• 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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    Relatives all over the world
  • 2 Tramps camp by riverside throughout arctic weather

  • 3 Pet squirrels at Monkleigh

  • 4 Getting up steam for tomorrow

  • 5 School's link with cargo ship

  • 6 Hartland Dancers
  • 7 Champagne send-off for Torrington new factory

  • 8 Burnard family reunion

  • 9 Train returns to Westleigh straight

  • 10 What's the time?

  • 11 Devil sent packing

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    First prize
  • 13 First steel ship built at Bideford

  • 14 Harvest service in Bideford 'pub' bar

  • 15 Bideford Bridge re-opens

  • 16 Celebrations for 103rd birthday

  • 17 Fishing light goes out at close of poor season

  • 18 Wishing well is pixielated

  • 19 A roof-top view - where?

  • 20 Huntshaw TV mast

  • 21 Bideford's new market opens next week

  • 22

    Hamburger is part of modern life
  • 23 Practical sympathy at Northam

  • 24 First tankers arrive at new depot

  • 25 For crying out loud!

  • 26 Down at the 'Donkey House'

  • 27 What the television camera saw at Abbotsham

  • 28 Bideford School Junior Choir Sing in France at Twinning Ceremony in Landivisiau
  • 29 'Les Girls' of Hartland

  • 30 Charter granted by Philip and Mary

  • 31

    Cadets are given certificates
  • 32 Championship Trophy for Hartland
  • 33 Last of Bideford factory chimney

  • 34 New look in the hayfields

  • 35 Life begins at 80

  • 36 Holiday traffic in Bideford High Street

  • 37 Teenager Peter Jackson Makes Horror Film
  • 38 Yeo vale road ruin provides a mystery

  • 39 Amsterdam to Bideford double success

  • 40 A sense of humour in advertising

  • 41 Battle of the gap at Westward Ho!

  • 42 Littleham family's five generations

  • 43 Torridge wins on time schedule

  • 44 Bridging the stream

  • 45

    Womens Skittles Competition in Buckland Brewer
  • 46 Head Barman appointed Torrington Town Crier
  • 47 Meeting at 10 Downing Street

  • 48 Service with a smile

  • 49 Alverdiscott is proud of its new parish hall

  • 50 Torridge graveyard of wooden hulks

  • 51 New look for Torrington Lane

  • 52 Inscribed Bibles and silver spoons for babies

  • 53 Hartland Abbey outdoor staff 60 years ago

  • 54 Spring-cleaning the Ridge

  • 55 Appledore boy is youngest recipient of RNLI vellun

  • 56 Bideford's private wharves busier

  • 57 Where Bideford rope-makers walked>
  • 58 One thousand visit zoo at Whitsun

  • 59 Bideford schoolboy's courage recognised

  • 60 Puppet characters introduced

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

  • 62 River scenes that enchant the visitors

  • 63 Entente cordiale in Bideford

  • 64 On her 'maiden' trip from Bideford

  • 65 Christmas tree on Bideford Quay>
  • 66 Works at craft he learned over 65 years ago

  • 67 Torrington to have first woman mayor

  • 68 Bideford firm develops new non-spill paint

  • 69 Future of Torrington almshouses

  • 70 Jumble sale fever

  • 71 Just over a year old

  • 72 Twenty-one yachts

  • 73 Bicycle now does donkey work

  • 74 Some mushroom!

  • 75 New Post Office

  • 76 Lady Godiva comes to Torrington

  • 77 Centenary of Gazette

  • 78 No ancient Grecian temple this

  • 79 Last train from Torrington

  • 80 Mayor becomes engine driver>
  • 81 Bideford inquest on French trawlermen opens

  • 82 Picking the pops

  • 83 Westward Ho! Tennis Club Winners
  • 84 Waldon Triplets
  • 85

    10-year-old scrambler practices
  • 86 Bideford electricity window display qualifies for area competition

  • 87 Appledore schooner broadcast

  • 88 Clovelly nightmare

  • 89 Calf thinks of mare as mum

  • 90 Spray dodging - the new pastime

  • 91 Four sisters' nostalgic reunion

  • 92 For South Africa from Westward Ho!

  • 93 Designed and made in Bideford

  • 94

    Birgitta Whittaker
  • 95 At Bideford Arts Ball>
  • 96 America's tribute to 'J.H.'

  • 97 Circus comes to town

  • 98 They never miss a game at Torrington

  • 99 Designed all furnishing of new chapel

  • 100 Torrington school's sundial - fashioned by Headmaster

  • 101

    Married in 1908
  • 102 Born 1883 - still going strong

  • 103 Colour TV salesman at eight

  • 104 Prizewinning babies at Torrington

  • 105 Bideford-Torrington road gets 'carpet coat'

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

  • 107 Floral dancing at Appledore

  • 108 Television comes to Torridge District

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

  • 110 Beach search for mines takes longer

  • 111 Centenary of Landcross Methodist Chapel

  • 112 Bideford skifflers, they're no squares

  • 113 Weare Giffard Hall sold for £11,300

  • 114 Ship-in-bottle world record

  • 115 Puzzle corner at Bideford!

