• 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 Clovelly donkey film star

  • 2 New Post Office

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

  • 4 Wine and beer merchants for 150 years

  • 5 Torrington's shelter for the aged

  • 6 Holiday scene near Sandymere

  • 7 Ancestral home nestling in lovely combe

  • 8 Battle of the gap at Westward Ho!

  • 9 Peter poses for TV film

  • 10 He beat the floods

  • 11 Bideford electricity window display qualifies for area competition

  • 12 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

  • 13 Allhalland Street - then and now

  • 14 River scenes that enchant the visitors

  • 15 Move for oldest boatyard on Torridge

  • 16 Last of Bideford factory chimney

  • 17 Bideford blacksmith wins English championship

  • 18 Lady Godiva comes to Torrington

  • 19 Revenge in style

  • 20 Salmon netting at Bideford

  • 21 Penny for the guy

  • 22 End of the line

  • 23 Boys win hockey on the sands challenge

  • 24 Bideford loses training ship

  • 25 Yeo vale road ruin provides a mystery

  • 26 Larkworthy Family play in Shebbear's Football Team
  • 27 Safe door weighing two tons

  • 28 Torridge graveyard of wooden hulks

  • 29 Quads join a Langtree happy family

  • 30 Sight of a lifetime

  • 31 Decontrol of meat

  • 32 Finished in 1876

  • 33 Light reading for the lighthouse

  • 34 'Les Girls' of Hartland

  • 35 Littleham family's five generations

  • 36 Mobile missionary

  • 37

    Cadets are given certificates
  • 38 Bideford regatta

  • 39 Record player of 80 years ago

  • 40 New art gallery opened

  • 41 Brothers reunion 1947
  • 42 Television comes to Torridge District

  • 43 Bideford-Torrington road gets 'carpet coat'

  • 44 Thunderstorm destruction of 25 years ago

  • 45 Revived market off to splendid start

  • 46 113 years at Instow

  • 47 Down at the 'Donkey House'

  • 48 Broomhayes £1,000 Surprise
  • 49 Bideford's new market opens next week

  • 50 The creative urge on Saturday morning

  • 51 Preparations for new Clovelly Court

  • 52 Vessel built 300 feet above sea level

  • 53 For crying out loud!

  • 54 Champagne send-off for Torrington new factory

  • 55

    Married in 1908
  • 56 Pannier Market's future?

  • 57 Northam's almshouse

  • 58 Gloves fit for a king!

  • 59 Smiling welcome to Hartland visitors

  • 60 Pretty pennies at Beaford

  • 61 Town's second woman mayor in 392 years

  • 62 New choral society's growing response

  • 63 Fishing light goes out at close of poor season

  • 64 New civic medallions

  • 65 Bideford childrens' cinema opens

  • 66 Meredith's ironmongers

  • 67

    Bidefordians
  • 68 Beach search for mines takes longer

  • 69 It really was the 'last time'

  • 70 Puppet characters introduced

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

  • 72 Littleham cow tops 70 tons mark in milk production

  • 73 Torrington children build igloo
  • 74 Bideford computer stars

  • 75 New fire and ambulance stations

  • 76 Warmington's garage ad

  • 77 Picking the pops

  • 78 Polish custom on Pancake Day

  • 79 Joe the ginger tabby is 21

  • 80

    Building works
  • 81 Last train from Torrington

  • 82 They are parted pro-tem

  • 83 The Geneva marionettes

  • 84 In their new robes and hats

  • 85

    Womens Skittles Competition in Buckland Brewer
  • 86 Wilfred and Mabel visit schools and hospital

  • 87

    Appledore boys beat mums at football
  • 88 Tramps camp by riverside throughout arctic weather

  • 89 Baby Kate goes home to Lundy

  • 90 One thousand visit zoo at Whitsun

  • 91 Alverdiscott is proud of its new parish hall

  • 92 Cruising down the river

  • 93 Instow local art show was 'tremendous success'

  • 94 Burnard family reunion

  • 95 Bravery against bull at Shebbear rewarded

  • 96 Torrington acclaims 400th anniversary of granting of charter

  • 97

    Mrs Whapham finds ferret in Bridgeland Street while shopping
  • 98

    Was a missionary
  • 99 Holiday traffic in Bideford High Street

  • 100 Designed and made in Bideford

  • 101 Devil sent packing

  • 102 Bideford triplets' first birthday party

  • 103 'Out of Appledore' sailing memories

  • 104

    Toasted with musical honours
  • 105 A bird of their own!

