• 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 Picture bought for shillings may be worth thousands

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    Cadets are given certificates
  • 3 Olympic riders to compete at Bideford Horse Show

  • 4 Northam's almshouse

  • 5 Church renovation rejoicing at Northam

  • 6 Huntshaw TV mast

  • 7 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

  • 8 Alwington School closing after 120 years

  • 9 Bank Holiday weather was beach weather

  • 10 Torridge graveyard of wooden hulks

  • 11 Move for oldest boatyard on Torridge

  • 12 Sooty is quick on the draw

  • 13 A bird of their own!

  • 14 Born 1883 - still going strong

  • 15 Harvest service in Bideford 'pub' bar

  • 16 A man and his wheel

  • 17 Fishermen of Greencliff

  • 18

    Mrs Whapham finds ferret in Bridgeland Street while shopping
  • 19

    Gift from Bideford Town Council
  • 20 Old Girls revisit Edgehill

  • 21 North Devon author featured in TV documentary

  • 22 Dismantling of wireless mast

  • 23 Hartland's invitation

  • 24 Four sisters' nostalgic reunion

  • 25 Larkworthy Family play in Shebbear's Football Team
  • 26 No ancient Grecian temple this

  • 27

    Gus Honeybun meets local children
  • 28 Sixty-two year old Picarooner makes ready for season

  • 29 Gift plaque on Clovelly council houses

  • 30

    Wynne Olley's styles impress International Hair Fashion Designer
  • 31 All aboard the ark

  • 32 Peter poses for TV film

  • 33 Bideford loses training ship

  • 34 Torrington to have first woman mayor

  • 35 Bideford blacksmith wins English championship

  • 36 Circus comes to town

  • 37 Burnard family reunion

  • 38 What the television camera saw at Abbotsham

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

  • 40 An early 'special' to Bideford

  • 41 Fleet of foot and fair of face

  • 42 Some mushroom!

  • 43 Bideford stock car racing entry comes in second

  • 44 Centenary of Gazette

  • 45 Eight and a half million pound Taw development scheme

  • 46 Recognise this resort?

  • 47 Yeo vale road ruin provides a mystery

  • 48 Largest salmon caught in Torridge

  • 49 Success to Festival of the Arts

  • 50

    Andre Veillett and Quentin Reed in Judo Demonstration
  • 51 What's the time?

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

  • 53 Ancestral home nestling in lovely combe

  • 54 Hartland postman retires

  • 55 Appledore tugs fete London Tower

  • 56 Can spring be far away?

  • 57 Bideford's first triplets for 12 years

  • 58 Torrington children build igloo
  • 59 Last train from Torrington

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

  • 61 Devil sent packing

  • 62 Baby Kate goes home to Lundy

  • 63 Six footed lamb

  • 64 Yelland potter's exhibition at Bideford

  • 65 Westward Ho! public conveniences get go ahead
  • 66 Pannier Market's future?

  • 67 It really was the 'last time'

  • 68 Lady Churchill congratulates Bideford artists at nursing exhibition

  • 69 Bideford schoolboy's courage recognised

  • 70 Repair work on Long Bridge
  • 71 Little 'Big Ben'

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

  • 73 Panto time at Westward Ho!

  • 74 Northam wants to continue pumping from river

  • 75 Bicycle now does donkey work

  • 76 School's link with cargo ship

  • 77

    Toasted with musical honours
  • 78 Bideford Bridge re-opens

  • 79 TV contest means big job for Bideford Guides

  • 80

    FA Cup Match for the Robins
  • 81 Bringing shopping home by goat

  • 82 TV features Bideford's New Year bread ceremony

  • 83 Pretty pennies at Beaford

  • 84 New shipyard on schedule

  • 85 Picking the pops

  • 86 Cement-clad boats being built at Northam

  • 87 Designed all furnishing of new chapel

  • 88 Yeoi Vale House finally demolished

  • 89 Farewell to passenger trains

  • 90

    Lenwood Squash Club
  • 91 Watch the dicky bird!

  • 92

    Holidaying in north Devon
  • 93 Rowing triumphs at Bideford

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

  • 95 Capers on the cobbles

  • 96

    Mums protest in Coronation Road
  • 97 Lots drawn to prevent dog fight

  • 98 Faints as she wins national competition

  • 99 Northam footballers of the future

  • 100 A story to tell!

  • 101 New Lundy air-mail stamps

  • 102 Appledore schooner broadcast

  • 103 Eight to strike and a race to win

  • 104 Bideford Liberal club new lounge bar opened

  • 105 Riverside mystery

  • 106 Happy Days!

  • 107 Alverdiscott is proud of its new parish hall

  • 108 Do recall the old windmill at Northam?

