• 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 'Les Girls' of Hartland

  • 2 Penny for the guy

  • 3 He beat the floods

  • 4 North Devon author featured in TV documentary

  • 5 Bideford triplets' first birthday party

  • 6 Just over a year old

  • 7 Fishing light goes out at close of poor season

  • 8 Saving money, wear and tear

  • 9 Down at the 'Donkey House'

  • 10 Buckland farm workers to receive long-service awards

  • 11 Sunshine and shade at Appledore

  • 12 Hartland Abbey outdoor staff 60 years ago

  • 13 Northam footballers of the future

  • 14 Happy Days!

  • 15 Torrington's enterprise's new extensions

  • 16 Picking the pops

  • 17 'Out of Appledore' sailing memories

  • 18 Westward Ho! Tennis Club Winners
  • 19 Thunderstorm destruction of 25 years ago

  • 20

    First Girls at Bideford Grammar School take part in Play
  • 21 Tomorrow' night's skittles broadcast from Bideford

  • 22 Bideford regatta

  • 23 Picking the pops

  • 24 Broomhayes £1,000 Surprise
  • 25 Largest salmon caught in Torridge

  • 26 Shipbuilding hobby at Hartland

  • 27

    Cadets are given certificates
  • 28

    Successful motor cycling team
  • 29 Hartland's invitation

  • 30 Northam wants to continue pumping from river

  • 31 Can-carrying over cobbles has disappeared

  • 32

    Hamburger is part of modern life
  • 33 Four hundred residents leave Bideford!

  • 34 Alwington School closing after 120 years

  • 35 In the tortoise nursery - eight hatched at Bideford

  • 36

    Gus Honeybun meets local children
  • 37 Peter poses for TV film

  • 38 Northam loses thatched cottage landmark

  • 39

    Double Baptism on Torridge
  • 40 They are parted pro-tem

  • 41 Championship Trophy for Hartland
  • 42

    Mrs Whapham finds ferret in Bridgeland Street while shopping
  • 43 Inscribed Bibles and silver spoons for babies

  • 44 Bideford schoolboy's courage recognised

  • 45

    New gateway
  • 46 Bideford A.F.C annual dinner
  • 47 Torrington acclaims 400th anniversary of granting of charter

  • 48

    Wynne Olley's styles impress International Hair Fashion Designer
  • 49 Sweet success at Langtree School

  • 50 Instow local art show was 'tremendous success'

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

  • 52 Bideford School Junior Choir Sing in France at Twinning Ceremony in Landivisiau
  • 53 New addition to Quay front

  • 54 New choral society's growing response

  • 55 Bideford electricity window display qualifies for area competition

  • 56 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

  • 57 Dismantling of wireless mast

  • 58

    Exhibition of school work
  • 59 Grenville House for Bideford R.D.C.

  • 60 Light reading for the lighthouse

  • 61 Littleham cow tops 70 tons mark in milk production

  • 62 Buckland goes to County Show

  • 63 Bideford Bridge re-opens

  • 64 Westward Ho! public conveniences get go ahead
  • 65 Harvest service in Bideford 'pub' bar

  • 66 Pet squirrels at Monkleigh

  • 67 Clovelly custom

  • 68 Olympic riders to compete at Bideford Horse Show

  • 69 Bideford blacksmith wins English championship

  • 70 Bank Holiday weather was beach weather

  • 71 Lots drawn to prevent dog fight

  • 72 Torrington Youth Club rewarded by party
  • 73 A bird of their own!

  • 74 Four sisters' nostalgic reunion

  • 75 Last of Bideford factory chimney

  • 76 Bideford's private wharves busier

  • 77 An early 'special' to Bideford

  • 78 They never miss a game at Torrington

  • 79 Bringing shopping home by goat

  • 80

    Youth Clubs Join Together For Entertainment
  • 81 Old Girls revisit Edgehill

  • 82 Northam's almshouse

  • 83 Fishermen of Greencliff

  • 84 Eight and a half million pound Taw development scheme

  • 85 Torridge wins on time schedule

  • 86 Cruising down the river

  • 87 Passing of a Torrington landmark

  • 88 They set out for Bideford and became lost

  • 89 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

  • 90 New life for Hartland organ

  • 91 Some 240 exhibits

  • 92

    Birgitta Whittaker
  • 93 Vessel built 300 feet above sea level

  • 94 Puppet characters introduced

  • 95 Battle of the gap at Westward Ho!

  • 96

    Relatives all over the world
  • 97 Rowing triumphs at Bideford

  • 98 Steep street of old Bideford

  • 99 Broomhayes children will keep their winter pet

  • 100 Emergency ferry services

  • 101 Five generations link Woolsery, Clovelly and Bideford

  • 102 Torrington in 1967

  • 103 A roof-top view - where?

