• 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 Larkworthy Family play in Shebbear's Football Team
  • 2 The creative urge on Saturday morning

  • 3 Circus comes to town

  • 4 Chess - their bridge over the years

  • 5 No ancient Grecian temple this

  • 6 New life for Hartland organ

  • 7 Wishing well is pixielated

  • 8 Fleet of foot and fair of face

  • 9 Bideford regatta

  • 10 Ancestral home nestling in lovely combe

  • 11 Pet squirrels at Monkleigh

  • 12 Artisans' Club

  • 13 They never miss a game at Torrington

  • 14 Broomhayes children will keep their winter pet

  • 15 Bideford Liberals' fashion show

  • 16 Fundraising trip for RNLI

  • 17 Northam footballers of the future

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

  • 19 New Post Office

  • 20 Bideford schoolboy's courage recognised

  • 21 Last of Bideford factory chimney

  • 22 Bideford's new market opens next week

  • 23 Torrington in 1967

  • 24 Wine and beer merchants for 150 years

  • 25 A roof-top view - where?

  • 26 Meredith's ironmongers

  • 27 No ancient Grecian temple this

  • 28 Shipbuilding hobby at Hartland

  • 29 Some mushroom!

  • 30 Eleven million pound scheme's official opening

  • 31 New Lundy stamps

  • 32 Photo mural in Bideford bank

  • 33

    Appledore boys beat mums at football
  • 34 Weare Giffard Hall sold for £11,300

  • 35 Quads at Thornhillhead

  • 36 Can spring be far away?

  • 37 Thrush builds nest in cauliflower

  • 38 Gift plaque on Clovelly council houses

  • 39 Westward Ho! public conveniences get go ahead
  • 40 Bideford skifflers, they're no squares

  • 41 Clovelly's 91 year old horseman

  • 42 Yelland potter's exhibition at Bideford

  • 43 Salmon netting at Bideford

  • 44 No sale of Springfield House

  • 45

    Holidaying in north Devon
  • 46 Quads join a Langtree happy family

  • 47 Rowing triumphs at Bideford

  • 48

    School of Dancing's Annual Display
  • 49 Teenager Peter Jackson Makes Horror Film
  • 50 Making way for the double-deckers

  • 51 Burnard family reunion

  • 52 Hartland's invitation

  • 53 Success to Festival of the Arts

  • 54 'Out of Appledore' sailing memories

  • 55 Works at craft he learned over 65 years ago

  • 56 Jumble sale fever

  • 57 First steel ship built at Bideford

  • 58 Fishermen of Greencliff

  • 59 Designed and made in Bideford

  • 60 'Les Girls' of Hartland

  • 61

    First prize
  • 62 Largest salmon caught in Torridge

  • 63

    Close associations with North Devon
  • 64 Celebrations for 103rd birthday

  • 65 A craftsman's 'potted' history

  • 66

    Womens Skittles Competition in Buckland Brewer
  • 67 Bideford has built over 500 post-war homes

  • 68 Bideford's first triplets for 12 years

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

  • 70 Torrington acclaims 400th anniversary of granting of charter

  • 71 Harvest service in Bideford 'pub' bar

  • 72 Sweet success at Langtree School

  • 73 Second Monte Carlo Rally

  • 74 Bideford Zoo's first baby is big draw

  • 75

    Toasted with musical honours
  • 76 Cruising down the river

  • 77 Riverside mystery

  • 78 Happy Days!

  • 79 Symbol of Lundy independence

  • 80 Centenary of Landcross Methodist Chapel

  • 81 North Devon author featured in TV documentary

  • 82 Pannier Market's future?

  • 83 Big develolpment at Calveford

  • 84 Sooty is quick on the draw

  • 85 Allhalland Street - then and now

  • 86 Revived market off to splendid start

  • 87 A sense of humour in advertising

  • 88 Landmark at Bradworthy

  • 89 Pretty pennies at Beaford

  • 90 New Estate's view of estuary activities

  • 91 New look for Torrington Lane

  • 92 Launching the 'Golden Hinde'

  • 93

    Hamburger is part of modern life
  • 94 A story to tell!

