• 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 Twenty-one yachts

  • 2 Finished in 1876

  • 3 Rowing triumphs at Bideford

  • 4 Six footed lamb

  • 5 Light reading for the lighthouse

  • 6 It really was the 'last time'

  • 7 A Weare Giffard speciality - delicious strawberries

  • 8 New look in the hayfields

  • 9 Preparations for new Clovelly Court

  • 10 Some 240 exhibits

  • 11 Chess - their bridge over the years

  • 12 Making way for the double-deckers

  • 13 Centenary of Landcross Methodist Chapel

  • 14 Torrington's shelter for the aged

  • 15 Little 'Big Ben'

  • 16

    First Girls at Bideford Grammar School take part in Play
  • 17 He beat the floods

  • 18 Down at the 'Donkey House'

  • 19 Escaped crane moves into Kenwith Valley

  • 20 Torridge graveyard of wooden hulks

  • 21 Farewell to passenger trains

  • 22 Students help model St Sidwell

  • 23 Jumble sale fever

  • 24 Clovelly custom

  • 25 Space dominates Hartland carnival

  • 26 Clovelly's 91 year old horseman

  • 27 By pony and trap to market

  • 28 Town's second woman mayor in 392 years

  • 29 Vessel built 300 feet above sea level

  • 30 On her 'maiden' trip from Bideford

  • 31 Penny for the guy

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

  • 33 Larkworthy Family play in Shebbear's Football Team
  • 34 Police station view of Bideford

  • 35 Traditions and skills still there

  • 36 Up-to-date Bideford!

  • 37 Riverside mystery

  • 38 113 years at Instow

  • 39 Off on a great adventure

  • 40 Northam's almshouse

  • 41 Ship-in-bottle world record

  • 42 Fish nearly pulled him in

  • 43 Hartland postman retires

  • 44 Champagne send-off for Torrington new factory

  • 45 The Geneva marionettes

  • 46 Littleham cow tops 70 tons mark in milk production

  • 47 Yelland potter's exhibition at Bideford

  • 48 Eight and a half million pound Taw development scheme

  • 49 Peter poses for TV film

  • 50 Bringing shopping home by goat

  • 51 First steel ship built at Bideford

  • 52 First ship in 8 years

  • 53 Polish custom on Pancake Day

  • 54 An early 'special' to Bideford

  • 55 Appledore's largest

  • 56 Bideford's private wharves busier

  • 57 'Les Girls' of Hartland

  • 58 Boys from Bideford school complete Ten Tors

  • 59 Dismantling of wireless mast

  • 60

    Double Baptism on Torridge
  • 61 Bicycle now does donkey work

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

  • 63 Five generations link Woolsery, Clovelly and Bideford

  • 64 Mural in the whimsical fashion

  • 65 Smiling welcome to Hartland visitors

  • 66 Last train from Torrington

  • 67

    New gateway
  • 68 Circus comes to town

  • 69

    Was a missionary
  • 70

    FA Cup Match for the Robins
  • 71 When horses score over the tractor

  • 72 All aboard the ark

  • 73 Sooty is quick on the draw

  • 74 Westward Ho! sand yacht to challenge speed record

  • 75 Childrens' model of Torrington

  • 76 Spring-cleaning the Ridge

  • 77 Entente cordiale in Bideford

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

  • 79 Lady Churchill congratulates Bideford artists at nursing exhibition

  • 80 Instow local art show was 'tremendous success'

  • 81 Signed scroll momento of Queen Mother's visit

  • 82 Train returns to Westleigh straight

  • 83 Bideford childrens' cinema opens

  • 84

    Jinxed School Trip
  • 85 Sight of a lifetime

  • 86 One thousand visit zoo at Whitsun

  • 87 Simple Item 138
  • 88 Tibbles home again - and fish supper

  • 89 Panto time at Westward Ho!

  • 90 Calligrapher extraordinary

  • 91 Bideford's gift to Sir Francis

  • 92 Appledore Juniors Football
  • 93

    Wynne Olley's styles impress International Hair Fashion Designer
  • 94 Service with a smile

  • 95 Westward Ho! Tennis Club Winners
  • 96 Bideford computer stars

  • 97 Revenge in style

  • 98 Inscribed Bibles and silver spoons for babies

  • 99 Littleham family's five generations

  • 100 A sense of humour in advertising

  • 101

    Relatives all over the world
  • 102 Sunshine and shade at Appledore

  • 103 Launching the 'Golden Hinde'

  • 104 Speeding communications: Bideford firm's new installation

  • 105 Quads at Thornhillhead

  • 106 Daisy's pride and joy

  • 107

    Womens Skittles Competition in Buckland Brewer
  • 108

    School of Dancing's Annual Display
  • 109 Battle of the gap at Westward Ho!

