• 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 What the television camera saw at Abbotsham

  • 2 Four sisters' nostalgic reunion

  • 3 Bideford skifflers, they're no squares

  • 4 Yelland potter's exhibition at Bideford

  • 5 Allhalland Street - then and now

  • 6 Yeoi Vale House finally demolished

  • 7 Picking the pops

  • 8 North Devon author featured in TV documentary

  • 9 Pet squirrels at Monkleigh

  • 10

    Reds Womens Team Are First To Compete Throughout Season
  • 11 Photo of town's first car wins prize

  • 12 Designed all furnishing of new chapel

  • 13 Fishermen of Greencliff

  • 14 Torrington school's sundial - fashioned by Headmaster

  • 15 Bringing shopping home by goat

  • 16 They never miss a game at Torrington

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

  • 18 Bideford Liberal club new lounge bar opened

  • 19

    Youth Clubs Join Together For Entertainment
  • 20 Cement-clad boats being built at Northam

  • 21 Watch the dicky bird!

  • 22 For crying out loud!

  • 23

    Was a missionary
  • 24 'Les Girls' of Hartland

  • 25 Bridging the stream

  • 26 Can spring be far away?

  • 27 Champagne send-off for Torrington new factory

  • 28 New look in the hayfields

  • 29 Launching the 'Golden Hinde'

  • 30 Speeding communications: Bideford firm's new installation

  • 31

    Mums protest in Coronation Road
  • 32

    Exhibition of school work
  • 33 Bideford Liberals' fashion show

  • 34

    10-year-old scrambler practices
  • 35 In their new robes and hats

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

  • 37 Tide sweeps under and over the old bridge

  • 38 Practical sympathy at Northam

  • 39 In the tortoise nursery - eight hatched at Bideford

  • 40 Bideford-Torrington road gets 'carpet coat'

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

  • 42 Calf thinks of mare as mum

  • 43 A bird of their own!

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

  • 45 Passing of a Torrington landmark

  • 46 Shipbuilding hobby at Hartland

  • 47 Bideford Bridge re-opens

  • 48

    Holidaying in north Devon
  • 49

    Cadets are given certificates
  • 50 Record player of 80 years ago

  • 51 Donkey work made easier at Clovelly

  • 52 Circus comes to town

  • 53 Bideford childrens' cinema opens

  • 54 Twenty-one yachts

  • 55 Polish custom on Pancake Day

  • 56

    Bidefordians
  • 57 Wilfred and Mabel visit schools and hospital

  • 58 Warmington's garage ad

  • 59 Safe door weighing two tons

  • 60

    Close associations with North Devon
  • 61 Donkey and horses enjoy carnival drink

  • 62 Baby Kate goes home to Lundy

  • 63 TV contest means big job for Bideford Guides

  • 64 Bideford shipyard workers cheer new minesweeper

  • 65 No ancient Grecian temple this

  • 66 Centuries old but today busier than ever

  • 67 It really was the 'last time'

  • 68 On her 'maiden' trip from Bideford

  • 69 'Out of Appledore' sailing memories

  • 70

    First Girls at Bideford Grammar School take part in Play
  • 71 Pretty pennies at Beaford

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

  • 73 Works at craft he learned over 65 years ago

  • 74 Torrington's shelter for the aged

  • 75 A craftsman's 'potted' history

  • 76 New gateway to King George's Fields

  • 77 Light reading for the lighthouse

  • 78 New civic medallions

  • 79 Ancestral home nestling in lovely combe

  • 80 Capers on the cobbles

  • 81 Centenary of Landcross Methodist Chapel

  • 82 Meredith's ironmongers

  • 83 Success to Festival of the Arts

  • 84 Largest salmon caught in Torridge

  • 85 Preparations for new Clovelly Court

  • 86 Northam footballers of the future

  • 87 Spray dodging - the new pastime

  • 88 Second Monte Carlo Rally

  • 89 Clovelly donkey film star

  • 90 Spring-cleaning the Ridge

  • 91 New fire and ambulance stations

  • 92 Birds' convalescent home at Instow

  • 93 Photo mural in Bideford bank

  • 94 Getting up steam for tomorrow

  • 95 Picking the pops

  • 96

    Womens Skittles Competition in Buckland Brewer
  • 97 Smiling welcome to Hartland visitors

  • 98 Sight of a lifetime

  • 99

    Mrs Whapham finds ferret in Bridgeland Street while shopping
  • 100 All for the love of a lady!

