• 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 Sight of a lifetime

  • 2 Getting up steam for tomorrow

  • 3 Ten year old scrambler

  • 4 Bravery against bull at Shebbear rewarded

  • 5 Lady Godiva comes to Torrington

  • 6 When horses score over the tractor

  • 7 Torrington to have first woman mayor

  • 8 Instow local art show was 'tremendous success'

  • 9 Revived market off to splendid start

  • 10 Holiday traffic in Bideford High Street

  • 11 TV contest means big job for Bideford Guides

  • 12 New art gallery opened

  • 13 New choral society's growing response

  • 14 Westward Ho! Tennis Club Winners
  • 15 Yeo vale road ruin provides a mystery

  • 16 Some mushroom!

  • 17 First ship in 8 years

  • 18 Old Girls revisit Edgehill

  • 19 Celebrations for 103rd birthday

  • 20 New addition to Quay front

  • 21 Broomhayes £1,000 Surprise
  • 22 Bideford Zoo's first baby is big draw

  • 23 Centenary of Gazette

  • 24 In their new robes and hats

  • 25 Birds' convalescent home at Instow

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

  • 27 Space dominates Hartland carnival

  • 28 Pretty pennies at Beaford

  • 29 Bideford firm develops new non-spill paint

  • 30 Passing of a Torrington landmark

  • 31 Service with a smile

  • 32 Can spring be far away?

  • 33 Appledore schooner broadcast

  • 34 The Geneva marionettes

  • 35 Finished in 1876

  • 36 A Weare Giffard speciality - delicious strawberries

  • 37 Decontrol of meat

  • 38 New life for Hartland organ

  • 39 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

  • 40 Ships at Bideford

  • 41 Bideford shipyard workers cheer new minesweeper

  • 42 Hartland Dancers
  • 43

    Double Baptism on Torridge
  • 44 Open-air art exhibition by 'under 40' group

  • 45 Centuries old but today busier than ever

  • 46 Clovelly's 91 year old horseman

  • 47 New Estate's view of estuary activities

  • 48 Olympic riders to compete at Bideford Horse Show

  • 49 Buckland goes to County Show

  • 50 Bideford Bridge re-opens

  • 51

    Hamburger is part of modern life
  • 52 Out of puff!

  • 53 Torridge graveyard of wooden hulks

  • 54 Saving money, wear and tear

  • 55 Thrush builds nest in cauliflower

  • 56 No laughing matter

  • 57 Homage to a well-loved sovereign

  • 58 Northam footballers of the future

  • 59

    First Girls at Bideford Grammar School take part in Play
  • 60 Steep street of old Bideford

  • 61 John Andrew Bread Charity
  • 62 Grenville House for Bideford R.D.C.

  • 63 Television comes to Torridge District

  • 64 East-the-Water sets town an example

  • 65

    Gift from Bideford Town Council
  • 66 Burnard family reunion

  • 67 Light reading for the lighthouse

  • 68 Spray dodging - the new pastime

  • 69 Entente cordiale in Bideford

  • 70 Recognise this resort?

  • 71 Meredith's ironmongers

  • 72

    10-year-old scrambler practices
  • 73 Modern living at Bideford

  • 74 Picture bought for shillings may be worth thousands

  • 75 Penny for the guy

  • 76

    Appledore boys beat mums at football
  • 77 Bideford-Torrington road gets 'carpet coat'

  • 78 Clovelly nightmare

  • 79 A bird of their own!

  • 80 Puppet characters introduced

  • 81 Repair work on Long Bridge
  • 82 Peter poses for TV film

  • 83 Just over a year old

  • 84

    Inter-school Road Safety Quiz Cup Winners
  • 85 Quads join a Langtree happy family

  • 86 Chess - their bridge over the years

  • 87 Last of Bideford factory chimney

  • 88 Champagne send-off for Torrington new factory

  • 89 Launching the 'Golden Hinde'

  • 90 Boys win hockey on the sands challenge

  • 91 Move for oldest boatyard on Torridge

  • 92 A lost Bideford 'island'

  • 93 Farewell to passenger trains

  • 94 Six footed lamb

  • 95 Police station view of Bideford

  • 96 Happy Days!

  • 97 Holiday scene near Sandymere

  • 98 Lots drawn to prevent dog fight

  • 99 Pet squirrels at Monkleigh

  • 100 New Post Office

  • 101 What's the time?

  • 102 Off on a great adventure

  • 103 Four hundred residents leave Bideford!

  • 104 Bringing shopping home by goat

  • 105 Pannier Market's future?

