• 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 Torridge wins on time schedule

  • 2 Clovelly custom

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    10-year-old scrambler practices
  • 4 Holiday scene near Sandymere

  • 5 Practical sympathy at Northam

  • 6 Westward Ho! sand yacht to challenge speed record

  • 7 Traditions and skills still there

  • 8 Unique holiday adventure!

  • 9 'Les Girls' of Hartland

  • 10 Bideford stock car racing entry comes in second

  • 11 First ship in 8 years

  • 12

    Lenwood Squash Club
  • 13 Wine and beer merchants for 150 years

  • 14 Escaped crane moves into Kenwith Valley

  • 15 New shipyard on schedule

  • 16 Do recall the old windmill at Northam?

  • 17 Appledore's largest

  • 18 The creative urge on Saturday morning

  • 19 Harvest service in Bideford 'pub' bar

  • 20 Thrush builds nest in cauliflower

  • 21 Salmon netting at Bideford

  • 22 Tide sweeps under and over the old bridge

  • 23 TV features Bideford's New Year bread ceremony

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

  • 25 Centenary of Gazette

  • 26 Clovelly nightmare

  • 27 Old Girls revisit Edgehill

  • 28 Works at craft he learned over 65 years ago

  • 29 Born 1883 - still going strong

  • 30 Twenty-one yachts

  • 31 Jalopy joy for children of Shamwickshire

  • 32 New Lundy air-mail stamps

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

  • 34

    Appledore boys beat mums at football
  • 35 Bideford has built over 500 post-war homes

  • 36

    School of Dancing's Annual Display
  • 37 Bideford Zoo's first baby is big draw

  • 38 Joe the ginger tabby is 21

  • 39 A sense of humour in advertising

  • 40 Hartland Abbey outdoor staff 60 years ago

  • 41 Quads join a Langtree happy family

  • 42 Students help model St Sidwell

  • 43 Hartland's invitation

  • 44 Largest salmon caught in Torridge

  • 45 Eleven million pound scheme's official opening

  • 46 Bideford electricity window display qualifies for area competition

  • 47

    Double Baptism on Torridge
  • 48 New addition to Quay front

  • 49 Riverside mystery

  • 50 Space dominates Hartland carnival

  • 51

    Gus Honeybun meets local children
  • 52 North Devon Driving School

  • 53 Revenge in style

  • 54 Preparations for new Clovelly Court

  • 55

    Youth Clubs Join Together For Entertainment
  • 56

    First Girls at Bideford Grammar School take part in Play
  • 57 Private home for public pump

  • 58 Modern living at Bideford

  • 59 Bideford country dancers on TV

  • 60 Bringing shopping home by goat

  • 61 Circus comes to town

  • 62 Boys win hockey on the sands challenge

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

  • 64 Smiling welcome to Hartland visitors

  • 65 Bideford computer stars

  • 66 In their new robes and hats

  • 67 Safe door weighing two tons

  • 68 Teenager Peter Jackson Makes Horror Film
  • 69 New Estate's view of estuary activities

  • 70 Yeo vale road ruin provides a mystery

  • 71 Making way for the double-deckers

  • 72 Television comes to Torridge District

  • 73 Little 'Big Ben'

  • 74 Bideford School Junior Choir Sing in France at Twinning Ceremony in Landivisiau
  • 75 A Weare Giffard speciality - delicious strawberries

  • 76 Off on a great adventure

  • 77 Cement-clad boats being built at Northam

  • 78 Panel sprint for Bideford broadcast

  • 79 Quads at Thornhillhead

  • 80

    Womens Skittles Competition in Buckland Brewer
  • 81 Ship-in-bottle world record

  • 82 Northam wants to continue pumping from river

  • 83 Fishermen of Greencliff

  • 84 Cavaliers join the Hunt
  • 85 Spray dodging - the new pastime

  • 86 Entente cordiale in Bideford

  • 87 Donkey work made easier at Clovelly

  • 88 School's link with cargo ship

  • 89 Torrington acclaims 400th anniversary of granting of charter

  • 90 Landmark at Bradworthy

  • 91 Saving money, wear and tear

  • 92 Bideford Liberals' fashion show

  • 93

    Exhibition of school work
  • 94 Photo of town's first car wins prize

  • 95 Centenary of Landcross Methodist Chapel

  • 96 Torrington to have first woman mayor

  • 97 Appledore's new lifeboat

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

  • 99

    Holidaying in north Devon
  • 100 Thirty bridges cross Torridge

  • 101 Launching the 'Golden Hinde'

  • 102 Bideford-Torrington road gets 'carpet coat'

  • 103 Barley from Bideford to Bonnie Scotland

  • 104 Hartland Dancers
  • 105 Bravery against bull at Shebbear rewarded

  • 106 Waldon Triplets
  • 107 Pannier Market's future?

