• 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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    Gift from Bideford Town Council
  • 2 They are parted pro-tem

  • 3 Hartland Abbey outdoor staff 60 years ago

  • 4 A bird of their own!

  • 5 Bideford Liberals' fashion show

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

  • 8 Jumble sale fever

  • 9 Water Board mains spread through villages

  • 10 Quads join a Langtree happy family

  • 11 Works at craft he learned over 65 years ago

  • 12 Boys from Bideford school complete Ten Tors

  • 13 Brothers reunion 1947
  • 14 Warmington's garage ad

  • 15 Bideford skifflers, they're no squares

  • 16 Mural in the whimsical fashion

  • 17 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

  • 18 New addition to Quay front

  • 19 Meredith's ironmongers

  • 20 Ancestral home nestling in lovely combe

  • 21

    Was a missionary
  • 22 Quads at Thornhillhead

  • 23 Train returns to Westleigh straight

  • 24 They set out for Bideford and became lost

  • 25 Spray dodging - the new pastime

  • 26 Instow local art show was 'tremendous success'

  • 27 Variety in summer weather

  • 28 Photo of town's first car wins prize

  • 29 Tramps camp by riverside throughout arctic weather

  • 30 Recognise this resort?

  • 31 Salmon netting at Bideford

  • 32 Torrington Youth Club rewarded by party
  • 33 Harvest service in Bideford 'pub' bar

  • 34 Success to Festival of the Arts

  • 35 Bideford childrens' cinema opens

  • 36 Can spring be far away?

  • 37 New life for Hartland organ

  • 38 Torrington in 1967

  • 39 Thorn-apple found in Littleham conservatory

  • 40 Peter poses for TV film

  • 41 Centenary of Gazette

  • 42 Sooty is quick on the draw

  • 43 Getting up steam for tomorrow

  • 44

    Lenwood Squash Club
  • 45 Eleven million pound scheme's official opening

  • 46 North Devon author featured in TV documentary

  • 47 Colour TV salesman at eight

  • 48 Alverdiscott is proud of its new parish hall

  • 49 Council agree to demolition of Chanter's Folly

  • 50 Six footed lamb

  • 51 What the television camera saw at Abbotsham

  • 52

    Womens Skittles Competition in Buckland Brewer
  • 53 They never miss a game at Torrington

  • 54 Fishermen of Greencliff

  • 55 Daisy's pride and joy

  • 56 Teenager Peter Jackson Makes Horror Film
  • 57 Gloves fit for a king!

  • 58 Thirty bridges cross Torridge

  • 59

    First Girls at Bideford Grammar School take part in Play
  • 60

    Youth Clubs Join Together For Entertainment
  • 61 East-the-Water's call for new school

  • 62 An early 'special' to Bideford

  • 63 First ship in 8 years

  • 64 Torridge wins on time schedule

  • 65 Bideford country dancers on TV

  • 66 Eleventh hour bid to save last sailing barge

  • 67 Weare Giffard potato

  • 68 Little 'Big Ben'

  • 69 Finished in 1876

  • 70 Cavaliers join the Hunt
  • 71 Bideford Zoo's first baby is big draw

  • 72 Yeoi Vale House finally demolished

  • 73 Appledore's largest

  • 74 Steep street of old Bideford

  • 75 Making way for the double-deckers

  • 76 John Andrew Bread Charity
  • 77 Modern living at Bideford

  • 78 Sight of a lifetime

  • 79 Just over a year old

  • 80 Emergency ferry services

  • 81 Childrens' model of Torrington

  • 82 Some mushroom!

  • 83 So this is the mainland!

  • 84 Bideford-Torrington road gets 'carpet coat'

  • 85 Lady Godiva comes to Torrington

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

  • 87 Torrington's new amenity

  • 88 In their new robes and hats

  • 89 Pannier Market's future?

  • 90 A man and his wheel

  • 91 Appledore's new lifeboat

  • 92 Ten year old scrambler

  • 93 Thrush builds nest in cauliflower

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    Close associations with North Devon
  • 95 To build racing cars in former blacksmith's shop

  • 96 Appledore Juniors Football
  • 97

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

  • 99 Designed and made in Bideford

  • 100 On her 'maiden' trip from Bideford

  • 101 Sunshine and shade at Appledore

  • 102 Clovelly nightmare

  • 103 Can-carrying over cobbles has disappeared

  • 104 Dismantling of wireless mast

  • 105 Safe door weighing two tons

  • 106 Out of puff!