  • 110 Weare Giffard Hall sold for £11,300

  • 111 Torrington Youth Club rewarded by party
  • 112 New Lundy stamps

  • 113 A craftsman's 'potted' history

  • 114 Quads join a Langtree happy family

  • 115 Alwington School closing after 120 years

  • 116 Head Barman appointed Torrington Town Crier
  • 117 Burnard family reunion

  • 118

    Close associations with North Devon
  • 119 No sale of Springfield House

  • 120 Torridge wins on time schedule

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

  • 122 Recognise this resort?

  • 123 Bideford inquest on French trawlermen opens

  • 124

    Gus Honeybun meets local children
  • 125 Private home for public pump

  • 126 What's the time?

  • 127 So this is the mainland!

  • 128 New Lundy air-mail stamps

  • 129 Pet squirrels at Monkleigh

  • 130 Broomhayes children will keep their winter pet

  • 131 Teenager Peter Jackson Makes Horror Film
  • 132 Westward Ho! combined op

  • 133 Cement-clad boats being built at Northam

  • 134 Four hundred residents leave Bideford!

  • 135 Just over a year old

  • 136 Largest salmon caught in Torridge

  • 137 Safe door weighing two tons

  • 138 New gateway to King George's Fields

  • 139 Torrington to have first woman mayor

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

  • 141

    10-year-old scrambler practices
  • 142 Death - and birth - of a telephone exchange

  • 143 Second Monte Carlo Rally

  • 144 Hartland Dancers
  • 145 Malibou boys are all-the-year-round surfers

  • 146 Bravery against bull at Shebbear rewarded

  • 147 Spray dodging - the new pastime

  • 148 Alverdiscott is proud of its new parish hall

  • 149 Panel sprint for Bideford broadcast

  • 150

    Successful motor cycling team
  • 151 Buckland farm workers to receive long-service awards

  • 152 Northam footballers of the future

  • 153 Capers on the cobbles

  • 154 Clovelly nightmare

  • 155 A man and his wheel

  • 156 Symbol of Lundy independence

  • 157 Getting up steam for tomorrow

  • 158 Pannier Market's future?

  • 159 Still hunting aged 80 and a Field Master

  • 160 All for the love of a lady!

  • 161 New fire and ambulance stations

  • 162 North Devon author featured in TV documentary

  • 163 East-the-Water sets town an example

  • 164 School's link with cargo ship

  • 165 Four sisters' nostalgic reunion

  • 166 A bird of their own!

  • 167 Church renovation rejoicing at Northam

  • 168 Ancestral home nestling in lovely combe

  • 169 Designed and made in Bideford

  • 170 Unique holiday adventure!

  • 171 Pretty pennies at Beaford

  • 172 New addition to Quay front

  • 173 In the tortoise nursery - eight hatched at Bideford

  • 174 Harvest service in Bideford 'pub' bar

  • 175 Born 1883 - still going strong

  • 176 New look for Torrington Lane

  • 177 Bideford A.F.C annual dinner
  • 178 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

  • 179 Photo mural in Bideford bank

  • 180 Centuries old but today busier than ever

  • 181 Holiday traffic in Bideford High Street

  • 182 For crying out loud!

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

  • 184 Appledore boy is youngest recipient of RNLI vellun

  • 185 Westward Ho! public conveniences get go ahead
  • 186 Practical sympathy at Northam

  • 187 Holiday scene near Sandymere

  • 188 Big develolpment at Calveford

  • 189 Bideford triplets' first birthday party

  • 190 End of the line

  • 191 They never miss a game at Torrington

  • 192 What the television camera saw at Abbotsham

  • 193 Eight to strike and a race to win

  • 194 New civic medallions

  • 195 Do recall the old windmill at Northam?

  • 196

    Bidefordians
  • 197 Can spring be far away?

  • 198 Appledore schooner broadcast

  • 199 Yeoi Vale House finally demolished

  • 200 Hartland's invitation

  • 201 School crossing patrol begins

  • 202

    Birgitta Whittaker
  • 203

    Appledore boys beat mums at football
  • 204 Open-air art exhibition by 'under 40' group

  • 205 Bideford-Torrington road gets 'carpet coat'

  • 206 'Out of Appledore' sailing memories

  • 207 Centenary of Gazette

  • 208 Bideford has built over 500 post-war homes

  • 209 Liked holidays here - so starts business

  • 210 Torrington school's sundial - fashioned by Headmaster

  • 211 Joe the ginger tabby is 21

  • 212 Out of puff!

