• 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 Centuries old but today busier than ever

  • 2 Sight of a lifetime

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    Mrs Whapham finds ferret in Bridgeland Street while shopping
  • 4 Broomhayes £1,000 Surprise
  • 5 Train returns to Westleigh straight

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    Double Baptism on Torridge
  • 7 Some 240 exhibits

  • 8 Loads of black and white

  • 9 Harvest service in Bideford 'pub' bar

  • 10 Littleham family's five generations

  • 11 Up-to-date Bideford!

  • 12 Bideford Liberal club new lounge bar opened

  • 13 Bideford School Junior Choir Sing in France at Twinning Ceremony in Landivisiau
  • 14 Town's second woman mayor in 392 years

  • 15 Wishing well is pixielated

  • 16 Police station view of Bideford

  • 17 Twenty-one yachts

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

  • 19 River scenes that enchant the visitors

  • 20 Bideford country dancers on TV

  • 21 Getting up steam for tomorrow

  • 22 Calligrapher extraordinary

  • 23 Chess - their bridge over the years

  • 24 Panto time at Westward Ho!

  • 25 Holiday traffic in Bideford High Street

  • 26 Birds' convalescent home at Instow

  • 27 Variety in summer weather

  • 28 Torrington in 1967

  • 29 America's tribute to 'J.H.'

  • 30 Wilfred and Mabel visit schools and hospital

  • 31 Ships at Bideford

  • 32 Bideford's first triplets for 12 years

  • 33 Bideford schoolboy's courage recognised

  • 34 A man and his wheel

  • 35 Sweet success at Langtree School

  • 36 Private home for public pump

  • 37 Mobile missionary

  • 38

    Andre Veillett and Quentin Reed in Judo Demonstration
  • 39 Bideford Bridge re-opens

  • 40 Eleventh hour bid to save last sailing barge

  • 41 Cavaliers join the Hunt
  • 42 Hartland postman retires

  • 43 Championship Trophy for Hartland
  • 44 Appledore tugs fete London Tower

  • 45 No laughing matter

  • 46 Big develolpment at Calveford

  • 47 Six footed lamb

  • 48 Northam wants to continue pumping from river

  • 49 Born 1883 - still going strong

  • 50 Charter granted by Philip and Mary

  • 51 Signed scroll momento of Queen Mother's visit

  • 52 Entente cordiale in Bideford

  • 53 Teenager Peter Jackson Makes Horror Film
  • 54

    Appledore boys beat mums at football
  • 55

    Successful motor cycling team
  • 56 A roof-top view - where?

  • 57 Hartland Dancers
  • 58 A story to tell!

  • 59 Safe door weighing two tons

  • 60

    Married in 1908
  • 61 Clovelly nightmare

  • 62 Childrens' model of Torrington

  • 63 Polish custom on Pancake Day

  • 64 Designed and made in Bideford

  • 65

    School of Dancing's Annual Display
  • 66 Joe the ginger tabby is 21

  • 67 A Weare Giffard speciality - delicious strawberries

  • 68 Picture bought for shillings may be worth thousands

  • 69 Torridge graveyard of wooden hulks

  • 70 Making way for the double-deckers

  • 71 So this is the mainland!

  • 72 'Out of Appledore' sailing memories

  • 73 Inscribed Bibles and silver spoons for babies

  • 74 Appledore's new lifeboat

  • 75 New art gallery opened

  • 76 Holiday scene near Sandymere

  • 77 A craftsman's 'potted' history

  • 78 Donkey and horses enjoy carnival drink

  • 79 'Les Girls' of Hartland

  • 80 Appledore's largest

  • 81 All for the love of a lady!

  • 82 Capers on the cobbles

  • 83 Donkey work made easier at Clovelly

  • 84 Clovelly's 91 year old horseman

  • 85 Burnard family reunion

  • 86 Hartland Abbey outdoor staff 60 years ago

  • 87 Emergency ferry services

  • 88 Bideford stock car racing entry comes in second

  • 89 Light reading for the lighthouse

  • 90 Bridging the stream

  • 91 Preparations for new Clovelly Court

  • 92

    Jinxed School Trip
  • 93 Landmark at Bradworthy

  • 94 Modern living at Bideford

  • 95 Bideford's new market opens next week

  • 96 Artisans' Club

  • 97 Do recall the old windmill at Northam?

