• 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 Pannier Market's future?

  • 2 New fire and ambulance stations

  • 3 Tibbles home again - and fish supper

  • 4 Clovelly custom

  • 5 Northam wants to continue pumping from river

  • 6 Bideford triplets' first birthday party

  • 7 Light reading for the lighthouse

  • 8 An early 'special' to Bideford

  • 9 Holiday scene near Sandymere

  • 10 Torrington acclaims 400th anniversary of granting of charter

  • 11 The creative urge on Saturday morning

  • 12 River scenes that enchant the visitors

  • 13 Bideford's private wharves busier

  • 14 Picture bought for shillings may be worth thousands

  • 15 Yeoi Vale House finally demolished

  • 16 It really was the 'last time'

  • 17

    Wynne Olley's styles impress International Hair Fashion Designer
  • 18 Farewell to passenger trains

  • 19 North Devon Driving School

  • 20 Thirty bridges cross Torridge

  • 21 Bideford loses training ship

  • 22

    Hamburger is part of modern life
  • 23 Dismantling of wireless mast

  • 24 Twenty-one yachts

  • 25 'Out of Appledore' sailing memories

  • 26 Alverdiscott is proud of its new parish hall

  • 27 Bideford has built over 500 post-war homes

  • 28 Broomhayes children will keep their winter pet

  • 29 Bideford electricity window display qualifies for area competition

  • 30 Clovelly donkey film star

  • 31 Bideford's new market opens next week

  • 32 Battle of the gap at Westward Ho!

  • 33 Designed and made in Bideford

  • 34 A lost Bideford 'island'

  • 35

    School of Dancing's Annual Display
  • 36 Students help model St Sidwell

  • 37 Entente cordiale in Bideford

  • 38

    Andre Veillett and Quentin Reed in Judo Demonstration
  • 39 Weare Giffard potato

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

  • 41 What the television camera saw at Abbotsham

  • 42 Fish nearly pulled him in

  • 43 Celebrations for 103rd birthday

  • 44 For crying out loud!

  • 45 Some 240 exhibits

  • 46 Four sisters' nostalgic reunion

  • 47 Torrington in 1967

  • 48 Fleet of foot and fair of face

  • 49 Tramps camp by riverside throughout arctic weather

  • 50 Do recall the old windmill at Northam?

  • 51 Bideford childrens' cinema opens

  • 52 Bank Holiday weather was beach weather

  • 53 Bridging the stream

  • 54 Torrington to have first woman mayor

  • 55 Bideford inquest on French trawlermen opens

  • 56 Northam loses thatched cottage landmark

  • 57 New civic medallions

  • 58 Signed scroll momento of Queen Mother's visit

  • 59

    Lenwood Squash Club
  • 60 Birds' convalescent home at Instow

  • 61 Centuries old but today busier than ever

  • 62 Escaped crane moves into Kenwith Valley

  • 63 Death - and birth - of a telephone exchange

  • 64 New gateway to King George's Fields

  • 65 Decontrol of meat

  • 66 Calligrapher extraordinary

  • 67 Picking the pops

  • 68 First tankers arrive at new depot

  • 69 Lots drawn to prevent dog fight

  • 70 New Lundy air-mail stamps

  • 71 Record pebble-throwing day

  • 72 New Estate's view of estuary activities

  • 73 Police station view of Bideford

  • 74

    Toasted with musical honours
  • 75 Meredith's ironmongers

  • 76 Fishermen of Greencliff

  • 77 Childrens' model of Torrington

  • 78 A story to tell!

  • 79 Largest salmon caught in Torridge

  • 80

    Double Baptism on Torridge
  • 81 Daisy's pride and joy

  • 82 Jalopy joy for children of Shamwickshire

  • 83

    Jinxed School Trip
  • 84 Recognise this resort?

  • 85 Quads at Thornhillhead

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

  • 87 Northam footballers of the future

  • 88 Last train from Torrington

  • 89 Preparations for new Clovelly Court

  • 90 Westward Ho! Tennis Club Winners
  • 91 Variety in summer weather

  • 92 New Lundy stamps

  • 93 Capers on the cobbles

  • 94 Appledore schooner broadcast

  • 95 A roof-top view - where?

  • 96 Champagne send-off for Torrington new factory

  • 97 Service with a smile

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

  • 99 Torrington's shelter for the aged

  • 100 Broomhayes £1,000 Surprise
  • 101 Bicycle now does donkey work

  • 102 Polish custom on Pancake Day

  • 103 Warmington's garage ad

  • 104 Alderman Anstey's dream comes tru

  • 105 Second Monte Carlo Rally

  • 106 Loads of black and white

  • 107 New choral society's growing response

  • 108 Getting up steam for tomorrow

  • 109 Clovelly nightmare

  • 110 Larkworthy Family play in Shebbear's Football Team
  • 111 Panto time at Westward Ho!

