• 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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    Building works
  • 2 Bideford has built over 500 post-war homes

  • 3 Getting up steam for tomorrow

  • 4 Yeo vale road ruin provides a mystery

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

  • 6 A roof-top view - where?

  • 7 Train returns to Westleigh straight

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    Reds Womens Team Are First To Compete Throughout Season
  • 9 Church renovation rejoicing at Northam

  • 10 Sunshine and shade at Appledore

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    FA Cup Match for the Robins
  • 12 Northam loses thatched cottage landmark

  • 13 Penny for the guy

  • 14 Capers on the cobbles

  • 15 Down at the dump something stirs

  • 16 New choral society's growing response

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    First Girls at Bideford Grammar School take part in Play
  • 18 Faints as she wins national competition

  • 19 Hartland Dancers
  • 20 By pony and trap to market

  • 21 At Bideford Arts Ball>
  • 22 Record pebble-throwing day

  • 23 Local glove-making factory advertising for staff

  • 24 Variety in summer weather

  • 25 Two kinds of hovercraft at Bideford

  • 26 Photo of town's first car wins prize

  • 27 Inscribed Bibles and silver spoons for babies

  • 28 Out of puff!

  • 29 Alderman Anstey's dream comes tru

  • 30 Appledore's largest

  • 31 No ancient Grecian temple this

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

  • 33 Children's procession with foxgloves

  • 34 It really was the 'last time'

  • 35 Bideford's first triplets for 12 years

  • 36 Holiday scene near Sandymere

  • 37 End of the line

  • 38 Teenager Peter Jackson Makes Horror Film
  • 39 One thousand visit zoo at Whitsun

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    Close associations with North Devon
  • 41 Students help model St Sidwell

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

  • 43

    Married in 1908
  • 44 Eight to strike and a race to win

  • 45

    Was a missionary
  • 46 No laughing matter

  • 47 Floral dancing at Appledore

  • 48 Buckland goes to County Show

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

  • 50 Decontrol of meat

  • 51 Private home for public pump

  • 52 A lost Bideford 'island'

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

  • 54 A man and his wheel

  • 55 Ten year old scrambler

  • 56 Ships at Bideford

  • 57 Tomorrow' night's skittles broadcast from Bideford

  • 58 Fishing light goes out at close of poor season

  • 59

    Hamburger is part of modern life
  • 60 Picking the pops

  • 61 Cavaliers join the Hunt
  • 62

    10-year-old scrambler practices
  • 63 Works at craft he learned over 65 years ago

  • 64 Bideford triplets' first birthday party

  • 65 Mobile missionary

  • 66 Mayor becomes engine driver>
  • 67 Entente cordiale in Bideford

  • 68 Bideford A.F.C annual dinner
  • 69 Cement-clad boats being built at Northam

  • 70 John Andrew Bread Charity
  • 71 Bideford's first woman councillor

  • 72 Television comes to Torridge District

  • 73 Huntshaw TV mast

  • 74 Littleham family's five generations

  • 75 Charter granted by Philip and Mary

  • 76 For South Africa from Westward Ho!

  • 77 Sailing to victory at Appledore

  • 78 Speeding communications: Bideford firm's new installation

  • 79 Ship-in-bottle world record

  • 80 Centenary of Landcross Methodist Chapel

  • 81 Unique holiday adventure!

  • 82 Meeting at 10 Downing Street

  • 83 Bridging the stream

  • 84 Record player of 80 years ago

  • 85 Torridge wins on time schedule

  • 86 New Post Office

  • 87 Bicycle now does donkey work

  • 88 Riverside mystery

  • 89 First tankers arrive at new depot

  • 90 Instow local art show was 'tremendous success'

  • 91 Bideford country dancers on TV

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    Appledore boys beat mums at football
  • 93 Signed scroll momento of Queen Mother's visit

  • 94 What is future of railway goods yard?

  • 95 Filming at Hartland

  • 96 For crying out loud!

