• 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 Down at the 'Donkey House'

  • 2 Yeoi Vale House finally demolished

  • 3 Fleet of foot and fair of face

  • 4 In their new robes and hats

  • 5 Tide sweeps under and over the old bridge

  • 6 Buckland goes to County Show

  • 7 Torrington's new amenity

  • 8 Centenary of Gazette

  • 9 Emergency ferry services

  • 10 Boys win hockey on the sands challenge

  • 11 Ten year old scrambler

  • 12 Capers on the cobbles

  • 13 Bideford schoolboy's courage recognised

  • 14 Riverside mystery

  • 15 Getting up steam for tomorrow

  • 16 Bideford Liberals' fashion show

  • 17 Pannier Market's future?

  • 18 Wine and beer merchants for 150 years

  • 19 Decontrol of meat

  • 20 Daisy's pride and joy

  • 21

    Successful motor cycling team
  • 22 Westward Ho! Tennis Club Winners
  • 23 Bideford - as Rowlandson saw it about 1810-15

  • 24 Off on a great adventure

  • 25 School crossing patrol begins

  • 26 Inscribed Bibles and silver spoons for babies

  • 27 Peter poses for TV film

  • 28 New Estate's view of estuary activities

  • 29 Big develolpment at Calveford

  • 30 Artisans' Club

  • 31 Barley from Bideford to Bonnie Scotland

  • 32 Quads at Thornhillhead

  • 33 TV features Bideford's New Year bread ceremony

  • 34 Revenge in style

  • 35 Students help model St Sidwell

  • 36 A craftsman's 'potted' history

  • 37 Passing of a Torrington landmark

  • 38 Bravery against bull at Shebbear rewarded

  • 39 Hartland Dancers
  • 40 Alwington School closing after 120 years

  • 41

    Close associations with North Devon
  • 42 Light reading for the lighthouse

  • 43 Designed and made in Bideford

  • 44 Fishing light goes out at close of poor season

  • 45 Northam's almshouse

  • 46 Yelland potter's exhibition at Bideford

  • 47 Quads join a Langtree happy family

  • 48 Revived market off to splendid start

  • 49 Thrush builds nest in cauliflower

  • 50 Birds' convalescent home at Instow

  • 51 Lady Godiva comes to Torrington

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

  • 53 A lost Bideford 'island'

  • 54 Jumble sale fever

  • 55 They never miss a game at Torrington

  • 56 What the television camera saw at Abbotsham

  • 57 Do recall the old windmill at Northam?

  • 58 New look for Torrington Lane

  • 59 Holiday scene near Sandymere

  • 60 New shipyard on schedule

  • 61 Bank Holiday weather was beach weather

  • 62 First steel ship built at Bideford

  • 63 Circus comes to town

  • 64 Appledore's new lifeboat

  • 65 For crying out loud!

  • 66 Northam footballers of the future

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

  • 68

    FA Cup Match for the Robins
  • 69 Cruising down the river

  • 70 Waldon Triplets
  • 71 Picking the pops

  • 72 Penny for the guy

  • 73 Weare Giffard Hall sold for £11,300

  • 74 Sweet success at Langtree School

  • 75 Sunshine and shade at Appledore

  • 76 Northam wants to continue pumping from river

  • 77 Still hunting aged 80 and a Field Master

  • 78 Bideford Zoo's first baby is big draw

  • 79 Bideford has built over 500 post-war homes

  • 80 The creative urge on Saturday morning

  • 81 Bideford's first triplets for 12 years

  • 82 Bideford skifflers, they're no squares

  • 83 Shipbuilding hobby at Hartland

  • 84 Some mushroom!

  • 85 Picture bought for shillings may be worth thousands

  • 86 Future of Torrington almshouses

  • 87 Fundraising trip for RNLI

  • 88 Children's procession with foxgloves

  • 89 New civic medallions

  • 90 Pet squirrels at Monkleigh

  • 91 He beat the floods

  • 92 Bideford country dancers on TV

  • 93 Buckland farm workers to receive long-service awards

  • 94 Speeding communications: Bideford firm's new installation

  • 95 Bideford's new market opens next week

  • 96 Northam loses thatched cottage landmark

  • 97 Town's second woman mayor in 392 years

  • 98 Private home for public pump

  • 99 Safe door weighing two tons

  • 100 Jalopy joy for children of Shamwickshire

  • 101 Torridge graveyard of wooden hulks

  • 102 'Les Girls' of Hartland

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

  • 104 Alverdiscott is proud of its new parish hall

  • 105 Gift plaque on Clovelly council houses

  • 106

    Hamburger is part of modern life
  • 107 Bideford triplets' first birthday party

  • 108 Bideford computer stars

  • 109 Warmington's garage ad

  • 110

    Inter-school Road Safety Quiz Cup Winners
  • 111 Cavaliers join the Hunt
  • 112 New gateway to King George's Fields

