• 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 Bideford Bridge re-opens

  • 2 Liked holidays here - so starts business

  • 3 Torrington's enterprise's new extensions

  • 4 Sight of a lifetime

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    Toasted with musical honours
  • 6 First tankers arrive at new depot

  • 7 Bideford's new market opens next week

  • 8 Charter granted by Philip and Mary

  • 9 North Devon author featured in TV documentary

  • 10 School crossing patrol begins

  • 11 Joe the ginger tabby is 21

  • 12 Weare Giffard Hall sold for £11,300

  • 13 Little 'Big Ben'

  • 14 New Estate's view of estuary activities

  • 15 Four sisters' nostalgic reunion

  • 16 Train returns to Westleigh straight

  • 17 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

  • 18 The Geneva marionettes

  • 19 Barley from Bideford to Bonnie Scotland

  • 20

    Building works
  • 21 Northam footballers of the future

  • 22 Centuries old but today busier than ever

  • 23

    Double Baptism on Torridge
  • 24

    Hamburger is part of modern life
  • 25 Riverside mystery

  • 26 Some mushroom!

  • 27 Gloves fit for a king!

  • 28 Bideford skifflers, they're no squares

  • 29 No ancient Grecian temple this

  • 30

    New gateway
  • 31 Success to Festival of the Arts

  • 32 Bravery against bull at Shebbear rewarded

  • 33 Vessel built 300 feet above sea level

  • 34 Daisy's pride and joy

  • 35 Centenary of Landcross Methodist Chapel

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

  • 37 Circus comes to town

  • 38 The creative urge on Saturday morning

  • 39 Jalopy joy for children of Shamwickshire

  • 40 Death - and birth - of a telephone exchange

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

  • 42 Tomorrow' night's skittles broadcast from Bideford

  • 43 Launching the 'Golden Hinde'

  • 44 In their new robes and hats

  • 45 Lady Churchill congratulates Bideford artists at nursing exhibition

  • 46 Dismantling of wireless mast

  • 47 Bideford blacksmith wins English championship

  • 48 A story to tell!

  • 49 Steep street of old Bideford

  • 50 Clovelly nightmare

  • 51 Fish nearly pulled him in

  • 52 Church renovation rejoicing at Northam

  • 53 Spray dodging - the new pastime

  • 54

    10-year-old scrambler practices
  • 55 Shipbuilding hobby at Hartland

  • 56 Warmington's garage ad

  • 57 Bank Holiday weather was beach weather

  • 58 Bideford stock car racing entry comes in second

  • 59 It really was the 'last time'

  • 60 Beach search for mines takes longer

  • 61 Private home for public pump

  • 62 So this is the mainland!

  • 63

    Mrs Whapham finds ferret in Bridgeland Street while shopping
  • 64 Chess - their bridge over the years

  • 65 Council agree to demolition of Chanter's Folly

  • 66 Torrington's new amenity

  • 67 New choral society's growing response

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

  • 69 Birds' convalescent home at Instow

  • 70 Hartland Abbey outdoor staff 60 years ago

  • 71 Clovelly custom

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

  • 73 Littleham family's five generations

  • 74 Buckland farm workers to receive long-service awards

  • 75 Celebrations for 103rd birthday

  • 76 Devil sent packing

  • 77 Designed all furnishing of new chapel

  • 78 New addition to Quay front

  • 79 He beat the floods

  • 80 No ancient Grecian temple this

  • 81

    Gift from Bideford Town Council
  • 82 Designed and made in Bideford

  • 83 Brothers reunion 1947
  • 84 Huntshaw TV mast

  • 85 By pony and trap to market

  • 86 Unique holiday adventure!

  • 87 Baby Kate goes home to Lundy

  • 88 Hartland postman retires

  • 89 Bideford childrens' cinema opens

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

  • 91 Ten year old scrambler

  • 92 Happy Days!

  • 93 113 years at Instow

  • 94 TV features Bideford's New Year bread ceremony

  • 95

    First prize
  • 96 Children's procession with foxgloves

  • 97 Cruising down the river

  • 98 Larkworthy Family play in Shebbear's Football Team
  • 99 Sixty-two year old Picarooner makes ready for season

  • 100 What the television camera saw at Abbotsham

  • 101 Jumble sale fever

  • 102 One thousand visit zoo at Whitsun

  • 103 Homage to a well-loved sovereign

  • 104 Down at the 'Donkey House'

  • 105 Do recall the old windmill at Northam?

