• 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 For crying out loud!

  • 2 When horses score over the tractor

  • 3 Police station view of Bideford

  • 4

    School of Dancing's Annual Display
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    New gateway
  • 6 Harvest service in Bideford 'pub' bar

  • 7 Capers on the cobbles

  • 8 Lots drawn to prevent dog fight

  • 9 Northam footballers of the future

  • 10 By pony and trap to market

  • 11

    Gift from Bideford Town Council
  • 12 Larkworthy Family play in Shebbear's Football Team
  • 13 Last of Bideford factory chimney

  • 14 Happy Days!

  • 15 All for the love of a lady!

  • 16 Loads of black and white

  • 17 They set out for Bideford and became lost

  • 18 Tomorrow' night's skittles broadcast from Bideford

  • 19 New art gallery opened

  • 20 Variety in summer weather

  • 21 Bideford Liberals' fashion show

  • 22 Ship-in-bottle world record

  • 23 Traditions and skills still there

  • 24 Appledore's largest

  • 25 Baby Kate goes home to Lundy

  • 26 Torridge wins on time schedule

  • 27 Symbol of Lundy independence

  • 28 Decontrol of meat

  • 29 Jalopy joy for children of Shamwickshire

  • 30 Westward Ho! combined op

  • 31 Simple Item 138
  • 32

    Jinxed School Trip
  • 33 Landmark at Bradworthy

  • 34 In the tortoise nursery - eight hatched at Bideford

  • 35 Private home for public pump

  • 36 Ships at Bideford

  • 37

    Mums protest in Coronation Road
  • 38 Bideford loses training ship

  • 39 Practical sympathy at Northam

  • 40 Television comes to Torridge District

  • 41 Northam loses thatched cottage landmark

  • 42 A Weare Giffard speciality - delicious strawberries

  • 43 Olympic riders to compete at Bideford Horse Show

  • 44 Hartland's invitation

  • 45 Bideford Liberal club new lounge bar opened

  • 46 Designed and made in Bideford

  • 47 Service with a smile

  • 48 Battle of the gap at Westward Ho!

  • 49 New fire and ambulance stations

  • 50 Beach search for mines takes longer

  • 51 School crossing patrol begins

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

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

  • 54 Train returns to Westleigh straight

  • 55 Down at the 'Donkey House'

  • 56 Pet squirrels at Monkleigh

  • 57 Future of Torrington almshouses

  • 58 Spring-cleaning the Ridge

  • 59 Holiday traffic in Bideford High Street

  • 60 No ancient Grecian temple this

  • 61 Steep street of old Bideford

  • 62 Circus comes to town

  • 63 Last train from Torrington

  • 64 Buckland goes to County Show

  • 65

    Inter-school Road Safety Quiz Cup Winners
  • 66 Bridging the stream

  • 67 Hartland Abbey outdoor staff 60 years ago

  • 68 Littleham family's five generations

  • 69 Four sisters' nostalgic reunion

  • 70 Saving money, wear and tear

  • 71 Pretty pennies at Beaford

  • 72 Bideford stock car racing entry comes in second

  • 73 'Les Girls' of Hartland

  • 74 Weare Giffard potato

  • 75 A sense of humour in advertising

  • 76 Recognise this resort?

  • 77 Death - and birth - of a telephone exchange

  • 78 Bideford skifflers, they're no squares

  • 79 Vessel built 300 feet above sea level

  • 80 They never miss a game at Torrington

  • 81 Calligrapher extraordinary

  • 82 New civic medallions

  • 83 Devil sent packing

  • 84 The art of the thatcher

  • 85 Works at craft he learned over 65 years ago

  • 86 Northam wants to continue pumping from river

  • 87 Gift plaque on Clovelly council houses

  • 88 Teenager Peter Jackson Makes Horror Film
  • 89 Out of puff!

  • 90 Just over a year old

  • 91

    Relatives all over the world
  • 92 On her 'maiden' trip from Bideford

  • 93 Watch the dicky bird!

  • 94 Big develolpment at Calveford

  • 95 Northam's almshouse

  • 96 Safe door weighing two tons

  • 97 Daisy's pride and joy

  • 98 Torrington's shelter for the aged

  • 99 Getting up steam for tomorrow

  • 100 Emergency ferry services

  • 101 Holiday scene near Sandymere

  • 102 Parkham plan realised

  • 103 Weare Giffard Hall sold for £11,300

  • 104 Bideford A.F.C annual dinner
  • 105 Fishing light goes out at close of poor season

  • 106 X-ray shoe fitting

  • 107 TV contest means big job for Bideford Guides

  • 108 What is future of railway goods yard?

