• 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 Championship Trophy for Hartland
  • 2 Inscribed Bibles and silver spoons for babies

  • 3 Tide sweeps under and over the old bridge

  • 4 River scenes that enchant the visitors

  • 5 Burnard family reunion

  • 6 Bideford's gift to Sir Francis

  • 7 Launching the 'Golden Hinde'

  • 8 Train returns to Westleigh straight

  • 9

    Bidefordians
  • 10 Donkey work made easier at Clovelly

  • 11

    Mrs Whapham finds ferret in Bridgeland Street while shopping
  • 12 Council agree to demolition of Chanter's Folly

  • 13 Riverside mystery

  • 14 Designed all furnishing of new chapel

  • 15 Harvest service in Bideford 'pub' bar

  • 16 Bicycle now does donkey work

  • 17 Variety in summer weather

  • 18 Old Girls revisit Edgehill

  • 19 Two kinds of hovercraft at Bideford

  • 20 Hartland Abbey outdoor staff 60 years ago

  • 21

    Hamburger is part of modern life
  • 22 Escaped crane moves into Kenwith Valley

  • 23 Signed scroll momento of Queen Mother's visit

  • 24 The creative urge on Saturday morning

  • 25 Eight to strike and a race to win

  • 26 Down at the 'Donkey House'

  • 27 Alwington School closing after 120 years

  • 28 First tankers arrive at new depot

  • 29 Chess - their bridge over the years

  • 30 'Out of Appledore' sailing memories

  • 31 Shipbuilding hobby at Hartland

  • 32

    Married in 1908
  • 33 Students help model St Sidwell

  • 34 Big develolpment at Calveford

  • 35 End of the line

  • 36 Can-carrying over cobbles has disappeared

  • 37 Parkham plan realised

  • 38 Town's second woman mayor in 392 years

  • 39

    First Girls at Bideford Grammar School take part in Play
  • 40 Torridge wins on time schedule

  • 41 Bideford loses training ship

  • 42 Loads of black and white

  • 43 America's tribute to 'J.H.'

  • 44 Last train from Torrington

  • 45 Bideford's new market opens next week

  • 46 Symbol of Lundy independence

  • 47 Do recall the old windmill at Northam?

  • 48 All for the love of a lady!

  • 49 Bravery against bull at Shebbear rewarded

  • 50 Hartland Dancers
  • 51 No ancient Grecian temple this

  • 52 New choral society's growing response

  • 53 No ancient Grecian temple this

  • 54

    Reds Womens Team Are First To Compete Throughout Season
  • 55 Holiday traffic in Bideford High Street

  • 56 On her 'maiden' trip from Bideford

  • 57 Cavaliers join the Hunt
  • 58

    Youth Clubs Join Together For Entertainment
  • 59 Sunshine and shade at Appledore

  • 60 Torrington's enterprise's new extensions

  • 61 In the tortoise nursery - eight hatched at Bideford

  • 62 Watch the dicky bird!

  • 63 Five generations link Woolsery, Clovelly and Bideford

  • 64 Bideford firm develops new non-spill paint

  • 65 Last of Bideford factory chimney

  • 66 Speeding communications: Bideford firm's new installation

  • 67 Gift plaque on Clovelly council houses

  • 68 Born 1883 - still going strong

  • 69 Bideford electricity window display qualifies for area competition

  • 70 Emergency ferry services

  • 71 Appledore tugs fete London Tower

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

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

  • 74

    School of Dancing's Annual Display
  • 75 Centuries old but today busier than ever

  • 76

    Successful motor cycling team
  • 77 Life begins at 80

  • 78 Mural in the whimsical fashion

  • 79 Homage to a well-loved sovereign

  • 80 Torrington school's sundial - fashioned by Headmaster

  • 81 Bringing shopping home by goat

  • 82 Vessel built 300 feet above sea level

  • 83 Appledore boy is youngest recipient of RNLI vellun

  • 84 When horses score over the tractor

  • 85 Hartland postman retires

  • 86 An early 'special' to Bideford

  • 87 Appledore Juniors Football
  • 88 New look in the hayfields

  • 89 Torrington acclaims 400th anniversary of granting of charter

  • 90 First steel ship built at Bideford

  • 91 Off on a great adventure

  • 92 New addition to Quay front

  • 93 Shoes certainly not made for walking

  • 94 Wine and beer merchants for 150 years

  • 95 Ship-in-bottle world record

  • 96 Circus comes to town

  • 97 Hartland's invitation

  • 98

    FA Cup Match for the Robins
  • 99 They set out for Bideford and became lost

  • 100 Bideford A.F.C annual dinner
  • 101 Service with a smile

  • 102 Boys from Bideford school complete Ten Tors

  • 103 Yelland potter's exhibition at Bideford

  • 104

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

  • 106 Baby Kate goes home to Lundy

  • 107 Fundraising trip for RNLI

  • 108 Future of Torrington almshouses

  • 109 Huntshaw TV mast

  • 110 Calligrapher extraordinary

  • 111 Olympic riders to compete at Bideford Horse Show

  • 112 Instow local art show was 'tremendous success'

