• 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 Watch the dicky bird!

  • 2 Instow local art show was 'tremendous success'

  • 3 Service with a smile

  • 4 Photo mural in Bideford bank

  • 5 Bideford schoolboy's courage recognised

  • 6 What is future of railway goods yard?

  • 7

    Gift from Bideford Town Council
  • 8 Variety in summer weather

  • 9

    Youth Clubs Join Together For Entertainment
  • 10 Shoes certainly not made for walking

  • 11 Tomorrow' night's skittles broadcast from Bideford

  • 12 Students help model St Sidwell

  • 13 Northam footballers of the future

  • 14 Bideford's first triplets for 12 years

  • 15 Designed and made in Bideford

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

  • 17 Traditions and skills still there

  • 18 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

  • 19 Birds' convalescent home at Instow

  • 20 Championship Trophy for Hartland
  • 21 Bideford 'What's my line?' challenger

  • 22 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

  • 23 Down at the dump something stirs

  • 24 Amsterdam to Bideford double success

  • 25

    Womens Skittles Competition in Buckland Brewer
  • 26 First tankers arrive at new depot

  • 27 Colour TV salesman at eight

  • 28 Thrush builds nest in cauliflower

  • 29 Ten year old scrambler

  • 30 Bank Holiday weather was beach weather

  • 31

    Relatives all over the world
  • 32 Wasps' nest in sewing machine

  • 33 Thriving 'orphan of the storm'

  • 34 New look for Torrington Lane

  • 35 Holiday scene near Sandymere

  • 36 Huntshaw TV mast

  • 37 Mayor becomes engine driver>
  • 38 Broomhayes £1,000 Surprise
  • 39 Bideford's gift to Sir Francis

  • 40 Hartland Abbey outdoor staff 60 years ago

  • 41 Torrington Church's new organ

  • 42 Fish nearly pulled him in

  • 43 Meredith's ironmongers

  • 44 Littleham family's five generations

  • 45 Fishing light goes out at close of poor season

  • 46 Two kinds of hovercraft at Bideford

  • 47 Fleet of foot and fair of face

  • 48 Twenty-one yachts

  • 49 Safe door weighing two tons

  • 50

    Appledore boys beat mums at football
  • 51 Quads join a Langtree happy family

  • 52 He beat the floods

  • 53 Filming at Hartland

  • 54 Happy Days!

  • 55

    First Girls at Bideford Grammar School take part in Play
  • 56 Bideford A.F.C annual dinner
  • 57 Not Bideford's answer to the moon rocket!

  • 58

    Was a missionary
  • 59 New Estate's view of estuary activities

  • 60 North Devon Driving School

  • 61 Last of Bideford factory chimney

  • 62 Largest salmon caught in Torridge

  • 63 Children's procession with foxgloves

  • 64 Peter poses for TV film

  • 65 Bridging the stream

  • 66 Smiling welcome to Hartland visitors

  • 67 New civic medallions

  • 68 Clovelly custom

  • 69 Down at the 'Donkey House'

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

  • 71 Gift plaque on Clovelly council houses

  • 72 Puzzle corner at Bideford!

  • 73 Centenary of Landcross Methodist Chapel

  • 74 Gloves fit for a king!

  • 75 Six footed lamb

  • 76 Bideford firm develops new non-spill paint

  • 77 Space dominates Hartland carnival

  • 78 For crying out loud!

  • 79 Death - and birth - of a telephone exchange

  • 80 Police station view of Bideford

  • 81 Torrington school's sundial - fashioned by Headmaster

  • 82 Future of Torrington almshouses

  • 83 Where Bideford rope-makers walked>
  • 84 John Andrew Bread Charity
  • 85 Jalopy joy for children of Shamwickshire

