• 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 Shoes certainly not made for walking

  • 2 The creative urge on Saturday morning

  • 3 An early 'special' to Bideford

  • 4 Revived market off to splendid start

  • 5 Colour TV salesman at eight

  • 6 For crying out loud!

  • 7 Pet squirrels at Monkleigh

  • 8 Mobile missionary

  • 9 New art gallery opened

  • 10 Holiday scene near Sandymere

  • 11 Simple Item 138
  • 12 Grenville House for Bideford R.D.C.

  • 13

    Reds Womens Team Are First To Compete Throughout Season
  • 14 Westward Ho! combined op

  • 15 From Bobby to Brian

  • 16 Torrington Church's new organ

  • 17

    Inter-school Road Safety Quiz Cup Winners
  • 18 All aboard the ark

  • 19 They never miss a game at Torrington

  • 20 Cement-clad boats being built at Northam

  • 21 Hartland Dancers
  • 22 Meredith's ironmongers

  • 23 John Andrew Bread Charity
  • 24 Faints as she wins national competition

  • 25 Water Board mains spread through villages

  • 26 Picking the pops

  • 27 Pannier Market's future?

  • 28 Bideford Liberal club new lounge bar opened

  • 29 New Lundy stamps

  • 30 Northam loses thatched cottage landmark

  • 31 Alwington School closing after 120 years

  • 32 Salmon netting at Bideford

  • 33 Eight and a half million pound Taw development scheme

  • 34 Bicycle now does donkey work

  • 35 A Weare Giffard speciality - delicious strawberries

  • 36 Down at the 'Donkey House'

  • 37 Four sisters' nostalgic reunion

  • 38

    Andre Veillett and Quentin Reed in Judo Demonstration
  • 39 Centenary of Landcross Methodist Chapel

  • 40 Bideford computer stars

  • 41 Church renovation rejoicing at Northam

  • 42 Torrington's enterprise's new extensions

  • 43 Bideford skifflers, they're no squares

  • 44 Life begins at 80

  • 45 At Bideford Arts Ball>
  • 46 Hartland postman retires

  • 47 Appledore Juniors Football
  • 48 One of the luckier farmers in getting in the problem harvest

  • 49 Council agree to demolition of Chanter's Folly

  • 50 Fundraising trip for RNLI

  • 51 Teenager Peter Jackson Makes Horror Film
  • 52 Bideford Zoo's first baby is big draw

  • 53 Housing progress at East-the-Water>
  • 54 Puzzle corner at Bideford!

  • 55 Birds' convalescent home at Instow

  • 56 Appledore boy is youngest recipient of RNLI vellun

  • 57 Found the answer waiting for him>
  • 58 Bideford electricity window display qualifies for area competition

  • 59 Clovelly's 91 year old horseman

  • 60 New fire and ambulance stations

  • 61 Bideford inquest on French trawlermen opens

  • 62 Circus comes to town

  • 63 Future of Torrington almshouses

  • 64 Born 1883 - still going strong

  • 65 Meeting at 10 Downing Street

  • 66 Spray dodging - the new pastime

  • 67 Bideford blacksmith wins English championship

  • 68 Centuries old but today busier than ever

  • 69 Designed and made in Bideford

  • 70 Donkey work made easier at Clovelly

  • 71

    Cadets are given certificates
  • 72 A man and his wheel

  • 73 Lady Churchill congratulates Bideford artists at nursing exhibition

  • 74 Alverdiscott is proud of its new parish hall

  • 75

    Mrs Whapham finds ferret in Bridgeland Street while shopping
  • 76

    FA Cup Match for the Robins
  • 77 Buckland farm workers to receive long-service awards

  • 78 X-ray shoe fitting

  • 79 No ancient Grecian temple this

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

  • 81 Six footed lamb

  • 82 Dismantling of wireless mast

  • 83 Peter poses for TV film

  • 84 Mayor becomes engine driver>
  • 85 Yelland potter's exhibition at Bideford

  • 86 Filming at Hartland

  • 87 Afternoon tea in the park

  • 88 Sooty is quick on the draw

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

  • 90 Making way for the double-deckers

  • 91 Service with a smile

  • 92 Allhalland Street - then and now

  • 93 Sunshine and shade at Appledore

  • 94 Torrington acclaims 400th anniversary of granting of charter

  • 95

    Birgitta Whittaker
  • 96

    Hamburger is part of modern life
  • 97 Battle of the gap at Westward Ho!

