• 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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    Womens Skittles Competition in Buckland Brewer
  • 2 Bideford School Junior Choir Sing in France at Twinning Ceremony in Landivisiau
  • 3 Weare Giffard Hall sold for £11,300

  • 4 Bideford's gift to Sir Francis

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

  • 6 Clovelly's 91 year old horseman

  • 7 Appledore boy is youngest recipient of RNLI vellun

  • 8 Buckland farm workers to receive long-service awards

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    Gift from Bideford Town Council
  • 10 Appledore's new lifeboat

  • 11 Torridge wins on time schedule

  • 12 Torrington's shelter for the aged

  • 13 Salmon netting at Bideford

  • 14 Unique holiday adventure!

  • 15 Safety-first dipomas awarded to Torrington drivers

  • 16 Childrens' model of Torrington

  • 17 Escaped crane moves into Kenwith Valley

  • 18 Five generations link Woolsery, Clovelly and Bideford

  • 19 Shoes certainly not made for walking

  • 20 Filming at Hartland

  • 21 Big develolpment at Calveford

  • 22 Instow local art show was 'tremendous success'

  • 23 Torrington Church's new organ

  • 24 Some mushroom!

  • 25 Wilfred and Mabel visit schools and hospital

  • 26 Bideford firm develops new non-spill paint

  • 27 Sweets derationing

  • 28 Peter poses for TV film

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

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

  • 31 Dismantling of wireless mast

  • 32 No ancient Grecian temple this

  • 33 Northam footballers of the future

  • 34 Bideford shipyard workers cheer new minesweeper

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

  • 36 Church renovation rejoicing at Northam

  • 37 Practical sympathy at Northam

  • 38 Hartland Dancers
  • 39

    Reds Womens Team Are First To Compete Throughout Season
  • 40 Light reading for the lighthouse

  • 41

    First Girls at Bideford Grammar School take part in Play
  • 42 Reed threshing 'putting the clock back' at Weare Giffard

  • 43 The art of the thatcher

  • 44

    Gus Honeybun meets local children
  • 45 One thousand visit zoo at Whitsun

  • 46 Thirty bridges cross Torridge

  • 47 They are parted pro-tem

  • 48 Boys win hockey on the sands challenge

  • 49 Warmington's garage ad

  • 50 Buckland goes to County Show

  • 51 Success to Festival of the Arts

  • 52 Charter granted by Philip and Mary

  • 53 Fleet of foot and fair of face

  • 54 Little 'Big Ben'

  • 55 Bideford electricity window display qualifies for area competition

  • 56 Quads at Thornhillhead

  • 57 Liked holidays here - so starts business

  • 58 Westward Ho! Tennis Club Winners
  • 59 Bank Holiday weather was beach weather

  • 60 Capers on the cobbles

  • 61 Larkworthy Family play in Shebbear's Football Team
  • 62 New addition to Quay front

  • 63 Penny for the guy

  • 64

    Relatives all over the world
  • 65 Torrington Youth Club rewarded by party
  • 66 Fundraising trip for RNLI

  • 67

    Was a missionary
  • 68 Wine and beer merchants for 150 years

  • 69 Variety in summer weather

  • 70 Bravery against bull at Shebbear rewarded

  • 71 Christmas tree on Bideford Quay>
  • 72 North Devon author featured in TV documentary

  • 73 First tankers arrive at new depot

  • 74 Bideford computer stars

  • 75 Eleventh hour bid to save last sailing barge

  • 76 Children's procession with foxgloves

  • 77 New Post Office

  • 78

    Holidaying in north Devon
  • 79

    Bidefordians
  • 80 He beat the floods

  • 81 Sunshine and shade at Appledore

  • 82 Northam's almshouse

  • 83 Amsterdam to Bideford double success

  • 84 Homage to a well-loved sovereign

  • 85 Off on a great adventure

  • 86 A roof-top view - where?

  • 87 Beach search for mines takes longer

  • 88 Lady Godiva comes to Torrington

  • 89 Centenary of Landcross Methodist Chapel

  • 90 Getting up steam for tomorrow

  • 91 Bideford regatta

  • 92 Appledore tugs fete London Tower

  • 93 Can spring be far away?

  • 94 Colour TV salesman at eight

  • 95 Sight of a lifetime

  • 96 Service with a smile

  • 97 Broomhayes children will keep their winter pet

  • 98 Hartland postman retires

  • 99 Littleham family's five generations

  • 100 Mural in the whimsical fashion

  • 101 Students help model St Sidwell

  • 102 Up-to-date Bideford!

  • 103 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

  • 104 Puppet characters introduced

  • 105 The cab at the corner>
  • 106 So this is the mainland!

