• 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 Train returns to Westleigh straight

  • 2 Alverdiscott is proud of its new parish hall

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

  • 4 Bravery against bull at Shebbear rewarded

  • 5 Children's procession with foxgloves

  • 6 Dismantling of wireless mast

  • 7 Peter poses for TV film

  • 8 Ships at Bideford

  • 9 Northam wants to continue pumping from river

  • 10 Weare Giffard potato

  • 11 Eight to strike and a race to win

  • 12

    Hamburger is part of modern life
  • 13 Revived market off to splendid start

  • 14

    Gus Honeybun meets local children
  • 15 Fleet of foot and fair of face

  • 16 Salmon netting at Bideford

  • 17 Hartland postman retires

  • 18 A roof-top view - where?

  • 19 Westward Ho! Tennis Club Winners
  • 20 Lady Godiva comes to Torrington

  • 21 Bideford computer stars

  • 22 Alwington School closing after 120 years

  • 23 First steel ship built at Bideford

  • 24 Police station view of Bideford

  • 25

    First prize
  • 26 Quads join a Langtree happy family

  • 27 Private home for public pump

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

  • 29 Teenager Peter Jackson Makes Horror Film
  • 30 Tomorrow' night's skittles broadcast from Bideford

  • 31 Floral dancing at Appledore

  • 32

    Successful motor cycling team
  • 33 Bideford shipyard workers cheer new minesweeper

  • 34 Bicycle now does donkey work

  • 35 Devil sent packing

  • 36 Battle of the gap at Westward Ho!

  • 37 Liked holidays here - so starts business

  • 38 Traditions and skills still there

  • 39 Bideford-Torrington road gets 'carpet coat'

  • 40 Vessel built 300 feet above sea level

  • 41 Celebrations for 103rd birthday

  • 42 Torridge graveyard of wooden hulks

  • 43 Centuries old but today busier than ever

  • 44 Escaped crane moves into Kenwith Valley

  • 45 Torridge wins on time schedule

  • 46 He beat the floods

  • 47 Church renovation rejoicing at Northam

  • 48 Baby Kate goes home to Lundy

  • 49 They never miss a game at Torrington

  • 50 Meredith's ironmongers

  • 51 Harvest service in Bideford 'pub' bar

  • 52 No ancient Grecian temple this

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

  • 54 Designed and made in Bideford

  • 55 Last train from Torrington

  • 56 Can spring be far away?

  • 57 113 years at Instow

  • 58 'Out of Appledore' sailing memories

  • 59 Mural in the whimsical fashion

  • 60 Picture bought for shillings may be worth thousands

  • 61 Bideford electricity window display qualifies for area competition

  • 62 No sale of Springfield House

  • 63 Meeting at 10 Downing Street

  • 64 Bideford Liberal club new lounge bar opened

  • 65 Allhalland Street - then and now

  • 66 School crossing patrol begins

  • 67 Bideford stock car racing entry comes in second

  • 68 Charter granted by Philip and Mary

  • 69

    FA Cup Match for the Robins
  • 70 Fish nearly pulled him in

  • 71 Bideford triplets' first birthday party

  • 72 Born 1883 - still going strong

  • 73

    10-year-old scrambler practices
  • 74 Can-carrying over cobbles has disappeared

  • 75 Pannier Market's future?

  • 76 Move for oldest boatyard on Torridge

  • 77 Just over a year old

  • 78 Joe the ginger tabby is 21

  • 79 Appledore Juniors Football
  • 80 Appledore's new lifeboat

  • 81 Eleventh hour bid to save last sailing barge

  • 82 Huntshaw TV mast

  • 83 Decontrol of meat

  • 84 Hartland Abbey outdoor staff 60 years ago

  • 85 Tramps camp by riverside throughout arctic weather

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

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

  • 88 TV features Bideford's New Year bread ceremony

  • 89 Head Barman appointed Torrington Town Crier
  • 90 Westward Ho! sand yacht to challenge speed record