  • 104 Weare Giffard potato

  • 105 Bideford has built over 500 post-war homes

  • 106 Children's procession with foxgloves

  • 107 Gloves fit for a king!

  • 108 Bideford Zoo's first baby is big draw

  • 109 Larkworthy Family play in Shebbear's Football Team
  • 110

    School of Dancing's Annual Display
  • 111 Eleventh hour bid to save last sailing barge

  • 112 Torrington school's sundial - fashioned by Headmaster

  • 113 First steel ship built at Bideford

  • 114 Spray dodging - the new pastime

  • 115 Entente cordiale in Bideford

  • 116 First ship in 8 years

  • 117 Gift plaque on Clovelly council houses

  • 118 Thrush builds nest in cauliflower

  • 119 Hartland Dancers
  • 120 Success to Festival of the Arts

  • 121 Private home for public pump

  • 122 School's link with cargo ship

  • 123 The art of the thatcher

  • 124

    Married in 1908
  • 125 Quads at Thornhillhead

  • 126 Bideford Liberal club new lounge bar opened

  • 127

    Gift from Bideford Town Council
  • 128 Still hunting aged 80 and a Field Master

  • 129 Pretty pennies at Beaford

  • 130 Brothers reunion 1947
  • 131 Traditions and skills still there

  • 132 New Post Office

  • 133 One thousand visit zoo at Whitsun

  • 134

    Inter-school Road Safety Quiz Cup Winners
  • 135 Simple Item 138
  • 136 Life begins at 80

  • 137 Watch the dicky bird!

  • 138 Launching the 'Golden Hinde'

  • 139

    Mums protest in Coronation Road
  • 140 Some mushroom!

  • 141 A lost Bideford 'island'

  • 142 Bideford firm develops new non-spill paint

  • 143 Donkey work made easier at Clovelly

  • 144 Bideford computer stars

  • 145 It really was the 'last time'

  • 146 Charter granted by Philip and Mary

  • 147 Move for oldest boatyard on Torridge

  • 148 Eight to strike and a race to win

  • 149 TV contest means big job for Bideford Guides

  • 150 Hartland postman retires

  • 151 Cement-clad boats being built at Northam

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

  • 153 Train returns to Westleigh straight

  • 154 Bideford stock car racing entry comes in second

  • 155 Thirty bridges cross Torridge

  • 156 Death - and birth - of a telephone exchange

  • 157 New look for Torrington Lane

  • 158 Bideford country dancers on TV

  • 159 Beach search for mines takes longer

  • 160 Revenge in style

  • 161 Symbol of Lundy independence

  • 162 New civic medallions

  • 163

    Jinxed School Trip
  • 164 Holiday traffic in Bideford High Street

  • 165 Yeo vale road ruin provides a mystery

  • 166 River scenes that enchant the visitors

  • 167

    Holidaying in north Devon
  • 168 Works at craft he learned over 65 years ago

  • 169 Champagne send-off for Torrington new factory

  • 170 Yelland potter's exhibition at Bideford

  • 171

    Lenwood Squash Club
  • 172 Sight of a lifetime

  • 173 Speeding communications: Bideford firm's new installation

  • 174 Wine and beer merchants for 150 years

  • 175 Allhalland Street - then and now

  • 176 Clovelly nightmare

  • 177 Quads join a Langtree happy family

  • 178

    Womens Skittles Competition in Buckland Brewer
  • 179 Water Board mains spread through villages

  • 180 Mobile missionary

  • 181

    Was a missionary
  • 182 Homage to a well-loved sovereign

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    Close associations with North Devon
  • 184 End of the line

  • 185 John Andrew Bread Charity
  • 186 Bideford's new market opens next week

  • 187 A story to tell!

  • 188 Born 1883 - still going strong

  • 189 The creative urge on Saturday morning

  • 190 New look in the hayfields

  • 191 Bicycle now does donkey work

  • 192 Panel sprint for Bideford broadcast

  • 193 Variety in summer weather

  • 194 Do recall the old windmill at Northam?