  • 107 Baby Kate goes home to Lundy

  • 108 Chess - their bridge over the years

  • 109 Donkey and horses enjoy carnival drink

  • 110 Torrington's new amenity

  • 111 Birds' convalescent home at Instow

  • 112 Bideford Bridge re-opens

  • 113 Broomhayes £1,000 Surprise
  • 114 Can-carrying over cobbles has disappeared

  • 115 No ancient Grecian temple this

  • 116 Calligrapher extraordinary

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

  • 118 No sale of Springfield House

  • 119 Bringing shopping home by goat

  • 120 Shipbuilding hobby at Hartland

  • 121 Torrington school's sundial - fashioned by Headmaster

  • 122

    FA Cup Match for the Robins
  • 123 Landmark at Bradworthy

  • 124 Lady Churchill congratulates Bideford artists at nursing exhibition

  • 125 Championship Trophy for Hartland
  • 126 Signed scroll momento of Queen Mother's visit

  • 127 Tibbles home again - and fish supper

  • 128 Yelland potter's exhibition at Bideford

  • 129 Revived market off to splendid start

  • 130 Pannier Market's future?

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

  • 132 Twenty-one yachts

  • 133 Ten year old scrambler

  • 134 A craftsman's 'potted' history

  • 135 Appledore's largest

  • 136 An early 'special' to Bideford

  • 137 Boys from Bideford school complete Ten Tors

  • 138 On her 'maiden' trip from Bideford

  • 139 Donkey work made easier at Clovelly

  • 140 It really was the 'last time'

  • 141 Northam wants to continue pumping from river

  • 142 Some 240 exhibits

  • 143 Olympic riders to compete at Bideford Horse Show

  • 144 They set out for Bideford and became lost

  • 145 Centuries old but today busier than ever

  • 146 Lundy memorial to John Pennington Harman V.C.

  • 147 Born 1883 - still going strong

  • 148 Jumble sale fever

  • 149 Appledore schooner broadcast

  • 150 Two kinds of hovercraft at Bideford

  • 151 All aboard the ark

  • 152 Town's second woman mayor in 392 years

  • 153 Cavaliers join the Hunt
  • 154 Bideford's first triplets for 12 years

  • 155 Found the answer waiting for him>
  • 156

    Close associations with North Devon
  • 157 Simple Item 138
  • 158 Bicycle now does donkey work

  • 159 Bideford-Torrington road gets 'carpet coat'

  • 160 Bideford childrens' cinema opens

  • 161 Faints as she wins national competition

  • 162 School's link with cargo ship

  • 163 For crying out loud!

  • 164 First ship in 8 years

  • 165 Appledore Juniors Football
  • 166 New gateway to King George's Fields

  • 167 Last train from Torrington

  • 168 Still hunting aged 80 and a Field Master

  • 169 Vessel built 300 feet above sea level

  • 170 Steep street of old Bideford

  • 171 Joe the ginger tabby is 21

  • 172 A bird of their own!

  • 173 Clovelly custom

  • 174 Teenager Peter Jackson Makes Horror Film
  • 175 Golden Bay Hotel ad.>
  • 176

    Wynne Olley's styles impress International Hair Fashion Designer
  • 177 A sense of humour in advertising

  • 178 Modern living at Bideford

  • 179 Mobile missionary

  • 180 Fish nearly pulled him in

  • 181 Entente cordiale in Bideford

  • 182 Bideford's new market opens next week

  • 183 Sailing to victory at Appledore

  • 184 Sweet success at Langtree School

  • 185 First steel ship built at Bideford

  • 186 Spring-cleaning the Ridge

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

  • 188 River scenes that enchant the visitors

  • 189 Barley from Bideford to Bonnie Scotland

  • 190 Torrington acclaims 400th anniversary of granting of charter

  • 191 Wasps' nest in sewing machine

  • 192 Loads of black and white

  • 193 Launching the 'Golden Hinde'

  • 194 Tomorrow' night's skittles broadcast from Bideford

  • 195 What the television camera saw at Abbotsham

  • 196 Finished in 1876

  • 197 Jalopy joy for children of Shamwickshire

  • 198 John Andrew Bread Charity
  • 199

    Jinxed School Trip
  • 200 Calf thinks of mare as mum

  • 201 What is future of railway goods yard?

  • 202 Riverside mystery

  • 203 Head Barman appointed Torrington Town Crier
  • 204 Torrington in 1967

  • 205 Preparations for new Clovelly Court

  • 206 Torrington's enterprise's new extensions

  • 207 East-the-Water sets town an example

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

  • 209 Bideford skifflers, they're no squares

  • 210 Appledore skill brings 'Hispaniola' to life

  • 211 Picking the pops

  • 212 Afternoon tea in the park

  • 213 Prizewinning babies at Torrington

  • 214 Waldon Triplets
  • 215 Bideford A.F.C annual dinner
  • 216 They never miss a game at Torrington

  • 217 School crossing patrol begins

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

  • 219 A man and his wheel

  • 220 A story to tell!

