• 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 All aboard the ark

  • 2 Fishing light goes out at close of poor season

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    Toasted with musical honours
  • 4

    School of Dancing's Annual Display
  • 5 Designed and made in Bideford

  • 6 Ships at Bideford

  • 7 Second Monte Carlo Rally

  • 8 Bideford skifflers, they're no squares

  • 9 Decontrol of meat

  • 10 Capers on the cobbles

  • 11 Photo mural in Bideford bank

  • 12 Yeoi Vale House finally demolished

  • 13 Steep street of old Bideford

  • 14

    Youth Clubs Join Together For Entertainment
  • 15 Variety in summer weather

  • 16

    Inter-school Road Safety Quiz Cup Winners
  • 17 Bideford stock car racing entry comes in second

  • 18

    Gift from Bideford Town Council
  • 19 They never miss a game at Torrington

  • 20 Bideford-Torrington road gets 'carpet coat'

  • 21 Sunshine and shade at Appledore

  • 22 Warmington's garage ad

  • 23 First steel ship built at Bideford

  • 24 Revenge in style

  • 25 Alwington School closing after 120 years

  • 26

    Lenwood Squash Club
  • 27 Church renovation rejoicing at Northam

  • 28 Harvest service in Bideford 'pub' bar

  • 29 Teenager Peter Jackson Makes Horror Film
  • 30 Television comes to Torridge District

  • 31 Centuries old but today busier than ever

  • 32 Lady Churchill congratulates Bideford artists at nursing exhibition

  • 33 'Out of Appledore' sailing memories

  • 34 Signed scroll momento of Queen Mother's visit

  • 35 Pet squirrels at Monkleigh

  • 36 What is future of railway goods yard?

  • 37 Torrington school's sundial - fashioned by Headmaster

  • 38 Children's procession with foxgloves

  • 39 Wine and beer merchants for 150 years

  • 40 Four hundred residents leave Bideford!

  • 41 Private home for public pump

  • 42 New look in the hayfields

  • 43 Still hunting aged 80 and a Field Master

  • 44 TV contest means big job for Bideford Guides

  • 45 New life for Hartland organ

  • 46 Clovelly nightmare

  • 47 Panto time at Westward Ho!

  • 48

    Andre Veillett and Quentin Reed in Judo Demonstration
  • 49 For crying out loud!

  • 50 Big develolpment at Calveford

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

  • 52 John Andrew Bread Charity
  • 53 Centenary of Gazette

  • 54 Birds' convalescent home at Instow

  • 55 On her 'maiden' trip from Bideford

  • 56 Tramps camp by riverside throughout arctic weather

  • 57 Making way for the double-deckers

  • 58 Eight to strike and a race to win

  • 59 Bideford regatta

  • 60 Bideford's gift to Sir Francis

  • 61 Bideford Zoo's first baby is big draw

  • 62

    Bidefordians
  • 63 Bicycle now does donkey work

  • 64 Liked holidays here - so starts business

  • 65 Getting up steam for tomorrow

  • 66 Burnard family reunion

  • 67 Boys win hockey on the sands challenge

  • 68 New Lundy air-mail stamps

  • 69 The Geneva marionettes

  • 70 Gloves fit for a king!

  • 71 A sense of humour in advertising

  • 72 Circus comes to town

  • 73 Wilfred and Mabel visit schools and hospital

  • 74 Entente cordiale in Bideford

  • 75 Finished in 1876

  • 76 Jumble sale fever

  • 77 Record player of 80 years ago

  • 78 Record pebble-throwing day

  • 79 What the television camera saw at Abbotsham

  • 80 Charter granted by Philip and Mary

  • 81 Tomorrow' night's skittles broadcast from Bideford

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

  • 83 Alderman Anstey's dream comes tru

  • 84 Recognise this resort?

  • 85 New look for Torrington Lane

  • 86 Alverdiscott is proud of its new parish hall

  • 87 Ten year old scrambler

  • 88 Thunderstorm destruction of 25 years ago

  • 89 Wishing well is pixielated

  • 90 Students help model St Sidwell

  • 91

    Building works
  • 92 Lady Godiva comes to Torrington

  • 93

    New gateway
  • 94 Ancestral home nestling in lovely combe

  • 95 Parkham plan realised

  • 96 Last train from Torrington

  • 97 Escaped crane moves into Kenwith Valley

  • 98 America's tribute to 'J.H.'