  • 86 North Devon author featured in TV documentary

  • 87 Water Board mains spread through villages

  • 88

    Bidefordians
  • 89 New addition to Quay front

  • 90 Torrington acclaims 400th anniversary of granting of charter

  • 91 They are parted pro-tem

  • 92 Weare Giffard Hall sold for £11,300

  • 93 Bideford triplets' first birthday party

  • 94 Bideford's private wharves busier

  • 95 No ancient Grecian temple this

  • 96 Steep street of old Bideford

  • 97 Thunderstorm destruction of 25 years ago

  • 98 Riverside mystery

  • 99 Ship-in-bottle world record

  • 100 Joe the ginger tabby is 21

  • 101 A man and his wheel

  • 102 Devil sent packing

  • 103 Born 1883 - still going strong

  • 104 Old Girls revisit Edgehill

  • 105 Appledore schooner broadcast

  • 106 Torrington children build igloo
  • 107 Buckland goes to County Show

  • 108 Repair work on Long Bridge
  • 109 Hartland Dancers
  • 110 Launching the 'Golden Hinde'

  • 111 Clovelly nightmare

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

  • 113 Still hunting aged 80 and a Field Master

  • 114 Tramps camp by riverside throughout arctic weather

  • 115 End of the line

  • 116 Bideford loses training ship

  • 117 Signed scroll momento of Queen Mother's visit

  • 118 A lost Bideford 'island'

  • 119 By pony and trap to market

  • 120 Bideford stock car racing entry comes in second

  • 121 New choral society's growing response

  • 122 New life for Hartland organ

  • 123 Spring-cleaning the Ridge

  • 124 What's the time?

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

  • 126 Can-carrying over cobbles has disappeared

  • 127 Alderman Anstey's dream comes tru

  • 128 No sale of Springfield House

  • 129 Escaped crane moves into Kenwith Valley

  • 130 Beach search for mines takes longer

  • 131 Bideford Liberals' fashion show

  • 132 Lady Godiva comes to Torrington

  • 133 Torrington's shelter for the aged

  • 134 Up-to-date Bideford!

  • 135 Some mushroom!

  • 136 Yeo vale road ruin provides a mystery

  • 137 Four sisters' nostalgic reunion

  • 138 Out of puff!

  • 139 Head Barman appointed Torrington Town Crier
  • 140 Prizewinning babies at Torrington

  • 141 Centuries old but today busier than ever

  • 142

    FA Cup Match for the Robins
  • 143 What the television camera saw at Abbotsham

  • 144

    Jinxed School Trip
  • 145 Appledore's largest

  • 146 Panel sprint for Bideford broadcast

  • 147 They never miss a game at Torrington

  • 148 Clovelly's 91 year old horseman

  • 149 Appledore tugs fete London Tower

  • 150 Homage to a well-loved sovereign

  • 151 Bideford skifflers, they're no squares

  • 152 Harvest service in Bideford 'pub' bar

  • 153 Just over a year old

  • 154 Making way for the double-deckers

  • 155

    Lenwood Squash Club
  • 156 Eleventh hour bid to save last sailing barge

  • 157 A sense of humour in advertising

  • 158 Speeding communications: Bideford firm's new installation

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

  • 160 A roof-top view - where?

  • 161 Torrington's enterprise's new extensions

  • 162 Works at craft he learned over 65 years ago

  • 163

    Exhibition of school work
  • 164 'Les Girls' of Hartland

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

  • 166 Bicycle now does donkey work

  • 167 No ancient Grecian temple this

  • 168 Passing of a Torrington landmark

  • 169 Puppet characters introduced

  • 170 On her 'maiden' trip from Bideford

  • 171 Capers on the cobbles

  • 172 Loads of black and white

  • 173 Weare Giffard potato

  • 174 At Bideford Arts Ball>
  • 175 Bideford computer stars

  • 176 School's link with cargo ship

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

  • 178 Emergency ferry services

  • 179 Wine and beer merchants for 150 years

  • 180 Council agree to demolition of Chanter's Folly

  • 181 One thousand visit zoo at Whitsun

  • 182 So this is the mainland!