  • 101 Repair work on Long Bridge
  • 102 Appledore's largest

  • 103 Homage to a well-loved sovereign

  • 104 John Andrew Bread Charity
  • 105 Boys win hockey on the sands challenge

  • 106 Landmark at Bradworthy

  • 107

    Gus Honeybun meets local children
  • 108 Tibbles home again - and fish supper

  • 109 Holiday scene near Sandymere

  • 110 Devil sent packing

  • 111 Bideford stock car racing entry comes in second

  • 112 Northam wants to continue pumping from river

  • 113 Head Barman appointed Torrington Town Crier
  • 114 Hartland postman retires

  • 115

    Successful motor cycling team
  • 116 Diamond Jubilee of St Peter's Church, East-the-Water

  • 117 Farewell to passenger trains

  • 118 Service with a smile

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

  • 120

    Inter-school Road Safety Quiz Cup Winners
  • 121 Shoes certainly not made for walking

  • 122 Life begins at 80

  • 123 No laughing matter

  • 124 Penny for the guy

  • 125 Picture bought for shillings may be worth thousands

  • 126 Last train from Torrington

  • 127 Down at the 'Donkey House'

  • 128 Torrington's new amenity

  • 129 Designed and made in Bideford

  • 130 New addition to Quay front

  • 131 Salmon netting at Bideford

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

  • 133 Brothers reunion 1947
  • 134 Joe the ginger tabby is 21

  • 135 So this is the mainland!

  • 136 A lost Bideford 'island'

  • 137 New shipyard on schedule

  • 138 Old Girls revisit Edgehill

  • 139 Symbol of Lundy independence

  • 140 Weare Giffard Hall sold for £11,300

  • 141 Bideford electricity window display qualifies for area competition

  • 142

    Gift from Bideford Town Council
  • 143 Bideford's gift to Sir Francis

  • 144 Bravery against bull at Shebbear rewarded

  • 145 Signed scroll momento of Queen Mother's visit

  • 146 First steel ship built at Bideford

  • 147 Torridge graveyard of wooden hulks

  • 148 Fish nearly pulled him in

  • 149 Torrington in 1967

  • 150 Making way for the double-deckers

  • 151 The art of the thatcher

  • 152 Alderman Anstey's dream comes tru

  • 153 Fleet of foot and fair of face

  • 154 Sweet success at Langtree School

  • 155 New Lundy air-mail stamps

  • 156 Eleven million pound scheme's official opening

  • 157 Alverdiscott is proud of its new parish hall

  • 158 No sale of Springfield House

  • 159 Students help model St Sidwell

  • 160 Puppet characters introduced

  • 161 New life for Hartland organ

  • 162 Riverside mystery

  • 163 Wishing well is pixielated

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

  • 165 Torrington children build igloo
  • 166 Bideford's new market opens next week

  • 167 Bideford schoolboy's courage recognised

  • 168 A Weare Giffard speciality - delicious strawberries

  • 169 Traditions and skills still there

  • 170 Council agree to demolition of Chanter's Folly

  • 171 Bideford triplets' first birthday party

  • 172 Larkworthy Family play in Shebbear's Football Team
  • 173 Clovelly nightmare

  • 174 By pony and trap to market

  • 175 Ten year old scrambler

  • 176

    Married in 1908
  • 177 Revived market off to splendid start

  • 178 Little 'Big Ben'

  • 179 Olympic riders to compete at Bideford Horse Show

  • 180 Fishing light goes out at close of poor season

  • 181 Battle of the gap at Westward Ho!

  • 182 Simple Item 138
  • 183

    Wynne Olley's styles impress International Hair Fashion Designer
  • 184 Westward Ho! sand yacht to challenge speed record

  • 185 Tomorrow' night's skittles broadcast from Bideford

  • 186 A story to tell!

  • 187 Boys from Bideford school complete Ten Tors

  • 188 Space dominates Hartland carnival

  • 189 Faints as she wins national competition

  • 190 First ship in 8 years

  • 191 Sooty is quick on the draw

  • 192 Off on a great adventure

  • 193 Bank Holiday weather was beach weather

  • 194 Ships at Bideford

  • 195 An early 'special' to Bideford

  • 196 New choral society's growing response

  • 197 Cruising down the river

  • 198 The Geneva marionettes

  • 199 Bideford has built over 500 post-war homes

  • 200 New Post Office

  • 201 End of the line

  • 202 Thunderstorm destruction of 25 years ago

  • 203 Hartland's invitation

  • 204 Last of Bideford factory chimney

  • 205 When horses score over the tractor

  • 206 Four hundred residents leave Bideford!