  • 112 Speeding communications: Bideford firm's new installation

  • 113 Burnard family reunion

  • 114 The Geneva marionettes

  • 115 Harvest service in Bideford 'pub' bar

  • 116 On her 'maiden' trip from Bideford

  • 117 Littleham cow tops 70 tons mark in milk production

  • 118 Baby Kate goes home to Lundy

  • 119 Allhalland Street - then and now

  • 120 Bideford skifflers, they're no squares

  • 121 Instow local art show was 'tremendous success'

  • 122 Move for oldest boatyard on Torridge

  • 123 Practical sympathy at Northam

  • 124 Safe door weighing two tons

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

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

  • 127 Westward Ho! sand yacht to challenge speed record

  • 128 Cruising down the river

  • 129 First ship in 8 years

  • 130

    Cadets are given certificates
  • 131 Ten year old scrambler

  • 132 Out of puff!

  • 133

    Gift from Bideford Town Council
  • 134 Appledore's largest

  • 135 Traditions and skills still there

  • 136 Shoes certainly not made for walking

  • 137 Train returns to Westleigh straight

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

  • 139 Boys win hockey on the sands challenge

  • 140 Record player of 80 years ago

  • 141 Beach search for mines takes longer

  • 142 Launching the 'Golden Hinde'

  • 143 Eleven million pound scheme's official opening

  • 144

    Appledore boys beat mums at football
  • 145 Huntshaw TV mast

  • 146 Buckland farm workers to receive long-service awards

  • 147 New art gallery opened

  • 148

    Exhibition of school work
  • 149 Hartland's invitation

  • 150 A sense of humour in advertising

  • 151 New look in the hayfields

  • 152 Circus comes to town

  • 153 Waldon Triplets
  • 154 Sight of a lifetime

  • 155 Puzzle corner at Bideford!

  • 156 Wishing well is pixielated

  • 157 Modern living at Bideford

  • 158 Life begins at 80

  • 159 Can spring be far away?

  • 160 Repair work on Long Bridge
  • 161 Gloves fit for a king!

  • 162 Appledore boy is youngest recipient of RNLI vellun

  • 163 Riverside mystery

  • 164 Bideford-Torrington road gets 'carpet coat'

  • 165 Peter poses for TV film

  • 166 Steep street of old Bideford

  • 167

    Close associations with North Devon
  • 168 Appledore tugs fete London Tower

  • 169 Eleventh hour bid to save last sailing barge

  • 170

    Birgitta Whittaker
  • 171 Appledore Juniors Football
  • 172 Tide sweeps under and over the old bridge

  • 173 Future of Torrington almshouses

  • 174 Weare Giffard Hall sold for £11,300

  • 175 TV features Bideford's New Year bread ceremony

  • 176

    First prize
  • 177

    Married in 1908
  • 178 School's link with cargo ship

  • 179 Bideford regatta

  • 180 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

  • 181

    FA Cup Match for the Robins
  • 182 One of the luckier farmers in getting in the problem harvest

  • 183 Yeo vale road ruin provides a mystery

  • 184 Clovelly's 91 year old horseman

  • 185 113 years at Instow

  • 186 Thunderstorm destruction of 25 years ago

  • 187 Shipbuilding hobby at Hartland

  • 188 Inscribed Bibles and silver spoons for babies

  • 189 They are parted pro-tem

  • 190 Barley from Bideford to Bonnie Scotland

  • 191 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

  • 192 Bideford's gift to Sir Francis

  • 193 Bideford firm develops new non-spill paint

  • 194 Mural in the whimsical fashion

  • 195 Television comes to Torridge District

  • 196 Bideford country dancers on TV

  • 197 Westward Ho! combined op

  • 198 Spring-cleaning the Ridge

  • 199 Hartland Abbey outdoor staff 60 years ago

  • 200 Children's procession with foxgloves

  • 201 Sunshine and shade at Appledore

  • 202 Bideford School Junior Choir Sing in France at Twinning Ceremony in Landivisiau
  • 203 No sale of Springfield House

  • 204

    Relatives all over the world
  • 205

    Reds Womens Team Are First To Compete Throughout Season
  • 206 By pony and trap to market

