• 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 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

  • 2 An early 'special' to Bideford

  • 3 Sweet success at Langtree School

  • 4 Clovelly nightmare

  • 5 Bideford childrens' cinema opens

  • 6 Panel sprint for Bideford broadcast

  • 7

    Mums protest in Coronation Road
  • 8

    Jinxed School Trip
  • 9 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

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

  • 11 Joe the ginger tabby is 21

  • 12 Torrington children build igloo
  • 13 Mural in the whimsical fashion

  • 14 Down at the 'Donkey House'

  • 15 Burnard family reunion

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

  • 17

    Youth Clubs Join Together For Entertainment
  • 18 Fishermen of Greencliff

  • 19 Clovelly donkey film star

  • 20 Gloves fit for a king!

  • 21 Picking the pops

  • 22 They set out for Bideford and became lost

  • 23 Clovelly custom

  • 24

    Relatives all over the world
  • 25 A bird of their own!

  • 26 A story to tell!

  • 27 Photo of town's first car wins prize

  • 28 Chess - their bridge over the years

  • 29 A Weare Giffard speciality - delicious strawberries

  • 30 Charter granted by Philip and Mary

  • 31 A lost Bideford 'island'

  • 32 Pannier Market's future?

  • 33 Torrington to have first woman mayor

  • 34 Bideford Liberal club new lounge bar opened

  • 35 Mobile missionary

  • 36 Space dominates Hartland carnival

  • 37

    Womens Skittles Competition in Buckland Brewer
  • 38 Centuries old but today busier than ever

  • 39 Bideford firm develops new non-spill paint

  • 40

    Double Baptism on Torridge
  • 41 Passing of a Torrington landmark

  • 42 Bideford School Junior Choir Sing in France at Twinning Ceremony in Landivisiau
  • 43 Colour TV salesman at eight

  • 44 Homage to a well-loved sovereign

  • 45 Gift plaque on Clovelly council houses

  • 46 Thirty bridges cross Torridge

  • 47 Loads of black and white

  • 48 A roof-top view - where?

  • 49 Recognise this resort?

  • 50

    FA Cup Match for the Robins
  • 51 Barley from Bideford to Bonnie Scotland

  • 52 He beat the floods

  • 53 Torrington acclaims 400th anniversary of granting of charter

  • 54 Alwington School closing after 120 years

  • 55 Bringing shopping home by goat

  • 56 Appledore tugs fete London Tower

  • 57 Bideford shipyard workers cheer new minesweeper

  • 58 Buckland goes to County Show

  • 59 New choral society's growing response

  • 60 New life for Hartland organ

  • 61 Holiday traffic in Bideford High Street

  • 62 Champagne send-off for Torrington new factory

  • 63 Bideford A.F.C annual dinner
  • 64 First ship in 8 years

  • 65 Childrens' model of Torrington

  • 66 Salmon netting at Bideford

  • 67 Saving money, wear and tear

  • 68 Making way for the double-deckers

  • 69 Fleet of foot and fair of face

  • 70 Last train from Torrington

  • 71

    Bidefordians
  • 72 Clovelly's 91 year old horseman

  • 73 Quads join a Langtree happy family

  • 74 New fire and ambulance stations

  • 75 Town's second woman mayor in 392 years

  • 76 Alverdiscott is proud of its new parish hall

  • 77 Westward Ho! public conveniences get go ahead
  • 78 Designed and made in Bideford

  • 79 Designed all furnishing of new chapel

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    First prize
  • 81 Head Barman appointed Torrington Town Crier
  • 82 Four hundred residents leave Bideford!

  • 83 Children's procession with foxgloves

  • 84 Record player of 80 years ago

  • 85 Torrington Youth Club rewarded by party
  • 86 One thousand visit zoo at Whitsun

  • 87 Jalopy joy for children of Shamwickshire

  • 88 Some 240 exhibits

  • 89 Sight of a lifetime

  • 90 Born 1883 - still going strong

  • 91

    Exhibition of school work
  • 92 Last of Bideford factory chimney

  • 93 Torridge graveyard of wooden hulks

  • 94

    10-year-old scrambler practices
  • 95 On her 'maiden' trip from Bideford

  • 96 Council agree to demolition of Chanter's Folly

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

  • 98 Lady Godiva comes to Torrington

  • 99 Record pebble-throwing day

  • 100 Television comes to Torridge District

  • 101 Puzzle corner at Bideford!

