• 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 Weare Giffard potato

  • 2 Emergency ferry services

  • 3 Modern living at Bideford

  • 4 Alwington School closing after 120 years

  • 5 Yeo vale road ruin provides a mystery

  • 6 Pretty pennies at Beaford

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

  • 8 Liked holidays here - so starts business

  • 9 Torrington's enterprise's new extensions

  • 10 Gloves fit for a king!

  • 11 Bideford Liberals' fashion show

  • 12

    Lenwood Squash Club
  • 13 Warmington's garage ad

  • 14 Light reading for the lighthouse

  • 15 Rowing triumphs at Bideford

  • 16 A craftsman's 'potted' history

  • 17 Picking the pops

  • 18 Wilfred and Mabel visit schools and hospital

  • 19 Private home for public pump

  • 20 An early 'special' to Bideford

  • 21 Champagne send-off for Torrington new factory

  • 22

    Exhibition of school work
  • 23 Bideford's private wharves busier

  • 24 Big develolpment at Calveford

  • 25 Entente cordiale in Bideford

  • 26 'Les Girls' of Hartland

  • 27 School crossing patrol begins

  • 28 Centenary of Landcross Methodist Chapel

  • 29 Buckland goes to County Show

  • 30 They never miss a game at Torrington

  • 31 Puzzle corner at Bideford!

  • 32 Steep street of old Bideford

  • 33 Dismantling of wireless mast

  • 34 Homage to a well-loved sovereign

  • 35 X-ray shoe fitting

  • 36 Tide sweeps under and over the old bridge

  • 37 New look for Torrington Lane

  • 38 Born 1883 - still going strong

  • 39 North Devon Driving School

  • 40 A story to tell!

  • 41 Alverdiscott is proud of its new parish hall

  • 42 For crying out loud!

  • 43 America's tribute to 'J.H.'

  • 44 What is future of railway goods yard?

  • 45 On her 'maiden' trip from Bideford

  • 46 Eleventh hour bid to save last sailing barge

  • 47 Bideford stock car racing entry comes in second

  • 48 Torrington to have first woman mayor

  • 49 Traditions and skills still there

  • 50 Eight to strike and a race to win

  • 51 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

  • 52 Celebrations for 103rd birthday

  • 53 Sunshine and shade at Appledore

  • 54 Designed and made in Bideford

  • 55 Bideford has built over 500 post-war homes

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

  • 57 Clovelly donkey film star

  • 58 Finished in 1876

  • 59 Cruising down the river

  • 60 Cavaliers join the Hunt
  • 61 Torrington in 1967

  • 62 Chess - their bridge over the years

  • 63 Getting up steam for tomorrow

  • 64 Buckland farm workers to receive long-service awards

  • 65 Pannier Market's future?

  • 66 Clovelly's 91 year old horseman

  • 67 Success to Festival of the Arts

  • 68 So this is the mainland!

  • 69 Holiday traffic in Bideford High Street

  • 70 All for the love of a lady!

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

  • 72 Peter poses for TV film

  • 73 Torrington children build igloo
  • 74 Simple Item 138
  • 75 Just over a year old

  • 76 First steel ship built at Bideford

  • 77 Can-carrying over cobbles has disappeared

  • 78 Recognise this resort?

  • 79 Watch the dicky bird!

  • 80 Burnard family reunion

  • 81 Appledore Juniors Football
  • 82 Charter granted by Philip and Mary

  • 83 Westward Ho! sand yacht to challenge speed record

  • 84 What the television camera saw at Abbotsham

  • 85 Record pebble-throwing day

  • 86 Jumble sale fever

  • 87 Westward Ho! Tennis Club Winners
  • 88 John Andrew Bread Charity
  • 89 Bideford Zoo's first baby is big draw

  • 90 North Devon author featured in TV documentary

  • 91

    First prize
  • 92 Police station view of Bideford

  • 93 Torrington Youth Club rewarded by party
  • 94 Broomhayes £1,000 Surprise
  • 95 Olympic riders to compete at Bideford Horse Show

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

  • 97 What's the time?

  • 98 Appledore tugs fete London Tower

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

  • 100 Five generations link Woolsery, Clovelly and Bideford

  • 101 Bringing shopping home by goat

  • 102 Off on a great adventure

  • 103 Two kinds of hovercraft at Bideford

  • 104 Up-to-date Bideford!

