• 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 Donkey and horses enjoy carnival drink

  • 2 Championship Trophy for Hartland
  • 3 Photo mural in Bideford bank

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

  • 5 Appledore Juniors Football
  • 6 Hartland postman retires

  • 7 New shipyard on schedule

  • 8 Out of puff!

  • 9 Lots drawn to prevent dog fight

  • 10

    Was a missionary
  • 11 Appledore skill brings 'Hispaniola' to life

  • 12 End of the line

  • 13 Faints as she wins national competition

  • 14 Train returns to Westleigh straight

  • 15 They are parted pro-tem

  • 16 Bideford shipyard workers cheer new minesweeper

  • 17 New look in the hayfields

  • 18 Still hunting aged 80 and a Field Master

  • 19 Revived market off to splendid start

  • 20 Ship-in-bottle world record

  • 21 Children's procession with foxgloves

  • 22 Birds' convalescent home at Instow

  • 23

    Hamburger is part of modern life
  • 24 Westward Ho! sand yacht to challenge speed record

  • 25 TV contest means big job for Bideford Guides

  • 26 Bideford's first triplets for 12 years

  • 27

    Youth Clubs Join Together For Entertainment
  • 28 Eight to strike and a race to win

  • 29

    Lenwood Squash Club
  • 30 Torridge wins on time schedule

  • 31 First ship in 8 years

  • 32 Chess - their bridge over the years

  • 33 Circus comes to town

  • 34 Police station view of Bideford

  • 35 Centuries old but today busier than ever

  • 36 Torrington school's sundial - fashioned by Headmaster

  • 37 Bideford Liberal club new lounge bar opened

  • 38 New gateway to King George's Fields

  • 39 Clovelly nightmare

  • 40 Space dominates Hartland carnival

  • 41 Town's second woman mayor in 392 years

  • 42 Photo of town's first car wins prize

  • 43 Clovelly's 91 year old horseman

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

  • 45 Penny for the guy

  • 46 What the television camera saw at Abbotsham

  • 47 By pony and trap to market

  • 48 Service with a smile

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

  • 50 Bideford stock car racing entry comes in second

  • 51 Little 'Big Ben'

  • 52 Wilfred and Mabel visit schools and hospital

  • 53 Clovelly donkey film star

  • 54

    Relatives all over the world
  • 55 He beat the floods

  • 56 Works at craft he learned over 65 years ago

  • 57 Loads of black and white

  • 58 Recognise this resort?

  • 59 Ships at Bideford

  • 60 Do recall the old windmill at Northam?

  • 61 Prizewinning babies at Torrington

  • 62

    Appledore boys beat mums at football
  • 63 Capers on the cobbles

  • 64 Tomorrow' night's skittles broadcast from Bideford

  • 65 'Les Girls' of Hartland

  • 66 Weare Giffard potato

  • 67 Mobile missionary

  • 68 Fishing light goes out at close of poor season

  • 69 Salmon netting at Bideford

  • 70 Torrington's enterprise's new extensions

  • 71 It really was the 'last time'

  • 72 The creative urge on Saturday morning

  • 73 On her 'maiden' trip from Bideford

  • 74 Safety-first dipomas awarded to Torrington drivers

  • 75 Quads join a Langtree happy family

  • 76 Success to Festival of the Arts

  • 77 Bideford Zoo's first baby is big draw

  • 78 Calf thinks of mare as mum

  • 79 Emergency ferry services

  • 80 Steep street of old Bideford

  • 81

    Inter-school Road Safety Quiz Cup Winners
  • 82 Peter poses for TV film

  • 83 One thousand visit zoo at Whitsun

  • 84 New look for Torrington Lane

  • 85 Brothers reunion 1947
  • 86 Down at the dump something stirs

  • 87 Designed all furnishing of new chapel

  • 88 Meeting at 10 Downing Street

  • 89 At Bideford Arts Ball>
  • 90 For South Africa from Westward Ho!

