• 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 At Bideford Arts Ball>
  • 2 Modern living at Bideford

  • 3 Escaped crane moves into Kenwith Valley

  • 4 Smiling welcome to Hartland visitors

  • 5

    Reds Womens Team Are First To Compete Throughout Season
  • 6 Clovelly's 91 year old horseman

  • 7 So this is the mainland!

  • 8 New fire and ambulance stations

  • 9

    Holidaying in north Devon
  • 10 Torridge wins on time schedule

  • 11 No ancient Grecian temple this

  • 12 Four hundred residents leave Bideford!

  • 13 Local glove-making factory advertising for staff

  • 14 Lady Godiva comes to Torrington

  • 15 Loads of black and white

  • 16 Bideford School Junior Choir Sing in France at Twinning Ceremony in Landivisiau
  • 17 Torrington Church's new organ

  • 18 Riverside mystery

  • 19 Harvest service in Bideford 'pub' bar

  • 20 Spring-cleaning the Ridge

  • 21

    Gift from Bideford Town Council
  • 22 Council agree to demolition of Chanter's Folly

  • 23 Hartland's invitation

  • 24 Fundraising trip for RNLI

  • 25

    Mums protest in Coronation Road
  • 26 Just over a year old

  • 27 The creative urge on Saturday morning

  • 28 Bideford blacksmith wins English championship

  • 29 Revived market off to splendid start

  • 30 Entente cordiale in Bideford

  • 31 A craftsman's 'potted' history

  • 32 Torrington children build igloo
  • 33 Colour TV salesman at eight

  • 34

    Cadets are given certificates
  • 35 Fish nearly pulled him in

  • 36 Finished in 1876

  • 37 Floral dancing at Appledore

  • 38 Afternoon tea in the park

  • 39 Church renovation rejoicing at Northam

  • 40 Parkham plan realised

  • 41 Lots drawn to prevent dog fight

  • 42 A man and his wheel

  • 43 The cab at the corner>
  • 44 Polish custom on Pancake Day

  • 45 Christmas tree on Bideford Quay>
  • 46 They never miss a game at Torrington

  • 47 Eleven million pound scheme's official opening

  • 48 Appledore's largest

  • 49 New Lundy air-mail stamps

  • 50 Clovelly donkey film star

  • 51 New Estate's view of estuary activities

  • 52 Fishing light goes out at close of poor season

  • 53 Can-carrying over cobbles has disappeared

  • 54 Mobile missionary

  • 55 Born 1883 - still going strong

  • 56 Torridge graveyard of wooden hulks

  • 57 Out of puff!

  • 58 Off on a great adventure

  • 59 Torrington's enterprise's new extensions

  • 60 Bideford firm develops new non-spill paint

  • 61 Pannier Market's future?

  • 62

    Jinxed School Trip
  • 63 Lady Churchill congratulates Bideford artists at nursing exhibition

  • 64 Bicycle now does donkey work

  • 65 Bideford's gift to Sir Francis

  • 66 Appledore Juniors Football
  • 67 One thousand visit zoo at Whitsun

  • 68 Barley from Bideford to Bonnie Scotland

  • 69 Do recall the old windmill at Northam?

  • 70 Teenager Peter Jackson Makes Horror Film
  • 71 For South Africa from Westward Ho!

  • 72 Space dominates Hartland carnival

  • 73 Fishermen of Greencliff

  • 74 Bideford Liberal club new lounge bar opened

  • 75 Move for oldest boatyard on Torridge

  • 76 School crossing patrol begins

  • 77 New civic medallions

  • 78 Westward Ho! public conveniences get go ahead
  • 79 Clovelly nightmare

  • 80 Ancestral home nestling in lovely combe

  • 81 Housing progress at East-the-Water>
  • 82 New Lundy stamps

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

  • 84

    New gateway
  • 85 Weare Giffard Hall sold for £11,300

  • 86 Northam's almshouse

  • 87 John Andrew Bread Charity
  • 88 Childrens' model of Torrington

  • 89 Joe the ginger tabby is 21

  • 90 Thriving 'orphan of the storm'