  • 207 New look for Torrington Lane

  • 208 Torrington Youth Club rewarded by party
  • 209 Barley from Bideford to Bonnie Scotland

  • 210 Artisans' Club

  • 211 Tramps camp by riverside throughout arctic weather

  • 212 Happy Days!

  • 213 Bideford country dancers on TV

  • 214 Appledore boy is youngest recipient of RNLI vellun

  • 215 Thirty bridges cross Torridge

  • 216 Bideford blacksmith wins English championship

  • 217 Teenager Peter Jackson Makes Horror Film
  • 218 Clovelly custom

  • 219 Entente cordiale in Bideford

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

  • 221 Northam loses thatched cottage landmark

  • 222 Jalopy joy for children of Shamwickshire

  • 223 One thousand visit zoo at Whitsun

  • 224 Northam's almshouse

  • 225 Fundraising trip for RNLI

  • 226 Eight and a half million pound Taw development scheme

  • 227 Quads join a Langtree happy family

  • 228 Waldon Triplets
  • 229 Chess - their bridge over the years

  • 230 Gloves fit for a king!

  • 231 Colour TV salesman at eight

  • 232 Appledore's new lifeboat

  • 233 No ancient Grecian temple this

  • 234 Mural in the whimsical fashion

  • 235 Gift plaque on Clovelly council houses

  • 236 Emergency ferry services

  • 237

    School of Dancing's Annual Display
  • 238 Liked holidays here - so starts business

  • 239 Harvest service in Bideford 'pub' bar

  • 240 Death - and birth - of a telephone exchange

  • 241 Escaped crane moves into Kenwith Valley

  • 242 Variety in summer weather

  • 243 Rowing triumphs at Bideford

  • 244 Thorn-apple found in Littleham conservatory

  • 245 Puzzle corner at Bideford!

  • 246 Up-to-date Bideford!

  • 247 Westward Ho! Tennis Club Winners
  • 248 Mobile missionary

  • 249 First tankers arrive at new depot

  • 250 Finished in 1876

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    Relatives all over the world
  • 252 Instow local art show was 'tremendous success'

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    Appledore boys beat mums at football
  • 254 America's tribute to 'J.H.'

  • 255 Cavaliers join the Hunt
  • 256 Torrington's enterprise's new extensions

  • 257 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

  • 258 Littleham cow tops 70 tons mark in milk production

  • 259 Broomhayes children will keep their winter pet

  • 260 Childrens' model of Torrington

  • 261 He beat the floods

  • 262

    Andre Veillett and Quentin Reed in Judo Demonstration
  • 263 Celebrations for 103rd birthday

  • 264 Quads at Thornhillhead

  • 265 Weare Giffard potato

  • 266

    Lenwood Squash Club
  • 267 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

  • 268 Ship-in-bottle world record

  • 269 Unique holiday adventure!

  • 270 Westward Ho! combined op

  • 271 Decontrol of meat

  • 272 Still hunting aged 80 and a Field Master

  • 273 Appledore schooner broadcast

  • 274 Peter poses for TV film

  • 275 Town's second woman mayor in 392 years

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    Toasted with musical honours
  • 277 Malibou boys are all-the-year-round surfers

  • 278 Future of Torrington almshouses

  • 279

    Double Baptism on Torridge
  • 280 Church renovation rejoicing at Northam

  • 281 Vessel built 300 feet above sea level

  • 282 Torridge wins on time schedule

  • 283 Do recall the old windmill at Northam?

  • 284 Lady Churchill congratulates Bideford artists at nursing exhibition

  • 285

    Jinxed School Trip
  • 286 Panto time at Westward Ho!

  • 287 Television comes to Torridge District

  • 288 A roof-top view - where?

  • 289 Westward Ho! public conveniences get go ahead
  • 290 Bideford computer stars

  • 291 Bideford inquest on French trawlermen opens

  • 292 Move for oldest boatyard on Torridge

  • 293 Jumble sale fever

  • 294 New art gallery opened

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

  • 296 Revenge in style

  • 297 Just over a year old

  • 298 Recognise this resort?

