• 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 Local glove-making factory advertising for staff

  • 2 Centenary of Landcross Methodist Chapel

  • 3 Safety-first dipomas awarded to Torrington drivers

  • 4 First ship in 8 years

  • 5 Five generations link Woolsery, Clovelly and Bideford

  • 6

    Andre Veillett and Quentin Reed in Judo Demonstration
  • 7

    Relatives all over the world
  • 8 Faints as she wins national competition

  • 9 Repair work on Long Bridge
  • 10 Sight of a lifetime

  • 11 All aboard the ark

  • 12 A story to tell!

  • 13 Prizewinning babies at Torrington

  • 14 Mural in the whimsical fashion

  • 15 Bideford's first triplets for 12 years

  • 16 Making way for the double-deckers

  • 17 Bideford firm develops new non-spill paint

  • 18 America's tribute to 'J.H.'

  • 19 Boys win hockey on the sands challenge

  • 20 Burnard family reunion

  • 21 Centenary of Gazette

  • 22 Appledore's new lifeboat

  • 23 Devil sent packing

  • 24 Torridge wins on time schedule

  • 25 Centuries old but today busier than ever

  • 26 Torrington's shelter for the aged

  • 27 Do recall the old windmill at Northam?

  • 28 Record player of 80 years ago

  • 29 Torrington acclaims 400th anniversary of granting of charter

  • 30 Meeting at 10 Downing Street

  • 31 An early 'special' to Bideford

  • 32 Watch the dicky bird!

  • 33

    Birgitta Whittaker
  • 34 New art gallery opened

  • 35 Jalopy joy for children of Shamwickshire

  • 36 New fire and ambulance stations

  • 37 A craftsman's 'potted' history

  • 38 Launching the 'Golden Hinde'

  • 39 Safe door weighing two tons

  • 40 Torrington school's sundial - fashioned by Headmaster

  • 41 Fishing light goes out at close of poor season

  • 42 Golden Bay Hotel ad.>
  • 43 Clovelly custom

  • 44 Life begins at 80

  • 45 Bideford skifflers, they're no squares

  • 46 Bideford School Junior Choir Sing in France at Twinning Ceremony in Landivisiau
  • 47

    Gus Honeybun meets local children
  • 48

    Lenwood Squash Club
  • 49 Eleven million pound scheme's official opening

  • 50 Clovelly nightmare

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

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

  • 53 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

  • 54

    Close associations with North Devon
  • 55 Homage to a well-loved sovereign

  • 56

    FA Cup Match for the Robins
  • 57

    Was a missionary
  • 58 Shoes certainly not made for walking

  • 59 New civic medallions

  • 60 Unique holiday adventure!

  • 61 Capers on the cobbles

  • 62 Bideford country dancers on TV

  • 63 Thirty bridges cross Torridge

  • 64 Ancestral home nestling in lovely combe

  • 65 End of the line

  • 66 Eight and a half million pound Taw development scheme

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

  • 68 River scenes that enchant the visitors

  • 69 Fundraising trip for RNLI

  • 70 Appledore skill brings 'Hispaniola' to life

  • 71

    Successful motor cycling team
  • 72 Hartland Dancers
  • 73 On her 'maiden' trip from Bideford

  • 74 Colour TV salesman at eight

  • 75 Twenty-one yachts

  • 76 First tankers arrive at new depot

  • 77

    Married in 1908
  • 78 New Estate's view of estuary activities

  • 79 No laughing matter

  • 80 Modern living at Bideford

  • 81 Donkey and horses enjoy carnival drink

  • 82 Torrington to have first woman mayor

  • 83

    Holidaying in north Devon
  • 84 TV contest means big job for Bideford Guides

  • 85 Panel sprint for Bideford broadcast

  • 86 Signed scroll momento of Queen Mother's visit

  • 87 Bideford's new market opens next week

  • 88 Escaped crane moves into Kenwith Valley

  • 89 Thunderstorm destruction of 25 years ago

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

  • 91 Decontrol of meat

  • 92 Boys from Bideford school complete Ten Tors

  • 93

    Wynne Olley's styles impress International Hair Fashion Designer
  • 94 New choral society's growing response

  • 95 Little 'Big Ben'

  • 96 A roof-top view - where?