  • 98 Boys from Bideford school complete Ten Tors

  • 99

    Bidefordians
  • 100 Champagne send-off for Torrington new factory

  • 101 New life for Hartland organ

  • 102 Devil sent packing

  • 103 Church renovation rejoicing at Northam

  • 104 Westward Ho! sand yacht to challenge speed record

  • 105 Bank Holiday weather was beach weather

  • 106 Fleet of foot and fair of face

  • 107 Alwington School closing after 120 years

  • 108

    Close associations with North Devon
  • 109 North Devon Driving School

  • 110 On her 'maiden' trip from Bideford

  • 111 Bideford shipyard workers cheer new minesweeper

  • 112 First steel ship built at Bideford

  • 113 Bideford's private wharves busier

  • 114 Saving money, wear and tear

  • 115 They never miss a game at Torrington

  • 116 Bideford's gift to Sir Francis

  • 117 Hartland's invitation

  • 118 Designed all furnishing of new chapel

  • 119 Liked holidays here - so starts business

  • 120 Tibbles home again - and fish supper

  • 121 An early 'special' to Bideford

  • 122

    First prize
  • 123 Lady Godiva comes to Torrington

  • 124 A bird of their own!

  • 125 Yeoi Vale House finally demolished

  • 126

    Gus Honeybun meets local children
  • 127 School's link with cargo ship

  • 128

    Gift from Bideford Town Council
  • 129 Photo mural in Bideford bank

  • 130 Passing of a Torrington landmark

  • 131 In the tortoise nursery - eight hatched at Bideford

  • 132

    Hamburger is part of modern life
  • 133 Bideford childrens' cinema opens

  • 134 Farewell to passenger trains

  • 135 Speeding communications: Bideford firm's new installation

  • 136 Thrush builds nest in cauliflower

  • 137 Instow local art show was 'tremendous success'

  • 138 No ancient Grecian temple this

  • 139 A sense of humour in advertising

  • 140 New Estate's view of estuary activities

  • 141 Bicycle now does donkey work

  • 142 Brothers reunion 1947
  • 143 Westward Ho! public conveniences get go ahead
  • 144

    Mums protest in Coronation Road
  • 145 Northam's almshouse

  • 146 Weare Giffard Hall sold for £11,300

  • 147 Bideford-Torrington road gets 'carpet coat'

  • 148 Yeo vale road ruin provides a mystery

  • 149 Smiling welcome to Hartland visitors

  • 150 Centenary of Landcross Methodist Chapel

  • 151

    New gateway
  • 152 TV features Bideford's New Year bread ceremony

  • 153 All aboard the ark

  • 154 Littleham cow tops 70 tons mark in milk production

  • 155 Bideford skifflers, they're no squares

  • 156 Record player of 80 years ago

  • 157 Eleven million pound scheme's official opening

  • 158 Old Girls revisit Edgehill

  • 159 For crying out loud!

  • 160 Dismantling of wireless mast

  • 161 Bideford loses training ship

  • 162 Olympic riders to compete at Bideford Horse Show

  • 163 Students help model St Sidwell

  • 164 Fish nearly pulled him in

  • 165 Lady Churchill congratulates Bideford artists at nursing exhibition

  • 166 New shipyard on schedule

  • 167 Success to Festival of the Arts

  • 168 Huntshaw TV mast

  • 169

    Toasted with musical honours
  • 170 Steep street of old Bideford

  • 171 Symbol of Lundy independence

  • 172 Repair work on Long Bridge
  • 173 New civic medallions

  • 174 Puppet characters introduced

  • 175 First ship in 8 years

  • 176 Sunshine and shade at Appledore

  • 177 Water Board mains spread through villages

  • 178 Jalopy joy for children of Shamwickshire

  • 179 Torrington's enterprise's new extensions

  • 180 Bideford inquest on French trawlermen opens

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

  • 182

    FA Cup Match for the Robins
  • 183 Torrington to have first woman mayor

  • 184 Pet squirrels at Monkleigh

  • 185 Circus comes to town

  • 186 Buckland farm workers to receive long-service awards

  • 187 Appledore schooner broadcast

  • 188

    Was a missionary
  • 189

    Building works
  • 190

    Birgitta Whittaker
  • 191 Gift plaque on Clovelly council houses

  • 192 North Devon author featured in TV documentary

  • 193 Practical sympathy at Northam

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

  • 195 The Geneva marionettes

  • 196

    Womens Skittles Competition in Buckland Brewer
  • 197 In their new robes and hats

  • 198 A lost Bideford 'island'

  • 199 Quads at Thornhillhead

  • 200 The art of the thatcher

  • 201 Tramps camp by riverside throughout arctic weather

  • 202

    10-year-old scrambler practices
  • 203 Shoes certainly not made for walking

  • 204 Appledore boy is youngest recipient of RNLI vellun

  • 205

    Inter-school Road Safety Quiz Cup Winners
  • 206 Future of Torrington almshouses

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

  • 208 One thousand visit zoo at Whitsun

  • 209 Thunderstorm destruction of 25 years ago

  • 210 Cement-clad boats being built at Northam

  • 211 He beat the floods

  • 212 Space dominates Hartland carnival

  • 213 Parkham plan realised

  • 214 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

  • 215 Spring-cleaning the Ridge

  • 216 Decontrol of meat

  • 217 Eight to strike and a race to win

  • 218 New fire and ambulance stations

  • 219 Ten year old scrambler

  • 220 Two kinds of hovercraft at Bideford

  • 221 Just over a year old

  • 222 Torrington's new amenity

  • 223 Some mushroom!