  • 113 Appledore Juniors Football
  • 114 Eight to strike and a race to win

  • 115 Eight and a half million pound Taw development scheme

  • 116

    Gift from Bideford Town Council
  • 117

    Jinxed School Trip
  • 118 Entente cordiale in Bideford

  • 119 Charter granted by Philip and Mary

  • 120 Eleventh hour bid to save last sailing barge

  • 121 Bicycle now does donkey work

  • 122 Second Monte Carlo Rally

  • 123 Can spring be far away?

  • 124 Loads of black and white

  • 125

    Bidefordians
  • 126 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

  • 127 Torrington Youth Club rewarded by party
  • 128 Devil sent packing

  • 129 Steep street of old Bideford

  • 130 Spring-cleaning the Ridge

  • 131 On her 'maiden' trip from Bideford

  • 132 A Weare Giffard speciality - delicious strawberries

  • 133 Ancestral home nestling in lovely combe

  • 134

    Holidaying in north Devon
  • 135 Teenager Peter Jackson Makes Horror Film
  • 136 Old Girls revisit Edgehill

  • 137 Last train from Torrington

  • 138 Little 'Big Ben'

  • 139 Pretty pennies at Beaford

  • 140 Chess - their bridge over the years

  • 141 113 years at Instow

  • 142 Tomorrow' night's skittles broadcast from Bideford

  • 143 TV contest means big job for Bideford Guides

  • 144 Finished in 1876

  • 145 Burnard family reunion

  • 146 Tramps camp by riverside throughout arctic weather

  • 147 Some 240 exhibits

  • 148 Four sisters' nostalgic reunion

  • 149 Recognise this resort?

  • 150 Bideford loses training ship

  • 151 What is future of railway goods yard?

  • 152 Sooty is quick on the draw

  • 153 Bideford childrens' cinema opens

  • 154 Homage to a well-loved sovereign

  • 155 Mural in the whimsical fashion

  • 156 East-the-Water sets town an example

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

  • 158

    First Girls at Bideford Grammar School take part in Play
  • 159 Out of puff!

  • 160 Westward Ho! sand yacht to challenge speed record

  • 161 Two kinds of hovercraft at Bideford

  • 162 Bideford A.F.C annual dinner
  • 163

    Womens Skittles Competition in Buckland Brewer
  • 164

    Toasted with musical honours
  • 165 Sixty-two year old Picarooner makes ready for season

  • 166 Bridging the stream

  • 167

    School of Dancing's Annual Display
  • 168 Life begins at 80

  • 169 New art gallery opened

  • 170

    Andre Veillett and Quentin Reed in Judo Demonstration
  • 171 Repair work on Long Bridge
  • 172 Hartland postman retires

  • 173 Saving money, wear and tear

  • 174 Clovelly's 91 year old horseman

  • 175 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

  • 176 Panto time at Westward Ho!

  • 177

    Mums protest in Coronation Road
  • 178

    Lenwood Squash Club
  • 179 Launching the 'Golden Hinde'

  • 180 Appledore tugs fete London Tower

  • 181 First tankers arrive at new depot

  • 182 Up-to-date Bideford!

  • 183

    Birgitta Whittaker
  • 184 Faints as she wins national competition

  • 185 Torrington children build igloo
  • 186 Escaped crane moves into Kenwith Valley

  • 187 Beach search for mines takes longer

  • 188 Wishing well is pixielated

  • 189 Bideford firm develops new non-spill paint

  • 190 Polish custom on Pancake Day

  • 191 Torrington's enterprise's new extensions

  • 192 Church renovation rejoicing at Northam

  • 193 Childrens' model of Torrington

  • 194 Watch the dicky bird!

  • 195 So this is the mainland!

  • 196 Bideford-Torrington road gets 'carpet coat'

  • 197 An early 'special' to Bideford

  • 198 New look in the hayfields

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

  • 200 Littleham cow tops 70 tons mark in milk production

  • 201 Appledore's largest

  • 202 Battle of the gap at Westward Ho!

  • 203 Ships at Bideford

  • 204 Liked holidays here - so starts business

  • 205 Westward Ho! public conveniences get go ahead
  • 206

    Married in 1908
  • 207 Last of Bideford factory chimney

  • 208 Water Board mains spread through villages

  • 209 Baby Kate goes home to Lundy

  • 210 Record player of 80 years ago

  • 211 Bideford shipyard workers cheer new minesweeper

  • 212 Space dominates Hartland carnival

  • 213 Fish nearly pulled him in

  • 214 A bird of their own!

