• 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 In their new robes and hats

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    Youth Clubs Join Together For Entertainment
  • 3 Bideford 'What's my line?' challenger

  • 4 Hartland postman retires

  • 5 Do recall the old windmill at Northam?

  • 6 Gloves fit for a king!

  • 7 Two kinds of hovercraft at Bideford

  • 8 Liked holidays here - so starts business

  • 9 Battle of the gap at Westward Ho!

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

  • 11 Unique holiday adventure!

  • 12 Celebrations for 103rd birthday

  • 13 Littleham cow tops 70 tons mark in milk production

  • 14 A man and his wheel

  • 15 Watch the dicky bird!

  • 16 Appledore Juniors Football
  • 17 Inscribed Bibles and silver spoons for babies

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

  • 19 Vessel built 300 feet above sea level

  • 20 Tomorrow' night's skittles broadcast from Bideford

  • 21 Ships at Bideford

  • 22 Homage to a well-loved sovereign

  • 23 Eleven million pound scheme's official opening

  • 24 Warmington's garage ad

  • 25 Wilfred and Mabel visit schools and hospital

  • 26 Picture bought for shillings may be worth thousands

  • 27 Gift plaque on Clovelly council houses

  • 28 Bridging the stream

  • 29 Down at the dump something stirs

  • 30 Community centre opened at Westward Ho!

  • 31 New fire and ambulance stations

  • 32 Yeoi Vale House finally demolished

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

  • 34 First ship in 8 years

  • 35 Capers on the cobbles

  • 36 Torrington school's sundial - fashioned by Headmaster

  • 37

    Hamburger is part of modern life
  • 38 Joe the ginger tabby is 21

  • 39 New addition to Quay front

  • 40 Water Board mains spread through villages

  • 41 Birds' convalescent home at Instow

  • 42 Simple Item 138
  • 43 Smiling welcome to Hartland visitors

  • 44 Buckland farm workers to receive long-service awards

  • 45 Private home for public pump

  • 46 School's link with cargo ship

  • 47 Clovelly's 91 year old horseman

  • 48 Torrington in 1967

  • 49 So this is the mainland!

  • 50 Baby Kate goes home to Lundy

  • 51

    Close associations with North Devon
  • 52 New Post Office

  • 53 New Lundy stamps

  • 54 New look in the hayfields

  • 55 Revenge in style

  • 56 Barley from Bideford to Bonnie Scotland

  • 57 Bideford A.F.C annual dinner
  • 58 Clovelly nightmare

  • 59 Bideford electricity window display qualifies for area competition

  • 60 Little 'Big Ben'

  • 61 Floral dancing at Appledore

  • 62 The creative urge on Saturday morning

  • 63 Born 1883 - still going strong

  • 64 Thunderstorm destruction of 25 years ago

  • 65 Christmas tree on Bideford Quay>
  • 66 Eight to strike and a race to win

  • 67 Olympic riders to compete at Bideford Horse Show

  • 68

    10-year-old scrambler practices
  • 69 Bideford Bridge re-opens

  • 70

    Reds Womens Team Are First To Compete Throughout Season
  • 71

    First Girls at Bideford Grammar School take part in Play
  • 72 Diamond Jubilee of St Peter's Church, East-the-Water

  • 73 Ship-in-bottle world record

  • 74 Preparations for new Clovelly Court

  • 75 Donkey work made easier at Clovelly

  • 76 Off on a great adventure

  • 77 A lost Bideford 'island'

  • 78

    Was a missionary
  • 79 Calligrapher extraordinary

  • 80 America's tribute to 'J.H.'

  • 81 Broomhayes children will keep their winter pet

  • 82 Salmon netting at Bideford

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

  • 84 New gateway to King George's Fields

  • 85 Devil sent packing

  • 86 Parkham plan realised

  • 87 Bideford country dancers on TV

  • 88 Waldon Triplets
  • 89 Future of Torrington almshouses

  • 90 Chess - their bridge over the years

  • 91

    New gateway
  • 92 Puzzle corner at Bideford!