  • 91 TV contest means big job for Bideford Guides

  • 92 X-ray shoe fitting

  • 93 Northam's almshouse

  • 94 Wine and beer merchants for 150 years

  • 95 Donkey work made easier at Clovelly

  • 96 North Devon author featured in TV documentary

  • 97 Broomhayes children will keep their winter pet

  • 98 Larkworthy Family play in Shebbear's Football Team
  • 99 Yelland potter's exhibition at Bideford

  • 100 Fundraising trip for RNLI

  • 101 Sweets derationing

  • 102 The cab at the corner>
  • 103 Farewell to passenger trains

  • 104 Watch the dicky bird!

  • 105 End of the line

  • 106 Variety in summer weather

  • 107

    Womens Skittles Competition in Buckland Brewer
  • 108

    Relatives all over the world
  • 109 Riverside mystery

  • 110

    Was a missionary
  • 111 The Geneva marionettes

  • 112 Weare Giffard Hall sold for £11,300

  • 113

    Toasted with musical honours
  • 114 Passing of a Torrington landmark

  • 115 Panel sprint for Bideford broadcast

  • 116 Bideford's private wharves busier

  • 117 Bideford inquest on French trawlermen opens

  • 118 A story to tell!

  • 119 Sweet success at Langtree School

  • 120 Bideford School Junior Choir Sing in France at Twinning Ceremony in Landivisiau
  • 121 For crying out loud!

  • 122 Bideford regatta

  • 123 Housing progress at East-the-Water>
  • 124

    Double Baptism on Torridge
  • 125 Practical sympathy at Northam

  • 126 Broomhayes £1,000 Surprise
  • 127 Grenville House for Bideford R.D.C.

  • 128 Steep street of old Bideford

  • 129 Still hunting aged 80 and a Field Master

  • 130 Penny for the guy

  • 131 Puppet characters introduced

  • 132 Four sisters' nostalgic reunion

  • 133 Launching the 'Golden Hinde'

  • 134 New art gallery opened

  • 135 New fire and ambulance stations

  • 136 Making way for the double-deckers

  • 137 Thriving 'orphan of the storm'

  • 138 Down at the 'Donkey House'

  • 139 Filming at Hartland

  • 140 Appledore's largest

  • 141 First ship in 8 years

  • 142

    Inter-school Road Safety Quiz Cup Winners
  • 143 Buckland farm workers to receive long-service awards

  • 144 North Devon Driving School

  • 145 Westward Ho! combined op

  • 146

    Gift from Bideford Town Council
  • 147 Wilfred and Mabel visit schools and hospital

  • 148 Jumble sale fever

  • 149 Westward Ho! public conveniences get go ahead
  • 150 Four hundred residents leave Bideford!

  • 151

    Close associations with North Devon
  • 152 What the television camera saw at Abbotsham

  • 153 Chess - their bridge over the years

  • 154 East-the-Water sets town an example

  • 155 Simple Item 138
  • 156 Community centre opened at Westward Ho!

  • 157 Centenary of Landcross Methodist Chapel

  • 158 Thrush builds nest in cauliflower

  • 159 Littleham cow tops 70 tons mark in milk production

  • 160 All for the love of a lady!

  • 161 A man and his wheel

  • 162 Sooty is quick on the draw

  • 163 New Lundy air-mail stamps

  • 164 Big develolpment at Calveford

  • 165 Wishing well is pixielated

  • 166 No laughing matter

  • 167 Off on a great adventure

  • 168 Saving money, wear and tear

  • 169 Bideford loses training ship

  • 170

    Holidaying in north Devon
  • 171 A bird of their own!

  • 172 Instow local art show was 'tremendous success'

  • 173 Symbol of Lundy independence

  • 174 Appledore boy is youngest recipient of RNLI vellun

  • 175 Championship Trophy for Hartland
  • 176 Inscribed Bibles and silver spoons for babies

  • 177 Twenty-one yachts

  • 178 Unique holiday adventure!