  • 99 Pretty pennies at Beaford

  • 100 Torridge graveyard of wooden hulks

  • 101 Calf thinks of mare as mum

  • 102 Panel sprint for Bideford broadcast

  • 103 Bideford shipyard workers cheer new minesweeper

  • 104 Instow local art show was 'tremendous success'

  • 105 Largest salmon caught in Torridge

  • 106 New civic medallions

  • 107 Cruising down the river

  • 108 Can-carrying over cobbles has disappeared

  • 109 Bideford country dancers on TV

  • 110 Fish nearly pulled him in

  • 111 When horses score over the tractor

  • 112

    FA Cup Match for the Robins
  • 113 Clovelly donkey film star

  • 114 In the tortoise nursery - eight hatched at Bideford

  • 115 Spring-cleaning the Ridge

  • 116 Some mushroom!

  • 117 Eight and a half million pound Taw development scheme

  • 118 Northam wants to continue pumping from river

  • 119 Death - and birth - of a telephone exchange

  • 120 Bideford's private wharves busier

  • 121 Torrington in 1967

  • 122

    Wynne Olley's styles impress International Hair Fashion Designer
  • 123

    Successful motor cycling team
  • 124 Last of Bideford factory chimney

  • 125 Can spring be far away?

  • 126 Broomhayes £1,000 Surprise
  • 127 New shipyard on schedule

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

  • 129 Westward Ho! public conveniences get go ahead
  • 130 Bideford blacksmith wins English championship

  • 131 New Estate's view of estuary activities

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

  • 133 Fundraising trip for RNLI

  • 134 Fishermen of Greencliff

  • 135 'Les Girls' of Hartland

  • 136 An early 'special' to Bideford

  • 137 One thousand visit zoo at Whitsun

  • 138 Symbol of Lundy independence

  • 139 A lost Bideford 'island'

  • 140 They set out for Bideford and became lost

  • 141 Northam's almshouse

  • 142 Landmark at Bradworthy

  • 143 Hartland Dancers
  • 144 Bideford School Junior Choir Sing in France at Twinning Ceremony in Landivisiau
  • 145 Peter poses for TV film

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

  • 147 Weare Giffard Hall sold for £11,300

  • 148 North Devon author featured in TV documentary

  • 149 Appledore boy is youngest recipient of RNLI vellun

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

  • 151 Cement-clad boats being built at Northam

  • 152 Penny for the guy

  • 153 Baby Kate goes home to Lundy

  • 154 Launching the 'Golden Hinde'

  • 155 Allhalland Street - then and now

  • 156 Clovelly custom

  • 157 Puppet characters introduced

  • 158 Devil sent packing

  • 159 Torrington to have first woman mayor

  • 160

    10-year-old scrambler practices
  • 161 Homage to a well-loved sovereign

  • 162 The art of the thatcher

  • 163 Saving money, wear and tear

  • 164 Joe the ginger tabby is 21

  • 165 Up-to-date Bideford!

  • 166 Passing of a Torrington landmark

  • 167 Battle of the gap at Westward Ho!

  • 168 Bideford triplets' first birthday party

  • 169 A bird of their own!

  • 170 Bringing shopping home by goat

  • 171 Torridge wins on time schedule

  • 172 New gateway to King George's Fields

  • 173 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

  • 174 Weare Giffard potato

  • 175 Loads of black and white

  • 176 End of the line

  • 177 X-ray shoe fitting

  • 178

    Womens Skittles Competition in Buckland Brewer
  • 179

    Hamburger is part of modern life
  • 180 Donkey and horses enjoy carnival drink

  • 181 Celebrations for 103rd birthday

  • 182 Sweet success at Langtree School

  • 183 School's link with cargo ship

  • 184 Barley from Bideford to Bonnie Scotland

  • 185 New addition to Quay front

  • 186 Bideford has built over 500 post-war homes

  • 187 Faints as she wins national competition

  • 188 Appledore schooner broadcast

  • 189 Torrington's new amenity

  • 190 Revived market off to splendid start

  • 191 Spray dodging - the new pastime

  • 192 Smiling welcome to Hartland visitors

  • 193 Do recall the old windmill at Northam?

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

  • 195 Cavaliers join the Hunt
  • 196 Six footed lamb

  • 197 Appledore Juniors Football
  • 198 Bank Holiday weather was beach weather

  • 199 Bideford Bridge re-opens

  • 200 They are parted pro-tem

  • 201 Donkey work made easier at Clovelly

  • 202

    Holidaying in north Devon
  • 203 Bideford firm develops new non-spill paint

  • 204 Photo of town's first car wins prize

  • 205 Boys from Bideford school complete Ten Tors

  • 206 Vessel built 300 feet above sea level

  • 207 Bideford computer stars

  • 208 So this is the mainland!

