• 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 Hartland Abbey outdoor staff 60 years ago

  • 2 Childrens' model of Torrington

  • 3 Peter poses for TV film

  • 4 School's link with cargo ship

  • 5 Spring-cleaning the Ridge

  • 6

    Youth Clubs Join Together For Entertainment
  • 7 A roof-top view - where?

  • 8 Eight and a half million pound Taw development scheme

  • 9 No ancient Grecian temple this

  • 10 Appledore tugs fete London Tower

  • 11 Filming at Hartland

  • 12 Buckland goes to County Show

  • 13 Designed and made in Bideford

  • 14 Preparations for new Clovelly Court

  • 15 Pretty pennies at Beaford

  • 16

    Lenwood Squash Club
  • 17 Picture bought for shillings may be worth thousands

  • 18 Do recall the old windmill at Northam?

  • 19 When horses score over the tractor

  • 20 Joe the ginger tabby is 21

  • 21 Appledore Juniors Football
  • 22 Quads at Thornhillhead

  • 23 Watch the dicky bird!

  • 24 Happy Days!

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

  • 26 Champagne send-off for Torrington new factory

  • 27 Calligrapher extraordinary

  • 28 America's tribute to 'J.H.'

  • 29 Riverside mystery

  • 30 Bridging the stream

  • 31

    School of Dancing's Annual Display
  • 32 Lady Churchill congratulates Bideford artists at nursing exhibition

  • 33 Ten year old scrambler

  • 34 'Les Girls' of Hartland

  • 35 John Andrew Bread Charity
  • 36 Smiling welcome to Hartland visitors

  • 37 Twenty-one yachts

  • 38 One thousand visit zoo at Whitsun

  • 39 Panel sprint for Bideford broadcast

  • 40 Bideford's first woman councillor

  • 41 An early 'special' to Bideford

  • 42 Donkey work made easier at Clovelly

  • 43 Passing of a Torrington landmark

  • 44 Torrington in 1967

  • 45 New addition to Quay front

  • 46 Bideford has built over 500 post-war homes

  • 47 Littleham family's five generations

  • 48 Big develolpment at Calveford

  • 49 Service with a smile

  • 50 It really was the 'last time'

  • 51 Broomhayes £1,000 Surprise
  • 52

    Jinxed School Trip
  • 53 Steep street of old Bideford

  • 54 Bideford shipyard workers cheer new minesweeper

  • 55 First ship in 8 years

  • 56 Out of puff!

  • 57 TV features Bideford's New Year bread ceremony

  • 58 Alverdiscott is proud of its new parish hall

  • 59 No laughing matter

  • 60 Local glove-making factory advertising for staff

  • 61 Bideford electricity window display qualifies for area competition

  • 62

    Was a missionary
  • 63 Appledore schooner broadcast

  • 64 Works at craft he learned over 65 years ago

  • 65 Bravery against bull at Shebbear rewarded

  • 66 Cavaliers join the Hunt
  • 67 Weare Giffard potato

  • 68 Record pebble-throwing day

  • 69 Success to Festival of the Arts

  • 70 A Weare Giffard speciality - delicious strawberries

  • 71 Cement-clad boats being built at Northam

  • 72 Amsterdam to Bideford double success

  • 73 Council agree to demolition of Chanter's Folly

  • 74 Town's second woman mayor in 392 years

  • 75 Entente cordiale in Bideford

  • 76 Sooty is quick on the draw

  • 77 Polish custom on Pancake Day

  • 78 TV contest means big job for Bideford Guides

  • 79 Pet squirrels at Monkleigh

  • 80 Clovelly donkey film star

  • 81 Clovelly custom

  • 82 A lost Bideford 'island'

  • 83 Train returns to Westleigh straight

  • 84 Four sisters' nostalgic reunion

  • 85 Tomorrow' night's skittles broadcast from Bideford

  • 86 Torridge wins on time schedule

  • 87

    Reds Womens Team Are First To Compete Throughout Season
  • 88 Torridge graveyard of wooden hulks

  • 89 Eleven million pound scheme's official opening

  • 90 Bank Holiday weather was beach weather

  • 91 Can spring be far away?

