• 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 Champagne send-off for Torrington new factory

  • 2 Safe door weighing two tons

  • 3 Torrington's new amenity

  • 4 Bank Holiday weather was beach weather

  • 5 New civic medallions

  • 6 Torridge wins on time schedule

  • 7 He beat the floods

  • 8 Second Monte Carlo Rally

  • 9 Lady Churchill congratulates Bideford artists at nursing exhibition

  • 10

    Mums protest in Coronation Road
  • 11 Born 1883 - still going strong

  • 12 Making way for the double-deckers

  • 13 One thousand visit zoo at Whitsun

  • 14

    Appledore boys beat mums at football
  • 15 Bideford - as Rowlandson saw it about 1810-15

  • 16 Clovelly's 91 year old horseman

  • 17 Little 'Big Ben'

  • 18 Littleham cow tops 70 tons mark in milk production

  • 19 Police station view of Bideford

  • 20 Revived market off to splendid start

  • 21 Baby Kate goes home to Lundy

  • 22 Thorn-apple found in Littleham conservatory

  • 23 Emergency ferry services

  • 24 No laughing matter

  • 25 Wine and beer merchants for 150 years

  • 26 Bideford has built over 500 post-war homes

  • 27 Bridging the stream

  • 28

    FA Cup Match for the Robins
  • 29 Littleham family's five generations

  • 30

    Lenwood Squash Club
  • 31 Diamond Jubilee of St Peter's Church, East-the-Water

  • 32 Appledore's largest

  • 33 First tankers arrive at new depot

  • 34 Students help model St Sidwell

  • 35 Largest salmon caught in Torridge

  • 36 Hartland postman retires

  • 37 Artisans' Club

  • 38 Some mushroom!

  • 39 In their new robes and hats

  • 40 In the tortoise nursery - eight hatched at Bideford

  • 41 Clovelly nightmare

  • 42 Liked holidays here - so starts business

  • 43 Olympic riders to compete at Bideford Horse Show

  • 44 They set out for Bideford and became lost

  • 45 North Devon Driving School

  • 46 Sight of a lifetime

  • 47 New gateway to King George's Fields

  • 48 Record player of 80 years ago

  • 49 Bideford computer stars

  • 50 America's tribute to 'J.H.'

  • 51 A roof-top view - where?

  • 52 New fire and ambulance stations

  • 53 Tibbles home again - and fish supper

  • 54 Escaped crane moves into Kenwith Valley

  • 55 Four sisters' nostalgic reunion

  • 56 Out of puff!

  • 57 Teenager Peter Jackson Makes Horror Film
  • 58 Larkworthy Family play in Shebbear's Football Team
  • 59 Clovelly donkey film star

  • 60 Picture bought for shillings may be worth thousands

  • 61 Pet squirrels at Monkleigh

  • 62 Life begins at 80

  • 63 Still hunting aged 80 and a Field Master

  • 64

    Exhibition of school work
  • 65

    Gift from Bideford Town Council
  • 66 Steep street of old Bideford

  • 67 Allhalland Street - then and now

  • 68 'Out of Appledore' sailing memories

  • 69 Brothers reunion 1947
  • 70 Barley from Bideford to Bonnie Scotland

  • 71

    Birgitta Whittaker
  • 72 Bravery against bull at Shebbear rewarded

  • 73 Northam loses thatched cottage landmark

  • 74 Holiday scene near Sandymere

  • 75 Farewell to passenger trains

  • 76 Bicycle now does donkey work

  • 77 The Geneva marionettes

  • 78

    Reds Womens Team Are First To Compete Throughout Season
  • 79 Launching the 'Golden Hinde'

  • 80 Picking the pops

  • 81 Ships at Bideford

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

  • 83

    Hamburger is part of modern life
  • 84 Space dominates Hartland carnival

  • 85 Eleven million pound scheme's official opening

  • 86 Church renovation rejoicing at Northam

  • 87

    Wynne Olley's styles impress International Hair Fashion Designer
  • 88 Calf thinks of mare as mum

  • 89 Entente cordiale in Bideford

  • 90 Thunderstorm destruction of 25 years ago

  • 91 Council agree to demolition of Chanter's Folly

  • 92 Torrington Youth Club rewarded by party
  • 93 New shipyard on schedule

  • 94 Light reading for the lighthouse

  • 95 Bideford triplets' first birthday party

  • 96 Boys win hockey on the sands challenge

  • 97

    Andre Veillett and Quentin Reed in Judo Demonstration
  • 98 Childrens' model of Torrington

  • 99 Train returns to Westleigh straight

  • 100 First ship in 8 years

  • 101 Broomhayes £1,000 Surprise
  • 102 Torrington in 1967

  • 103 Thirty bridges cross Torridge

  • 104 Huntshaw TV mast

  • 105 Northam's almshouse

  • 106 Cavaliers join the Hunt
  • 107 Photo mural in Bideford bank

  • 108 What is future of railway goods yard?