  • 113 New Lundy air-mail stamps

  • 114 Larkworthy Family play in Shebbear's Football Team
  • 115 A man and his wheel

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

  • 117 Clovelly donkey film star

  • 118 Eleventh hour bid to save last sailing barge

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

  • 120 TV features Bideford's New Year bread ceremony

  • 121 Picking the pops

  • 122

    Wynne Olley's styles impress International Hair Fashion Designer
  • 123 Lady Godiva comes to Torrington

  • 124

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

  • 126 Joe the ginger tabby is 21

  • 127 Pet squirrels at Monkleigh

  • 128 Puppet characters introduced

  • 129 The Geneva marionettes

  • 130 Children's procession with foxgloves

  • 131 Calf thinks of mare as mum

  • 132 First ship in 8 years

  • 133 New look for Torrington Lane

  • 134 New civic medallions

  • 135 Bideford Liberals' fashion show

  • 136 Tomorrow' night's skittles broadcast from Bideford

  • 137 Holiday scene near Sandymere

  • 138

    Andre Veillett and Quentin Reed in Judo Demonstration
  • 139 Picture bought for shillings may be worth thousands

  • 140 Photo mural in Bideford bank

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

  • 142 Fishing light goes out at close of poor season

  • 143 Decontrol of meat

  • 144 Yeo vale road ruin provides a mystery

  • 145 Liked holidays here - so starts business

  • 146 Cruising down the river

  • 147 Westward Ho! public conveniences get go ahead
  • 148 Unique holiday adventure!

  • 149 What's the time?

  • 150 Bideford's private wharves busier

  • 151 New art gallery opened

  • 152 Bideford has built over 500 post-war homes

  • 153 Mobile missionary

  • 154 Death - and birth - of a telephone exchange

  • 155 Fish nearly pulled him in

  • 156

    Exhibition of school work
  • 157 Space dominates Hartland carnival

  • 158 Bideford School Junior Choir Sing in France at Twinning Ceremony in Landivisiau
  • 159 Polish custom on Pancake Day

  • 160 Six footed lamb

  • 161 Northam loses thatched cottage landmark

  • 162

    Mums protest in Coronation Road
  • 163 Wishing well is pixielated

  • 164

    Cadets are given certificates
  • 165 Celebrations for 103rd birthday

  • 166 Fishermen of Greencliff

  • 167 Private home for public pump

  • 168 The art of the thatcher

  • 169 Works at craft he learned over 65 years ago

  • 170 Out of puff!

  • 171 Torridge graveyard of wooden hulks

  • 172 Preparations for new Clovelly Court

  • 173 So this is the mainland!

  • 174 Bideford childrens' cinema opens

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

  • 176

    Relatives all over the world
  • 177 Farewell to passenger trains

  • 178 Twenty-one yachts

  • 179 John Andrew Bread Charity
  • 180 Appledore's largest

  • 181 Repair work on Long Bridge
  • 182 Spray dodging - the new pastime

  • 183 Police station view of Bideford

  • 184 New fire and ambulance stations

  • 185 New Estate's view of estuary activities

  • 186 Alderman Anstey's dream comes tru

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

  • 188 Smiling welcome to Hartland visitors

  • 189 Clovelly nightmare

  • 190 Buckland goes to County Show

  • 191 He beat the floods

  • 192 Centenary of Landcross Methodist Chapel

  • 193 Littleham cow tops 70 tons mark in milk production

  • 194 Designed and made in Bideford

  • 195 Quads at Thornhillhead

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

  • 197 Sight of a lifetime

  • 198 Sooty is quick on the draw

  • 199 Some mushroom!

  • 200 Bideford Liberal club new lounge bar opened

  • 201 A bird of their own!

  • 202 Bideford inquest on French trawlermen opens

  • 203

    Gift from Bideford Town Council
  • 204 Landmark at Bradworthy

  • 205 What is future of railway goods yard?