  • 95 Appledore's largest

  • 96

    Mrs Whapham finds ferret in Bridgeland Street while shopping
  • 97 Speeding communications: Bideford firm's new installation

  • 98 Revenge in style

  • 99 Designed all furnishing of new chapel

  • 100 Life begins at 80

  • 101 Passing of a Torrington landmark

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

  • 103

    Mums protest in Coronation Road
  • 104 He beat the floods

  • 105 Ten year old scrambler

  • 106 Westward Ho! combined op

  • 107 Puppet characters introduced

  • 108 Championship Trophy for Hartland
  • 109 Appledore tugs fete London Tower

  • 110 Some 240 exhibits

  • 111 Photo of town's first car wins prize

  • 112 First ship in 8 years

  • 113 113 years at Instow

  • 114 The Geneva marionettes

  • 115 Signed scroll momento of Queen Mother's visit

  • 116 Parkham plan realised

  • 117 Littleham family's five generations

  • 118 Holiday traffic in Bideford High Street

  • 119 Warmington's garage ad

  • 120

    Wynne Olley's styles impress International Hair Fashion Designer
  • 121 Torrington's enterprise's new extensions

  • 122 Six footed lamb

  • 123 Private home for public pump

  • 124 Eight and a half million pound Taw development scheme

  • 125 Tibbles home again - and fish supper

  • 126 Record pebble-throwing day

  • 127 X-ray shoe fitting

  • 128 Train returns to Westleigh straight

  • 129 Still hunting aged 80 and a Field Master

  • 130 Sunshine and shade at Appledore

  • 131 Council agree to demolition of Chanter's Folly

  • 132

    Double Baptism on Torridge
  • 133 Liked holidays here - so starts business

  • 134 Beach search for mines takes longer

  • 135 Appledore's new lifeboat

  • 136 By pony and trap to market

  • 137 Out of puff!

  • 138 Sight of a lifetime

  • 139 Tramps camp by riverside throughout arctic weather

  • 140 One thousand visit zoo at Whitsun

  • 141 New Lundy air-mail stamps

  • 142 Broomhayes £1,000 Surprise
  • 143 Donkey work made easier at Clovelly

  • 144 Do recall the old windmill at Northam?

  • 145 Instow local art show was 'tremendous success'

  • 146 Escaped crane moves into Kenwith Valley

  • 147 Emergency ferry services

  • 148 Space dominates Hartland carnival

  • 149 Twenty-one yachts

  • 150 Torrington's new amenity

  • 151 Gloves fit for a king!

  • 152 On her 'maiden' trip from Bideford

  • 153 An early 'special' to Bideford

  • 154 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

  • 155 New shipyard on schedule

  • 156 Peter poses for TV film

  • 157

    Andre Veillett and Quentin Reed in Judo Demonstration
  • 158 Centuries old but today busier than ever

  • 159 Bideford A.F.C annual dinner
  • 160 Bideford School Junior Choir Sing in France at Twinning Ceremony in Landivisiau
  • 161

    Youth Clubs Join Together For Entertainment
  • 162 Northam loses thatched cottage landmark

  • 163

    Gus Honeybun meets local children
  • 164 Holiday scene near Sandymere

  • 165

    First Girls at Bideford Grammar School take part in Play
  • 166 Penny for the guy

  • 167

    Successful motor cycling team
  • 168

    Gift from Bideford Town Council
  • 169 Thunderstorm destruction of 25 years ago

  • 170 River scenes that enchant the visitors

  • 171 Bideford stock car racing entry comes in second

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

  • 173 Homage to a well-loved sovereign

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

  • 175 Bideford firm develops new non-spill paint

  • 176 So this is the mainland!

  • 177 Littleham cow tops 70 tons mark in milk production

  • 178 Champagne send-off for Torrington new factory

  • 179 Repair work on Long Bridge
  • 180 New addition to Quay front

  • 181 Appledore boy is youngest recipient of RNLI vellun

  • 182 Spring-cleaning the Ridge

  • 183 Dismantling of wireless mast

  • 184 Picture bought for shillings may be worth thousands

  • 185

    Married in 1908
  • 186 Bicycle now does donkey work

  • 187 Inscribed Bibles and silver spoons for babies

  • 188 Northam wants to continue pumping from river

  • 189 Buckland goes to County Show

  • 190 Practical sympathy at Northam

  • 191 Weare Giffard potato

  • 192 Tide sweeps under and over the old bridge

  • 193 Centenary of Gazette

  • 194 Four hundred residents leave Bideford!

