• 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 Picking the pops

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    Building works
  • 3 Bideford-Torrington road gets 'carpet coat'

  • 4 Buckland goes to County Show

  • 5 Traditions and skills still there

  • 6 Bideford School Junior Choir Sing in France at Twinning Ceremony in Landivisiau
  • 7 Broomhayes children will keep their winter pet

  • 8 All for the love of a lady!

  • 9 Finished in 1876

  • 10

    Birgitta Whittaker
  • 11 Diamond Jubilee of St Peter's Church, East-the-Water

  • 12 North Devon Driving School

  • 13 New look for Torrington Lane

  • 14 A roof-top view - where?

  • 15 All aboard the ark

  • 16 Birds' convalescent home at Instow

  • 17 First steel ship built at Bideford

  • 18

    Successful motor cycling team
  • 19 Bringing shopping home by goat

  • 20 An early 'special' to Bideford

  • 21 Panto time at Westward Ho!

  • 22

    Married in 1908
  • 23 Daisy's pride and joy

  • 24 Record pebble-throwing day

  • 25 School's link with cargo ship

  • 26 Last of Bideford factory chimney

  • 27 Safe door weighing two tons

  • 28 Bideford skifflers, they're no squares

  • 29 Celebrations for 103rd birthday

  • 30

    School of Dancing's Annual Display
  • 31 Dismantling of wireless mast

  • 32 The art of the thatcher

  • 33 He beat the floods

  • 34 Centenary of Landcross Methodist Chapel

  • 35 Hartland's invitation

  • 36 Champagne send-off for Torrington new factory

  • 37

    Womens Skittles Competition in Buckland Brewer
  • 38 Huntshaw TV mast

  • 39 Buckland farm workers to receive long-service awards

  • 40 Do recall the old windmill at Northam?

  • 41 A man and his wheel

  • 42 Vessel built 300 feet above sea level

  • 43 Eight and a half million pound Taw development scheme

  • 44 Variety in summer weather

  • 45 Sunshine and shade at Appledore

  • 46 Appledore's new lifeboat

  • 47 New Lundy stamps

  • 48 Ships at Bideford

  • 49 A lost Bideford 'island'

  • 50 Panel sprint for Bideford broadcast

  • 51 Pannier Market's future?

  • 52 Burnard family reunion

  • 53 New choral society's growing response

  • 54 Torrington acclaims 400th anniversary of granting of charter

  • 55 Sooty is quick on the draw

  • 56 Can-carrying over cobbles has disappeared

  • 57 Gift plaque on Clovelly council houses

  • 58 Six footed lamb

  • 59 Big develolpment at Calveford

  • 60 Charter granted by Philip and Mary

  • 61 Appledore boy is youngest recipient of RNLI vellun

  • 62 Revenge in style

  • 63

    Holidaying in north Devon
  • 64 Bravery against bull at Shebbear rewarded

  • 65 Joe the ginger tabby is 21

  • 66 Fish nearly pulled him in

  • 67 Escaped crane moves into Kenwith Valley

  • 68 Smiling welcome to Hartland visitors

  • 69 It really was the 'last time'

  • 70 Westward Ho! Tennis Club Winners
  • 71 Police station view of Bideford

  • 72

    First prize
  • 73 Repair work on Long Bridge
  • 74 Council agree to demolition of Chanter's Folly

  • 75

    Was a missionary
  • 76 Bideford stock car racing entry comes in second

  • 77 Appledore schooner broadcast

  • 78 Fundraising trip for RNLI

  • 79 Jumble sale fever

  • 80 Torrington Youth Club rewarded by party
  • 81 Clovelly custom

  • 82 Revived market off to splendid start

  • 83 Ship-in-bottle world record

  • 84 John Andrew Bread Charity
  • 85 Tibbles home again - and fish supper

  • 86 Emergency ferry services

  • 87 New look in the hayfields

  • 88 Clovelly donkey film star

  • 89 Modern living at Bideford

  • 90 America's tribute to 'J.H.'

  • 91 Wishing well is pixielated

  • 92 Picture bought for shillings may be worth thousands

  • 93 Meredith's ironmongers

  • 94 Appledore's largest

  • 95

    Mrs Whapham finds ferret in Bridgeland Street while shopping
  • 96 Waldon Triplets
  • 97 New addition to Quay front

  • 98 Bicycle now does donkey work

  • 99 Torrington's shelter for the aged

  • 100

    Appledore boys beat mums at football
  • 101 Down at the 'Donkey House'

  • 102 Weare Giffard Hall sold for £11,300

  • 103 Baby Kate goes home to Lundy

  • 104 TV contest means big job for Bideford Guides

  • 105 Train returns to Westleigh straight

  • 106 Torrington children build igloo
  • 107 Five generations link Woolsery, Clovelly and Bideford