  • 107 Northam wants to continue pumping from river

  • 108 Alwington School closing after 120 years

  • 109 Last train from Torrington

  • 110 Littleham family's five generations

  • 111 Northam footballers of the future

  • 112 Five generations link Woolsery, Clovelly and Bideford

  • 113 All aboard the ark

  • 114 Torrington's shelter for the aged

  • 115 'Out of Appledore' sailing memories

  • 116 Appledore tugs fete London Tower

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

  • 118 Clovelly custom

  • 119 Chess - their bridge over the years

  • 120 Television comes to Torridge District

  • 121 Westward Ho! public conveniences get go ahead
  • 122 New civic medallions

  • 123 A story to tell!

  • 124 Westward Ho! combined op

  • 125 Bicycle now does donkey work

  • 126 Homage to a well-loved sovereign

  • 127 Some 240 exhibits

  • 128 Bravery against bull at Shebbear rewarded

  • 129 Pet squirrels at Monkleigh

  • 130 Mobile missionary

  • 131 Capers on the cobbles

  • 132 Cruising down the river

  • 133

    Holidaying in north Devon
  • 134 Cement-clad boats being built at Northam

  • 135 Smiling welcome to Hartland visitors

  • 136 No ancient Grecian temple this

  • 137

    Jinxed School Trip
  • 138 Eight and a half million pound Taw development scheme

  • 139 Yeo vale road ruin provides a mystery

  • 140 Up-to-date Bideford!

  • 141 One thousand visit zoo at Whitsun

  • 142 Circus comes to town

  • 143 Bideford computer stars

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    Inter-school Road Safety Quiz Cup Winners
  • 145 Thunderstorm destruction of 25 years ago

  • 146 Fundraising trip for RNLI

  • 147 New art gallery opened

  • 148 Picture bought for shillings may be worth thousands

  • 149 Record player of 80 years ago

  • 150 TV contest means big job for Bideford Guides

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    Cadets are given certificates
  • 152 'Les Girls' of Hartland

  • 153 What's the time?

  • 154 Record pebble-throwing day

  • 155 X-ray shoe fitting

  • 156 Calf thinks of mare as mum

  • 157 Wishing well is pixielated

  • 158 Baby Kate goes home to Lundy

  • 159 When horses score over the tractor

  • 160 In the tortoise nursery - eight hatched at Bideford

  • 161

    First prize
  • 162 Puppet characters introduced

  • 163

    Birgitta Whittaker
  • 164 Grenville House for Bideford R.D.C.

  • 165 The creative urge on Saturday morning

  • 166 Picking the pops

  • 167 A sense of humour in advertising

  • 168 For crying out loud!

  • 169 Torrington acclaims 400th anniversary of granting of charter

  • 170 Bideford inquest on French trawlermen opens

  • 171

    Married in 1908
  • 172 Bank Holiday weather was beach weather

  • 173 A craftsman's 'potted' history

  • 174 Two kinds of hovercraft at Bideford

  • 175 Wilfred and Mabel visit schools and hospital

  • 176 Liked holidays here - so starts business

  • 177 New shipyard on schedule

  • 178 Last of Bideford factory chimney

  • 179 Olympic riders to compete at Bideford Horse Show

  • 180 Simple Item 138
  • 181 Death - and birth - of a telephone exchange

  • 182 Fleet of foot and fair of face

  • 183 Four hundred residents leave Bideford!

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    Reds Womens Team Are First To Compete Throughout Season
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    Appledore boys beat mums at football
  • 186 Lots drawn to prevent dog fight

  • 187 Escaped crane moves into Kenwith Valley

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

  • 189 Practical sympathy at Northam

  • 190 Calligrapher extraordinary

  • 191 Tibbles home again - and fish supper

  • 192 Bideford regatta

  • 193 Buckland goes to County Show

  • 194 Northam's almshouse

  • 195 Bideford shipyard workers cheer new minesweeper

  • 196 Celebrations for 103rd birthday

  • 197 By pony and trap to market

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

  • 199 Second Monte Carlo Rally

  • 200 Loads of black and white

  • 201 Saving money, wear and tear

  • 202 Bideford's gift to Sir Francis

  • 203 Private home for public pump

  • 204 Bideford School Junior Choir Sing in France at Twinning Ceremony in Landivisiau
  • 205 Alderman Anstey's dream comes tru

  • 206 Ships at Bideford

  • 207 Bridging the stream

  • 208 Light reading for the lighthouse

  • 209 Penny for the guy

  • 210 Preparations for new Clovelly Court

  • 211 Ship-in-bottle world record

  • 212 Pretty pennies at Beaford

  • 213 Fishing light goes out at close of poor season

  • 214 First steel ship built at Bideford

  • 215 Designed all furnishing of new chapel

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

  • 217 Largest salmon caught in Torridge

  • 218

    FA Cup Match for the Robins
  • 219 The Geneva marionettes

  • 220 Joe the ginger tabby is 21

  • 221 Born 1883 - still going strong

  • 222 A roof-top view - where?

