• 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 Bideford computer stars

  • 2 New Lundy stamps

  • 3 X-ray shoe fitting

  • 4 Buckland goes to County Show

  • 5 A man and his wheel

  • 6 They never miss a game at Torrington

  • 7 Hartland postman retires

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    Inter-school Road Safety Quiz Cup Winners
  • 9 Eight and a half million pound Taw development scheme

  • 10 Ships at Bideford

  • 11 Works at craft he learned over 65 years ago

  • 12 Thirty bridges cross Torridge

  • 13 Panel sprint for Bideford broadcast

  • 14 Entente cordiale in Bideford

  • 15 Bideford's first triplets for 12 years

  • 16 Champagne send-off for Torrington new factory

  • 17 Symbol of Lundy independence

  • 18 New look in the hayfields

  • 19 Escaped crane moves into Kenwith Valley

  • 20 New Post Office

  • 21 Bideford triplets' first birthday party

  • 22 Revived market off to splendid start

  • 23 Bideford regatta

  • 24 Westward Ho! Tennis Club Winners
  • 25 Meredith's ironmongers

  • 26 Joe the ginger tabby is 21

  • 27 He beat the floods

  • 28

    Youth Clubs Join Together For Entertainment
  • 29 To build racing cars in former blacksmith's shop

  • 30 What's the time?

  • 31 Celebrations for 103rd birthday

  • 32 Huntshaw TV mast

  • 33 Homage to a well-loved sovereign

  • 34 Death - and birth - of a telephone exchange

  • 35 Donkey and horses enjoy carnival drink

  • 36 Last train from Torrington

  • 37 Westward Ho! sand yacht to challenge speed record

  • 38

    Wynne Olley's styles impress International Hair Fashion Designer
  • 39 Torrington's new amenity

  • 40 Born 1883 - still going strong

  • 41 Picking the pops

  • 42 So this is the mainland!

  • 43 Peter poses for TV film

  • 44 Charter granted by Philip and Mary

  • 45 Emergency ferry services

  • 46 Four sisters' nostalgic reunion

  • 47 Fundraising trip for RNLI

  • 48 Space dominates Hartland carnival

  • 49 America's tribute to 'J.H.'

  • 50 Variety in summer weather

  • 51 Revenge in style

  • 52 'Out of Appledore' sailing memories

  • 53 Parkham plan realised

  • 54 Yeoi Vale House finally demolished

  • 55

    Birgitta Whittaker
  • 56 Cavaliers join the Hunt
  • 57 Instow local art show was 'tremendous success'

  • 58

    Double Baptism on Torridge
  • 59 Torrington school's sundial - fashioned by Headmaster

  • 60 Big develolpment at Calveford

  • 61 Council agree to demolition of Chanter's Folly

  • 62 Shipbuilding hobby at Hartland

  • 63 Eleventh hour bid to save last sailing barge

  • 64 Thorn-apple found in Littleham conservatory

  • 65 Pet squirrels at Monkleigh

  • 66 Broomhayes £1,000 Surprise
  • 67 Artisans' Club

  • 68 Weare Giffard potato

  • 69 Gloves fit for a king!

  • 70 TV features Bideford's New Year bread ceremony

  • 71 North Devon Driving School

  • 72

    First Girls at Bideford Grammar School take part in Play
  • 73 Devil sent packing

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

  • 75 Water Board mains spread through villages

  • 76 TV contest means big job for Bideford Guides

  • 77 Northam wants to continue pumping from river

  • 78 Two kinds of hovercraft at Bideford

  • 79 Bideford's new market opens next week

  • 80 Northam's almshouse

  • 81

    Gus Honeybun meets local children
  • 82 Bideford's private wharves busier

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

  • 84 A sense of humour in advertising

  • 85 Cement-clad boats being built at Northam

  • 86 Jumble sale fever

  • 87 Up-to-date Bideford!