  • 106 New look in the hayfields

  • 107 First tankers arrive at new depot

  • 108

    Gus Honeybun meets local children
  • 109 Torrington's enterprise's new extensions

  • 110 Future of Torrington almshouses

  • 111 Colour TV salesman at eight

  • 112 Picking the pops

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

  • 114 Ancestral home nestling in lovely combe

  • 115 Clovelly custom

  • 116 Still hunting aged 80 and a Field Master

  • 117 Designed all furnishing of new chapel

  • 118 Torrington school's sundial - fashioned by Headmaster

  • 119 TV features Bideford's New Year bread ceremony

  • 120 One thousand visit zoo at Whitsun

  • 121 Bideford's private wharves busier

  • 122 Donkey work made easier at Clovelly

  • 123 Bideford Liberal club new lounge bar opened

  • 124 Jalopy joy for children of Shamwickshire

  • 125 Revenge in style

  • 126 Larkworthy Family play in Shebbear's Football Team
  • 127 Devil sent packing

  • 128 Second Monte Carlo Rally

  • 129 Hartland Abbey outdoor staff 60 years ago

  • 130 Bridging the stream

  • 131

    Wynne Olley's styles impress International Hair Fashion Designer
  • 132 Northam loses thatched cottage landmark

  • 133

    Relatives all over the world
  • 134 Appledore Juniors Football
  • 135 Diamond Jubilee of St Peter's Church, East-the-Water

  • 136 By pony and trap to market

  • 137 In the tortoise nursery - eight hatched at Bideford

  • 138

    Jinxed School Trip
  • 139 Artisans' Club

  • 140 Some 240 exhibits

  • 141

    Toasted with musical honours
  • 142 Cement-clad boats being built at Northam

  • 143 Little 'Big Ben'

  • 144 Practical sympathy at Northam

  • 145 They are parted pro-tem

  • 146 Bideford schoolboy's courage recognised

  • 147 Gloves fit for a king!

  • 148

    Mrs Whapham finds ferret in Bridgeland Street while shopping
  • 149 Panel sprint for Bideford broadcast

  • 150 Shipbuilding hobby at Hartland

  • 151 Bideford's first triplets for 12 years

  • 152 Liked holidays here - so starts business

  • 153 River scenes that enchant the visitors

  • 154

    Exhibition of school work
  • 155 Two kinds of hovercraft at Bideford

  • 156

    Womens Skittles Competition in Buckland Brewer
  • 157 Torrington Youth Club rewarded by party
  • 158 Private home for public pump

  • 159 A craftsman's 'potted' history

  • 160 Brothers reunion 1947
  • 161 A roof-top view - where?

  • 162 Beach search for mines takes longer

  • 163

    Lenwood Squash Club
  • 164 Huntshaw TV mast

  • 165 Fishing light goes out at close of poor season

  • 166 Polish custom on Pancake Day

  • 167 Daisy's pride and joy

  • 168 X-ray shoe fitting

  • 169 New fire and ambulance stations

  • 170 Inscribed Bibles and silver spoons for babies

  • 171 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

  • 172

    Building works
  • 173 Born 1883 - still going strong

  • 174

    Holidaying in north Devon
  • 175 The creative urge on Saturday morning

  • 176 Bideford triplets' first birthday party

  • 177 No ancient Grecian temple this

  • 178 It really was the 'last time'

  • 179 Bideford childrens' cinema opens

  • 180 Bideford Liberals' fashion show

  • 181 New civic medallions

  • 182 Water Board mains spread through villages

  • 183 So this is the mainland!

  • 184 Salmon netting at Bideford

  • 185 Fish nearly pulled him in

  • 186 Watch the dicky bird!

  • 187 Waldon Triplets
  • 188 Sixty-two year old Picarooner makes ready for season

  • 189 Ship-in-bottle world record

  • 190 Westward Ho! public conveniences get go ahead
  • 191 Designed and made in Bideford

  • 192 Wishing well is pixielated

  • 193 Largest salmon caught in Torridge

  • 194 Bideford A.F.C annual dinner
  • 195 Rowing triumphs at Bideford

  • 196

    Married in 1908
  • 197

    School of Dancing's Annual Display
  • 198 North Devon Driving School

  • 199 Shoes certainly not made for walking

  • 200 Appledore tugs fete London Tower

  • 201 Appledore's new lifeboat

  • 202 Puzzle corner at Bideford!