  • 195 Bideford's first triplets for 12 years

  • 196 No ancient Grecian temple this

  • 197 Future of Torrington almshouses

  • 198 Second Monte Carlo Rally

  • 199 Fish nearly pulled him in

  • 200 No sale of Springfield House

  • 201 Littleham family's five generations

  • 202 Thorn-apple found in Littleham conservatory

  • 203 Appledore Juniors Football
  • 204 Space dominates Hartland carnival

  • 205 Two kinds of hovercraft at Bideford

  • 206 Bravery against bull at Shebbear rewarded

  • 207 Torridge graveyard of wooden hulks

  • 208 Safe door weighing two tons

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

  • 210 Jumble sale fever

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

  • 212 Meredith's ironmongers

  • 213 Colour TV salesman at eight

  • 214 Ships at Bideford

  • 215 Practical sympathy at Northam

  • 216 Birds' convalescent home at Instow

  • 217 Holiday scene near Sandymere

  • 218 Boys win hockey on the sands challenge

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

  • 220 Spring-cleaning the Ridge

  • 221 Loads of black and white

  • 222 Waldon Triplets
  • 223 Calf thinks of mare as mum

  • 224 Big develolpment at Calveford

  • 225 Church renovation rejoicing at Northam

  • 226 Council agree to demolition of Chanter's Folly

  • 227 Baby Kate goes home to Lundy

  • 228 Last train from Torrington

  • 229 Donkey and horses enjoy carnival drink

  • 230 Bideford's gift to Sir Francis

  • 231 Finished in 1876

  • 232 Bideford inquest on French trawlermen opens

  • 233 Landmark at Bradworthy

  • 234 Ship-in-bottle world record

  • 235 Teenager Peter Jackson Makes Horror Film
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    Building works
  • 237 Television comes to Torridge District

  • 238 Out of puff!

  • 239 Designed all furnishing of new chapel

  • 240 East-the-Water sets town an example

  • 241 Westward Ho! sand yacht to challenge speed record

  • 242 Tramps camp by riverside throughout arctic weather

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    FA Cup Match for the Robins
  • 244 Record pebble-throwing day

  • 245 New art gallery opened

  • 246 X-ray shoe fitting

  • 247 Joe the ginger tabby is 21

  • 248 Recognise this resort?

  • 249 For crying out loud!

  • 250 Making way for the double-deckers

  • 251 Yeoi Vale House finally demolished

  • 252 No ancient Grecian temple this

  • 253 Appledore's new lifeboat

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

  • 255 So this is the mainland!

  • 256 Signed scroll momento of Queen Mother's visit

  • 257 Wishing well is pixielated

  • 258 Chess - their bridge over the years

  • 259 New gateway to King George's Fields

  • 260 North Devon Driving School

  • 261 Smiling welcome to Hartland visitors

  • 262 Torrington's new amenity

  • 263 Photo of town's first car wins prize

  • 264 Appledore schooner broadcast

  • 265 Appledore's largest

  • 266 All for the love of a lady!

  • 267 Police station view of Bideford

  • 268 Clovelly's 91 year old horseman

  • 269 Torrington to have first woman mayor

  • 270 Appledore boy is youngest recipient of RNLI vellun

  • 271 Photo mural in Bideford bank

  • 272 Revived market off to splendid start

  • 273 Students help model St Sidwell

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    Bidefordians
  • 275 Getting up steam for tomorrow

  • 276 Daisy's pride and joy

  • 277 Bideford skifflers, they're no squares

  • 278 Unique holiday adventure!

  • 279 Bideford childrens' cinema opens

  • 280 Farewell to passenger trains

  • 281 Faints as she wins national competition

  • 282 Designed and made in Bideford

  • 283 Fleet of foot and fair of face

  • 284 Town's second woman mayor in 392 years

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

  • 286 When horses score over the tractor

  • 287 113 years at Instow

  • 288

    Reds Womens Team Are First To Compete Throughout Season
  • 289

    Appledore boys beat mums at football
  • 290 Up-to-date Bideford!

  • 291 Torrington's shelter for the aged

  • 292 Escaped crane moves into Kenwith Valley

  • 293 Picture bought for shillings may be worth thousands

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    Toasted with musical honours
  • 295 Modern living at Bideford

  • 296 Burnard family reunion

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

  • 298 Alverdiscott is proud of its new parish hall

  • 299 Puzzle corner at Bideford!

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    First prize
  • 301 Tide sweeps under and over the old bridge

  • 302 Barley from Bideford to Bonnie Scotland

  • 303 Fundraising trip for RNLI

  • 304 New Lundy air-mail stamps

  • 305 Polish custom on Pancake Day

  • 306 Record player of 80 years ago

  • 307

    Andre Veillett and Quentin Reed in Judo Demonstration
  • 308 Eleven million pound scheme's official opening

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

  • 310 Bideford Liberals' fashion show

  • 311 Devil sent packing

  • 312 A Weare Giffard speciality - delicious strawberries

  • 313 Torrington children build igloo
  • 314

    10-year-old scrambler practices
  • 315 First tankers arrive at new depot

  • 316 What is future of railway goods yard?