  • 224 No ancient Grecian temple this

  • 225

    Youth Clubs Join Together For Entertainment
  • 226 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

  • 227 Second Monte Carlo Rally

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

  • 229 Clovelly custom

  • 230 Council agree to demolition of Chanter's Folly

  • 231 They set out for Bideford and became lost

  • 232 New choral society's growing response

  • 233 Jumble sale fever

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

  • 235 No sale of Springfield House

  • 236 Unique holiday adventure!

  • 237 Meredith's ironmongers

  • 238 Recognise this resort?

  • 239 Finished in 1876

  • 240 Westward Ho! Tennis Club Winners
  • 241 Faints as she wins national competition

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

  • 243 113 years at Instow

  • 244 Shipbuilding hobby at Hartland

  • 245 Bideford firm develops new non-spill paint

  • 246 Bideford Liberals' fashion show

  • 247 Bideford Zoo's first baby is big draw

  • 248 Barley from Bideford to Bonnie Scotland

  • 249 Broomhayes children will keep their winter pet

  • 250 New Post Office

  • 251 Alverdiscott is proud of its new parish hall

  • 252 Lots drawn to prevent dog fight

  • 253 Cruising down the river

  • 254 Traditions and skills still there

  • 255 Can-carrying over cobbles has disappeared

  • 256 Larkworthy Family play in Shebbear's Football Team
  • 257 Grenville House for Bideford R.D.C.

  • 258 What's the time?

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    Exhibition of school work
  • 260 Happy Days!

  • 261 East-the-Water sets town an example

  • 262 Tomorrow' night's skittles broadcast from Bideford

  • 263 Fundraising trip for RNLI

  • 264 Puzzle corner at Bideford!

  • 265 Picking the pops

  • 266

    Lenwood Squash Club
  • 267 Fishing light goes out at close of poor season

  • 268 Ancestral home nestling in lovely combe

  • 269 Torrington school's sundial - fashioned by Headmaster

  • 270 Bideford computer stars

  • 271

    Cadets are given certificates
  • 272

    Wynne Olley's styles impress International Hair Fashion Designer
  • 273 Torrington Youth Club rewarded by party
  • 274 Four sisters' nostalgic reunion

  • 275 New addition to Quay front

  • 276 Revived market off to splendid start

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    First Girls at Bideford Grammar School take part in Play
  • 278 Bideford has built over 500 post-war homes

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

  • 280 Warmington's garage ad

  • 281 Bideford A.F.C annual dinner
  • 282 New look for Torrington Lane

  • 283 Head Barman appointed Torrington Town Crier
  • 284 Eight and a half million pound Taw development scheme

  • 285 Wine and beer merchants for 150 years

  • 286 Can spring be far away?

  • 287 Off on a great adventure

  • 288 Record pebble-throwing day

  • 289 Buckland goes to County Show

  • 290 Children's procession with foxgloves

  • 291 When horses score over the tractor

  • 292 Bideford regatta

  • 293 End of the line

  • 294 Quads join a Langtree happy family

  • 295 Clovelly donkey film star

  • 296 Panel sprint for Bideford broadcast

  • 297 Little 'Big Ben'

  • 298 What the television camera saw at Abbotsham

  • 299 Simple Item 138
  • 300 Spray dodging - the new pastime

  • 301 Calf thinks of mare as mum

  • 302 Five generations link Woolsery, Clovelly and Bideford

  • 303 Daisy's pride and joy

  • 304 Move for oldest boatyard on Torridge

  • 305 Last of Bideford factory chimney

  • 306 Salmon netting at Bideford

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

  • 308 Torrington children build igloo
  • 309 They are parted pro-tem

  • 310

    Reds Womens Team Are First To Compete Throughout Season
  • 311 New Lundy stamps

  • 312 Boys win hockey on the sands challenge

  • 313 Northam footballers of the future

  • 314 Bideford electricity window display qualifies for area competition

  • 315 Launching the 'Golden Hinde'

  • 316 Four hundred residents leave Bideford!