  • 206 Wilfred and Mabel visit schools and hospital

  • 207 Lots drawn to prevent dog fight

  • 208 Panto time at Westward Ho!

  • 209 Saving money, wear and tear

  • 210 Weare Giffard potato

  • 211

    Womens Skittles Competition in Buckland Brewer
  • 212 Steep street of old Bideford

  • 213 Television comes to Torridge District

  • 214 Bideford-Torrington road gets 'carpet coat'

  • 215

    Was a missionary
  • 216 Artisans' Club

  • 217 Safe door weighing two tons

  • 218 It really was the 'last time'

  • 219 Entente cordiale in Bideford

  • 220 Torrington children build igloo
  • 221 A craftsman's 'potted' history

  • 222 Thrush builds nest in cauliflower

  • 223 No laughing matter

  • 224 Appledore schooner broadcast

  • 225 Rowing triumphs at Bideford

  • 226 Teenager Peter Jackson Makes Horror Film
  • 227 X-ray shoe fitting

  • 228 Bideford blacksmith wins English championship

  • 229 They are parted pro-tem

  • 230 Head Barman appointed Torrington Town Crier
  • 231 A story to tell!

  • 232 Penny for the guy

  • 233 Capers on the cobbles

  • 234 Charter granted by Philip and Mary

  • 235 Modern living at Bideford

  • 236 Bideford's first triplets for 12 years

  • 237 Thirty bridges cross Torridge

  • 238 Fleet of foot and fair of face

  • 239 One thousand visit zoo at Whitsun

  • 240 New Post Office

  • 241 Record player of 80 years ago

  • 242

    Birgitta Whittaker
  • 243

    First prize
  • 244 Reed threshing 'putting the clock back' at Weare Giffard

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

  • 246 For crying out loud!

  • 247 Puzzle corner at Bideford!

  • 248 Getting up steam for tomorrow

  • 249 Bideford shipyard workers cheer new minesweeper

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

  • 251 Bideford schoolboy's courage recognised

  • 252 New gateway to King George's Fields

  • 253 Clovelly's 91 year old horseman

  • 254 Birds' convalescent home at Instow

  • 255 Faints as she wins national competition

  • 256 Bideford Bridge re-opens

  • 257 Light reading for the lighthouse

  • 258 North Devon author featured in TV documentary

  • 259 Can spring be far away?

  • 260 Four sisters' nostalgic reunion

  • 261 Revenge in style

  • 262 Photo of town's first car wins prize

  • 263 Westward Ho! Tennis Club Winners
  • 264 Appledore's new lifeboat

  • 265 Allhalland Street - then and now

  • 266 Meredith's ironmongers

  • 267

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

  • 269 Finished in 1876

  • 270 Some 240 exhibits

  • 271 Making way for the double-deckers

  • 272 No sale of Springfield House

  • 273 Waldon Triplets
  • 274 Ten year old scrambler

  • 275 Sweet success at Langtree School

  • 276 Bideford skifflers, they're no squares

  • 277

    Building works
  • 278 Bideford computer stars

  • 279 Tramps camp by riverside throughout arctic weather

  • 280 Broomhayes children will keep their winter pet

  • 281 Jalopy joy for children of Shamwickshire

  • 282 Eight and a half million pound Taw development scheme

  • 283 Boys win hockey on the sands challenge

  • 284 Bideford stock car racing entry comes in second

  • 285 By pony and trap to market

  • 286 Yeoi Vale House finally demolished

  • 287 Ships at Bideford

  • 288 Gloves fit for a king!

  • 289 Record pebble-throwing day

  • 290 Jumble sale fever

  • 291 Daisy's pride and joy

  • 292 Centenary of Gazette

  • 293 What the television camera saw at Abbotsham

  • 294 Torrington to have first woman mayor

  • 295 Warmington's garage ad

  • 296

    New gateway
  • 297 Largest salmon caught in Torridge

  • 298 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

  • 299 A lost Bideford 'island'

  • 300 Pretty pennies at Beaford

  • 301 Clovelly custom

  • 302 Pannier Market's future?

  • 303 Littleham family's five generations

  • 304 'Les Girls' of Hartland

  • 305 Recognise this resort?