  • 106 They set out for Bideford and became lost

  • 107 Spring-cleaning the Ridge

  • 108 Salmon netting at Bideford

  • 109 Gift plaque on Clovelly council houses

  • 110 Champagne send-off for Torrington new factory

  • 111 Torrington in 1967

  • 112 Fishermen of Greencliff

  • 113 Capers on the cobbles

  • 114 Burnard family reunion

  • 115 Thirty bridges cross Torridge

  • 116 Peter poses for TV film

  • 117 Parkham plan realised

  • 118 Picking the pops

  • 119 New gateway to King George's Fields

  • 120 TV contest means big job for Bideford Guides

  • 121 Calf thinks of mare as mum

  • 122 Twenty-one yachts

  • 123 Clovelly's 91 year old horseman

  • 124 Five generations link Woolsery, Clovelly and Bideford

  • 125 Teenager Peter Jackson Makes Horror Film
  • 126 Ships at Bideford

  • 127

    FA Cup Match for the Robins
  • 128 Olympic riders to compete at Bideford Horse Show

  • 129 Torrington children build igloo
  • 130 Out of puff!

  • 131 Ship-in-bottle world record

  • 132 Alderman Anstey's dream comes tru

  • 133 Broomhayes children will keep their winter pet

  • 134 Revenge in style

  • 135 Calligrapher extraordinary

  • 136 They are parted pro-tem

  • 137 Fishing light goes out at close of poor season

  • 138 Bideford has built over 500 post-war homes

  • 139 Yelland potter's exhibition at Bideford

  • 140 Holiday traffic in Bideford High Street

  • 141 An early 'special' to Bideford

  • 142 X-ray shoe fitting

  • 143 Bridging the stream

  • 144 Bideford-Torrington road gets 'carpet coat'

  • 145 Fundraising trip for RNLI

  • 146 Emergency ferry services

  • 147 Weare Giffard potato

  • 148 New fire and ambulance stations

  • 149 Holiday scene near Sandymere

  • 150 Bringing shopping home by goat

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

  • 152 Donkey and horses enjoy carnival drink

  • 153 John Andrew Bread Charity
  • 154

    Lenwood Squash Club
  • 155 Still hunting aged 80 and a Field Master

  • 156 Hartland's invitation

  • 157 End of the line

  • 158 Bideford A.F.C annual dinner
  • 159 Police station view of Bideford

  • 160 Appledore boy is youngest recipient of RNLI vellun

  • 161 East-the-Water sets town an example

  • 162 Service with a smile

  • 163

    Holidaying in north Devon
  • 164 Bideford firm develops new non-spill paint

  • 165 Battle of the gap at Westward Ho!

  • 166 Appledore schooner broadcast

  • 167 Allhalland Street - then and now

  • 168 Picture bought for shillings may be worth thousands

  • 169

    Wynne Olley's styles impress International Hair Fashion Designer
  • 170

    Close associations with North Devon
  • 171

    Reds Womens Team Are First To Compete Throughout Season
  • 172 Wilfred and Mabel visit schools and hospital

  • 173 Space dominates Hartland carnival

  • 174 Boys win hockey on the sands challenge

  • 175 Sunshine and shade at Appledore

  • 176 Mural in the whimsical fashion

  • 177 Signed scroll momento of Queen Mother's visit

  • 178 Faints as she wins national competition

  • 179 All aboard the ark

  • 180 Variety in summer weather

  • 181 Tide sweeps under and over the old bridge

  • 182

    Successful motor cycling team
  • 183 Thrush builds nest in cauliflower

  • 184 No laughing matter

  • 185 Westward Ho! Tennis Club Winners
  • 186 New art gallery opened

  • 187 Appledore tugs fete London Tower

  • 188 Bideford computer stars

  • 189 Pannier Market's future?

  • 190 Eight and a half million pound Taw development scheme

  • 191

    Birgitta Whittaker
  • 192 A bird of their own!

  • 193 Entente cordiale in Bideford

  • 194 Future of Torrington almshouses

  • 195 Bideford schoolboy's courage recognised

  • 196 Tramps camp by riverside throughout arctic weather

  • 197 Shoes certainly not made for walking

  • 198 Westward Ho! sand yacht to challenge speed record

  • 199 Move for oldest boatyard on Torridge

  • 200 Sweet success at Langtree School

  • 201 Torrington's shelter for the aged

  • 202 Escaped crane moves into Kenwith Valley

  • 203 Torridge graveyard of wooden hulks

  • 204 Last train from Torrington

  • 205 Bideford's private wharves busier

  • 206 Some 240 exhibits

  • 207 First steel ship built at Bideford

  • 208 Donkey work made easier at Clovelly

  • 209 What's the time?