  • 91

    Exhibition of school work
  • 92 Shipbuilding hobby at Hartland

  • 93 'Out of Appledore' sailing memories

  • 94 New art gallery opened

  • 95 Westward Ho! public conveniences get go ahead
  • 96 Sixty-two year old Picarooner makes ready for season

  • 97 Dismantling of wireless mast

  • 98 Waldon Triplets
  • 99 Bideford skifflers, they're no squares

  • 100 Broomhayes £1,000 Surprise
  • 101 New Lundy stamps

  • 102 First tankers arrive at new depot

  • 103 Some 240 exhibits

  • 104 Liked holidays here - so starts business

  • 105 Buckland farm workers to receive long-service awards

  • 106 Smiling welcome to Hartland visitors

  • 107 Littleham cow tops 70 tons mark in milk production

  • 108 Spring-cleaning the Ridge

  • 109 New addition to Quay front

  • 110 Revenge in style

  • 111 Daisy's pride and joy

  • 112

    Cadets are given certificates
  • 113 Torridge graveyard of wooden hulks

  • 114 Church renovation rejoicing at Northam

  • 115 Bideford electricity window display qualifies for area competition

  • 116 Buckland goes to County Show

  • 117 New Post Office

  • 118 Council agree to demolition of Chanter's Folly

  • 119 When horses score over the tractor

  • 120 Hartland Abbey outdoor staff 60 years ago

  • 121 Cruising down the river

  • 122 Alverdiscott is proud of its new parish hall

  • 123 Instow local art show was 'tremendous success'

  • 124 Sunshine and shade at Appledore

  • 125 Found the answer waiting for him>
  • 126 Bridging the stream

  • 127 Passing of a Torrington landmark

  • 128 Allhalland Street - then and now

  • 129 Littleham family's five generations

  • 130 Sooty is quick on the draw

  • 131 Riverside mystery

  • 132 Barley from Bideford to Bonnie Scotland

  • 133 Bideford triplets' first birthday party

  • 134

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

  • 136 Eleventh hour bid to save last sailing barge

  • 137 Rowing triumphs at Bideford

  • 138 Last train from Torrington

  • 139 Where Bideford rope-makers walked>
  • 140 Pet squirrels at Monkleigh

  • 141 Community centre opened at Westward Ho!

  • 142

    Building works
  • 143 Torrington's shelter for the aged

  • 144 Wishing well is pixielated

  • 145 Bideford inquest on French trawlermen opens

  • 146 Larkworthy Family play in Shebbear's Football Team
  • 147 Ten year old scrambler

  • 148 Eight and a half million pound Taw development scheme

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

  • 150 Symbol of Lundy independence

  • 151 Celebrations for 103rd birthday

  • 152 Down at the 'Donkey House'

  • 153 Lady Churchill congratulates Bideford artists at nursing exhibition

  • 154 Northam footballers of the future

  • 155 From Bobby to Brian

  • 156 Eleven million pound scheme's official opening

  • 157

    New gateway
  • 158 Launching the 'Golden Hinde'

  • 159 Private home for public pump

  • 160 Lady Godiva comes to Torrington

  • 161 Torrington's new amenity

  • 162 Huntshaw TV mast

  • 163 Just over a year old

  • 164 Local glove-making factory advertising for staff

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

  • 166 Finished in 1876

  • 167 An early 'special' to Bideford

  • 168 Hartland's invitation

  • 169 Yeoi Vale House finally demolished

  • 170 Charter granted by Philip and Mary

  • 171 Wasps' nest in sewing machine

  • 172 Thunderstorm destruction of 25 years ago

  • 173 Escaped crane moves into Kenwith Valley

  • 174 East-the-Water sets town an example

  • 175 Gloves fit for a king!

  • 176 Homage to a well-loved sovereign

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

  • 178 Off on a great adventure

  • 179

    Holidaying in north Devon
  • 180 Bideford has built over 500 post-war homes

  • 181 Cavaliers join the Hunt
  • 182 Champagne send-off for Torrington new factory

  • 183 Northam's almshouse

  • 184 The art of the thatcher

  • 185 No ancient Grecian temple this

  • 186 A roof-top view - where?