  • 306 Bideford regatta

  • 307 A Weare Giffard speciality - delicious strawberries

  • 308 Beach search for mines takes longer

  • 309

    Toasted with musical honours
  • 310

    Close associations with North Devon
  • 311 Torrington's shelter for the aged

  • 312 Ancestral home nestling in lovely combe

  • 313 Dismantling of wireless mast

  • 314 Panel sprint for Bideford broadcast

  • 315 In their new robes and hats

  • 316 Passing of a Torrington landmark

  • 317 Torrington in 1967

  • 318 Bideford triplets' first birthday party

  • 319 Happy Days!

  • 320 Northam footballers of the future

  • 321 Champagne send-off for Torrington new factory

  • 322 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

  • 323 Thorn-apple found in Littleham conservatory

  • 324 Bank Holiday weather was beach weather

  • 325

    Lenwood Squash Club
  • 326

    10-year-old scrambler practices
  • 327 Childrens' model of Torrington

  • 328 Practical sympathy at Northam

  • 329 Peter poses for TV film

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

  • 331 Water Board mains spread through villages

  • 332 Bridging the stream

  • 333 They never miss a game at Torrington

  • 334 Eleven million pound scheme's official opening

  • 335 Success to Festival of the Arts

  • 336

    Appledore boys beat mums at football
  • 337 A sense of humour in advertising

  • 338 Donkey and horses enjoy carnival drink

  • 339 Barley from Bideford to Bonnie Scotland

  • 340 Broomhayes £1,000 Surprise
  • 341

    Double Baptism on Torridge
  • 342 Church renovation rejoicing at Northam

  • 343 Weare Giffard Hall sold for £11,300

  • 344 New life for Hartland organ

  • 345 Tibbles home again - and fish supper

  • 346 Devil sent packing

  • 347 Up-to-date Bideford!

  • 348 Torrington Youth Club rewarded by party
  • 349 Bideford country dancers on TV

  • 350 Move for oldest boatyard on Torridge

  • 351 Still hunting aged 80 and a Field Master

  • 352 Colour TV salesman at eight

  • 353 Lady Churchill congratulates Bideford artists at nursing exhibition

  • 354 North Devon Driving School

  • 355 TV contest means big job for Bideford Guides

  • 356

    Gus Honeybun meets local children
  • 357 All aboard the ark

  • 358 Westward Ho! combined op

  • 359 East-the-Water sets town an example

  • 360 Traditions and skills still there

  • 361 Spring-cleaning the Ridge

  • 362 New Lundy stamps

  • 363 Little 'Big Ben'

  • 364 Alverdiscott is proud of its new parish hall

  • 365 Revived market off to splendid start

  • 366 School crossing patrol begins

  • 367 Picking the pops

  • 368 Brothers reunion 1947
  • 369 Buckland farm workers to receive long-service awards

  • 370 Quads join a Langtree happy family

  • 371 Torrington's new amenity

  • 372 New shipyard on schedule

  • 373 Salmon netting at Bideford

  • 374 Four hundred residents leave Bideford!

  • 375 Westward Ho! sand yacht to challenge speed record

  • 376 Second Monte Carlo Rally

  • 377 School's link with cargo ship

  • 378 113 years at Instow

  • 379 Northam's almshouse

  • 380 Northam wants to continue pumping from river

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

  • 382 Battle of the gap at Westward Ho!

  • 383 A roof-top view - where?

  • 384 Just over a year old

  • 385 Simple Item 138
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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  • 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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  • 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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Golfers Dig Out

At one time on Sunday there were 75 or more golfers all on the fairway to the fourth hole at Westward Ho!

14.4.1967 Golfers RNDGC

But this was no pile-up of play: they were all armed with shovels, brooms and rakes and were taking part in 'operation sand-blast.'

Their task was to clear some of the considerable accumulation of sand which has blown from the sand dunes on to this fairway.

Members of both the Royal North Devon Golf Club and the Northam Artisans' Golf Club joined in the combined operation, sweeping the sand into piles and shovelling it into trailers.

'It has been a very gratifying effort' said Mr Ted Lamey, chairman of the RND Golf Club's Greens Committee.

14.4.1967 Golfers RNDGC

Royal North Devon Golf Club

Gazette articled dated 14 April 1967

16-A-Side Soccer

Two men dressed as women

13.5.1977 Sport

Gazette article dated 13 May 1977

Appledore Seniors

Champions of the North Devon Senior League for the sixth time since the war

9.5.1958 Appledore footballers

J Curtis (committee), Sid Cox, Stan Edwards, Bob Hocking, Ronnie Cook, Cyril Moyse, Roy Drew, Alan Smith (trainer), Bobby Bailey, Gerald Cornish, Des Bennett, Dai Jones, Doug Bale

Gazette article dated 9 May 1958

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