• 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 Big develolpment at Calveford

  • 2 Bideford computer stars

  • 3 Torrington school's sundial - fashioned by Headmaster

  • 4 Appledore's largest

  • 5 A man and his wheel

  • 6 Polish custom on Pancake Day

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

  • 8 Picking the pops

  • 9 Entente cordiale in Bideford

  • 10 Lady Churchill congratulates Bideford artists at nursing exhibition

  • 11 Loads of black and white

  • 12

    Cadets are given certificates
  • 13 Westward Ho! combined op

  • 14 Pretty pennies at Beaford

  • 15 Ancestral home nestling in lovely combe

  • 16

    First prize
  • 17 Champagne send-off for Torrington new factory

  • 18 Birds' convalescent home at Instow

  • 19 Boys from Bideford school complete Ten Tors

  • 20 Pannier Market's future?

  • 21

    Toasted with musical honours
  • 22 No laughing matter

  • 23

    School of Dancing's Annual Display
  • 24 Wine and beer merchants for 150 years

  • 25 Westward Ho! public conveniences get go ahead
  • 26 Four hundred residents leave Bideford!

  • 27 Spray dodging - the new pastime

  • 28 Tomorrow' night's skittles broadcast from Bideford

  • 29 Hartland Dancers
  • 30 Decontrol of meat

  • 31

    Jinxed School Trip
  • 32 Photo of town's first car wins prize

  • 33 Broomhayes £1,000 Surprise
  • 34 Traditions and skills still there

  • 35 Bideford stock car racing entry comes in second

  • 36 First tankers arrive at new depot

  • 37 Thrush builds nest in cauliflower

  • 38 Tibbles home again - and fish supper

  • 39 Repair work on Long Bridge
  • 40 Signed scroll momento of Queen Mother's visit

  • 41 Television comes to Torridge District

  • 42 Old Girls revisit Edgehill

  • 43

    First Girls at Bideford Grammar School take part in Play
  • 44 Record player of 80 years ago

  • 45 Bringing shopping home by goat

  • 46 Wilfred and Mabel visit schools and hospital

  • 47 New gateway to King George's Fields

  • 48

    Building works
  • 49 Shipbuilding hobby at Hartland

  • 50 Death - and birth - of a telephone exchange

  • 51 Northam's almshouse

  • 52 Spring-cleaning the Ridge

  • 53 Bideford A.F.C annual dinner
  • 54 Bank Holiday weather was beach weather

  • 55 Clovelly nightmare

  • 56 TV features Bideford's New Year bread ceremony

  • 57 Some mushroom!

  • 58 Championship Trophy for Hartland
  • 59 Bideford triplets' first birthday party

  • 60 He beat the floods

  • 61 Fundraising trip for RNLI

  • 62 Sweet success at Langtree School

  • 63 Little 'Big Ben'

  • 64 A story to tell!

  • 65 On her 'maiden' trip from Bideford

  • 66 Panel sprint for Bideford broadcast

  • 67

    Double Baptism on Torridge
  • 68 Malibou boys are all-the-year-round surfers

  • 69 Unique holiday adventure!

  • 70

    Gus Honeybun meets local children
  • 71 Eleventh hour bid to save last sailing barge

  • 72 Calf thinks of mare as mum

  • 73 Tramps camp by riverside throughout arctic weather

  • 74

    Relatives all over the world
  • 75 Bideford - as Rowlandson saw it about 1810-15

  • 76

    Andre Veillett and Quentin Reed in Judo Demonstration
  • 77 Preparations for new Clovelly Court

  • 78 First ship in 8 years

  • 79 Teenager Peter Jackson Makes Horror Film
  • 80 Recognise this resort?

  • 81 Burnard family reunion

  • 82

    Close associations with North Devon
  • 83 To build racing cars in former blacksmith's shop

  • 84 Circus comes to town

  • 85 Centuries old but today busier than ever

  • 86 Watch the dicky bird!