  • 91 Picture bought for shillings may be worth thousands

  • 92

    Was a missionary
  • 93 Huntshaw TV mast

  • 94 Record pebble-throwing day

  • 95 Twenty-one yachts

  • 96 Liked holidays here - so starts business

  • 97 Thrush builds nest in cauliflower

  • 98 Bideford computer stars

  • 99 River scenes that enchant the visitors

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

  • 101 Homage to a well-loved sovereign

  • 102 Quads join a Langtree happy family

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

  • 104 Sunshine and shade at Appledore

  • 105 Bideford regatta

  • 106 Buckland farm workers to receive long-service awards

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

  • 108 Found the answer waiting for him>
  • 109 Torrington to have first woman mayor

  • 110

    Successful motor cycling team
  • 111 Bideford 'What's my line?' challenger

  • 112 Unique holiday adventure!

  • 113 Appledore schooner broadcast

  • 114 New choral society's growing response

  • 115 Northam loses thatched cottage landmark

  • 116 For crying out loud!

  • 117 Tide sweeps under and over the old bridge

  • 118 Appledore's new lifeboat

  • 119 113 years at Instow

  • 120 Wine and beer merchants for 150 years

  • 121 Revenge in style

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

  • 123 Broomhayes children will keep their winter pet

  • 124

    Wynne Olley's styles impress International Hair Fashion Designer
  • 125 Clovelly custom

  • 126 Bideford shipyard workers cheer new minesweeper

  • 127 Community centre opened at Westward Ho!

  • 128 Service with a smile

  • 129 Warmington's garage ad

  • 130 A bird of their own!

  • 131 Hartland postman retires

  • 132 Chess - their bridge over the years

  • 133 Northam wants to continue pumping from river

  • 134 A lost Bideford 'island'

  • 135 Alwington School closing after 120 years

  • 136 Boys from Bideford school complete Ten Tors

  • 137 Salmon netting at Bideford

  • 138 Down at the dump something stirs

  • 139 End of the line

  • 140 Photo of town's first car wins prize

  • 141 Torrington's shelter for the aged

  • 142 Bideford inquest on French trawlermen opens

  • 143 Emergency ferry services

  • 144 Light reading for the lighthouse

  • 145

    FA Cup Match for the Robins
  • 146 Larkworthy Family play in Shebbear's Football Team
  • 147 Head Barman appointed Torrington Town Crier
  • 148 Designed and made in Bideford

  • 149

    10-year-old scrambler practices
  • 150 Thunderstorm destruction of 25 years ago

  • 151 Birds' convalescent home at Instow

  • 152 Bideford's new market opens next week

  • 153 What's the time?

  • 154 Saving money, wear and tear

  • 155 Bideford electricity window display qualifies for area competition

  • 156

    Close associations with North Devon
  • 157 Recognise this resort?

  • 158 Students help model St Sidwell

  • 159 Launching the 'Golden Hinde'

  • 160 Life begins at 80

  • 161 All for the love of a lady!

  • 162 Weare Giffard potato

  • 163 Yeo vale road ruin provides a mystery

  • 164 'Les Girls' of Hartland

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

  • 166 Fleet of foot and fair of face

  • 167 Bideford's first woman councillor

  • 168 Rowing triumphs at Bideford

  • 169 Charter granted by Philip and Mary

  • 170 Filming at Hartland

  • 171 Donkey and horses enjoy carnival drink

  • 172 Penny for the guy

  • 173 Variety in summer weather

  • 174 Artisans' Club

  • 175 Bideford's private wharves busier

  • 176 He beat the floods

  • 177 Watch the dicky bird!

  • 178 Television comes to Torridge District

  • 179 Bravery against bull at Shebbear rewarded

  • 180 Bideford country dancers on TV

  • 181 Safety-first dipomas awarded to Torrington drivers

  • 182 Meredith's ironmongers

  • 183 What is future of railway goods yard?

  • 184 Sailing to victory at Appledore

  • 185 Hartland Dancers
  • 186 Gloves fit for a king!