  • 93 Second Monte Carlo Rally

  • 94 Launching the 'Golden Hinde'

  • 95 New life for Hartland organ

  • 96 For South Africa from Westward Ho!

  • 97 Mural in the whimsical fashion

  • 98 Spring-cleaning the Ridge

  • 99 Bravery against bull at Shebbear rewarded

  • 100 Bideford's first triplets for 12 years

  • 101 Can spring be far away?

  • 102

    Mrs Whapham finds ferret in Bridgeland Street while shopping
  • 103 Twenty-one yachts

  • 104 North Devon author featured in TV documentary

  • 105 A craftsman's 'potted' history

  • 106

    First prize
  • 107 Record pebble-throwing day

  • 108 Loads of black and white

  • 109 Farewell to passenger trains

  • 110 Westward Ho! Tennis Club Winners
  • 111 Instow local art show was 'tremendous success'

  • 112 All aboard the ark

  • 113

    Double Baptism on Torridge
  • 114

    Married in 1908
  • 115 Bideford - as Rowlandson saw it about 1810-15

  • 116 Safe door weighing two tons

  • 117 First steel ship built at Bideford

  • 118 Torrington children build igloo
  • 119 Eleventh hour bid to save last sailing barge

  • 120 Sweets derationing

  • 121 Littleham family's five generations

  • 122 Move for oldest boatyard on Torridge

  • 123 Weare Giffard potato

  • 124 Bideford regatta

  • 125 Teenager Peter Jackson Makes Horror Film
  • 126 Clovelly custom

  • 127 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

  • 128 Big develolpment at Calveford

  • 129 Hartland Abbey outdoor staff 60 years ago

  • 130

    Womens Skittles Competition in Buckland Brewer
  • 131 Bideford firm develops new non-spill paint

  • 132 Torrington to have first woman mayor

  • 133 Finished in 1876

  • 134 They are parted pro-tem

  • 135

    Jinxed School Trip
  • 136 Out of puff!

  • 137 Meredith's ironmongers

  • 138 Holiday traffic in Bideford High Street

  • 139 Steep street of old Bideford

  • 140 Entente cordiale in Bideford

  • 141 Where Bideford rope-makers walked>
  • 142 Landmark at Bradworthy

  • 143 School crossing patrol begins

  • 144 Northam wants to continue pumping from river

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

  • 146 It really was the 'last time'

  • 147 Torrington's new amenity

  • 148 Shoes certainly not made for walking

  • 149 Larkworthy Family play in Shebbear's Football Team
  • 150 Pretty pennies at Beaford

  • 151 Bideford Liberals' fashion show

  • 152 Bideford Liberal club new lounge bar opened

  • 153 Cruising down the river

  • 154 Last train from Torrington

  • 155 Bringing shopping home by goat

  • 156 Repair work on Long Bridge
  • 157 Speeding communications: Bideford firm's new installation

  • 158 Centenary of Gazette

  • 159 Down at the 'Donkey House'

  • 160 Northam's almshouse

  • 161 Torrington Youth Club rewarded by party
  • 162 Ten year old scrambler

  • 163 Life begins at 80

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

  • 165 No laughing matter

  • 166 'Out of Appledore' sailing memories

  • 167 Bideford skifflers, they're no squares

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

  • 169

    Appledore boys beat mums at football
  • 170 Torridge wins on time schedule

  • 171 Shipbuilding hobby at Hartland

  • 172 Colour TV salesman at eight

  • 173 Sooty is quick on the draw

  • 174 Council agree to demolition of Chanter's Folly

  • 175 Ancestral home nestling in lovely combe

  • 176 First tankers arrive at new depot

  • 177 Panel sprint for Bideford broadcast

  • 178 Up-to-date Bideford!

  • 179 Designed and made in Bideford

  • 180 Last of Bideford factory chimney

  • 181 Cement-clad boats being built at Northam

  • 182 Wasps' nest in sewing machine

  • 183 Fundraising trip for RNLI

  • 184 Burnard family reunion

  • 185 Brothers reunion 1947
  • 186 Bank Holiday weather was beach weather

  • 187 Filming at Hartland

  • 188 Golden Bay Hotel ad.>
  • 189 Huntshaw TV mast

  • 190 Television comes to Torridge District

  • 191 What's the time?

