• 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 No ancient Grecian temple this

  • 2 Clovelly's 91 year old horseman

  • 3 Centenary of Landcross Methodist Chapel

  • 4 River scenes that enchant the visitors

  • 5 Bideford skifflers, they're no squares

  • 6 Students help model St Sidwell

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    Gift from Bideford Town Council
  • 8 Cruising down the river

  • 9 First steel ship built at Bideford

  • 10 Golden Bay Hotel ad.>
  • 11 Five generations link Woolsery, Clovelly and Bideford

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    FA Cup Match for the Robins
  • 13 Fishing light goes out at close of poor season

  • 14 Picking the pops

  • 15 Capers on the cobbles

  • 16 Calf thinks of mare as mum

  • 17 Meeting at 10 Downing Street

  • 18 Bideford shipyard workers cheer new minesweeper

  • 19 No ancient Grecian temple this

  • 20 Holiday scene near Sandymere

  • 21 At Bideford Arts Ball>
  • 22 Torrington children build igloo
  • 23 Community centre opened at Westward Ho!

  • 24 Weare Giffard Hall sold for £11,300

  • 25 Lady Churchill congratulates Bideford artists at nursing exhibition

  • 26 The cab at the corner>
  • 27 Service with a smile

  • 28 Revenge in style

  • 29 Prizewinning babies at Torrington

  • 30 Mural in the whimsical fashion

  • 31 Four hundred residents leave Bideford!

  • 32 Simple Item 138
  • 33 Bideford's new market opens next week

  • 34

    Inter-school Road Safety Quiz Cup Winners
  • 35 Quads join a Langtree happy family

  • 36 Championship Trophy for Hartland
  • 37

    School of Dancing's Annual Display
  • 38 Bicycle now does donkey work

  • 39 Speeding communications: Bideford firm's new installation

  • 40 Childrens' model of Torrington

  • 41 Sweet success at Langtree School

  • 42 They never miss a game at Torrington

  • 43 Appledore Juniors Football
  • 44 Police station view of Bideford

  • 45 Council agree to demolition of Chanter's Folly

  • 46

    Double Baptism on Torridge
  • 47 Donkey work made easier at Clovelly

  • 48 Sooty is quick on the draw

  • 49 Salmon netting at Bideford

  • 50 East-the-Water sets town an example

  • 51 Donkey and horses enjoy carnival drink

  • 52 Can-carrying over cobbles has disappeared

  • 53 Lady Godiva comes to Torrington

  • 54 Launching the 'Golden Hinde'

  • 55 Appledore tugs fete London Tower

  • 56 Torrington school's sundial - fashioned by Headmaster

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

  • 58 Do recall the old windmill at Northam?

  • 59 He beat the floods

  • 60 Joe the ginger tabby is 21

  • 61 Future of Torrington almshouses

  • 62

    Cadets are given certificates
  • 63 All aboard the ark

  • 64

    Appledore boys beat mums at football
  • 65 Fundraising trip for RNLI

  • 66 Ship-in-bottle world record

  • 67 America's tribute to 'J.H.'

  • 68 Devil sent packing

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

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    Bidefordians
  • 71 No sale of Springfield House

  • 72

    Lenwood Squash Club
  • 73

    Mrs Whapham finds ferret in Bridgeland Street while shopping
  • 74 Harvest service in Bideford 'pub' bar

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

  • 76 Variety in summer weather

  • 77 Wilfred and Mabel visit schools and hospital

  • 78 'Out of Appledore' sailing memories

  • 79 Birds' convalescent home at Instow

  • 80 Yeo vale road ruin provides a mystery

  • 81 Hartland's invitation

  • 82 Thorn-apple found in Littleham conservatory

  • 83 Northam footballers of the future

  • 84 Clovelly custom

  • 85 Farewell to passenger trains

  • 86 Practical sympathy at Northam

  • 87 New Estate's view of estuary activities

  • 88 Steep street of old Bideford

  • 89 It really was the 'last time'

  • 90 Off on a great adventure

  • 91 Littleham cow tops 70 tons mark in milk production

  • 92 Largest salmon caught in Torridge

  • 93 Afternoon tea in the park

  • 94 Torridge wins on time schedule

  • 95 Spring-cleaning the Ridge

  • 96 Bideford School Junior Choir Sing in France at Twinning Ceremony in Landivisiau
  • 97 TV contest means big job for Bideford Guides

  • 98 A bird of their own!