  • 106 Inscribed Bibles and silver spoons for babies

  • 107 Rowing triumphs at Bideford

  • 108 New Estate's view of estuary activities

  • 109 Children's procession with foxgloves

  • 110 Designed all furnishing of new chapel

  • 111 Buckland goes to County Show

  • 112 Picture bought for shillings may be worth thousands

  • 113 Eleventh hour bid to save last sailing barge

  • 114 Torrington's enterprise's new extensions

  • 115 Bideford schoolboy's courage recognised

  • 116 Olympic riders to compete at Bideford Horse Show

  • 117 Bideford Zoo's first baby is big draw

  • 118 Northam wants to continue pumping from river

  • 119 Bringing shopping home by goat

  • 120 Can spring be far away?

  • 121 Traditions and skills still there

  • 122 Ships at Bideford

  • 123 Jumble sale fever

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

  • 125 Torrington's new amenity

  • 126 Practical sympathy at Northam

  • 127 Still hunting aged 80 and a Field Master

  • 128 Bank Holiday weather was beach weather

  • 129 Appledore tugs fete London Tower

  • 130 First ship in 8 years

  • 131 Making way for the double-deckers

  • 132

    First Girls at Bideford Grammar School take part in Play
  • 133

    Relatives all over the world
  • 134 Mural in the whimsical fashion

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

  • 136 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

  • 137 New look in the hayfields

  • 138 Charter granted by Philip and Mary

  • 139 Steep street of old Bideford

  • 140 Fleet of foot and fair of face

  • 141 Centenary of Landcross Methodist Chapel

  • 142 Cavaliers join the Hunt
  • 143 Faints as she wins national competition

  • 144 Some mushroom!

  • 145 Boys from Bideford school complete Ten Tors

  • 146 Bideford country dancers on TV

  • 147 Thorn-apple found in Littleham conservatory

  • 148 Artisans' Club

  • 149 Spring-cleaning the Ridge

  • 150 Bideford Liberals' fashion show

  • 151 Daisy's pride and joy

  • 152 Championship Trophy for Hartland
  • 153 Shoes certainly not made for walking

  • 154 A Weare Giffard speciality - delicious strawberries

  • 155 Train returns to Westleigh straight

  • 156 Record pebble-throwing day

  • 157 Yeoi Vale House finally demolished

  • 158 Up-to-date Bideford!

  • 159

    Wynne Olley's styles impress International Hair Fashion Designer
  • 160 Just over a year old

  • 161 Northam loses thatched cottage landmark

  • 162 Death - and birth - of a telephone exchange

  • 163 Broomhayes children will keep their winter pet

  • 164

    Holidaying in north Devon
  • 165 Westward Ho! sand yacht to challenge speed record

  • 166 Torrington in 1967

  • 167 Passing of a Torrington landmark

  • 168 Appledore Juniors Football
  • 169 Ten year old scrambler

  • 170

    Double Baptism on Torridge
  • 171

    Close associations with North Devon
  • 172 North Devon Driving School

  • 173 Appledore boy is youngest recipient of RNLI vellun

  • 174 Tide sweeps under and over the old bridge

  • 175 Police station view of Bideford

  • 176

    Youth Clubs Join Together For Entertainment
  • 177 TV features Bideford's New Year bread ceremony

  • 178 Lady Churchill congratulates Bideford artists at nursing exhibition

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

  • 180 Out of puff!

  • 181 Centuries old but today busier than ever

  • 182 A sense of humour in advertising

  • 183 Calf thinks of mare as mum

  • 184 Bideford inquest on French trawlermen opens

  • 185 On her 'maiden' trip from Bideford

  • 186 Ship-in-bottle world record

  • 187 Dismantling of wireless mast

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

  • 189 Big develolpment at Calveford

  • 190 East-the-Water sets town an example

  • 191 Landmark at Bradworthy

  • 192 Bideford's gift to Sir Francis

  • 193 Recognise this resort?

  • 194 Second Monte Carlo Rally

  • 195 Bideford skifflers, they're no squares

  • 196

    Successful motor cycling team
  • 197 In the tortoise nursery - eight hatched at Bideford

  • 198 Childrens' model of Torrington

  • 199

    Lenwood Squash Club
  • 200 Bideford has built over 500 post-war homes

  • 201 A lost Bideford 'island'

  • 202 X-ray shoe fitting

  • 203 Students help model St Sidwell

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

  • 205 Escaped crane moves into Kenwith Valley

  • 206 Weare Giffard potato

  • 207 Head Barman appointed Torrington Town Crier
  • 208 Unique holiday adventure!

  • 209 Celebrations for 103rd birthday

  • 210 Fundraising trip for RNLI

  • 211 Private home for public pump

  • 212 When horses score over the tractor

  • 213 No laughing matter

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

  • 215 Torrington Youth Club rewarded by party
  • 216 By pony and trap to market

  • 217 Bideford stock car racing entry comes in second

  • 218

    Exhibition of school work
  • 219 Circus comes to town

  • 220 Loads of black and white

  • 221 Barley from Bideford to Bonnie Scotland

  • 222 New life for Hartland organ

  • 223 Church renovation rejoicing at Northam

  • 224 Eleven million pound scheme's official opening

  • 225 John Andrew Bread Charity
  • 226 Hartland's invitation

  • 227 Works at craft he learned over 65 years ago

  • 228 Some 240 exhibits

  • 229 Appledore schooner broadcast

  • 230 Puzzle corner at Bideford!