  • 108

    Jinxed School Trip
  • 109 Bideford inquest on French trawlermen opens

  • 110 Liked holidays here - so starts business

  • 111 Service with a smile

  • 112

    Mums protest in Coronation Road
  • 113 Clovelly's 91 year old horseman

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

  • 115 Puppet characters introduced

  • 116 Littleham cow tops 70 tons mark in milk production

  • 117 Largest salmon caught in Torridge

  • 118

    Youth Clubs Join Together For Entertainment
  • 119

    Inter-school Road Safety Quiz Cup Winners
  • 120 Inscribed Bibles and silver spoons for babies

  • 121 Olympic riders to compete at Bideford Horse Show

  • 122 Bideford blacksmith wins English championship

  • 123 Quads join a Langtree happy family

  • 124 Signed scroll momento of Queen Mother's visit

  • 125 When horses score over the tractor

  • 126 Picking the pops

  • 127 Pet squirrels at Monkleigh

  • 128 Church renovation rejoicing at Northam

  • 129

    FA Cup Match for the Robins
  • 130 Recognise this resort?

  • 131 A story to tell!

  • 132 Hartland Abbey outdoor staff 60 years ago

  • 133 Private home for public pump

  • 134 Designed and made in Bideford

  • 135 Allhalland Street - then and now

  • 136 Water Board mains spread through villages

  • 137 Northam loses thatched cottage landmark

  • 138 Wilfred and Mabel visit schools and hospital

  • 139 Yeoi Vale House finally demolished

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

  • 141 Yeo vale road ruin provides a mystery

  • 142 Sweet success at Langtree School

  • 143 Childrens' model of Torrington

  • 144 Holiday scene near Sandymere

  • 145 Ten year old scrambler

  • 146 Torrington in 1967

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

  • 148 Still hunting aged 80 and a Field Master

  • 149 Quads at Thornhillhead

  • 150 Cruising down the river

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

  • 152 Westward Ho! sand yacht to challenge speed record

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

  • 154 Westward Ho! public conveniences get go ahead
  • 155 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

  • 156 Thrush builds nest in cauliflower

  • 157 They set out for Bideford and became lost

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

  • 159 Championship Trophy for Hartland
  • 160 North Devon author featured in TV documentary

  • 161

    First Girls at Bideford Grammar School take part in Play
  • 162 Calligrapher extraordinary

  • 163 Tide sweeps under and over the old bridge

  • 164

    Gift from Bideford Town Council
  • 165 Spring-cleaning the Ridge

  • 166 They never miss a game at Torrington

  • 167 Bideford has built over 500 post-war homes

  • 168 Bideford country dancers on TV

  • 169 Westward Ho! combined op

  • 170 Eleven million pound scheme's official opening

  • 171 Television comes to Torridge District

  • 172 Bideford Zoo's first baby is big draw

  • 173 Move for oldest boatyard on Torridge

  • 174 What the television camera saw at Abbotsham

  • 175 Thorn-apple found in Littleham conservatory

  • 176 Eleventh hour bid to save last sailing barge

  • 177 Landmark at Bradworthy

  • 178 Sight of a lifetime

  • 179 Bideford childrens' cinema opens

  • 180 Entente cordiale in Bideford

  • 181 Bideford Bridge re-opens

  • 182 Bideford A.F.C annual dinner
  • 183 Mural in the whimsical fashion

  • 184 Just over a year old

  • 185 Beach search for mines takes longer

  • 186 Second Monte Carlo Rally

  • 187 Shipbuilding hobby at Hartland

  • 188 Boys from Bideford school complete Ten Tors

  • 189 Bideford shipyard workers cheer new minesweeper

  • 190 Getting up steam for tomorrow

  • 191 They are parted pro-tem

  • 192 Bideford's private wharves busier

  • 193 Thunderstorm destruction of 25 years ago

  • 194 Ancestral home nestling in lovely combe

  • 195 Thirty bridges cross Torridge

  • 196

    Exhibition of school work
  • 197 Weare Giffard potato

  • 198 Hartland postman retires

  • 199 Bideford electricity window display qualifies for area competition

  • 200 Jalopy joy for children of Shamwickshire

  • 201 Riverside mystery

  • 202 Spray dodging - the new pastime

  • 203 Bideford regatta

  • 204 New Post Office

  • 205 Practical sympathy at Northam

  • 206 Tomorrow' night's skittles broadcast from Bideford

  • 207 Success to Festival of the Arts

  • 208 Designed all furnishing of new chapel

  • 209 Some mushroom!

