• 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 Cavaliers join the Hunt
  • 2 Colour TV salesman at eight

  • 3 They set out for Bideford and became lost

  • 4 They are parted pro-tem

  • 5 An early 'special' to Bideford

  • 6

    Birgitta Whittaker
  • 7 Eleventh hour bid to save last sailing barge

  • 8 Bridging the stream

  • 9 Lots drawn to prevent dog fight

  • 10 Donkey work made easier at Clovelly

  • 11 Littleham family's five generations

  • 12

    Building works
  • 13 Recognise this resort?

  • 14 Ship-in-bottle world record

  • 15 Bideford inquest on French trawlermen opens

  • 16 No ancient Grecian temple this

  • 17

    Appledore boys beat mums at football
  • 18 Sixty-two year old Picarooner makes ready for season

  • 19 Westward Ho! combined op

  • 20 Clovelly custom

  • 21 Eleven million pound scheme's official opening

  • 22 What the television camera saw at Abbotsham

  • 23 Bideford School Junior Choir Sing in France at Twinning Ceremony in Landivisiau
  • 24 Some 240 exhibits

  • 25 Hartland Abbey outdoor staff 60 years ago

  • 26 Television comes to Torridge District

  • 27 In the tortoise nursery - eight hatched at Bideford

  • 28 Artisans' Club

  • 29 A craftsman's 'potted' history

  • 30 Down at the 'Donkey House'

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

  • 32 Wishing well is pixielated

  • 33 Torrington acclaims 400th anniversary of granting of charter

  • 34 Instow local art show was 'tremendous success'

  • 35 East-the-Water sets town an example

  • 36 A man and his wheel

  • 37 Hartland's invitation

  • 38 All aboard the ark

  • 39 Record pebble-throwing day

  • 40 Yelland potter's exhibition at Bideford

  • 41 Saving money, wear and tear

  • 42 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

  • 43 New Lundy stamps

  • 44 Teenager Peter Jackson Makes Horror Film
  • 45 Bideford Bridge re-opens

  • 46 Six footed lamb

  • 47 Bideford skifflers, they're no squares

  • 48 Bank Holiday weather was beach weather

  • 49 A Weare Giffard speciality - delicious strawberries

  • 50 Parkham plan realised

  • 51 Spray dodging - the new pastime

  • 52 Simple Item 138
  • 53 Daisy's pride and joy

  • 54 Ancestral home nestling in lovely combe

  • 55 Peter poses for TV film

  • 56 Mural in the whimsical fashion

  • 57 Bideford blacksmith wins English championship

  • 58 Space dominates Hartland carnival

  • 59 Puzzle corner at Bideford!

  • 60 Photo mural in Bideford bank

  • 61 Devil sent packing

  • 62 Appledore Juniors Football
  • 63 Light reading for the lighthouse

  • 64 Harvest service in Bideford 'pub' bar

  • 65 Vessel built 300 feet above sea level

  • 66 Council agree to demolition of Chanter's Folly

  • 67 Championship Trophy for Hartland
  • 68 Head Barman appointed Torrington Town Crier
  • 69 Making way for the double-deckers

  • 70 Can-carrying over cobbles has disappeared

  • 71 Wilfred and Mabel visit schools and hospital

  • 72 Torrington children build igloo
  • 73 Photo of town's first car wins prize

  • 74 Joe the ginger tabby is 21

  • 75 Panto time at Westward Ho!

  • 76 Chess - their bridge over the years

  • 77 Hartland postman retires

  • 78 Faints as she wins national competition

  • 79 Lady Churchill congratulates Bideford artists at nursing exhibition

  • 80 River scenes that enchant the visitors

  • 81 Revenge in style

  • 82 Childrens' model of Torrington

  • 83 Bideford Liberals' fashion show

  • 84 Success to Festival of the Arts

  • 85 Weare Giffard potato

  • 86 Works at craft he learned over 65 years ago

  • 87 New choral society's growing response

  • 88 Alverdiscott is proud of its new parish hall

  • 89 Signed scroll momento of Queen Mother's visit

  • 90 Record player of 80 years ago

  • 91 North Devon Driving School

  • 92 Fishing light goes out at close of poor season

  • 93

    Mrs Whapham finds ferret in Bridgeland Street while shopping
  • 94 Bideford has built over 500 post-war homes

  • 95 For crying out loud!

  • 96

    Womens Skittles Competition in Buckland Brewer
  • 97 Bideford's new market opens next week

  • 98 The Geneva marionettes

  • 99 No ancient Grecian temple this

  • 100

    Hamburger is part of modern life
  • 101 Fishermen of Greencliff

  • 102 Littleham cow tops 70 tons mark in milk production

  • 103 Old Girls revisit Edgehill

  • 104 Bideford firm develops new non-spill paint

  • 105 No laughing matter

  • 106 Four hundred residents leave Bideford!