  • 179 Do recall the old windmill at Northam?

  • 180 Speeding communications: Bideford firm's new installation

  • 181 Bideford A.F.C annual dinner
  • 182 Bideford childrens' cinema opens

  • 183 Yeo vale road ruin provides a mystery

  • 184 Brothers reunion 1947
  • 185 East-the-Water's call for new school

  • 186 New life for Hartland organ

  • 187 Picking the pops

  • 188 Gloves fit for a king!

  • 189 New gateway to King George's Fields

  • 190 Largest salmon caught in Torridge

  • 191 Last of Bideford factory chimney

  • 192 A sense of humour in advertising

  • 193 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

  • 194 Cement-clad boats being built at Northam

  • 195

    School of Dancing's Annual Display
  • 196 Modern living at Bideford

  • 197 Photo of town's first car wins prize

  • 198 Gift plaque on Clovelly council houses

  • 199 Holiday scene near Sandymere

  • 200 In the tortoise nursery - eight hatched at Bideford

  • 201 Yeoi Vale House finally demolished

  • 202 A lost Bideford 'island'

  • 203 Finished in 1876

  • 204 Ten year old scrambler

  • 205 Bideford's new market opens next week

  • 206 Thirty bridges cross Torridge

  • 207 Appledore schooner broadcast

  • 208 New shipyard on schedule

  • 209 Boys win hockey on the sands challenge

  • 210 Donkey and horses enjoy carnival drink

  • 211 A craftsman's 'potted' history

  • 212 Centenary of Gazette

  • 213 Council agree to demolition of Chanter's Folly

  • 214 Warmington's garage ad

  • 215 Sunshine and shade at Appledore

  • 216 Torrington's enterprise's new extensions

  • 217 They set out for Bideford and became lost

  • 218 Torrington in 1967

  • 219 What's the time?

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    Cadets are given certificates
  • 221 Bideford's gift to Sir Francis

  • 222 Some mushroom!

  • 223 Sailing to victory at Appledore

  • 224 Beach search for mines takes longer

  • 225 Little 'Big Ben'

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

  • 227 Quads at Thornhillhead

  • 228 Mayor becomes engine driver>
  • 229 Spring-cleaning the Ridge

  • 230

    Andre Veillett and Quentin Reed in Judo Demonstration
  • 231 Northam loses thatched cottage landmark

  • 232 Sight of a lifetime

  • 233 From Bobby to Brian

  • 234 New choral society's growing response

  • 235 Record pebble-throwing day

  • 236 Bideford Bridge re-opens

  • 237

    Birgitta Whittaker
  • 238 Bank Holiday weather was beach weather

  • 239 Students help model St Sidwell

  • 240

    Building works
  • 241 One of the luckier farmers in getting in the problem harvest

  • 242 Torrington children build igloo
  • 243 Fishing light goes out at close of poor season

  • 244 Bideford's first woman councillor

  • 245 Mobile missionary

  • 246 Cruising down the river

  • 247 Buckland goes to County Show

  • 248 Tibbles home again - and fish supper

  • 249 Bideford Liberals' fashion show

  • 250 By pony and trap to market

  • 251 School's link with cargo ship

  • 252 Success to Festival of the Arts

  • 253 New look in the hayfields

  • 254

    Lenwood Squash Club
  • 255 Picking the pops

  • 256 Daisy's pride and joy

  • 257

    Wynne Olley's styles impress International Hair Fashion Designer
  • 258 Record player of 80 years ago

  • 259 Where Bideford rope-makers walked>
  • 260 Clovelly donkey film star

  • 261 First tankers arrive at new depot

  • 262 Puzzle corner at Bideford!

  • 263 Loads of black and white

  • 264 Torrington's new amenity

  • 265 Appledore skill brings 'Hispaniola' to life

  • 266 Parkham plan realised

  • 267 Circus comes to town

  • 268 America's tribute to 'J.H.'