  • 192 Afternoon tea in the park

  • 193 Bideford triplets' first birthday party

  • 194

    Inter-school Road Safety Quiz Cup Winners
  • 195

    Exhibition of school work
  • 196 Hartland's invitation

  • 197 Bideford Zoo's first baby is big draw

  • 198 He beat the floods

  • 199 Hartland Dancers
  • 200 Success to Festival of the Arts

  • 201 Quads join a Langtree happy family

  • 202 Yelland potter's exhibition at Bideford

  • 203 Five generations link Woolsery, Clovelly and Bideford

  • 204 They set out for Bideford and became lost

  • 205 New choral society's growing response

  • 206 Symbol of Lundy independence

  • 207 At Bideford Arts Ball>
  • 208

    Mums protest in Coronation Road
  • 209 New shipyard on schedule

  • 210 New Lundy air-mail stamps

  • 211 Pannier Market's future?

  • 212 Artisans' Club

  • 213 Practical sympathy at Northam

  • 214 By pony and trap to market

  • 215 Meeting at 10 Downing Street

  • 216 Picking the pops

  • 217 Alderman Anstey's dream comes tru

  • 218 Calf thinks of mare as mum

  • 219 Mobile missionary

  • 220 Bideford childrens' cinema opens

  • 221 Jumble sale fever

  • 222 Four sisters' nostalgic reunion

  • 223 Escaped crane moves into Kenwith Valley

  • 224 Quads at Thornhillhead

  • 225 Westward Ho! combined op

  • 226 Works at craft he learned over 65 years ago

  • 227

    Lenwood Squash Club
  • 228 Getting up steam for tomorrow

  • 229 TV features Bideford's New Year bread ceremony

  • 230 Clovelly donkey film star

  • 231 Recognise this resort?

  • 232 River scenes that enchant the visitors

  • 233 New art gallery opened

  • 234 Torrington's shelter for the aged

  • 235 Bicycle now does donkey work

  • 236 What the television camera saw at Abbotsham

  • 237 Westward Ho! public conveniences get go ahead
  • 238 Bideford's gift to Sir Francis

  • 239 Bideford-Torrington road gets 'carpet coat'

  • 240 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

  • 241 Church renovation rejoicing at Northam

  • 242 Boys from Bideford school complete Ten Tors

  • 243 Record player of 80 years ago

  • 244 Train returns to Westleigh straight

  • 245 When horses score over the tractor

  • 246 Prizewinning babies at Torrington

  • 247 Students help model St Sidwell

  • 248 Service with a smile

  • 249 X-ray shoe fitting

  • 250 Eight and a half million pound Taw development scheme

  • 251 Bideford has built over 500 post-war homes

  • 252 Six footed lamb

  • 253 Old Girls revisit Edgehill

  • 254 Decontrol of meat

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

  • 256 Saving money, wear and tear

  • 257 Bideford stock car racing entry comes in second

  • 258 Championship Trophy for Hartland
  • 259 Sweet success at Langtree School

  • 260 Torrington's enterprise's new extensions

  • 261 Fishing light goes out at close of poor season

  • 262 New look for Torrington Lane

  • 263 Safety-first dipomas awarded to Torrington drivers

  • 264 John Andrew Bread Charity
  • 265 Emergency ferry services

  • 266 Buckland goes to County Show

  • 267 Tibbles home again - and fish supper

  • 268 Largest salmon caught in Torridge

  • 269 What is future of railway goods yard?