  • 99 All for the love of a lady!

  • 100 Just over a year old

  • 101 Found the answer waiting for him>
  • 102 Repair work on Long Bridge
  • 103 Malibou boys are all-the-year-round surfers

  • 104 Bideford electricity window display qualifies for area competition

  • 105 Fish nearly pulled him in

  • 106 Signed scroll momento of Queen Mother's visit

  • 107 Bideford Bridge re-opens

  • 108 Appledore's new lifeboat

  • 109 What's the time?

  • 110 Puppet characters introduced

  • 111 A roof-top view - where?

  • 112 X-ray shoe fitting

  • 113 Bideford country dancers on TV

  • 114

    First prize
  • 115 A man and his wheel

  • 116 Eleven million pound scheme's official opening

  • 117 Loads of black and white

  • 118 A lost Bideford 'island'

  • 119 Bideford triplets' first birthday party

  • 120 Jalopy joy for children of Shamwickshire

  • 121 Boys win hockey on the sands challenge

  • 122 Down at the 'Donkey House'

  • 123 Entente cordiale in Bideford

  • 124 Pet squirrels at Monkleigh

  • 125 They set out for Bideford and became lost

  • 126 School crossing patrol begins

  • 127 First tankers arrive at new depot

  • 128 So this is the mainland!

  • 129 Bideford has built over 500 post-war homes

  • 130 Westward Ho! public conveniences get go ahead
  • 131 Inscribed Bibles and silver spoons for babies

  • 132 Bideford computer stars

  • 133 Baby Kate goes home to Lundy

  • 134 Where Bideford rope-makers walked>
  • 135 Bideford Liberal club new lounge bar opened

  • 136 New Lundy air-mail stamps

  • 137 Hartland Dancers
  • 138 Bideford A.F.C annual dinner
  • 139 Artisans' Club

  • 140 Weare Giffard potato

  • 141 Appledore schooner broadcast

  • 142 New life for Hartland organ

  • 143

    Birgitta Whittaker
  • 144 Cavaliers join the Hunt
  • 145

    Building works
  • 146 Twenty-one yachts

  • 147 New art gallery opened

  • 148 Dismantling of wireless mast

  • 149 New addition to Quay front

  • 150 Gift plaque on Clovelly council houses

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

  • 152 Torrington to have first woman mayor

  • 153 Second Monte Carlo Rally

  • 154 Larkworthy Family play in Shebbear's Football Team
  • 155 Up-to-date Bideford!

  • 156 Church renovation rejoicing at Northam

  • 157 Can spring be far away?

  • 158

    New gateway
  • 159 Huntshaw TV mast

  • 160 An early 'special' to Bideford

  • 161 Bideford childrens' cinema opens

  • 162 Bideford Zoo's first baby is big draw

  • 163 New fire and ambulance stations

  • 164 Saving money, wear and tear

  • 165 A story to tell!

  • 166 Wishing well is pixielated

  • 167 Quads at Thornhillhead

  • 168 Born 1883 - still going strong

  • 169 Bideford loses training ship

  • 170 Panto time at Westward Ho!

  • 171 New gateway to King George's Fields

  • 172 Emergency ferry services

  • 173 Sunshine and shade at Appledore

  • 174 On her 'maiden' trip from Bideford

  • 175 Holiday traffic in Bideford High Street

  • 176 Penny for the guy

  • 177

    First Girls at Bideford Grammar School take part in Play
  • 178 Buckland farm workers to receive long-service awards

  • 179 Lots drawn to prevent dog fight

  • 180 Daisy's pride and joy

  • 181 Ships at Bideford

  • 182 Little 'Big Ben'

  • 183 Passing of a Torrington landmark

  • 184 Broomhayes children will keep their winter pet

  • 185 Preparations for new Clovelly Court

  • 186 Pannier Market's future?