  • 98 Weare Giffard potato

  • 99 Donkey and horses enjoy carnival drink

  • 100 Ten year old scrambler

  • 101 Space dominates Hartland carnival

  • 102 113 years at Instow

  • 103 Puppet characters introduced

  • 104 Rowing triumphs at Bideford

  • 105 River scenes that enchant the visitors

  • 106 North Devon Driving School

  • 107 In their new robes and hats

  • 108 No laughing matter

  • 109 New life for Hartland organ

  • 110 In the tortoise nursery - eight hatched at Bideford

  • 111 Liked holidays here - so starts business

  • 112 Golden Bay Hotel ad.>
  • 113 Entente cordiale in Bideford

  • 114 A bird of their own!

  • 115 Last of Bideford factory chimney

  • 116 Last train from Torrington

  • 117 By pony and trap to market

  • 118 Burnard family reunion

  • 119 Larkworthy Family play in Shebbear's Football Team
  • 120 A sense of humour in advertising

  • 121 Vessel built 300 feet above sea level

  • 122 Clovelly donkey film star

  • 123 Bideford's new market opens next week

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

  • 125

    10-year-old scrambler practices
  • 126 Appledore's largest

  • 127 Westward Ho! sand yacht to challenge speed record

  • 128 Tramps camp by riverside throughout arctic weather

  • 129 Homage to a well-loved sovereign

  • 130 Yeo vale road ruin provides a mystery

  • 131 Ship-in-bottle world record

  • 132 A roof-top view - where?

  • 133 First tankers arrive at new depot

  • 134 Off on a great adventure

  • 135 New choral society's growing response

  • 136 Smiling welcome to Hartland visitors

  • 137 Westward Ho! public conveniences get go ahead
  • 138 Lots drawn to prevent dog fight

  • 139 Four hundred residents leave Bideford!

  • 140 Bideford Bridge re-opens

  • 141 Tibbles home again - and fish supper

  • 142 Buckland goes to County Show

  • 143 Bideford School Junior Choir Sing in France at Twinning Ceremony in Landivisiau
  • 144

    Lenwood Squash Club
  • 145 Getting up steam for tomorrow

  • 146 Safe door weighing two tons

  • 147 Safety-first dipomas awarded to Torrington drivers

  • 148 The cab at the corner>
  • 149 Bideford's first triplets for 12 years

  • 150 On her 'maiden' trip from Bideford

  • 151 Bideford childrens' cinema opens

  • 152 Shipbuilding hobby at Hartland

  • 153 Clovelly nightmare

  • 154 Landmark at Bradworthy

  • 155 Celebrations for 103rd birthday

  • 156 Head Barman appointed Torrington Town Crier
  • 157 What the television camera saw at Abbotsham

  • 158 Bideford regatta

  • 159 Loads of black and white

  • 160 Picking the pops

  • 161 Some 240 exhibits

  • 162 Torrington Youth Club rewarded by party
  • 163 Quads join a Langtree happy family

  • 164 Holiday traffic in Bideford High Street

  • 165 Bringing shopping home by goat

  • 166 Little 'Big Ben'

  • 167 Can spring be far away?

  • 168

    Youth Clubs Join Together For Entertainment
  • 169 They set out for Bideford and became lost

  • 170 Wine and beer merchants for 150 years

  • 171 Eight to strike and a race to win

  • 172 Torrington children build igloo
  • 173 Unique holiday adventure!

  • 174 Still hunting aged 80 and a Field Master

  • 175 Children's procession with foxgloves

  • 176 Private home for public pump

  • 177 Brothers reunion 1947
  • 178 He beat the floods

  • 179 Community centre opened at Westward Ho!

  • 180 Symbol of Lundy independence

  • 181 Inscribed Bibles and silver spoons for babies

  • 182 Bideford's gift to Sir Francis

  • 183 Calf thinks of mare as mum

  • 184 Appledore tugs fete London Tower

  • 185 Capers on the cobbles

  • 186 Five generations link Woolsery, Clovelly and Bideford

  • 187 Do recall the old windmill at Northam?

  • 188 Appledore's new lifeboat

  • 189 For South Africa from Westward Ho!