  • 109

    Youth Clubs Join Together For Entertainment
  • 110 Brothers reunion 1947
  • 111 New addition to Quay front

  • 112 Bideford's first triplets for 12 years

  • 113 Rowing triumphs at Bideford

  • 114 Record player of 80 years ago

  • 115 Thrush builds nest in cauliflower

  • 116 New Lundy stamps

  • 117 A story to tell!

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

  • 119 Bideford inquest on French trawlermen opens

  • 120 Bank Holiday weather was beach weather

  • 121 Fishermen of Greencliff

  • 122

    FA Cup Match for the Robins
  • 123 Alverdiscott is proud of its new parish hall

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

  • 125 Meredith's ironmongers

  • 126 Quads join a Langtree happy family

  • 127 It really was the 'last time'

  • 128 Shoes certainly not made for walking

  • 129

    Close associations with North Devon
  • 130 Puppet characters introduced

  • 131 Children's procession with foxgloves

  • 132 Homage to a well-loved sovereign

  • 133 Bideford shipyard workers cheer new minesweeper

  • 134 Torridge graveyard of wooden hulks

  • 135 Yelland potter's exhibition at Bideford

  • 136 Riverside mystery

  • 137 First ship in 8 years

  • 138 Light reading for the lighthouse

  • 139 Spray dodging - the new pastime

  • 140 Bideford Bridge re-opens

  • 141

    Birgitta Whittaker
  • 142 End of the line

  • 143 Donkey work made easier at Clovelly

  • 144 Pannier Market's future?

  • 145 Centenary of Gazette

  • 146 'Out of Appledore' sailing memories

  • 147 Can spring be far away?

  • 148 Success to Festival of the Arts

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

  • 150 New look for Torrington Lane

  • 151 New Post Office

  • 152 Life begins at 80

  • 153 Salmon netting at Bideford

  • 154 Speeding communications: Bideford firm's new installation

  • 155 Panto time at Westward Ho!

  • 156 Broomhayes £1,000 Surprise
  • 157 Torrington Youth Club rewarded by party
  • 158 Charter granted by Philip and Mary

  • 159 Wilfred and Mabel visit schools and hospital

  • 160

    Reds Womens Team Are First To Compete Throughout Season
  • 161 Cement-clad boats being built at Northam

  • 162 America's tribute to 'J.H.'

  • 163 Alwington School closing after 120 years

  • 164 First tankers arrive at new depot

  • 165 Cavaliers join the Hunt
  • 166 Eleven million pound scheme's official opening

  • 167 Thunderstorm destruction of 25 years ago

  • 168 Clovelly nightmare

  • 169 113 years at Instow

  • 170 Signed scroll momento of Queen Mother's visit

  • 171 Westward Ho! public conveniences get go ahead
  • 172 New shipyard on schedule

  • 173

    Holidaying in north Devon
  • 174 Torrington's enterprise's new extensions

  • 175 Church renovation rejoicing at Northam

  • 176

    Mrs Whapham finds ferret in Bridgeland Street while shopping
  • 177 Chess - their bridge over the years

  • 178

    Appledore boys beat mums at football
  • 179

    Womens Skittles Competition in Buckland Brewer
  • 180

    Building works
  • 181 Some mushroom!

  • 182 Four hundred residents leave Bideford!

  • 183 Sweet success at Langtree School

  • 184 Finished in 1876

  • 185 Clovelly donkey film star

  • 186 Two kinds of hovercraft at Bideford

  • 187 Students help model St Sidwell

  • 188 Bideford's new market opens next week

  • 189 Burnard family reunion

  • 190 Childrens' model of Torrington

  • 191 Eight to strike and a race to win

  • 192 Picking the pops

  • 193 Picture bought for shillings may be worth thousands

  • 194 Bideford computer stars

  • 195 Bideford regatta

  • 196 A craftsman's 'potted' history

  • 197 Little 'Big Ben'

  • 198 Penny for the guy

  • 199 Council agree to demolition of Chanter's Folly

  • 200

    Cadets are given certificates
  • 201 Westward Ho! sand yacht to challenge speed record

  • 202 Largest salmon caught in Torridge

  • 203 He beat the floods

  • 204 All aboard the ark

  • 205 Revived market off to splendid start

  • 206 Launching the 'Golden Hinde'

  • 207 Boys from Bideford school complete Ten Tors

  • 208 Up-to-date Bideford!

