• 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 When horses score over the tractor

  • 2 Bringing shopping home by goat

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    Building works
  • 4 Broomhayes children will keep their winter pet

  • 5 Fleet of foot and fair of face

  • 6 Teenager Peter Jackson Makes Horror Film
  • 7 Last train from Torrington

  • 8 Bideford Liberals' fashion show

  • 9 Television comes to Torridge District

  • 10 Twenty-one yachts

  • 11 Train returns to Westleigh straight

  • 12 Thorn-apple found in Littleham conservatory

  • 13 A story to tell!

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

  • 15

    Holidaying in north Devon
  • 16 Holiday scene near Sandymere

  • 17

    Reds Womens Team Are First To Compete Throughout Season
  • 18 They set out for Bideford and became lost

  • 19 Safe door weighing two tons

  • 20 Huntshaw TV mast

  • 21 Old Girls revisit Edgehill

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

  • 23 Entente cordiale in Bideford

  • 24 Puzzle corner at Bideford!

  • 25 Westward Ho! public conveniences get go ahead
  • 26 First steel ship built at Bideford

  • 27 Bideford-Torrington road gets 'carpet coat'

  • 28 Light reading for the lighthouse

  • 29 What's the time?

  • 30 Allhalland Street - then and now

  • 31 Boys win hockey on the sands challenge

  • 32 Torrington's shelter for the aged

  • 33 Thrush builds nest in cauliflower

  • 34 Five generations link Woolsery, Clovelly and Bideford

  • 35 Water Board mains spread through villages

  • 36 Homage to a well-loved sovereign

  • 37 Torrington acclaims 400th anniversary of granting of charter

  • 38 All for the love of a lady!

  • 39 Sunshine and shade at Appledore

  • 40 Bideford triplets' first birthday party

  • 41 No ancient Grecian temple this

  • 42 Cement-clad boats being built at Northam

  • 43 Mobile missionary

  • 44 Ten year old scrambler

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

  • 46 Finished in 1876

  • 47 Chess - their bridge over the years

  • 48 Northam loses thatched cottage landmark

  • 49 Steep street of old Bideford

  • 50 Recognise this resort?

  • 51 Daisy's pride and joy

  • 52 Torrington to have first woman mayor

  • 53 Born 1883 - still going strong

  • 54 Calligrapher extraordinary

  • 55 Yeoi Vale House finally demolished

  • 56 Bideford has built over 500 post-war homes

  • 57 Westward Ho! Tennis Club Winners
  • 58

    10-year-old scrambler practices
  • 59 Just over a year old

  • 60 Harvest service in Bideford 'pub' bar

  • 61 Yeo vale road ruin provides a mystery

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

  • 63 Practical sympathy at Northam

  • 64

    Inter-school Road Safety Quiz Cup Winners
  • 65

    Was a missionary
  • 66 Westward Ho! sand yacht to challenge speed record

  • 67 Speeding communications: Bideford firm's new installation

  • 68 Bicycle now does donkey work

  • 69 Police station view of Bideford

  • 70 Lady Churchill congratulates Bideford artists at nursing exhibition

  • 71 Bideford's new market opens next week

  • 72 Battle of the gap at Westward Ho!

  • 73 For crying out loud!

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

  • 75 New addition to Quay front

  • 76 The creative urge on Saturday morning

  • 77 Can-carrying over cobbles has disappeared

  • 78 A lost Bideford 'island'

  • 79

    Cadets are given certificates
  • 80 Panto time at Westward Ho!

  • 81 Wilfred and Mabel visit schools and hospital

  • 82 New Post Office

  • 83 Spring-cleaning the Ridge

  • 84 Lots drawn to prevent dog fight

  • 85 Wishing well is pixielated

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

  • 87 Clovelly custom

  • 88 Northam's almshouse

  • 89 Bideford loses training ship

  • 90 Polish custom on Pancake Day

  • 91 Shipbuilding hobby at Hartland

  • 92 Bideford electricity window display qualifies for area competition

  • 93

    Womens Skittles Competition in Buckland Brewer
  • 94 X-ray shoe fitting

  • 95 Watch the dicky bird!