  • 102 Quads at Thornhillhead

  • 103 New look for Torrington Lane

  • 104 Holiday scene near Sandymere

  • 105 Lady Churchill congratulates Bideford artists at nursing exhibition

  • 106 New Lundy stamps

  • 107 Launching the 'Golden Hinde'

  • 108 Circus comes to town

  • 109 In their new robes and hats

  • 110

    Married in 1908
  • 111 They are parted pro-tem

  • 112 Cruising down the river

  • 113 Westward Ho! combined op

  • 114 Peter poses for TV film

  • 115

    Hamburger is part of modern life
  • 116 Allhalland Street - then and now

  • 117 Larkworthy Family play in Shebbear's Football Team
  • 118 Teenager Peter Jackson Makes Horror Film
  • 119

    Wynne Olley's styles impress International Hair Fashion Designer
  • 120 The art of the thatcher

  • 121 John Andrew Bread Charity
  • 122 Olympic riders to compete at Bideford Horse Show

  • 123 Jumble sale fever

  • 124 School's link with cargo ship

  • 125 All aboard the ark

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

  • 127 Instow local art show was 'tremendous success'

  • 128 A craftsman's 'potted' history

  • 129 Bideford regatta

  • 130 Sunshine and shade at Appledore

  • 131 All for the love of a lady!

  • 132 New shipyard on schedule

  • 133

    Lenwood Squash Club
  • 134 Vessel built 300 feet above sea level

  • 135 Spray dodging - the new pastime

  • 136 Yeo vale road ruin provides a mystery

  • 137 Yelland potter's exhibition at Bideford

  • 138 Light reading for the lighthouse

  • 139 Ships at Bideford

  • 140 Northam's almshouse

  • 141 Wine and beer merchants for 150 years

  • 142 Signed scroll momento of Queen Mother's visit

  • 143 Decontrol of meat

  • 144 Bridging the stream

  • 145 Water Board mains spread through villages

  • 146 Old Girls revisit Edgehill

  • 147 Hartland postman retires

  • 148 Repair work on Long Bridge
  • 149 Ten year old scrambler

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    Close associations with North Devon
  • 151 Bideford skifflers, they're no squares

  • 152 Works at craft he learned over 65 years ago

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

  • 154 Birds' convalescent home at Instow

  • 155 Shoes certainly not made for walking

  • 156 Championship Trophy for Hartland
  • 157 Calf thinks of mare as mum

  • 158 Appledore's new lifeboat

  • 159

    Toasted with musical honours
  • 160 Off on a great adventure

  • 161 Daisy's pride and joy

  • 162 Traditions and skills still there

  • 163 Eleventh hour bid to save last sailing barge

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

  • 165 Shipbuilding hobby at Hartland

  • 166 Ship-in-bottle world record

  • 167 Riverside mystery

  • 168 Do recall the old windmill at Northam?

  • 169 Broomhayes children will keep their winter pet

  • 170 Smiling welcome to Hartland visitors

  • 171

    Successful motor cycling team
  • 172 Police station view of Bideford

  • 173 Landmark at Bradworthy

  • 174 Bideford Zoo's first baby is big draw

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

  • 176 Yeoi Vale House finally demolished

  • 177 Students help model St Sidwell

  • 178 Donkey and horses enjoy carnival drink

  • 179 TV contest means big job for Bideford Guides

  • 180

    Was a missionary
  • 181 Celebrations for 103rd birthday

  • 182 Rowing triumphs at Bideford

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

  • 184 Westward Ho! sand yacht to challenge speed record

  • 185 Tomorrow' night's skittles broadcast from Bideford

  • 186 New addition to Quay front

  • 187 For crying out loud!

  • 188 Bideford's private wharves busier

  • 189 So this is the mainland!

  • 190 Bideford electricity window display qualifies for area competition

  • 191

    School of Dancing's Annual Display
  • 192 Cement-clad boats being built at Northam

  • 193

    First Girls at Bideford Grammar School take part in Play
  • 194 Can spring be far away?

  • 195 Success to Festival of the Arts

  • 196 Fish nearly pulled him in

  • 197 Cavaliers join the Hunt
  • 198 Symbol of Lundy independence

  • 199 Life begins at 80

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    Building works
  • 201 Panto time at Westward Ho!

  • 202 Emergency ferry services

  • 203 New art gallery opened

  • 204 Donkey work made easier at Clovelly

  • 205 Revenge in style

  • 206 Appledore boy is youngest recipient of RNLI vellun

  • 207 Future of Torrington almshouses

  • 208

    Mrs Whapham finds ferret in Bridgeland Street while shopping
  • 209 Out of puff!