  • 195 Boys win hockey on the sands challenge

  • 196 Torrington school's sundial - fashioned by Headmaster

  • 197 Picking the pops

  • 198 New gateway to King George's Fields

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

  • 200 Lady Godiva comes to Torrington

  • 201 Safe door weighing two tons

  • 202

    Cadets are given certificates
  • 203

    Jinxed School Trip
  • 204 Calf thinks of mare as mum

  • 205 Jalopy joy for children of Shamwickshire

  • 206 Torridge wins on time schedule

  • 207 In the tortoise nursery - eight hatched at Bideford

  • 208 New look in the hayfields

  • 209 Head Barman appointed Torrington Town Crier
  • 210 Mural in the whimsical fashion

  • 211 Charter granted by Philip and Mary

  • 212 Bideford shipyard workers cheer new minesweeper

  • 213 Clovelly donkey film star

  • 214 What's the time?

  • 215 New fire and ambulance stations

  • 216 School crossing patrol begins

  • 217 Mobile missionary

  • 218 Bideford inquest on French trawlermen opens

  • 219 A bird of their own!

  • 220 Unique holiday adventure!

  • 221 Bideford country dancers on TV

  • 222 TV features Bideford's New Year bread ceremony

  • 223 Simple Item 138
  • 224 Saving money, wear and tear

  • 225 Birds' convalescent home at Instow

  • 226 Westward Ho! sand yacht to challenge speed record

  • 227 Five generations link Woolsery, Clovelly and Bideford

  • 228 End of the line

  • 229 Torrington to have first woman mayor

  • 230 Torridge graveyard of wooden hulks

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

  • 232 New civic medallions

  • 233 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

  • 234 Vessel built 300 feet above sea level

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

  • 236

    Reds Womens Team Are First To Compete Throughout Season
  • 237 Panel sprint for Bideford broadcast

  • 238 Lady Churchill congratulates Bideford artists at nursing exhibition

  • 239 Light reading for the lighthouse

  • 240 Television comes to Torridge District

  • 241 Devil sent packing

  • 242 Down at the 'Donkey House'

  • 243 Brothers reunion 1947
  • 244 Waldon Triplets
  • 245 Calligrapher extraordinary

  • 246 Bideford childrens' cinema opens

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

  • 248 Olympic riders to compete at Bideford Horse Show

  • 249 Bideford Liberal club new lounge bar opened

  • 250 Town's second woman mayor in 392 years

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    Inter-school Road Safety Quiz Cup Winners
  • 252 Getting up steam for tomorrow

  • 253 Bravery against bull at Shebbear rewarded

  • 254 Bideford's private wharves busier

  • 255 Last train from Torrington

  • 256 Bideford's gift to Sir Francis

  • 257 Watch the dicky bird!

  • 258 Old Girls revisit Edgehill

  • 259 Cement-clad boats being built at Northam

  • 260 Battle of the gap at Westward Ho!

  • 261 Traditions and skills still there

  • 262 Bideford triplets' first birthday party

  • 263 It really was the 'last time'

  • 264 Death - and birth - of a telephone exchange

  • 265 Bridging the stream

  • 266 Torrington Youth Club rewarded by party
  • 267 Baby Kate goes home to Lundy

  • 268 Yeoi Vale House finally demolished

  • 269 America's tribute to 'J.H.'

  • 270 First tankers arrive at new depot

  • 271 Recognise this resort?

  • 272 Picking the pops

  • 273 Thirty bridges cross Torridge

  • 274 TV contest means big job for Bideford Guides

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    Lenwood Squash Club
  • 276 Four sisters' nostalgic reunion

  • 277 Tomorrow' night's skittles broadcast from Bideford

  • 278 Born 1883 - still going strong

  • 279 Yeo vale road ruin provides a mystery

  • 280 Childrens' model of Torrington

  • 281 Fish nearly pulled him in

  • 282 Buckland farm workers to receive long-service awards

  • 283 Up-to-date Bideford!