  • 190 The Geneva marionettes

  • 191 Thrush builds nest in cauliflower

  • 192 Bideford A.F.C annual dinner
  • 193 Northam footballers of the future

  • 194 Thriving 'orphan of the storm'

  • 195

    Successful motor cycling team
  • 196 Decontrol of meat

  • 197 Penny for the guy

  • 198 Sweets derationing

  • 199

    Relatives all over the world
  • 200 East-the-Water sets town an example

  • 201 Photo of town's first car wins prize

  • 202 Eleventh hour bid to save last sailing barge

  • 203 School's link with cargo ship

  • 204 Death - and birth - of a telephone exchange

  • 205 Bideford firm develops new non-spill paint

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

  • 207 Bideford schoolboy's courage recognised

  • 208 Centenary of Gazette

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

  • 210 Picture bought for shillings may be worth thousands

  • 211 Tide sweeps under and over the old bridge

  • 212 New Estate's view of estuary activities

  • 213 The art of the thatcher

  • 214 Hartland Abbey outdoor staff 60 years ago

  • 215 Bideford's first woman councillor

  • 216 Childrens' model of Torrington

  • 217 Signed scroll momento of Queen Mother's visit

  • 218 Photo mural in Bideford bank

  • 219

    Building works
  • 220 Repair work on Long Bridge
  • 221 Wasps' nest in sewing machine

  • 222 No ancient Grecian temple this

  • 223 Eleven million pound scheme's official opening

  • 224 Huntshaw TV mast

  • 225 Designed all furnishing of new chapel

  • 226 All for the love of a lady!

  • 227 What is future of railway goods yard?

  • 228 Appledore schooner broadcast

  • 229 Thorn-apple found in Littleham conservatory

  • 230 A lost Bideford 'island'

  • 231 Down at the dump something stirs

  • 232 Clovelly custom

  • 233 One thousand visit zoo at Whitsun

  • 234 'Les Girls' of Hartland

  • 235 Largest salmon caught in Torridge

  • 236 It really was the 'last time'

  • 237 Quads at Thornhillhead

  • 238 Westward Ho! Tennis Club Winners
  • 239 Works at craft he learned over 65 years ago

  • 240 Northam's almshouse

  • 241 New look for Torrington Lane

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    First prize
  • 243 Out of puff!

  • 244 Move for oldest boatyard on Torridge

  • 245 Bank Holiday weather was beach weather

  • 246 Emergency ferry services

  • 247 Escaped crane moves into Kenwith Valley

  • 248 Littleham cow tops 70 tons mark in milk production

  • 249

    Toasted with musical honours
  • 250 They are parted pro-tem

  • 251 Instow local art show was 'tremendous success'

  • 252 Twenty-one yachts

  • 253

    First Girls at Bideford Grammar School take part in Play
  • 254 Light reading for the lighthouse

  • 255 Happy Days!

  • 256 Broomhayes children will keep their winter pet

  • 257 A story to tell!

  • 258 Launching the 'Golden Hinde'

  • 259 Sight of a lifetime

  • 260 New Lundy air-mail stamps

  • 261 Bideford Liberals' fashion show

  • 262 Can-carrying over cobbles has disappeared

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

  • 264 Jumble sale fever

  • 265 Polish custom on Pancake Day

  • 266 Yeoi Vale House finally demolished

  • 267 First ship in 8 years

  • 268 Bravery against bull at Shebbear rewarded

  • 269 Recognise this resort?

  • 270 Panto time at Westward Ho!

  • 271 Devil sent packing

  • 272 Success to Festival of the Arts

  • 273 Traditions and skills still there

  • 274 Up-to-date Bideford!

  • 275 Sailing to victory at Appledore

  • 276 Spring-cleaning the Ridge

  • 277 Old Girls revisit Edgehill

  • 278 New gateway to King George's Fields

  • 279 Gift plaque on Clovelly council houses

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    Close associations with North Devon
  • 281 End of the line

  • 282 Local glove-making factory advertising for staff

  • 283 North Devon author featured in TV documentary

  • 284 Calligrapher extraordinary

  • 285 TV features Bideford's New Year bread ceremony

  • 286 America's tribute to 'J.H.'

  • 287 Two kinds of hovercraft at Bideford

  • 288 Chess - their bridge over the years

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

  • 290 Farewell to passenger trains

  • 291 New look in the hayfields

  • 292 Warmington's garage ad

  • 293 Joe the ginger tabby is 21

  • 294 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

  • 295 Weare Giffard Hall sold for £11,300

  • 296 Daisy's pride and joy

  • 297 Thirty bridges cross Torridge

  • 298 Hartland's invitation

  • 299 Bideford has built over 500 post-war homes

  • 300 Northam wants to continue pumping from river

  • 301 Pretty pennies at Beaford

  • 302 Thunderstorm destruction of 25 years ago

  • 303 Lady Godiva comes to Torrington

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

  • 305 Riverside mystery

  • 306 Preparations for new Clovelly Court

  • 307 Police station view of Bideford

  • 308 Waldon Triplets
  • 309 Littleham family's five generations

  • 310 Torrington to have first woman mayor

  • 311 Saving money, wear and tear

  • 312 Torridge graveyard of wooden hulks

  • 313 Bideford triplets' first birthday party

  • 314 Beach search for mines takes longer

  • 315 Some mushroom!