  • 210 Polish custom on Pancake Day

  • 211 New Lundy stamps

  • 212

    Inter-school Road Safety Quiz Cup Winners
  • 213 Largest salmon caught in Torridge

  • 214

    Andre Veillett and Quentin Reed in Judo Demonstration
  • 215 Inscribed Bibles and silver spoons for babies

  • 216 Northam's almshouse

  • 217 Preparations for new Clovelly Court

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

  • 219 Farewell to passenger trains

  • 220 Northam loses thatched cottage landmark

  • 221 Symbol of Lundy independence

  • 222 Panto time at Westward Ho!

  • 223 A man and his wheel

  • 224 A lost Bideford 'island'

  • 225 Speeding communications: Bideford firm's new installation

  • 226 Bideford's first triplets for 12 years

  • 227 A roof-top view - where?

  • 228

    Married in 1908
  • 229 Students help model St Sidwell

  • 230 Harvest service in Bideford 'pub' bar

  • 231 All for the love of a lady!

  • 232 Wine and beer merchants for 150 years

  • 233 Panel sprint for Bideford broadcast

  • 234 Smiling welcome to Hartland visitors

  • 235 New shipyard on schedule

  • 236 Cavaliers join the Hunt
  • 237 Tibbles home again - and fish supper

  • 238 New Post Office

  • 239 A Weare Giffard speciality - delicious strawberries

  • 240 Appledore's new lifeboat

  • 241 Bideford loses training ship

  • 242 Photo of town's first car wins prize

  • 243 Pretty pennies at Beaford

  • 244 North Devon Driving School

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

  • 246 Off on a great adventure

  • 247 School's link with cargo ship

  • 248 Watch the dicky bird!

  • 249 Westward Ho! combined op

  • 250 Finished in 1876

  • 251 Up-to-date Bideford!

  • 252 Wishing well is pixielated

  • 253 What is future of railway goods yard?

  • 254 Torrington school's sundial - fashioned by Headmaster

  • 255 In the tortoise nursery - eight hatched at Bideford

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

  • 257 Photo mural in Bideford bank

  • 258 Thunderstorm destruction of 25 years ago

  • 259 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

  • 260 Penny for the guy

  • 261

    Mums protest in Coronation Road
  • 262 Revived market off to splendid start

  • 263 Boys from Bideford school complete Ten Tors

  • 264 Broomhayes £1,000 Surprise
  • 265 Championship Trophy for Hartland
  • 266 Bideford country dancers on TV

  • 267 Torridge wins on time schedule

  • 268 New life for Hartland organ

  • 269 Television comes to Torridge District

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    Youth Clubs Join Together For Entertainment
  • 271 Picking the pops

  • 272 Born 1883 - still going strong

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

  • 274 Eleven million pound scheme's official opening

  • 275 Four hundred residents leave Bideford!

  • 276 Record pebble-throwing day

  • 277 Bideford shipyard workers cheer new minesweeper

  • 278 Record player of 80 years ago

  • 279 Puppet characters introduced

  • 280 Decontrol of meat

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

  • 282 Town's second woman mayor in 392 years

  • 283 Recognise this resort?

  • 284 Practical sympathy at Northam

  • 285 Traditions and skills still there

  • 286 Works at craft he learned over 65 years ago

  • 287 Two kinds of hovercraft at Bideford

  • 288 Torrington Youth Club rewarded by party
  • 289 Safe door weighing two tons

  • 290 Yeo vale road ruin provides a mystery

  • 291 On her 'maiden' trip from Bideford

  • 292 Quads at Thornhillhead

  • 293 Loads of black and white

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

  • 295 Westward Ho! public conveniences get go ahead
  • 296 Quads join a Langtree happy family

  • 297 Eleventh hour bid to save last sailing barge

  • 298 Eight to strike and a race to win

  • 299 Cement-clad boats being built at Northam

  • 300 Yeoi Vale House finally demolished

  • 301 Alwington School closing after 120 years

  • 302 Big develolpment at Calveford

  • 303 Last of Bideford factory chimney

  • 304 Fleet of foot and fair of face

  • 305 Can-carrying over cobbles has disappeared

  • 306 The art of the thatcher

  • 307

    Womens Skittles Competition in Buckland Brewer
  • 308 Sooty is quick on the draw

  • 309 Childrens' model of Torrington

  • 310 When horses score over the tractor

  • 311 New look for Torrington Lane

  • 312 Bideford electricity window display qualifies for area competition

  • 313 Getting up steam for tomorrow

  • 314 'Out of Appledore' sailing memories

  • 315 New Lundy air-mail stamps

  • 316

    Cadets are given certificates
  • 317 No sale of Springfield House

  • 318 Lots drawn to prevent dog fight

  • 319

    Was a missionary
  • 320

    Jinxed School Trip
  • 321 Pet squirrels at Monkleigh

  • 322 Second Monte Carlo Rally

  • 323 Landmark at Bradworthy

  • 324 Ancestral home nestling in lovely combe

  • 325

    Gus Honeybun meets local children
  • 326 America's tribute to 'J.H.'