  • 105 Service with a smile

  • 106

    Womens Skittles Competition in Buckland Brewer
  • 107 TV contest means big job for Bideford Guides

  • 108 Passing of a Torrington landmark

  • 109 Hartland Abbey outdoor staff 60 years ago

  • 110

    Double Baptism on Torridge
  • 111 Four hundred residents leave Bideford!

  • 112 East-the-Water sets town an example

  • 113 Can spring be far away?

  • 114

    Was a missionary
  • 115 One thousand visit zoo at Whitsun

  • 116 Little 'Big Ben'

  • 117

    Mrs Whapham finds ferret in Bridgeland Street while shopping
  • 118 Shipbuilding hobby at Hartland

  • 119 Four sisters' nostalgic reunion

  • 120 Boys win hockey on the sands challenge

  • 121 Torrington acclaims 400th anniversary of granting of charter

  • 122 Picture bought for shillings may be worth thousands

  • 123 Some 240 exhibits

  • 124 Mobile missionary

  • 125 Fishing light goes out at close of poor season

  • 126

    Relatives all over the world
  • 127

    Mums protest in Coronation Road
  • 128 Loads of black and white

  • 129 Puppet characters introduced

  • 130 Eight and a half million pound Taw development scheme

  • 131 Broomhayes children will keep their winter pet

  • 132 Bideford childrens' cinema opens

  • 133 Hartland Dancers
  • 134 Lady Churchill congratulates Bideford artists at nursing exhibition

  • 135 The art of the thatcher

  • 136 Teenager Peter Jackson Makes Horror Film
  • 137 Shoes certainly not made for walking

  • 138 Penny for the guy

  • 139 A Weare Giffard speciality - delicious strawberries

  • 140 Daisy's pride and joy

  • 141 Birds' convalescent home at Instow

  • 142 Practical sympathy at Northam

  • 143 Clovelly custom

  • 144

    Gus Honeybun meets local children
  • 145 Vessel built 300 feet above sea level

  • 146 Train returns to Westleigh straight

  • 147 Fishermen of Greencliff

  • 148 Works at craft he learned over 65 years ago

  • 149 Head Barman appointed Torrington Town Crier
  • 150 Landmark at Bradworthy

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

  • 152 Still hunting aged 80 and a Field Master

  • 153 A sense of humour in advertising

  • 154 Torrington's shelter for the aged

  • 155 Mural in the whimsical fashion

  • 156 Bideford loses training ship

  • 157 Decontrol of meat

  • 158 Jalopy joy for children of Shamwickshire

  • 159 Symbol of Lundy independence

  • 160

    Toasted with musical honours
  • 161 Sooty is quick on the draw

  • 162 Out of puff!

  • 163 Town's second woman mayor in 392 years

  • 164

    First Girls at Bideford Grammar School take part in Play
  • 165 They set out for Bideford and became lost

  • 166 Alderman Anstey's dream comes tru

  • 167 Escaped crane moves into Kenwith Valley

  • 168 Six footed lamb

  • 169 Larkworthy Family play in Shebbear's Football Team
  • 170 Twenty-one yachts

  • 171

    Close associations with North Devon
  • 172 Riverside mystery

  • 173 Last of Bideford factory chimney

  • 174 Battle of the gap at Westward Ho!

  • 175 Thirty bridges cross Torridge

  • 176 In the tortoise nursery - eight hatched at Bideford

  • 177 They are parted pro-tem

  • 178 Space dominates Hartland carnival

  • 179 Inscribed Bibles and silver spoons for babies

  • 180 New shipyard on schedule

  • 181 Joe the ginger tabby is 21

  • 182 Panel sprint for Bideford broadcast

  • 183 New art gallery opened

  • 184

    Bidefordians
  • 185 No ancient Grecian temple this

  • 186 Picking the pops

  • 187 Lady Godiva comes to Torrington

  • 188 Bideford A.F.C annual dinner
  • 189 Tibbles home again - and fish supper

  • 190 Council agree to demolition of Chanter's Folly

  • 191 Polish custom on Pancake Day

  • 192 Ancestral home nestling in lovely combe

  • 193 Westward Ho! public conveniences get go ahead
  • 194

    New gateway
  • 195 Second Monte Carlo Rally

  • 196 Holiday scene near Sandymere

  • 197 Centuries old but today busier than ever

  • 198 Faints as she wins national competition

  • 199 He beat the floods

  • 200 Eleven million pound scheme's official opening

  • 201

    Cadets are given certificates
  • 202 Torridge graveyard of wooden hulks

  • 203 Quads join a Langtree happy family

  • 204 Torridge wins on time schedule

  • 205 Calf thinks of mare as mum

  • 206 Bideford skifflers, they're no squares

  • 207

    Jinxed School Trip
  • 208 New Post Office

  • 209 Safe door weighing two tons

  • 210 TV features Bideford's New Year bread ceremony

  • 211 Revenge in style

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

  • 213 No laughing matter

  • 214 Waldon Triplets
  • 215 First ship in 8 years

  • 216 A man and his wheel

  • 217 End of the line

  • 218 Capers on the cobbles

  • 219 Bridging the stream

  • 220 A roof-top view - where?