  • 109 Torrington to have first woman mayor

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

  • 111 New art gallery opened

  • 112 Practical sympathy at Northam

  • 113 Speeding communications: Bideford firm's new installation

  • 114 Bideford Liberals' fashion show

  • 115 Down at the 'Donkey House'

  • 116 On her 'maiden' trip from Bideford

  • 117 Battle of the gap at Westward Ho!

  • 118 Do recall the old windmill at Northam?

  • 119 All aboard the ark

  • 120 For crying out loud!

  • 121 Wishing well is pixielated

  • 122 Move for oldest boatyard on Torridge

  • 123

    Jinxed School Trip
  • 124 Faints as she wins national competition

  • 125 Torrington children build igloo
  • 126 No ancient Grecian temple this

  • 127 Success to Festival of the Arts

  • 128 Appledore Juniors Football
  • 129 Preparations for new Clovelly Court

  • 130

    Toasted with musical honours
  • 131 Bideford firm develops new non-spill paint

  • 132 Donkey and horses enjoy carnival drink

  • 133 TV contest means big job for Bideford Guides

  • 134 North Devon author featured in TV documentary

  • 135

    Cadets are given certificates
  • 136 A story to tell!

  • 137 Bideford stock car racing entry comes in second

  • 138 Chess - their bridge over the years

  • 139 Shipbuilding hobby at Hartland

  • 140 Cement-clad boats being built at Northam

  • 141 Torrington's enterprise's new extensions

  • 142 Colour TV salesman at eight

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

  • 144 Westward Ho! sand yacht to challenge speed record

  • 145 Gloves fit for a king!

  • 146 Service with a smile

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

  • 148

    Close associations with North Devon
  • 149 A bird of their own!

  • 150 A sense of humour in advertising

  • 151 Westward Ho! combined op

  • 152 Simple Item 138
  • 153 Two kinds of hovercraft at Bideford

  • 154 Weare Giffard Hall sold for £11,300

  • 155 School's link with cargo ship

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

  • 157 Penny for the guy

  • 158 Thrush builds nest in cauliflower

  • 159 Spring-cleaning the Ridge

  • 160 Pannier Market's future?

  • 161 What the television camera saw at Abbotsham

  • 162 Homage to a well-loved sovereign

  • 163 New life for Hartland organ

  • 164 Eight and a half million pound Taw development scheme

  • 165 Bideford schoolboy's courage recognised

  • 166 TV features Bideford's New Year bread ceremony

  • 167 John Andrew Bread Charity
  • 168 By pony and trap to market

  • 169 Hartland's invitation

  • 170 Torrington acclaims 400th anniversary of granting of charter

  • 171 Five generations link Woolsery, Clovelly and Bideford

  • 172 Bideford Zoo's first baby is big draw

  • 173 Alderman Anstey's dream comes tru

  • 174 Bideford shipyard workers cheer new minesweeper

  • 175 Polish custom on Pancake Day

  • 176 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

  • 177 Shoes certainly not made for walking

  • 178 The art of the thatcher

  • 179 River scenes that enchant the visitors

  • 180 Meredith's ironmongers

  • 181 Birds' convalescent home at Instow

  • 182 Bideford's private wharves busier

  • 183 Off on a great adventure

  • 184 School crossing patrol begins

  • 185

    Married in 1908
  • 186 Weare Giffard potato

  • 187 East-the-Water sets town an example

  • 188 Bideford loses training ship

  • 189 Bideford A.F.C annual dinner
  • 190 Finished in 1876

  • 191 Getting up steam for tomorrow

  • 192 Recognise this resort?

  • 193

    10-year-old scrambler practices
  • 194 New Post Office

  • 195 Old Girls revisit Edgehill

  • 196

    First prize
  • 197 Repair work on Long Bridge
  • 198 Fish nearly pulled him in

  • 199 Ship-in-bottle world record

  • 200

    Was a missionary
  • 201 An early 'special' to Bideford

  • 202 Appledore schooner broadcast

  • 203

    First Girls at Bideford Grammar School take part in Play
  • 204 A man and his wheel

  • 205 Big develolpment at Calveford

  • 206 A Weare Giffard speciality - delicious strawberries

  • 207 Works at craft he learned over 65 years ago

  • 208

    Inter-school Road Safety Quiz Cup Winners
  • 209 Holiday traffic in Bideford High Street