  • 215

    Exhibition of school work
  • 216 Modern living at Bideford

  • 217 Thunderstorm destruction of 25 years ago

  • 218 Largest salmon caught in Torridge

  • 219 Dismantling of wireless mast

  • 220 Celebrations for 103rd birthday

  • 221 Bringing shopping home by goat

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

  • 223 New Lundy stamps

  • 224 Broomhayes £1,000 Surprise
  • 225 Picking the pops

  • 226 Hartland Abbey outdoor staff 60 years ago

  • 227 First ship in 8 years

  • 228 Allhalland Street - then and now

  • 229 Appledore schooner broadcast

  • 230 New fire and ambulance stations

  • 231 Huntshaw TV mast

  • 232 Council agree to demolition of Chanter's Folly

  • 233 Service with a smile

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

  • 235 Torridge wins on time schedule

  • 236 Preparations for new Clovelly Court

  • 237 New life for Hartland organ

  • 238 Eleven million pound scheme's official opening

  • 239 It really was the 'last time'

  • 240 Panel sprint for Bideford broadcast

  • 241 Parkham plan realised

  • 242 A sense of humour in advertising

  • 243

    Was a missionary
  • 244 Spray dodging - the new pastime

  • 245 Clovelly custom

  • 246

    Gus Honeybun meets local children
  • 247 Gloves fit for a king!

  • 248 In the tortoise nursery - eight hatched at Bideford

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

  • 250 Alderman Anstey's dream comes tru

  • 251 X-ray shoe fitting

  • 252 They set out for Bideford and became lost

  • 253 Landmark at Bradworthy

  • 254 Hartland's invitation

  • 255 Six footed lamb

  • 256 Salmon netting at Bideford

  • 257 Rowing triumphs at Bideford

  • 258 Bideford School Junior Choir Sing in France at Twinning Ceremony in Landivisiau
  • 259 Police station view of Bideford

  • 260 Brothers reunion 1947
  • 261 Larkworthy Family play in Shebbear's Football Team
  • 262 Vessel built 300 feet above sea level

  • 263 Torrington to have first woman mayor

  • 264 Puzzle corner at Bideford!

  • 265 Record pebble-throwing day

  • 266 Fishermen of Greencliff

  • 267 One thousand visit zoo at Whitsun

  • 268 End of the line

  • 269 Designed all furnishing of new chapel

  • 270 Calligrapher extraordinary

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    Relatives all over the world
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    10-year-old scrambler practices
  • 273 Ship-in-bottle world record

  • 274 Calf thinks of mare as mum

  • 275 North Devon Driving School

  • 276 New addition to Quay front

  • 277 All aboard the ark

  • 278 Clovelly nightmare

  • 279 Cement-clad boats being built at Northam

  • 280 Four hundred residents leave Bideford!

  • 281 Donkey and horses enjoy carnival drink

  • 282 Wilfred and Mabel visit schools and hospital

  • 283 Bideford's private wharves busier

  • 284 Photo of town's first car wins prize

  • 285 Bideford stock car racing entry comes in second

  • 286 Success to Festival of the Arts

  • 287 Bideford Bridge re-opens

  • 288 Death - and birth - of a telephone exchange

  • 289 Instow local art show was 'tremendous success'

  • 290 The Geneva marionettes

  • 291 Boys from Bideford school complete Ten Tors

  • 292 A man and his wheel

  • 293 Bideford's gift to Sir Francis

  • 294 Broomhayes children will keep their winter pet

  • 295 All for the love of a lady!

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    First prize
  • 297 A roof-top view - where?

  • 298 Meredith's ironmongers

  • 299 Traditions and skills still there

  • 300 North Devon author featured in TV documentary

  • 301 Lady Churchill congratulates Bideford artists at nursing exhibition

  • 302 They are parted pro-tem

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

  • 304 New Post Office

  • 305 River scenes that enchant the visitors

  • 306 Signed scroll momento of Queen Mother's visit

  • 307 Farewell to passenger trains

  • 308 America's tribute to 'J.H.'

  • 309 Head Barman appointed Torrington Town Crier
  • 310 John Andrew Bread Charity
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    New gateway
  • 312 Unique holiday adventure!

  • 313 Donkey work made easier at Clovelly

  • 314 Clovelly donkey film star

  • 315

    Wynne Olley's styles impress International Hair Fashion Designer
  • 316 Photo mural in Bideford bank

  • 317 Harvest service in Bideford 'pub' bar

  • 318 Variety in summer weather

  • 319 A story to tell!