  • 187 Fleet of foot and fair of face

  • 188

    Gift from Bideford Town Council
  • 189 Christmas tree on Bideford Quay>
  • 190 Malibou boys are all-the-year-round surfers

  • 191 Tide sweeps under and over the old bridge

  • 192 Twenty-one yachts

  • 193 Landmark at Bradworthy

  • 194 Sweets derationing

  • 195 Can-carrying over cobbles has disappeared

  • 196 Bideford childrens' cinema opens

  • 197

    Womens Skittles Competition in Buckland Brewer
  • 198 A craftsman's 'potted' history

  • 199 Students help model St Sidwell

  • 200 Joe the ginger tabby is 21

  • 201 Jalopy joy for children of Shamwickshire

  • 202

    Bidefordians
  • 203 Old Girls revisit Edgehill

  • 204 Battle of the gap at Westward Ho!

  • 205 Bideford Liberals' fashion show

  • 206 All aboard the ark

  • 207 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

  • 208 Vessel built 300 feet above sea level

  • 209 Clovelly custom

  • 210 Quads at Thornhillhead

  • 211 Childrens' model of Torrington

  • 212 A man and his wheel

  • 213

    Mums protest in Coronation Road
  • 214 Bideford's gift to Sir Francis

  • 215 No laughing matter

  • 216 Beach search for mines takes longer

  • 217 Entente cordiale in Bideford

  • 218

    Andre Veillett and Quentin Reed in Judo Demonstration
  • 219 Fish nearly pulled him in

  • 220 New Estate's view of estuary activities

  • 221 No ancient Grecian temple this

  • 222

    Reds Womens Team Are First To Compete Throughout Season
  • 223 Watch the dicky bird!

  • 224 Inscribed Bibles and silver spoons for babies

  • 225 Appledore tugs fete London Tower

  • 226 Mural in the whimsical fashion

  • 227 America's tribute to 'J.H.'

  • 228 River scenes that enchant the visitors

  • 229 Holiday scene near Sandymere

  • 230 Death - and birth - of a telephone exchange

  • 231

    Double Baptism on Torridge
  • 232

    School of Dancing's Annual Display
  • 233 Northam wants to continue pumping from river

  • 234 North Devon Driving School

  • 235 Westward Ho! Tennis Club Winners
  • 236 Television comes to Torridge District

  • 237 Picture bought for shillings may be worth thousands

  • 238 Torrington in 1967

  • 239 Water Board mains spread through villages

  • 240 School's link with cargo ship

  • 241

    10-year-old scrambler practices
  • 242 North Devon author featured in TV documentary

  • 243 Torrington children build igloo
  • 244 Artisans' Club

  • 245 Sailing to victory at Appledore

  • 246 Bideford's first woman councillor

  • 247

    Gus Honeybun meets local children
  • 248 Safe door weighing two tons

  • 249 Up-to-date Bideford!

  • 250 Housing progress at East-the-Water>
  • 251 A story to tell!

  • 252 Largest salmon caught in Torridge

  • 253 New Lundy air-mail stamps

  • 254 Traditions and skills still there

  • 255 Big develolpment at Calveford

  • 256 Bideford country dancers on TV

  • 257 School crossing patrol begins

  • 258

    First Girls at Bideford Grammar School take part in Play
  • 259 Bank Holiday weather was beach weather

  • 260 Olympic riders to compete at Bideford Horse Show

  • 261 Polish custom on Pancake Day

  • 262 Picking the pops

  • 263 Last of Bideford factory chimney

  • 264 The cab at the corner>
  • 265 Alderman Anstey's dream comes tru

  • 266 Ancestral home nestling in lovely combe

  • 267 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

  • 268 Floral dancing at Appledore

  • 269 Head Barman appointed Torrington Town Crier
  • 270 Spray dodging - the new pastime

  • 271 Saving money, wear and tear

  • 272 Can spring be far away?

  • 273 Golden Bay Hotel ad.>
  • 274 Modern living at Bideford

  • 275 TV features Bideford's New Year bread ceremony

  • 276 Harvest service in Bideford 'pub' bar

  • 277 They never miss a game at Torrington

  • 278 Bideford firm develops new non-spill paint

  • 279 First steel ship built at Bideford

  • 280 Thirty bridges cross Torridge

  • 281 All for the love of a lady!