  • 213 Warmington's garage ad

  • 214 Championship Trophy for Hartland
  • 215 Homage to a well-loved sovereign

  • 216 Ships at Bideford

  • 217 Eleventh hour bid to save last sailing barge

  • 218 Emergency ferry services

  • 219 Colour TV salesman at eight

  • 220 Picture bought for shillings may be worth thousands

  • 221 New art gallery opened

  • 222 Fishermen of Greencliff

  • 223

    Gift from Bideford Town Council
  • 224 Lady Godiva comes to Torrington

  • 225 Wine and beer merchants for 150 years

  • 226 Northam wants to continue pumping from river

  • 227 Torrington in 1967

  • 228 Lots drawn to prevent dog fight

  • 229

    Reds Womens Team Are First To Compete Throughout Season
  • 230 Barley from Bideford to Bonnie Scotland

  • 231 Allhalland Street - then and now

  • 232 Appledore tugs fete London Tower

  • 233 Fleet of foot and fair of face

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

  • 235 Photo of town's first car wins prize

  • 236 The art of the thatcher

  • 237 They set out for Bideford and became lost

  • 238 No laughing matter

  • 239 Brothers reunion 1947
  • 240 Appledore's new lifeboat

  • 241 Bideford Liberal club new lounge bar opened

  • 242 Fundraising trip for RNLI

  • 243 Buckland goes to County Show

  • 244 Passing of a Torrington landmark

  • 245 Watch the dicky bird!

  • 246 Works at craft he learned over 65 years ago

  • 247 Donkey work made easier at Clovelly

  • 248 What is future of railway goods yard?

  • 249 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

  • 250 Weare Giffard potato

  • 251 Torrington's enterprise's new extensions

  • 252 Shoes certainly not made for walking

  • 253 Cavaliers join the Hunt
  • 254 Calf thinks of mare as mum

  • 255 Tramps camp by riverside throughout arctic weather

  • 256 Beach search for mines takes longer

  • 257 Torrington children build igloo
  • 258 Bideford Liberals' fashion show

  • 259 Boys win hockey on the sands challenge

  • 260 Bideford's first triplets for 12 years

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    Cadets are given certificates
  • 262 Steep street of old Bideford

  • 263 Celebrations for 103rd birthday

  • 264 Children's procession with foxgloves

  • 265 Donkey and horses enjoy carnival drink

  • 266 Northam loses thatched cottage landmark

  • 267 Success to Festival of the Arts

  • 268 Can-carrying over cobbles has disappeared

  • 269 Tomorrow' night's skittles broadcast from Bideford

  • 270 Ten year old scrambler

  • 271 Meredith's ironmongers

  • 272 No ancient Grecian temple this

  • 273 Baby Kate goes home to Lundy

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    First prize
  • 275 Wilfred and Mabel visit schools and hospital

  • 276 Bideford blacksmith wins English championship

  • 277 Repair work on Long Bridge
  • 278 Picking the pops

  • 279 Bideford skifflers, they're no squares

  • 280 River scenes that enchant the visitors

  • 281 Revived market off to splendid start

  • 282 Record pebble-throwing day

  • 283 First tankers arrive at new depot

  • 284 No ancient Grecian temple this

  • 285 Parkham plan realised

  • 286 Clovelly donkey film star

  • 287 In their new robes and hats

  • 288 Bridging the stream

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

  • 290 Eleven million pound scheme's official opening

  • 291 North Devon Driving School

  • 292 Huntshaw TV mast

  • 293 Bideford shipyard workers cheer new minesweeper

  • 294 TV contest means big job for Bideford Guides

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

  • 296 The creative urge on Saturday morning

  • 297 Puppet characters introduced

  • 298 Hartland Abbey outdoor staff 60 years ago

  • 299 New choral society's growing response

  • 300 Landmark at Bradworthy

  • 301 Some mushroom!