  • 187 Calf thinks of mare as mum

  • 188 Gift plaque on Clovelly council houses

  • 189 Holiday traffic in Bideford High Street

  • 190 Children's procession with foxgloves

  • 191 New look for Torrington Lane

  • 192 North Devon Driving School

  • 193 Practical sympathy at Northam

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

  • 195 Making way for the double-deckers

  • 196 Spray dodging - the new pastime

  • 197 Where Bideford rope-makers walked>
  • 198 Centenary of Landcross Methodist Chapel

  • 199 Bideford triplets' first birthday party

  • 200 X-ray shoe fitting

  • 201 No ancient Grecian temple this

  • 202 It really was the 'last time'

  • 203 Picking the pops

  • 204 Prizewinning babies at Torrington

  • 205 Record player of 80 years ago

  • 206 When horses score over the tractor

  • 207

    Relatives all over the world
  • 208 Happy Days!

  • 209 Passing of a Torrington landmark

  • 210 On her 'maiden' trip from Bideford

  • 211 Bideford Liberals' fashion show

  • 212 Five generations link Woolsery, Clovelly and Bideford

  • 213 New shipyard on schedule

  • 214 The Geneva marionettes

  • 215 Boys win hockey on the sands challenge

  • 216 Appledore tugs fete London Tower

  • 217 Bideford's first triplets for 12 years

  • 218 Works at craft he learned over 65 years ago

  • 219

    Married in 1908
  • 220 Tomorrow' night's skittles broadcast from Bideford

  • 221 Jalopy joy for children of Shamwickshire

  • 222 Torrington school's sundial - fashioned by Headmaster

  • 223 Torrington's new amenity

  • 224 America's tribute to 'J.H.'

  • 225 Decontrol of meat

  • 226 Baby Kate goes home to Lundy

  • 227 Up-to-date Bideford!

  • 228 New look in the hayfields

  • 229 Amsterdam to Bideford double success

  • 230 Sweets derationing

  • 231 Last train from Torrington

  • 232 A Weare Giffard speciality - delicious strawberries

  • 233 Thirty bridges cross Torridge

  • 234 New Post Office

  • 235 Farewell to passenger trains

  • 236 Thorn-apple found in Littleham conservatory

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

  • 238 Bideford schoolboy's courage recognised

  • 239 First tankers arrive at new depot

  • 240 In their new robes and hats

  • 241 Wishing well is pixielated

  • 242 Bridging the stream

  • 243 Sight of a lifetime

  • 244 Torrington in 1967

  • 245 Steep street of old Bideford

  • 246 Inscribed Bibles and silver spoons for babies

  • 247 They set out for Bideford and became lost

  • 248 Mayor becomes engine driver>
  • 249 Puzzle corner at Bideford!

  • 250 Tramps camp by riverside throughout arctic weather

  • 251 Sweet success at Langtree School

  • 252 Repair work on Long Bridge
  • 253 Still hunting aged 80 and a Field Master

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

  • 255 Cement-clad boats being built at Northam

  • 256 Some 240 exhibits

  • 257 Tibbles home again - and fish supper

  • 258

    Inter-school Road Safety Quiz Cup Winners
  • 259 Vessel built 300 feet above sea level

  • 260 Ships at Bideford

  • 261

    Andre Veillett and Quentin Reed in Judo Demonstration
  • 262 Down at the 'Donkey House'

  • 263 Bideford stock car racing entry comes in second

  • 264 Cruising down the river

  • 265 Mural in the whimsical fashion

  • 266 School's link with cargo ship

  • 267 Olympic riders to compete at Bideford Horse Show

  • 268 Ten year old scrambler

  • 269

    Gus Honeybun meets local children
  • 270 Police station view of Bideford

  • 271 Instow local art show was 'tremendous success'

