• 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 He beat the floods

  • 2 Daisy's pride and joy

  • 3 New fire and ambulance stations

  • 4 Lady Godiva comes to Torrington

  • 5 Alverdiscott is proud of its new parish hall

  • 6 Bicycle now does donkey work

  • 7 A sense of humour in advertising

  • 8

    Mrs Whapham finds ferret in Bridgeland Street while shopping
  • 9 New gateway to King George's Fields

  • 10 No laughing matter

  • 11 Torrington to have first woman mayor

  • 12 They set out for Bideford and became lost

  • 13 Larkworthy Family play in Shebbear's Football Team
  • 14 Calf thinks of mare as mum

  • 15 School's link with cargo ship

  • 16 Appledore tugs fete London Tower

  • 17

    Jinxed School Trip
  • 18 In the tortoise nursery - eight hatched at Bideford

  • 19 Record pebble-throwing day

  • 20 Harvest service in Bideford 'pub' bar

  • 21 Centuries old but today busier than ever

  • 22 Instow local art show was 'tremendous success'

  • 23 All aboard the ark

  • 24 East-the-Water sets town an example

  • 25 Birds' convalescent home at Instow

  • 26 Appledore Juniors Football
  • 27 A Weare Giffard speciality - delicious strawberries

  • 28 Bideford schoolboy's courage recognised

  • 29 Fishermen of Greencliff

  • 30 Gift plaque on Clovelly council houses

  • 31 Wishing well is pixielated

  • 32 John Andrew Bread Charity
  • 33

    Hamburger is part of modern life
  • 34 Huntshaw TV mast

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

  • 36 Holiday scene near Sandymere

  • 37 What's the time?

  • 38 No sale of Springfield House

  • 39 Torrington Youth Club rewarded by party
  • 40 Yelland potter's exhibition at Bideford

  • 41 Hartland's invitation

  • 42 A man and his wheel

  • 43 A roof-top view - where?

  • 44 Polish custom on Pancake Day

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

  • 46 Torrington acclaims 400th anniversary of granting of charter

  • 47 Students help model St Sidwell

  • 48 Wine and beer merchants for 150 years

  • 49 Alwington School closing after 120 years

  • 50 One thousand visit zoo at Whitsun

  • 51 Torrington in 1967

  • 52 Centenary of Landcross Methodist Chapel

  • 53 Circus comes to town

  • 54

    Mums protest in Coronation Road
  • 55 Clovelly nightmare

  • 56 Clovelly custom

  • 57 Fishing light goes out at close of poor season

  • 58 Revived market off to splendid start

  • 59 Picking the pops

  • 60 Photo mural in Bideford bank

  • 61 First steel ship built at Bideford

  • 62 Championship Trophy for Hartland
  • 63 Eleventh hour bid to save last sailing barge

  • 64 Hartland postman retires

  • 65 Buckland goes to County Show

  • 66

    FA Cup Match for the Robins
  • 67 Making way for the double-deckers

  • 68

    Building works
  • 69 Warmington's garage ad

  • 70 Works at craft he learned over 65 years ago

  • 71 Landmark at Bradworthy

  • 72 Private home for public pump

  • 73 Sooty is quick on the draw

  • 74 X-ray shoe fitting

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

  • 76 Riverside mystery

  • 77 Bideford shipyard workers cheer new minesweeper

  • 78 Northam loses thatched cottage landmark

  • 79 Tomorrow' night's skittles broadcast from Bideford

  • 80 Escaped crane moves into Kenwith Valley

  • 81 Alderman Anstey's dream comes tru

  • 82 Old Girls revisit Edgehill

  • 83 Record player of 80 years ago

  • 84 Jumble sale fever

  • 85 No ancient Grecian temple this

  • 86 Torrington children build igloo
  • 87 Still hunting aged 80 and a Field Master

  • 88 Devil sent packing

  • 89 Torridge graveyard of wooden hulks

  • 90 Broomhayes £1,000 Surprise
  • 91 Mural in the whimsical fashion

  • 92 The creative urge on Saturday morning

  • 93 Sunshine and shade at Appledore

  • 94 Some 240 exhibits

  • 95 Donkey work made easier at Clovelly

  • 96 Cruising down the river

  • 97 Weare Giffard Hall sold for £11,300

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

  • 99

    Toasted with musical honours
  • 100 Life begins at 80

  • 101 Ten year old scrambler

  • 102 Success to Festival of the Arts

  • 103 Bideford electricity window display qualifies for area competition

  • 104 Bridging the stream

  • 105 Council agree to demolition of Chanter's Folly

  • 106 Appledore's new lifeboat

  • 107 End of the line

  • 108 First ship in 8 years

  • 109 Barley from Bideford to Bonnie Scotland

  • 110 Repair work on Long Bridge
  • 111

    Gus Honeybun meets local children
  • 112 Bideford stock car racing entry comes in second