  • 183 Entente cordiale in Bideford

  • 184 From Bobby to Brian

  • 185 A Weare Giffard speciality - delicious strawberries

  • 186 Bideford electricity window display qualifies for area competition

  • 187 Inscribed Bibles and silver spoons for babies

  • 188 Last train from Torrington

  • 189 TV contest means big job for Bideford Guides

  • 190 X-ray shoe fitting

  • 191 Bringing shopping home by goat

  • 192 Fundraising trip for RNLI

  • 193

    Wynne Olley's styles impress International Hair Fashion Designer
  • 194 Diamond Jubilee of St Peter's Church, East-the-Water

  • 195 Clovelly donkey film star

  • 196 Donkey and horses enjoy carnival drink

  • 197 Rowing triumphs at Bideford

  • 198 TV features Bideford's New Year bread ceremony

  • 199 Sight of a lifetime

  • 200 Waldon Triplets
  • 201 New shipyard on schedule

  • 202 Pannier Market's future?

  • 203 Sailing to victory at Appledore

  • 204 Decontrol of meat

  • 205 'Out of Appledore' sailing memories

  • 206 Mural in the whimsical fashion

  • 207

    Mrs Whapham finds ferret in Bridgeland Street while shopping
  • 208

    Hamburger is part of modern life
  • 209 Bideford's new market opens next week

  • 210 Community centre opened at Westward Ho!

  • 211 The creative urge on Saturday morning

  • 212 Torrington's new amenity

  • 213 Holiday traffic in Bideford High Street

  • 214 Bideford Liberal club new lounge bar opened

  • 215

    New gateway
  • 216 Pretty pennies at Beaford

  • 217 Sunshine and shade at Appledore

  • 218 Northam wants to continue pumping from river

  • 219 New Lundy stamps

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

  • 221 Allhalland Street - then and now

  • 222 Five generations link Woolsery, Clovelly and Bideford

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

  • 224 Second Monte Carlo Rally

  • 225 Farewell to passenger trains

  • 226 Ancestral home nestling in lovely combe

  • 227 Found the answer waiting for him>
  • 228 The cab at the corner>
  • 229 Cruising down the river

  • 230 Getting up steam for tomorrow

  • 231 Bideford shipyard workers cheer new minesweeper

  • 232 Preparations for new Clovelly Court

  • 233 Alverdiscott is proud of its new parish hall

  • 234 A story to tell!

  • 235 Bravery against bull at Shebbear rewarded

  • 236 Mobile missionary

  • 237 America's tribute to 'J.H.'

  • 238 A bird of their own!

  • 239 Simple Item 138
  • 240 Saving money, wear and tear

  • 241 Finished in 1876

  • 242 River scenes that enchant the visitors

  • 243 New gateway to King George's Fields

  • 244 Cavaliers join the Hunt
  • 245 New Lundy air-mail stamps

  • 246

    First prize
  • 247 It really was the 'last time'

  • 248 Afternoon tea in the park

  • 249 Calligrapher extraordinary

  • 250 Hartland postman retires

  • 251

    Successful motor cycling team
  • 252 Bideford childrens' cinema opens

  • 253 Littleham cow tops 70 tons mark in milk production

  • 254 Thorn-apple found in Littleham conservatory

  • 255 Landmark at Bradworthy

  • 256

    Double Baptism on Torridge
  • 257 New fire and ambulance stations

  • 258 Big develolpment at Calveford

  • 259 Champagne send-off for Torrington new factory

  • 260 Christmas tree on Bideford Quay>
  • 261 Wishing well is pixielated

  • 262

    Close associations with North Devon
  • 263 The art of the thatcher

  • 264 Teenager Peter Jackson Makes Horror Film
  • 265 Tide sweeps under and over the old bridge

  • 266 Town's second woman mayor in 392 years

  • 267

    Inter-school Road Safety Quiz Cup Winners
  • 268 Pet squirrels at Monkleigh

  • 269 Polish custom on Pancake Day

  • 270 Eleven million pound scheme's official opening

  • 271 Unique holiday adventure!