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

  • 211 Picture bought for shillings may be worth thousands

  • 212 Torrington in 1967

  • 213 Thorn-apple found in Littleham conservatory

  • 214 Huntshaw TV mast

  • 215 Bideford's first triplets for 12 years

  • 216 Eight to strike and a race to win

  • 217 Tide sweeps under and over the old bridge

  • 218 Bideford computer stars

  • 219 School crossing patrol begins

  • 220 Practical sympathy at Northam

  • 221 Broomhayes £1,000 Surprise
  • 222 Eight and a half million pound Taw development scheme

  • 223 Torridge wins on time schedule

  • 224 Just over a year old

  • 225 Fishing light goes out at close of poor season

  • 226 Liked holidays here - so starts business

  • 227 Little 'Big Ben'

  • 228 Northam wants to continue pumping from river

  • 229 River scenes that enchant the visitors

  • 230 Polish custom on Pancake Day

  • 231 Bideford's gift to Sir Francis

  • 232 What the television camera saw at Abbotsham

  • 233 Unique holiday adventure!

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    Andre Veillett and Quentin Reed in Judo Demonstration
  • 235 Torrington's new amenity

  • 236 Steep street of old Bideford

  • 237 Entente cordiale in Bideford

  • 238 Dismantling of wireless mast

  • 239 Appledore schooner broadcast

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

  • 241 Up-to-date Bideford!

  • 242 Hartland Abbey outdoor staff 60 years ago

  • 243 Bank Holiday weather was beach weather

  • 244 113 years at Instow

  • 245 Photo mural in Bideford bank

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

  • 247 Service with a smile

  • 248 Northam loses thatched cottage landmark

  • 249 Safe door weighing two tons

  • 250 New gateway to King George's Fields

  • 251 Move for oldest boatyard on Torridge

  • 252

    Cadets are given certificates
  • 253

    New gateway
  • 254 It really was the 'last time'

  • 255 Revived market off to splendid start

  • 256

    Inter-school Road Safety Quiz Cup Winners
  • 257 Twenty-one yachts

  • 258 A man and his wheel

  • 259 Artisans' Club

  • 260 Hartland Dancers
  • 261 Inscribed Bibles and silver spoons for babies

  • 262

    Reds Womens Team Are First To Compete Throughout Season
  • 263 Bideford loses training ship

  • 264 When horses score over the tractor

  • 265 The Geneva marionettes

  • 266

    Holidaying in north Devon
  • 267 Finished in 1876

  • 268 Devil sent packing

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

  • 270 Modern living at Bideford

  • 271 Bideford Liberals' fashion show

  • 272 Fundraising trip for RNLI

  • 273 No ancient Grecian temple this

  • 274 Weare Giffard potato

  • 275 Bideford stock car racing entry comes in second

  • 276 Bideford-Torrington road gets 'carpet coat'

  • 277 Alderman Anstey's dream comes tru

  • 278 Bideford inquest on French trawlermen opens

  • 279 'Les Girls' of Hartland

  • 280 Pet squirrels at Monkleigh

  • 281 New Estate's view of estuary activities

  • 282 Bideford Bridge re-opens

  • 283 New Lundy air-mail stamps

  • 284 Getting up steam for tomorrow

  • 285 Beach search for mines takes longer

  • 286 Appledore Juniors Football
  • 287 Tibbles home again - and fish supper

  • 288 Westward Ho! Tennis Club Winners
  • 289 'Out of Appledore' sailing memories

  • 290 Watch the dicky bird!

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

  • 292 What's the time?

  • 293 Bicycle now does donkey work

  • 294 No ancient Grecian temple this

  • 295 Second Monte Carlo Rally

  • 296 Five generations link Woolsery, Clovelly and Bideford

  • 297 Hartland's invitation

  • 298 X-ray shoe fitting

  • 299 Centenary of Landcross Methodist Chapel

  • 300

    Gus Honeybun meets local children
  • 301 Penny for the guy

  • 302 Torrington's enterprise's new extensions

  • 303 Death - and birth - of a telephone exchange

  • 304 New Post Office

  • 305 Picking the pops

  • 306 Some mushroom!

  • 307 Church renovation rejoicing at Northam

  • 308 No laughing matter

  • 309 East-the-Water sets town an example

  • 310 Four sisters' nostalgic reunion

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    Gift from Bideford Town Council
  • 312 Bideford schoolboy's courage recognised

  • 313 End of the line

  • 314 Variety in summer weather

  • 315 Thrush builds nest in cauliflower

  • 316 Pretty pennies at Beaford

  • 317 Warmington's garage ad

  • 318 Preparations for new Clovelly Court

  • 319 First tankers arrive at new depot

  • 320 Speeding communications: Bideford firm's new installation

  • 321 In the tortoise nursery - eight hatched at Bideford

  • 322 Bideford triplets' first birthday party

  • 323 Two kinds of hovercraft at Bideford

  • 324 Centenary of Gazette

  • 325 America's tribute to 'J.H.'