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

  • 97 Off on a great adventure

  • 98 Simple Item 138
  • 99

    Married in 1908
  • 100 Malibou boys are all-the-year-round surfers

  • 101 Two kinds of hovercraft at Bideford

  • 102 Northam wants to continue pumping from river

  • 103 New Estate's view of estuary activities

  • 104 Four sisters' nostalgic reunion

  • 105 Salmon netting at Bideford

  • 106 Champagne send-off for Torrington new factory

  • 107 113 years at Instow

  • 108 Some 240 exhibits

  • 109 Hartland's invitation

  • 110 Alderman Anstey's dream comes tru

  • 111 Bideford's gift to Sir Francis

  • 112 Works at craft he learned over 65 years ago

  • 113

    Relatives all over the world
  • 114 Fishermen of Greencliff

  • 115 Tramps camp by riverside throughout arctic weather

  • 116 Largest salmon caught in Torridge

  • 117 Wine and beer merchants for 150 years

  • 118 Mural in the whimsical fashion

  • 119 Four hundred residents leave Bideford!

  • 120 Clovelly nightmare

  • 121 Bideford firm develops new non-spill paint

  • 122 An early 'special' to Bideford

  • 123 Calf thinks of mare as mum

  • 124 Buckland goes to County Show

  • 125 Success to Festival of the Arts

  • 126 Some mushroom!

  • 127 One thousand visit zoo at Whitsun

  • 128

    Appledore boys beat mums at football
  • 129 Appledore Juniors Football
  • 130

    Mrs Whapham finds ferret in Bridgeland Street while shopping
  • 131 River scenes that enchant the visitors

  • 132 Parkham plan realised

  • 133 North Devon author featured in TV documentary

  • 134 Clovelly's 91 year old horseman

  • 135

    FA Cup Match for the Robins
  • 136 Hartland postman retires

  • 137 All aboard the ark

  • 138

    First prize
  • 139 Bideford shipyard workers cheer new minesweeper

  • 140 Still hunting aged 80 and a Field Master

  • 141 Making way for the double-deckers

  • 142 No laughing matter

  • 143 First ship in 8 years

  • 144

    Exhibition of school work
  • 145 Farewell to passenger trains

  • 146 Lady Godiva comes to Torrington

  • 147 Revenge in style

  • 148 Charter granted by Philip and Mary

  • 149 Buckland farm workers to receive long-service awards

  • 150 Tibbles home again - and fish supper

  • 151 A Weare Giffard speciality - delicious strawberries

  • 152 Northam footballers of the future

  • 153 Peter poses for TV film

  • 154 Littleham family's five generations

  • 155 Fishing light goes out at close of poor season

  • 156 What is future of railway goods yard?

  • 157 Fish nearly pulled him in

  • 158 Torrington in 1967

  • 159 New look in the hayfields

  • 160 Quads at Thornhillhead

  • 161 Childrens' model of Torrington

  • 162 Torrington school's sundial - fashioned by Headmaster

  • 163 Town's second woman mayor in 392 years

  • 164 Ship-in-bottle world record

  • 165 Bridging the stream

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

  • 167 End of the line

  • 168 Torridge graveyard of wooden hulks

  • 169

    Double Baptism on Torridge
  • 170 Head Barman appointed Torrington Town Crier
  • 171 Can spring be far away?

  • 172 Torridge wins on time schedule

  • 173 On her 'maiden' trip from Bideford

  • 174 Baby Kate goes home to Lundy

  • 175 School crossing patrol begins

  • 176 Life begins at 80

  • 177 Bideford's private wharves busier

  • 178 Smiling welcome to Hartland visitors

  • 179 Joe the ginger tabby is 21

  • 180 Eleven million pound scheme's official opening

  • 181 Bravery against bull at Shebbear rewarded

  • 182 The art of the thatcher

  • 183 Out of puff!

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

  • 185 Capers on the cobbles

  • 186 Celebrations for 103rd birthday

  • 187 Passing of a Torrington landmark

  • 188 Bideford stock car racing entry comes in second

  • 189 Sweet success at Langtree School

  • 190 'Les Girls' of Hartland

  • 191 Beach search for mines takes longer

  • 192

    Hamburger is part of modern life
  • 193 Record player of 80 years ago

  • 194

    Birgitta Whittaker
  • 195 Picking the pops

  • 196 Eleventh hour bid to save last sailing barge

  • 197 Brothers reunion 1947
  • 198

    Toasted with musical honours
  • 199 East-the-Water sets town an example

  • 200 Riverside mystery

  • 201 Cruising down the river

  • 202 Broomhayes £1,000 Surprise
  • 203 Penny for the guy

  • 204 Inscribed Bibles and silver spoons for babies

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

  • 206 Puppet characters introduced

  • 207 Olympic riders to compete at Bideford Horse Show

  • 208 New fire and ambulance stations

  • 209 Little 'Big Ben'