  • 221 Photo mural in Bideford bank

  • 222 Tramps camp by riverside throughout arctic weather

  • 223 Yeoi Vale House finally demolished

  • 224 Bideford triplets' first birthday party

  • 225 Colour TV salesman at eight

  • 226 Donkey and horses enjoy carnival drink

  • 227 Salmon netting at Bideford

  • 228 Signed scroll momento of Queen Mother's visit

  • 229 Ships at Bideford

  • 230 Bideford's first triplets for 12 years

  • 231 Boys from Bideford school complete Ten Tors

  • 232 Fish nearly pulled him in

  • 233 113 years at Instow

  • 234 The Geneva marionettes

  • 235 Littleham family's five generations

  • 236 Appledore's largest

  • 237

    Married in 1908
  • 238 Bideford shipyard workers cheer new minesweeper

  • 239 Bideford blacksmith wins English championship

  • 240 Students help model St Sidwell

  • 241 Thorn-apple found in Littleham conservatory

  • 242

    Holidaying in north Devon
  • 243 Tomorrow' night's skittles broadcast from Bideford

  • 244 Littleham cow tops 70 tons mark in milk production

  • 245 Speeding communications: Bideford firm's new installation

  • 246 Ship-in-bottle world record

  • 247 Do recall the old windmill at Northam?

  • 248 All aboard the ark

  • 249 Old Girls revisit Edgehill

  • 250 Bideford's new market opens next week

  • 251 Westward Ho! combined op

  • 252 Northam wants to continue pumping from river

  • 253 Baby Kate goes home to Lundy

  • 254 Last train from Torrington

  • 255 Bideford computer stars

  • 256 Fundraising trip for RNLI

  • 257 Artisans' Club

  • 258 Bideford inquest on French trawlermen opens

  • 259 Appledore schooner broadcast

  • 260 Sight of a lifetime

  • 261

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

  • 263 Clovelly nightmare

  • 264 Fleet of foot and fair of face

  • 265 Instow local art show was 'tremendous success'

  • 266 Repair work on Long Bridge
  • 267 'Out of Appledore' sailing memories

  • 268 School's link with cargo ship

  • 269 Meredith's ironmongers

  • 270 Bideford School Junior Choir Sing in France at Twinning Ceremony in Landivisiau
  • 271 Bideford country dancers on TV

  • 272 Centenary of Gazette

  • 273 No sale of Springfield House

  • 274 Harvest service in Bideford 'pub' bar

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    Successful motor cycling team
  • 276 East-the-Water's call for new school

  • 277 When horses score over the tractor

  • 278

    10-year-old scrambler practices
  • 279 New life for Hartland organ

  • 280 Spring-cleaning the Ridge

  • 281 Life begins at 80

  • 282 Appledore's new lifeboat

  • 283 Wine and beer merchants for 150 years

  • 284 New Estate's view of estuary activities

  • 285 First tankers arrive at new depot

  • 286 Northam's almshouse

  • 287 Preparations for new Clovelly Court

  • 288 Bideford regatta

  • 289 Water Board mains spread through villages

  • 290 Wishing well is pixielated

  • 291 Bank Holiday weather was beach weather

  • 292

    Youth Clubs Join Together For Entertainment
  • 293 Thrush builds nest in cauliflower

  • 294 Bideford Liberal club new lounge bar opened

  • 295 Largest salmon caught in Torridge

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

  • 297 Weare Giffard Hall sold for £11,300

  • 298 The creative urge on Saturday morning

  • 299 Bicycle now does donkey work

  • 300 New Lundy air-mail stamps

  • 301 New look in the hayfields

  • 302 Ten year old scrambler

  • 303 New Lundy stamps

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

  • 305 River scenes that enchant the visitors

  • 306

    Birgitta Whittaker
  • 307 Unique holiday adventure!

  • 308 A bird of their own!

  • 309

    Building works
  • 310 Designed all furnishing of new chapel

  • 311 Panto time at Westward Ho!