  • 320

    Mrs Whapham finds ferret in Bridgeland Street while shopping
  • 321 Bideford inquest on French trawlermen opens

  • 322 School's link with cargo ship

  • 323 Works at craft he learned over 65 years ago

  • 324 Thirty bridges cross Torridge

  • 325 Bideford regatta

  • 326 When horses score over the tractor

  • 327 By pony and trap to market

  • 328 New choral society's growing response

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

  • 330 Practical sympathy at Northam

  • 331 Centuries old but today busier than ever

  • 332 Yeo vale road ruin provides a mystery

  • 333 Champagne send-off for Torrington new factory

  • 334 Tibbles home again - and fish supper

  • 335 Can-carrying over cobbles has disappeared

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    Reds Womens Team Are First To Compete Throughout Season
  • 337 Puppet characters introduced

  • 338 No ancient Grecian temple this

  • 339 Westward Ho! combined op

  • 340 Bideford blacksmith wins English championship

  • 341 Torrington acclaims 400th anniversary of granting of charter

  • 342 Mobile missionary

  • 343

    Youth Clubs Join Together For Entertainment
  • 344 'Out of Appledore' sailing memories

  • 345 Littleham family's five generations

  • 346 What's the time?

  • 347 The art of the thatcher

  • 348 Smiling welcome to Hartland visitors

  • 349 No laughing matter

  • 350 Five generations link Woolsery, Clovelly and Bideford

  • 351 Just over a year old

  • 352 Television comes to Torridge District

  • 353 Bideford electricity window display qualifies for area competition

  • 354 No ancient Grecian temple this

  • 355 New Lundy air-mail stamps

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    Double Baptism on Torridge
  • 357 Appledore boy is youngest recipient of RNLI vellun

  • 358 Twenty-one yachts

  • 359 Happy Days!

  • 360 Making way for the double-deckers

  • 361 Torrington's shelter for the aged

  • 362 Sight of a lifetime

  • 363 Olympic riders to compete at Bideford Horse Show

  • 364 Born 1883 - still going strong

  • 365 Thorn-apple found in Littleham conservatory

  • 366 Joe the ginger tabby is 21

  • 367 Colour TV salesman at eight

  • 368 Shoes certainly not made for walking

  • 369 Torrington school's sundial - fashioned by Headmaster

  • 370 Train returns to Westleigh straight

  • 371

    Building works
  • 372 Torrington in 1967

  • 373 Lots drawn to prevent dog fight

  • 374 Simple Item 138
  • 375 Bideford Liberal club new lounge bar opened

  • 376

    Appledore boys beat mums at football
  • 377 Symbol of Lundy independence

  • 378 Championship Trophy for Hartland
  • 379 To build racing cars in former blacksmith's shop

  • 380 No sale of Springfield House

  • 381 Weare Giffard potato

  • 382 Move for oldest boatyard on Torridge

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    Cadets are given certificates
  • 384 Holiday traffic in Bideford High Street

  • 385 Centenary of Landcross Methodist Chapel

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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World War 1

Bradworthy

14.5.1918 Bradworthy World War 1

There has been a splendid response in this parish in reference to the increased acreage of potatoes.

A good many more acres of oats than of barley have been sown in this parish, and the work is still going on. Bradworthy has long been noted for its good samples of oats. 

Gazette article dated 14 May 1918

World War 1

Bradworthy

11.5.1918 Bradworthy World War 1

Mr John Bromwell's son, Samuel, Mr L Trewin's son, Stephen, and Pte S Chidley are prisoners of war. They have all written home saying that they are all right. Mr W Bromwell's son, William, has had a bullet wound in the shoulder, in France, and is back for the time in England. 

Gazette article dated 11 May 1918

Hartland Bridegroom At Bradworthy

The wedding has taken place at Bradworthy Methodist Church of Miss Doreen Joyce Redwood, oldest daughter of Mr and Mrs Leslie John Redwood of Forda, Bradworthy, and Mr David Gordon Heard, second son of Mr and Mrs William Lewis Heard, of The Garage, Hartland. 

11.3.1955 Redwood Heard wedding

The Rev Herbert G White officiated and Mrs H J Wickett was the organist. The best man was Mr Peter Heard, brother of the bridegroom. Mr Horace Redwood, brother of the bride, was the usher. As the bride left the Church she was presented with silver horseshoes by her two-year-old sister, Margaret, and Gerald, youngest brother of the bridegroom.

A reception was held at Wade’s Hotel.  Their future home will be at Becklands, Hartland. 

The full Gazette article is dated 11 March 1955.

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