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    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 Weare Giffard potato

  • 2 Warmington's garage ad

  • 3 New Lundy stamps

  • 4 Littleham cow tops 70 tons mark in milk production

  • 5 'Les Girls' of Hartland

  • 6

    Reds Womens Team Are First To Compete Throughout Season
  • 7 Torrington children build igloo
  • 8

    First prize
  • 9 Sweet success at Langtree School

  • 10 Jalopy joy for children of Shamwickshire

  • 11 Clovelly custom

  • 12 They never miss a game at Torrington

  • 13 Ship-in-bottle world record

  • 14 Lady Godiva comes to Torrington

  • 15

    Building works
  • 16 Faints as she wins national competition

  • 17 On her 'maiden' trip from Bideford

  • 18 Bideford has built over 500 post-war homes

  • 19 Some 240 exhibits

  • 20 River scenes that enchant the visitors

  • 21 Gift plaque on Clovelly council houses

  • 22 Meredith's ironmongers

  • 23 New civic medallions

  • 24 Entente cordiale in Bideford

  • 25 Shoes certainly not made for walking

  • 26 Up-to-date Bideford!

  • 27 Bideford-Torrington road gets 'carpet coat'

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

  • 29 Picture bought for shillings may be worth thousands

  • 30

    Gift from Bideford Town Council
  • 31

    First Girls at Bideford Grammar School take part in Play
  • 32 Out of puff!

  • 33 Wine and beer merchants for 150 years

  • 34 Sight of a lifetime

  • 35 Northam loses thatched cottage landmark

  • 36 No laughing matter

  • 37 Tomorrow' night's skittles broadcast from Bideford

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

  • 39 Broomhayes children will keep their winter pet

  • 40 New art gallery opened

  • 41 Wishing well is pixielated

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

  • 43 Record player of 80 years ago

  • 44 Panto time at Westward Ho!

  • 45 Picking the pops

  • 46 Penny for the guy

  • 47 Quads at Thornhillhead

  • 48 Clovelly donkey film star

  • 49 Yeoi Vale House finally demolished

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

  • 51

    Wynne Olley's styles impress International Hair Fashion Designer
  • 52

    Married in 1908
  • 53

    Jinxed School Trip
  • 54 Donkey and horses enjoy carnival drink

  • 55 Yeo vale road ruin provides a mystery

  • 56 Practical sympathy at Northam

  • 57 Bideford electricity window display qualifies for area competition

  • 58 New addition to Quay front

  • 59 Thunderstorm destruction of 25 years ago

  • 60 Huntshaw TV mast

  • 61 Bideford childrens' cinema opens

  • 62 Fishermen of Greencliff

  • 63 Buckland farm workers to receive long-service awards

  • 64 Olympic riders to compete at Bideford Horse Show

  • 65 Liked holidays here - so starts business

  • 66 Five generations link Woolsery, Clovelly and Bideford

  • 67 The art of the thatcher

  • 68 New look for Torrington Lane

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

  • 70 They set out for Bideford and became lost

  • 71 Torrington to have first woman mayor

  • 72 Future of Torrington almshouses

  • 73 Boys win hockey on the sands challenge

  • 74 Puppet characters introduced

  • 75 Modern living at Bideford

  • 76 When horses score over the tractor

  • 77 Recognise this resort?

  • 78 He beat the floods

  • 79 Quads join a Langtree happy family

  • 80 Circus comes to town

  • 81 In their new robes and hats

  • 82 End of the line

  • 83 Parkham plan realised

  • 84 Larkworthy Family play in Shebbear's Football Team
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    Close associations with North Devon
  • 86 Bideford stock car racing entry comes in second

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

  • 88 Big develolpment at Calveford

  • 89 Pannier Market's future?

  • 90 Four hundred residents leave Bideford!

  • 91 Sunshine and shade at Appledore

  • 92 Four sisters' nostalgic reunion

  • 93 TV contest means big job for Bideford Guides

  • 94 Eleventh hour bid to save last sailing barge

  • 95 Farewell to passenger trains

  • 96 Ancestral home nestling in lovely combe

  • 97 Cavaliers join the Hunt
  • 98 Westward Ho! sand yacht to challenge speed record

  • 99 Peter poses for TV film

  • 100 Emergency ferry services

  • 101 Bideford's first triplets for 12 years

  • 102 A story to tell!