  • 187 Homage to a well-loved sovereign

  • 188 Celebrations for 103rd birthday

  • 189 Traditions and skills still there

  • 190 Charter granted by Philip and Mary

  • 191 Appledore's largest

  • 192 A sense of humour in advertising

  • 193 Bringing shopping home by goat

  • 194 Old Girls revisit Edgehill

  • 195 Out of puff!

  • 196 From Bobby to Brian

  • 197

    Relatives all over the world
  • 198 Sixty-two year old Picarooner makes ready for season

  • 199 Head Barman appointed Torrington Town Crier
  • 200 Torrington's new amenity

  • 201 Sailing to victory at Appledore

  • 202 Fleet of foot and fair of face

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

  • 204 Buckland goes to County Show

  • 205 Bideford's first woman councillor

  • 206

    Mums protest in Coronation Road
  • 207 New Post Office

  • 208 Puzzle corner at Bideford!

  • 209 Westward Ho! Tennis Club Winners
  • 210 When horses score over the tractor

  • 211 Life begins at 80

  • 212 Brothers reunion 1947
  • 213 Reed threshing 'putting the clock back' at Weare Giffard

  • 214 Last of Bideford factory chimney

  • 215 New choral society's growing response

  • 216 Bideford inquest on French trawlermen opens

  • 217 Wasps' nest in sewing machine

  • 218 Westward Ho! combined op

  • 219 For South Africa from Westward Ho!

  • 220 Landmark at Bradworthy

  • 221 Children's procession with foxgloves

  • 222 Bravery against bull at Shebbear rewarded

  • 223 First ship in 8 years

  • 224 Bideford blacksmith wins English championship

  • 225 Warmington's garage ad

  • 226 Finished in 1876

  • 227 Success to Festival of the Arts

  • 228

    Toasted with musical honours
  • 229

    Andre Veillett and Quentin Reed in Judo Demonstration
  • 230 Instow local art show was 'tremendous success'

  • 231 Tibbles home again - and fish supper

  • 232 Recognise this resort?

  • 233 Colour TV salesman at eight

  • 234 Symbol of Lundy independence

  • 235 Some 240 exhibits

  • 236 In their new robes and hats

  • 237 Safety-first dipomas awarded to Torrington drivers

  • 238 Centenary of Gazette

  • 239

    Jinxed School Trip
  • 240 Watch the dicky bird!

  • 241 Panel sprint for Bideford broadcast

  • 242 Gloves fit for a king!

  • 243 Alverdiscott is proud of its new parish hall

  • 244 Shoes certainly not made for walking

  • 245 North Devon Driving School

  • 246 Modern living at Bideford

  • 247 Meredith's ironmongers

  • 248 TV features Bideford's New Year bread ceremony

  • 249 Vessel built 300 feet above sea level

  • 250 Last train from Torrington

  • 251 113 years at Instow

  • 252 Bideford's first triplets for 12 years

  • 253 Shipbuilding hobby at Hartland

  • 254 Fishermen of Greencliff

  • 255 What is future of railway goods yard?

  • 256

    Gus Honeybun meets local children
  • 257 Private home for public pump

  • 258 Eleventh hour bid to save last sailing barge

  • 259 Torrington's enterprise's new extensions

  • 260 New look in the hayfields

  • 261 Torrington in 1967

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

  • 263 Two kinds of hovercraft at Bideford

  • 264 Liked holidays here - so starts business

  • 265 Faints as she wins national competition

  • 266 Thrush builds nest in cauliflower

  • 267

    Married in 1908
  • 268 Northam's almshouse

  • 269 Riverside mystery

  • 270 Unique holiday adventure!