  • 210 Fishing light goes out at close of poor season

  • 211 Devil sent packing

  • 212 Bideford computer stars

  • 213 Steep street of old Bideford

  • 214 New shipyard on schedule

  • 215

    Hamburger is part of modern life
  • 216 Old Girls revisit Edgehill

  • 217 Bideford's new market opens next week

  • 218 School crossing patrol begins

  • 219

    Gus Honeybun meets local children
  • 220 X-ray shoe fitting

  • 221 No sale of Springfield House

  • 222 Capers on the cobbles

  • 223 Torrington school's sundial - fashioned by Headmaster

  • 224 No ancient Grecian temple this

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

  • 226 First ship in 8 years

  • 227 Fishermen of Greencliff

  • 228 Lady Churchill congratulates Bideford artists at nursing exhibition

  • 229 Four hundred residents leave Bideford!

  • 230 Out of puff!

  • 231 Life begins at 80

  • 232 Bideford's first triplets for 12 years

  • 233 Alwington School closing after 120 years

  • 234 Holiday traffic in Bideford High Street

  • 235 Light reading for the lighthouse

  • 236 Loads of black and white

  • 237 Four sisters' nostalgic reunion

  • 238 113 years at Instow

  • 239 New life for Hartland organ

  • 240 Broomhayes £1,000 Surprise
  • 241 Making way for the double-deckers

  • 242

    Cadets are given certificates
  • 243 Photo of town's first car wins prize

  • 244 TV features Bideford's New Year bread ceremony

  • 245 Homage to a well-loved sovereign

  • 246 Bridging the stream

  • 247 Works at craft he learned over 65 years ago

  • 248 One thousand visit zoo at Whitsun

  • 249 No laughing matter

  • 250 Unique holiday adventure!

  • 251 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

  • 252 Farewell to passenger trains

  • 253 Bideford Liberals' fashion show

  • 254 Clovelly nightmare

  • 255 The creative urge on Saturday morning

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

  • 257

    Toasted with musical honours
  • 258 Lady Godiva comes to Torrington

  • 259 By pony and trap to market

  • 260 Teenager Peter Jackson Makes Horror Film
  • 261 A Weare Giffard speciality - delicious strawberries

  • 262 Future of Torrington almshouses

  • 263 Bideford firm develops new non-spill paint

  • 264 Bideford schoolboy's courage recognised

  • 265 Twenty-one yachts

  • 266

    Lenwood Squash Club
  • 267 Torrington's new amenity

  • 268 New Lundy air-mail stamps

  • 269 Born 1883 - still going strong

  • 270 In the tortoise nursery - eight hatched at Bideford

  • 271 Bideford Liberal club new lounge bar opened

  • 272 Watch the dicky bird!

  • 273 Alderman Anstey's dream comes tru

  • 274 Centuries old but today busier than ever

  • 275 Pretty pennies at Beaford

  • 276 Eight to strike and a race to win

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    Bidefordians
  • 278 Tramps camp by riverside throughout arctic weather

  • 279 Fleet of foot and fair of face

  • 280 What is future of railway goods yard?

  • 281 Circus comes to town

  • 282 New Estate's view of estuary activities

  • 283 Gloves fit for a king!

  • 284 Peter poses for TV film

  • 285

    Double Baptism on Torridge
  • 286 Lots drawn to prevent dog fight

  • 287 Torrington to have first woman mayor

  • 288 New civic medallions

  • 289 Littleham family's five generations

  • 290 First tankers arrive at new depot

  • 291 In their new robes and hats

  • 292 Last train from Torrington

  • 293 Chess - their bridge over the years

  • 294

    Reds Womens Team Are First To Compete Throughout Season
  • 295 'Les Girls' of Hartland

  • 296 The Geneva marionettes

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

  • 298 Northam's almshouse

  • 299 River scenes that enchant the visitors

  • 300 Larkworthy Family play in Shebbear's Football Team
  • 301 Faints as she wins national competition

  • 302 Centenary of Gazette

  • 303 Battle of the gap at Westward Ho!

  • 304 Warmington's garage ad

  • 305 Two kinds of hovercraft at Bideford

  • 306 Death - and birth - of a telephone exchange

  • 307 'Out of Appledore' sailing memories

  • 308 Salmon netting at Bideford

  • 309 Off on a great adventure

  • 310 Head Barman appointed Torrington Town Crier
  • 311 Passing of a Torrington landmark

  • 312 Penny for the guy

  • 313 New gateway to King George's Fields

  • 314 Launching the 'Golden Hinde'

  • 315 Boys win hockey on the sands challenge

  • 316 No ancient Grecian temple this

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

  • 318 Preparations for new Clovelly Court

  • 319 Speeding communications: Bideford firm's new installation

  • 320 Record player of 80 years ago

  • 321 Bideford loses training ship

  • 322 Artisans' Club

  • 323 Little 'Big Ben'