  • 88 Sight of a lifetime

  • 89 Appledore's largest

  • 90

    Married in 1908
  • 91 Thunderstorm destruction of 25 years ago

  • 92 New civic medallions

  • 93 Designed all furnishing of new chapel

  • 94 An early 'special' to Bideford

  • 95 Allhalland Street - then and now

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

  • 97 Hartland's invitation

  • 98 Circus comes to town

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

  • 100 Eight to strike and a race to win

  • 101 Bideford skifflers, they're no squares

  • 102 Gift plaque on Clovelly council houses

  • 103 Bideford Bridge re-opens

  • 104 Passing of a Torrington landmark

  • 105 Clovelly nightmare

  • 106 Larkworthy Family play in Shebbear's Football Team
  • 107 Beach search for mines takes longer

  • 108 Bravery against bull at Shebbear rewarded

  • 109

    Bidefordians
  • 110 North Devon author featured in TV documentary

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

  • 112 Designed and made in Bideford

  • 113 Waldon Triplets
  • 114 Getting up steam for tomorrow

  • 115

    School of Dancing's Annual Display
  • 116 New Estate's view of estuary activities

  • 117

    Appledore boys beat mums at football
  • 118 Record pebble-throwing day

  • 119 Making way for the double-deckers

  • 120 Decontrol of meat

  • 121 Cruising down the river

  • 122 Burnard family reunion

  • 123 The creative urge on Saturday morning

  • 124 Alderman Anstey's dream comes tru

  • 125 Mural in the whimsical fashion

  • 126 Bideford country dancers on TV

  • 127 New shipyard on schedule

  • 128 One thousand visit zoo at Whitsun

  • 129 Smiling welcome to Hartland visitors

  • 130 Yeo vale road ruin provides a mystery

  • 131 Centenary of Landcross Methodist Chapel

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

  • 133 Liked holidays here - so starts business

  • 134 Finished in 1876

  • 135 Pretty pennies at Beaford

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

  • 137 River scenes that enchant the visitors

  • 138

    Was a missionary
  • 139 Torridge wins on time schedule

  • 140

    10-year-old scrambler practices
  • 141 Appledore boy is youngest recipient of RNLI vellun

  • 142 A Weare Giffard speciality - delicious strawberries

  • 143 Appledore schooner broadcast

  • 144 Bideford childrens' cinema opens

  • 145 Daisy's pride and joy

  • 146 Head Barman appointed Torrington Town Crier
  • 147 Repair work on Long Bridge
  • 148 Bideford shipyard workers cheer new minesweeper

  • 149 Clovelly donkey film star

  • 150 John Andrew Bread Charity
  • 151 Recognise this resort?

  • 152 Battle of the gap at Westward Ho!

  • 153 Fleet of foot and fair of face

  • 154 Torrington to have first woman mayor

  • 155

    First prize
  • 156 Light reading for the lighthouse

  • 157 Wilfred and Mabel visit schools and hospital

  • 158 Clovelly custom

  • 159 The art of the thatcher

  • 160 Littleham cow tops 70 tons mark in milk production

  • 161 Brothers reunion 1947
  • 162 They are parted pro-tem

  • 163 Fish nearly pulled him in

  • 164

    Mrs Whapham finds ferret in Bridgeland Street while shopping
  • 165 Lots drawn to prevent dog fight

  • 166 Littleham family's five generations

  • 167 Quads at Thornhillhead

  • 168 Jalopy joy for children of Shamwickshire

  • 169 Championship Trophy for Hartland
  • 170 A story to tell!

  • 171

    Close associations with North Devon
  • 172 Calf thinks of mare as mum

  • 173 Simple Item 138
  • 174 Bideford electricity window display qualifies for area competition

  • 175

    Building works
  • 176 Puzzle corner at Bideford!

  • 177 Church renovation rejoicing at Northam

  • 178 Picture bought for shillings may be worth thousands

  • 179 New Lundy air-mail stamps

  • 180 New choral society's growing response

  • 181 Some 240 exhibits

  • 182 Appledore tugs fete London Tower

  • 183 School crossing patrol begins

  • 184 All aboard the ark

  • 185

    Womens Skittles Competition in Buckland Brewer
  • 186 Photo mural in Bideford bank

  • 187 'Les Girls' of Hartland

  • 188 Bideford-Torrington road gets 'carpet coat'

  • 189 Northam footballers of the future

  • 190

    Holidaying in north Devon
  • 191 Tide sweeps under and over the old bridge

  • 192 Birds' convalescent home at Instow

  • 193 Mobile missionary

  • 194 Police station view of Bideford

  • 195 Alverdiscott is proud of its new parish hall

  • 196 Hartland Abbey outdoor staff 60 years ago

  • 197 Farewell to passenger trains

  • 198 Faints as she wins national competition

  • 199 Can-carrying over cobbles has disappeared

  • 200 Polish custom on Pancake Day

  • 201 113 years at Instow

  • 202 Colour TV salesman at eight

  • 203 New look for Torrington Lane

  • 204 Wine and beer merchants for 150 years

  • 205

    Hamburger is part of modern life
  • 206 Four hundred residents leave Bideford!