  • 317 Vessel built 300 feet above sea level

  • 318 Rowing triumphs at Bideford

  • 319 Bideford triplets' first birthday party

  • 320 TV contest means big job for Bideford Guides

  • 321 Ship-in-bottle world record

  • 322 Tide sweeps under and over the old bridge

  • 323 Allhalland Street - then and now

  • 324 Celebrations for 103rd birthday

  • 325 Torrington acclaims 400th anniversary of granting of charter

  • 326 Northam loses thatched cottage landmark

  • 327 First tankers arrive at new depot

  • 328 Picking the pops

  • 329 New gateway to King George's Fields

  • 330 Westward Ho! combined op

  • 331 Television comes to Torridge District

  • 332 Homage to a well-loved sovereign

  • 333 Torridge wins on time schedule

  • 334 John Andrew Bread Charity
  • 335 Colour TV salesman at eight

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

  • 337 Bringing shopping home by goat

  • 338 Appledore Juniors Football
  • 339 Torrington's shelter for the aged

  • 340 Thorn-apple found in Littleham conservatory

  • 341 Baby Kate goes home to Lundy

  • 342 Riverside mystery

  • 343 Out of puff!

  • 344 Revenge in style

  • 345 It really was the 'last time'

  • 346 Mural in the whimsical fashion

  • 347 Yelland potter's exhibition at Bideford

  • 348

    Holidaying in north Devon
  • 349 Largest salmon caught in Torridge

  • 350 Pannier Market's future?

  • 351 Works at craft he learned over 65 years ago

  • 352 Life begins at 80

  • 353

    Relatives all over the world
  • 354 Still hunting aged 80 and a Field Master

  • 355 X-ray shoe fitting

  • 356 Escaped crane moves into Kenwith Valley

  • 357 New Lundy air-mail stamps

  • 358 Death - and birth - of a telephone exchange

  • 359 Fishermen of Greencliff

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

  • 361 School crossing patrol begins

  • 362 Sooty is quick on the draw

  • 363 Centenary of Gazette

  • 364 Battle of the gap at Westward Ho!

  • 365 What is future of railway goods yard?

  • 366 The creative urge on Saturday morning

  • 367 Penny for the guy

  • 368 Photo of town's first car wins prize

  • 369 Service with a smile

  • 370 By pony and trap to market

  • 371 Waldon Triplets
  • 372 Beach search for mines takes longer

  • 373 Bravery against bull at Shebbear rewarded

  • 374 Gloves fit for a king!

  • 375 New look in the hayfields

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

  • 377 Down at the 'Donkey House'

  • 378 Bideford blacksmith wins English championship

  • 379 Peter poses for TV film

  • 380 Alderman Anstey's dream comes tru

  • 381 Weare Giffard potato

  • 382 Thirty bridges cross Torridge

  • 383 Pretty pennies at Beaford

  • 384 Watch the dicky bird!

  • 385 Last train from Torrington

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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Parents Envious

Langtree Schools’s Happy Atmosphere

 

18.7.1958 Langtree School

 

18.7.1958 Langtree School1

Many parents wished they were back at school again when a large number of visitors attended an Open Day at Langtree County Primary School on Friday.
Folk dancing, recorder playing, puppet making and basketry have been added to the curriculum this year, said the headmaster, Mr R A Yeo Jenn, in welcoming the guests.
Great interest was shown in the needlework section, under the direction of Mrs G E Burnett, as several of the articles made at the school had already been on display at teachers’ courses in different parts of the county.
A recorder solo by Barbara Dove as especially appreciated.
The headmaster thanked Mrs Burnett and Miss P K Nute for the support they had given him during the past year.
The full Gazette article is dated 18 July 1958

Shebbear Surprised

Entertaining Barnstaple Grammar School, Shebbear College declared at 130 for 7, thanks in particular to Daniel who made 43, and it looked as if they were reasonably safe in allowing Barnstaple 110 minutes in which to get the runs.

20.6.1958 Shebbear cricket


But they reckoned without Shepherd, who hit 51 which included 4 fours and a six, and a windfall of 17 in one over; he was well supported by Ash (24 not out) and Rogers (24), and the Shebbear figure was passed just a few minutes from time.
Gazette article dated 20 June 1958

A Tour Of The Tulips For Stella Maris Girls

Girls from Stella Maris Convent School, Bideford, were eating Edam cheese this week which they had brought from Holland as a souvenir of the eight days they spent there during the Easter holidays. 

1 May 1959 tulip tour

Their visits included a tour of the canals at Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Harbour, the Delft potteries, a cheese factory, art galleries and the Zuider Zee. ‘We were made welcome wherever we went’ said Miss M Loughlin, one of the teachers who accompanied the party. While at Volendam the group found a photographer who kept a stock of national costumes, and posed for the photograph: J Beer, M Little, P Westwood, C Lockhart, W Whiteland, M Whiteland, C Blackmore, J Ley, D Steer, S Lisle, Miss K O’Loughlin, Miss M Loughlin, V Pedrick, S Pidgeon. 

1 May 1959 tulip tour1

The full Gazette article is dated 1 May 1959

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