  • 223 Riverside mystery

  • 224 Tide sweeps under and over the old bridge

  • 225 School's link with cargo ship

  • 226 Torrington's enterprise's new extensions

  • 227 Four sisters' nostalgic reunion

  • 228 Signed scroll momento of Queen Mother's visit

  • 229

    Wynne Olley's styles impress International Hair Fashion Designer
  • 230 Barley from Bideford to Bonnie Scotland

  • 231 Allhalland Street - then and now

  • 232 Off on a great adventure

  • 233 New choral society's growing response

  • 234 Revenge in style

  • 235 Boys win hockey on the sands challenge

  • 236 End of the line

  • 237 Vessel built 300 feet above sea level

  • 238 Appledore schooner broadcast

  • 239 Charter granted by Philip and Mary

  • 240 Holiday traffic in Bideford High Street

  • 241 New Lundy stamps

  • 242 Inscribed Bibles and silver spoons for babies

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    Relatives all over the world
  • 244 Bideford A.F.C annual dinner
  • 245 Spring-cleaning the Ridge

  • 246 Huntshaw TV mast

  • 247 Littleham cow tops 70 tons mark in milk production

  • 248 Traditions and skills still there

  • 249 Polish custom on Pancake Day

  • 250 Bideford Liberal club new lounge bar opened

  • 251 Yelland potter's exhibition at Bideford

  • 252

    Double Baptism on Torridge
  • 253 Town's second woman mayor in 392 years

  • 254

    Bidefordians
  • 255 TV features Bideford's New Year bread ceremony

  • 256 Happy Days!

  • 257 Holiday scene near Sandymere

  • 258 School crossing patrol begins

  • 259 Bideford's first triplets for 12 years

  • 260 Bideford's new market opens next week

  • 261 113 years at Instow

  • 262 All for the love of a lady!

  • 263 Faints as she wins national competition

  • 264 Move for oldest boatyard on Torridge

  • 265 Eight to strike and a race to win

  • 266 Twenty-one yachts

  • 267 Torrington to have first woman mayor

  • 268 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

  • 269 Bideford firm develops new non-spill paint

  • 270 Broomhayes £1,000 Surprise
  • 271 Donkey and horses enjoy carnival drink

  • 272 Police station view of Bideford

  • 273 Farewell to passenger trains

  • 274 Fish nearly pulled him in

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    School of Dancing's Annual Display
  • 276 Broomhayes children will keep their winter pet

  • 277 America's tribute to 'J.H.'

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

  • 279 Speeding communications: Bideford firm's new installation

  • 280 Unique holiday adventure!

  • 281 Donkey work made easier at Clovelly

  • 282 Larkworthy Family play in Shebbear's Football Team
  • 283 Big develolpment at Calveford

  • 284 It really was the 'last time'

  • 285 Westward Ho! Tennis Club Winners
  • 286 Weare Giffard Hall sold for £11,300

  • 287 Still hunting aged 80 and a Field Master

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    Building works
  • 289 Devil sent packing

  • 290 Repair work on Long Bridge
  • 291 No sale of Springfield House

  • 292 North Devon Driving School

  • 293 What is future of railway goods yard?

  • 294 Picking the pops

  • 295 Bideford Bridge re-opens

  • 296 Westward Ho! sand yacht to challenge speed record

  • 297 Jalopy joy for children of Shamwickshire

  • 298 River scenes that enchant the visitors

  • 299 Clovelly's 91 year old horseman

  • 300 Passing of a Torrington landmark

  • 301 Lady Churchill congratulates Bideford artists at nursing exhibition

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

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    Exhibition of school work
  • 304 Bideford has built over 500 post-war homes

  • 305 The art of the thatcher

  • 306 Children's procession with foxgloves

  • 307 Hartland Dancers
  • 308

    Gus Honeybun meets local children
  • 309 Photo mural in Bideford bank

  • 310 New Lundy air-mail stamps

  • 311 Bringing shopping home by goat

  • 312 A lost Bideford 'island'

  • 313 Bideford blacksmith wins English championship

  • 314 Old Girls revisit Edgehill

  • 315 Panel sprint for Bideford broadcast

  • 316 A Weare Giffard speciality - delicious strawberries

  • 317 New look for Torrington Lane

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

  • 319 New look in the hayfields

  • 320 Artisans' Club

  • 321 Service with a smile

  • 322

    Successful motor cycling team
  • 323 Church renovation rejoicing at Northam

  • 324 Shoes certainly not made for walking

  • 325 Battle of the gap at Westward Ho!