  • 207 Boys from Bideford school complete Ten Tors

  • 208 For crying out loud!

  • 209 First tankers arrive at new depot

  • 210 Private home for public pump

  • 211 Pannier Market's future?

  • 212 Picking the pops

  • 213

    Andre Veillett and Quentin Reed in Judo Demonstration
  • 214 Bideford blacksmith wins English championship

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

  • 216 Puppet characters introduced

  • 217 Success to Festival of the Arts

  • 218 Some mushroom!

  • 219 School's link with cargo ship

  • 220 No ancient Grecian temple this

  • 221 Torrington's enterprise's new extensions

  • 222 Warmington's garage ad

  • 223 On her 'maiden' trip from Bideford

  • 224 Bideford Liberal club new lounge bar opened

  • 225 Alwington School closing after 120 years

  • 226 Childrens' model of Torrington

  • 227 A bird of their own!

  • 228 Students help model St Sidwell

  • 229 Sunshine and shade at Appledore

  • 230 Bideford's gift to Sir Francis

  • 231 End of the line

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    Reds Womens Team Are First To Compete Throughout Season
  • 233 Inscribed Bibles and silver spoons for babies

  • 234 In their new robes and hats

  • 235 No sale of Springfield House

  • 236 Off on a great adventure

  • 237 Do recall the old windmill at Northam?

  • 238 Eleven million pound scheme's official opening

  • 239 Vessel built 300 feet above sea level

  • 240 Town's second woman mayor in 392 years

  • 241 Sweet success at Langtree School

  • 242 Thrush builds nest in cauliflower

  • 243 Landmark at Bradworthy

  • 244

    Cadets are given certificates
  • 245 Dismantling of wireless mast

  • 246

    Lenwood Squash Club
  • 247 Rowing triumphs at Bideford

  • 248 Loads of black and white

  • 249 Tomorrow' night's skittles broadcast from Bideford

  • 250 Signed scroll momento of Queen Mother's visit

  • 251 Traditions and skills still there

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    New gateway
  • 253 Boys win hockey on the sands challenge

  • 254 Bideford schoolboy's courage recognised

  • 255

    Relatives all over the world
  • 256 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

  • 257 Saving money, wear and tear

  • 258 It really was the 'last time'

  • 259 Bideford Zoo's first baby is big draw

  • 260 Bicycle now does donkey work

  • 261 Practical sympathy at Northam

  • 262 Baby Kate goes home to Lundy

  • 263 Centenary of Gazette

  • 264 Train returns to Westleigh straight

  • 265 Lady Churchill congratulates Bideford artists at nursing exhibition

  • 266 Torrington's shelter for the aged

  • 267 Launching the 'Golden Hinde'

  • 268 Donkey work made easier at Clovelly

  • 269 Second Monte Carlo Rally

  • 270 All for the love of a lady!

  • 271

    Successful motor cycling team
  • 272 Shoes certainly not made for walking

  • 273 Penny for the guy

  • 274 Salmon netting at Bideford

  • 275 Old Girls revisit Edgehill

  • 276 New fire and ambulance stations

  • 277 Holiday scene near Sandymere

  • 278 Capers on the cobbles

  • 279 Teenager Peter Jackson Makes Horror Film
  • 280 Clovelly's 91 year old horseman

  • 281 Out of puff!

  • 282 Last of Bideford factory chimney

  • 283 Centuries old but today busier than ever

  • 284 Twenty-one yachts

  • 285 The Geneva marionettes

  • 286 Bideford inquest on French trawlermen opens

  • 287 Buckland farm workers to receive long-service awards

  • 288 Bridging the stream

  • 289 Hartland Dancers
  • 290 Fishermen of Greencliff

  • 291 Calligrapher extraordinary

  • 292 Service with a smile

  • 293 Can spring be far away?

  • 294 Largest salmon caught in Torridge

  • 295 Broomhayes children will keep their winter pet

  • 296 Panto time at Westward Ho!

  • 297 Bringing shopping home by goat

  • 298 Life begins at 80

  • 299

    FA Cup Match for the Robins
  • 300

    Gift from Bideford Town Council
  • 301 Wishing well is pixielated

  • 302 Photo of town's first car wins prize

  • 303 Move for oldest boatyard on Torridge

  • 304 Five generations link Woolsery, Clovelly and Bideford

  • 305 Quads join a Langtree happy family

  • 306 A lost Bideford 'island'

  • 307 A roof-top view - where?

