• 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 Traditions and skills still there

  • 2 Torrington's new amenity

  • 3 A man and his wheel

  • 4 Westward Ho! public conveniences get go ahead
  • 5 John Andrew Bread Charity
  • 6 New shipyard on schedule

  • 7 Charter granted by Philip and Mary

  • 8 Head Barman appointed Torrington Town Crier
  • 9 Bideford Zoo's first baby is big draw

  • 10 Thorn-apple found in Littleham conservatory

  • 11 Bideford Bridge re-opens

  • 12 Bideford regatta

  • 13 Six footed lamb

  • 14 Polish custom on Pancake Day

  • 15 No sale of Springfield House

  • 16 Last train from Torrington

  • 17 Eleven million pound scheme's official opening

  • 18 Off on a great adventure

  • 19 Warmington's garage ad

  • 20 He beat the floods

  • 21 Centenary of Gazette

  • 22 Torrington Youth Club rewarded by party
  • 23 Lots drawn to prevent dog fight

  • 24 Weare Giffard potato

  • 25 Bideford's private wharves busier

  • 26 Torrington children build igloo
  • 27 Bideford's new market opens next week

  • 28 Picture bought for shillings may be worth thousands

  • 29

    10-year-old scrambler practices
  • 30 Steep street of old Bideford

  • 31 Picking the pops

  • 32 Private home for public pump

  • 33 Entente cordiale in Bideford

  • 34

    Womens Skittles Competition in Buckland Brewer
  • 35 Speeding communications: Bideford firm's new installation

  • 36 Shoes certainly not made for walking

  • 37 Recognise this resort?

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

  • 39 Out of puff!

  • 40 Parkham plan realised

  • 41 North Devon author featured in TV documentary

  • 42 Yeoi Vale House finally demolished

  • 43 Works at craft he learned over 65 years ago

  • 44 Farewell to passenger trains

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

  • 46 Little 'Big Ben'

  • 47 Torrington's enterprise's new extensions

  • 48 Gift plaque on Clovelly council houses

  • 49 School crossing patrol begins

  • 50 Alderman Anstey's dream comes tru

  • 51 Bideford's gift to Sir Francis

  • 52 Light reading for the lighthouse

  • 53 Torridge graveyard of wooden hulks

  • 54 Hartland's invitation

  • 55 Children's procession with foxgloves

  • 56 Bideford A.F.C annual dinner
  • 57 Panto time at Westward Ho!

  • 58 School's link with cargo ship

  • 59 Appledore tugs fete London Tower

  • 60 Tibbles home again - and fish supper

  • 61 New life for Hartland organ

  • 62 New look for Torrington Lane

  • 63 Can-carrying over cobbles has disappeared

  • 64 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

  • 65 Symbol of Lundy independence

  • 66 Old Girls revisit Edgehill

  • 67 Jalopy joy for children of Shamwickshire

  • 68 Some 240 exhibits

  • 69 Spring-cleaning the Ridge

  • 70 Huntshaw TV mast

  • 71 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

  • 72

    Mums protest in Coronation Road
  • 73 Ships at Bideford

  • 74 A story to tell!

  • 75 Bideford stock car racing entry comes in second

  • 76

    FA Cup Match for the Robins
  • 77 Sight of a lifetime

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

  • 79 Weare Giffard Hall sold for £11,300

  • 80 Hartland Abbey outdoor staff 60 years ago

  • 81 Do recall the old windmill at Northam?

  • 82 Two kinds of hovercraft at Bideford

  • 83

    Building works
  • 84 Designed and made in Bideford

  • 85 Salmon netting at Bideford

  • 86 Puzzle corner at Bideford!

  • 87 Ship-in-bottle world record

  • 88 Calf thinks of mare as mum

  • 89 Inscribed Bibles and silver spoons for babies

  • 90 Westward Ho! combined op

  • 91 New addition to Quay front

  • 92 When horses score over the tractor

  • 93 Northam's almshouse

  • 94 Sweet success at Langtree School

  • 95 Boys from Bideford school complete Ten Tors

  • 96 Buckland goes to County Show

  • 97 Happy Days!

  • 98 Five generations link Woolsery, Clovelly and Bideford

  • 99 What the television camera saw at Abbotsham

  • 100 Fundraising trip for RNLI

  • 101 Wishing well is pixielated

  • 102 Boys win hockey on the sands challenge

  • 103 Shipbuilding hobby at Hartland

  • 104 Bideford Liberals' fashion show

  • 105 Landmark at Bradworthy

  • 106 TV contest means big job for Bideford Guides

  • 107 Rowing triumphs at Bideford

  • 108 Panel sprint for Bideford broadcast

  • 109 Donkey and horses enjoy carnival drink

  • 110 Bideford electricity window display qualifies for area competition

  • 111 So this is the mainland!