  • 92 Jalopy joy for children of Shamwickshire

  • 93

    Close associations with North Devon
  • 94 Reed threshing 'putting the clock back' at Weare Giffard

  • 95 Waldon Triplets
  • 96 Speeding communications: Bideford firm's new installation

  • 97 Six footed lamb

  • 98

    Relatives all over the world
  • 99 Down at the dump something stirs

  • 100 X-ray shoe fitting

  • 101 New Post Office

  • 102 Children's procession with foxgloves

  • 103 Penny for the guy

  • 104 Bideford's new market opens next week

  • 105 Torrington school's sundial - fashioned by Headmaster

  • 106 School crossing patrol begins

  • 107

    Double Baptism on Torridge
  • 108 What is future of railway goods yard?

  • 109 Escaped crane moves into Kenwith Valley

  • 110 Chess - their bridge over the years

  • 111

    First Girls at Bideford Grammar School take part in Play
  • 112 Revenge in style

  • 113 Beach search for mines takes longer

  • 114 Wasps' nest in sewing machine

  • 115 Bideford Liberal club new lounge bar opened

  • 116 Faints as she wins national competition

  • 117 Wilfred and Mabel visit schools and hospital

  • 118 In their new robes and hats

  • 119 Torrington children build igloo
  • 120 They never miss a game at Torrington

  • 121 Designed all furnishing of new chapel

  • 122

    Cadets are given certificates
  • 123

    Toasted with musical honours
  • 124 The cab at the corner>
  • 125 Sunshine and shade at Appledore

  • 126 Eight to strike and a race to win

  • 127 Bideford firm develops new non-spill paint

  • 128 Inscribed Bibles and silver spoons for babies

  • 129 Thrush builds nest in cauliflower

  • 130 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

  • 131 East-the-Water sets town an example

  • 132 Light reading for the lighthouse

  • 133 Parkham plan realised

  • 134 Salmon netting at Bideford

  • 135 Birds' convalescent home at Instow

  • 136 Where Bideford rope-makers walked>
  • 137 Allhalland Street - then and now

  • 138 What the television camera saw at Abbotsham

  • 139 Can-carrying over cobbles has disappeared

  • 140 They set out for Bideford and became lost

  • 141 Devil sent packing

  • 142 For South Africa from Westward Ho!

  • 143 North Devon Driving School

  • 144 Appledore skill brings 'Hispaniola' to life

  • 145 Bideford schoolboy's courage recognised

  • 146 Appledore boy is youngest recipient of RNLI vellun

  • 147 Bideford regatta

  • 148 No sale of Springfield House

  • 149 Unique holiday adventure!

  • 150 Circus comes to town

  • 151 Fundraising trip for RNLI

  • 152 Calf thinks of mare as mum

  • 153 Farewell to passenger trains

  • 154 Sweets derationing

  • 155

    FA Cup Match for the Robins
  • 156 Panto time at Westward Ho!

  • 157

    Exhibition of school work
  • 158 Last train from Torrington

  • 159 Dismantling of wireless mast

  • 160 Old Girls revisit Edgehill

  • 161 Ships at Bideford

  • 162 New civic medallions

  • 163 Simple Item 138
  • 164 End of the line

  • 165 Prizewinning babies at Torrington

  • 166 Cruising down the river

  • 167 All for the love of a lady!

  • 168 Westward Ho! public conveniences get go ahead
  • 169 New choral society's growing response

  • 170 Finished in 1876

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

  • 172 Traditions and skills still there

  • 173 Weare Giffard Hall sold for £11,300

  • 174 Mayor becomes engine driver>
  • 175 Bideford - as Rowlandson saw it about 1810-15

  • 176 Lots drawn to prevent dog fight

  • 177 Modern living at Bideford

  • 178 No ancient Grecian temple this

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

  • 180 Bideford skifflers, they're no squares

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

  • 182 Shipbuilding hobby at Hartland

  • 183 A man and his wheel

  • 184 The art of the thatcher

  • 185 North Devon author featured in TV documentary

  • 186 Yeo vale road ruin provides a mystery

  • 187 Westward Ho! sand yacht to challenge speed record

  • 188 A craftsman's 'potted' history

  • 189 Symbol of Lundy independence

  • 190 Private home for public pump

  • 191 A sense of humour in advertising

  • 192 Record player of 80 years ago

  • 193 Afternoon tea in the park

  • 194 Down at the 'Donkey House'

  • 195 New fire and ambulance stations

  • 196 Some mushroom!