  • 312 A lost Bideford 'island'

  • 313 Move for oldest boatyard on Torridge

  • 314

    Wynne Olley's styles impress International Hair Fashion Designer
  • 315 Thunderstorm destruction of 25 years ago

  • 316 In their new robes and hats

  • 317

    Gift from Bideford Town Council
  • 318 Happy Days!

  • 319 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

  • 320 Church renovation rejoicing at Northam

  • 321 Spray dodging - the new pastime

  • 322 Huntshaw TV mast

  • 323 Barley from Bideford to Bonnie Scotland

  • 324 Donkey work made easier at Clovelly

  • 325 Northam footballers of the future

  • 326 Sweet success at Langtree School

  • 327

    Inter-school Road Safety Quiz Cup Winners
  • 328 Making way for the double-deckers

  • 329 Quads at Thornhillhead

  • 330 Variety in summer weather

  • 331 Hartland postman retires

  • 332 New civic medallions

  • 333 No ancient Grecian temple this

  • 334 Yelland potter's exhibition at Bideford

  • 335 Childrens' model of Torrington

  • 336 Revived market off to splendid start

  • 337 Bideford electricity window display qualifies for area competition

  • 338 Allhalland Street - then and now

  • 339

    Reds Womens Team Are First To Compete Throughout Season
  • 340 Bideford schoolboy's courage recognised

  • 341 It really was the 'last time'

  • 342 Bideford firm develops new non-spill paint

  • 343

    Hamburger is part of modern life
  • 344 To build racing cars in former blacksmith's shop

  • 345 Record player of 80 years ago

  • 346 Death - and birth - of a telephone exchange

  • 347 Saving money, wear and tear

  • 348 Children's procession with foxgloves

  • 349 Circus comes to town

  • 350 New choral society's growing response

  • 351 Brothers reunion 1947
  • 352

    Andre Veillett and Quentin Reed in Judo Demonstration
  • 353 Launching the 'Golden Hinde'

  • 354 Beach search for mines takes longer

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

  • 356 Gift plaque on Clovelly council houses

  • 357

    FA Cup Match for the Robins
  • 358 Not Bideford's answer to the moon rocket!

  • 359 Calligrapher extraordinary

  • 360 Torrington school's sundial - fashioned by Headmaster

  • 361 Appledore boy is youngest recipient of RNLI vellun

  • 362 Bideford-Torrington road gets 'carpet coat'

  • 363 Torrington's new amenity

  • 364 Parkham plan realised

  • 365 Northam loses thatched cottage landmark

  • 366 Bravery against bull at Shebbear rewarded

  • 367 New gateway to King George's Fields

  • 368 Championship Trophy for Hartland
  • 369 Future of Torrington almshouses

  • 370 By pony and trap to market

  • 371 New addition to Quay front

  • 372 Photo of town's first car wins prize

  • 373 Lots drawn to prevent dog fight

  • 374 Some mushroom!

  • 375 Down at the 'Donkey House'

  • 376 Pet squirrels at Monkleigh

  • 377 Farewell to passenger trains

  • 378 Hartland's invitation

  • 379 Devil sent packing

  • 380 Television comes to Torridge District

  • 381 Cement-clad boats being built at Northam

  • 382 New fire and ambulance stations

  • 383 Smiling welcome to Hartland visitors

  • 384

    School of Dancing's Annual Display
  • 385 Bideford Bridge re-opens

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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  • 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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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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Satellite Communications Centre in Remote North Cornwall Keeps Its Secrets 20.3.1981

Satellite Communications Centre in Remote North Cornwall Keeps Its Secrets 20.3.1981

Satellite Communications Centre in Remote North Cornwall Keeps Its Secret

The signpost on the busy A39 trunk road on the way to Bude simply says "CSOS Morwenstowe." Holidaymakers travelling fast in their cars hardly have time to give it a second look.

Dish aerials for Cleave Camp 15.3.1968

Dish aerials for Cleave Camp 15.3.1968

Dish aerials for Cleave Camp

A start is likely to be made this year on the erection of a new satellite communications centre at Cleave Camp, Morwenstow.

Where £500,000 'dish' will be planted 10.2.1967

Where £500,000 'dish' will be planted 10.2.1967

Where 500000 dish will be planted 1967

It was confirmed that the Ministry of Defence are to construct a £500,000 dish aerial to handle messages transmitted by way of satellite. Cleave Camp, Morwenstow, standing in open country close to the site of what was the home of the renowned Sir Richard Grenville, was finally closed in 1961.

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