  • 269 They are parted pro-tem

  • 270

    Youth Clubs Join Together For Entertainment
  • 271 Entente cordiale in Bideford

  • 272 Amsterdam to Bideford double success

  • 273 Capers on the cobbles

  • 274 Pretty pennies at Beaford

  • 275 'Les Girls' of Hartland

  • 276 The art of the thatcher

  • 277 New addition to Quay front

  • 278 Eleven million pound scheme's official opening

  • 279 No ancient Grecian temple this

  • 280 Some 240 exhibits

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    Reds Womens Team Are First To Compete Throughout Season
  • 282 Getting up steam for tomorrow

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

  • 284 Bringing shopping home by goat

  • 285 Boys from Bideford school complete Ten Tors

  • 286 Jalopy joy for children of Shamwickshire

  • 287 Champagne send-off for Torrington new factory

  • 288 Revenge in style

  • 289 Up-to-date Bideford!

  • 290 Wasps' nest in sewing machine

  • 291 Holiday traffic in Bideford High Street

  • 292 Happy Days!

  • 293

    Mums protest in Coronation Road
  • 294 Torrington school's sundial - fashioned by Headmaster

  • 295 So this is the mainland!

  • 296 New Lundy stamps

  • 297 Clovelly nightmare

  • 298 An early 'special' to Bideford

  • 299 Bridging the stream

  • 300 The creative urge on Saturday morning

  • 301 Colour TV salesman at eight

  • 302 Two kinds of hovercraft at Bideford

  • 303 Torrington acclaims 400th anniversary of granting of charter

  • 304 Second Monte Carlo Rally

  • 305 Alderman Anstey's dream comes tru

  • 306

    Bidefordians
  • 307 Out of puff!

  • 308 Preparations for new Clovelly Court

  • 309 Shoes certainly not made for walking

  • 310 Space dominates Hartland carnival

  • 311 Hartland's invitation

  • 312 Repair work on Long Bridge
  • 313 Torrington's shelter for the aged

  • 314 Water Board mains spread through villages

  • 315 Designed all furnishing of new chapel

  • 316 Panto time at Westward Ho!

  • 317 River scenes that enchant the visitors

  • 318 Local glove-making factory advertising for staff

  • 319 On her 'maiden' trip from Bideford

  • 320 Clovelly's 91 year old horseman

  • 321 Burnard family reunion

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

  • 323 Ancestral home nestling in lovely combe

  • 324 Photo mural in Bideford bank

  • 325 At Bideford Arts Ball>
  • 326 Bideford schoolboy's courage recognised

  • 327 John Andrew Bread Charity
  • 328 Fishermen of Greencliff

  • 329 New Estate's view of estuary activities

  • 330 Ship-in-bottle world record

  • 331 Waldon Triplets
  • 332 Calligrapher extraordinary

  • 333 Death - and birth - of a telephone exchange

  • 334 In their new robes and hats

  • 335 Bideford country dancers on TV

  • 336 Signed scroll momento of Queen Mother's visit

  • 337 Five generations link Woolsery, Clovelly and Bideford

  • 338 Calf thinks of mare as mum

  • 339 Hartland Dancers
  • 340 For South Africa from Westward Ho!

  • 341 Cavaliers join the Hunt
  • 342 New Post Office

  • 343 Service with a smile

  • 344 Lady Churchill congratulates Bideford artists at nursing exhibition

  • 345 Artisans' Club

  • 346 Bideford's first triplets for 12 years

  • 347 Television comes to Torridge District

  • 348 Safe door weighing two tons

  • 349 Life begins at 80

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

  • 351 Olympic riders to compete at Bideford Horse Show

  • 352 Recognise this resort?