  • 97 Alderman Anstey's dream comes tru

  • 98 Some 240 exhibits

  • 99 Bank Holiday weather was beach weather

  • 100 Train returns to Westleigh straight

  • 101 Appledore boy is youngest recipient of RNLI vellun

  • 102 What the television camera saw at Abbotsham

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

  • 104 For South Africa from Westward Ho!

  • 105 Happy Days!

  • 106

    Jinxed School Trip
  • 107 Afternoon tea in the park

  • 108 113 years at Instow

  • 109 Lady Godiva comes to Torrington

  • 110 Northam footballers of the future

  • 111

    Mums protest in Coronation Road
  • 112 Panto time at Westward Ho!

  • 113 Westward Ho! sand yacht to challenge speed record

  • 114 Dismantling of wireless mast

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

  • 116 Photo of town's first car wins prize

  • 117 Teenager Peter Jackson Makes Horror Film
  • 118 Can-carrying over cobbles has disappeared

  • 119 Bideford childrens' cinema opens

  • 120 Alwington School closing after 120 years

  • 121 A man and his wheel

  • 122 Northam's almshouse

  • 123 Ship-in-bottle world record

  • 124 Revenge in style

  • 125 Liked holidays here - so starts business

  • 126 Preparations for new Clovelly Court

  • 127 Jumble sale fever

  • 128 Bideford triplets' first birthday party

  • 129 Mayor becomes engine driver>
  • 130 Quads join a Langtree happy family

  • 131 Filming at Hartland

  • 132 For crying out loud!

  • 133 Barley from Bideford to Bonnie Scotland

  • 134

    Reds Womens Team Are First To Compete Throughout Season
  • 135 Thriving 'orphan of the storm'

  • 136 Gloves fit for a king!

  • 137 Tramps camp by riverside throughout arctic weather

  • 138 Born 1883 - still going strong

  • 139 Daisy's pride and joy

  • 140 In their new robes and hats

  • 141 Sweets derationing

  • 142

    10-year-old scrambler practices
  • 143 Bideford inquest on French trawlermen opens

  • 144 A lost Bideford 'island'

  • 145 Tibbles home again - and fish supper

  • 146 Penny for the guy

  • 147 Yeo vale road ruin provides a mystery

  • 148

    Bidefordians
  • 149 Simple Item 138
  • 150 Fleet of foot and fair of face

  • 151

    Mrs Whapham finds ferret in Bridgeland Street while shopping
  • 152 Private home for public pump

  • 153 Light reading for the lighthouse

  • 154 Steep street of old Bideford

  • 155 Celebrations for 103rd birthday

  • 156 Wine and beer merchants for 150 years

  • 157 Quads at Thornhillhead

  • 158 Picking the pops

  • 159 Passing of a Torrington landmark

  • 160 Childrens' model of Torrington

  • 161 Lady Churchill congratulates Bideford artists at nursing exhibition

  • 162 East-the-Water sets town an example

  • 163

    School of Dancing's Annual Display
  • 164 They set out for Bideford and became lost

  • 165 Westward Ho! Tennis Club Winners
  • 166 North Devon Driving School

  • 167

    First Girls at Bideford Grammar School take part in Play
  • 168 Tide sweeps under and over the old bridge

  • 169 School's link with cargo ship

  • 170 Students help model St Sidwell

  • 171 Bideford Zoo's first baby is big draw

  • 172 Two kinds of hovercraft at Bideford

  • 173 Farewell to passenger trains

  • 174 Finished in 1876

  • 175 Bideford's gift to Sir Francis

  • 176 Peter poses for TV film

  • 177 Bideford's private wharves busier

  • 178 Bideford computer stars

  • 179 Pannier Market's future?

  • 180 Down at the 'Donkey House'

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

  • 182 All for the love of a lady!