  • 107 Shipbuilding hobby at Hartland

  • 108

    Inter-school Road Safety Quiz Cup Winners
  • 109 Centuries old but today busier than ever

  • 110 Happy Days!

  • 111 He beat the floods

  • 112 Bringing shopping home by goat

  • 113

    Exhibition of school work
  • 114 Born 1883 - still going strong

  • 115 Designed and made in Bideford

  • 116 Some mushroom!

  • 117 Tibbles home again - and fish supper

  • 118 Preparations for new Clovelly Court

  • 119 Burnard family reunion

  • 120 Fundraising trip for RNLI

  • 121 Modern living at Bideford

  • 122 New art gallery opened

  • 123 Bideford A.F.C annual dinner
  • 124

    Double Baptism on Torridge
  • 125 Bideford triplets' first birthday party

  • 126 Yeo vale road ruin provides a mystery

  • 127 Bideford regatta

  • 128 Sweet success at Langtree School

  • 129 A lost Bideford 'island'

  • 130 The creative urge on Saturday morning

  • 131

    Gift from Bideford Town Council
  • 132 Emergency ferry services

  • 133 Sooty is quick on the draw

  • 134

    Jinxed School Trip
  • 135 Bideford Zoo's first baby is big draw

  • 136 Torridge graveyard of wooden hulks

  • 137 One thousand visit zoo at Whitsun

  • 138 Westward Ho! sand yacht to challenge speed record

  • 139

    Successful motor cycling team
  • 140 Move for oldest boatyard on Torridge

  • 141 Last of Bideford factory chimney

  • 142

    Mums protest in Coronation Road
  • 143 Clovelly's 91 year old horseman

  • 144 Jumble sale fever

  • 145 Panel sprint for Bideford broadcast

  • 146 Four sisters' nostalgic reunion

  • 147 Bideford's private wharves busier

  • 148 Westward Ho! public conveniences get go ahead
  • 149 Boys win hockey on the sands challenge

  • 150 Little 'Big Ben'

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    10-year-old scrambler practices
  • 152 Holiday scene near Sandymere

  • 153 Buckland goes to County Show

  • 154 In their new robes and hats

  • 155 Polish custom on Pancake Day

  • 156 Bideford Liberal club new lounge bar opened

  • 157 When horses score over the tractor

  • 158 Brothers reunion 1947
  • 159 'Les Girls' of Hartland

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

  • 161 Centenary of Landcross Methodist Chapel

  • 162 Entente cordiale in Bideford

  • 163 Service with a smile

  • 164 Barley from Bideford to Bonnie Scotland

  • 165 New life for Hartland organ

  • 166

    Cadets are given certificates
  • 167 Picking the pops

  • 168 Appledore schooner broadcast

  • 169 They never miss a game at Torrington

  • 170

    Andre Veillett and Quentin Reed in Judo Demonstration
  • 171 New Lundy air-mail stamps

  • 172 Smiling welcome to Hartland visitors

  • 173 Church renovation rejoicing at Northam

  • 174 Cement-clad boats being built at Northam

  • 175 Loads of black and white

  • 176 Eight to strike and a race to win

  • 177 No sale of Springfield House

  • 178 Passing of a Torrington landmark

  • 179 Two kinds of hovercraft at Bideford

  • 180

    Was a missionary
  • 181 Do recall the old windmill at Northam?

  • 182 Hartland Dancers
  • 183

    Holidaying in north Devon
  • 184 Doing time - over 300 years of it - at Hartland

  • 185 America's tribute to 'J.H.'

  • 186 John Andrew Bread Charity
  • 187 Buckland farm workers to receive long-service awards

  • 188 Torrington's shelter for the aged

  • 189 Shoes certainly not made for walking

  • 190 Warmington's garage ad

  • 191 Northam wants to continue pumping from river

  • 192 Big develolpment at Calveford

  • 193 Tide sweeps under and over the old bridge

  • 194

    Wynne Olley's styles impress International Hair Fashion Designer
  • 195 Life begins at 80

  • 196 Calligrapher extraordinary

  • 197 Torridge wins on time schedule

  • 198 First ship in 8 years

  • 199 Bideford shipyard workers cheer new minesweeper

  • 200 Bideford electricity window display qualifies for area competition

  • 201 Bideford schoolboy's courage recognised

  • 202 Torrington school's sundial - fashioned by Headmaster

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

  • 204 Private home for public pump

  • 205 Thirty bridges cross Torridge

  • 206 Speeding communications: Bideford firm's new installation

  • 207 A roof-top view - where?

  • 208 Torrington's new amenity

  • 209 A bird of their own!