  • 302

    Holidaying in north Devon
  • 303

    Lenwood Squash Club
  • 304 Salmon netting at Bideford

  • 305 Bideford Zoo's first baby is big draw

  • 306

    Inter-school Road Safety Quiz Cup Winners
  • 307 Yeo vale road ruin provides a mystery

  • 308 Bideford Bridge re-opens

  • 309 Gift plaque on Clovelly council houses

  • 310

    Mums protest in Coronation Road
  • 311 Record player of 80 years ago

  • 312 Bideford electricity window display qualifies for area competition

  • 313 Bideford's new market opens next week

  • 314 Cruising down the river

  • 315 Torrington acclaims 400th anniversary of granting of charter

  • 316 Bideford country dancers on TV

  • 317

    Mrs Whapham finds ferret in Bridgeland Street while shopping
  • 318 Bank Holiday weather was beach weather

  • 319 Shipbuilding hobby at Hartland

  • 320 Old Girls revisit Edgehill

  • 321 Bideford regatta

  • 322 Devil sent packing

  • 323 Olympic riders to compete at Bideford Horse Show

  • 324 Last of Bideford factory chimney

  • 325 Sweet success at Langtree School

  • 326

    Hamburger is part of modern life
  • 327 Gloves fit for a king!

  • 328 Thrush builds nest in cauliflower

  • 329 New life for Hartland organ

  • 330 Bideford firm develops new non-spill paint

  • 331 X-ray shoe fitting

  • 332 John Andrew Bread Charity
  • 333 Modern living at Bideford

  • 334 Broomhayes £1,000 Surprise
  • 335 A story to tell!

  • 336 Two kinds of hovercraft at Bideford

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

  • 338 Television comes to Torridge District

  • 339 Wishing well is pixielated

  • 340 Saving money, wear and tear

  • 341 Loads of black and white

  • 342 Birds' convalescent home at Instow

  • 343 Fishing light goes out at close of poor season

  • 344 Thorn-apple found in Littleham conservatory

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    Married in 1908
  • 346 New Estate's view of estuary activities

  • 347 Council agree to demolition of Chanter's Folly

  • 348 New shipyard on schedule

  • 349

    Building works
  • 350 Happy Days!

  • 351 Life begins at 80

  • 352 Bideford stock car racing entry comes in second

  • 353

    Exhibition of school work
  • 354 Jalopy joy for children of Shamwickshire

  • 355 Decontrol of meat

  • 356 Thirty bridges cross Torridge

  • 357 TV features Bideford's New Year bread ceremony

  • 358 Bideford School Junior Choir Sing in France at Twinning Ceremony in Landivisiau
  • 359 Thunderstorm destruction of 25 years ago

  • 360 New Post Office

  • 361 Future of Torrington almshouses

  • 362 Artisans' Club

  • 363 Torrington's new amenity

  • 364 Variety in summer weather

  • 365 Move for oldest boatyard on Torridge

  • 366 Designed all furnishing of new chapel

  • 367 A lost Bideford 'island'

  • 368 Alderman Anstey's dream comes tru

  • 369 Puzzle corner at Bideford!

  • 370 America's tribute to 'J.H.'

  • 371 Faints as she wins national competition

  • 372

    Andre Veillett and Quentin Reed in Judo Demonstration
  • 373 Bideford schoolboy's courage recognised

  • 374

    Youth Clubs Join Together For Entertainment
  • 375 Waldon Triplets
  • 376 Tide sweeps under and over the old bridge

  • 377 They are parted pro-tem

  • 378 Water Board mains spread through villages

  • 379 Bideford loses training ship

  • 380 Charter granted by Philip and Mary

  • 381 Picking the pops

  • 382

    Toasted with musical honours
  • 383 Mobile missionary

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

  • 385 A roof-top view - where?

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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TORRIDGESIDE BUILT SHIP IS NAMED IN LONDON 18.2.1983

TORRIDGESIDE BUILT SHIP IS NAMED IN LONDON 18.2.1983

torridgeside built shipProduct of the craftsmen of Appledore Shipbuilder Ltd the 10,500 ton Tankerman, a multi-purpose products tanker build on the Torridge for Rowbotham Tankships Ltd was named in Pool of London - the first time a naming ceremony has been held away from the yard. 

Esso tankers to be built by Appledore shipyard

Esso tankers to be built by Appledore shipyard

Esso tankers to be built by Appledore shipyardAn order for 3 coastal tankers worth a total of millions has been placed with Appledore Shipbuilders Ltd, Appledore, by Esso Petroleum Company Ltd.  Photograph shows Dr A R W Baddeley a director of Esso Petroleum Co Ltd and Mr James Venus, managing director of Appledore Shipbuilders Ltd.

Shipyard to run training school 2nd February 1968

Shipyard to run training school 2nd February 1968

shipyard to run training schoolThe shipyard seems to make all the good Appledore news.

The establishment of a training school for apprentices.  Northam Urban Council are to reconstruct the bus shelter, which is just around the corner in Marine Parade.

Appledore Shipbuilders were ready to buy the shelter and incorporate it in their scheme.  The Surveyor (Mr Clive Barber) told the Council that because of vandalism he had investigated the possibility of making it shallower.

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