  • 221 Photo mural in Bideford bank

  • 222 Pretty pennies at Beaford

  • 223 North Devon Driving School

  • 224 Bridging the stream

  • 225 Revenge in style

  • 226 Television comes to Torridge District

  • 227 Passing of a Torrington landmark

  • 228 New life for Hartland organ

  • 229 Bideford country dancers on TV

  • 230 Future of Torrington almshouses

  • 231 Local glove-making factory advertising for staff

  • 232 Saving money, wear and tear

  • 233 Last of Bideford factory chimney

  • 234 Eight and a half million pound Taw development scheme

  • 235 The creative urge on Saturday morning

  • 236 Out of puff!

  • 237 Floral dancing at Appledore

  • 238 New Lundy air-mail stamps

  • 239 Rowing triumphs at Bideford

  • 240

    Birgitta Whittaker
  • 241 From Bobby to Brian

  • 242 Ships at Bideford

  • 243 The Geneva marionettes

  • 244

    First prize
  • 245 Designed and made in Bideford

  • 246 Yeoi Vale House finally demolished

  • 247 Eight to strike and a race to win

  • 248 Picture bought for shillings may be worth thousands

  • 249 America's tribute to 'J.H.'

  • 250 Fishing light goes out at close of poor season

  • 251 Cruising down the river

  • 252 Holiday scene near Sandymere

  • 253 No laughing matter

  • 254 Just over a year old

  • 255

    Appledore boys beat mums at football
  • 256 Fishermen of Greencliff

  • 257 Torrington children build igloo
  • 258 Emergency ferry services

  • 259 Recognise this resort?

  • 260 Wishing well is pixielated

  • 261 Pet squirrels at Monkleigh

  • 262 Puzzle corner at Bideford!

  • 263 Panel sprint for Bideford broadcast

  • 264 Meeting at 10 Downing Street

  • 265 A lost Bideford 'island'

  • 266 Harvest service in Bideford 'pub' bar

  • 267 Train returns to Westleigh straight

  • 268 Four hundred residents leave Bideford!

  • 269

    School of Dancing's Annual Display
  • 270 Community centre opened at Westward Ho!

  • 271 Centenary of Gazette

  • 272 Works at craft he learned over 65 years ago

  • 273 Bideford Liberal club new lounge bar opened

  • 274 Hartland Abbey outdoor staff 60 years ago

  • 275 TV features Bideford's New Year bread ceremony

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    Toasted with musical honours
  • 277 113 years at Instow

  • 278 Do recall the old windmill at Northam?

  • 279 By pony and trap to market

  • 280 Spray dodging - the new pastime

  • 281 Yeo vale road ruin provides a mystery

  • 282 Westward Ho! sand yacht to challenge speed record

  • 283

    Mums protest in Coronation Road
  • 284 When horses score over the tractor

  • 285 Bideford's private wharves busier

  • 286

    Exhibition of school work
  • 287 Traditions and skills still there

  • 288 Down at the dump something stirs

  • 289 Daisy's pride and joy

  • 290

    Successful motor cycling team
  • 291 In their new robes and hats

  • 292 Polish custom on Pancake Day

  • 293

    Youth Clubs Join Together For Entertainment
  • 294 Clovelly donkey film star

  • 295 Holiday traffic in Bideford High Street

  • 296

    Hamburger is part of modern life
  • 297 Bideford schoolboy's courage recognised

  • 298

    Mrs Whapham finds ferret in Bridgeland Street while shopping
  • 299 Down at the 'Donkey House'

  • 300 Northam loses thatched cottage landmark

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    Double Baptism on Torridge
  • 302 Lots drawn to prevent dog fight

  • 303 Huntshaw TV mast

  • 304 Safe door weighing two tons

  • 305

    Building works
  • 306 Six footed lamb

  • 307 Speeding communications: Bideford firm's new installation

  • 308 Bideford Zoo's first baby is big draw

  • 309 Circus comes to town

  • 310 Thrush builds nest in cauliflower

  • 311 Record player of 80 years ago

  • 312 Repair work on Long Bridge
  • 313

    Married in 1908
  • 314 Burnard family reunion

  • 315 Panto time at Westward Ho!

  • 316

    New gateway
  • 317 Thunderstorm destruction of 25 years ago

  • 318 Hartland's invitation

  • 319 Quads join a Langtree happy family

  • 320 New shipyard on schedule

  • 321 Thorn-apple found in Littleham conservatory

  • 322 Allhalland Street - then and now

  • 323 Where Bideford rope-makers walked>
  • 324 Torrington to have first woman mayor

  • 325 Bideford has built over 500 post-war homes

  • 326 Farewell to passenger trains

  • 327 Ancestral home nestling in lovely combe

  • 328 Weare Giffard potato

  • 329 Making way for the double-deckers

  • 330 End of the line

  • 331 Water Board mains spread through villages

  • 332 Housing progress at East-the-Water>
  • 333 Gloves fit for a king!

