• 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 Works at craft he learned over 65 years ago

  • 2 Still hunting aged 80 and a Field Master

  • 3 Children's procession with foxgloves

  • 4 Panto time at Westward Ho!

  • 5 Dismantling of wireless mast

  • 6 Torrington Youth Club rewarded by party
  • 7 Panel sprint for Bideford broadcast

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

  • 9 Hartland postman retires

  • 10 Bravery against bull at Shebbear rewarded

  • 11

    Youth Clubs Join Together For Entertainment
  • 12 Sooty is quick on the draw

  • 13 Death - and birth - of a telephone exchange

  • 14 Head Barman appointed Torrington Town Crier
  • 15 Down at the 'Donkey House'

  • 16 Inscribed Bibles and silver spoons for babies

  • 17 Bideford School Junior Choir Sing in France at Twinning Ceremony in Landivisiau
  • 18 Northam's almshouse

  • 19 Bideford shipyard workers cheer new minesweeper

  • 20

    Birgitta Whittaker
  • 21 Devil sent packing

  • 22 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

  • 23 Buckland farm workers to receive long-service awards

  • 24 Bicycle now does donkey work

  • 25 No ancient Grecian temple this

  • 26 Emergency ferry services

  • 27 Picture bought for shillings may be worth thousands

  • 28 Donkey and horses enjoy carnival drink

  • 29 Bideford computer stars

  • 30 What's the time?

  • 31 Mural in the whimsical fashion

  • 32 Some mushroom!

  • 33 Alderman Anstey's dream comes tru

  • 34 Modern living at Bideford

  • 35 Tomorrow' night's skittles broadcast from Bideford

  • 36 Do recall the old windmill at Northam?

  • 37 New look for Torrington Lane

  • 38 Thorn-apple found in Littleham conservatory

  • 39 New addition to Quay front

  • 40 Vessel built 300 feet above sea level

  • 41 Torridge graveyard of wooden hulks

  • 42 Shipbuilding hobby at Hartland

  • 43 Broomhayes £1,000 Surprise
  • 44 A lost Bideford 'island'

  • 45 Safe door weighing two tons

  • 46 Tibbles home again - and fish supper

  • 47 Train returns to Westleigh straight

  • 48

    Hamburger is part of modern life
  • 49 River scenes that enchant the visitors

  • 50 Chess - their bridge over the years

  • 51 Teenager Peter Jackson Makes Horror Film
  • 52 New Lundy stamps

  • 53 Yeo vale road ruin provides a mystery

  • 54 No sale of Springfield House

  • 55 Ships at Bideford

  • 56 Alwington School closing after 120 years

  • 57 The Geneva marionettes

  • 58 They set out for Bideford and became lost

  • 59 Last of Bideford factory chimney

  • 60 New shipyard on schedule

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

  • 62 The creative urge on Saturday morning

  • 63 No laughing matter

  • 64 Old Girls revisit Edgehill

  • 65 Calligrapher extraordinary

  • 66

    FA Cup Match for the Robins
  • 67 Picking the pops

  • 68 New Lundy air-mail stamps

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

  • 70 By pony and trap to market

  • 71 Ten year old scrambler

  • 72 Fundraising trip for RNLI

  • 73 Two kinds of hovercraft at Bideford

  • 74 Ship-in-bottle world record

  • 75 Torrington children build igloo
  • 76 Bideford childrens' cinema opens

  • 77 Life begins at 80

  • 78 Revived market off to splendid start

  • 79 Bideford blacksmith wins English championship

  • 80

    Womens Skittles Competition in Buckland Brewer
  • 81 First steel ship built at Bideford

  • 82 Watch the dicky bird!

  • 83 Pannier Market's future?

  • 84 Westward Ho! Tennis Club Winners
  • 85 North Devon Driving School

  • 86 Bideford Liberals' fashion show

  • 87 Church renovation rejoicing at Northam

  • 88 Bideford electricity window display qualifies for area competition

  • 89 Mobile missionary

  • 90 Record pebble-throwing day

  • 91 They are parted pro-tem

  • 92 A bird of their own!

  • 93 Torrington acclaims 400th anniversary of granting of charter

  • 94 Spring-cleaning the Ridge

  • 95 Unique holiday adventure!

  • 96 Quads at Thornhillhead

  • 97 Appledore schooner broadcast

  • 98 Tramps camp by riverside throughout arctic weather

  • 99 All aboard the ark

  • 100 No ancient Grecian temple this

  • 101 Torrington school's sundial - fashioned by Headmaster

  • 102 New Estate's view of estuary activities

  • 103 Holiday scene near Sandymere

  • 104 Lady Godiva comes to Torrington

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

  • 106 Repair work on Long Bridge
  • 107

    Gift from Bideford Town Council
  • 108 Gift plaque on Clovelly council houses

  • 109 Four hundred residents leave Bideford!