  • 112 Dismantling of wireless mast

  • 113 Chess - their bridge over the years

  • 114 No laughing matter

  • 115

    First Girls at Bideford Grammar School take part in Play
  • 116 Signed scroll momento of Queen Mother's visit

  • 117 Puppet characters introduced

  • 118 Yelland potter's exhibition at Bideford

  • 119 Four hundred residents leave Bideford!

  • 120 In the tortoise nursery - eight hatched at Bideford

  • 121 Jumble sale fever

  • 122 What is future of railway goods yard?

  • 123 Bideford Liberal club new lounge bar opened

  • 124 Twenty-one yachts

  • 125 Westward Ho! sand yacht to challenge speed record

  • 126 Decontrol of meat

  • 127 Down at the 'Donkey House'

  • 128 Barley from Bideford to Bonnie Scotland

  • 129 Cruising down the river

  • 130 Thunderstorm destruction of 25 years ago

  • 131 Cement-clad boats being built at Northam

  • 132 New Lundy stamps

  • 133 Watch the dicky bird!

  • 134 Liked holidays here - so starts business

  • 135 Instow local art show was 'tremendous success'

  • 136 Littleham family's five generations

  • 137 Champagne send-off for Torrington new factory

  • 138 Appledore's new lifeboat

  • 139 Future of Torrington almshouses

  • 140 Just over a year old

  • 141 Torrington in 1967

  • 142 Success to Festival of the Arts

  • 143 Centenary of Landcross Methodist Chapel

  • 144 Tide sweeps under and over the old bridge

  • 145 They set out for Bideford and became lost

  • 146 Designed all furnishing of new chapel

  • 147 Devil sent packing

  • 148 Northam loses thatched cottage landmark

  • 149

    Andre Veillett and Quentin Reed in Judo Demonstration
  • 150 Bideford country dancers on TV

  • 151 Record pebble-throwing day

  • 152 Revived market off to splendid start

  • 153 Bideford blacksmith wins English championship

  • 154 A sense of humour in advertising

  • 155 Water Board mains spread through villages

  • 156 Big develolpment at Calveford

  • 157 Riverside mystery

  • 158 Last of Bideford factory chimney

  • 159 Beach search for mines takes longer

  • 160 On her 'maiden' trip from Bideford

  • 161 Olympic riders to compete at Bideford Horse Show

  • 162 Joe the ginger tabby is 21

  • 163 They never miss a game at Torrington

  • 164 Saving money, wear and tear

  • 165 Fishermen of Greencliff

  • 166

    Jinxed School Trip
  • 167

    Cadets are given certificates
  • 168 East-the-Water's call for new school

  • 169

    Bidefordians
  • 170 A Weare Giffard speciality - delicious strawberries

  • 171 Council agree to demolition of Chanter's Folly

  • 172 Torridge wins on time schedule

  • 173 Torrington acclaims 400th anniversary of granting of charter

  • 174 Battle of the gap at Westward Ho!

  • 175 End of the line

  • 176 Death - and birth - of a telephone exchange

  • 177 America's tribute to 'J.H.'

  • 178

    Married in 1908
  • 179 The art of the thatcher

  • 180 Sunshine and shade at Appledore

  • 181 Fishing light goes out at close of poor season

  • 182

    Gus Honeybun meets local children
  • 183 Making way for the double-deckers

  • 184 Brothers reunion 1947
  • 185 New gateway to King George's Fields

  • 186 New choral society's growing response

  • 187

    Exhibition of school work
  • 188 Simple Item 138
  • 189 To build racing cars in former blacksmith's shop

  • 190 Wilfred and Mabel visit schools and hospital

  • 191 Modern living at Bideford

  • 192 A roof-top view - where?

  • 193

    Gift from Bideford Town Council
  • 194 Clovelly donkey film star

  • 195

    School of Dancing's Annual Display
  • 196 Teenager Peter Jackson Makes Horror Film
  • 197

    Wynne Olley's styles impress International Hair Fashion Designer
  • 198 Bravery against bull at Shebbear rewarded

  • 199 Bridging the stream

  • 200 A bird of their own!