  • 210 Sunshine and shade at Appledore

  • 211 Lady Godiva comes to Torrington

  • 212 Puppet characters introduced

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

  • 214 First steel ship built at Bideford

  • 215 Escaped crane moves into Kenwith Valley

  • 216 Alwington School closing after 120 years

  • 217 Appledore's largest

  • 218 What's the time?

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    First Girls at Bideford Grammar School take part in Play
  • 220

    Youth Clubs Join Together For Entertainment
  • 221 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

  • 222 Dismantling of wireless mast

  • 223 Police station view of Bideford

  • 224 Thorn-apple found in Littleham conservatory

  • 225 Clovelly donkey film star

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

  • 227 Spring-cleaning the Ridge

  • 228 Bicycle now does donkey work

  • 229 Olympic riders to compete at Bideford Horse Show

  • 230 Thrush builds nest in cauliflower

  • 231 First tankers arrive at new depot

  • 232 Unique holiday adventure!

  • 233 Picture bought for shillings may be worth thousands

  • 234 Landmark at Bradworthy

  • 235 Mobile missionary

  • 236

    New gateway
  • 237

    Reds Womens Team Are First To Compete Throughout Season
  • 238 Yeoi Vale House finally demolished

  • 239 Huntshaw TV mast

  • 240 The art of the thatcher

  • 241 Designed all furnishing of new chapel

  • 242 Students help model St Sidwell

  • 243 Weare Giffard Hall sold for £11,300

  • 244 School's link with cargo ship

  • 245 Larkworthy Family play in Shebbear's Football Team
  • 246 On her 'maiden' trip from Bideford

  • 247 Inscribed Bibles and silver spoons for babies

  • 248 Beach search for mines takes longer

  • 249 Death - and birth - of a telephone exchange

  • 250 Sight of a lifetime

  • 251 TV contest means big job for Bideford Guides

  • 252 Rowing triumphs at Bideford

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

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    Bidefordians
  • 255 Torrington Youth Club rewarded by party
  • 256 Northam loses thatched cottage landmark

  • 257 What is future of railway goods yard?

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

  • 259 Holiday traffic in Bideford High Street

  • 260 Bideford's first triplets for 12 years

  • 261 'Out of Appledore' sailing memories

  • 262 Gloves fit for a king!

  • 263 X-ray shoe fitting

  • 264 TV features Bideford's New Year bread ceremony

  • 265 Clovelly nightmare

  • 266 Meredith's ironmongers

  • 267 New Estate's view of estuary activities

  • 268 Pretty pennies at Beaford

  • 269 All for the love of a lady!

  • 270 Bideford childrens' cinema opens

  • 271 Water Board mains spread through villages

  • 272 Variety in summer weather

  • 273 Town's second woman mayor in 392 years

  • 274 Largest salmon caught in Torridge

  • 275 Pannier Market's future?

  • 276 Salmon netting at Bideford

  • 277 Riverside mystery

  • 278 Appledore boy is youngest recipient of RNLI vellun

  • 279 Celebrations for 103rd birthday

  • 280 Penny for the guy

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

  • 282 Tramps camp by riverside throughout arctic weather

  • 283 Just over a year old

  • 284 Bideford stock car racing entry comes in second

  • 285 Appledore tugs fete London Tower

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

  • 287 Capers on the cobbles

  • 288 Launching the 'Golden Hinde'

  • 289 Bideford loses training ship

  • 290 End of the line

  • 291 Torrington in 1967

  • 292 Watch the dicky bird!

  • 293 Battle of the gap at Westward Ho!

  • 294 Torrington's enterprise's new extensions

  • 295

    Lenwood Squash Club
  • 296 Bravery against bull at Shebbear rewarded

  • 297 Thunderstorm destruction of 25 years ago

  • 298

    Married in 1908
  • 299 New gateway to King George's Fields

  • 300 Decontrol of meat

  • 301 Off on a great adventure

  • 302 Boys from Bideford school complete Ten Tors

  • 303 Broomhayes £1,000 Surprise
  • 304 Birds' convalescent home at Instow

  • 305 Allhalland Street - then and now

  • 306 Second Monte Carlo Rally

  • 307 Tomorrow' night's skittles broadcast from Bideford

  • 308 Picking the pops

  • 309 Revived market off to splendid start

  • 310 Wine and beer merchants for 150 years

  • 311 Farewell to passenger trains

  • 312 Broomhayes children will keep their winter pet

  • 313 Children's procession with foxgloves

  • 314 New addition to Quay front

  • 315 A story to tell!

  • 316 Fleet of foot and fair of face

  • 317 113 years at Instow

  • 318 Steep street of old Bideford

  • 319 Five generations link Woolsery, Clovelly and Bideford

  • 320 So this is the mainland!