  • 87 Variety in summer weather

  • 88 Finished in 1876

  • 89 Making way for the double-deckers

  • 90 The Geneva marionettes

  • 91 Devil sent packing

  • 92 New choral society's growing response

  • 93 For crying out loud!

  • 94 The creative urge on Saturday morning

  • 95 Steep street of old Bideford

  • 96 Inscribed Bibles and silver spoons for babies

  • 97 New art gallery opened

  • 98 Police station view of Bideford

  • 99

    Womens Skittles Competition in Buckland Brewer
  • 100 New Estate's view of estuary activities

  • 101 Tide sweeps under and over the old bridge

  • 102 Passing of a Torrington landmark

  • 103 Farewell to passenger trains

  • 104 Meredith's ironmongers

  • 105 Childrens' model of Torrington

  • 106

    Married in 1908
  • 107 Designed and made in Bideford

  • 108

    Exhibition of school work
  • 109 Celebrations for 103rd birthday

  • 110 Council agree to demolition of Chanter's Folly

  • 111 Charter granted by Philip and Mary

  • 112 Bideford has built over 500 post-war homes

  • 113 Penny for the guy

  • 114 Appledore's new lifeboat

  • 115 What the television camera saw at Abbotsham

  • 116 Ten year old scrambler

  • 117 Eleven million pound scheme's official opening

  • 118 Last of Bideford factory chimney

  • 119 Six footed lamb

  • 120 Baby Kate goes home to Lundy

  • 121 Escaped crane moves into Kenwith Valley

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

  • 123 Clovelly donkey film star

  • 124 Jalopy joy for children of Shamwickshire

  • 125 Can spring be far away?

  • 126 Bideford School Junior Choir Sing in France at Twinning Ceremony in Landivisiau
  • 127 Quads at Thornhillhead

  • 128 Safe door weighing two tons

  • 129 New fire and ambulance stations

  • 130 Bideford inquest on French trawlermen opens

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

  • 132 Up-to-date Bideford!

  • 133 Modern living at Bideford

  • 134 Picture bought for shillings may be worth thousands

  • 135 Speeding communications: Bideford firm's new installation

  • 136 When horses score over the tractor

  • 137

    Mums protest in Coronation Road
  • 138 Grenville House for Bideford R.D.C.

  • 139 Just over a year old

  • 140 Colour TV salesman at eight

  • 141 By pony and trap to market

  • 142 Northam footballers of the future

  • 143 Photo mural in Bideford bank

  • 144 Practical sympathy at Northam

  • 145

    Bidefordians
  • 146 A lost Bideford 'island'

  • 147

    Reds Womens Team Are First To Compete Throughout Season
  • 148 New civic medallions

  • 149 Alwington School closing after 120 years

  • 150 Westward Ho! Tennis Club Winners
  • 151 Fish nearly pulled him in

  • 152 Panto time at Westward Ho!

  • 153 Cruising down the river

  • 154 Allhalland Street - then and now

  • 155 Last train from Torrington

  • 156 Holiday traffic in Bideford High Street

  • 157 Joe the ginger tabby is 21

  • 158 Mural in the whimsical fashion

  • 159 Bideford firm develops new non-spill paint

  • 160 A sense of humour in advertising

  • 161 Hartland's invitation

  • 162

    Birgitta Whittaker
  • 163 Waldon Triplets
  • 164

    New gateway
  • 165 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

  • 166

    Holidaying in north Devon
  • 167 Works at craft he learned over 65 years ago

  • 168 Cavaliers join the Hunt
  • 169 Out of puff!

  • 170 Buckland farm workers to receive long-service awards

  • 171 113 years at Instow

  • 172 Littleham family's five generations

  • 173 Donkey and horses enjoy carnival drink

  • 174 Mobile missionary

  • 175 Riverside mystery

  • 176 Bideford's new market opens next week

  • 177 Northam loses thatched cottage landmark

  • 178 Chess - their bridge over the years

  • 179 New Lundy stamps

  • 180 Four sisters' nostalgic reunion

  • 181 Yelland potter's exhibition at Bideford

  • 182 Five generations link Woolsery, Clovelly and Bideford

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

  • 184 Appledore Juniors Football
  • 185 Shoes certainly not made for walking

  • 186 Gloves fit for a king!