  • 231 Simple Item 138
  • 232 School's link with cargo ship

  • 233 Symbol of Lundy independence

  • 234 Gift plaque on Clovelly council houses

  • 235 Picking the pops

  • 236

    10-year-old scrambler practices
  • 237 Wishing well is pixielated

  • 238 Little 'Big Ben'

  • 239 Bideford Bridge re-opens

  • 240 Alwington School closing after 120 years

  • 241 Westward Ho! public conveniences get go ahead
  • 242 Centenary of Gazette

  • 243 Lots drawn to prevent dog fight

  • 244 Six footed lamb

  • 245 Donkey work made easier at Clovelly

  • 246 Repair work on Long Bridge
  • 247 A roof-top view - where?

  • 248 Shipbuilding hobby at Hartland

  • 249 Off on a great adventure

  • 250 Watch the dicky bird!

  • 251 Bideford A.F.C annual dinner
  • 252 Photo of town's first car wins prize

  • 253 Bideford Liberal club new lounge bar opened

  • 254 Old Girls revisit Edgehill

  • 255 Parkham plan realised

  • 256 Calligrapher extraordinary

  • 257 Capers on the cobbles

  • 258 The art of the thatcher

  • 259 Success to Festival of the Arts

  • 260 Torrington school's sundial - fashioned by Headmaster

  • 261 Birds' convalescent home at Instow

  • 262

    Hamburger is part of modern life
  • 263 First tankers arrive at new depot

  • 264 North Devon author featured in TV documentary

  • 265 America's tribute to 'J.H.'

  • 266 Buckland farm workers to receive long-service awards

  • 267 Sooty is quick on the draw

  • 268 Clovelly custom

  • 269 Born 1883 - still going strong

  • 270

    Mums protest in Coronation Road
  • 271 Northam footballers of the future

  • 272 Eight and a half million pound Taw development scheme

  • 273 Eight to strike and a race to win

  • 274 So this is the mainland!

  • 275 Five generations link Woolsery, Clovelly and Bideford

  • 276

    Andre Veillett and Quentin Reed in Judo Demonstration
  • 277 Panto time at Westward Ho!

  • 278 Saving money, wear and tear

  • 279 First steel ship built at Bideford

  • 280 Future of Torrington almshouses

  • 281 Huntshaw TV mast

  • 282 An early 'special' to Bideford

  • 283 All for the love of a lady!

  • 284 Space dominates Hartland carnival

  • 285 Modern living at Bideford

  • 286 Clovelly nightmare

  • 287

    FA Cup Match for the Robins
  • 288 Liked holidays here - so starts business

  • 289 Bideford shipyard workers cheer new minesweeper

  • 290 Two kinds of hovercraft at Bideford

  • 291 Appledore's largest

  • 292 Weare Giffard Hall sold for £11,300

  • 293 Westward Ho! combined op

  • 294 Emergency ferry services

  • 295 Sunshine and shade at Appledore

  • 296

    Reds Womens Team Are First To Compete Throughout Season
  • 297

    First prize
  • 298 What is future of railway goods yard?

  • 299 Photo mural in Bideford bank

  • 300 Signed scroll momento of Queen Mother's visit

  • 301 Hartland postman retires

  • 302 They set out for Bideford and became lost

  • 303 Bridging the stream

  • 304 Bideford's private wharves busier

  • 305 No sale of Springfield House

  • 306 Twenty-one yachts

  • 307 Homage to a well-loved sovereign

  • 308 Tibbles home again - and fish supper

  • 309 Hartland Abbey outdoor staff 60 years ago

  • 310 Westward Ho! Tennis Club Winners
  • 311 Sixty-two year old Picarooner makes ready for season

  • 312 No ancient Grecian temple this

  • 313 Entente cordiale in Bideford

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

  • 315 Teenager Peter Jackson Makes Horror Film
  • 316 Water Board mains spread through villages

  • 317 Panel sprint for Bideford broadcast

  • 318 Largest salmon caught in Torridge

  • 319 Do recall the old windmill at Northam?

  • 320 Donkey and horses enjoy carnival drink

  • 321 New look for Torrington Lane

  • 322 Tomorrow' night's skittles broadcast from Bideford

  • 323 Harvest service in Bideford 'pub' bar

  • 324 Four hundred residents leave Bideford!