  • 201 Hartland postman retires

  • 202 Torrington school's sundial - fashioned by Headmaster

  • 203 Church renovation rejoicing at Northam

  • 204 In their new robes and hats

  • 205 Record player of 80 years ago

  • 206 Finished in 1876

  • 207 All aboard the ark

  • 208

    Relatives all over the world
  • 209 Clovelly custom

  • 210 Appledore boy is youngest recipient of RNLI vellun

  • 211 Tomorrow' night's skittles broadcast from Bideford

  • 212 New civic medallions

  • 213 Buckland farm workers to receive long-service awards

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

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    Inter-school Road Safety Quiz Cup Winners
  • 216 Thirty bridges cross Torridge

  • 217

    Youth Clubs Join Together For Entertainment
  • 218 Photo of town's first car wins prize

  • 219 New Lundy air-mail stamps

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

  • 221 Bideford schoolboy's courage recognised

  • 222 Tramps camp by riverside throughout arctic weather

  • 223 Bideford-Torrington road gets 'carpet coat'

  • 224 Photo mural in Bideford bank

  • 225 Eight and a half million pound Taw development scheme

  • 226 Westward Ho! Tennis Club Winners
  • 227

    Mrs Whapham finds ferret in Bridgeland Street while shopping
  • 228 Move for oldest boatyard on Torridge

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

  • 230 Yeo vale road ruin provides a mystery

  • 231 Mobile missionary

  • 232 First steel ship built at Bideford

  • 233 All for the love of a lady!

  • 234 Championship Trophy for Hartland
  • 235 Still hunting aged 80 and a Field Master

  • 236 Quads at Thornhillhead

  • 237 Peter poses for TV film

  • 238 Pet squirrels at Monkleigh

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    Reds Womens Team Are First To Compete Throughout Season
  • 240 Bideford inquest on French trawlermen opens

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

  • 242 Bideford School Junior Choir Sing in France at Twinning Ceremony in Landivisiau
  • 243 Littleham cow tops 70 tons mark in milk production

  • 244 Penny for the guy

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

  • 246 Born 1883 - still going strong

  • 247 Celebrations for 103rd birthday

  • 248 Clovelly's 91 year old horseman

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

  • 250 North Devon Driving School

  • 251 Eleventh hour bid to save last sailing barge

  • 252 Students help model St Sidwell

  • 253 Can spring be far away?

  • 254 Artisans' Club

  • 255 Waldon Triplets
  • 256 First tankers arrive at new depot

  • 257 Harvest service in Bideford 'pub' bar

  • 258

    Toasted with musical honours
  • 259 For crying out loud!

  • 260 Fish nearly pulled him in

  • 261 Smiling welcome to Hartland visitors

  • 262 What's the time?

  • 263 Emergency ferry services

  • 264 Thrush builds nest in cauliflower

  • 265 Torrington to have first woman mayor

  • 266 Northam wants to continue pumping from river

  • 267 Repair work on Long Bridge
  • 268 No ancient Grecian temple this

  • 269 Town's second woman mayor in 392 years

  • 270 Ancestral home nestling in lovely combe

  • 271 Appledore Juniors Football
  • 272 New fire and ambulance stations

  • 273 Broomhayes children will keep their winter pet

  • 274 Holiday traffic in Bideford High Street

  • 275 Picking the pops

  • 276 Four sisters' nostalgic reunion

  • 277 Fleet of foot and fair of face

  • 278 Appledore schooner broadcast

  • 279 Broomhayes £1,000 Surprise
  • 280 Bideford computer stars

  • 281 Larkworthy Family play in Shebbear's Football Team
  • 282 Loads of black and white

  • 283 Bideford has built over 500 post-war homes

  • 284 TV features Bideford's New Year bread ceremony

  • 285 Service with a smile

  • 286 Clovelly nightmare

  • 287 Variety in summer weather

  • 288 Bicycle now does donkey work

  • 289 Bideford shipyard workers cheer new minesweeper

  • 290 Safe door weighing two tons

  • 291 Mural in the whimsical fashion

  • 292 Faints as she wins national competition

  • 293 An early 'special' to Bideford

  • 294 Holiday scene near Sandymere

  • 295 East-the-Water sets town an example

  • 296 Space dominates Hartland carnival

  • 297 Burnard family reunion

  • 298 Meredith's ironmongers

  • 299 Some mushroom!