  • 197 Fish nearly pulled him in

  • 198 Five generations link Woolsery, Clovelly and Bideford

  • 199

    Holidaying in north Devon
  • 200 Bringing shopping home by goat

  • 201 On her 'maiden' trip from Bideford

  • 202 Torrington's enterprise's new extensions

  • 203

    Gift from Bideford Town Council
  • 204 Northam loses thatched cottage landmark

  • 205

    First prize
  • 206 Huntshaw TV mast

  • 207 Fishing light goes out at close of poor season

  • 208

    Appledore boys beat mums at football
  • 209 Fleet of foot and fair of face

  • 210 Jumble sale fever

  • 211 Bideford's gift to Sir Francis

  • 212 Holiday traffic in Bideford High Street

  • 213

    Birgitta Whittaker
  • 214 Baby Kate goes home to Lundy

  • 215 Yelland potter's exhibition at Bideford

  • 216 Gift plaque on Clovelly council houses

  • 217 'Out of Appledore' sailing memories

  • 218 Repair work on Long Bridge
  • 219 Buckland farm workers to receive long-service awards

  • 220 Broomhayes children will keep their winter pet

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

  • 222 Centuries old but today busier than ever

  • 223 Bideford childrens' cinema opens

  • 224 Bideford country dancers on TV

  • 225 Little 'Big Ben'

  • 226 Thunderstorm destruction of 25 years ago

  • 227 Picking the pops

  • 228 Hartland's invitation

  • 229 So this is the mainland!

  • 230 Boys from Bideford school complete Ten Tors

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

  • 232 Head Barman appointed Torrington Town Crier
  • 233 Some 240 exhibits

  • 234 Littleham cow tops 70 tons mark in milk production

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    Womens Skittles Competition in Buckland Brewer
  • 236 Landmark at Bradworthy

  • 237 Bideford Zoo's first baby is big draw

  • 238 Torrington's shelter for the aged

  • 239 Centenary of Gazette

  • 240 Thorn-apple found in Littleham conservatory

  • 241 Safe door weighing two tons

  • 242 A story to tell!

  • 243 Tramps camp by riverside throughout arctic weather

  • 244 Bideford's first triplets for 12 years

  • 245 The Geneva marionettes

  • 246 Photo mural in Bideford bank

  • 247 Sailing to victory at Appledore

  • 248 Signed scroll momento of Queen Mother's visit

  • 249 Spray dodging - the new pastime

  • 250 At Bideford Arts Ball>
  • 251

    Successful motor cycling team
  • 252 Gloves fit for a king!

  • 253 What's the time?

  • 254 Bideford-Torrington road gets 'carpet coat'

  • 255 Tibbles home again - and fish supper

  • 256 Holiday scene near Sandymere

  • 257

    Mrs Whapham finds ferret in Bridgeland Street while shopping
  • 258 New shipyard on schedule

  • 259 Bideford Liberals' fashion show

  • 260 Bideford inquest on French trawlermen opens

  • 261 Loads of black and white

  • 262 Clovelly's 91 year old horseman

  • 263 Larkworthy Family play in Shebbear's Football Team
  • 264 Up-to-date Bideford!

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

  • 266 Ship-in-bottle world record

  • 267 Charter granted by Philip and Mary

  • 268 Thriving 'orphan of the storm'

  • 269 Celebrations for 103rd birthday

  • 270 New life for Hartland organ

  • 271 Clovelly nightmare

  • 272 Westward Ho! combined op

  • 273 Donkey and horses enjoy carnival drink

  • 274 Artisans' Club

  • 275 Battle of the gap at Westward Ho!