  • 103 Bideford computer stars

  • 104

    Exhibition of school work
  • 105 Dismantling of wireless mast

  • 106 Torridge graveyard of wooden hulks

  • 107 Bideford Bridge re-opens

  • 108 Born 1883 - still going strong

  • 109 East-the-Water sets town an example

  • 110 Thirty bridges cross Torridge

  • 111 Tramps camp by riverside throughout arctic weather

  • 112 Speeding communications: Bideford firm's new installation

  • 113 Private home for public pump

  • 114 Torrington school's sundial - fashioned by Headmaster

  • 115 Children's procession with foxgloves

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

  • 117

    10-year-old scrambler practices
  • 118 Eight to strike and a race to win

  • 119 Appledore's new lifeboat

  • 120 America's tribute to 'J.H.'

  • 121 Broomhayes £1,000 Surprise
  • 122 Some mushroom!

  • 123

    FA Cup Match for the Robins
  • 124 Vessel built 300 feet above sea level

  • 125 Puzzle corner at Bideford!

  • 126 Torrington acclaims 400th anniversary of granting of charter

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

  • 128 Getting up steam for tomorrow

  • 129 Ships at Bideford

  • 130 Panel sprint for Bideford broadcast

  • 131 A Weare Giffard speciality - delicious strawberries

  • 132 Gloves fit for a king!

  • 133 Bridging the stream

  • 134 Cement-clad boats being built at Northam

  • 135 Chess - their bridge over the years

  • 136 Bideford's private wharves busier

  • 137 Bideford triplets' first birthday party

  • 138 A bird of their own!

  • 139 113 years at Instow

  • 140 So this is the mainland!

  • 141

    Mrs Whapham finds ferret in Bridgeland Street while shopping
  • 142 TV features Bideford's New Year bread ceremony

  • 143 Fishing light goes out at close of poor season

  • 144 It really was the 'last time'

  • 145

    Birgitta Whittaker
  • 146 Wilfred and Mabel visit schools and hospital

  • 147 Do recall the old windmill at Northam?

  • 148 Devil sent packing

  • 149 Last of Bideford factory chimney

  • 150 What the television camera saw at Abbotsham

  • 151

    Bidefordians
  • 152 Bideford blacksmith wins English championship

  • 153 By pony and trap to market

  • 154 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

  • 155 Holiday scene near Sandymere

  • 156 Bicycle now does donkey work

  • 157 One thousand visit zoo at Whitsun

  • 158 New fire and ambulance stations

  • 159 Bideford A.F.C annual dinner
  • 160 A craftsman's 'potted' history

  • 161 Safe door weighing two tons

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

  • 163 Inscribed Bibles and silver spoons for babies

  • 164

    Holidaying in north Devon
  • 165 Waldon Triplets
  • 166 Making way for the double-deckers

  • 167 Alwington School closing after 120 years

  • 168

    Mums protest in Coronation Road
  • 169 Train returns to Westleigh straight

  • 170 Polish custom on Pancake Day

  • 171 Bideford Liberals' fashion show

  • 172 In the tortoise nursery - eight hatched at Bideford

  • 173 New Estate's view of estuary activities

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

  • 175 Bideford country dancers on TV

  • 176 Television comes to Torridge District

  • 177 John Andrew Bread Charity
  • 178 Repair work on Long Bridge
  • 179 Just over a year old

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

  • 181

    Appledore boys beat mums at football
  • 182 Northam's almshouse

  • 183 Passing of a Torrington landmark

  • 184

    Cadets are given certificates
  • 185 Can spring be far away?

  • 186 Variety in summer weather

  • 187 Church renovation rejoicing at Northam

  • 188 'Out of Appledore' sailing memories

  • 189 New Lundy air-mail stamps

  • 190

    School of Dancing's Annual Display
  • 191 Charter granted by Philip and Mary

  • 192 Joe the ginger tabby is 21

  • 193 Life begins at 80

  • 194 Down at the 'Donkey House'

  • 195 Battle of the gap at Westward Ho!

  • 196 Colour TV salesman at eight

  • 197 Allhalland Street - then and now

  • 198 Symbol of Lundy independence

  • 199 Teenager Peter Jackson Makes Horror Film
  • 200 Bideford inquest on French trawlermen opens

  • 201 North Devon Driving School

  • 202

    Youth Clubs Join Together For Entertainment
  • 203

    Toasted with musical honours
  • 204 Westward Ho! Tennis Club Winners
  • 205 Barley from Bideford to Bonnie Scotland

  • 206 Signed scroll momento of Queen Mother's visit

  • 207 Police station view of Bideford

  • 208 Water Board mains spread through villages

  • 209 New Post Office

  • 210 Capers on the cobbles

  • 211 North Devon author featured in TV documentary

  • 212 Bank Holiday weather was beach weather

  • 213 New life for Hartland organ

  • 214

    Andre Veillett and Quentin Reed in Judo Demonstration
  • 215 Landmark at Bradworthy

  • 216 Appledore schooner broadcast

  • 217 Two kinds of hovercraft at Bideford

  • 218 New look in the hayfields

  • 219 Lots drawn to prevent dog fight

  • 220 Northam footballers of the future

  • 221 Unique holiday adventure!