  • 282 Panel sprint for Bideford broadcast

  • 283 Bravery against bull at Shebbear rewarded

  • 284 Bideford Bridge re-opens

  • 285 Fundraising trip for RNLI

  • 286 Bideford's private wharves busier

  • 287 Tramps camp by riverside throughout arctic weather

  • 288 Jumble sale fever

  • 289 John Andrew Bread Charity
  • 290 A Weare Giffard speciality - delicious strawberries

  • 291 Some mushroom!

  • 292 Two kinds of hovercraft at Bideford

  • 293 Puzzle corner at Bideford!

  • 294 Burnard family reunion

  • 295 Speeding communications: Bideford firm's new installation

  • 296 Lundy memorial to John Pennington Harman V.C.

  • 297 Weare Giffard Hall sold for £11,300

  • 298 New civic medallions

  • 299 Bideford loses training ship

  • 300 Bideford-Torrington road gets 'carpet coat'

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    FA Cup Match for the Robins
  • 302 Thrush builds nest in cauliflower

  • 303 Puppet characters introduced

  • 304 Light reading for the lighthouse

  • 305 Life begins at 80

  • 306 Appledore's new lifeboat

  • 307 Fishermen of Greencliff

  • 308 A bird of their own!

  • 309 113 years at Instow

  • 310 Thorn-apple found in Littleham conservatory

  • 311 Gift plaque on Clovelly council houses

  • 312 Baby Kate goes home to Lundy

  • 313 Record pebble-throwing day

  • 314 Cement-clad boats being built at Northam

  • 315 Six footed lamb

  • 316 Bideford regatta

  • 317 Colour TV salesman at eight

  • 318 Meredith's ironmongers

  • 319 Signed scroll momento of Queen Mother's visit

  • 320 Preparations for new Clovelly Court

  • 321 In the tortoise nursery - eight hatched at Bideford

  • 322 New fire and ambulance stations

  • 323 Warmington's garage ad

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

  • 325 For crying out loud!

  • 326 Torrington Youth Club rewarded by party
  • 327 Calligrapher extraordinary

  • 328 Bideford A.F.C annual dinner
  • 329 Simple Item 138
  • 330 Devil sent packing

  • 331 Appledore schooner broadcast

  • 332 Broomhayes children will keep their winter pet

  • 333

    Birgitta Whittaker
  • 334 New choral society's growing response

  • 335 Bideford's new market opens next week

  • 336 Centenary of Landcross Methodist Chapel

  • 337 Amsterdam to Bideford double success

  • 338

    Mrs Whapham finds ferret in Bridgeland Street while shopping
  • 339 Farewell to passenger trains

  • 340 Northam loses thatched cottage landmark

  • 341 Bicycle now does donkey work

  • 342 Happy Days!

  • 343 A sense of humour in advertising

  • 344

    Close associations with North Devon
  • 345 Yelland potter's exhibition at Bideford

  • 346 They set out for Bideford and became lost

  • 347 Boys from Bideford school complete Ten Tors

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    Toasted with musical honours
  • 349 The Geneva marionettes

  • 350 Repair work on Long Bridge
  • 351 Decontrol of meat

  • 352 Record player of 80 years ago

  • 353 Thriving 'orphan of the storm'

  • 354 Four sisters' nostalgic reunion

  • 355 What's the time?

  • 356 Bringing shopping home by goat

  • 357 Torrington to have first woman mayor

  • 358 Westward Ho! combined op

  • 359 Born 1883 - still going strong

  • 360 No sale of Springfield House

  • 361 Practical sympathy at Northam

  • 362 Donkey work made easier at Clovelly

  • 363 Yeo vale road ruin provides a mystery

  • 364 Future of Torrington almshouses

  • 365 In their new robes and hats

  • 366 So this is the mainland!

  • 367 Panto time at Westward Ho!

  • 368 Sight of a lifetime

  • 369 Variety in summer weather

  • 370 Centenary of Gazette

  • 371 Filming at Hartland

  • 372 Tibbles home again - and fish supper

  • 373 Mayor becomes engine driver>
  • 374 Boys win hockey on the sands challenge

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

  • 376 Designed and made in Bideford

  • 377 Torrington Church's new organ

  • 378 Torrington acclaims 400th anniversary of granting of charter

  • 379 Bideford computer stars

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

  • 381 Alwington School closing after 120 years

  • 382 Five generations link Woolsery, Clovelly and Bideford

  • 383 Appledore's largest

  • 384 Move for oldest boatyard on Torridge

  • 385 X-ray shoe fitting

  • 386 Pannier Market's future?