  • 299 Loads of black and white

  • 300 Torrington to have first woman mayor

  • 301 Police station view of Bideford

  • 302 What's the time?

  • 303 X-ray shoe fitting

  • 304 A sense of humour in advertising

  • 305 Panel sprint for Bideford broadcast

  • 306 Bideford A.F.C annual dinner
  • 307 Record pebble-throwing day

  • 308 Some mushroom!

  • 309 Can-carrying over cobbles has disappeared

  • 310

    Hamburger is part of modern life
  • 311 Wine and beer merchants for 150 years

  • 312 Modern living at Bideford

  • 313 Bideford's first triplets for 12 years

  • 314 Big develolpment at Calveford

  • 315 Hartland Dancers
  • 316 School's link with cargo ship

  • 317 The creative urge on Saturday morning

  • 318 Calligrapher extraordinary

  • 319 Eight to strike and a race to win

  • 320 Bideford firm develops new non-spill paint

  • 321 Thrush builds nest in cauliflower

  • 322 Holiday traffic in Bideford High Street

  • 323 Water Board mains spread through villages

  • 324 Clovelly's 91 year old horseman

  • 325 River scenes that enchant the visitors

  • 326 Bideford School Junior Choir Sing in France at Twinning Ceremony in Landivisiau
  • 327 Buckland goes to County Show

  • 328 A man and his wheel

  • 329 Six footed lamb

  • 330 New Estate's view of estuary activities

  • 331 Saving money, wear and tear

  • 332 Bideford regatta

  • 333 Dismantling of wireless mast

  • 334 Pannier Market's future?

  • 335 Daisy's pride and joy

  • 336

    Building works
  • 337 Children's procession with foxgloves

  • 338

    FA Cup Match for the Robins
  • 339 Bideford Zoo's first baby is big draw

  • 340 Some 240 exhibits

  • 341 New Lundy stamps

  • 342 What is future of railway goods yard?

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    First prize
  • 344 East-the-Water sets town an example

  • 345 Charter granted by Philip and Mary

  • 346 Lots drawn to prevent dog fight

  • 347 Eleventh hour bid to save last sailing barge

  • 348 113 years at Instow

  • 349 Torrington acclaims 400th anniversary of granting of charter

  • 350 School crossing patrol begins

  • 351 Inscribed Bibles and silver spoons for babies

  • 352 Bicycle now does donkey work

  • 353 Lady Godiva comes to Torrington

  • 354 All aboard the ark

  • 355 They are parted pro-tem

  • 356 Championship Trophy for Hartland
  • 357 Steep street of old Bideford

  • 358 Centenary of Gazette

  • 359 Appledore tugs fete London Tower

  • 360 Private home for public pump

  • 361 Alwington School closing after 120 years

  • 362 Hartland Abbey outdoor staff 60 years ago

  • 363 TV features Bideford's New Year bread ceremony

  • 364 Sunshine and shade at Appledore

  • 365 Buckland farm workers to receive long-service awards

  • 366 Train returns to Westleigh straight

  • 367 Parkham plan realised

  • 368 Two kinds of hovercraft at Bideford

  • 369 Broomhayes £1,000 Surprise
  • 370 Huntshaw TV mast

  • 371 Born 1883 - still going strong

  • 372 Appledore Juniors Football
  • 373 Burnard family reunion

  • 374 Out of puff!

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

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    New gateway
  • 377 Yeo vale road ruin provides a mystery

  • 378 Bideford's private wharves busier

  • 379 Bideford loses training ship

  • 380 North Devon Driving School

  • 381 They set out for Bideford and became lost

  • 382 Five generations link Woolsery, Clovelly and Bideford

  • 383 Beach search for mines takes longer

  • 384

    Birgitta Whittaker
  • 385 Littleham family's five generations

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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  • 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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  • 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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Rossekop II

The morning after scene

on Sunday of the wreckage of the ‘Rossekop II’ from which, in a hazardous operation in the darkness of just after midnight, seven adults and three children were winched aboard an RAF helicopter from Chivenor and landed safely ashore.

10.11.1972 Rossekop 2 wreckage1

Receiving a severe pounding in the surf, having gone ashore near the estuary bar, parts of the vessel were later found scattered a considerable distance along Saunton Sands beach.

Gazette article dated 10 November 1972

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