together For Entertainment
  • 268 Safe door weighing two tons

  • 269 Last train from Torrington

  • 270 Circus comes to town

  • 271 Centenary of Gazette

  • 272 Alwington School closing after 120 years

  • 273 Northam's almshouse

  • 274 Torrington acclaims 400th anniversary of granting of charter

  • 275 Success to Festival of the Arts

  • 276 Saving money, wear and tear

  • 277 Championship Trophy for Hartland
  • 278 X-ray shoe fitting

  • 279

    Wynne Olley's styles impress International Hair Fashion Designer
  • 280 Eleven million pound scheme's official opening

  • 281 Works at craft he learned over 65 years ago

  • 282 Meredith's ironmongers

  • 283 Unique holiday adventure!

  • 284 Yeoi Vale House finally demolished

  • 285 They are parted pro-tem

  • 286 Private home for public pump

  • 287 Council agree to demolition of Chanter's Folly

  • 288 America's tribute to 'J.H.'

  • 289 Torrington to have first woman mayor

  • 290 Landmark at Bradworthy

  • 291

    Lenwood Squash Club
  • 292 Open-air art exhibition by 'under 40' group

  • 293 Vessel built 300 feet above sea level

  • 294 Gift plaque on Clovelly council houses

  • 295 Devil sent packing

  • 296 Hartland Dancers
  • 297 Buckland farm workers to receive long-service awards

  • 298 New addition to Quay front

  • 299 Panto time at Westward Ho!

  • 300 Clovelly's 91 year old horseman

  • 301 The Geneva marionettes

  • 302 Record pebble-throwing day

  • 303 'Out of Appledore' sailing memories

  • 304 Yeo vale road ruin provides a mystery

  • 305 Thunderstorm destruction of 25 years ago

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

  • 307 Symbol of Lundy independence

  • 308 Inscribed Bibles and silver spoons for babies

  • 309 Bideford's private wharves busier

  • 310 Puzzle corner at Bideford!

  • 311 Fleet of foot and fair of face

  • 312 Cement-clad boats being built at Northam

  • 313

    Appledore boys beat mums at football
  • 314 Appledore's largest

  • 315 Space dominates Hartland carnival

  • 316

    Successful motor cycling team
  • 317 Happy Days!

  • 318 Littleham cow tops 70 tons mark in milk production

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

  • 320 Hartland postman retires

  • 321 New choral society's growing response

  • 322 Preparations for new Clovelly Court

  • 323 New gateway to King George's Fields

  • 324 Bideford Zoo's first baby is big draw

  • 325 The art of the thatcher

  • 326 Bideford schoolboy's courage recognised

  • 327

    Womens Skittles Competition in Buckland Brewer
  • 328 Torrington's enterprise's new extensions

  • 329 Shipbuilding hobby at Hartland

  • 330

    Holidaying in north Devon
  • 331 It really was the 'last time'

  • 332 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

  • 333 Mural in the whimsical fashion

  • 334 Some mushroom!

  • 335 Bideford firm develops new non-spill paint

  • 336 Charter granted by Philip and Mary

  • 337 Watch the dicky bird!

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

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

  • 340 Bideford School Junior Choir Sing in France at Twinning Ceremony in Landivisiau
  • 341 Northam footballers of the future

  • 342 Fishermen of Greencliff

  • 343 Five generations link Woolsery, Clovelly and Bideford

  • 344 Appledore Juniors Football
  • 345 Clovelly nightmare

  • 346 Last of Bideford factory chimney

  • 347 Harvest service in Bideford 'pub' bar

  • 348 What is future of railway goods yard?

  • 349 Shoes certainly not made for walking

  • 350 Traditions and skills still there

  • 351 John Andrew Bread Charity
  • 352 Appledore schooner broadcast

  • 353 Head Barman appointed Torrington Town Crier
  • 354 Broomhayes £1,000 Surprise
  • 355 Death - and birth - of a telephone exchange

  • 356 Variety in summer weather

  • 357 By pony and trap to market

  • 358 Spring-cleaning the Ridge

  • 359 Emergency ferry services

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

  • 361 Tibbles home again - and fish supper

  • 362 Warmington's garage ad

  • 363 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

  • 364 Bank Holiday weather was beach weather

  • 365 The creative urge on Saturday morning

  • 366 So this is the mainland!

  • 367 Torrington in 1967

  • 368 Salmon netting at Bideford

  • 369 Loads of black and white

  • 370 Second Monte Carlo Rally

  • 371 Eight to strike and a race to win

  • 372 Bideford computer stars

  • 373 Westward Ho! Tennis Club Winners
  • 374

    Was a missionary
  • 375 Torrington school's sundial - fashioned by Headmaster

  • 376 Bideford's first triplets for 12 years

  • 377 Holiday traffic in Bideford High Street

  • 378

    Mums protest in Coronation Road
  • 379 An early 'special' to Bideford

  • 380

    Andre Veillett and Quentin Reed in Judo Demonstration
  • 381 Clovelly donkey film star

  • 382 No ancient Grecian temple this

  • 383 A man and his wheel

  • 384 Getting up steam for tomorrow

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    First prize
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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  • 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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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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Appledore Primary School Boys Football Team Play Mums

Appledore Primary School Boys Football Team Play Mums, 19th May 1972

Appledore Primary Boys beat Mums team 31 26 May 1972

Schoolboys beat their mums at football 19 May 1972

Appledore Primary School's boys football team take on the mums team . . . and beat them 3:1.

 

Gus Honeybun meets local children at Bideford Sports Ground

Gus Honeybun meets local children at Bideford Sports Ground 12th May 1972

Gus Honeybun visit 12 May 1972

Gus Honeybun meets local children at charity soccer match, 12th May 1972.

Puppet TV star, Gus Honeybun, meets some local children at Bideford Sports Ground where a charity football match between Westward TV and Appledore Shipbuilders took place.

Two Double Baptisms On River Torridge

Two Double Baptisms On River Torridge 10 March 1978

Two Double Baptisms On River Torridge

River Torridge Double Baptisms

10 March 1978

On a boat alongside Appledore Quay, with a borrowed ship's bell, a baptism was conducted by Rev. Donald Peyton Jones, including the baptism of Faye Edwards and Mathew Roy.

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