  • 326 New Post Office

  • 327 Future of Torrington almshouses

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

  • 329 Burnard family reunion

  • 330 Bideford triplets' first birthday party

  • 331 New Estate's view of estuary activities

  • 332 Head Barman appointed Torrington Town Crier
  • 333 Hartland's invitation

  • 334 Hartland postman retires

  • 335 Clovelly donkey film star

  • 336 Bideford loses training ship

  • 337 Tomorrow' night's skittles broadcast from Bideford

  • 338 Appledore boy is youngest recipient of RNLI vellun

  • 339 Parkham plan realised

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    Toasted with musical honours
  • 341 Championship Trophy for Hartland
  • 342

    Mums protest in Coronation Road
  • 343 Buckland farm workers to receive long-service awards

  • 344 Landmark at Bradworthy

  • 345 Torridge graveyard of wooden hulks

  • 346 Down at the 'Donkey House'

  • 347 He beat the floods

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

  • 349 No laughing matter

  • 350 Symbol of Lundy independence

  • 351 Decontrol of meat

  • 352 Torrington school's sundial - fashioned by Headmaster

  • 353

    Mrs Whapham finds ferret in Bridgeland Street while shopping
  • 354 Rowing triumphs at Bideford

  • 355 Watch the dicky bird!

  • 356 Bideford schoolboy's courage recognised

  • 357 Students help model St Sidwell

  • 358 Puzzle corner at Bideford!

  • 359 Shipbuilding hobby at Hartland

  • 360 Sweet success at Langtree School

  • 361 No ancient Grecian temple this

  • 362 Centuries old but today busier than ever

  • 363 New gateway to King George's Fields

  • 364 Beach search for mines takes longer

  • 365 East-the-Water sets town an example

  • 366 Champagne send-off for Torrington new factory

  • 367 Bideford stock car racing entry comes in second

  • 368 Bideford's private wharves busier

  • 369 Gift plaque on Clovelly council houses

  • 370 Torrington children build igloo
  • 371 Space dominates Hartland carnival

  • 372 Birds' convalescent home at Instow

  • 373 Life begins at 80

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    New gateway
  • 375 New fire and ambulance stations

  • 376 Launching the 'Golden Hinde'

  • 377

    10-year-old scrambler practices
  • 378 Northam loses thatched cottage landmark

  • 379 Revived market off to splendid start

  • 380 First tankers arrive at new depot

  • 381 Waldon Triplets
  • 382 Bideford electricity window display qualifies for area competition

  • 383 Do recall the old windmill at Northam?

  • 384 Entente cordiale in Bideford

  • 385 Centenary of Landcross Methodist Chapel

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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  • 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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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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Bideford loses training ship "Revenge" 30th September 1957

Bideford loses training ship "Revenge" 30th September 1957

bideford loses training ship revengeOne of the most interesting sights along Bideford riverside during the past 9 years has been that of the Admiralty's M.T.B. Revenege, which has served as headquarters for the Bideford unit of the Sea Cadet Corps.

Bideford Sea Cadets, under Lieut-Commander T N Rowe, have looked after her well, but have been unable to prevent the deterioration of her hull below the water line, and the steady out-flow of the town's sewer, has all added to the decay of her timbers.

Speaking at the meeting of the Borough Council, the Mayor Mr D F B Stucley said T. S. Revenge had done great service for the youth of the town, service made possible by Rear-Admiral H G C Franklin, Lieut Commander T N Rowe and the committee that supported them.

First sand dredger to have radar fitted? 29th June 1956

First sand dredger to have radar fitted? 29th June 1956

first sand dredger to have radar fittedBideford Gazette photographer catches Mr Stan Woolaway up the ladder supervising the installation of new radar and echo-sounding devices he is having installed on his sand dredger, named after him, and familiar to Torridge-side.

Mr A E Hutchings, of the Bideford marine electrical engineering firm, is responsible for the radar installation.

Mr S Woolaway, apart from his sand dredger business, is also principal of the family firm of Messrs W Woolaway & Sons Ltd, public works contractors, Barnstaple and of the Barnstaple Brick and Tile Co Ltd, which has headquarters at Appledore.

 

Bideford's private wharves busier 29th March 1956

Bideford's private wharves busier 29th March 1956

bidefords private wharves busierBideford's private wharves were at their busiest since the war when the above picture was taken.  The latest to be deepened for coastal vessels is that of Messrs I Baker and Sons Ltd, in the foreground, where m.v. "Celebrity" is discharging cement.  At the Devon Trading Co Ltd, in background, the m.v. "Stan Woolaway is discharging gravel.

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