  • 272 The art of the thatcher

  • 273 Train returns to Westleigh straight

  • 274 Bideford Zoo's first baby is big draw

  • 275 Alderman Anstey's dream comes tru

  • 276

    Youth Clubs Join Together For Entertainment
  • 277 Second Monte Carlo Rally

  • 278 Eight and a half million pound Taw development scheme

  • 279 Beach search for mines takes longer

  • 280 Holiday scene near Sandymere

  • 281 What the television camera saw at Abbotsham

  • 282 An early 'special' to Bideford

  • 283 Two kinds of hovercraft at Bideford

  • 284 Championship Trophy for Hartland
  • 285 Bideford loses training ship

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

  • 287 Sooty is quick on the draw

  • 288 Picking the pops

  • 289

    Womens Skittles Competition in Buckland Brewer
  • 290 Faints as she wins national competition

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

  • 292

    Building works
  • 293 Celebrations for 103rd birthday

  • 294 Private home for public pump

  • 295 Devil sent packing

  • 296 Westward Ho! sand yacht to challenge speed record

  • 297 Circus comes to town

  • 298 Bideford-Torrington road gets 'carpet coat'

  • 299 Bideford A.F.C annual dinner
  • 300 New life for Hartland organ

  • 301 Big develolpment at Calveford

  • 302 New gateway to King George's Fields

  • 303 Old Girls revisit Edgehill

  • 304 New art gallery opened

  • 305 Donkey work made easier at Clovelly

  • 306 Bideford has built over 500 post-war homes

  • 307 Future of Torrington almshouses

  • 308 Littleham cow tops 70 tons mark in milk production

  • 309 Bideford Bridge re-opens

  • 310 Panel sprint for Bideford broadcast

  • 311 Bideford skifflers, they're no squares

  • 312 Hartland Abbey outdoor staff 60 years ago

  • 313 Alverdiscott is proud of its new parish hall

  • 314 Safe door weighing two tons

  • 315 Symbol of Lundy independence

  • 316 Ship-in-bottle world record

  • 317 Bideford childrens' cinema opens

  • 318 Broomhayes £1,000 Surprise
  • 319 Bank Holiday weather was beach weather

  • 320 Puppet characters introduced

  • 321 Buckland goes to County Show

  • 322 A story to tell!

  • 323

    Exhibition of school work
  • 324 Largest salmon caught in Torridge

  • 325 Meeting at 10 Downing Street

  • 326 Torrington acclaims 400th anniversary of granting of charter

  • 327 Town's second woman mayor in 392 years

  • 328 Six footed lamb

  • 329 Dismantling of wireless mast

  • 330 Centuries old but today busier than ever

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

  • 332 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

  • 333 Calligrapher extraordinary

  • 334 Can spring be far away?

  • 335

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

  • 337

    Double Baptism on Torridge
  • 338 Peter poses for TV film

  • 339 Quads at Thornhillhead

  • 340

    Bidefordians
  • 341 From Bobby to Brian

  • 342 Getting up steam for tomorrow

  • 343 Appledore skill brings 'Hispaniola' to life

  • 344 All aboard the ark

  • 345 Preparations for new Clovelly Court

  • 346 TV features Bideford's New Year bread ceremony

  • 347 Eleventh hour bid to save last sailing barge

  • 348

    First prize
  • 349 Eight to strike and a race to win

  • 350 Battle of the gap at Westward Ho!

  • 351 Centenary of Gazette

  • 352 Yeoi Vale House finally demolished

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

  • 354 Wasps' nest in sewing machine

  • 355 Death - and birth - of a telephone exchange

  • 356 Daisy's pride and joy

  • 357 They are parted pro-tem

  • 358 Photo mural in Bideford bank

  • 359 A sense of humour in advertising

  • 360 Last of Bideford factory chimney

  • 361 Burnard family reunion

  • 362 Brothers reunion 1947
  • 363 Traditions and skills still there

  • 364 Landmark at Bradworthy

  • 365 Jumble sale fever

  • 366

    First Girls at Bideford Grammar School take part in Play
  • 367 TV contest means big job for Bideford Guides

  • 368 No sale of Springfield House

  • 369 Westward Ho! Tennis Club Winners
  • 370 Water Board mains spread through villages

  • 371 Golden Bay Hotel ad.>
  • 372 Pretty pennies at Beaford

  • 373 Success to Festival of the Arts

  • 374 No laughing matter

  • 375 Westward Ho! combined op

  • 376 Panto time at Westward Ho!