  • 209

    Successful motor cycling team
  • 210 Warmington's garage ad

  • 211 New choral society's growing response

  • 212 They are parted pro-tem

  • 213 A man and his wheel

  • 214 Centuries old but today busier than ever

  • 215 Making way for the double-deckers

  • 216 Birds' convalescent home at Instow

  • 217

    Hamburger is part of modern life
  • 218 East-the-Water's call for new school

  • 219 River scenes that enchant the visitors

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

  • 221

    Toasted with musical honours
  • 222

    Andre Veillett and Quentin Reed in Judo Demonstration
  • 223 Waldon Triplets
  • 224 Bideford - as Rowlandson saw it about 1810-15

  • 225 Ten year old scrambler

  • 226 John Andrew Bread Charity
  • 227 Photo mural in Bideford bank

  • 228 Space dominates Hartland carnival

  • 229 North Devon Driving School

  • 230 Quads at Thornhillhead

  • 231 Bideford triplets' first birthday party

  • 232 Joe the ginger tabby is 21

  • 233 Ancestral home nestling in lovely combe

  • 234 Move for oldest boatyard on Torridge

  • 235 Still hunting aged 80 and a Field Master

  • 236

    Bidefordians
  • 237 Entente cordiale in Bideford

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

  • 239 Old Girls revisit Edgehill

  • 240 Centenary of Landcross Methodist Chapel

  • 241 One thousand visit zoo at Whitsun

  • 242 Bravery against bull at Shebbear rewarded

  • 243 Eleventh hour bid to save last sailing barge

  • 244 New life for Hartland organ

  • 245 Clovelly custom

  • 246 New Lundy air-mail stamps

  • 247 Westward Ho! Tennis Club Winners
  • 248 Yeo vale road ruin provides a mystery

  • 249 Mural in the whimsical fashion

  • 250 Cruising down the river

  • 251 Bideford's gift to Sir Francis

  • 252 New Estate's view of estuary activities

  • 253 Appledore Juniors Football
  • 254 So this is the mainland!

  • 255 A bird of their own!

  • 256 Lady Churchill congratulates Bideford artists at nursing exhibition

  • 257 Passing of a Torrington landmark

  • 258 Clovelly's 91 year old horseman

  • 259 Torrington to have first woman mayor

  • 260 No ancient Grecian temple this

  • 261 What's the time?

  • 262 Fundraising trip for RNLI

  • 263 Smiling welcome to Hartland visitors

  • 264 Bideford-Torrington road gets 'carpet coat'

  • 265 First steel ship built at Bideford

  • 266 Hartland postman retires

  • 267 Second Monte Carlo Rally

  • 268 Bicycle now does donkey work

  • 269 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

  • 270 East-the-Water sets town an example

  • 271 Littleham cow tops 70 tons mark in milk production

  • 272 Dismantling of wireless mast

  • 273 North Devon author featured in TV documentary

  • 274 Instow local art show was 'tremendous success'

  • 275 Do recall the old windmill at Northam?

  • 276 Championship Trophy for Hartland
  • 277 Off on a great adventure

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    10-year-old scrambler practices
  • 279 Photo of town's first car wins prize

  • 280 Panel sprint for Bideford broadcast

  • 281 An early 'special' to Bideford

  • 282 Thorn-apple found in Littleham conservatory

  • 283 Bideford electricity window display qualifies for area competition

  • 284 No sale of Springfield House

  • 285 School's link with cargo ship

  • 286 Twenty-one yachts

  • 287 Appledore schooner broadcast

  • 288 Some 240 exhibits

  • 289

    Lenwood Squash Club
  • 290 Six footed lamb

  • 291 Eight and a half million pound Taw development scheme

  • 292 Torrington school's sundial - fashioned by Headmaster

  • 293 Calf thinks of mare as mum

  • 294 Allhalland Street - then and now

  • 295 Colour TV salesman at eight

  • 296

    Married in 1908
  • 297 Five generations link Woolsery, Clovelly and Bideford

  • 298 Torrington's new amenity

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

  • 300 Bideford schoolboy's courage recognised

  • 301 Bideford childrens' cinema opens

  • 302 Appledore tugs fete London Tower

  • 303 Barley from Bideford to Bonnie Scotland

  • 304 Can-carrying over cobbles has disappeared

  • 305 Wine and beer merchants for 150 years

  • 306 Sunshine and shade at Appledore

  • 307 Torrington children build igloo
  • 308 Diamond Jubilee of St Peter's Church, East-the-Water

  • 309

    Gus Honeybun meets local children
  • 310

    Was a missionary
  • 311 Appledore's new lifeboat

  • 312 Farewell to passenger trains

  • 313 Appledore boy is youngest recipient of RNLI vellun

  • 314 Inscribed Bibles and silver spoons for babies

  • 315 Donkey and horses enjoy carnival drink

  • 316 The creative urge on Saturday morning

  • 317 Boys win hockey on the sands challenge

  • 318 Torrington acclaims 400th anniversary of granting of charter

  • 319 Preparations for new Clovelly Court

  • 320 Polish custom on Pancake Day

  • 321 Tide sweeps under and over the old bridge

  • 322 Repair work on Long Bridge
  • 323 Lady Godiva comes to Torrington

  • 324 Thirty bridges cross Torridge

  • 325 Town's second woman mayor in 392 years

  • 326 Bideford country dancers on TV

  • 327

    Double Baptism on Torridge
  • 328 Not Bideford's answer to the moon rocket!