  • 108 Thunderstorm destruction of 25 years ago

  • 109 Picture bought for shillings may be worth thousands

  • 110 Liked holidays here - so starts business

  • 111 Torrington's new amenity

  • 112 Bideford Bridge re-opens

  • 113

    Was a missionary
  • 114 Jumble sale fever

  • 115

    Building works
  • 116 Bideford loses training ship

  • 117 Birds' convalescent home at Instow

  • 118 Northam loses thatched cottage landmark

  • 119 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

  • 120 Westward Ho! public conveniences get go ahead
  • 121 Last train from Torrington

  • 122 Fundraising trip for RNLI

  • 123 Huntshaw TV mast

  • 124 Charter granted by Philip and Mary

  • 125 New Post Office

  • 126 Torrington school's sundial - fashioned by Headmaster

  • 127

    Gift from Bideford Town Council
  • 128 No laughing matter

  • 129 Death - and birth - of a telephone exchange

  • 130 First steel ship built at Bideford

  • 131 Life begins at 80

  • 132 Broomhayes children will keep their winter pet

  • 133 New choral society's growing response

  • 134 Ten year old scrambler

  • 135

    Married in 1908
  • 136 Boys from Bideford school complete Ten Tors

  • 137 A story to tell!

  • 138 Ancestral home nestling in lovely combe

  • 139

    Birgitta Whittaker
  • 140

    Jinxed School Trip
  • 141 Lady Godiva comes to Torrington

  • 142 Polish custom on Pancake Day

  • 143 Alverdiscott is proud of its new parish hall

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

  • 145 Calligrapher extraordinary

  • 146 Littleham cow tops 70 tons mark in milk production

  • 147 Colour TV salesman at eight

  • 148 Bank Holiday weather was beach weather

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

  • 150 Passing of a Torrington landmark

  • 151 Olympic riders to compete at Bideford Horse Show

  • 152 Champagne send-off for Torrington new factory

  • 153 A man and his wheel

  • 154 Picking the pops

  • 155 Fishing light goes out at close of poor season

  • 156 New look in the hayfields

  • 157 Yelland potter's exhibition at Bideford

  • 158 Championship Trophy for Hartland
  • 159 Bideford childrens' cinema opens

  • 160 They are parted pro-tem

  • 161 Shipbuilding hobby at Hartland

  • 162 Pet squirrels at Monkleigh

  • 163 Five generations link Woolsery, Clovelly and Bideford

  • 164 What the television camera saw at Abbotsham

  • 165 Appledore tugs fete London Tower

  • 166 Up-to-date Bideford!

  • 167

    Successful motor cycling team
  • 168 X-ray shoe fitting

  • 169 An early 'special' to Bideford

  • 170 Last of Bideford factory chimney

  • 171 Watch the dicky bird!

  • 172 TV contest means big job for Bideford Guides

  • 173 Puzzle corner at Bideford!

  • 174 Ships at Bideford

  • 175 Rowing triumphs at Bideford

  • 176 Some 240 exhibits

  • 177 Penny for the guy

  • 178 Light reading for the lighthouse

  • 179 No sale of Springfield House

  • 180 Allhalland Street - then and now

  • 181 Alwington School closing after 120 years

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

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

  • 184 Homage to a well-loved sovereign

  • 185 Daisy's pride and joy

  • 186 Bideford regatta

  • 187 Farewell to passenger trains

  • 188 Bideford triplets' first birthday party

  • 189 Vessel built 300 feet above sea level

  • 190 Happy Days!

  • 191 Bideford skifflers, they're no squares

  • 192 Torrington in 1967

  • 193

    Bidefordians
  • 194 Bridging the stream

  • 195 Battle of the gap at Westward Ho!

  • 196 It really was the 'last time'

  • 197 Two kinds of hovercraft at Bideford

  • 198 End of the line

  • 199 New look for Torrington Lane

  • 200 North Devon author featured in TV documentary

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

  • 202 A bird of their own!

  • 203 Clovelly's 91 year old horseman

  • 204 New gateway to King George's Fields

  • 205 Cruising down the river

  • 206 113 years at Instow

  • 207 Town's second woman mayor in 392 years

  • 208 Fleet of foot and fair of face

  • 209 Designed all furnishing of new chapel

  • 210 The Geneva marionettes

  • 211 Can spring be far away?

  • 212 'Out of Appledore' sailing memories

  • 213 Wilfred and Mabel visit schools and hospital

  • 214 Beach search for mines takes longer

  • 215 Picking the pops

  • 216 Devil sent packing

  • 217 Just over a year old

  • 218 When horses score over the tractor

  • 219 Tramps camp by riverside throughout arctic weather

  • 220 A roof-top view - where?