  • 109

    Hamburger is part of modern life
  • 110 Jumble sale fever

  • 111 Joe the ginger tabby is 21

  • 112 Wine and beer merchants for 150 years

  • 113 Meredith's ironmongers

  • 114 Littleham cow tops 70 tons mark in milk production

  • 115 Launching the 'Golden Hinde'

  • 116 Bideford School Junior Choir Sing in France at Twinning Ceremony in Landivisiau
  • 117 113 years at Instow

  • 118 Weare Giffard potato

  • 119 Sweet success at Langtree School

  • 120 New Estate's view of estuary activities

  • 121 Bideford skifflers, they're no squares

  • 122 A lost Bideford 'island'

  • 123 By pony and trap to market

  • 124

    School of Dancing's Annual Display
  • 125 Birds' convalescent home at Instow

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

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

  • 128 For crying out loud!

  • 129 New look in the hayfields

  • 130 Liked holidays here - so starts business

  • 131 Holiday traffic in Bideford High Street

  • 132 Speeding communications: Bideford firm's new installation

  • 133 No laughing matter

  • 134 On her 'maiden' trip from Bideford

  • 135 Quads join a Langtree happy family

  • 136 Fish nearly pulled him in

  • 137 Northam loses thatched cottage landmark

  • 138 Shipbuilding hobby at Hartland

  • 139 Centenary of Landcross Methodist Chapel

  • 140 Unique holiday adventure!

  • 141 Bideford Liberals' fashion show

  • 142 Cavaliers join the Hunt
  • 143 North Devon Driving School

  • 144 Bideford's gift to Sir Francis

  • 145

    Successful motor cycling team
  • 146 Bideford country dancers on TV

  • 147 Landmark at Bradworthy

  • 148 A sense of humour in advertising

  • 149 East-the-Water sets town an example

  • 150 Space dominates Hartland carnival

  • 151 Quads at Thornhillhead

  • 152 Parkham plan realised

  • 153 Tomorrow' night's skittles broadcast from Bideford

  • 154

    Appledore boys beat mums at football
  • 155 Eleventh hour bid to save last sailing barge

  • 156 Weare Giffard Hall sold for £11,300

  • 157 In their new robes and hats

  • 158

    New gateway
  • 159 Appledore's new lifeboat

  • 160 Steep street of old Bideford

  • 161 Homage to a well-loved sovereign

  • 162 Calf thinks of mare as mum

  • 163 Panel sprint for Bideford broadcast

  • 164 River scenes that enchant the visitors

  • 165 Appledore Juniors Football
  • 166 Bravery against bull at Shebbear rewarded

  • 167 Ships at Bideford

  • 168 Emergency ferry services

  • 169 Spray dodging - the new pastime

  • 170 Police station view of Bideford

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

  • 172 Thunderstorm destruction of 25 years ago

  • 173 Broomhayes children will keep their winter pet

  • 174 Safe door weighing two tons

  • 175 Bideford electricity window display qualifies for area competition

  • 176 Buckland goes to County Show

  • 177 Two kinds of hovercraft at Bideford

  • 178 Donkey work made easier at Clovelly

  • 179 Bideford's new market opens next week

  • 180 Tibbles home again - and fish supper

  • 181 They set out for Bideford and became lost

  • 182 Clovelly custom

  • 183 Passing of a Torrington landmark

  • 184 Picking the pops

  • 185 Clovelly donkey film star

  • 186 Tide sweeps under and over the old bridge

  • 187

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

  • 189 Revived market off to splendid start

  • 190 Puzzle corner at Bideford!

  • 191 Boys from Bideford school complete Ten Tors

  • 192 Bideford childrens' cinema opens

  • 193

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

  • 195 All for the love of a lady!

  • 196 Torrington acclaims 400th anniversary of granting of charter

  • 197 Tramps camp by riverside throughout arctic weather

  • 198 Wishing well is pixielated

  • 199 Cruising down the river

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

  • 201 The creative urge on Saturday morning

  • 202 Children's procession with foxgloves

  • 203 Celebrations for 103rd birthday

  • 204 Lady Godiva comes to Torrington

  • 205 Bideford regatta

  • 206 Escaped crane moves into Kenwith Valley

  • 207 Council agree to demolition of Chanter's Folly

  • 208 No ancient Grecian temple this

  • 209 Bideford triplets' first birthday party

  • 210 Childrens' model of Torrington

  • 211

    Close associations with North Devon
  • 212 Bideford-Torrington road gets 'carpet coat'