  • 183 Joe the ginger tabby is 21

  • 184 X-ray shoe fitting

  • 185 Still hunting aged 80 and a Field Master

  • 186 Water Board mains spread through villages

  • 187 Smiling welcome to Hartland visitors

  • 188 Revived market off to splendid start

  • 189 Allhalland Street - then and now

  • 190 Big develolpment at Calveford

  • 191 Thrush builds nest in cauliflower

  • 192 Bideford regatta

  • 193 Largest salmon caught in Torridge

  • 194 Meredith's ironmongers

  • 195

    First prize
  • 196 Eleventh hour bid to save last sailing barge

  • 197 Vessel built 300 feet above sea level

  • 198 Ships at Bideford

  • 199 Success to Festival of the Arts

  • 200 Parkham plan realised

  • 201 Torrington children build igloo
  • 202 Some mushroom!

  • 203 New Lundy air-mail stamps

  • 204 Saving money, wear and tear

  • 205 Found the answer waiting for him>
  • 206

    Cadets are given certificates
  • 207 Second Monte Carlo Rally

  • 208 Littleham family's five generations

  • 209 Fishermen of Greencliff

  • 210 Puppet characters introduced

  • 211 Westward Ho! combined op

  • 212 Beach search for mines takes longer

  • 213 John Andrew Bread Charity
  • 214 They never miss a game at Torrington

  • 215 Wishing well is pixielated

  • 216 Birds' convalescent home at Instow

  • 217 Northam loses thatched cottage landmark

  • 218 'Les Girls' of Hartland

  • 219 Baby Kate goes home to Lundy

  • 220 Buckland goes to County Show

  • 221 Photo mural in Bideford bank

  • 222 Space dominates Hartland carnival

  • 223 Alverdiscott is proud of its new parish hall

  • 224 Town's second woman mayor in 392 years

  • 225 Spring-cleaning the Ridge

  • 226 Larkworthy Family play in Shebbear's Football Team
  • 227 Pet squirrels at Monkleigh

  • 228 Mobile missionary

  • 229 Bravery against bull at Shebbear rewarded

  • 230 He beat the floods

  • 231

    Gift from Bideford Town Council
  • 232 No ancient Grecian temple this

  • 233 Huntshaw TV mast

  • 234 Head Barman appointed Torrington Town Crier
  • 235 Clovelly's 91 year old horseman

  • 236 Last of Bideford factory chimney

  • 237 Battle of the gap at Westward Ho!

  • 238 Appledore schooner broadcast

  • 239 Six footed lamb

  • 240 Getting up steam for tomorrow

  • 241 One thousand visit zoo at Whitsun

  • 242 Hartland Abbey outdoor staff 60 years ago

  • 243 Appledore Juniors Football
  • 244 Appledore tugs fete London Tower

  • 245 The Geneva marionettes

  • 246

    Inter-school Road Safety Quiz Cup Winners
  • 247 Northam wants to continue pumping from river

  • 248 Church renovation rejoicing at Northam

  • 249 Bideford blacksmith wins English championship

  • 250 Designed and made in Bideford

  • 251 Service with a smile

  • 252 Bideford Liberal club new lounge bar opened

  • 253 Emergency ferry services

  • 254 Cement-clad boats being built at Northam

  • 255 Harvest service in Bideford 'pub' bar

  • 256 Last train from Torrington

  • 257 In the tortoise nursery - eight hatched at Bideford

  • 258 A Weare Giffard speciality - delicious strawberries

  • 259 Waldon Triplets
  • 260 East-the-Water's call for new school

  • 261 Circus comes to town

  • 262 Calf thinks of mare as mum

  • 263 TV features Bideford's New Year bread ceremony

  • 264 The art of the thatcher

  • 265 Bridging the stream

  • 266 Down at the dump something stirs

  • 267 When horses score over the tractor

  • 268 Inscribed Bibles and silver spoons for babies

  • 269 Broomhayes children will keep their winter pet

  • 270 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

  • 271 Eight to strike and a race to win

  • 272 New Post Office

  • 273 Picking the pops

  • 274 Torrington's new amenity

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

  • 276 Police station view of Bideford

  • 277 Out of puff!