  • 97 Symbol of Lundy independence

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    Toasted with musical honours
  • 99 A sense of humour in advertising

  • 100 Torrington Youth Club rewarded by party
  • 101 Wilfred and Mabel visit schools and hospital

  • 102 Torrington's new amenity

  • 103 Puppet characters introduced

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    Bidefordians
  • 105 To build racing cars in former blacksmith's shop

  • 106

    Double Baptism on Torridge
  • 107 Some 240 exhibits

  • 108 113 years at Instow

  • 109

    Lenwood Squash Club
  • 110 Safe door weighing two tons

  • 111 Torrington Church's new organ

  • 112 Sweet success at Langtree School

  • 113 New shipyard on schedule

  • 114 Finished in 1876

  • 115 Olympic riders to compete at Bideford Horse Show

  • 116

    Holidaying in north Devon
  • 117 Parkham plan realised

  • 118

    Mums protest in Coronation Road
  • 119 Dismantling of wireless mast

  • 120 Last train from Torrington

  • 121 Still hunting aged 80 and a Field Master

  • 122 Police station view of Bideford

  • 123 First ship in 8 years

  • 124 Ancestral home nestling in lovely combe

  • 125 The cab at the corner>
  • 126 Shipbuilding hobby at Hartland

  • 127 Shoes certainly not made for walking

  • 128 Farewell to passenger trains

  • 129 From Bobby to Brian

  • 130 A craftsman's 'potted' history

  • 131 Light reading for the lighthouse

  • 132 Centuries old but today busier than ever

  • 133 All aboard the ark

  • 134 The Geneva marionettes

  • 135 New civic medallions

  • 136 Clovelly nightmare

  • 137 Weare Giffard potato

  • 138 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

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    Birgitta Whittaker
  • 140 Thunderstorm destruction of 25 years ago

  • 141 Smiling welcome to Hartland visitors

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

  • 143 Hartland Abbey outdoor staff 60 years ago

  • 144 Pannier Market's future?

  • 145 Watch the dicky bird!

  • 146 Holiday traffic in Bideford High Street

  • 147 Westward Ho! sand yacht to challenge speed record

  • 148 Lady Godiva comes to Torrington

  • 149 Baby Kate goes home to Lundy

  • 150 Bideford-Torrington road gets 'carpet coat'

  • 151 Northam footballers of the future

  • 152 Bideford Zoo's first baby is big draw

  • 153 Hartland postman retires

  • 154 Where Bideford rope-makers walked>
  • 155 Colour TV salesman at eight

  • 156 Homage to a well-loved sovereign

  • 157 Eight and a half million pound Taw development scheme

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    Relatives all over the world
  • 159 Housing progress at East-the-Water>
  • 160 Golden Bay Hotel ad.>
  • 161 Can-carrying over cobbles has disappeared

  • 162 Four sisters' nostalgic reunion

  • 163 Off on a great adventure

  • 164 Thrush builds nest in cauliflower

  • 165 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

  • 166 East-the-Water sets town an example

  • 167 What the television camera saw at Abbotsham

  • 168 Torrington children build igloo
  • 169 Down at the 'Donkey House'

  • 170 Torrington to have first woman mayor

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

  • 172 Battle of the gap at Westward Ho!

  • 173 Bideford's gift to Sir Francis

  • 174 North Devon Driving School

  • 175 Eleventh hour bid to save last sailing barge

  • 176 New Lundy air-mail stamps

  • 177

    Exhibition of school work
  • 178

    Gus Honeybun meets local children
  • 179 Recognise this resort?

  • 180 No sale of Springfield House

  • 181 Devil sent packing

  • 182 Thirty bridges cross Torridge

  • 183 Liked holidays here - so starts business

  • 184 Championship Trophy for Hartland
  • 185 Five generations link Woolsery, Clovelly and Bideford

  • 186 Rowing triumphs at Bideford

  • 187 Modern living at Bideford

  • 188 Town's second woman mayor in 392 years

  • 189 Westward Ho! combined op

  • 190 Preparations for new Clovelly Court

  • 191 Puzzle corner at Bideford!

  • 192 Escaped crane moves into Kenwith Valley

  • 193 What's the time?

  • 194 Quads join a Langtree happy family

  • 195 Alwington School closing after 120 years

  • 196 On her 'maiden' trip from Bideford

  • 197 Lady Churchill congratulates Bideford artists at nursing exhibition

  • 198 Community centre opened at Westward Ho!

  • 199 Northam's almshouse

  • 200 Panel sprint for Bideford broadcast

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

  • 202 Repair work on Long Bridge
  • 203 Pet squirrels at Monkleigh

  • 204 Torrington's shelter for the aged

  • 205 Do recall the old windmill at Northam?

  • 206 Up-to-date Bideford!

  • 207 Bringing shopping home by goat

  • 208 Bideford firm develops new non-spill paint

  • 209 Burnard family reunion

  • 210 When horses score over the tractor

  • 211 Can spring be far away?