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

  • 326 A man and his wheel

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

  • 328 School crossing patrol begins

  • 329

    Inter-school Road Safety Quiz Cup Winners
  • 330 Getting up steam for tomorrow

  • 331 Sweet success at Langtree School

  • 332 Four sisters' nostalgic reunion

  • 333 Cement-clad boats being built at Northam

  • 334 Torrington to have first woman mayor

  • 335 Hartland Dancers
  • 336 Fishermen of Greencliff

  • 337

    Birgitta Whittaker
  • 338 Life begins at 80

  • 339 Service with a smile

  • 340 Thirty bridges cross Torridge

  • 341

    School of Dancing's Annual Display
  • 342 No ancient Grecian temple this

  • 343 Farewell to passenger trains

  • 344 New Lundy air-mail stamps

  • 345 All aboard the ark

  • 346 Alderman Anstey's dream comes tru

  • 347 Bideford's first triplets for 12 years

  • 348 Colour TV salesman at eight

  • 349 Happy Days!

  • 350 New gateway to King George's Fields

  • 351

    Jinxed School Trip
  • 352 Can-carrying over cobbles has disappeared

  • 353

    Gift from Bideford Town Council
  • 354 What the television camera saw at Abbotsham

  • 355 Bicycle now does donkey work

  • 356 TV contest means big job for Bideford Guides

  • 357 Jalopy joy for children of Shamwickshire

  • 358 Launching the 'Golden Hinde'

  • 359

    Gus Honeybun meets local children
  • 360 Bideford 'What's my line?' challenger

  • 361 Bideford School Junior Choir Sing in France at Twinning Ceremony in Landivisiau
  • 362 New shipyard on schedule

  • 363 Fish nearly pulled him in

  • 364 A craftsman's 'potted' history

  • 365 Appledore's new lifeboat

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    New gateway
  • 367 Torridge wins on time schedule

  • 368 Quads at Thornhillhead

  • 369 Yelland potter's exhibition at Bideford

  • 370 They never miss a game at Torrington

  • 371 What's the time?

  • 372 Thrush builds nest in cauliflower

  • 373 Pet squirrels at Monkleigh

  • 374 Speeding communications: Bideford firm's new installation

  • 375 Clovelly's 91 year old horseman

  • 376 Chess - their bridge over the years

  • 377 Bideford firm develops new non-spill paint

  • 378 A story to tell!

  • 379 Spray dodging - the new pastime

  • 380 Variety in summer weather

  • 381 Waldon Triplets
  • 382 New Lundy stamps

  • 383 Council agree to demolition of Chanter's Folly

  • 384 New addition to Quay front

  • 385 Riverside mystery

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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Torrington Division Political Candidates

Candidates

Mr Thomas B H Chappell, the Labour candidate in the Torrington Division, is 50 and was born near High Wycombe. In the first world war he put on his age to enlist and was wounded on the Somme at the age of 15. Later he became a sergeant in the Coldstream Guards and completed seven years’ regular service. In 1926 he joined Exeter City Police and served until 1939 when he resigned on winning £13,000 in a football pool. He has since been a license at North Tawton and Hatherleigh and in 1948 returned to Exeter. From 1946 until last year he was chairman of the South Molton Division Labour Party. Mr and Mrs Chappell have brought up a family of thirteen, of whom four boys and three girls served in the last war. Their third son was killed on the Glorious in 1940.

The Hon G Lambert, the National Liberal-Conservative candidate, is the elder son of Viscount Lambert, and lives in the family home, Spreyton, Devon.
Viscount Lambert first entered Parliament as Liberal member for South Molton in 1891 and except for a break of four years represented the Division continuously until 1945.
The Hon G Lambert, who is 39, was educated at Harrow and New College, Oxford. He joined the Territorials (RA) in 1938. During the war he served as a regimental officer and on the staff in AA command and in 1942 was promoted Lieut-Col in command of an Ack-Ack OCTU. Appointed a War Office liaison officer in 1944, he visited Central Mediterranean, PAI Force, India and South East Asia Command.
Mrs Lambert was formerly Miss Patricia Quinn of London. They have a son and a daughter.

Mrs Elizabeth Rashleigh, the Liberal candidate for the Torrington division, is the wife of Dr J C S Rashleigh, of Throwleigh, Devon.
In 1946, Mrs Rashleigh took a leading part in forming the Torrington Division Liberal Association, becoming chairman of the Okehampton Committee. She is a vice-president of the Devon and Cornwall Liberal Federation.
Mrs Rashleigh, who is a Justice of the Peace for Devon, has undertaken much public work.
She is one of the County Voluntary Organisers and a public speaker for the Women’s Institute movement and serves on the County WI Agricultural Sub-Committee.
During the war she helped the Red Cross and was also associated with the National Saving Movement.

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Gazette article dated 17 February 1950

 

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