  • 278 Designed all furnishing of new chapel

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

  • 280 Spray dodging - the new pastime

  • 281 Torridge graveyard of wooden hulks

  • 282 Picture bought for shillings may be worth thousands

  • 283 Brothers reunion 1947
  • 284 Traditions and skills still there

  • 285 Puzzle corner at Bideford!

  • 286 First steel ship built at Bideford

  • 287 Championship Trophy for Hartland
  • 288 Bideford stock car racing entry comes in second

  • 289 Move for oldest boatyard on Torridge

  • 290 Hartland postman retires

  • 291 A sense of humour in advertising

  • 292 Bideford A.F.C annual dinner
  • 293 Sunshine and shade at Appledore

  • 294 Bideford electricity window display qualifies for area competition

  • 295 Can spring be far away?

  • 296 By pony and trap to market

  • 297 Speeding communications: Bideford firm's new installation

  • 298 Donkey work made easier at Clovelly

  • 299 What is future of railway goods yard?

  • 300 Torrington's enterprise's new extensions

  • 301 Olympic riders to compete at Bideford Horse Show

  • 302 Bideford shipyard workers cheer new minesweeper

  • 303 Bideford's first woman councillor

  • 304 Calligrapher extraordinary

  • 305 Just over a year old

  • 306 Bringing shopping home by goat

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    Building works
  • 308 Recognise this resort?

  • 309 Bideford-Torrington road gets 'carpet coat'

  • 310 Bideford has built over 500 post-war homes

  • 311 Westward Ho! public conveniences get go ahead
  • 312 Ten year old scrambler

  • 313 Clovelly donkey film star

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

  • 315 New look for Torrington Lane

  • 316 North Devon author featured in TV documentary

  • 317 Bicycle now does donkey work

  • 318 Chess - their bridge over the years

  • 319 School crossing patrol begins

  • 320 New life for Hartland organ

  • 321 Lots drawn to prevent dog fight

  • 322 Torrington Church's new organ

  • 323 Sailing to victory at Appledore

  • 324 Artisans' Club

  • 325 Torrington in 1967

  • 326 New shipyard on schedule

  • 327 Buckland farm workers to receive long-service awards

  • 328 What's the time?

  • 329 Holiday traffic in Bideford High Street

  • 330 Housing progress at East-the-Water>
  • 331 Tomorrow' night's skittles broadcast from Bideford

  • 332 Old Girls revisit Edgehill

  • 333 Riverside mystery

  • 334 Future of Torrington almshouses

  • 335 'Out of Appledore' sailing memories

  • 336 Children's procession with foxgloves

  • 337 Works at craft he learned over 65 years ago

  • 338 Holiday scene near Sandymere

  • 339 From Bobby to Brian

  • 340 Council agree to demolition of Chanter's Folly

  • 341 Weare Giffard potato

  • 342 So this is the mainland!

  • 343 Littleham cow tops 70 tons mark in milk production

  • 344 Four hundred residents leave Bideford!

  • 345 The creative urge on Saturday morning

  • 346 Bideford Bridge re-opens

  • 347 Amsterdam to Bideford double success

  • 348 Bideford schoolboy's courage recognised

  • 349 Torrington Youth Club rewarded by party
  • 350 Salmon netting at Bideford

  • 351 Thorn-apple found in Littleham conservatory

  • 352 No ancient Grecian temple this

  • 353 Off on a great adventure

  • 354

    Exhibition of school work
  • 355

    Hamburger is part of modern life
  • 356 Entente cordiale in Bideford

  • 357 Sweet success at Langtree School

  • 358 At Bideford Arts Ball>
  • 359 Television comes to Torridge District

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    Womens Skittles Competition in Buckland Brewer
  • 361 Polish custom on Pancake Day

  • 362 New gateway to King George's Fields

  • 363 The cab at the corner>
  • 364 It really was the 'last time'

  • 365 Cruising down the river

  • 366 Community centre opened at Westward Ho!