  • 207 Yelland potter's exhibition at Bideford

  • 208 Revived market off to splendid start

  • 209 Symbol of Lundy independence

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

  • 211 No laughing matter

  • 212 Thorn-apple found in Littleham conservatory

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

  • 214 Parkham plan realised

  • 215 Holiday traffic in Bideford High Street

  • 216

    Mums protest in Coronation Road
  • 217

    First Girls at Bideford Grammar School take part in Play
  • 218 Old Girls revisit Edgehill

  • 219 Mobile missionary

  • 220 Landmark at Bradworthy

  • 221 Calf thinks of mare as mum

  • 222 Joe the ginger tabby is 21

  • 223

    Successful motor cycling team
  • 224

    10-year-old scrambler practices
  • 225 They set out for Bideford and became lost

  • 226 When horses score over the tractor

  • 227 Tomorrow' night's skittles broadcast from Bideford

  • 228 New shipyard on schedule

  • 229 Panel sprint for Bideford broadcast

  • 230

    Youth Clubs Join Together For Entertainment
  • 231 Ancestral home nestling in lovely combe

  • 232 Success to Festival of the Arts

  • 233 Six footed lamb

  • 234 Brothers reunion 1947
  • 235 East-the-Water's call for new school

  • 236 Some mushroom!

  • 237 All aboard the ark

  • 238

    Inter-school Road Safety Quiz Cup Winners
  • 239 Torridge graveyard of wooden hulks

  • 240 Hartland Dancers
  • 241 Torridge wins on time schedule

  • 242 Vessel built 300 feet above sea level

  • 243 New addition to Quay front

  • 244 No ancient Grecian temple this

  • 245 Sweet success at Langtree School

  • 246

    Gus Honeybun meets local children
  • 247 One thousand visit zoo at Whitsun

  • 248 New Post Office

  • 249 New life for Hartland organ

  • 250 Hartland postman retires

  • 251 Private home for public pump

  • 252

    Mrs Whapham finds ferret in Bridgeland Street while shopping
  • 253 All for the love of a lady!

  • 254 Artisans' Club

  • 255 Town's second woman mayor in 392 years

  • 256 Revenge in style

  • 257 Puppet characters introduced

  • 258 Fundraising trip for RNLI

  • 259 Works at craft he learned over 65 years ago

  • 260 Faints as she wins national competition

  • 261 Sooty is quick on the draw

  • 262 Council agree to demolition of Chanter's Folly

  • 263 Photo mural in Bideford bank

  • 264 Watch the dicky bird!

  • 265 X-ray shoe fitting

  • 266 Alwington School closing after 120 years

  • 267 Bideford shipyard workers cheer new minesweeper

  • 268 Happy Days!

  • 269 Bideford Liberals' fashion show

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    Womens Skittles Competition in Buckland Brewer
  • 271 They never miss a game at Torrington

  • 272 Church renovation rejoicing at Northam

  • 273 Cement-clad boats being built at Northam

  • 274 Down at the 'Donkey House'

  • 275 Jumble sale fever

  • 276 The art of the thatcher

  • 277 Up-to-date Bideford!

  • 278 Last of Bideford factory chimney

  • 279 Simple Item 138
  • 280 Lady Churchill congratulates Bideford artists at nursing exhibition

  • 281 Spray dodging - the new pastime

  • 282 Littleham family's five generations

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

  • 284 Head Barman appointed Torrington Town Crier
  • 285 Space dominates Hartland carnival

  • 286 Teenager Peter Jackson Makes Horror Film
  • 287 Little 'Big Ben'

  • 288 Can-carrying over cobbles has disappeared

  • 289 End of the line

  • 290 John Andrew Bread Charity
  • 291 Chess - their bridge over the years

  • 292 Boys from Bideford school complete Ten Tors

  • 293 'Les Girls' of Hartland

  • 294 Bravery against bull at Shebbear rewarded

  • 295 Unique holiday adventure!

  • 296 Olympic riders to compete at Bideford Horse Show

  • 297 So this is the mainland!

  • 298 Making way for the double-deckers

  • 299 Finished in 1876

  • 300 Pet squirrels at Monkleigh

  • 301 East-the-Water sets town an example

  • 302 Salmon netting at Bideford

  • 303 Wilfred and Mabel visit schools and hospital

  • 304 Rowing triumphs at Bideford

  • 305 School crossing patrol begins

  • 306 Saving money, wear and tear

  • 307 Photo of town's first car wins prize

  • 308 Colour TV salesman at eight

  • 309 Thrush builds nest in cauliflower

  • 310 Penny for the guy

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    Building works
  • 312 Bideford computer stars

  • 313 A bird of their own!