  • 212 Westward Ho! Tennis Club Winners
  • 213 The art of the thatcher

  • 214 Donkey and horses enjoy carnival drink

  • 215 Champagne send-off for Torrington new factory

  • 216 Meredith's ironmongers

  • 217 He beat the floods

  • 218 Bideford regatta

  • 219 'Les Girls' of Hartland

  • 220 Torrington's enterprise's new extensions

  • 221 'Out of Appledore' sailing memories

  • 222 Bideford computer stars

  • 223 North Devon author featured in TV documentary

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

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    Mrs Whapham finds ferret in Bridgeland Street while shopping
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    Successful motor cycling team
  • 227 An early 'special' to Bideford

  • 228 Cruising down the river

  • 229 Thorn-apple found in Littleham conservatory

  • 230 School crossing patrol begins

  • 231 Old Girls revisit Edgehill

  • 232 Yelland potter's exhibition at Bideford

  • 233 Big develolpment at Calveford

  • 234 Gloves fit for a king!

  • 235 Torridge graveyard of wooden hulks

  • 236 Bideford shipyard workers cheer new minesweeper

  • 237 Amsterdam to Bideford double success

  • 238 Launching the 'Golden Hinde'

  • 239 Emergency ferry services

  • 240 In their new robes and hats

  • 241 Steep street of old Bideford

  • 242 Picking the pops

  • 243 Appledore tugs fete London Tower

  • 244 Pretty pennies at Beaford

  • 245 Daisy's pride and joy

  • 246 Move for oldest boatyard on Torridge

  • 247 Bideford skifflers, they're no squares

  • 248 Mural in the whimsical fashion

  • 249 Appledore boy is youngest recipient of RNLI vellun

  • 250 Revived market off to splendid start

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    Youth Clubs Join Together For Entertainment
  • 252 Jalopy joy for children of Shamwickshire

  • 253 Safety-first dipomas awarded to Torrington drivers

  • 254 The creative urge on Saturday morning

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    Andre Veillett and Quentin Reed in Judo Demonstration
  • 256 They never miss a game at Torrington

  • 257 Photo mural in Bideford bank

  • 258 Clovelly custom

  • 259 Bideford electricity window display qualifies for area competition

  • 260 Bideford blacksmith wins English championship

  • 261 Appledore's new lifeboat

  • 262 Loads of black and white

  • 263 Bideford's private wharves busier

  • 264 Bideford School Junior Choir Sing in France at Twinning Ceremony in Landivisiau
  • 265 Six footed lamb

  • 266 River scenes that enchant the visitors

  • 267 Sweets derationing

  • 268 Bideford stock car racing entry comes in second

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    Inter-school Road Safety Quiz Cup Winners
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    Gift from Bideford Town Council
  • 271 Panto time at Westward Ho!

  • 272 Water Board mains spread through villages

  • 273 Service with a smile

  • 274 Celebrations for 103rd birthday

  • 275 Space dominates Hartland carnival

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    Cadets are given certificates
  • 277 America's tribute to 'J.H.'

  • 278 Childrens' model of Torrington

  • 279 Revenge in style

  • 280 Gift plaque on Clovelly council houses

  • 281 Torrington school's sundial - fashioned by Headmaster

  • 282 Larkworthy Family play in Shebbear's Football Team
  • 283 Birds' convalescent home at Instow

  • 284 Bideford Bridge re-opens

  • 285 All for the love of a lady!

  • 286 Thriving 'orphan of the storm'

  • 287 Spray dodging - the new pastime

  • 288 Fish nearly pulled him in

  • 289 Weare Giffard Hall sold for £11,300

  • 290 Circus comes to town

  • 291 Head Barman appointed Torrington Town Crier
  • 292 Four hundred residents leave Bideford!

  • 293 Eleven million pound scheme's official opening

  • 294 Beach search for mines takes longer

  • 295 Torrington acclaims 400th anniversary of granting of charter

  • 296 Wine and beer merchants for 150 years

  • 297 Some mushroom!

  • 298 Appledore skill brings 'Hispaniola' to life

  • 299 Designed all furnishing of new chapel

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

  • 301 Barley from Bideford to Bonnie Scotland

  • 302 Joe the ginger tabby is 21

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    School of Dancing's Annual Display
  • 304 Harvest service in Bideford 'pub' bar

  • 305 In the tortoise nursery - eight hatched at Bideford

  • 306 Fundraising trip for RNLI

  • 307 They are parted pro-tem

  • 308 So this is the mainland!

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

  • 310 Peter poses for TV film

  • 311 A bird of their own!