  • 110 Happy Days!

  • 111 Move for oldest boatyard on Torridge

  • 112 Steep street of old Bideford

  • 113 Eleventh hour bid to save last sailing barge

  • 114 Polish custom on Pancake Day

  • 115 Pretty pennies at Beaford

  • 116 X-ray shoe fitting

  • 117 Revenge in style

  • 118 Barley from Bideford to Bonnie Scotland

  • 119 Clovelly donkey film star

  • 120 Bideford firm develops new non-spill paint

  • 121 Photo of town's first car wins prize

  • 122 Fleet of foot and fair of face

  • 123 A Weare Giffard speciality - delicious strawberries

  • 124 East-the-Water sets town an example

  • 125 Last train from Torrington

  • 126 End of the line

  • 127 Bank Holiday weather was beach weather

  • 128 Broomhayes children will keep their winter pet

  • 129 Bideford's first triplets for 12 years

  • 130 Out of puff!

  • 131 Celebrations for 103rd birthday

  • 132 Bideford inquest on French trawlermen opens

  • 133 They never miss a game at Torrington

  • 134 Capers on the cobbles

  • 135 TV contest means big job for Bideford Guides

  • 136 Torrington's new amenity

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

  • 138 Television comes to Torridge District

  • 139 Torrington in 1967

  • 140 Littleham cow tops 70 tons mark in milk production

  • 141 Escaped crane moves into Kenwith Valley

  • 142 Puppet characters introduced

  • 143 First tankers arrive at new depot

  • 144 The art of the thatcher

  • 145 TV features Bideford's New Year bread ceremony

  • 146 Harvest service in Bideford 'pub' bar

  • 147 Allhalland Street - then and now

  • 148 Bideford has built over 500 post-war homes

  • 149 Salmon netting at Bideford

  • 150 Practical sympathy at Northam

  • 151 Bideford country dancers on TV

  • 152 New art gallery opened

  • 153 Recognise this resort?

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

  • 155

    Building works
  • 156

    Close associations with North Devon
  • 157 New look in the hayfields

  • 158 Farewell to passenger trains

  • 159 Torrington's shelter for the aged

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

  • 161 Westward Ho! sand yacht to challenge speed record

  • 162 Hartland Abbey outdoor staff 60 years ago

  • 163

    Bidefordians
  • 164

    Relatives all over the world
  • 165 Torridge wins on time schedule

  • 166 Artisans' Club

  • 167 Circus comes to town

  • 168 Water Board mains spread through villages

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

  • 170 Symbol of Lundy independence

  • 171 Champagne send-off for Torrington new factory

  • 172 Bideford schoolboy's courage recognised

  • 173 Westward Ho! public conveniences get go ahead
  • 174 Riverside mystery

  • 175 Just over a year old

  • 176 Largest salmon caught in Torridge

  • 177 Five generations link Woolsery, Clovelly and Bideford

  • 178 Council agree to demolition of Chanter's Folly

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

  • 180 Quads join a Langtree happy family

  • 181 An early 'special' to Bideford

  • 182 Weare Giffard Hall sold for £11,300

  • 183 Smiling welcome to Hartland visitors

  • 184 Record player of 80 years ago

  • 185 Tide sweeps under and over the old bridge

  • 186 When horses score over the tractor

  • 187 First ship in 8 years

  • 188 Bridging the stream

  • 189 Donkey work made easier at Clovelly

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

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    Double Baptism on Torridge
  • 192 What is future of railway goods yard?

  • 193 Clovelly custom

  • 194 Picking the pops

  • 195 Bideford's gift to Sir Francis

  • 196 Speeding communications: Bideford firm's new installation

  • 197 Yelland potter's exhibition at Bideford

  • 198 It really was the 'last time'

  • 199 Warmington's garage ad

  • 200 Fish nearly pulled him in

  • 201

    School of Dancing's Annual Display
  • 202 Town's second woman mayor in 392 years

  • 203 In the tortoise nursery - eight hatched at Bideford

  • 204 Designed and made in Bideford

  • 205 John Andrew Bread Charity
  • 206 New gateway to King George's Fields

  • 207 Westward Ho! combined op

  • 208 Weare Giffard potato

  • 209 America's tribute to 'J.H.'

  • 210 Off on a great adventure

  • 211 Lady Churchill congratulates Bideford artists at nursing exhibition

  • 212 Bideford's new market opens next week

  • 213 Second Monte Carlo Rally

  • 214

    Reds Womens Team Are First To Compete Throughout Season
  • 215 Jalopy joy for children of Shamwickshire

  • 216 Torrington's enterprise's new extensions

  • 217 Fishermen of Greencliff

  • 218 In their new robes and hats

  • 219 For crying out loud!