  • 210 Future of Torrington almshouses

  • 211 New choral society's growing response

  • 212

    Gift from Bideford Town Council
  • 213 Bideford childrens' cinema opens

  • 214 Loads of black and white

  • 215

    New gateway
  • 216 Council agree to demolition of Chanter's Folly

  • 217 New Lundy stamps

  • 218 Torrington Youth Club rewarded by party
  • 219 Bideford regatta

  • 220

    School of Dancing's Annual Display
  • 221 Panel sprint for Bideford broadcast

  • 222

    Lenwood Squash Club
  • 223 Instow local art show was 'tremendous success'

  • 224 Thirty bridges cross Torridge

  • 225 No ancient Grecian temple this

  • 226 Designed and made in Bideford

  • 227 Appledore's new lifeboat

  • 228 A bird of their own!

  • 229 TV contest means big job for Bideford Guides

  • 230 Birds' convalescent home at Instow

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

  • 232 Pet squirrels at Monkleigh

  • 233 Sooty is quick on the draw

  • 234 Record pebble-throwing day

  • 235 Ancestral home nestling in lovely combe

  • 236 Six footed lamb

  • 237

    Andre Veillett and Quentin Reed in Judo Demonstration
  • 238 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

  • 239 Bideford country dancers on TV

  • 240 New life for Hartland organ

  • 241 America's tribute to 'J.H.'

  • 242

    Gus Honeybun meets local children
  • 243 A craftsman's 'potted' history

  • 244

    Wynne Olley's styles impress International Hair Fashion Designer
  • 245 They are parted pro-tem

  • 246 Children's procession with foxgloves

  • 247 Donkey and horses enjoy carnival drink

  • 248 Holiday traffic in Bideford High Street

  • 249 Repair work on Long Bridge
  • 250 Bank Holiday weather was beach weather

  • 251 Bideford Bridge re-opens

  • 252 John Andrew Bread Charity
  • 253 Emergency ferry services

  • 254 Appledore schooner broadcast

  • 255 Bideford inquest on French trawlermen opens

  • 256 Eight and a half million pound Taw development scheme

  • 257 Tide sweeps under and over the old bridge

  • 258 Alverdiscott is proud of its new parish hall

  • 259 Bideford skifflers, they're no squares

  • 260 Getting up steam for tomorrow

  • 261 Rowing triumphs at Bideford

  • 262 Donkey work made easier at Clovelly

  • 263 Bideford computer stars

  • 264 Up-to-date Bideford!

  • 265 Eight to strike and a race to win

  • 266 Gloves fit for a king!

  • 267 Happy Days!

  • 268 Devil sent packing

  • 269 New shipyard on schedule

  • 270

    Youth Clubs Join Together For Entertainment
  • 271 Faints as she wins national competition

  • 272 Symbol of Lundy independence

  • 273 TV features Bideford's New Year bread ceremony

  • 274 Bideford blacksmith wins English championship

  • 275 Service with a smile

  • 276 Revived market off to splendid start

  • 277 Westward Ho! combined op

  • 278 School's link with cargo ship

  • 279 Championship Trophy for Hartland
  • 280 Waldon Triplets
  • 281 Unique holiday adventure!

  • 282 Bideford Zoo's first baby is big draw

  • 283 Do recall the old windmill at Northam?

  • 284 Landmark at Bradworthy

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

  • 286 Bideford School Junior Choir Sing in France at Twinning Ceremony in Landivisiau
  • 287 Launching the 'Golden Hinde'

  • 288 First tankers arrive at new depot

  • 289 Designed all furnishing of new chapel

  • 290 A roof-top view - where?

  • 291 Colour TV salesman at eight

  • 292 Church renovation rejoicing at Northam

  • 293 A sense of humour in advertising

  • 294 New gateway to King George's Fields

  • 295 Decontrol of meat

  • 296 Hartland Dancers
  • 297 Weare Giffard Hall sold for £11,300

  • 298 Boys from Bideford school complete Ten Tors

  • 299 Signed scroll momento of Queen Mother's visit

  • 300 'Out of Appledore' sailing memories

  • 301 Torrington children build igloo
  • 302 Move for oldest boatyard on Torridge

  • 303 They never miss a game at Torrington

  • 304 No sale of Springfield House

  • 305 Torrington's enterprise's new extensions

  • 306 Vessel built 300 feet above sea level

  • 307 Thunderstorm destruction of 25 years ago

  • 308 Fundraising trip for RNLI

  • 309 Space dominates Hartland carnival

  • 310 New art gallery opened

  • 311 He beat the floods

  • 312 Artisans' Club

  • 313 The Geneva marionettes

  • 314 Burnard family reunion

  • 315 In their new robes and hats

  • 316 Cavaliers join the Hunt
  • 317 Jumble sale fever

  • 318 Pretty pennies at Beaford

  • 319 New civic medallions

  • 320 Liked holidays here - so starts business

  • 321 Photo of town's first car wins prize

  • 322 Littleham cow tops 70 tons mark in milk production

  • 323 Pannier Market's future?