  • 326 Weare Giffard Hall sold for £11,300

  • 327 Buckland farm workers to receive long-service awards

  • 328 Sooty is quick on the draw

  • 329 Eleven million pound scheme's official opening

  • 330 Bravery against bull at Shebbear rewarded

  • 331 North Devon author featured in TV documentary

  • 332 New civic medallions

  • 333 Farewell to passenger trains

  • 334 Private home for public pump

  • 335 Faints as she wins national competition

  • 336 They never miss a game at Torrington

  • 337 Boys win hockey on the sands challenge

  • 338 Northam footballers of the future

  • 339 Battle of the gap at Westward Ho!

  • 340 Parkham plan realised

  • 341 North Devon Driving School

  • 342 Simple Item 138
  • 343 Bideford's new market opens next week

  • 344 Happy Days!

  • 345 The creative urge on Saturday morning

  • 346 Baby Kate goes home to Lundy

  • 347 Boys from Bideford school complete Ten Tors

  • 348 Bideford country dancers on TV

  • 349 Escaped crane moves into Kenwith Valley

  • 350 No sale of Springfield House

  • 351 Waldon Triplets
  • 352 Littleham cow tops 70 tons mark in milk production

  • 353 Calligrapher extraordinary

  • 354 Puppet characters introduced

  • 355 Littleham family's five generations

  • 356 Ancestral home nestling in lovely combe

  • 357 A sense of humour in advertising

  • 358 TV features Bideford's New Year bread ceremony

  • 359 Can-carrying over cobbles has disappeared

  • 360 Wishing well is pixielated

  • 361 Big develolpment at Calveford

  • 362 Six footed lamb

  • 363 Harvest service in Bideford 'pub' bar

  • 364 Torrington school's sundial - fashioned by Headmaster

  • 365 Train returns to Westleigh straight

  • 366 Largest salmon caught in Torridge

  • 367 Bideford blacksmith wins English championship

  • 368 Lots drawn to prevent dog fight

  • 369 Brothers reunion 1947
  • 370 New look in the hayfields

  • 371

    Birgitta Whittaker
  • 372

    Appledore boys beat mums at football
  • 373 First steel ship built at Bideford

  • 374 Appledore's largest

  • 375 By pony and trap to market

  • 376 Thunderstorm destruction of 25 years ago

  • 377 Meredith's ironmongers

  • 378 Wilfred and Mabel visit schools and hospital

  • 379 Spring-cleaning the Ridge

  • 380 What is future of railway goods yard?

  • 381 Tramps camp by riverside throughout arctic weather

  • 382 Still hunting aged 80 and a Field Master

  • 383 Bideford has built over 500 post-war homes

  • 384 Torrington's shelter for the aged

  • 385 Capers on the cobbles

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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Victorious Under-15 team

Two wins for track and field club

5 May 1978 Bideford Track Club

Victorious under-15 team - Stephen Spry, Dave Bryant, Garry Stanbury, Robin Looms and Stephen Cook. Also in the team was Andrew Chambers

In their first season the North Devon Track and Field Club carried off two championships and came runners-up in four more after the final race of the season in the North Devon Cross-Country League, held in Bideford.

They took the boys' under-15 team title and Ricky Butler, unbeaten in his five races, became the senior individual champion.

The club also gained runners-up positions in the team events for Colts, under 11 girls and under 13 girls and Adrian Ivory and Nigel Holmes were second and third in the Colts' individual championship.

Robin Looms, who won his race, came third in the boys' under 15 individual championship.

Gazette article dated 5 May 1978

Elated Robins

Cheers!

Eleven elated Robins raise the Western League runners' up tankards they received at the Sports Ground after they defeated a Devon Professional XI 3-2.

23.5.1969 Bideford Robins football

Presenting the tankards the man of the League, Mr Reg Broome, declared "The performance I saw tonight was the finest I have witnessed by a Western League side this season. Judging by this, Bideford ought to have gone one better and won the League." But the grins suggest that the Robins were quite pleased to be runners up.

Gazette article dated 23 May 1969

A Sensation at Westward Ho!

Royal North Devon Golf Club hosts the English Women's Golf Championship

Participating in her fourth National Championship since she was runner-up in the Girls’ Championships in 1924, Miss Dorothy Pearson, of Nevill, Tunbridge Wells, defeated Miss Mary Johnson (Hornsea) by 5 and 3 in the thirty-six holes final of the English Women’s Golf Championship at Westward Ho! Miss Pearson is 25 and Miss Johnson, 22.

Miss Gloria D Minoprio caused a sensation with her attire.

10.10.1933 Gloria Minoprio 2

RNDGC

Gazette article dated 10 October 1933

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