  • 113 Bideford blacksmith wins English championship

  • 114 Bideford's new market opens next week

  • 115 Champagne send-off for Torrington new factory

  • 116 Picture bought for shillings may be worth thousands

  • 117 Just over a year old

  • 118 Water Board mains spread through villages

  • 119 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

  • 120 Ships at Bideford

  • 121 Bideford regatta

  • 122 Parkham plan realised

  • 123 Boys from Bideford school complete Ten Tors

  • 124 Death - and birth - of a telephone exchange

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

  • 126

    Bidefordians
  • 127 Preparations for new Clovelly Court

  • 128

    Womens Skittles Competition in Buckland Brewer
  • 129 Penny for the guy

  • 130 Teenager Peter Jackson Makes Horror Film
  • 131 Do recall the old windmill at Northam?

  • 132 Pretty pennies at Beaford

  • 133 Shoes certainly not made for walking

  • 134 A bird of their own!

  • 135 Weare Giffard potato

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

  • 137 Allhalland Street - then and now

  • 138 Spring-cleaning the Ridge

  • 139 Thirty bridges cross Torridge

  • 140 First tankers arrive at new depot

  • 141 New life for Hartland organ

  • 142 Entente cordiale in Bideford

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

  • 144 'Les Girls' of Hartland

  • 145 Big develolpment at Calveford

  • 146 Pannier Market's future?

  • 147

    Gift from Bideford Town Council
  • 148 Four sisters' nostalgic reunion

  • 149 Head Barman appointed Torrington Town Crier
  • 150

    Cadets are given certificates
  • 151 Decontrol of meat

  • 152 Launching the 'Golden Hinde'

  • 153 Joe the ginger tabby is 21

  • 154 Modern living at Bideford

  • 155 Service with a smile

  • 156 Future of Torrington almshouses

  • 157

    Double Baptism on Torridge
  • 158 Bideford's private wharves busier

  • 159 Torrington school's sundial - fashioned by Headmaster

  • 160 Police station view of Bideford

  • 161 Jalopy joy for children of Shamwickshire

  • 162 Waldon Triplets
  • 163 Hartland Abbey outdoor staff 60 years ago

  • 164 New Estate's view of estuary activities

  • 165 Gloves fit for a king!

  • 166 Donkey and horses enjoy carnival drink

  • 167

    Relatives all over the world
  • 168 An early 'special' to Bideford

  • 169 Shipbuilding hobby at Hartland

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

  • 171 Signed scroll momento of Queen Mother's visit

  • 172 Off on a great adventure

  • 173 Recognise this resort?

  • 174 Little 'Big Ben'

  • 175 Bideford's first triplets for 12 years

  • 176 Thrush builds nest in cauliflower

  • 177 Emergency ferry services

  • 178 Bideford triplets' first birthday party

  • 179 Some mushroom!

  • 180 Childrens' model of Torrington

  • 181 The Geneva marionettes

  • 182 Tramps camp by riverside throughout arctic weather

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

  • 184 Eleven million pound scheme's official opening

  • 185 Brothers reunion 1947
  • 186 Happy Days!

  • 187 For crying out loud!

  • 188 Steep street of old Bideford

  • 189 Down at the 'Donkey House'

  • 190 Vessel built 300 feet above sea level

  • 191 Space dominates Hartland carnival

  • 192 America's tribute to 'J.H.'