  • 324 On her 'maiden' trip from Bideford

  • 325 Yelland potter's exhibition at Bideford

  • 326 Symbol of Lundy independence

  • 327 Torrington's enterprise's new extensions

  • 328 Decontrol of meat

  • 329 Bideford's gift to Sir Francis

  • 330 Space dominates Hartland carnival

  • 331 Bank Holiday weather was beach weather

  • 332 Some 240 exhibits

  • 333 Donkey work made easier at Clovelly

  • 334 Donkey and horses enjoy carnival drink

  • 335 Northam wants to continue pumping from river

  • 336 Torridge graveyard of wooden hulks

  • 337 What's the time?

  • 338

    Close associations with North Devon
  • 339 Puzzle corner at Bideford!

  • 340 Can spring be far away?

  • 341 A sense of humour in advertising

  • 342 Shoes certainly not made for walking

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

  • 344

    Wynne Olley's styles impress International Hair Fashion Designer
  • 345 Instow local art show was 'tremendous success'

  • 346 East-the-Water sets town an example

  • 347 New fire and ambulance stations

  • 348 Parkham plan realised

  • 349 Calf thinks of mare as mum

  • 350 End of the line

  • 351 Alverdiscott is proud of its new parish hall

  • 352 Cavaliers join the Hunt
  • 353 A craftsman's 'potted' history

  • 354 Hartland Dancers
  • 355 Students help model St Sidwell

  • 356 Up-to-date Bideford!

  • 357 Appledore Juniors Football
  • 358 A bird of their own!

  • 359 New art gallery opened

  • 360 Cement-clad boats being built at Northam

  • 361 Mobile missionary

  • 362 Torridge wins on time schedule

  • 363 Simple Item 138
  • 364 Town's second woman mayor in 392 years

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

  • 366 Bideford triplets' first birthday party

  • 367 So this is the mainland!

  • 368 Happy Days!

  • 369

    Andre Veillett and Quentin Reed in Judo Demonstration
  • 370

    New gateway
  • 371

    Relatives all over the world
  • 372 Wine and beer merchants for 150 years

  • 373 Photo mural in Bideford bank

  • 374 Appledore tugs fete London Tower

  • 375 Rowing triumphs at Bideford

  • 376 Northam footballers of the future

  • 377 For crying out loud!

  • 378 Saving money, wear and tear

  • 379 Colour TV salesman at eight

  • 380 Children's procession with foxgloves

  • 381 Barley from Bideford to Bonnie Scotland

  • 382 Brothers reunion 1947
  • 383 Polish custom on Pancake Day

  • 384

    10-year-old scrambler practices
  • 385 Harvest service in Bideford 'pub' bar

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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  • 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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  • 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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Burrows Tipping to Stop

Tipping on the Northam Burrows should be completed by March 1977 it is being recommended to the North Devon Torridge Area Highways Committee in a report by the Devon County Engineer’s Department.

17.1.1975 Northam Burrows tipping

With the County Council’s promotion of the Burrows as a country park it was recognised that arrangements would have to be made to cease tipping, says the report.
Read more in the article dated 17 January 1975

Burrows 'Slum' Complaint To BBC

Burrows 'Slum' Complaint To BBC - 13th November 1970

13.11.1970 Burrows BBC1
 

A complaint has been lodged wit the B.B.C., Mr Alan Gardner, Clerk of the Northam Urban Council, revealed this week following a protest from a woman ratepayer about the Burrows being described in a TV progamme as 'an over crowded slum.'
The programme "The Country We Are Making" in which the Duke of Edinburgh took part, went out on B.B.C.2 and dealt with countryside conservation. The Burrows were contrasted with a beautiful area in Scotland.
When the film of the Burrows was screened the narrator, Derek Johns, commented that without planning "Northam Burrows", a beauty spot and one of the loveliest places in Devon, turns into an overcrowded slum".

Patriot And A German Lover

Patriot And A German Lover - 15th September 1914

15.9.14
 

Sir - May I trespass on your kindness by inserting a few remarks in your valuable paper of a man who holds a public position in a village not miles from Bideford re his sentiments and sympathies for the Germans. He has been airing his opinions rather freely in the village street lately and says he 'hopes the Germans will win and that the Kaiser will eat his dinner in London one day this week'. He has also been heard to say that if he saw the Germans coming in over a certain burrows he would not lift his voice in warning nor would he take up a rifle against them. Is it right, Mr Editior, for such a man to be at liberty and casting such sayings broadcast at a time like this when all our thoughts should be with our King and country and all who are fighting for a just cause.
PATRIOT

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