  • 353 Spray dodging - the new pastime

  • 354 Lots drawn to prevent dog fight

  • 355 Torrington Youth Club rewarded by party
  • 356 Bideford Zoo's first baby is big draw

  • 357 Homage to a well-loved sovereign

  • 358 Birds' convalescent home at Instow

  • 359 Barley from Bideford to Bonnie Scotland

  • 360 Bideford firm develops new non-spill paint

  • 361 Light reading for the lighthouse

  • 362 It really was the 'last time'

  • 363 Rowing triumphs at Bideford

  • 364 New civic medallions

  • 365 Old Girls revisit Edgehill

  • 366 Works at craft he learned over 65 years ago

  • 367 Six footed lamb

  • 368 Landmark at Bradworthy

  • 369 Golden Bay Hotel ad.>
  • 370 Appledore tugs fete London Tower

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    Married in 1908
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    New gateway
  • 373 What is future of railway goods yard?

  • 374 Christmas tree on Bideford Quay>
  • 375 Northam footballers of the future

  • 376

    Appledore boys beat mums at football
  • 377

    Exhibition of school work
  • 378 Thorn-apple found in Littleham conservatory

  • 379 Shipbuilding hobby at Hartland

  • 380 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

  • 381 Childrens' model of Torrington

  • 382 Afternoon tea in the park

  • 383 New look for Torrington Lane

  • 384 One thousand visit zoo at Whitsun

  • 385 Clovelly custom

  • 386 Thunderstorm destruction of 25 years ago

  • 387 Eight and a half million pound Taw development scheme

  • 388

    Mrs Whapham finds ferret in Bridgeland Street while shopping
  • 389 Smiling welcome to Hartland visitors

  • 390 Town's second woman mayor in 392 years

  • 391 Bideford skifflers, they're no squares

  • 392 Tide sweeps under and over the old bridge

  • 393 Prizewinning babies at Torrington

  • 394 Polish custom on Pancake Day

  • 395

    First Girls at Bideford Grammar School take part in Play
  • 396 All aboard the ark

  • 397 Emergency ferry services

  • 398 Found the answer waiting for him>
  • 399 When horses score over the tractor

  • 400 Bideford blacksmith wins English championship

  • 401 Safety-first dipomas awarded to Torrington drivers

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

  • 403

    Jinxed School Trip
  • 404 Torrington Church's new organ

  • 405 Littleham family's five generations

  • 406 Down at the dump something stirs

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

  • 408 Faints as she wins national competition

  • 409 A Weare Giffard speciality - delicious strawberries

  • 410 Torrington to have first woman mayor

  • 411 Pet squirrels at Monkleigh

  • 412 Future of Torrington almshouses

  • 413 Bideford has built over 500 post-war homes

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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  • 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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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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Fire Ends ‘a Thousand Years of History’

A thousand years of history disappeared overnight when Dunsland House, Bradford, Holsworthy, was destroyed by fire early on Saturday.

November 1967 Dunsland House Holsworthy

The phrase is that of Mr John Manley Price, the curator, who, with his mother, Mrs Enid Caffyn, had lived at the house for the past nine years. They probably own their lives to their sheepdog whose barking awoke Mr Price at about 3.15am. The house was then filled with smoke and so intense was the heat that the roof tiles were exploding.
The fire had put the phone out of action and Mr Price had to drive to Brandis Corner to raise the alarm. When he returned it was obvious that nothing could be done to save the mansion, owned by the National Trust, or its contents. ‘It was a raging inferno’ said Mr Price.
‘This is a 100 per cent disaster’ commented Mr N Trinnick who is secretary of the Trust committee for Devon and Cornwall. ‘Dunsland will never be rebuilt’.
Units of the County Fire Brigade from Torrington, Holsworthy and Hatherleigh fought the blaze although it was apparent from the time they arrived that nothing could be done. An electrical fault is thought to have caused the blaze.
Mr Price and his mother are staying for the time being with Mr Tony Lacey, prospective Liberal candidate for Torrington, and Mrs Lacey, at Fernlea, near Holsworthy.
The full Gazette article is dated 24 November 1967.

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