  • 209 Council agree to demolition of Chanter's Folly

  • 210 Service with a smile

  • 211 Modern living at Bideford

  • 212 Broomhayes children will keep their winter pet

  • 213 Space dominates Hartland carnival

  • 214 Bridging the stream

  • 215 Bideford childrens' cinema opens

  • 216 Twenty-one yachts

  • 217

    Jinxed School Trip
  • 218 Practical sympathy at Northam

  • 219 Designed all furnishing of new chapel

  • 220 Picking the pops

  • 221 Mural in the whimsical fashion

  • 222 Champagne send-off for Torrington new factory

  • 223 Puzzle corner at Bideford!

  • 224 Train returns to Westleigh straight

  • 225 Centenary of Landcross Methodist Chapel

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

  • 227 Torrington acclaims 400th anniversary of granting of charter

  • 228 Polish custom on Pancake Day

  • 229 Sooty is quick on the draw

  • 230 Thrush builds nest in cauliflower

  • 231 Bideford's first triplets for 12 years

  • 232 Unique holiday adventure!

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    Reds Womens Team Are First To Compete Throughout Season
  • 234 Works at craft he learned over 65 years ago

  • 235 Championship Trophy for Hartland
  • 236 Shipbuilding hobby at Hartland

  • 237 Hartland postman retires

  • 238 Born 1883 - still going strong

  • 239 Clovelly's 91 year old horseman

  • 240 Police station view of Bideford

  • 241 New Post Office

  • 242 Off on a great adventure

  • 243 Move for oldest boatyard on Torridge

  • 244 Picking the pops

  • 245 Huntshaw TV mast

  • 246 Mobile missionary

  • 247 Riverside mystery

  • 248 No sale of Springfield House

  • 249 Bideford inquest on French trawlermen opens

  • 250 Northam footballers of the future

  • 251 Down at the 'Donkey House'

  • 252 Some 240 exhibits

  • 253 Just over a year old

  • 254

    Mums protest in Coronation Road
  • 255 TV features Bideford's New Year bread ceremony

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

  • 257 Meredith's ironmongers

  • 258 Buckland farm workers to receive long-service awards

  • 259 Buckland goes to County Show

  • 260 All for the love of a lady!

  • 261 Bideford A.F.C annual dinner
  • 262 Tibbles home again - and fish supper

  • 263 Eleven million pound scheme's official opening

  • 264 113 years at Instow

  • 265 Farewell to passenger trains

  • 266 Speeding communications: Bideford firm's new installation

  • 267 Bideford Liberals' fashion show

  • 268 No ancient Grecian temple this

  • 269 Hartland Abbey outdoor staff 60 years ago

  • 270 Two kinds of hovercraft at Bideford

  • 271 Success to Festival of the Arts

  • 272 Pannier Market's future?

  • 273 Olympic riders to compete at Bideford Horse Show

  • 274 Bideford schoolboy's courage recognised

  • 275 Northam loses thatched cottage landmark

  • 276 East-the-Water sets town an example

  • 277 In their new robes and hats

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

  • 279 Bideford loses training ship

  • 280 A Weare Giffard speciality - delicious strawberries

  • 281 Gift plaque on Clovelly council houses

  • 282 Artisans' Club

  • 283 Brothers reunion 1947
  • 284 Rowing triumphs at Bideford

  • 285 Jalopy joy for children of Shamwickshire

  • 286 Dismantling of wireless mast

  • 287

    First Girls at Bideford Grammar School take part in Play
  • 288 The creative urge on Saturday morning

  • 289 Five generations link Woolsery, Clovelly and Bideford

  • 290 Beach search for mines takes longer

  • 291 Watch the dicky bird!

  • 292

    Relatives all over the world
  • 293 Bideford electricity window display qualifies for area competition

  • 294

    Double Baptism on Torridge
  • 295 Sixty-two year old Picarooner makes ready for season

  • 296 Appledore's largest

  • 297 Inscribed Bibles and silver spoons for babies

  • 298 He beat the floods

  • 299 Holiday traffic in Bideford High Street

  • 300 Happy Days!

  • 301 Torrington children build igloo
  • 302 Little 'Big Ben'

  • 303 North Devon Driving School

  • 304 Torrington Youth Club rewarded by party
  • 305 Torrington's shelter for the aged

  • 306 Colour TV salesman at eight

  • 307 Emergency ferry services

  • 308

    First prize
  • 309 It really was the 'last time'

  • 310

    Mrs Whapham finds ferret in Bridgeland Street while shopping
  • 311 Safe door weighing two tons

  • 312 Tide sweeps under and over the old bridge

  • 313

    Birgitta Whittaker
  • 314 No laughing matter

  • 315 Water Board mains spread through villages

  • 316 New art gallery opened

  • 317 Larkworthy Family play in Shebbear's Football Team
  • 318 Future of Torrington almshouses

  • 319 Chess - their bridge over the years

  • 320 Shoes certainly not made for walking

  • 321 Westward Ho! Tennis Club Winners
  • 322 Out of puff!