  • 300 Train returns to Westleigh straight

  • 301 Eight to strike and a race to win

  • 302 Spray dodging - the new pastime

  • 303 Bideford's first triplets for 12 years

  • 304 Homage to a well-loved sovereign

  • 305 Escaped crane moves into Kenwith Valley

  • 306 Birds' convalescent home at Instow

  • 307 Bideford childrens' cinema opens

  • 308 Allhalland Street - then and now

  • 309 New art gallery opened

  • 310 Calligrapher extraordinary

  • 311

    Hamburger is part of modern life
  • 312 New Estate's view of estuary activities

  • 313 Bringing shopping home by goat

  • 314 Pretty pennies at Beaford

  • 315 Bideford loses training ship

  • 316 By pony and trap to market

  • 317 New Post Office

  • 318 First ship in 8 years

  • 319 Practical sympathy at Northam

  • 320 Vessel built 300 feet above sea level

  • 321 No ancient Grecian temple this

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    New gateway
  • 323 Television comes to Torridge District

  • 324 Largest salmon caught in Torridge

  • 325 Bideford firm develops new non-spill paint

  • 326 Police station view of Bideford

  • 327

    Successful motor cycling team
  • 328 Daisy's pride and joy

  • 329

    Lenwood Squash Club
  • 330 Pannier Market's future?

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

  • 332 Revenge in style

  • 333 Lady Godiva comes to Torrington

  • 334 A lost Bideford 'island'

  • 335 Preparations for new Clovelly Court

  • 336

    Double Baptism on Torridge
  • 337

    First prize
  • 338 Life begins at 80

  • 339 Baby Kate goes home to Lundy

  • 340 A craftsman's 'potted' history

  • 341 Colour TV salesman at eight

  • 342 Bideford triplets' first birthday party

  • 343 Ten year old scrambler

  • 344

    Appledore boys beat mums at football
  • 345 Bideford skifflers, they're no squares

  • 346 Alverdiscott is proud of its new parish hall

  • 347 Up-to-date Bideford!

  • 348 New look in the hayfields

  • 349 Centuries old but today busier than ever

  • 350 Alwington School closing after 120 years

  • 351 The creative urge on Saturday morning

  • 352 Launching the 'Golden Hinde'

  • 353 Gloves fit for a king!

  • 354 Hartland Dancers
  • 355

    Was a missionary
  • 356 Circus comes to town

  • 357 Sooty is quick on the draw

  • 358 Cavaliers join the Hunt
  • 359 Second Monte Carlo Rally

  • 360 Torrington's shelter for the aged

  • 361 One thousand visit zoo at Whitsun

  • 362

    Holidaying in north Devon
  • 363 It really was the 'last time'

  • 364

    Birgitta Whittaker
  • 365 Appledore's largest

  • 366 Unique holiday adventure!

  • 367 Getting up steam for tomorrow

  • 368 The Geneva marionettes

  • 369 Wine and beer merchants for 150 years

  • 370 'Out of Appledore' sailing memories

  • 371 Lady Churchill congratulates Bideford artists at nursing exhibition

  • 372 'Les Girls' of Hartland

  • 373

    Close associations with North Devon
  • 374 Quads join a Langtree happy family

  • 375 River scenes that enchant the visitors

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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  • 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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  • 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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Uniforms at Landcross Wedding

Flight-Mech J Jones RAF and Nurse J R Clarke

1.6.1943 Jones Clarke

There was much local interest and a large attendance of friends at the wedding on May 19th at Holy Trinity Church, Weare Giffard, of Flight-Mechanic Jesse Jones, RAF, and Nurse Joyce Rosa Clarke, fourth daughter of Mr and Mrs Frank Clarke, Hillsboro’, Landcross.
The services were well represented at the wedding; the bride’s father, brother-in-law and other friends came in the uniform of the Home Guard; another friend was in uniform at a member of the Civil Defence Services; the bride’s sister, Pelina, wore the uniform of a State Registered Nurse and her brother was in army uniform. The bridegroom wore his RAF uniform.
The Rev G K Walton officiated and the organist was Mr Desmond Glover. The chief bridesmaid was Nurse Dora......two other bridesmaids were Miss Connie Clarke and Miss Betty Jones. Miss June Pidler acted as train bearer.L/Bomber Leonard Clarke carried out the duties of best man and Mr Leonard Kinsman acted as usher. The bride was presented with a silver horse shoe by her niece, Dawn Glover.
At the reception held at the bride’s home at Landcross, there were about 60 guests. L/Bomber proposed the toast to the King, the Rev G K Walton proposed that to the bride and bridegroom, Mr Stewart Ellis to the bridesmaids and Major A W Cudmore to the parents.

Weston-Super-Mare was chosen for the honeymoon. 

Gazette article dated 1 June 1943

 

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