  • 387

    First prize
  • 388 Picking the pops

  • 389

    Successful motor cycling team
  • 390 Wine and beer merchants for 150 years

  • 391 Parkham plan realised

  • 392 What is future of railway goods yard?

  • 393 Teenager Peter Jackson Makes Horror Film
  • 394 A lost Bideford 'island'

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

  • 396 Bideford School Junior Choir Sing in France at Twinning Ceremony in Landivisiau
  • 397 Hartland Dancers
  • 398 Bideford blacksmith wins English championship

  • 399 Appledore boy is youngest recipient of RNLI vellun

  • 400 New life for Hartland organ

  • 401 Four hundred residents leave Bideford!

  • 402 Pretty pennies at Beaford

  • 403 Unique holiday adventure!

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    Married in 1908
  • 405 Diamond Jubilee of St Peter's Church, East-the-Water

  • 406 Getting up steam for tomorrow

  • 407 Afternoon tea in the park

  • 408 Shoes certainly not made for walking

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    Jinxed School Trip
  • 410 Second Monte Carlo Rally

  • 411 Bideford schoolboy's courage recognised

  • 412 Making way for the double-deckers

  • 413 Holiday traffic in Bideford High Street

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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  • 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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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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Prizegiving At Hartland School

End of term at Hartland School brought the annual prizegiving, the awards being distributed by the headmaster, Mr E H Cross.

31.7.1964 Hartland prizegiving

Class I – Norman Bolton, Loraine Slee, Barbara Noble, Claire Morriss; Class II – Phillip Symonds, June Pengilly, Lynda Downie, Nicholas Slee, Gregory King; Class III – Peter Law, Christine Hobbs, Stephen Colwill, Patrick Murray; Class IV – Gerald Squires, Stephen Gifford, Charles Conibear; Class V – Norman Johns, Carol Davey, Leslie Heywood.
Special prizes for work done at school camp – Jill Dawkins, Sheila Winter, Michael Tremeer.
Of the 22 children leaving school, 11 are going to Stratton Secondary School, six to Bideford Secondary School, two to Stella Maris Convent School, one to Bideford Grammar School, and two to other schools
The ceremony ended with another giving – a presentation to Mr W Pitman who is leaving to take up another teaching appointment.
The full Gazette article is dated 31 July 1964

Bell Rings Again

The bell of a ship which sank off Hartland during the Second World War now sounds ‘time’ at a local inn.

3.7.1964 Ship bell Hartland

In December 1943, the 397-ton Florence Reynolds sank after a collision 10 miles west of Hartland Point. Last year the ship’s bell was found at a spot near the cliffs between Spekes Mill and Welcombe by Mr Clifford Prouse, of Greenfields, Baxworthy, Hartland. Now the bell hangs in the bar of the Westcountry Inn on the main Bideford-Bude road.

The Florence Reynolds was built in 1923 by Messrs Pitchers of Great Yarmouth. She was originally named The Coniscrag and the bell bears this name.


Gazette article dated 3 July 1964

World War 1

Hartland

13.7.1918 Hartland

A demonstration of potato spraying was given in Mr William Jas Pillman’s garden on Tuesday evening, July 2nd, by Mr A Richmond, a representative of the Food Production Department, who some time ago lectured on the subject in the school-room. Less than a dozen attended.
On Saturday June 29th, Mrs Mary Prouse, 48 The Terrace, had an official notice that her son, Pte James, Devon Regt, had been admitted to hospital at Rouen, suffering from trench fever, severe. No further news has come to hand. He had been previously twice wounded. One brother, William, was killed on the Gallipoli Peninsula, and another, Charles, in France.
A telegram received by his wife on Wednesday July 3rd, told of the serious illness of Bugler J E R Short in France.
Gazette article dated 13 July 1918.

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