  • 213 Making way for the double-deckers

  • 214 A Weare Giffard speciality - delicious strawberries

  • 215

    Birgitta Whittaker
  • 216 End of the line

  • 217 Clovelly nightmare

  • 218 Artisans' Club

  • 219 Variety in summer weather

  • 220 New life for Hartland organ

  • 221 Littleham family's five generations

  • 222 Brothers reunion 1947
  • 223 Symbol of Lundy independence

  • 224 Designed and made in Bideford

  • 225 'Les Girls' of Hartland

  • 226 They never miss a game at Torrington

  • 227

    Double Baptism on Torridge
  • 228 Warmington's garage ad

  • 229 Bideford computer stars

  • 230 Photo mural in Bideford bank

  • 231 Puppet characters introduced

  • 232 Inscribed Bibles and silver spoons for babies

  • 233 Works at craft he learned over 65 years ago

  • 234 Smiling welcome to Hartland visitors

  • 235 First tankers arrive at new depot

  • 236 Appledore boy is youngest recipient of RNLI vellun

  • 237 In the tortoise nursery - eight hatched at Bideford

  • 238 Thorn-apple found in Littleham conservatory

  • 239 Battle of the gap at Westward Ho!

  • 240 Bideford shipyard workers cheer new minesweeper

  • 241 Eleven million pound scheme's official opening

  • 242 Alderman Anstey's dream comes tru

  • 243 Hartland Abbey outdoor staff 60 years ago

  • 244 Barley from Bideford to Bonnie Scotland

  • 245 Loads of black and white

  • 246 Westward Ho! sand yacht to challenge speed record

  • 247 School crossing patrol begins

  • 248 Light reading for the lighthouse

  • 249

    Inter-school Road Safety Quiz Cup Winners
  • 250 Still hunting aged 80 and a Field Master

  • 251 Entente cordiale in Bideford

  • 252 Allhalland Street - then and now

  • 253

    Married in 1908
  • 254 Beach search for mines takes longer

  • 255 Students help model St Sidwell

  • 256 Holiday scene near Sandymere

  • 257 New Post Office

  • 258 'Out of Appledore' sailing memories

  • 259 Sunshine and shade at Appledore

  • 260 Four hundred residents leave Bideford!

  • 261 Wilfred and Mabel visit schools and hospital

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    First prize
  • 263 Future of Torrington almshouses

  • 264 Traditions and skills still there

  • 265 When horses score over the tractor

  • 266 Bideford's private wharves busier

  • 267 New Lundy stamps

  • 268 Train returns to Westleigh straight

  • 269 Instow local art show was 'tremendous success'

  • 270 Salmon netting at Bideford

  • 271 Bideford has built over 500 post-war homes

  • 272 New civic medallions

  • 273 A craftsman's 'potted' history

  • 274 Teenager Peter Jackson Makes Horror Film
  • 275 Mobile missionary

  • 276 Down at the 'Donkey House'

  • 277 Hartland Dancers
  • 278 Torridge wins on time schedule

  • 279 Decontrol of meat

  • 280 Service with a smile

  • 281 Vessel built 300 feet above sea level

  • 282 Chess - their bridge over the years

  • 283 Calligrapher extraordinary

  • 284 New gateway to King George's Fields

  • 285 Head Barman appointed Torrington Town Crier
  • 286 Preparations for new Clovelly Court

  • 287 Practical sympathy at Northam

  • 288 Death - and birth - of a telephone exchange

  • 289 Television comes to Torridge District

  • 290 Gloves fit for a king!

  • 291 Town's second woman mayor in 392 years

  • 292 Ship-in-bottle world record

  • 293 Fishing light goes out at close of poor season

  • 294 Bideford inquest on French trawlermen opens

  • 295 Charter granted by Philip and Mary

  • 296 Photo of town's first car wins prize

  • 297 Waldon Triplets
  • 298 Last of Bideford factory chimney

  • 299 Spring-cleaning the Ridge

  • 300 Torrington's shelter for the aged

  • 301 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

  • 302 Polish custom on Pancake Day

  • 303 Out of puff!

  • 304 Clovelly's 91 year old horseman

  • 305 Bideford Zoo's first baby is big draw

  • 306 Revenge in style

  • 307 Signed scroll momento of Queen Mother's visit

  • 308 Westward Ho! combined op

  • 309 First steel ship built at Bideford

  • 310 First ship in 8 years

  • 311 Thirty bridges cross Torridge

  • 312 One thousand visit zoo at Whitsun

  • 313 Just over a year old

  • 314 Twenty-one yachts

  • 315

    Exhibition of school work
  • 316 Life begins at 80

  • 317 Buckland farm workers to receive long-service awards

  • 318

    Jinxed School Trip
  • 319 Record player of 80 years ago

  • 320 Centuries old but today busier than ever

  • 321 Bideford A.F.C annual dinner
  • 322 Daisy's pride and joy

  • 323 No sale of Springfield House

  • 324 Championship Trophy for Hartland
  • 325 Bideford firm develops new non-spill paint

  • 326

    Youth Clubs Join Together For Entertainment
  • 327

    Was a missionary
  • 328 Ten year old scrambler

  • 329 New choral society's growing response

  • 330 Westward Ho! Tennis Club Winners
  • 331 Mural in the whimsical fashion

  • 332 Five generations link Woolsery, Clovelly and Bideford

  • 333 Up-to-date Bideford!