  • 187 Weare Giffard potato

  • 188 Church renovation rejoicing at Northam

  • 189 Torrington's enterprise's new extensions

  • 190

    Wynne Olley's styles impress International Hair Fashion Designer
  • 191 Appledore tugs fete London Tower

  • 192 Torridge graveyard of wooden hulks

  • 193 Rowing triumphs at Bideford

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

  • 195 Yeoi Vale House finally demolished

  • 196 Bideford loses training ship

  • 197 All for the love of a lady!

  • 198 What's the time?

  • 199 A Weare Giffard speciality - delicious strawberries

  • 200 Torrington to have first woman mayor

  • 201 Donkey work made easier at Clovelly

  • 202

    Hamburger is part of modern life
  • 203 Picking the pops

  • 204 Buckland goes to County Show

  • 205 River scenes that enchant the visitors

  • 206 Launching the 'Golden Hinde'

  • 207 Future of Torrington almshouses

  • 208 Puzzle corner at Bideford!

  • 209 Eight to strike and a race to win

  • 210 Head Barman appointed Torrington Town Crier
  • 211 Private home for public pump

  • 212 Revived market off to splendid start

  • 213 New Post Office

  • 214 Clovelly custom

  • 215 Sunshine and shade at Appledore

  • 216 Battle of the gap at Westward Ho!

  • 217 Children's procession with foxgloves

  • 218 Sight of a lifetime

  • 219 Fishermen of Greencliff

  • 220 Bideford schoolboy's courage recognised

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    10-year-old scrambler practices
  • 222 A craftsman's 'potted' history

  • 223 Town's second woman mayor in 392 years

  • 224 Torrington Youth Club rewarded by party
  • 225 New look for Torrington Lane

  • 226

    Appledore boys beat mums at football
  • 227 Bideford Liberal club new lounge bar opened

  • 228 The art of the thatcher

  • 229 Train returns to Westleigh straight

  • 230 Success to Festival of the Arts

  • 231 Bideford's gift to Sir Francis

  • 232 A roof-top view - where?

  • 233 No ancient Grecian temple this

  • 234 Bideford skifflers, they're no squares

  • 235 Torrington children build igloo
  • 236 Can-carrying over cobbles has disappeared

  • 237 Calligrapher extraordinary

  • 238

    Gift from Bideford Town Council
  • 239 Service with a smile

  • 240 Ships at Bideford

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

  • 242 Northam wants to continue pumping from river

  • 243 Artisans' Club

  • 244 Saving money, wear and tear

  • 245 X-ray shoe fitting

  • 246 New Lundy air-mail stamps

  • 247 Parkham plan realised

  • 248 In their new robes and hats

  • 249 Salmon netting at Bideford

  • 250 Some 240 exhibits

  • 251 Bideford Zoo's first baby is big draw

  • 252 Torrington's shelter for the aged

  • 253 Sooty is quick on the draw

  • 254 School's link with cargo ship

  • 255 Bideford Bridge re-opens

  • 256 New addition to Quay front

  • 257 One thousand visit zoo at Whitsun

  • 258 Bideford shipyard workers cheer new minesweeper

  • 259 East-the-Water sets town an example

  • 260 Bridging the stream

  • 261 Bideford's first triplets for 12 years

  • 262 Two kinds of hovercraft at Bideford

  • 263 Hartland postman retires

  • 264 Torrington's new amenity

  • 265 Revenge in style

  • 266 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

  • 267 Huntshaw TV mast

  • 268 Bicycle now does donkey work

  • 269 Simple Item 138
  • 270 Getting up steam for tomorrow

  • 271 TV contest means big job for Bideford Guides

  • 272 It really was the 'last time'

  • 273 Down at the 'Donkey House'

  • 274 Appledore schooner broadcast

  • 275

    Lenwood Squash Club
  • 276 Hartland Abbey outdoor staff 60 years ago

  • 277 Quads join a Langtree happy family

  • 278 Vessel built 300 feet above sea level

  • 279 Ship-in-bottle world record

  • 280 Eight and a half million pound Taw development scheme

  • 281 Fleet of foot and fair of face

  • 282 Do recall the old windmill at Northam?