  • 221 Down at the 'Donkey House'

  • 222 School crossing patrol begins

  • 223 Train returns to Westleigh straight

  • 224 Gloves fit for a king!

  • 225 New civic medallions

  • 226 They set out for Bideford and became lost

  • 227 Emergency ferry services

  • 228 River scenes that enchant the visitors

  • 229

    Relatives all over the world
  • 230 Children's procession with foxgloves

  • 231

    Wynne Olley's styles impress International Hair Fashion Designer
  • 232 Thorn-apple found in Littleham conservatory

  • 233 Inscribed Bibles and silver spoons for babies

  • 234 Bideford's private wharves busier

  • 235 Spring-cleaning the Ridge

  • 236 No ancient Grecian temple this

  • 237 On her 'maiden' trip from Bideford

  • 238 Dismantling of wireless mast

  • 239 Torrington Youth Club rewarded by party
  • 240 Sunshine and shade at Appledore

  • 241 Move for oldest boatyard on Torridge

  • 242 Council agree to demolition of Chanter's Folly

  • 243 What is future of railway goods yard?

  • 244 In the tortoise nursery - eight hatched at Bideford

  • 245 Recognise this resort?

  • 246 Success to Festival of the Arts

  • 247

    Mums protest in Coronation Road
  • 248 Service with a smile

  • 249 One thousand visit zoo at Whitsun

  • 250

    Mrs Whapham finds ferret in Bridgeland Street while shopping
  • 251 Big develolpment at Calveford

  • 252 Bideford shipyard workers cheer new minesweeper

  • 253 Out of puff!

  • 254 Yeoi Vale House finally demolished

  • 255 Pretty pennies at Beaford

  • 256 Sooty is quick on the draw

  • 257 Buckland goes to County Show

  • 258

    Cadets are given certificates
  • 259 No ancient Grecian temple this

  • 260 Buckland farm workers to receive long-service awards

  • 261 Head Barman appointed Torrington Town Crier
  • 262 Second Monte Carlo Rally

  • 263 Warmington's garage ad

  • 264 What's the time?

  • 265 Westward Ho! combined op

  • 266 Centuries old but today busier than ever

  • 267 Some mushroom!

  • 268 Bideford firm develops new non-spill paint

  • 269 Puppet characters introduced

  • 270 Four hundred residents leave Bideford!

  • 271 Finished in 1876

  • 272 Baby Kate goes home to Lundy

  • 273 Torrington's enterprise's new extensions

  • 274 Instow local art show was 'tremendous success'

  • 275 Bideford inquest on French trawlermen opens

  • 276 Alderman Anstey's dream comes tru

  • 277 Bideford A.F.C annual dinner
  • 278 John Andrew Bread Charity
  • 279 Calf thinks of mare as mum

  • 280

    Close associations with North Devon
  • 281 Bideford's first triplets for 12 years

  • 282 Childrens' model of Torrington

  • 283 Water Board mains spread through villages

  • 284 Record player of 80 years ago

  • 285 All aboard the ark

  • 286 Bideford blacksmith wins English championship

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

  • 288 Parkham plan realised

  • 289 Photo mural in Bideford bank

  • 290 Repair work on Long Bridge
  • 291 Westward Ho! Tennis Club Winners
  • 292

    Andre Veillett and Quentin Reed in Judo Demonstration
  • 293 Donkey and horses enjoy carnival drink

  • 294 Getting up steam for tomorrow

  • 295 Sight of a lifetime

  • 296 Police station view of Bideford

  • 297

    Toasted with musical honours
  • 298 Speeding communications: Bideford firm's new installation

  • 299 Northam's almshouse

  • 300 By pony and trap to market

  • 301 Torrington's shelter for the aged

  • 302 Bicycle now does donkey work

  • 303 Still hunting aged 80 and a Field Master

  • 304 First tankers arrive at new depot

  • 305 Torrington children build igloo
  • 306 Burnard family reunion

  • 307 Peter poses for TV film

  • 308 Steep street of old Bideford

  • 309 Symbol of Lundy independence

  • 310 Mobile missionary

  • 311 Designed and made in Bideford

  • 312 Eight to strike and a race to win

  • 313

    Inter-school Road Safety Quiz Cup Winners
  • 314 Chess - their bridge over the years

  • 315 He beat the floods

  • 316 For crying out loud!

  • 317 Littleham family's five generations

  • 318 Bideford schoolboy's courage recognised

  • 319 Future of Torrington almshouses

  • 320 Lots drawn to prevent dog fight

  • 321 Mural in the whimsical fashion

  • 322 A craftsman's 'potted' history

  • 323 Wishing well is pixielated

  • 324 Meredith's ironmongers

  • 325 Bideford's gift to Sir Francis

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

  • 327

    FA Cup Match for the Robins
  • 328 Faints as she wins national competition

  • 329 Panto time at Westward Ho!