  • 334 He beat the floods

  • 335 Big develolpment at Calveford

  • 336 Getting up steam for tomorrow

  • 337 Torrington school's sundial - fashioned by Headmaster

  • 338 Second Monte Carlo Rally

  • 339 What is future of railway goods yard?

  • 340 Private home for public pump

  • 341 Simple Item 138
  • 342 Torrington in 1967

  • 343

    Reds Womens Team Are First To Compete Throughout Season
  • 344 Pet squirrels at Monkleigh

  • 345 Record pebble-throwing day

  • 346 Some 240 exhibits

  • 347 Bridging the stream

  • 348

    Building works
  • 349 A roof-top view - where?

  • 350 Boys win hockey on the sands challenge

  • 351 Thrush builds nest in cauliflower

  • 352 New addition to Quay front

  • 353 America's tribute to 'J.H.'

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

  • 355 Broomhayes £1,000 Surprise
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    Bidefordians
  • 357 So this is the mainland!

  • 358 Off on a great adventure

  • 359 Colour TV salesman at eight

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

  • 361 Torrington's new amenity

  • 362 Water Board mains spread through villages

  • 363 New art gallery opened

  • 364 Penny for the guy

  • 365 Finished in 1876

  • 366 Fundraising trip for RNLI

  • 367 Appledore's largest

  • 368 New look for Torrington Lane

  • 369 Saving money, wear and tear

  • 370

    Womens Skittles Competition in Buckland Brewer
  • 371 New fire and ambulance stations

  • 372 Shoes certainly not made for walking

  • 373 Jalopy joy for children of Shamwickshire

  • 374 Torrington Youth Club rewarded by party
  • 375 X-ray shoe fitting

  • 376

    Relatives all over the world
  • 377 John Andrew Bread Charity
  • 378 The art of the thatcher

  • 379 Donkey and horses enjoy carnival drink

  • 380 They are parted pro-tem

  • 381 Champagne send-off for Torrington new factory

  • 382 Can-carrying over cobbles has disappeared

  • 383 Torrington's enterprise's new extensions

  • 384 Sight of a lifetime

  • 385 The Geneva marionettes

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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  • 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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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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Girls’ Embroidery Wins Praise

'A Very Good Co-operative Effort'

Entitled ‘our place’ this panel of embroidery by pupils of Class IC at Torrington County Secondary School was highly commended, at the Guild of Embroiders’ exhibition in London, in the senior section of the Schools’ Challenge competition 1970 championship.

It so impressed an author preparing a book on embroidery that she has asked for permission to include a photograph of it.

The judges at the exhibition described the entry as ‘a lovely panel which is full of interest – a very good co-operative effort.’

The young embroiderers seen with the panel are: Susan Dunn, Rosemarie Shambrooke, Wendy Skinner, Caroline Finch, Julie Symons, Marina Davey, Sharon Johns and Josephine Coysh.

5.2.1971 Torrington embroidery1

5.2.1971 Torrington embroidery

Article dated 5 February 1971

ticle dated 5 February 1971

Bideford Schoolgirls Ski in Austria

Back to school on Monday,

23.1.1959 Edgehill skiing

after a couple of days extra holiday to allow for their return from a winter sports holiday at Hochsolden, in the Austrian Tyrol, were 34 girls from Edgehill College, Bideford.

Most of the party, which was under the leadership of Major and Mrs Ralph de Pomerai, of Westcombe, Bideford, are seen in the photograph above.

Two of the girls – Susan Holyoake of Rosebank, Buckleigh, and Margaret Sweetnam, of Cardiff – were awarded Austrian silver badges for skiing as a result of their proficiency in competitions.

Gazette article dated 23 January 1959

New Headmistress at Monkleigh

The senior class of Monkleigh Primary School with their new headmistress,

27.1.1956 Schools Monkleigh

Mrs E M Smith, formerly headmistress of Buckland Brewer School, welcomed with interest the brief visit of a photographer ..... then it was back to lessons as usual!

Article dated 27 January 1956

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