  • 283 Puppet characters introduced

  • 284 Bideford Liberals' fashion show

  • 285 Littleham cow tops 70 tons mark in milk production

  • 286 Alderman Anstey's dream comes tru

  • 287 Larkworthy Family play in Shebbear's Football Team
  • 288 John Andrew Bread Charity
  • 289 Faints as she wins national competition

  • 290 Water Board mains spread through villages

  • 291 Alverdiscott is proud of its new parish hall

  • 292 All aboard the ark

  • 293 Bideford-Torrington road gets 'carpet coat'

  • 294 Torrington in 1967

  • 295 Gift plaque on Clovelly council houses

  • 296 Capers on the cobbles

  • 297 Fishing light goes out at close of poor season

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

  • 299 Bideford blacksmith wins English championship

  • 300 End of the line

  • 301 Symbol of Lundy independence

  • 302 Warmington's garage ad

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

  • 304 Second Monte Carlo Rally

  • 305 First steel ship built at Bideford

  • 306 Brothers reunion 1947
  • 307 Peter poses for TV film

  • 308 'Out of Appledore' sailing memories

  • 309 Appledore boy is youngest recipient of RNLI vellun

  • 310 North Devon Driving School

  • 311 Cement-clad boats being built at Northam

  • 312 They set out for Bideford and became lost

  • 313 Boys win hockey on the sands challenge

  • 314 Beach search for mines takes longer

  • 315 Students help model St Sidwell

  • 316 Bideford regatta

  • 317 Yeo vale road ruin provides a mystery

  • 318 Off on a great adventure

  • 319 Born 1883 - still going strong

  • 320 Light reading for the lighthouse

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

  • 322 Lots drawn to prevent dog fight

  • 323 Torridge wins on time schedule

  • 324 Bideford's private wharves busier

  • 325 Designed all furnishing of new chapel

  • 326 Bideford electricity window display qualifies for area competition

  • 327 Thorn-apple found in Littleham conservatory

  • 328 Bravery against bull at Shebbear rewarded

  • 329

    FA Cup Match for the Robins
  • 330 Bideford childrens' cinema opens

  • 331 Instow local art show was 'tremendous success'

  • 332 Emergency ferry services

  • 333 Space dominates Hartland carnival

  • 334 No sale of Springfield House

  • 335 Move for oldest boatyard on Torridge

  • 336 What is future of railway goods yard?

  • 337 Still hunting aged 80 and a Field Master

  • 338 Thunderstorm destruction of 25 years ago

  • 339 Bideford country dancers on TV

  • 340 Clovelly's 91 year old horseman

  • 341 New shipyard on schedule

  • 342 Centenary of Gazette

  • 343 Record pebble-throwing day

  • 344 So this is the mainland!

  • 345 In the tortoise nursery - eight hatched at Bideford

  • 346 They are parted pro-tem

  • 347 Broomhayes children will keep their winter pet

  • 348 Jumble sale fever

  • 349 Twenty-one yachts

  • 350 'Les Girls' of Hartland

  • 351 Holiday scene near Sandymere

  • 352 A bird of their own!