  • 271 Ten year old scrambler

  • 272 Bideford firm develops new non-spill paint

  • 273 Town's second woman mayor in 392 years

  • 274 New shipyard on schedule

  • 275 Water Board mains spread through villages

  • 276 Bideford's private wharves busier

  • 277 Teenager Peter Jackson Makes Horror Film
  • 278 Light reading for the lighthouse

  • 279 Tide sweeps under and over the old bridge

  • 280

    Hamburger is part of modern life
  • 281 Circus comes to town

  • 282 New look for Torrington Lane

  • 283 Some mushroom!

  • 284 Mayor becomes engine driver>
  • 285 Tomorrow' night's skittles broadcast from Bideford

  • 286 Getting up steam for tomorrow

  • 287 The Geneva marionettes

  • 288 Safe door weighing two tons

  • 289 Filming at Hartland

  • 290 School's link with cargo ship

  • 291

    Was a missionary
  • 292 By pony and trap to market

  • 293 Bideford's gift to Sir Francis

  • 294 One thousand visit zoo at Whitsun

  • 295 Down at the dump something stirs

  • 296 Battle of the gap at Westward Ho!

  • 297

    Wynne Olley's styles impress International Hair Fashion Designer
  • 298 A craftsman's 'potted' history

  • 299 Floral dancing at Appledore

  • 300 Cement-clad boats being built at Northam

  • 301 Boys from Bideford school complete Ten Tors

  • 302 Sweets derationing

  • 303 Bideford regatta

  • 304

    Exhibition of school work
  • 305 Barley from Bideford to Bonnie Scotland

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

  • 307 In the tortoise nursery - eight hatched at Bideford

  • 308 Designed all furnishing of new chapel

  • 309 Eight to strike and a race to win

  • 310 For crying out loud!

  • 311 Decontrol of meat

  • 312 Polish custom on Pancake Day

  • 313 Torrington Church's new organ

  • 314 Centuries old but today busier than ever

  • 315 Champagne send-off for Torrington new factory

  • 316 New Lundy stamps

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

  • 318 Northam loses thatched cottage landmark

  • 319 Thriving 'orphan of the storm'

  • 320 Appledore skill brings 'Hispaniola' to life

  • 321 Yelland potter's exhibition at Bideford

  • 322 Bideford schoolboy's courage recognised

  • 323 Four sisters' nostalgic reunion

  • 324 Tramps camp by riverside throughout arctic weather

  • 325 Alwington School closing after 120 years

  • 326 Torrington's shelter for the aged

  • 327 Northam wants to continue pumping from river

  • 328 Peter poses for TV film

  • 329 Waldon Triplets
  • 330 Jumble sale fever

  • 331 Littleham family's five generations

  • 332 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

  • 333

    Youth Clubs Join Together For Entertainment
  • 334 Space dominates Hartland carnival

  • 335 Alderman Anstey's dream comes tru

  • 336 Bank Holiday weather was beach weather

  • 337 Escaped crane moves into Kenwith Valley

  • 338 Photo of town's first car wins prize

  • 339 Record pebble-throwing day

  • 340 Local glove-making factory advertising for staff

  • 341 Six footed lamb

  • 342 'Les Girls' of Hartland

  • 343 Thirty bridges cross Torridge

  • 344 They are parted pro-tem

  • 345 A Weare Giffard speciality - delicious strawberries

  • 346 Television comes to Torridge District

  • 347 Move for oldest boatyard on Torridge

  • 348 Clovelly donkey film star

  • 349 Wine and beer merchants for 150 years

  • 350 Record player of 80 years ago

  • 351 Torridge graveyard of wooden hulks

  • 352 Big develolpment at Calveford

  • 353 Bideford stock car racing entry comes in second

  • 354 Spray dodging - the new pastime

  • 355 Olympic riders to compete at Bideford Horse Show

  • 356 Burnard family reunion

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

  • 358 Bideford Liberals' fashion show

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

  • 360 Housing progress at East-the-Water>
  • 361 Pretty pennies at Beaford

  • 362

    Successful motor cycling team
  • 363 Works at craft he learned over 65 years ago