  • 330 Eight and a half million pound Taw development scheme

  • 331 Holiday traffic in Bideford High Street

  • 332 Bideford Liberal club new lounge bar opened

  • 333 Sweet success at Langtree School

  • 334

    Hamburger is part of modern life
  • 335 Broomhayes £1,000 Surprise
  • 336 East-the-Water sets town an example

  • 337 Gift plaque on Clovelly council houses

  • 338 Appledore boy is youngest recipient of RNLI vellun

  • 339 America's tribute to 'J.H.'

  • 340 A lost Bideford 'island'

  • 341 Northam footballers of the future

  • 342 Loads of black and white

  • 343 New art gallery opened

  • 344 Can-carrying over cobbles has disappeared

  • 345 Signed scroll momento of Queen Mother's visit

  • 346 Appledore schooner broadcast

  • 347 All for the love of a lady!

  • 348 Brothers reunion 1947
  • 349 Simple Item 138
  • 350 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

  • 351 Six footed lamb

  • 352 The art of the thatcher

  • 353 Variety in summer weather

  • 354 They never miss a game at Torrington

  • 355

    New gateway
  • 356

    Reds Womens Team Are First To Compete Throughout Season
  • 357 Church renovation rejoicing at Northam

  • 358 Eleventh hour bid to save last sailing barge

  • 359 Celebrations for 103rd birthday

  • 360 Hartland postman retires

  • 361 New fire and ambulance stations

  • 362 Four sisters' nostalgic reunion

  • 363 Tomorrow' night's skittles broadcast from Bideford

  • 364 Shoes certainly not made for walking

  • 365 Larkworthy Family play in Shebbear's Football Team
  • 366 Weare Giffard Hall sold for £11,300

  • 367 Clovelly donkey film star

  • 368 Record pebble-throwing day

  • 369 Tibbles home again - and fish supper

  • 370 Appledore Juniors Football
  • 371 Capers on the cobbles

  • 372 New life for Hartland organ

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

  • 374 So this is the mainland!

  • 375 Torridge graveyard of wooden hulks

  • 376

    First prize
  • 377 New Lundy stamps

  • 378 Revived market off to splendid start

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

  • 380 Lady Churchill congratulates Bideford artists at nursing exhibition

  • 381 Fish nearly pulled him in

  • 382 Weare Giffard potato

  • 383 Artisans' Club

  • 384 Bideford's new market opens next week

  • 385 Decontrol of meat

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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  • 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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  • 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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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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Bonfire and Fireworks Fun at Buckland in 1958

Most of the villagers of Buckland Brewer turned out on Friday night to see a bonfire and fireworks display organised by the village Boys’ Club.

Buckland bonfire 1958

The display, the first of its kind held there, heralded Buckland Brewer’s celebration of National Boys’ Club Week.
A part of the funds raised by clubs all over the country during the week goes to the Boys’ Club General Headquarters, the remainder going to the individual clubs.
Friday’s gathering was held in Mr Percy Heal’s field. A 10 foot bonfire was lit. Members of the Buckland Club gathered material for the bonfire, some given by local farmers and took two afternoons to build it.
At the fireworks display, organised by Rear-Admiral G H Stokes, leader of the Buckland Boys’ Club. members collected among the crown for funds.
A social was held on Saturday night in Buckland Brewer Parish Room and a whist drive was organised at The Glen, home of Rear-Admiral Stokes, on Wednesday. A dance at the Parish Room, tonight will end this year’s boys’ club week for Buckland.

Gazette article dated 31 October 1958

Five New Members For Buckland WI

Five New Members For Buckland WI - 3rd March 1967

3.3.1967 Buckland Brewer WI
 

Five new membes, Mesdames J Hockin, L Blight, S Burt, and Misses M Sines and M Mantell, were welcomed at the monthly meeting of Buckland Brewer W.I.
Mr and Mrs Kemp showed slides on Europe and organised a quiz. They were thanked by Mrs Simpson.
Mrs W Lawrence won the penny bag competition.
Tea hostesses were Mesdames M Blight, W Stoneman, K Cornish, B Brown and C Ashton.

Chosen For Great Britain

Chosen For Great Britain - 5th August 1977

5.8.1977 Buckland Brewer Sarah Woolf
 

Sarah Woolf of Goutisland, Buckland Brewer, has been chosen to ride for Great Britain at the European junior three-day event championships to be held at Fontainbleu in France.
Sarah, the eldest daughter of Mr and Mrs Gerald Woolf with be riding Mrs Heather Holgate's 'Dubonnet' which has already won when ridden by Mrs Holgate's daughter Virginia three years ago.
Sarah is an Old Girl of Edgehill College.

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