  • 316 New addition to Quay front

  • 317

    Wynne Olley's styles impress International Hair Fashion Designer
  • 318 Alderman Anstey's dream comes tru

  • 319 Second Monte Carlo Rally

  • 320 Passing of a Torrington landmark

  • 321 Broomhayes £1,000 Surprise
  • 322 Bideford stock car racing entry comes in second

  • 323 First steel ship built at Bideford

  • 324 Record pebble-throwing day

  • 325 Finished in 1876

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

  • 327 Ships at Bideford

  • 328 Tomorrow' night's skittles broadcast from Bideford

  • 329 Fleet of foot and fair of face

  • 330 Train returns to Westleigh straight

  • 331 Variety in summer weather

  • 332 Television comes to Torridge District

  • 333 Where Bideford rope-makers walked>
  • 334 Artisans' Club

  • 335 Town's second woman mayor in 392 years

  • 336 Practical sympathy at Northam

  • 337 Baby Kate goes home to Lundy

  • 338 Bideford loses training ship

  • 339 Ancestral home nestling in lovely combe

  • 340 Bridging the stream

  • 341 Charter granted by Philip and Mary

  • 342 Revenge in style

  • 343 Watch the dicky bird!

  • 344 New civic medallions

  • 345 Wilfred and Mabel visit schools and hospital

  • 346 Fish nearly pulled him in

  • 347 So this is the mainland!

  • 348 Bideford country dancers on TV

  • 349 Harvest service in Bideford 'pub' bar

  • 350 Bideford shipyard workers cheer new minesweeper

  • 351 Students help model St Sidwell

  • 352 Torrington in 1967

  • 353 TV contest means big job for Bideford Guides

  • 354 When horses score over the tractor

  • 355 Mural in the whimsical fashion

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    Double Baptism on Torridge
  • 357 Appledore skill brings 'Hispaniola' to life

  • 358 Big develolpment at Calveford

  • 359 Olympic riders to compete at Bideford Horse Show

  • 360 Barley from Bideford to Bonnie Scotland

  • 361 Fishermen of Greencliff

  • 362 Torridge wins on time schedule

  • 363

    Womens Skittles Competition in Buckland Brewer
  • 364 Cruising down the river

  • 365 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

  • 366 'Out of Appledore' sailing memories

  • 367 Parkham plan realised

  • 368 Record player of 80 years ago

  • 369 Prizewinning babies at Torrington

  • 370 Jalopy joy for children of Shamwickshire

  • 371 Torrington's new amenity

  • 372 Christmas tree on Bideford Quay>
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    Bidefordians
  • 374 Panel sprint for Bideford broadcast

  • 375 Gloves fit for a king!

  • 376

    Mums protest in Coronation Road
  • 377

    Exhibition of school work
  • 378 Fishing light goes out at close of poor season

  • 379 A craftsman's 'potted' history

  • 380 Torrington school's sundial - fashioned by Headmaster

  • 381 What's the time?

  • 382 Speeding communications: Bideford firm's new installation

  • 383 Torrington's shelter for the aged

  • 384 Cavaliers join the Hunt
  • 385 Sweet success at Langtree School

  • 386 Floral dancing at Appledore

  • 387 New Post Office

  • 388

    Gift from Bideford Town Council
  • 389 Champagne send-off for Torrington new factory

  • 390 New shipyard on schedule

  • 391 Bideford's private wharves busier

  • 392 Amsterdam to Bideford double success

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

  • 394

    Appledore boys beat mums at football
  • 395

    New gateway
  • 396 To build racing cars in former blacksmith's shop

  • 397 Boys win hockey on the sands challenge

  • 398

    Was a missionary
  • 399

    Gus Honeybun meets local children
  • 400 School crossing patrol begins

  • 401

    Holidaying in north Devon
  • 402 Bideford-Torrington road gets 'carpet coat'

  • 403 No sale of Springfield House

  • 404 Boys from Bideford school complete Ten Tors

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    Married in 1908
  • 406

    Jinxed School Trip
  • 407 Just over a year old

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

  • 409 Modern living at Bideford

  • 410

    School of Dancing's Annual Display
  • 411 Wishing well is pixielated

  • 412 Championship Trophy for Hartland
  • 413 Steep street of old Bideford

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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  • 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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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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