  • 270 Dismantling of wireless mast

  • 271 'Les Girls' of Hartland

  • 272 Wishing well is pixielated

  • 273 Bideford blacksmith wins English championship

  • 274 Amsterdam to Bideford double success

  • 275 Torridge graveyard of wooden hulks

  • 276 Bideford schoolboy's courage recognised

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    Gift from Bideford Town Council
  • 278 Appledore's largest

  • 279 Revived market off to splendid start

  • 280 Local glove-making factory advertising for staff

  • 281 Tramps camp by riverside throughout arctic weather

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

  • 283

    Birgitta Whittaker
  • 284 Bideford shipyard workers cheer new minesweeper

  • 285 Centenary of Landcross Methodist Chapel

  • 286 Alwington School closing after 120 years

  • 287 Alverdiscott is proud of its new parish hall

  • 288 Sight of a lifetime

  • 289 Bideford computer stars

  • 290

    Relatives all over the world
  • 291

    Andre Veillett and Quentin Reed in Judo Demonstration
  • 292 A Weare Giffard speciality - delicious strawberries

  • 293 Torrington acclaims 400th anniversary of granting of charter

  • 294 113 years at Instow

  • 295 Boys win hockey on the sands challenge

  • 296 Riverside mystery

  • 297 Holiday scene near Sandymere

  • 298 TV contest means big job for Bideford Guides

  • 299

    Building works
  • 300 Jalopy joy for children of Shamwickshire

  • 301 Bideford inquest on French trawlermen opens

  • 302

    Cadets are given certificates
  • 303

    School of Dancing's Annual Display
  • 304 Head Barman appointed Torrington Town Crier
  • 305 Traditions and skills still there

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

  • 307 Torrington Church's new organ

  • 308 Thriving 'orphan of the storm'

  • 309 End of the line

  • 310 Cavaliers join the Hunt
  • 311

    Gus Honeybun meets local children
  • 312 A sense of humour in advertising

  • 313 Yeo vale road ruin provides a mystery

  • 314 Happy Days!

  • 315 Bideford's private wharves busier

  • 316 Faints as she wins national competition

  • 317 Thrush builds nest in cauliflower

  • 318 A story to tell!

  • 319 An early 'special' to Bideford

  • 320 Designed all furnishing of new chapel

  • 321 New civic medallions

  • 322 Making way for the double-deckers

  • 323 Peter poses for TV film

  • 324 Weare Giffard Hall sold for £11,300

  • 325 Rowing triumphs at Bideford

  • 326 Passing of a Torrington landmark

  • 327 One thousand visit zoo at Whitsun

  • 328 No ancient Grecian temple this

  • 329 Sailing to victory at Appledore

  • 330 Thorn-apple found in Littleham conservatory

  • 331 Death - and birth - of a telephone exchange

  • 332 Circus comes to town

  • 333

    Holidaying in north Devon
  • 334 On her 'maiden' trip from Bideford

  • 335 Tide sweeps under and over the old bridge

  • 336 Appledore skill brings 'Hispaniola' to life

  • 337 Some mushroom!

  • 338 Just over a year old

  • 339 Variety in summer weather

  • 340

    Wynne Olley's styles impress International Hair Fashion Designer
  • 341 Light reading for the lighthouse

  • 342 In the tortoise nursery - eight hatched at Bideford

  • 343

    Bidefordians
  • 344 Harvest service in Bideford 'pub' bar

  • 345 The art of the thatcher

  • 346

    Toasted with musical honours
  • 347 Penny for the guy

  • 348 Beach search for mines takes longer

  • 349 Lots drawn to prevent dog fight

  • 350 Charter granted by Philip and Mary

  • 351 Thirty bridges cross Torridge

  • 352 Some 240 exhibits

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

  • 354 A bird of their own!

  • 355 Daisy's pride and joy

  • 356 Children's procession with foxgloves

  • 357 Appledore boy is youngest recipient of RNLI vellun

  • 358 Mayor becomes engine driver>
  • 359 Pet squirrels at Monkleigh

  • 360 Space dominates Hartland carnival

  • 361 Bideford loses training ship

  • 362 Can-carrying over cobbles has disappeared

  • 363 Modern living at Bideford

  • 364 Photo mural in Bideford bank

  • 365 Northam loses thatched cottage landmark

  • 366 Housing progress at East-the-Water>
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    Successful motor cycling team
  • 368 Champagne send-off for Torrington new factory

  • 369 Photo of town's first car wins prize

  • 370 The Geneva marionettes

  • 371 Westward Ho! sand yacht to challenge speed record

  • 372 Spray dodging - the new pastime

  • 373 They never miss a game at Torrington

  • 374 A roof-top view - where?