  • 193 Torrington's new amenity

  • 194 New choral society's growing response

  • 195

    Married in 1908
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    Was a missionary
  • 197 Eight and a half million pound Taw development scheme

  • 198 Speeding communications: Bideford firm's new installation

  • 199 Westward Ho! sand yacht to challenge speed record

  • 200 A craftsman's 'potted' history

  • 201 No ancient Grecian temple this

  • 202

    First prize
  • 203 Tibbles home again - and fish supper

  • 204

    Successful motor cycling team
  • 205 Bideford - as Rowlandson saw it about 1810-15

  • 206

    10-year-old scrambler practices
  • 207 New addition to Quay front

  • 208 Two kinds of hovercraft at Bideford

  • 209 Hartland Dancers
  • 210 Clovelly's 91 year old horseman

  • 211

    Reds Womens Team Are First To Compete Throughout Season
  • 212 Panel sprint for Bideford broadcast

  • 213 Artisans' Club

  • 214 Last of Bideford factory chimney

  • 215 Lots drawn to prevent dog fight

  • 216 Yeo vale road ruin provides a mystery

  • 217 North Devon Driving School

  • 218 Eight to strike and a race to win

  • 219 Ship-in-bottle world record

  • 220

    Youth Clubs Join Together For Entertainment
  • 221 Boys win hockey on the sands challenge

  • 222

    First Girls at Bideford Grammar School take part in Play
  • 223 'Out of Appledore' sailing memories

  • 224 Getting up steam for tomorrow

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

  • 226 Bideford loses training ship

  • 227 Westward Ho! combined op

  • 228 Ancestral home nestling in lovely combe

  • 229 They are parted pro-tem

  • 230 River scenes that enchant the visitors

  • 231 The art of the thatcher

  • 232 Colour TV salesman at eight

  • 233 Largest salmon caught in Torridge

  • 234 Bank Holiday weather was beach weather

  • 235

    Holidaying in north Devon
  • 236 Variety in summer weather

  • 237 Beach search for mines takes longer

  • 238 Baby Kate goes home to Lundy

  • 239 Appledore schooner broadcast

  • 240 Fundraising trip for RNLI

  • 241 New Lundy air-mail stamps

  • 242 Charter granted by Philip and Mary

  • 243 Loads of black and white

  • 244 Cavaliers join the Hunt
  • 245 Appledore's largest

  • 246 A story to tell!

  • 247 Torrington's shelter for the aged

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

  • 249 Liked holidays here - so starts business

  • 250 Light reading for the lighthouse

  • 251 Torridge wins on time schedule

  • 252 Out of puff!

  • 253

    Birgitta Whittaker
  • 254 Bideford country dancers on TV

  • 255 Train returns to Westleigh straight

  • 256 They never miss a game at Torrington

  • 257 Bravery against bull at Shebbear rewarded

  • 258 Can spring be far away?

  • 259 Picking the pops

  • 260 Capers on the cobbles

  • 261 By pony and trap to market

  • 262 New look for Torrington Lane

  • 263 Designed all furnishing of new chapel

  • 264 Thunderstorm destruction of 25 years ago

  • 265 Up-to-date Bideford!

  • 266 Broomhayes children will keep their winter pet

  • 267 Photo of town's first car wins prize

  • 268 Burnard family reunion

  • 269 Six footed lamb

  • 270 Bideford A.F.C annual dinner
  • 271 Lady Churchill congratulates Bideford artists at nursing exhibition

  • 272 New Lundy stamps

  • 273 Buckland farm workers to receive long-service awards

  • 274 Simple Item 138
  • 275 Television comes to Torridge District

  • 276 New civic medallions

  • 277

    Andre Veillett and Quentin Reed in Judo Demonstration
  • 278 Yeoi Vale House finally demolished

  • 279 Homage to a well-loved sovereign

  • 280 Bideford-Torrington road gets 'carpet coat'

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

  • 283 Bideford Liberals' fashion show

  • 284 A lost Bideford 'island'

  • 285 Battle of the gap at Westward Ho!

  • 286 Spray dodging - the new pastime

  • 287 Inscribed Bibles and silver spoons for babies

  • 288 Unique holiday adventure!

  • 289 Church renovation rejoicing at Northam

  • 290 Saving money, wear and tear

  • 291 Fish nearly pulled him in

  • 292 Clovelly donkey film star

  • 293 Olympic riders to compete at Bideford Horse Show

  • 294 Tide sweeps under and over the old bridge

  • 295 Watch the dicky bird!

  • 296 Westward Ho! Tennis Club Winners
  • 297 School crossing patrol begins

  • 298 Bideford inquest on French trawlermen opens

  • 299 Torrington's enterprise's new extensions

  • 300 All for the love of a lady!

  • 301 Finished in 1876

  • 302 When horses score over the tractor

  • 303 Calligrapher extraordinary

  • 304 Move for oldest boatyard on Torridge

  • 305 Four hundred residents leave Bideford!

  • 306 Fleet of foot and fair of face

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    New gateway
  • 308 Mobile missionary

  • 309 Thorn-apple found in Littleham conservatory

  • 310

    Lenwood Squash Club
  • 311 Last train from Torrington

  • 312 What is future of railway goods yard?