  • 272 Shipbuilding hobby at Hartland

  • 273 Photo of town's first car wins prize

  • 274 Donkey work made easier at Clovelly

  • 275 Light reading for the lighthouse

  • 276 Designed all furnishing of new chapel

  • 277 Torrington Youth Club rewarded by party
  • 278 Meeting at 10 Downing Street

  • 279 Sweet success at Langtree School

  • 280 Faints as she wins national competition

  • 281 Bideford blacksmith wins English championship

  • 282 Daisy's pride and joy

  • 283 Hartland's invitation

  • 284 Tibbles home again - and fish supper

  • 285 Penny for the guy

  • 286 Appledore skill brings 'Hispaniola' to life

  • 287 Ships at Bideford

  • 288 Train returns to Westleigh straight

  • 289 Do recall the old windmill at Northam?

  • 290 Parkham plan realised

  • 291 Bideford regatta

  • 292

    Building works
  • 293 Practical sympathy at Northam

  • 294 When horses score over the tractor

  • 295 Success to Festival of the Arts

  • 296 A craftsman's 'potted' history

  • 297 Wilfred and Mabel visit schools and hospital

  • 298 New art gallery opened

  • 299 Some 240 exhibits

  • 300 Golden Bay Hotel ad.>
  • 301 In the tortoise nursery - eight hatched at Bideford

  • 302 Warmington's garage ad

  • 303 Cement-clad boats being built at Northam

  • 304 Sooty is quick on the draw

  • 305 New Post Office

  • 306 Bideford Bridge re-opens

  • 307 Off on a great adventure

  • 308 No laughing matter

  • 309 Burnard family reunion

  • 310 Lady Churchill congratulates Bideford artists at nursing exhibition

  • 311 Yeoi Vale House finally demolished

  • 312 In their new robes and hats

  • 313 Westward Ho! Tennis Club Winners
  • 314 Private home for public pump

  • 315 Appledore's new lifeboat

  • 316 Centenary of Gazette

  • 317

    Toasted with musical honours
  • 318 Local glove-making factory advertising for staff

  • 319 Can spring be far away?

  • 320 Panto time at Westward Ho!

  • 321 Torrington in 1967

  • 322 Sweets derationing

  • 323 Bideford Zoo's first baby is big draw

  • 324 113 years at Instow

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

  • 326 An early 'special' to Bideford

  • 327

    10-year-old scrambler practices
  • 328 Liked holidays here - so starts business

  • 329 Circus comes to town

  • 330 Picture bought for shillings may be worth thousands

  • 331 Artisans' Club

  • 332 Westward Ho! combined op

  • 333 Salmon netting at Bideford

  • 334 Charter granted by Philip and Mary

  • 335 First ship in 8 years

  • 336 Childrens' model of Torrington

  • 337 Boys win hockey on the sands challenge

  • 338 Broomhayes children will keep their winter pet

  • 339 Torrington to have first woman mayor

  • 340 Bideford has built over 500 post-war homes

  • 341 Church renovation rejoicing at Northam

  • 342 Quads at Thornhillhead

  • 343 The Geneva marionettes

  • 344 Jumble sale fever

  • 345 Television comes to Torridge District

  • 346

    Andre Veillett and Quentin Reed in Judo Demonstration
  • 347 Northam's almshouse

  • 348 Bideford country dancers on TV

  • 349 Baby Kate goes home to Lundy

  • 350 Brothers reunion 1947
  • 351 Sixty-two year old Picarooner makes ready for season

  • 352 East-the-Water sets town an example

  • 353 Revenge in style

  • 354 Eight and a half million pound Taw development scheme

  • 355 For South Africa from Westward Ho!

  • 356 Westward Ho! sand yacht to challenge speed record

  • 357 Boys from Bideford school complete Ten Tors

  • 358 Northam loses thatched cottage landmark

  • 359 Life begins at 80

  • 360 Bideford's first woman councillor

  • 361

    Reds Womens Team Are First To Compete Throughout Season
  • 362 All for the love of a lady!

  • 363 Barley from Bideford to Bonnie Scotland

  • 364 Picking the pops

  • 365 Alwington School closing after 120 years

  • 366 They set out for Bideford and became lost

  • 367 Safety-first dipomas awarded to Torrington drivers

  • 368 Larkworthy Family play in Shebbear's Football Team
  • 369

    Gus Honeybun meets local children
  • 370 Westward Ho! public conveniences get go ahead
  • 371 Four hundred residents leave Bideford!