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

  • 368 New look in the hayfields

  • 369 Fish nearly pulled him in

  • 370 Christmas tree on Bideford Quay>
  • 371 Rowing triumphs at Bideford

  • 372 Yeoi Vale House finally demolished

  • 373 Record pebble-throwing day

  • 374 Warmington's garage ad

  • 375 Four sisters' nostalgic reunion

  • 376 Practical sympathy at Northam

  • 377 Bideford Liberals' fashion show

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    Double Baptism on Torridge
  • 379 A bird of their own!

  • 380 Instow local art show was 'tremendous success'

  • 381 Floral dancing at Appledore

  • 382 Symbol of Lundy independence

  • 383 Cavaliers join the Hunt
  • 384 Shipbuilding hobby at Hartland

  • 385 Gift plaque on Clovelly council houses

  • 386 Loads of black and white

  • 387 Death - and birth - of a telephone exchange

  • 388 Appledore's largest

  • 389 Wasps' nest in sewing machine

  • 390 No sale of Springfield House

  • 391 Variety in summer weather

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

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    Toasted with musical honours
  • 394 They are parted pro-tem

  • 395 Up-to-date Bideford!

  • 396 New addition to Quay front

  • 397 Yelland potter's exhibition at Bideford

  • 398 Broomhayes £1,000 Surprise
  • 399 Sooty is quick on the draw

  • 400 Where Bideford rope-makers walked>
  • 401 Hartland's invitation

  • 402 Charter granted by Philip and Mary

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    New gateway
  • 404

    Appledore boys beat mums at football
  • 405 New Lundy stamps

  • 406 Pretty pennies at Beaford

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

  • 408 Weare Giffard Hall sold for £11,300

  • 409 Champagne send-off for Torrington new factory

  • 410 Wilfred and Mabel visit schools and hospital

  • 411

    Youth Clubs Join Together For Entertainment
  • 412 Landmark at Bradworthy

  • 413 Bideford loses training ship

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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  • 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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  • 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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A Weare-Giffard speciality – delicious strawberries

Height of strawberry season

This is the height of the strawberry season and pickers on the well-known beds at Weare-Giffard are busy.

The days of floating up by boat on the tide from Bideford for strawberries and cream at Weare Giffard and returning on the ebb have perhaps gone for good but the fine-flavoured strawberries are in as eager demand as ever.

20 June 1952 A Weare Giffard speciality

This group of pickers on the allotments at Weare Giffard busily picking for last Saturday’s market shows Mrs Hunt, Mrs V. Smart, Mr A. Curtis and Mr W. Short.

Gazette article 20 June 1952

 

Bideford-Torrington road gets ‘carpet coat’

New surface for main road

Motorists have been enthusiastic in their welcome to the bituminous ‘carpet coat’ surface which Devon county Council have laide on the Bideford-Torrington main road.

20 June 1952 Bideford Torrington road gets carpet coat

Our photograph shows men at work with the Barber-Greene machine (right) and a steam roller laying the ‘carpet’. Use of the laying machine has meant a considerable saving in time and labour as it is possible to put down over 250 tons of material a day with only a small gang of men, while by hand those men would only lay between 30 and 40 tons during the same period. There will be no need for surface dressing for at least six years.

Gazette article 20 June 1952

Joe the ginger tabby is 21

Bideford cat comes of age

Joe, belonging to Mr and Mrs L.H. (‘Jack’) Gorrell of 6 Church Walk, Bideford is 21 years old and has received congratulations from the RSPCA on his ‘coming of age’. A friend of two decades of children attending the Church School, Joe spends his time nowadays in the house or just outside sunning himself, but although he is not so active as he used to be he is as intelligent as ever.

13 June 1952 Joe the ginger tabby is 21

Fourteen-years-old Gyp, a Lakeland terrier, is his constant companion at home and they share each other’s chair and basket. Gyp queues behind Joe at mealtimes.

Gazette article 13 June 1952

 

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