  • 327 Lady Godiva comes to Torrington

  • 328 Colour TV salesman at eight

  • 329 Can spring be far away?

  • 330 Just over a year old

  • 331 Thorn-apple found in Littleham conservatory

  • 332 Bideford regatta

  • 333 For crying out loud!

  • 334 Repair work on Long Bridge
  • 335 Head Barman appointed Torrington Town Crier
  • 336 Bideford Zoo's first baby is big draw

  • 337

    Appledore boys beat mums at football
  • 338 'Les Girls' of Hartland

  • 339 Appledore Juniors Football
  • 340 New look in the hayfields

  • 341 Puzzle corner at Bideford!

  • 342

    Exhibition of school work
  • 343 Appledore's largest

  • 344 River scenes that enchant the visitors

  • 345 Rowing triumphs at Bideford

  • 346 Bideford triplets' first birthday party

  • 347 Clovelly donkey film star

  • 348 They never miss a game at Torrington

  • 349 Bideford's gift to Sir Francis

  • 350 Passing of a Torrington landmark

  • 351 Six footed lamb

  • 352 Water Board mains spread through villages

  • 353

    School of Dancing's Annual Display
  • 354 Hartland Dancers
  • 355 Making way for the double-deckers

  • 356 Life begins at 80

  • 357 Artisans' Club

  • 358 Old Girls revisit Edgehill

  • 359 New civic medallions

  • 360 Northam wants to continue pumping from river

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    Relatives all over the world
  • 362 Modern living at Bideford

  • 363 Light reading for the lighthouse

  • 364 A craftsman's 'potted' history

  • 365 Meredith's ironmongers

  • 366 Waldon Triplets
  • 367 Bideford Liberals' fashion show

  • 368 Torrington to have first woman mayor

  • 369 A sense of humour in advertising

  • 370 Instow local art show was 'tremendous success'

  • 371 Bideford inquest on French trawlermen opens

  • 372 Littleham cow tops 70 tons mark in milk production

  • 373 First ship in 8 years

  • 374 Bideford Liberal club new lounge bar opened

  • 375 Mobile missionary

  • 376 Centenary of Gazette

  • 377 Alverdiscott is proud of its new parish hall

  • 378 Torrington acclaims 400th anniversary of granting of charter

  • 379

    Bidefordians
  • 380 Saving money, wear and tear

  • 381 Simple Item 138
  • 382 Bicycle now does donkey work

  • 383 Bideford School Junior Choir Sing in France at Twinning Ceremony in Landivisiau
  • 384 Buckland goes to County Show

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    First Girls at Bideford Grammar School take part in Play
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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Death of Mr Jack Shutt

45 years with Royal North Devon Golf Club.

1 July 1949 Mr Jack Shutt


Well known to golfers throughout the district and further afield, particularly among the older generation, Mr Thomas John Shutt, former caddie master at the Royal North Devon Golf Club, died early yesterday (Thursday) morning. Mr Shutt had been ill for some considerable time. He was 83.
Born at Appledore Mr Shutt had always lived in Northam parish and for many years past had lived at 3 The Square, Northam. He spent his earlier days on a farm and was then appointed a greensman at the Royal North Devon Golf Club, and subsequently caddie master. After 45 years service to the Club, Mr Shutt retired in 1938.
Mr Shutt leaves a son, Mr Tom Shutt, and two daughters, Miss J Shutt and Mrs W E Babb. Another son was killed in the 1914-18 war.

Chairman of Bideford Rural Council 1956

Mr D F B Stucley's New Appointment

1 June1956 D F B Stucley, Hartland Abbey

A representative of Hartland Parish since 1937 and vice-chairman of the Council for the past seven years, Mr D F B Stucley, of Hartland Abbey, was elected Chairman at the annual meeting of Bideford Rural District Council on Tuesday. Mr Stucley who last week relinquished office as Mayor of Bideford, a position he has held for the past two years, is the present High Sheriff of Devon.

The Queen's Sheriff 1956

The first person to be presented to Her Majesty on arrival at Barnstaple by the Lord Lieutenant of Devon, after
Lady Fortescue, was the High Sheriff of Devon, Major D F B Stucley wearing the traditional dress of
this high office, in which he was presented.

1 May 1956 High Sheriff of Devon D F B Stucley

In a secondary capacity he was also the first Mayor of North Devon to be presented. Major Stucley is the 38th member of the Stucley family to hold the office of Mayor of Bideford, from which this month he retires after two years service.

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