  • 220 Littleham family's five generations

  • 221

    Holidaying in north Devon
  • 222 Launching the 'Golden Hinde'

  • 223 Brothers reunion 1947
  • 224 Can-carrying over cobbles has disappeared

  • 225 Wilfred and Mabel visit schools and hospital

  • 226 Boys from Bideford school complete Ten Tors

  • 227 Lots drawn to prevent dog fight

  • 228 Designed all furnishing of new chapel

  • 229 Championship Trophy for Hartland
  • 230 Saving money, wear and tear

  • 231

    New gateway
  • 232 Liked holidays here - so starts business

  • 233 Signed scroll momento of Queen Mother's visit

  • 234 Thrush builds nest in cauliflower

  • 235 Birds' convalescent home at Instow

  • 236 Wishing well is pixielated

  • 237 Waldon Triplets
  • 238

    Mums protest in Coronation Road
  • 239 Daisy's pride and joy

  • 240

    Cadets are given certificates
  • 241 New choral society's growing response

  • 242 Making way for the double-deckers

  • 243 Can spring be far away?

  • 244 Cement-clad boats being built at Northam

  • 245 Decontrol of meat

  • 246 Police station view of Bideford

  • 247 Four sisters' nostalgic reunion

  • 248 Boys win hockey on the sands challenge

  • 249 A man and his wheel

  • 250 Meredith's ironmongers

  • 251 Photo mural in Bideford bank

  • 252 Getting up steam for tomorrow

  • 253 Born 1883 - still going strong

  • 254

    First Girls at Bideford Grammar School take part in Play
  • 255

    Andre Veillett and Quentin Reed in Judo Demonstration
  • 256 Finished in 1876

  • 257 Thirty bridges cross Torridge

  • 258 Larkworthy Family play in Shebbear's Football Team
  • 259 Northam wants to continue pumping from river

  • 260 Entente cordiale in Bideford

  • 261 Bideford skifflers, they're no squares

  • 262 Bideford triplets' first birthday party

  • 263 Ancestral home nestling in lovely combe

  • 264

    Married in 1908
  • 265

    Successful motor cycling team
  • 266 School's link with cargo ship

  • 267 Bringing shopping home by goat

  • 268 Simple Item 138
  • 269

    Gus Honeybun meets local children
  • 270 Northam footballers of the future

  • 271 Instow local art show was 'tremendous success'

  • 272 Bideford stock car racing entry comes in second

  • 273 Yeoi Vale House finally demolished

  • 274 Bideford Liberal club new lounge bar opened

  • 275 A sense of humour in advertising

  • 276 Alverdiscott is proud of its new parish hall

  • 277 One thousand visit zoo at Whitsun

  • 278 Bideford regatta

  • 279 Appledore boy is youngest recipient of RNLI vellun

  • 280 Beach search for mines takes longer

  • 281 Traditions and skills still there

  • 282 Huntshaw TV mast

  • 283 So this is the mainland!

  • 284 Torrington to have first woman mayor

  • 285 Northam loses thatched cottage landmark

  • 286 Twenty-one yachts

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

  • 288 Battle of the gap at Westward Ho!

  • 289 New fire and ambulance stations

  • 290 Parkham plan realised

  • 291

    Was a missionary
  • 292 He beat the floods

  • 293 Bideford Zoo's first baby is big draw

  • 294 Appledore tugs fete London Tower

  • 295 Success to Festival of the Arts

  • 296 Some 240 exhibits

  • 297 Clovelly's 91 year old horseman

  • 298 Shoes certainly not made for walking

  • 299 Eight and a half million pound Taw development scheme

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    Toasted with musical honours
  • 301 New Post Office

  • 302 Peter poses for TV film

  • 303 Up-to-date Bideford!

  • 304 New life for Hartland organ

  • 305

    Appledore boys beat mums at football
  • 306 Cruising down the river

  • 307 Appledore's new lifeboat

  • 308 Thunderstorm destruction of 25 years ago

  • 309 Sight of a lifetime

  • 310 Centuries old but today busier than ever

  • 311 Passing of a Torrington landmark

  • 312 Sweet success at Langtree School

  • 313 Private home for public pump

  • 314 Burnard family reunion

  • 315 Homage to a well-loved sovereign

  • 316 Sunshine and shade at Appledore

  • 317 Little 'Big Ben'

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

  • 319 113 years at Instow

  • 320 On her 'maiden' trip from Bideford

  • 321 Baby Kate goes home to Lundy

  • 322 Bideford loses training ship

  • 323 Olympic riders to compete at Bideford Horse Show

  • 324

    Jinxed School Trip
  • 325 Centenary of Gazette

  • 326 A story to tell!