  • 210 New Estate's view of estuary activities

  • 211 Six footed lamb

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

  • 213 Twenty-one yachts

  • 214 They are parted pro-tem

  • 215 A craftsman's 'potted' history

  • 216 Cruising down the river

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

  • 218

    Building works
  • 219

    Womens Skittles Competition in Buckland Brewer
  • 220 Revenge in style

  • 221 Northam wants to continue pumping from river

  • 222 Fleet of foot and fair of face

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

  • 224 Joe the ginger tabby is 21

  • 225

    Successful motor cycling team
  • 226 First steel ship built at Bideford

  • 227 Bideford-Torrington road gets 'carpet coat'

  • 228 Record pebble-throwing day

  • 229 Smiling welcome to Hartland visitors

  • 230 No sale of Springfield House

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    Bidefordians
  • 232 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

  • 233 Quads join a Langtree happy family

  • 234 Donkey work made easier at Clovelly

  • 235 What's the time?

  • 236 Buckland farm workers to receive long-service awards

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    Holidaying in north Devon
  • 238 It really was the 'last time'

  • 239 Bideford country dancers on TV

  • 240 Broomhayes children will keep their winter pet

  • 241 Warmington's garage ad

  • 242 Panel sprint for Bideford broadcast

  • 243 Tomorrow' night's skittles broadcast from Bideford

  • 244 Hartland Dancers
  • 245 Centuries old but today busier than ever

  • 246 Gift plaque on Clovelly council houses

  • 247 The creative urge on Saturday morning

  • 248 Bideford Bridge re-opens

  • 249 Television comes to Torridge District

  • 250 Eleventh hour bid to save last sailing barge

  • 251 Town's second woman mayor in 392 years

  • 252 Bideford School Junior Choir Sing in France at Twinning Ceremony in Landivisiau
  • 253 New addition to Quay front

  • 254 Pretty pennies at Beaford

  • 255 Vessel built 300 feet above sea level

  • 256 Puzzle corner at Bideford!

  • 257 Can spring be far away?

  • 258 Eight to strike and a race to win

  • 259 Appledore boy is youngest recipient of RNLI vellun

  • 260 Clovelly custom

  • 261 Picking the pops

  • 262 Instow local art show was 'tremendous success'

  • 263 Westward Ho! Tennis Club Winners
  • 264 No ancient Grecian temple this

  • 265 Bideford inquest on French trawlermen opens

  • 266 Happy Days!

  • 267 Celebrations for 103rd birthday

  • 268 Bringing shopping home by goat

  • 269 Dismantling of wireless mast

  • 270 Boys from Bideford school complete Ten Tors

  • 271

    Double Baptism on Torridge
  • 272 Centenary of Landcross Methodist Chapel

  • 273 Traditions and skills still there

  • 274 Bideford electricity window display qualifies for area competition

  • 275 Panto time at Westward Ho!

  • 276 Landmark at Bradworthy

  • 277 Photo of town's first car wins prize

  • 278 Variety in summer weather

  • 279 Sooty is quick on the draw

  • 280 Decontrol of meat

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    New gateway
  • 282 Children's procession with foxgloves

  • 283

    Gus Honeybun meets local children
  • 284 A lost Bideford 'island'

  • 285 New look in the hayfields

  • 286 Unique holiday adventure!

  • 287 Loads of black and white

  • 288 Championship Trophy for Hartland
  • 289 Future of Torrington almshouses

  • 290 Mural in the whimsical fashion

  • 291 Death - and birth - of a telephone exchange

  • 292 End of the line

  • 293 X-ray shoe fitting

  • 294 So this is the mainland!

  • 295 Bideford skifflers, they're no squares

  • 296 Quads at Thornhillhead

  • 297 Can-carrying over cobbles has disappeared

  • 298 New Lundy stamps

  • 299 Capers on the cobbles

  • 300 'Les Girls' of Hartland

  • 301

    School of Dancing's Annual Display
  • 302 Water Board mains spread through villages

  • 303 Just over a year old

  • 304 Yeoi Vale House finally demolished

  • 305 Daisy's pride and joy

  • 306 Spray dodging - the new pastime

  • 307 Charter granted by Philip and Mary

  • 308 Alwington School closing after 120 years

  • 309 113 years at Instow

  • 310 Wilfred and Mabel visit schools and hospital

  • 311 Designed all furnishing of new chapel

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

  • 313 Mobile missionary

  • 314 Beach search for mines takes longer

  • 315 Alverdiscott is proud of its new parish hall

  • 316 Last of Bideford factory chimney

  • 317 Passing of a Torrington landmark

  • 318 Inscribed Bibles and silver spoons for babies

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    Relatives all over the world
  • 320 Harvest service in Bideford 'pub' bar