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

  • 309 Future of Torrington almshouses

  • 310 Children's procession with foxgloves

  • 311 What the television camera saw at Abbotsham

  • 312 Westward Ho! public conveniences get go ahead
  • 313 Olympic riders to compete at Bideford Horse Show

  • 314 Spray dodging - the new pastime

  • 315 Appledore's new lifeboat

  • 316 Bideford has built over 500 post-war homes

  • 317 They set out for Bideford and became lost

  • 318 Barley from Bideford to Bonnie Scotland

  • 319 Safe door weighing two tons

  • 320 Weare Giffard Hall sold for £11,300

  • 321 Television comes to Torridge District

  • 322 Torrington children build igloo
  • 323 Six footed lamb

  • 324 Record player of 80 years ago

  • 325 A craftsman's 'potted' history

  • 326 New gateway to King George's Fields

  • 327 Riverside mystery

  • 328 Sooty is quick on the draw

  • 329 Little 'Big Ben'

  • 330 Yelland potter's exhibition at Bideford

  • 331 Fishing light goes out at close of poor season

  • 332

    Exhibition of school work
  • 333 Steep street of old Bideford

  • 334 Tibbles home again - and fish supper

  • 335

    Mums protest in Coronation Road
  • 336 Bideford firm develops new non-spill paint

  • 337 Bideford A.F.C annual dinner
  • 338 Preparations for new Clovelly Court

  • 339 Chess - their bridge over the years

  • 340 Modern living at Bideford

  • 341 No laughing matter

  • 342 Appledore Juniors Football
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    Toasted with musical honours
  • 344 Unique holiday adventure!

  • 345 Ten year old scrambler

  • 346 Down at the 'Donkey House'

  • 347 Ancestral home nestling in lovely combe

  • 348 East-the-Water sets town an example

  • 349 Torrington Youth Club rewarded by party
  • 350 Grenville House for Bideford R.D.C.

  • 351 New addition to Quay front

  • 352 In the tortoise nursery - eight hatched at Bideford

  • 353 Just over a year old

  • 354 Bideford loses training ship

  • 355 First steel ship built at Bideford

  • 356 New life for Hartland organ

  • 357

    Jinxed School Trip
  • 358 Ship-in-bottle world record

  • 359 Bideford Liberals' fashion show

  • 360 When horses score over the tractor

  • 361 Speeding communications: Bideford firm's new installation

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

  • 363 Torridge graveyard of wooden hulks

  • 364 Westward Ho! combined op

  • 365 Northam loses thatched cottage landmark

  • 366 No ancient Grecian temple this

  • 367 Still hunting aged 80 and a Field Master

  • 368 Torrington acclaims 400th anniversary of granting of charter

  • 369 Spring-cleaning the Ridge

  • 370 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

  • 371 Harvest service in Bideford 'pub' bar

  • 372 By pony and trap to market

  • 373 Watch the dicky bird!

  • 374 What is future of railway goods yard?

  • 375 Bideford stock car racing entry comes in second

  • 376 Bank Holiday weather was beach weather

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

  • 378 Tramps camp by riverside throughout arctic weather

  • 379 New art gallery opened

  • 380 Holiday traffic in Bideford High Street

  • 381 Torrington in 1967

  • 382 Happy Days!

  • 383 Bideford School Junior Choir Sing in France at Twinning Ceremony in Landivisiau
  • 384 Lady Godiva comes to Torrington

  • 385 First ship in 8 years

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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  • 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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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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Three Times Asked - Three Times Refused

Chips paper on pavement

Three times he had asked a fairground attendant to pick up a fish and chips bag the man had thrown onto the pavement in Allhalland Street and each time the request was refused,
Police Constable G Thrupp told Bideford magistrates on Tuesday.

13.9.1957 Hugh Henny fined

Before the court was Hugh Henny, whose address was given as c/o F Whitelegg's, The Fairground, Bideford, who pleaded 'guilty' to depositing litter on the highway in contravention of a Borough bye-law.

Henny, who told the magistrates he had nothing to say, was fined £2 with the alternative of 14 days' imprisonment. He said he earned £6 a week and was paid on Sundays. He was allowed until September 23rd to pay.

Gazette article dated 13 September 1957

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