  • 284 Bideford-Torrington road gets 'carpet coat'

  • 285 Appledore schooner broadcast

  • 286 Bideford blacksmith wins English championship

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

  • 288 Puzzle corner at Bideford!

  • 289 When horses score over the tractor

  • 290 Service with a smile

  • 291 Variety in summer weather

  • 292 Alderman Anstey's dream comes tru

  • 293 School's link with cargo ship

  • 294 Eleventh hour bid to save last sailing barge

  • 295 What the television camera saw at Abbotsham

  • 296

    Was a missionary
  • 297

    Birgitta Whittaker
  • 298 Future of Torrington almshouses

  • 299 Record player of 80 years ago

  • 300

    Relatives all over the world
  • 301 The art of the thatcher

  • 302 All for the love of a lady!

  • 303 Preparations for new Clovelly Court

  • 304 North Devon Driving School

  • 305

    Building works
  • 306 Bideford computer stars

  • 307 Children's procession with foxgloves

  • 308 Farewell to passenger trains

  • 309

    FA Cup Match for the Robins
  • 310 Ships at Bideford

  • 311 Bank Holiday weather was beach weather

  • 312 Bringing shopping home by goat

  • 313 Steep street of old Bideford

  • 314 Westward Ho! Tennis Club Winners
  • 315 Hartland postman retires

  • 316 Church renovation rejoicing at Northam

  • 317 Panto time at Westward Ho!

  • 318 Eight to strike and a race to win

  • 319 Water Board mains spread through villages

  • 320 Appledore Juniors Football
  • 321 What is future of railway goods yard?

  • 322 Joe the ginger tabby is 21

  • 323 Colour TV salesman at eight

  • 324 John Andrew Bread Charity
  • 325 No laughing matter

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

  • 327 Northam's almshouse

  • 328 A lost Bideford 'island'

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    10-year-old scrambler practices
  • 330 Modern living at Bideford

  • 331 Decontrol of meat

  • 332 Donkey and horses enjoy carnival drink

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

  • 334 Spray dodging - the new pastime

  • 335 Just over a year old

  • 336 New choral society's growing response

  • 337 Thorn-apple found in Littleham conservatory

  • 338 In their new robes and hats

  • 339 Boys from Bideford school complete Ten Tors

  • 340 Students help model St Sidwell

  • 341 Faints as she wins national competition

  • 342 Can-carrying over cobbles has disappeared

  • 343 Hartland Dancers
  • 344 East-the-Water sets town an example

  • 345 Bideford loses training ship

  • 346 They are parted pro-tem

  • 347 Loads of black and white

  • 348 Lots drawn to prevent dog fight

  • 349 Ship-in-bottle world record

  • 350 Hartland Abbey outdoor staff 60 years ago

  • 351 They set out for Bideford and became lost

  • 352 Move for oldest boatyard on Torridge

  • 353 Torrington children build igloo
  • 354

    Exhibition of school work
  • 355 Clovelly custom

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

  • 357 Cavaliers join the Hunt
  • 358 Two kinds of hovercraft at Bideford

  • 359 Police station view of Bideford

  • 360 All aboard the ark

  • 361 Off on a great adventure

  • 362 New art gallery opened

  • 363 Bideford electricity window display qualifies for area competition

  • 364 Finished in 1876

  • 365 Wilfred and Mabel visit schools and hospital

  • 366 Clovelly nightmare

  • 367 Bideford Bridge re-opens

  • 368 Little 'Big Ben'

  • 369 Alwington School closing after 120 years

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    Bidefordians
  • 371 Entente cordiale in Bideford

  • 372 For crying out loud!

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    New gateway
  • 374 Daisy's pride and joy

  • 375 Barley from Bideford to Bonnie Scotland

  • 376 Smiling welcome to Hartland visitors

  • 377 Fishing light goes out at close of poor season

  • 378 Alverdiscott is proud of its new parish hall

  • 379 Torrington's shelter for the aged

  • 380 Huntshaw TV mast

  • 381 Polish custom on Pancake Day

  • 382 Shoes certainly not made for walking

  • 383 A Weare Giffard speciality - delicious strawberries

  • 384 A man and his wheel

  • 385 Capers on the cobbles

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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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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