  • 222 Launching the 'Golden Hinde'

  • 223

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

  • 225 Pet squirrels at Monkleigh

  • 226 All aboard the ark

  • 227 Daisy's pride and joy

  • 228 New gateway to King George's Fields

  • 229 Birds' convalescent home at Instow

  • 230 Mobile missionary

  • 231 What is future of railway goods yard?

  • 232 Championship Trophy for Hartland
  • 233 Head Barman appointed Torrington Town Crier
  • 234 Champagne send-off for Torrington new factory

  • 235

    Successful motor cycling team
  • 236 Happy Days!

  • 237 Calligrapher extraordinary

  • 238 Traditions and skills still there

  • 239 Largest salmon caught in Torridge

  • 240 Tibbles home again - and fish supper

  • 241 First ship in 8 years

  • 242 Twenty-one yachts

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

  • 244 Riverside mystery

  • 245 Second Monte Carlo Rally

  • 246

    Was a missionary
  • 247 Tide sweeps under and over the old bridge

  • 248 Pretty pennies at Beaford

  • 249 Hartland Abbey outdoor staff 60 years ago

  • 250 Westward Ho! public conveniences get go ahead
  • 251 Torrington's new amenity

  • 252 Council agree to demolition of Chanter's Folly

  • 253 Donkey work made easier at Clovelly

  • 254 Off on a great adventure

  • 255 Clovelly nightmare

  • 256 Childrens' model of Torrington

  • 257 Sooty is quick on the draw

  • 258 First tankers arrive at new depot

  • 259 Fundraising trip for RNLI

  • 260 Holiday traffic in Bideford High Street

  • 261 Works at craft he learned over 65 years ago

  • 262 Weare Giffard Hall sold for £11,300

  • 263 Revived market off to splendid start

  • 264 First steel ship built at Bideford

  • 265 Death - and birth - of a telephone exchange

  • 266 Torrington's shelter for the aged

  • 267 Westward Ho! combined op

  • 268 New choral society's growing response

  • 269 Town's second woman mayor in 392 years

  • 270 Northam wants to continue pumping from river

  • 271 Move for oldest boatyard on Torridge

  • 272 Decontrol of meat

  • 273 X-ray shoe fitting

  • 274 Torrington in 1967

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    Double Baptism on Torridge
  • 276 Brothers reunion 1947
  • 277 Spray dodging - the new pastime

  • 278 No sale of Springfield House

  • 279 All for the love of a lady!

  • 280 Baby Kate goes home to Lundy

  • 281 Alverdiscott is proud of its new parish hall

  • 282 Littleham family's five generations

  • 283 Salmon netting at Bideford

  • 284 School's link with cargo ship

  • 285 Jumble sale fever

  • 286 Can-carrying over cobbles has disappeared

  • 287 Steep street of old Bideford

  • 288 Photo mural in Bideford bank

  • 289 Bringing shopping home by goat

  • 290 Clovelly's 91 year old horseman

  • 291 Rowing triumphs at Bideford

  • 292 Light reading for the lighthouse

  • 293 A roof-top view - where?

  • 294 Saving money, wear and tear

  • 295 Ten year old scrambler

  • 296 Instow local art show was 'tremendous success'

  • 297 Celebrations for 103rd birthday

  • 298

    New gateway
  • 299 Boys from Bideford school complete Ten Tors

  • 300 Torridge wins on time schedule

  • 301 Designed all furnishing of new chapel

  • 302 The creative urge on Saturday morning

  • 303

    Womens Skittles Competition in Buckland Brewer
  • 304 Artisans' Club

  • 305 Torrington's enterprise's new extensions

  • 306 Appledore tugs fete London Tower

  • 307 Watch the dicky bird!

  • 308 Alderman Anstey's dream comes tru

  • 309 Centenary of Gazette

  • 310 Old Girls revisit Edgehill

  • 311 The Geneva marionettes

  • 312 An early 'special' to Bideford

  • 313 Fish nearly pulled him in

  • 314 Bideford's new market opens next week

  • 315 Cruising down the river

  • 316 Bideford's gift to Sir Francis

  • 317 Eleven million pound scheme's official opening

  • 318 Bideford School Junior Choir Sing in France at Twinning Ceremony in Landivisiau
  • 319 Escaped crane moves into Kenwith Valley

  • 320 Bideford Zoo's first baby is big draw

  • 321 Buckland goes to County Show

  • 322 Hartland postman retires

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    Inter-school Road Safety Quiz Cup Winners
  • 324 Photo of town's first car wins prize

  • 325 New shipyard on schedule

  • 326

    Lenwood Squash Club
  • 327 Centenary of Landcross Methodist Chapel

  • 328 Still hunting aged 80 and a Field Master

  • 329 Bideford schoolboy's courage recognised

  • 330 Appledore boy is youngest recipient of RNLI vellun

  • 331 Success to Festival of the Arts

  • 332 Service with a smile

  • 333 A man and his wheel

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

  • 336 What's the time?