  • 377 A roof-top view - where?

  • 378 North Devon author featured in TV documentary

  • 379 Appledore boy is youngest recipient of RNLI vellun

  • 380 Cavaliers join the Hunt
  • 381 Simple Item 138
  • 382 Littleham family's five generations

  • 383 Shoes certainly not made for walking

  • 384 Signed scroll momento of Queen Mother's visit

  • 385 Yelland potter's exhibition at Bideford

  • 386

    Lenwood Squash Club
  • 387

    Mrs Whapham finds ferret in Bridgeland Street while shopping
  • 388 Wilfred and Mabel visit schools and hospital

  • 389 Little 'Big Ben'

  • 390 Torrington Youth Club rewarded by party
  • 391 In the tortoise nursery - eight hatched at Bideford

  • 392 Bringing shopping home by goat

  • 393 Northam footballers of the future

  • 394 Waldon Triplets
  • 395 By pony and trap to market

  • 396 Shipbuilding hobby at Hartland

  • 397 Allhalland Street - then and now

  • 398

    Birgitta Whittaker
  • 399 First ship in 8 years

  • 400 Pet squirrels at Monkleigh

  • 401 Speeding communications: Bideford firm's new installation

  • 402

    Hamburger is part of modern life
  • 403 Four sisters' nostalgic reunion

  • 404 New addition to Quay front

  • 405 Designed all furnishing of new chapel

  • 406 Some mushroom!

  • 407 First steel ship built at Bideford

  • 408 Champagne send-off for Torrington new factory

  • 409

    Toasted with musical honours
  • 410

    School of Dancing's Annual Display
  • 411 'Out of Appledore' sailing memories

  • 412 East-the-Water sets town an example

  • 413 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

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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  • 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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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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Tenants Warned About Parking

Following a report calling attention to the difficulties caused by parking on roads on the Dartington Fields estate, Torrington Town Council are to send a circular letter to tenants asking them to comply with their tenancy agreements, and pointing out that if this is not done, the matter will be brought to the attention of the police for further action.

12.12.69 Dartington Fields

Cllr J W Martin said that eight o’clock the previous evening he had counted 23 cars, one van, two motor cycles, and a bicycle all within 100 yards, and in an emergency it would have been quite impossible for a fire engine to have got through.

Gazette article dated 12 December 1969

New English teacher appointed

Mr R Hunkin, BA (Oxon), of Torrington, has recently been appointed to the staff of the Torrington Secondary Modern School where he will be responsible for work in English.

1950 Hunkin Torrington

While a pupil at Bideford Grammar School from 1929-36, Mr Hunkin won a Choral Exhibition at Exeter College, Oxford, where he subsequently took an Honours Degree in English. Mr Hunkin is now an assistant master at Redruth Grammar School, Cornwall, and will take up his new appointment in January 1951.

Somewhere a Huntsman is Calling

The judges, Mr Jack Molyneus and Mrs F W B Smyth, sit in the rain on the roof of the Drill Hall, Torrington, on Thursday evening of last week, where they listened through an open skylight to competitors in the hunting horn blowing contest at Torrington Farmers’ Hunt Ball.

8.12.1950 horn blowing Torrington

The event was won by Mr A Harris, huntsman to the South Devon Foxhounds, for the second year in succession, and he thus wins the cup outright.
Mr Tom Bunch was second and Mr Frank Heal, third. The eight competitors included one woman, Miss Sarah-Jane Slade, who blew one short blast and then retired. The competitors were tested on three calls and at the conclusion they sounded a fanfare. The prizes were presented by Mrs R D D Birdwood, wife of the chairman of the hunt, Lieut-Col R D D Birdwood.
There was a large attendance at the ball. Mr C Quick was the Mc and organiser of the dance with a committee.
Lucky numbers for gifts kindly donated were announced during the evening: F Stevens; R V Pope; Mrs Irwin; C A Squire; R G Sussex; Margaret Hookway; and G White.

The Gazette article is dated 8 December 1950

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