  • 327 Light reading for the lighthouse

  • 328 Buckland goes to County Show

  • 329 Preparations for new Clovelly Court

  • 330 Bideford's private wharves busier

  • 331

    Wynne Olley's styles impress International Hair Fashion Designer
  • 332 All for the love of a lady!

  • 333 Bideford-Torrington road gets 'carpet coat'

  • 334 Jumble sale fever

  • 335 What the television camera saw at Abbotsham

  • 336 Charter granted by Philip and Mary

  • 337 Appledore Juniors Football
  • 338 Gloves fit for a king!

  • 339 Students help model St Sidwell

  • 340 'Les Girls' of Hartland

  • 341 Variety in summer weather

  • 342 Hartland's invitation

  • 343

    Lenwood Squash Club
  • 344 Loads of black and white

  • 345 Eleven million pound scheme's official opening

  • 346 Joe the ginger tabby is 21

  • 347 School crossing patrol begins

  • 348 Bideford Bridge re-opens

  • 349 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

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    10-year-old scrambler practices
  • 351 Penny for the guy

  • 352 Centenary of Landcross Methodist Chapel

  • 353 Wine and beer merchants for 150 years

  • 354 Fishing light goes out at close of poor season

  • 355 'Out of Appledore' sailing memories

  • 356 Colour TV salesman at eight

  • 357

    Mrs Whapham finds ferret in Bridgeland Street while shopping
  • 358 Puzzle corner at Bideford!

  • 359 Childrens' model of Torrington

  • 360 New civic medallions

  • 361 Spray dodging - the new pastime

  • 362 A craftsman's 'potted' history

  • 363 Cavaliers join the Hunt
  • 364 Pet squirrels at Monkleigh

  • 365 Big develolpment at Calveford

  • 366 Holiday traffic in Bideford High Street

  • 367 Rowing triumphs at Bideford

  • 368 Space dominates Hartland carnival

  • 369 Clovelly nightmare

  • 370 Future of Torrington almshouses

  • 371 Calf thinks of mare as mum

  • 372 Six footed lamb

  • 373

    Inter-school Road Safety Quiz Cup Winners
  • 374 Hartland Dancers
  • 375 Eight to strike and a race to win

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

  • 377 Faints as she wins national competition

  • 378 A roof-top view - where?

  • 379 North Devon author featured in TV documentary

  • 380 Appledore's largest

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    First prize
  • 382 Landmark at Bradworthy

  • 383 Bideford A.F.C annual dinner
  • 384

    Exhibition of school work
  • 385 Service with a smile

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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America’s tribute to ‘J.H’

‘One of golf’s immortals’

A big surprise came to Mr J.H. Taylor, former Open golf champion on five occasions, when a special envoy arrived to present to him an illuminated scroll bearing the signatures of some 150 of America’s ‘senior’ golf professionals as a tribute to ‘one of golf’s immortals.’

8 July 1955 Americas tribue to J

Gazette article 8 July 1955

 

 

Buckland farm workers to receive long-service awards

Forty years of service

The end of another day on the farm and shepherd and cattleman – Mr Fred Brock, on the left, and Mr Alfred Prance – stop to exchange news at Bowden Farm, Buckland Brewer and to discuss the visit they will be paying to the Royal Show at Nottingham to receive Royal Agricultural Association awards for forty years’ service on the same farm.

24 June 1955 Buckland farm workers to receive awards

Mr Brock came to work at Bowden Farm for Mr George Heywood 40 years ago. As shepherd Mr Brock has charge of the flock of Devon Closewool ewes and Southdown rams.

Mr Prance has been 42 years at Burrough Farm, Buckland Brewer where he first worked for the late Mr Robert Tucker before the farm was bought by Mr George Heywood. He now works with the pedigree Ayrshire herd.

Gazette article 24 June 1955

 

Torrington enterprise’s new extensions

Now one of the country’s biggest and most modern creameries

Born seventy years ago out of the enterprise of a Torrington grocer and provision merchant, Mr Robert Sandford, bartering groceries for butter, eggs and poultry from local farmers, the Torridge Vale Dairies’ factory has grown into one of the biggest and most modern creameries in the country.

24 June 1955 Torringtons enterprises new extensions

Fifty farms began supplying cream to the dairy in 1931 but now the company buys milk from some 2,600 farms, the collections by its fleet of 50 lorries along the network of roads over an area extending from Hartland to Lynton, down east of South Molton, to the boundaries of Okehampton and across to the coast in North Cornwall south of Bude and Marhamchurch.

Gazette article 24 June 1955

 

 

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