  • 321 Buckland goes to County Show

  • 322 Torridge graveyard of wooden hulks

  • 323 Calligrapher extraordinary

  • 324 Appledore's new lifeboat

  • 325 Torrington's shelter for the aged

  • 326 Fishing light goes out at close of poor season

  • 327 Devil sent packing

  • 328 Tide sweeps under and over the old bridge

  • 329 Yelland potter's exhibition at Bideford

  • 330 Circus comes to town

  • 331 Peter poses for TV film

  • 332 Designed and made in Bideford

  • 333 Modern living at Bideford

  • 334 New Lundy air-mail stamps

  • 335 Lady Godiva comes to Torrington

  • 336 Centenary of Gazette

  • 337 Salmon netting at Bideford

  • 338 Head Barman appointed Torrington Town Crier
  • 339 Fundraising trip for RNLI

  • 340 Jumble sale fever

  • 341 They never miss a game at Torrington

  • 342 Private home for public pump

  • 343 Lots drawn to prevent dog fight

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

  • 345 New choral society's growing response

  • 346 Rowing triumphs at Bideford

  • 347 Tramps camp by riverside throughout arctic weather

  • 348 Saving money, wear and tear

  • 349 Burnard family reunion

  • 350 Signed scroll momento of Queen Mother's visit

  • 351 Bideford blacksmith wins English championship

  • 352 Appledore tugs fete London Tower

  • 353 Westward Ho! public conveniences get go ahead
  • 354 Symbol of Lundy independence

  • 355 Fishermen of Greencliff

  • 356 Bideford's gift to Sir Francis

  • 357 New look for Torrington Lane

  • 358 Ten year old scrambler

  • 359 Bideford childrens' cinema opens

  • 360

    Mrs Whapham finds ferret in Bridgeland Street while shopping
  • 361 Torrington school's sundial - fashioned by Headmaster

  • 362 Riverside mystery

  • 363 Bideford Liberal club new lounge bar opened

  • 364 Puppet characters introduced

  • 365 Bideford regatta

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

  • 367 Some 240 exhibits

  • 368 Jalopy joy for children of Shamwickshire

  • 369 Sunshine and shade at Appledore

  • 370 Bideford's new market opens next week

  • 371 Ancestral home nestling in lovely combe

  • 372 Last train from Torrington

  • 373 Four hundred residents leave Bideford!

  • 374 Waldon Triplets
  • 375 Sweet success at Langtree School

  • 376 Northam footballers of the future

  • 377 Watch the dicky bird!

  • 378 Up-to-date Bideford!

  • 379 Hartland Abbey outdoor staff 60 years ago

  • 380 Bideford's first triplets for 12 years

  • 381 Yeo vale road ruin provides a mystery

  • 382 All for the love of a lady!

  • 383 When horses score over the tractor

  • 384

    Youth Clubs Join Together For Entertainment
  • 385 Parkham plan realised

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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Woolsery Recorder Group’s Sunshine Practice

A recorder group has recently been formed at Woolsery School

5.10.1956 Schools Woolsery

and is busy practising – although not always in such a delightful sunshine as seen above! – for its debut at the school concert at the end of this term.

Most of the members of the group, who have bought their own instruments, are girls; in fact only a handful of boys has so far shown an interest. The headmaster, Mr C B Griffiths, has transcribed the music parts and two-part playing has begun. Their repertoire consists of hymns and well known traditional tunes, but ten years old Geraldine Cumming, of Dipple, who is gifted with a keen for music, has also transcribed parts for ‘Davy Crockett’.

Of more general appeal to boys in the development of plaster modelling at the school in which scope for individual making of casts has ben developed. Models made include faces, statues, animals, and, in particular, a fine relief map of the Holy Land.

Article dated 14 September 1956

Torrington Bluecoat School

They Won Every Match!

6.6.1969 Torrington football Blue Coat

Torrington Blue Coat School's football team went through in the recent season unbeaten in their matches with neighbouring schools.

They are: Adrian Darch, Roy Allen, Tommy Webber, Stephen Pearson, Terry Down, Paul Wheeler and Graham Reed. Substitute is Stephen Frey.

Gazette article dated 6 June 1969

Lunch is Served

Young Appetites are Ready

17.2.1956 Hartland School

Lessons ended for the morning, there are healthy appetites to be satisfied in the canteen at Hartland School and here some of the youngest pupils wait eagerly for their lunch that this day included roast beef.

Article dated 17 February 1956

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