  • 324 Weare Giffard potato

  • 325 Alwington School closing after 120 years

  • 326 New look for Torrington Lane

  • 327 Picture bought for shillings may be worth thousands

  • 328 Sight of a lifetime

  • 329 Modern living at Bideford

  • 330 Spray dodging - the new pastime

  • 331 Gift plaque on Clovelly council houses

  • 332

    Bidefordians
  • 333 Tomorrow' night's skittles broadcast from Bideford

  • 334 Hartland Abbey outdoor staff 60 years ago

  • 335 Picking the pops

  • 336 Private home for public pump

  • 337 Photo mural in Bideford bank

  • 338 It really was the 'last time'

  • 339 North Devon Driving School

  • 340 Dismantling of wireless mast

  • 341 Escaped crane moves into Kenwith Valley

  • 342 So this is the mainland!

  • 343 Jalopy joy for children of Shamwickshire

  • 344 Quads join a Langtree happy family

  • 345 Bideford Liberal club new lounge bar opened

  • 346 Death - and birth - of a telephone exchange

  • 347

    Successful motor cycling team
  • 348 New Lundy air-mail stamps

  • 349 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

  • 350

    Close associations with North Devon
  • 351 By pony and trap to market

  • 352 Big develolpment at Calveford

  • 353 Traditions and skills still there

  • 354

    Jinxed School Trip
  • 355 What the television camera saw at Abbotsham

  • 356 Torrington's new amenity

  • 357 Bideford schoolboy's courage recognised

  • 358 Variety in summer weather

  • 359 Appledore tugs fete London Tower

  • 360 Shoes certainly not made for walking

  • 361 Ships at Bideford

  • 362 Down at the 'Donkey House'

  • 363 Second Monte Carlo Rally

  • 364 Centenary of Gazette

  • 365 Centenary of Landcross Methodist Chapel

  • 366 Preparations for new Clovelly Court

  • 367 Bideford A.F.C annual dinner
  • 368 A man and his wheel

  • 369 Warmington's garage ad

  • 370 Larkworthy Family play in Shebbear's Football Team
  • 371 Centuries old but today busier than ever

  • 372 Bideford's first triplets for 12 years

  • 373

    First Girls at Bideford Grammar School take part in Play
  • 374 Last of Bideford factory chimney

  • 375 In the tortoise nursery - eight hatched at Bideford

  • 376 Students help model St Sidwell

  • 377 Saving money, wear and tear

  • 378 Circus comes to town

  • 379 Clovelly donkey film star

  • 380 Yelland potter's exhibition at Bideford

  • 381 Meredith's ironmongers

  • 382 Appledore's largest

  • 383

    Mums protest in Coronation Road
  • 384 Barley from Bideford to Bonnie Scotland

  • 385 Appledore boy is youngest recipient of RNLI vellun

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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The Parsonage House

Buckland Brewer,

for sale by public auction on Friday 30 May, 1975 at The Queen's Hall, Barnstaple.

April 1975 Buckland Brewer Parsonage House for sale

Gazette article dated April 1975

Monkleigh House for sale

Outstanding Period Residence

March 1975 Monkleigh House for sale

March 1975

Renovation of Cottages Could Cost £21,000

Three derelict cottages

which cost only hundreds of pounds to build could cost £21,000 to restore. 

7.2.1975 Bideford renovation of cottages

The cottages – they are in North Road, Bideford – cannot be demolished because they are scheduled as being of special architectural or historic interest.

The land sub-committee of the Policy and Resources Committee of Torridge District Council, who own the houses, are to tell the Department of the Environment who scheduled the property about the situation and ask for a grant. The council had advertised for suggestions about the houses and had been contacted by a Mrs Charles Acton Bond, of Manotick, Ontario, Canada. She had written that she was interested in coming to live permanently in this country and was looking for a building to renovate.

Cllr Clifford suggested that if the council could delay until the property fell down, rear access could be provided to properties in the Strand.

7 February 1975

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