  • 337 Hartland Dancers
  • 338 Beach search for mines takes longer

  • 339 Homage to a well-loved sovereign

  • 340 School crossing patrol begins

  • 341 Bideford Liberal club new lounge bar opened

  • 342 Bideford shipyard workers cheer new minesweeper

  • 343 Simple Item 138
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    Gus Honeybun meets local children
  • 345 Record pebble-throwing day

  • 346 Yelland potter's exhibition at Bideford

  • 347 Thrush builds nest in cauliflower

  • 348 No ancient Grecian temple this

  • 349 Six footed lamb

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

  • 351 Burnard family reunion

  • 352 Little 'Big Ben'

  • 353 No ancient Grecian temple this

  • 354 Loads of black and white

  • 355 Last train from Torrington

  • 356 A sense of humour in advertising

  • 357 Hartland's invitation

  • 358 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

  • 359 Calf thinks of mare as mum

  • 360 Preparations for new Clovelly Court

  • 361 Appledore's largest

  • 362 Bideford regatta

  • 363 Bravery against bull at Shebbear rewarded

  • 364 Finished in 1876

  • 365 Smiling welcome to Hartland visitors

  • 366 Lady Churchill congratulates Bideford artists at nursing exhibition

  • 367 Shipbuilding hobby at Hartland

  • 368 Appledore Juniors Football
  • 369 A lost Bideford 'island'

  • 370 Picking the pops

  • 371 Thorn-apple found in Littleham conservatory

  • 372 Torrington Youth Club rewarded by party
  • 373 Spring-cleaning the Ridge

  • 374 Bideford loses training ship

  • 375 They are parted pro-tem

  • 376 Harvest service in Bideford 'pub' bar

  • 377 Designed and made in Bideford

  • 378 Revenge in style

  • 379 Centuries old but today busier than ever

  • 380 For crying out loud!

  • 381 Students help model St Sidwell

  • 382 Fleet of foot and fair of face

  • 383 Bideford skifflers, they're no squares

  • 384 Eight and a half million pound Taw development scheme

  • 385 Bideford firm develops new non-spill paint

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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Traders protest 'district gets worst rail carriages' 3rd February 1961

Traders protest 'district gets worst rail carriages' 3rd February 1961TRADERS PROTEST

Holiday makers going on to the platform at Waterloo bound for the Westcountry invariably find the worst carriages earmarked for the Bideford-Barnstaple area, says a letter of protest sent to British Railways by Bideford and District Chamber of Trade.  The secretary, Mr C C Prust said the MP for Torrington Division, Mr Percy Browne was also being asked to take the matter up.

Town’s last passenger train

The last train to carry passengers both ways on the Barnstaple-Torrington route will leave Torrington for Bideford at 7.45pm and Bideford for Barnstaple at 7.54pm tomorrow.

October 1965 last train

Although a train leaves Barnstaple at 9.40pm and Bideford for Torrington at 9.58, it returns from Torrington empty. The occasion will not pass unmarked.
The Mayor of Bideford, Mrs Ethelwynne Brown, will be on the station to say farewell to the 7.54pm train. The occasion, she pointed to the Gazette, was certainly not one for celebration. ‘But the least I can do as Mayor is to thank the staff for past services for which we have been so glad for very many years’.
The closure of the line to passenger traffic means that at Bideford two booking clerks and four porters will lose their jobs. But an assurance has been given to Mr Peter Mills, MP, for Torrington, that they will be helped to find new situations. It has come from Mr C Hankins, divisional manager of British Rail’s Western Region. He says he is disappointed to hear that members of the railway staff at Bideford are concerned about the attitude of British Rail towards redundancy. And he pledges that every effort will be made to ‘assist our unfortunate colleagues’ who are made redundant. Every possible vacancy has been held for months in the hope that the redundant staff will have alternative jobs offered to them.
The Bideford staff will receive notice, together with offers of alternative employment, during the coming week.
Mr Mills commented: ‘Redundancy is a big problem in areas like Bideford, but it is comforting to know that everything possible is being done for these men’.

Gazette article dated 1 October 1965

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