  • 317 Panto time at Westward Ho!

  • 318 Little 'Big Ben'

  • 319 Salmon netting at Bideford

  • 320 Off on a great adventure

  • 321 TV features Bideford's New Year bread ceremony

  • 322 Pannier Market's future?

  • 323 Liked holidays here - so starts business

  • 324 New Estate's view of estuary activities

  • 325 Alderman Anstey's dream comes tru

  • 326 Head Barman appointed Torrington Town Crier
  • 327 Centuries old but today busier than ever

  • 328 Wilfred and Mabel visit schools and hospital

  • 329 Six footed lamb

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

  • 331 Mural in the whimsical fashion

  • 332 No laughing matter

  • 333 Tibbles home again - and fish supper

  • 334 Bideford shipyard workers cheer new minesweeper

  • 335 Weare Giffard Hall sold for £11,300

  • 336 What the television camera saw at Abbotsham

  • 337 School crossing patrol begins

  • 338 New fire and ambulance stations

  • 339 Huntshaw TV mast

  • 340 Boys from Bideford school complete Ten Tors

  • 341 Preparations for new Clovelly Court

  • 342 Centenary of Gazette

  • 343 New Lundy stamps

  • 344 Westward Ho! combined op

  • 345 Childrens' model of Torrington

  • 346 Capers on the cobbles

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

  • 348 By pony and trap to market

  • 349 Twenty-one yachts

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

  • 351 Lady Churchill congratulates Bideford artists at nursing exhibition

  • 352 What's the time?

  • 353 Shoes certainly not made for walking

  • 354 On her 'maiden' trip from Bideford

  • 355 Jalopy joy for children of Shamwickshire

  • 356 Cavaliers join the Hunt
  • 357 Decontrol of meat

  • 358 Service with a smile

  • 359 New shipyard on schedule

  • 360 Artisans' Club

  • 361 Riverside mystery

  • 362 Bideford-Torrington road gets 'carpet coat'

  • 363 Circus comes to town

  • 364 A craftsman's 'potted' history

  • 365 Ten year old scrambler

  • 366 A man and his wheel

  • 367 Sooty is quick on the draw

  • 368 Parkham plan realised

  • 369 Can spring be far away?

  • 370 Lady Godiva comes to Torrington

  • 371 Appledore tugs fete London Tower

  • 372 The Geneva marionettes

  • 373 Repair work on Long Bridge
  • 374 A sense of humour in advertising

  • 375 Bideford loses training ship

  • 376 Clovelly donkey film star

  • 377 Celebrations for 103rd birthday

  • 378 Ancestral home nestling in lovely combe

  • 379 Calligrapher extraordinary

  • 380 Centenary of Landcross Methodist Chapel

  • 381 America's tribute to 'J.H.'

  • 382 Warmington's garage ad

  • 383 Bridging the stream

  • 384 All aboard the ark

  • 385 In their new robes and hats

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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Appledore's Largest Launching Yet 31st May 1957

Appledore's Largest Launching Yet 31st May 1957

Appledores largest launching yetMost up-to-date of her kind in the UK, the largest ship ever to be built at the shipyards of Messrs P K Harris & Sons at Appledore was floated out of the dry-dock in which she was built, to the accompaniment of ships' sirfens and worken's cheers. 

The vessel was christened 'Sand Dart' by Mrs V G W Batt, wife of the managing director of the Southampton firm.  Before the naming ceremony a bouquet was presented to Mrs Batt by Mrs Veree Kidd, daughter of the Richmond yard charge-hand Mr Jack Eastman.

Glass-hull vessel leave Appledore 14th January 1956

Glass-hull vessel leave Appledore 14th January 1956

Glass hull vessel leaves Appledore54 foot glass fabricated vessel, which was launched into the Torridge by crane, after arrival by road from Southampton, in June last, left Appledore last week after being fitted out at the Newquay Dock of Messrs P K Harris and Sons.  She is destined for Aden.

Appledore tug launched on time! 4th November 1955

Appledore tug launched on time! 4th November 1955

appledore tug launched on timeThe above tug was successfully launched amid cheers of Appledore shipyard employees who have worked at concert pitch to ensure "being on time" as tide was the last suitable daylight tide before 1956.

Picture shows Mr C H Gibson, the mechanical engineer for a large North-country tug-owning firm, consulting with Mr J Venus, Managing director of Messrs P K Harris (Shipbuilders) Ltd of Appledore, the builders of the new craft.

The christening ceremony was performed by Mrs Gibson.  Design by Messrs Burness, Kendall and Partners.

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