  • 329 Celebrations for 103rd birthday

  • 330 Head Barman appointed Torrington Town Crier
  • 331 Wishing well is pixielated

  • 332 Sight of a lifetime

  • 333 Mobile missionary

  • 334

    Wynne Olley's styles impress International Hair Fashion Designer
  • 335 New gateway to King George's Fields

  • 336 Record pebble-throwing day

  • 337 TV features Bideford's New Year bread ceremony

  • 338 Alderman Anstey's dream comes tru

  • 339 Bringing shopping home by goat

  • 340

    First prize
  • 341 Revenge in style

  • 342 Bideford firm develops new non-spill paint

  • 343 Faints as she wins national competition

  • 344 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

  • 345 A lost Bideford 'island'

  • 346 Sooty is quick on the draw

  • 347 Water Board mains spread through villages

  • 348 Jumble sale fever

  • 349 Fleet of foot and fair of face

  • 350 Designed all furnishing of new chapel

  • 351 Gloves fit for a king!

  • 352 Hartland Dancers
  • 353 Picking the pops

  • 354 Broomhayes children will keep their winter pet

  • 355 Fish nearly pulled him in

  • 356 In their new robes and hats

  • 357 New look in the hayfields

  • 358 Bideford Zoo's first baby is big draw

  • 359

    First Girls at Bideford Grammar School take part in Play
  • 360 Bideford blacksmith wins English championship

  • 361 Peter poses for TV film

  • 362 Huntshaw TV mast

  • 363 Unique holiday adventure!

  • 364 What the television camera saw at Abbotsham

  • 365 No laughing matter

  • 366 Born 1883 - still going strong

  • 367 Yeoi Vale House finally demolished

  • 368 Tibbles home again - and fish supper

  • 369 Champagne send-off for Torrington new factory

  • 370 A roof-top view - where?

  • 371 Bideford's private wharves busier

  • 372 Puzzle corner at Bideford!

  • 373 Modern living at Bideford

  • 374 Buckland farm workers to receive long-service awards

  • 375

    Exhibition of school work
  • 376 Bideford School Junior Choir Sing in France at Twinning Ceremony in Landivisiau
  • 377 Bideford has built over 500 post-war homes

  • 378 Torrington in 1967

  • 379 Shipbuilding hobby at Hartland

  • 380 The Geneva marionettes

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

  • 382 Liked holidays here - so starts business

  • 383 Artisans' Club

  • 384 Escaped crane moves into Kenwith Valley

  • 385 Tramps camp by riverside throughout arctic weather

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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  • 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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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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World War 1

Lost and Found

7.9.1918 lost and found

Will the Lady who took the wrong umbrella by mistake from the Quay Cafe, Bideford, on Tuesday last, kindly return it for her own.

Lost, August 24-25, from a field in the Abbotsham Road, a NOTT EWE SHEEP, dipped deep red, marked letter P, also green paint on head;
all reasonable expenses paid - Eastmans, Ltd., Butchers, Bideford

World War 1

Bideford Magistrates Warning

25.8.1918 Westward Ho Wise

At Bideford County Sessions on Tuesday, before Mr C S Carnegie, Col Bennett and Messrs J C T Heriz-Smith, A G Duncan, J Cock, W Harris and S Fulford, Olive Wise, daughter of a lodging-house keeper, of Kingsley Terrace, Westward Ho! was summoned for not obscuring a light visible from the sea on 2nd May. PC Ley spoke to seeing a very bright light coming from a window at 9.50pm. Defendant admitted having forgotten to draw the blind, and when he said he said he should report it she said there were things he ought to report but didn’t.
Her mother said if they were summoned they could afford to pay the fine, and shut the door in his face. The Chairman called defendant’s attention to the fact that considering the position of the coast it was a very serious offence.
The fine could be £100 but under the circumstances the Magistrates ordered the payment of one guinea.
Gazette article dated 25 August 1918

World War 1

Instow

20.8.1918 Instow

Corporal Edward Wm Yeo, RAMC, a son of Mr and Mrs H Yeo, of Instow, has been promoted to the rank of sergeant. The award is fully deserved, for not only is Corpl. Yeo a most efficient and painstaking non-com., but he has seen three years most arduous service. He went through the landing at Gallopoli and the subsequent operations on the peninsula, next took part in the retreat in Serbia, afterwards doing duty in Egypt, Macedonia and Palestine, being still in the latter country. Sergt Yeo has three brothers with the forces and a fourth is working on aircraft.
Gazette article dated 20 August 1918

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