  • 314 Centenary of Landcross Methodist Chapel

  • 315 Centenary of Gazette

  • 316 First steel ship built at Bideford

  • 317 Liked holidays here - so starts business

  • 318 Northam's almshouse

  • 319 Passing of a Torrington landmark

  • 320 New look for Torrington Lane

  • 321 Westward Ho! public conveniences get go ahead
  • 322 Two kinds of hovercraft at Bideford

  • 323 Off on a great adventure

  • 324

    Bidefordians
  • 325 Emergency ferry services

  • 326 Torrington school's sundial - fashioned by Headmaster

  • 327 A man and his wheel

  • 328 Ship-in-bottle world record

  • 329 In the tortoise nursery - eight hatched at Bideford

  • 330 Eight and a half million pound Taw development scheme

  • 331 Appledore's new lifeboat

  • 332 Smiling welcome to Hartland visitors

  • 333 Bideford stock car racing entry comes in second

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    Was a missionary
  • 335 Charter granted by Philip and Mary

  • 336 Lady Godiva comes to Torrington

  • 337 Buckland goes to County Show

  • 338 Picking the pops

  • 339 Still hunting aged 80 and a Field Master

  • 340 Just over a year old

  • 341 What is future of railway goods yard?

  • 342 Bideford Liberal club new lounge bar opened

  • 343 Fishing light goes out at close of poor season

  • 344 Wine and beer merchants for 150 years

  • 345 Cavaliers join the Hunt
  • 346 North Devon author featured in TV documentary

  • 347 Devil sent packing

  • 348 Five generations link Woolsery, Clovelly and Bideford

  • 349 Bideford Zoo's first baby is big draw

  • 350 Donkey work made easier at Clovelly

  • 351 America's tribute to 'J.H.'

  • 352 Bideford A.F.C annual dinner
  • 353 Big develolpment at Calveford

  • 354 He beat the floods

  • 355 Donkey and horses enjoy carnival drink

  • 356 Pretty pennies at Beaford

  • 357 Championship Trophy for Hartland
  • 358 Torrington children build igloo
  • 359 Torrington's new amenity

  • 360 Ships at Bideford

  • 361

    Holidaying in north Devon
  • 362 Not Bideford's answer to the moon rocket!

  • 363 TV contest means big job for Bideford Guides

  • 364 Gift plaque on Clovelly council houses

  • 365 Water Board mains spread through villages

  • 366 Designed all furnishing of new chapel

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

  • 368 A craftsman's 'potted' history

  • 369 Bideford blacksmith wins English championship

  • 370 Bideford's first triplets for 12 years

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    New gateway
  • 372 A Weare Giffard speciality - delicious strawberries

  • 373 Bideford schoolboy's courage recognised

  • 374 Bringing shopping home by goat

  • 375 Torrington's enterprise's new extensions

  • 376 Quads join a Langtree happy family

  • 377 What's the time?

  • 378 Bideford Bridge re-opens

  • 379 In their new robes and hats

  • 380 Four hundred residents leave Bideford!

  • 381 Homage to a well-loved sovereign

  • 382 No ancient Grecian temple this

  • 383 Eight to strike and a race to win

  • 384 Born 1883 - still going strong

  • 385 Torrington Youth Club rewarded by party
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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Reprieve for Instow home 5th December 1980

Reprieve for Instow home 5th December 1980

reprieve for instow homeBattle to keep open the Andrew Home for the Blind at Instow has been won - for the time being at least.

The home, which at present has seven resident patients, faces closure because of rising costs.

Over the last 10 years a total of 4,000 people, from different parts of the country have stayed at the home.  Major Terence Corkery, chairman of the Devon County Association for the Blind, said: "We were going to have to close down Andrew Home for the Blind because of the cost of heating and wages.

Lights not gates at Instow railway crossing 12th January 1979

Lights not gates at Instow railway crossing 12th January 1979

lights not gates at Instow Railway CrossingLevel crossing gates at Instow on the Bideford-Barnstaple railway line will disappear when barriers operating in conjunction with flashing red warning lights will be installed.

 

Junior Section's Enterprise at Instow 16th August 1957

Junior Section's Enterprise at Instow 16th August 1957

Junior sections enterprise at InstowWhen a junior section of the Instow Men's Club was formed earlier this year it was first of its kind to be formed in North Devon.

Leader 17 yr old Tony Molland decided to form a skiffle group.  Boys in the picture are Paul Butcher, Peter Fieldhouse, Michael Datson, Bunny Shepherd, Keith Joy, Tony Molland (sitting).  Standing are Christopher Curd, Bryan Richards, Nicholas Rowed, Louis Hubbard, Malcolm Joy, Ronald Brend, and vocalists Peter Datson, Michael Chandler and Christopher Burgess.

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