  • 334 Meredith's ironmongers

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

  • 336 Westward Ho! combined op

  • 337 Alwington School closing after 120 years

  • 338 What's the time?

  • 339 New art gallery opened

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

  • 341 Largest salmon caught in Torridge

  • 342 Council agree to demolition of Chanter's Folly

  • 343 Happy Days!

  • 344 Space dominates Hartland carnival

  • 345 New look in the hayfields

  • 346 Celebrations for 103rd birthday

  • 347 Bideford triplets' first birthday party

  • 348 Mayor becomes engine driver>
  • 349 Life begins at 80

  • 350 New civic medallions

  • 351

    Andre Veillett and Quentin Reed in Judo Demonstration
  • 352 Watch the dicky bird!

  • 353 'Les Girls' of Hartland

  • 354 Decontrol of meat

  • 355 Police station view of Bideford

  • 356 New fire and ambulance stations

  • 357 New Estate's view of estuary activities

  • 358 In the tortoise nursery - eight hatched at Bideford

  • 359 Bideford Liberals' fashion show

  • 360 TV contest means big job for Bideford Guides

  • 361 Bideford blacksmith wins English championship

  • 362 Thriving 'orphan of the storm'

  • 363 Cement-clad boats being built at Northam

  • 364 Parkham plan realised

  • 365 Westward Ho! public conveniences get go ahead
  • 366 At Bideford Arts Ball>
  • 367 Devil sent packing

  • 368 Torridge graveyard of wooden hulks

  • 369 For South Africa from Westward Ho!

  • 370 Photo of town's first car wins prize

  • 371 Four sisters' nostalgic reunion

  • 372 Littleham cow tops 70 tons mark in milk production

  • 373 Battle of the gap at Westward Ho!

  • 374 Inscribed Bibles and silver spoons for babies

  • 375

    Cadets are given certificates
  • 376 Clovelly nightmare

  • 377 Bideford loses training ship

  • 378 Ship-in-bottle world record

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

  • 380 A Weare Giffard speciality - delicious strawberries

  • 381 New Lundy stamps

  • 382

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

  • 384 X-ray shoe fitting

  • 385 Bideford inquest on French trawlermen opens

  • 386 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

  • 387 New look for Torrington Lane

  • 388 Private home for public pump

  • 389 Smiling welcome to Hartland visitors

  • 390 Designed all furnishing of new chapel

  • 391 Alderman Anstey's dream comes tru

  • 392 New choral society's growing response

  • 393 Eleven million pound scheme's official opening

  • 394 Picking the pops

  • 395 Alverdiscott is proud of its new parish hall

  • 396 Tide sweeps under and over the old bridge

  • 397 Second Monte Carlo Rally

  • 398 Record pebble-throwing day

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    10-year-old scrambler practices
  • 400 Champagne send-off for Torrington new factory

  • 401 Tramps camp by riverside throughout arctic weather

  • 402 Sooty is quick on the draw

  • 403 'Out of Appledore' sailing memories

  • 404 Artisans' Club

  • 405 All for the love of a lady!

  • 406 Death - and birth - of a telephone exchange

  • 407 Bideford's first woman councillor

  • 408 Gift plaque on Clovelly council houses

  • 409 Old Girls revisit Edgehill

  • 410 Move for oldest boatyard on Torridge

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    Lenwood Squash Club
  • 412 Brothers reunion 1947
  • 413 Symbol of Lundy independence

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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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

Drove tractor at Parkham without licence

When a police officer stopped Gerald Braund

driving a tractor through Parkham village and asked him to produce his driving licence, he replied “I haven’t got one but I would like to learn to drive as soon as I know if I am being kept on in this job or not.”

Braund was told by the Chairman of the Bench, Mr R B Blackmore, “We do not want to jeopardise your work so we have decided not to disqualify you as we could have done or perhaps we should have done.”

He was fined £7.

16.5.1958 Parkham Braund

Full article dated 16 May 1958

Detective's Jump From Window

Chasing Bideford Shop Intruder

21.2.1958 Tamplin Bideford

Answering a call, Detective-Constable E J Tamplin went to the shop owned by Miss F Hicks. Someone was heard making escape through the building and into the garden and Detective-Constable Tamplin jumped from the bathroom window at the rear of the building to the ground, but the intruder managed to escape.

Police Inspector W Bond said "We are hoping that inquiries will lead to the matter being satisfactorily settled."

Full article dated 21 February 1958

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