  • 312 Allhalland Street - then and now

  • 313 Council agree to demolition of Chanter's Folly

  • 314 School's link with cargo ship

  • 315 First steel ship built at Bideford

  • 316 Salmon netting at Bideford

  • 317 Twenty-one yachts

  • 318 New fire and ambulance stations

  • 319 Spring-cleaning the Ridge

  • 320 Last of Bideford factory chimney

  • 321 Future of Torrington almshouses

  • 322 Littleham cow tops 70 tons mark in milk production

  • 323 Found the answer waiting for him>
  • 324 Bravery against bull at Shebbear rewarded

  • 325 Just over a year old

  • 326 Clovelly's 91 year old horseman

  • 327 Brothers reunion 1947
  • 328 Bideford Liberals' fashion show

  • 329 Success to Festival of the Arts

  • 330 Bideford loses training ship

  • 331 Torrington in 1967

  • 332 Happy Days!

  • 333 Sight of a lifetime

  • 334 Bideford Liberal club new lounge bar opened

  • 335 Second Monte Carlo Rally

  • 336 Prizewinning babies at Torrington

  • 337 Boys from Bideford school complete Ten Tors

  • 338 Picture bought for shillings may be worth thousands

  • 339 Christmas tree on Bideford Quay>
  • 340 New art gallery opened

  • 341 Hartland's invitation

  • 342 Lots drawn to prevent dog fight

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    Womens Skittles Competition in Buckland Brewer
  • 344 Jumble sale fever

  • 345 Tramps camp by riverside throughout arctic weather

  • 346 Quads at Thornhillhead

  • 347 Landmark at Bradworthy

  • 348 Wasps' nest in sewing machine

  • 349 Warmington's garage ad

  • 350 Fleet of foot and fair of face

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

  • 352 Broomhayes children will keep their winter pet

  • 353 Little 'Big Ben'

  • 354 Lundy memorial to John Pennington Harman V.C.

  • 355 Bideford childrens' cinema opens

  • 356 New Lundy stamps

  • 357 Appledore schooner broadcast

  • 358 Sooty is quick on the draw

  • 359 Life begins at 80

  • 360 Westward Ho! public conveniences get go ahead
  • 361 Donkey work made easier at Clovelly

  • 362 Wishing well is pixielated

  • 363 Bank Holiday weather was beach weather

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    First prize
  • 365 Broomhayes £1,000 Surprise
  • 366 Bideford's new market opens next week

  • 367 Waldon Triplets
  • 368 Practical sympathy at Northam

  • 369 Fishermen of Greencliff

  • 370 A story to tell!

  • 371 New life for Hartland organ

  • 372 New gateway to King George's Fields

  • 373 New Estate's view of estuary activities

  • 374 Bideford inquest on French trawlermen opens

  • 375 Tide sweeps under and over the old bridge

  • 376 Northam wants to continue pumping from river

  • 377 X-ray shoe fitting

  • 378 Chess - their bridge over the years

  • 379 Buckland farm workers to receive long-service awards

  • 380 Passing of a Torrington landmark

  • 381 Calf thinks of mare as mum

  • 382 Tibbles home again - and fish supper

  • 383 New addition to Quay front

  • 384 Artisans' Club

  • 385 They set out for Bideford and became lost

  • 386 Saving money, wear and tear

  • 387 Centenary of Gazette

  • 388 Simple Item 138
  • 389 Largest salmon caught in Torridge

  • 390 TV contest means big job for Bideford Guides

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    New gateway
  • 392

    Wynne Olley's styles impress International Hair Fashion Designer
  • 393

    Jinxed School Trip
  • 394 Clovelly donkey film star

  • 395 Alverdiscott is proud of its new parish hall

  • 396 Afternoon tea in the park

  • 397 TV features Bideford's New Year bread ceremony

  • 398 Traditions and skills still there

  • 399 Death - and birth - of a telephone exchange

  • 400 Calligrapher extraordinary

  • 401 Making way for the double-deckers

  • 402 Polish custom on Pancake Day

  • 403 Boys win hockey on the sands challenge

  • 404 No ancient Grecian temple this

  • 405 Vessel built 300 feet above sea level

  • 406 New look in the hayfields

  • 407 New look for Torrington Lane

  • 408 Born 1883 - still going strong

  • 409 Bideford schoolboy's courage recognised

  • 410 Yeoi Vale House finally demolished

  • 411 Designed and made in Bideford

  • 412 A Weare Giffard speciality - delicious strawberries

  • 413 Appledore Juniors Football
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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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.

 

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.

 

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