  • 276 Centenary of Landcross Methodist Chapel

  • 277 Floral dancing at Appledore

  • 278 Northam footballers of the future

  • 279 Born 1883 - still going strong

  • 280 Revived market off to splendid start

  • 281 Space dominates Hartland carnival

  • 282 Life begins at 80

  • 283 New gateway to King George's Fields

  • 284 Lady Godiva comes to Torrington

  • 285 Pannier Market's future?

  • 286 Harvest service in Bideford 'pub' bar

  • 287 Burnard family reunion

  • 288 Just over a year old

  • 289 Championship Trophy for Hartland
  • 290 Puzzle corner at Bideford!

  • 291 New look for Torrington Lane

  • 292 Hartland postman retires

  • 293

    Gus Honeybun meets local children
  • 294 New Lundy stamps

  • 295 Torrington acclaims 400th anniversary of granting of charter

  • 296 Teenager Peter Jackson Makes Horror Film
  • 297 Second Monte Carlo Rally

  • 298 Emergency ferry services

  • 299 Recognise this resort?

  • 300 Liked holidays here - so starts business

  • 301 Off on a great adventure

  • 302

    Wynne Olley's styles impress International Hair Fashion Designer
  • 303 Four hundred residents leave Bideford!

  • 304 Colour TV salesman at eight

  • 305 First steel ship built at Bideford

  • 306 Westward Ho! Tennis Club Winners
  • 307 Mobile missionary

  • 308 Decontrol of meat

  • 309

    New gateway
  • 310 Wine and beer merchants for 150 years

  • 311 Future of Torrington almshouses

  • 312 Bideford loses training ship

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

  • 314

    Mums protest in Coronation Road
  • 315 By pony and trap to market

  • 316 Bideford School Junior Choir Sing in France at Twinning Ceremony in Landivisiau
  • 317 Lundy memorial to John Pennington Harman V.C.

  • 318 Sweet success at Langtree School

  • 319

    10-year-old scrambler practices
  • 320 Torrington's new amenity

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

  • 322 Death - and birth - of a telephone exchange

  • 323 Photo of town's first car wins prize

  • 324 Bideford's private wharves busier

  • 325 Mural in the whimsical fashion

  • 326 Homage to a well-loved sovereign

  • 327 Bideford computer stars

  • 328 Television comes to Torridge District

  • 329 The creative urge on Saturday morning

  • 330 Vessel built 300 feet above sea level

  • 331 Community centre opened at Westward Ho!

  • 332 Water Board mains spread through villages

  • 333 Practical sympathy at Northam

  • 334 Alderman Anstey's dream comes tru

  • 335 Appledore's new lifeboat

  • 336

    Married in 1908
  • 337 Brothers reunion 1947
  • 338 Warmington's garage ad

  • 339 Bideford Bridge re-opens

  • 340 Barley from Bideford to Bonnie Scotland

  • 341 Variety in summer weather

  • 342 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

  • 343 Tide sweeps under and over the old bridge

  • 344 Torrington to have first woman mayor

  • 345 New Lundy air-mail stamps

  • 346 A bird of their own!

  • 347 Yeoi Vale House finally demolished

  • 348 Instow local art show was 'tremendous success'

  • 349 Hartland Dancers
  • 350 River scenes that enchant the visitors

  • 351 Bideford A.F.C annual dinner
  • 352 Last of Bideford factory chimney

  • 353 Meeting at 10 Downing Street

  • 354 Olympic riders to compete at Bideford Horse Show

  • 355 Move for oldest boatyard on Torridge

  • 356 Still hunting aged 80 and a Field Master

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

  • 358 From Bobby to Brian

  • 359 For crying out loud!