  • 321 Finished in 1876

  • 322 Practical sympathy at Northam

  • 323 Repair work on Long Bridge
  • 324 Charter granted by Philip and Mary

  • 325 Donkey and horses enjoy carnival drink

  • 326 It really was the 'last time'

  • 327 Appledore's new lifeboat

  • 328 Centenary of Gazette

  • 329 Quads at Thornhillhead

  • 330 New look for Torrington Lane

  • 331 Twenty-one yachts

  • 332 Champagne send-off for Torrington new factory

  • 333 Still hunting aged 80 and a Field Master

  • 334 Eight and a half million pound Taw development scheme

  • 335 Can spring be far away?

  • 336 Calf thinks of mare as mum

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    First prize
  • 338 Last train from Torrington

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

  • 340 New fire and ambulance stations

  • 341 Bideford computer stars

  • 342 Bideford's gift to Sir Francis

  • 343 New look in the hayfields

  • 344 Fish nearly pulled him in

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    Toasted with musical honours
  • 346 Homage to a well-loved sovereign

  • 347

    Relatives all over the world
  • 348 Bideford-Torrington road gets 'carpet coat'

  • 349 North Devon author featured in TV documentary

  • 350 Getting up steam for tomorrow

  • 351 Alderman Anstey's dream comes tru

  • 352 New civic medallions

  • 353 Safe door weighing two tons

  • 354 Ships at Bideford

  • 355 Symbol of Lundy independence

  • 356 Pet squirrels at Monkleigh

  • 357 Torrington to have first woman mayor

  • 358 Northam footballers of the future

  • 359

    Close associations with North Devon
  • 360 Gift plaque on Clovelly council houses

  • 361 New shipyard on schedule

  • 362 Quads join a Langtree happy family

  • 363 School crossing patrol begins

  • 364 Up-to-date Bideford!

  • 365

    School of Dancing's Annual Display
  • 366 By pony and trap to market

  • 367 Future of Torrington almshouses

  • 368 A sense of humour in advertising

  • 369 Out of puff!

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

  • 371 Traditions and skills still there

  • 372 Train returns to Westleigh straight

  • 373 Bideford country dancers on TV

  • 374 Westward Ho! Tennis Club Winners
  • 375 Ten year old scrambler

  • 376 New Post Office

  • 377

    FA Cup Match for the Robins
  • 378 Northam's almshouse

  • 379 Liked holidays here - so starts business

  • 380 Cruising down the river

  • 381 Circus comes to town

  • 382

    Gus Honeybun meets local children
  • 383 Waldon Triplets
  • 384 Baby Kate goes home to Lundy

  • 385 Jalopy joy for children of Shamwickshire

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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Women Skittlers Do Well at Bideford

Two teams who have had a successful season in the Bideford Women’s Skittles League are the Tornadoes and the Coasters.

5.5.1972 skittlers

The Tornadoes, who play at Bideford Liberal Club, won the champion of champions trophy and the Division II championship in their first year together. They are: Mesdames E Beer, C Conebear, S Spry, M Clements, Miss E Jones and Mrs J Bell.
The Coasters were runners up in Division I and took the J Venus Cup for the highest away aggregate as well as the Sally Braddick and Mother’s Pride knock-out trophies.
But winning trophies is no new thing for the Coasters. In the past six years they have won the J Venus cup six times, the Mother’s Pride cup three times, the Sally Braddick Rose bowl twice and the Gladys Fulford fruit bowl once. In this period, too, they have been champion of champions twice, Division I champions three times, and runners up twice. And one of their members, Mrs G Redclift, has taken the individual trophy for the highest away scores.
They are Miss J Copp, Mrs V Headon, Miss D Copp, Mrs G Redclift and Mrs F Copp. Missing is Mrs D Wooldridge.
Gazette article dated 5 May 1972

Robins Win The Hansen Cup

Gazette article dated 3 May 1957

Bideford AFC pictured with the Hansen Cup after they had defeated Bude 2-1 in the final at Bideford Sports Ground.
Back row: Rivers, Heard, McElwee, French, Parish, Mr S Donoghue;
Front row: Blatchford, Higgins, Hurrell, Pate, Harris, Trott

3.5.1957 Robins win Hansen Cup

 

Bideford Rugger Stalwarts

This photograph of Bideford RFCs team was taken prior to last Saturday’s match with Camborne.

6.4.1951 Bideford rugby

Front row, left to right: M Woolf, B Lesslie, G Wren, E W Slade, G Woolf, C T Mill, M Bonetta;
Back row: W Lock, D Lang, B Mead, E R Jones, C Davis, N Walker, J Tilley, A F Hoare, R Sawtell, M C Bird, R Bird, A J Lee, T Bird
There were three absentees from the regular team – G Little, T N Trickey and D Bury
The full Gazette article is dated 6 April 1951

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