  • 203 Weare Giffard Hall sold for £11,300

  • 204

    First prize
  • 205 Variety in summer weather

  • 206 School's link with cargo ship

  • 207 Buckland farm workers to receive long-service awards

  • 208

    Birgitta Whittaker
  • 209 Hartland's invitation

  • 210

    FA Cup Match for the Robins
  • 211 Westward Ho! sand yacht to challenge speed record

  • 212 Tramps camp by riverside throughout arctic weather

  • 213 Can-carrying over cobbles has disappeared

  • 214 Sweet success at Langtree School

  • 215 Fishermen of Greencliff

  • 216 New gateway to King George's Fields

  • 217 Smiling welcome to Hartland visitors

  • 218 Littleham family's five generations

  • 219 Preparations for new Clovelly Court

  • 220 113 years at Instow

  • 221 Riverside mystery

  • 222 Head Barman appointed Torrington Town Crier
  • 223 Faints as she wins national competition

  • 224 Success to Festival of the Arts

  • 225

    Successful motor cycling team
  • 226 Hartland postman retires

  • 227 Calf thinks of mare as mum

  • 228 Fleet of foot and fair of face

  • 229 Speeding communications: Bideford firm's new installation

  • 230 Wilfred and Mabel visit schools and hospital

  • 231 Church renovation rejoicing at Northam

  • 232 Spring-cleaning the Ridge

  • 233 Tide sweeps under and over the old bridge

  • 234 Gift plaque on Clovelly council houses

  • 235 Appledore's largest

  • 236 They never miss a game at Torrington

  • 237 Battle of the gap at Westward Ho!

  • 238 New Lundy stamps

  • 239 Do recall the old windmill at Northam?

  • 240 Town's second woman mayor in 392 years

  • 241 Sunshine and shade at Appledore

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

  • 243 They set out for Bideford and became lost

  • 244 A man and his wheel

  • 245 Big develolpment at Calveford

  • 246 Alwington School closing after 120 years

  • 247 A sense of humour in advertising

  • 248 Clovelly donkey film star

  • 249 Bicycle now does donkey work

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    Bidefordians
  • 251 Quads at Thornhillhead

  • 252 Bideford has built over 500 post-war homes

  • 253 What is future of railway goods yard?

  • 254 Boys from Bideford school complete Ten Tors

  • 255 Eight and a half million pound Taw development scheme

  • 256 A story to tell!

  • 257 An early 'special' to Bideford

  • 258 Centenary of Landcross Methodist Chapel

  • 259 Last train from Torrington

  • 260 Mobile missionary

  • 261 Westward Ho! combined op

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

  • 263 Circus comes to town

  • 264 Bideford regatta

  • 265 Lady Churchill congratulates Bideford artists at nursing exhibition

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

  • 267 Torrington children build igloo
  • 268 Bideford's gift to Sir Francis

  • 269 Capers on the cobbles

  • 270 Championship Trophy for Hartland
  • 271 School crossing patrol begins

  • 272 Down at the 'Donkey House'

  • 273 Signed scroll momento of Queen Mother's visit

  • 274 First steel ship built at Bideford

  • 275 Life begins at 80

  • 276 Vessel built 300 feet above sea level

  • 277 Torrington in 1967

  • 278 Torrington's new amenity

  • 279 Loads of black and white

  • 280 Thunderstorm destruction of 25 years ago

  • 281 Teenager Peter Jackson Makes Horror Film
  • 282 Bideford computer stars

  • 283 Bideford loses training ship

  • 284 Cruising down the river

  • 285 Cavaliers join the Hunt
  • 286 Yeoi Vale House finally demolished

  • 287

    Cadets are given certificates
  • 288 Tomorrow' night's skittles broadcast from Bideford

  • 289 North Devon author featured in TV documentary

  • 290

    New gateway
  • 291 Train returns to Westleigh straight

  • 292 Childrens' model of Torrington

  • 293

    Mums protest in Coronation Road
  • 294 Picking the pops

  • 295 Simple Item 138
  • 296 Malibou boys are all-the-year-round surfers

  • 297 Charter granted by Philip and Mary

  • 298 'Les Girls' of Hartland

  • 299 On her 'maiden' trip from Bideford

  • 300 New look for Torrington Lane

  • 301 Record pebble-throwing day

  • 302 Council agree to demolition of Chanter's Folly

  • 303

    Youth Clubs Join Together For Entertainment
  • 304 Broomhayes children will keep their winter pet

  • 305 Thirty bridges cross Torridge

  • 306 Children's procession with foxgloves

  • 307 Northam's almshouse

  • 308 Escaped crane moves into Kenwith Valley

  • 309 Emergency ferry services

  • 310 Twenty-one yachts

  • 311 Donkey and horses enjoy carnival drink

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

  • 313 Alderman Anstey's dream comes tru

  • 314 Four sisters' nostalgic reunion

  • 315 Torridge wins on time schedule

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

  • 317 Bideford country dancers on TV

  • 318 Joe the ginger tabby is 21

  • 319 Bank Holiday weather was beach weather

  • 320 Safe door weighing two tons

  • 321 Littleham cow tops 70 tons mark in milk production

  • 322

    Close associations with North Devon
  • 323 New shipyard on schedule

  • 324 Fundraising trip for RNLI

  • 325 Death - and birth - of a telephone exchange

  • 326 Up-to-date Bideford!