  • 375 North Devon Driving School

  • 376 Bideford's new market opens next week

  • 377 No ancient Grecian temple this

  • 378

    FA Cup Match for the Robins
  • 379 Fishermen of Greencliff

  • 380 Panto time at Westward Ho!

  • 381 Wine and beer merchants for 150 years

  • 382 Signed scroll momento of Queen Mother's visit

  • 383 New Estate's view of estuary activities

  • 384 Lady Godiva comes to Torrington

  • 385 Four hundred residents leave Bideford!

  • 386 Bideford's first woman councillor

  • 387 Sunshine and shade at Appledore

  • 388 Allhalland Street - then and now

  • 389 Donkey and horses enjoy carnival drink

  • 390 The cab at the corner>
  • 391 Found the answer waiting for him>
  • 392 Bideford School Junior Choir Sing in France at Twinning Ceremony in Landivisiau
  • 393 Centuries old but today busier than ever

  • 394 Appledore tugs fete London Tower

  • 395 From Bobby to Brian

  • 396 No sale of Springfield House

  • 397 Appledore schooner broadcast

  • 398 Picking the pops

  • 399 Fleet of foot and fair of face

  • 400 Childrens' model of Torrington

  • 401 Appledore's new lifeboat

  • 402 Still hunting aged 80 and a Field Master

  • 403 Broomhayes £1,000 Surprise
  • 404 Lady Churchill congratulates Bideford artists at nursing exhibition

  • 405 For crying out loud!

  • 406 East-the-Water sets town an example

  • 407 Northam footballers of the future

  • 408 Puppet characters introduced

  • 409 Town's second woman mayor in 392 years

  • 410 Fish nearly pulled him in

  • 411 All for the love of a lady!

  • 412 Polish custom on Pancake Day

  • 413 Police station view of 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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  • 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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Littleham Funeral of Miss M Hearn

Littleham Funeral of Miss M Hearn - 19th March 1967

10.3.1967 Littleham funeral Hearn
 

The funeral of Miss Mabel Hearn of 'Lower Langdon', Littleham, took place at Littleham Parish Church.
The Rev L Budge officated and Mr Richards accompanied the hymns.
Immediate mourners were: Bessie, Nellie, Ada, Fred, Syd and Will, Mary, Edith, Gertrude, Cephas and Rodney Brend, Mary and Cyril Marshall, Phyllis and Stanley Wood, Phyllis and Aubrey Phelps, Tot Ford. Norah, Daisy and Annie were unable to attend.
Others attending included: Messrs A G Heywood, J B Westaway, G and H Vaggers, G Hearn, F Withecombe, W J and W Hearn, W and E Stevens, Mesdames G and E Brend, Phelps and E Nicholls, Miss M Wise.
Flowers were: sweetest memory of dear Mabel from Daisy; in loving memory of dear Mabel from Norah, Fred and family; in loving memory of dear Mabel from Bessie, Stanley, Phyllis and children, in loving memory of dear sister Mabel from Nell, Syd and family, in loving memory of dear sister Mabel from Ada, Will and family; Mrs E A Hearn and family; Dorothy, Edgar, Tony, June and Andrew, Mr and Mrs G Hearn and family, Mr and Mrs J Beer and Mr and Mrs G Wise, Mrs M Badcock and family, Mr and Mrs Parkhouse and family.

Littleham Family's Five Generations

Littleham Family's Five Generations - 16th February 1962

16.2.1962 Littleham family1
16.2.1962 Littleham family2
 

Visitors around the chair of 96-year-old Mrs Eliza Wise represented five generations of a Littleham family.
Her daughter is Mrs Mary Ann Beer, of Mount Pleasant, Littleham, who is 77. She and her husband John celebrated their golden wedding last April. Their son, Mr Arthur Beer, works at Axminster and lives at Mount Pleasant. His daughter, Mrs Margaret Ann Smale, gave birth to a daughter, Mrs Wise's great-great granddaughter, christened Mandy Sylvia Mary.

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