  • 323 Sight of a lifetime

  • 324

    Married in 1908
  • 325 Appledore tugs fete London Tower

  • 326

    Was a missionary
  • 327 Hartland's invitation

  • 328 First ship in 8 years

  • 329 New Lundy stamps

  • 330 Thirty bridges cross Torridge

  • 331 No ancient Grecian temple this

  • 332 Westward Ho! sand yacht to challenge speed record

  • 333 Ship-in-bottle world record

  • 334 School crossing patrol begins

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    Cadets are given certificates
  • 336 Littleham cow tops 70 tons mark in milk production

  • 337 Lots drawn to prevent dog fight

  • 338 Picture bought for shillings may be worth thousands

  • 339 Light reading for the lighthouse

  • 340 Thorn-apple found in Littleham conservatory

  • 341 Quads at Thornhillhead

  • 342 Calligrapher extraordinary

  • 343 Childrens' model of Torrington

  • 344 Preparations for new Clovelly Court

  • 345

    Close associations with North Devon
  • 346 Appledore's new lifeboat

  • 347 New choral society's growing response

  • 348 Head Barman appointed Torrington Town Crier
  • 349 A man and his wheel

  • 350 Torrington's enterprise's new extensions

  • 351 A story to tell!

  • 352 A roof-top view - where?

  • 353 Holiday scene near Sandymere

  • 354 By pony and trap to market

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

  • 356 River scenes that enchant the visitors

  • 357 Bravery against bull at Shebbear rewarded

  • 358 Simple Item 138
  • 359 Littleham family's five generations

  • 360 Four sisters' nostalgic reunion

  • 361 Salmon netting at Bideford

  • 362 Yeo vale road ruin provides a mystery

  • 363 Life begins at 80

  • 364 Old Girls revisit Edgehill

  • 365 A craftsman's 'potted' history

  • 366

    Appledore boys beat mums at football
  • 367 What's the time?

  • 368 Traditions and skills still there

  • 369 Bideford Liberal club new lounge bar opened

  • 370 Bideford's new market opens next week

  • 371 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

  • 372 First tankers arrive at new depot

  • 373 Town's second woman mayor in 392 years

  • 374 New fire and ambulance stations

  • 375 Westward Ho! combined op

  • 376

    Exhibition of school work
  • 377

    Gus Honeybun meets local children
  • 378 Eleventh hour bid to save last sailing barge

  • 379 Daisy's pride and joy

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

  • 381 Yelland potter's exhibition at Bideford

  • 382 Repair work on Long Bridge
  • 383 Fleet of foot and fair of face

  • 384 Quads join a Langtree happy family

  • 385 Waldon Triplets
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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  • 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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  • 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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Success to Festival of the Arts 20 June to 3 July

Booking office on Torridge-side

Customers have been trooping in to book seats this past week for the Taw and Torridge Society’s Devon Festival of the Arts.

17 June 1955 Success to festival of the arts

The above photograph shows some of the enthusiastic supporters of the Bideford section cheering the opening of the Bideford Booking Office adjoining the Rose of Torridge café.

Gazette article 17 June 1955

 

Loads of Black and White

Bideford coal merchants beat rail strike

Although the district receives its house coal by ship, boiler fuels for cookers etc. normally come by rail. In order to overcome difficulties caused by the rail strike, a Bideford firm of coal merchants, Messr. Littlejohns Brothers sent three lorries to Cardiff last week to seek additional supplies of this type of fuel, the demand for which does not drop as much in the summer as that for ordinary house coal.

10 June 1955 Loads of black and white

The lorries left on Thursday morning and returned in the early hours of Saturday morning with about 17 tons of boiler fuel which, it was stated, had eased the situation for this week.

Gazette article 10 June 1955

 

Bicycle now does donkey work

New refuse arrangements at Clovelly

Mr William Headon who had undertaken duties of refuse collector at Clovelly has devised a system of using a pedal cycle and panniers to overcome the difficulties of this task up and down the cobbled steps of the picturesque but steep High Street.

27 May 1955 Bicycle now does donkey work

Refuse collecting duties were formerly carried out by Mr Cecil Braund with his donkey Paul. When Paul died earlier in the year Mr Braund intimated he wished to relinquish his appointment.

Gazette article 27 May 1955

 

 

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