  • 313 Littleham family's five generations

  • 314 Farewell to passenger trains

  • 315 New shipyard on schedule

  • 316 Bideford School Junior Choir Sing in France at Twinning Ceremony in Landivisiau
  • 317 Dismantling of wireless mast

  • 318 New Post Office

  • 319 Holiday traffic in Bideford High Street

  • 320

    Wynne Olley's styles impress International Hair Fashion Designer
  • 321

    School of Dancing's Annual Display
  • 322 In their new robes and hats

  • 323 Faints as she wins national competition

  • 324 Sight of a lifetime

  • 325 Quads at Thornhillhead

  • 326

    Exhibition of school work
  • 327 Littleham cow tops 70 tons mark in milk production

  • 328 It really was the 'last time'

  • 329 Revenge in style

  • 330 So this is the mainland!

  • 331 Designed and made in Bideford

  • 332 Twenty-one yachts

  • 333 New art gallery opened

  • 334 Salmon netting at Bideford

  • 335 Rowing triumphs at Bideford

  • 336 TV contest means big job for Bideford Guides

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    Close associations with North Devon
  • 338 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

  • 339 TV features Bideford's New Year bread ceremony

  • 340 Five generations link Woolsery, Clovelly and Bideford

  • 341 Can-carrying over cobbles has disappeared

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

  • 343 Smiling welcome to Hartland visitors

  • 344 113 years at Instow

  • 345 On her 'maiden' trip from Bideford

  • 346 Centenary of Gazette

  • 347 Bideford has built over 500 post-war homes

  • 348 Born 1883 - still going strong

  • 349 Second Monte Carlo Rally

  • 350 Northam's almshouse

  • 351 Pet squirrels at Monkleigh

  • 352 Bideford computer stars

  • 353 Bideford Liberal club new lounge bar opened

  • 354 Bideford Zoo's first baby is big draw

  • 355 Appledore boy is youngest recipient of RNLI vellun

  • 356 Westward Ho! public conveniences get go ahead
  • 357 Quads join a Langtree happy family

  • 358 North Devon author featured in TV documentary

  • 359 Practical sympathy at Northam

  • 360 Cement-clad boats being built at Northam

  • 361 Bideford skifflers, they're no squares

  • 362 Peter poses for TV film

  • 363 Sweet success at Langtree School

  • 364 Northam footballers of the future

  • 365 Traditions and skills still there

  • 366 Safe door weighing two tons

  • 367

    Appledore boys beat mums at football
  • 368 Bideford's gift to Sir Francis

  • 369 Panto time at Westward Ho!

  • 370 Bideford Bridge re-opens

  • 371 Town's second woman mayor in 392 years

  • 372 Puzzle corner at Bideford!

  • 373 Meredith's ironmongers

  • 374 Puppet characters introduced

  • 375 What the television camera saw at Abbotsham

  • 376 Northam wants to continue pumping from river

  • 377 Symbol of Lundy independence

  • 378 Wilfred and Mabel visit schools and hospital

  • 379 New look in the hayfields

  • 380 Passing of a Torrington landmark

  • 381 Bringing shopping home by goat

  • 382 Children's procession with foxgloves

  • 383 Bideford childrens' cinema opens

  • 384 Bideford firm develops new non-spill paint

  • 385 Celebrations for 103rd birthday

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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Montagu Plaque Gift At Appledore

Montagu Plaque Gift At Appledore - 23rd June 1967

23.6.1967 Montagu plaque Lundy
23.6.1967 Montagu plaque Lundy1
26.5.1967 Montagu Lundy
 

A plaque from the battleship HMS Montagu which was wrecked on Lundy in 1906 was presented to St Mary's Church, Appledore, for safe keeping. It was presented by Captain Nelson Clover, RN, retired, now 80, who was midshipman on the Montaue when she ran aground. Accompanying him (in the photograph) is Rev Gilber Molesworthy of Berrimans, Northam, to whom he originally gave the plaque and who suggested it should find a home in Appledore Parish Church.
A letter from Lord Montagu of Beaulieu said 'I was terribly interested to hear of the plans to present the plaque in Appledore Church.'
Among those at the service were Captain T N Masterman, Captain H L Morgan and Dr Desmond Valentine (secretary of the Appledore RNLI) and Col E C Pine-Coffin of Northam whose family home is Portledge.

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