  • 353 Centenary of Landcross Methodist Chapel

  • 354 Lady Godiva comes to Torrington

  • 355 New look in the hayfields

  • 356 School crossing patrol begins

  • 357

    Mrs Whapham finds ferret in Bridgeland Street while shopping
  • 358 They never miss a game at Torrington

  • 359

    Youth Clubs Join Together For Entertainment
  • 360 New life for Hartland organ

  • 361 Weare Giffard Hall sold for £11,300

  • 362 Homage to a well-loved sovereign

  • 363 Pet squirrels at Monkleigh

  • 364 America's tribute to 'J.H.'

  • 365 North Devon author featured in TV documentary

  • 366

    Inter-school Road Safety Quiz Cup Winners
  • 367 Harvest service in Bideford 'pub' bar

  • 368 An early 'special' to Bideford

  • 369 Torrington acclaims 400th anniversary of granting of charter

  • 370

    Was a missionary
  • 371 Landmark at Bradworthy

  • 372 Westward Ho! sand yacht to challenge speed record

  • 373

    Successful motor cycling team
  • 374 Largest salmon caught in Torridge

  • 375 No ancient Grecian temple this

  • 376 Olympic riders to compete at Bideford Horse Show

  • 377 Thirty bridges cross Torridge

  • 378 Smiling welcome to Hartland visitors

  • 379 Liked holidays here - so starts business

  • 380 Barley from Bideford to Bonnie Scotland

  • 381 Dismantling of wireless mast

  • 382 Life begins at 80

  • 383 Daisy's pride and joy

  • 384 Wishing well is pixielated

  • 385 Happy Days!

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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People

At Hartland Wedding

At Hartland Wedding - 2nd March 1937

2.3.1937 Hartland wedding
 

Bridegroom And Best Man In Light-Keepers Uniform

Both bridgegroom and best man wore their light-keeper's uniform at the wedding at St Nectan's on Saturday, of Mr Redvers Ewart, younger and only surviving son of Mrs Annie and the late Mr William Buckler, to Bessie Iverna R., younger daughter of Mr and Mrs Ernest W Pyne, of Blagdon. The weather cleared just in time for the ceremony.
The Vicar (Rev Ivon Gregory, R.D.) officiated, Mr G Burrow being organist.
The bride, who was given away by her father, wore a dress of white satin with train, embroidered veil and coronet of orange blossoms, white satin shoes and carried a bouquet of arum lilies, white carnations, white heather, and ferns. She was attended by her only sister Mrs Doris Barnes, of St Anne's Lighthouse, as matron of honour, who wore an ankle length marina marocain dress, hat to tone and silver shoes.
Bridesmaids were Miss May Westlake, Miss Cissy Lane, Miss L Stanbury. They wore ankle length marina satin dresses, net caps to tone, trimmed with velvet flowers and silver leaves, silver sandal shoes, and carried bouquets of pink carnations, white heather and ferns. Mr G Hy Prebble (Hartland Point) was best man. The bride's mother wore a brown marocain dress with brown hat, and the bridegrooms's mother one of navy blue silk and navy blue hat.
The bride's preesnt to the bridegroom was a gold watch chain and the bridegroom gave the bride a cabinet sewing machine. He also gave the Misses Lane and Stanbury silver bangles, and Mrs Barnes and Miss Westlake gold signet rings.
About forty attended a reception at Blagdon House. The honeymoon is being spent at Bournemouth the bride travelling in a brown dress and coat and rust coloured going away hat.
The bride and bridegroom's new address will be Devon House, Edmund Street, Holyhead, N Wales.

Bideford Grammar School

Bideford Grammar School - 2nd July 1929

2.7.1929 free places at Bideford Grammar
 

Winners OF Free Places

The successful candidates at the recent examination for free places are as follows: R A H Hunkin - Torrington Council School; W A Cork - Abbotsham Church of England; R G Baldson and P S Kelly - Bideford Council; J H W Lamey and H Ford - Appledore Council; T D Hooper - Bideford Council; E C Griffey - Northam Church of England; H W D Blackmore - Bideford Council; R G Pomeroy adn R Nancekievill - Hartland Council; and J K Symons - Merton Church of England.

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