  • 327 Barley from Bideford to Bonnie Scotland

  • 328 Bideford skifflers, they're no squares

  • 329 Appledore boy is youngest recipient of RNLI vellun

  • 330 Bideford's new market opens next week

  • 331 Making way for the double-deckers

  • 332

    Was a missionary
  • 333 Unique holiday adventure!

  • 334

    Andre Veillett and Quentin Reed in Judo Demonstration
  • 335 What the television camera saw at Abbotsham

  • 336 He beat the floods

  • 337 Landmark at Bradworthy

  • 338

    Reds Womens Team Are First To Compete Throughout Season
  • 339 Torrington acclaims 400th anniversary of granting of charter

  • 340 Allhalland Street - then and now

  • 341 Torrington's shelter for the aged

  • 342 Mural in the whimsical fashion

  • 343 Calligrapher extraordinary

  • 344 No sale of Springfield House

  • 345 America's tribute to 'J.H.'

  • 346 Symbol of Lundy independence

  • 347 Weare Giffard potato

  • 348 Eleventh hour bid to save last sailing barge

  • 349 Bideford electricity window display qualifies for area competition

  • 350 Bideford blacksmith wins English championship

  • 351 Works at craft he learned over 65 years ago

  • 352 Alverdiscott is proud of its new parish hall

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

  • 354 Eight to strike and a race to win

  • 355 All for the love of a lady!

  • 356 Photo of town's first car wins prize

  • 357 Panto time at Westward Ho!

  • 358 All aboard the ark

  • 359 New Lundy air-mail stamps

  • 360 Photo mural in Bideford bank

  • 361 Eleven million pound scheme's official opening

  • 362 Thorn-apple found in Littleham conservatory

  • 363 Traditions and skills still there

  • 364 Wine and beer merchants for 150 years

  • 365 Tibbles home again - and fish supper

  • 366 Jumble sale fever

  • 367 Five generations link Woolsery, Clovelly and Bideford

  • 368 Dismantling of wireless mast

  • 369 Northam wants to continue pumping from river

  • 370 Baby Kate goes home to Lundy

  • 371 Sooty is quick on the draw

  • 372 For crying out loud!

  • 373 Bideford stock car racing entry comes in second

  • 374 Harvest service in Bideford 'pub' bar

  • 375 Bideford School Junior Choir Sing in France at Twinning Ceremony in Landivisiau
  • 376 Bideford inquest on French trawlermen opens

  • 377 No ancient Grecian temple this

  • 378 Record player of 80 years ago

  • 379 Students help model St Sidwell

  • 380 Parkham plan realised

  • 381 The art of the thatcher

  • 382 End of the line

  • 383 Warmington's garage ad

  • 384 Yelland potter's exhibition at Bideford

  • 385 'Out of Appledore' sailing memories

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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Hartland Harvest Festival 1962

Two car loads of produce from school festival.

1962 Hartland harvest festival

So many flowers and so much produce was taken by pupils of Hartland School for the school harvest festival on Friday that afterwards two cars were needed to transport it to Bideford and District Hospital. The canteen was decorated by children of the top class, all spare room being occupied by almost every variety of produce.
Jointly conducting the service were the Vicar, the Rev A T H Jones, and the Methodist minister, the Rev F C Diffey.
Reading of the first lesson was shared by Leslie Heywood, Richard Pitman and Michael Tremeer. The second was read by Janet Colwill and Jayne Nicholson.

Pat is Hartland Family's Third Carnival Queen

Pat, 17 year old third daughter of Mr and Mrs Lambert Dennis, of Berry Farm, Hartland, has won this year’s local carnival queen title as her sisters did in 1967 and 1969 respectively.

1972 Hartland Carnival Queen


Secretary in a Bideford agricultural firm, Pat qualified by selling a record 8,064 tickets to raise a total of £201.60 for carnival funds. It brought the sum raised by her sisters, Christine (Mrs David Powell) and Rosemary and herself to around £400.
Pat’s rivals for the title, who became her attendants are 16 year old Christine Hobbs, of Beckland, and 15 year old Wendy Daniel, of Parkham. The trio raised a record sum of £403.
A capacity crowd at the Church Hall on Monday saw Pat crowned by Miss Elizabeth Cottle, last year’s queen, who had herself been crowned by Pat’s sister Rosemary.
Pat’s first duty as queen was to crown the fairy queen who was chosen by a visitor from among the children of Hartland Primary School. She is Alison Pengilly, of St Clare’s Farm, Hartland. Her attendants are Lisa Manley and Ann Ferguson.

Must wait for more parking space

More parking space for Hartland – but not until 1965-66 financial year.

1964 Hartland parking

Members of the Parish Council were told that the widening scheme for Gregory Terrace would not be implemented until then.
Mr H J Harris contended that until this work is carried out no parking restrictions should operate in the main street.
It was agreed again to press for the widening of the Hartland-Clovelly road at Rosedown, which, members unanimously agreed, was the worst spot on the road.

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