  • 360 113 years at Instow

  • 361 Thirty bridges cross Torridge

  • 362 First tankers arrive at new depot

  • 363 Quads join a Langtree happy family

  • 364 Torrington Youth Club rewarded by party
  • 365 Bideford triplets' first birthday party

  • 366 Bideford stock car racing entry comes in second

  • 367 Picking the pops

  • 368 Making way for the double-deckers

  • 369 Bicycle now does donkey work

  • 370 Northam's almshouse

  • 371

    Hamburger is part of modern life
  • 372 Housing progress at East-the-Water>
  • 373 Torrington Church's new organ

  • 374 In the tortoise nursery - eight hatched at Bideford

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

  • 376 Eleventh hour bid to save last sailing barge

  • 377 Saving money, wear and tear

  • 378 All aboard the ark

  • 379

    Inter-school Road Safety Quiz Cup Winners
  • 380 New Estate's view of estuary activities

  • 381 Fishermen of Greencliff

  • 382 Golden Bay Hotel ad.>
  • 383 He beat the floods

  • 384 Police station view of Bideford

  • 385 Getting up steam for tomorrow

  • 386 Northam wants to continue pumping from river

  • 387 Launching the 'Golden Hinde'

  • 388 Safety-first dipomas awarded to Torrington drivers

  • 389 Puppet characters introduced

  • 390 Daisy's pride and joy

  • 391 Rowing triumphs at Bideford

  • 392 Found the answer waiting for him>
  • 393 Christmas tree on Bideford Quay>
  • 394 Meredith's ironmongers

  • 395 Church renovation rejoicing at Northam

  • 396 New look in the hayfields

  • 397 Boys win hockey on the sands challenge

  • 398 Capers on the cobbles

  • 399

    Andre Veillett and Quentin Reed in Judo Demonstration
  • 400 Appledore's largest

  • 401 Shoes certainly not made for walking

  • 402 New art gallery opened

  • 403

    Bidefordians
  • 404 Largest salmon caught in Torridge

  • 405 Ancestral home nestling in lovely combe

  • 406 Two kinds of hovercraft at Bideford

  • 407 Wishing well is pixielated

  • 408 Sight of a lifetime

  • 409 Students help model St Sidwell

  • 410 They are parted pro-tem

  • 411 Alwington School closing after 120 years

  • 412

    Building works
  • 413 Bideford blacksmith wins English championship

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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  • 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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  • 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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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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Monkleigh WI

Monkleigh WI - 14th April 1967

14.4.1967 Monkleigh WI
 

At Monkleigh W.I. Mrs Davie gave a helpful talk and demonstration on flower arranging. Mrs L Grigg voiced thanks. The competition results: Mrs Brown, Mrs Powe (who was the hostess with Miss Janet Lawrence) and the penny bag competition was won by Mrs C Beer.

Church Warden Resigns At Monkleigh

Church Warden Resigns At Monkleigh - 18th March 1977

18.3.1977 Monkleigh churchwarden
 

Closely associated with St George's Church, Monkleigh, since boyhood, Mr William Nethercott resigned as churchwarden at the annual parochial meeting.
The Rural Dean, the Rev R A Ford, who presided, paid tribute to his loyal, faithful service over many years.
Mr Nethercott attended St George's Sunday School as a boy and later became a chorister. First elected to the Church Council 48 years ago he also became a sidesman and was elected people's warden in 1966. From 1971 he represented St George's Church on the Hartland Deanery Synod.
Officers elected were: Mr R W Ellis, Messrs B Hosken, M Davies, Mrs W Ellis, Mr R W Ellis, Mr M Davies, Miss M Redcliffe, Miss J Edwards, Mesdames E Tallin and M Howe, Messrs H Staddon, W Nethercott and R Ellis, Mesdames J Hosken, V Williams, G Thew, W Ellis, Miss J Edwards, M Davies, and H Staddon.

Mrs Wainwright - Monkleigh

Mrs Wainwright - Monkleigh - 20th February 1976

20.2.1976 Mrs Wainwright Monkleigh
 

Today is Mrs Marie Wainwright's last day as cook supervisor at Monkleigh Primary School before retirement. The headmaster, Mr C S Wingrave-Pain, will present her with a stereo record-player plus a cheque. A bouquet will be presented by pupil Jacqueline Allin, daughter of the chairman of the school managers, Mr John Allin of Stone Farm. Mrs Wainwright's successor is Mrs Maureen Poole of Frithelstock Stone.

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