  • 372 Fishermen of Greencliff

  • 373 Yelland potter's exhibition at Bideford

  • 374 Revived market off to splendid start

  • 375 Spray dodging - the new pastime

  • 376

    Birgitta Whittaker
  • 377 Housing progress at East-the-Water>
  • 378

    Holidaying in north Devon
  • 379

    Married in 1908
  • 380 Bideford-Torrington road gets 'carpet coat'

  • 381 Eight to strike and a race to win

  • 382 Picking the pops

  • 383 Appledore Juniors Football
  • 384 All aboard the ark

  • 385 Buckland farm workers to receive long-service awards

  • 386 School crossing patrol begins

  • 387 Modern living at Bideford

  • 388 Lots drawn to prevent dog fight

  • 389

    School of Dancing's Annual Display
  • 390 Recognise this resort?

  • 391 Battle of the gap at Westward Ho!

  • 392

    Mums protest in Coronation Road
  • 393 Appledore boy is youngest recipient of RNLI vellun

  • 394 Floral dancing at Appledore

  • 395 Chess - their bridge over the years

  • 396 Record pebble-throwing day

  • 397 Little 'Big Ben'

  • 398 Move for oldest boatyard on Torridge

  • 399 Bideford School Junior Choir Sing in France at Twinning Ceremony in Landivisiau
  • 400 Torridge wins on time schedule

  • 401 Dismantling of wireless mast

  • 402 New look in the hayfields

  • 403 Torridge graveyard of wooden hulks

  • 404 Thirty bridges cross Torridge

  • 405 Bideford inquest on French trawlermen opens

  • 406 Vessel built 300 feet above sea level

  • 407 Record player of 80 years ago

  • 408

    Cadets are given certificates
  • 409 Calf thinks of mare as mum

  • 410 Olympic riders to compete at Bideford Horse Show

  • 411 Celebrations for 103rd birthday

  • 412 Symbol of Lundy independence

  • 413 First steel ship built at Bideford

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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World War 1

Horwood and Newton Tracey

18.5.1918 Horwood World War 1

Miss Pennell examined the scholars of the Council School in religious knowledge on Wednesday morning. 

Special intercession services for the war were held at St Michael’s Church, Horwood, and also at St Thomas a Becket’s Church, Newton Tracey, on Sunday last. 

Gunner G Gill (RFA), only son of Mr Gill, Hunters’ Inn, Newton Tracey, had been sent to a Bournemouth hospital, suffering from a severe wound in his left foot. Gunner Gill had been in France about six months. 

A successful whist drive and dance, organised by Mrs E Cawsey, ‘Prospect’, in aid of the British Red Cross, took place at Newton Cross House, by kind permission of Mr J Paton. There was a large attendance, and a goodly sum was raised. Mr James Oatway, Lovacott, was an efficient MC. The prizes for the whist drive were given by Mesdames Dene and Balman, and Mr H Symons. The winners were: Miss Daisy Youatt, Mr E Cawsey (playing as a lady); Miss W Brace; J Andrew; Coates; W Hooper. Miss Rocky (Huntshaw) presided at the piano during the dance. 

Gazette article dated 18 May 1918

National award goes to locally-trained horse 11th June 1971

National award goes to locally-trained horse 11th June 1971

National award goes to locally trained horseGolden Batman, the pride and joy of the point-to-point stables run by Mr & Mrs Anthony Hartnoll at East Barton, Horwood, has capped a great season by winning a national award.

Golden Batman who was sired by Golden Surprise and bred by Mr Leonard Bond, of Bradworthy, was spotted in a field in Cornwall by Mr Hartnoll.  Mr C M C Hancock, a Truro solicitor and point-to-point enthusiast purchased him.

national award

Rosemary Shute Ration Book

Rosemary Shute Ration Book - 1953 - 1954

Rosemary Shute ration book
 

Ministry of Food 1953-1954 (child's) ration book - Rosemary Shute, Park, Horwood, Barnstaple

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