  • 364 Torrington Youth Club rewarded by party
  • 365

    10-year-old scrambler practices
  • 366 No laughing matter

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

  • 368 Clovelly nightmare

  • 369 Death - and birth - of a telephone exchange

  • 370 The art of the thatcher

  • 371 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

  • 372 North Devon author featured in TV documentary

  • 373 Making way for the double-deckers

  • 374 Eight and a half million pound Taw development scheme

  • 375 Ancestral home nestling in lovely combe

  • 376 Broomhayes £1,000 Surprise
  • 377 Photo mural in Bideford bank

  • 378 Yeoi Vale House finally demolished

  • 379 New civic medallions

  • 380 Rowing triumphs at Bideford

  • 381 Beach search for mines takes longer

  • 382 Torrington acclaims 400th anniversary of granting of charter

  • 383 Hartland postman retires

  • 384

    Close associations with North Devon
  • 385

    Womens Skittles Competition in Buckland Brewer
  • 386 Picking the pops

  • 387 End of the line

  • 388 Calligrapher extraordinary

  • 389 Hartland Abbey outdoor staff 60 years ago

  • 390 Sight of a lifetime

  • 391 Christmas tree on Bideford Quay>
  • 392 Revived market off to splendid start

  • 393 What the television camera saw at Abbotsham

  • 394 Smiling welcome to Hartland visitors

  • 395

    Reds Womens Team Are First To Compete Throughout Season
  • 396 Bideford-Torrington road gets 'carpet coat'

  • 397 Appledore boy is youngest recipient of RNLI vellun

  • 398 Still hunting aged 80 and a Field Master

  • 399 Allhalland Street - then and now

  • 400 John Andrew Bread Charity
  • 401 Designed and made in Bideford

  • 402 Picture bought for shillings may be worth thousands

  • 403 Mobile missionary

  • 404

    Holidaying in north Devon
  • 405 Chess - their bridge over the years

  • 406 Amsterdam to Bideford double success

  • 407 Train returns to Westleigh straight

  • 408 Parkham plan realised

  • 409 Westward Ho! sand yacht to challenge speed record

  • 410 The creative urge on Saturday morning

  • 411 Happy Days!

  • 412 Thunderstorm destruction of 25 years ago

  • 413 Bridging the stream

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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Cattle On The Road

‘I plead guilty, although it was no fault of mine’ wrote John Colwill, of Ford Farm, Hartland, when he was summoned before Bideford Magistrates on Tuesday for allowing seven yearling cattle to stray on the Hartland-Baxworthy Cross road on January 30th.

4.3.1955 Hartland cattle

Police Constable Richards told the Bench the cattle were straying a mile from Colwill’s farm. Defendant’s son had said the cattle had been in the orchard and had admitted there was no fence at the top of the road bank. Witness added that he found a path of some standing down over the bank to the road.
In a letter to the Bench, Colwill stated the yearlings had not been in the orchard – he and his son had each thought the other had pastured them there – but had been in the farmyard. The cattle had strayed because someone had left the yard gate open.
The magistrates imposed a fine of 10s.
Gazette article dated 4 March 1955

Crime

Cars without lights

Five local people were each fined £4 by Bideford magistrates for leaving their cars at night without lights.

1972 fines for people driving cars without lights

The five – Desmond Joseph Thorn of 2 Silver Street, Appledore; Rodney James Burland of 12 Forresters Road, Holsworthy; Andrew John Pedrick of 30 Brookfield Street, Bideford; David Harvey of 2 Quay House, Appledore; Christen Ronny Rudolf Svensson of 7a Dartinton Fields – all pleaded guilty.
For a similar offence John William Hacker of 4 Myrtle Grove, Bideford, was fined £3.

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