  • 116 Penny for the guy

  • 117

    Lenwood Squash Club
  • 118 Donkey work made easier at Clovelly

  • 119 Photo mural in Bideford bank

  • 120 Record pebble-throwing day

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

  • 122 School crossing patrol begins

  • 123 Dismantling of wireless mast

  • 124

    Was a missionary
  • 125 Eight to strike and a race to win

  • 126 End of the line

  • 127

    School of Dancing's Annual Display
  • 128 Bank Holiday weather was beach weather

  • 129 Fishermen of Greencliff

  • 130 Water Board mains spread through villages

  • 131 Eleven million pound scheme's official opening

  • 132 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

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

  • 134 Farewell to passenger trains

  • 135 Town's second woman mayor in 392 years

  • 136 Salmon netting at Bideford

  • 137 Quads join a Langtree happy family

  • 138 Bideford Liberal club new lounge bar opened

  • 139 Larkworthy Family play in Shebbear's Football Team
  • 140 Picking the pops

  • 141 Finished in 1876

  • 142 Allhalland Street - then and now

  • 143 Bravery against bull at Shebbear rewarded

  • 144 Mural in the whimsical fashion

  • 145 Can spring be far away?

  • 146 Appledore Juniors Football
  • 147 Little 'Big Ben'

  • 148 A craftsman's 'potted' history

  • 149 In their new robes and hats

  • 150 Can-carrying over cobbles has disappeared

  • 151 Joe the ginger tabby is 21

  • 152 A bird of their own!

  • 153 Northam wants to continue pumping from river

  • 154 Unique holiday adventure!

  • 155 Found the answer waiting for him>
  • 156 Eight and a half million pound Taw development scheme

  • 157 Simple Item 138
  • 158 The art of the thatcher

  • 159 Capers on the cobbles

  • 160 Hartland's invitation

  • 161 Clovelly custom

  • 162 Thriving 'orphan of the storm'

  • 163 Largest salmon caught in Torridge

  • 164 Up-to-date Bideford!

  • 165 All aboard the ark

  • 166 Preparations for new Clovelly Court

  • 167 Torrington in 1967

  • 168 Second Monte Carlo Rally

  • 169 Torrington children build igloo
  • 170 Bideford regatta

  • 171 Brothers reunion 1947
  • 172 What is future of railway goods yard?

  • 173 It really was the 'last time'

  • 174 Emergency ferry services

  • 175 New Lundy air-mail stamps

  • 176 Thorn-apple found in Littleham conservatory

  • 177 Lady Churchill congratulates Bideford artists at nursing exhibition

  • 178

    Exhibition of school work
  • 179 Boys from Bideford school complete Ten Tors

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

  • 181 A story to tell!

  • 182 Filming at Hartland

  • 183 Success to Festival of the Arts

  • 184 Off on a great adventure

  • 185 Polish custom on Pancake Day

  • 186 The cab at the corner>
  • 187 Photo of town's first car wins prize

  • 188 Down at the dump something stirs

  • 189 Loads of black and white

  • 190 TV features Bideford's New Year bread ceremony

  • 191 Cavaliers join the Hunt
  • 192 Buckland farm workers to receive long-service awards

  • 193 Vessel built 300 feet above sea level

  • 194 Peter poses for TV film

  • 195 Alwington School closing after 120 years

  • 196 Police station view of Bideford

  • 197 Fish nearly pulled him in

  • 198

    Wynne Olley's styles impress International Hair Fashion Designer
  • 199 Northam footballers of the future

  • 200 Picture bought for shillings may be worth thousands

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    Gus Honeybun meets local children
  • 202 Housing progress at East-the-Water>
  • 203 Mobile missionary

  • 204 Thunderstorm destruction of 25 years ago

  • 205 First ship in 8 years

  • 206 Saving money, wear and tear

  • 207 He beat the floods

  • 208

    Jinxed School Trip
  • 209 Littleham cow tops 70 tons mark in milk production

  • 210

    Holidaying in north Devon
  • 211 Barley from Bideford to Bonnie Scotland

  • 212

    Mrs Whapham finds ferret in Bridgeland Street while shopping
  • 213 Old Girls revisit Edgehill

  • 214

    Close associations with North Devon
  • 215 Repair work on Long Bridge
  • 216 Lundy memorial to John Pennington Harman V.C.

  • 217 Some 240 exhibits

  • 218 Holiday scene near Sandymere

  • 219

    Andre Veillett and Quentin Reed in Judo Demonstration
  • 220 Calligrapher extraordinary

  • 221 North Devon Driving School

  • 222 Bringing shopping home by goat

  • 223 New shipyard on schedule

  • 224

    Gift from Bideford Town Council
  • 225 Still hunting aged 80 and a Field Master

  • 226 In the tortoise nursery - eight hatched at Bideford

  • 227 Sight of a lifetime

  • 228 Community centre opened at Westward Ho!

  • 229 Bideford has built over 500 post-war homes

  • 230 Landmark at Bradworthy

  • 231 Riverside mystery

  • 232 Do recall the old windmill at Northam?

  • 233 Signed scroll momento of Queen Mother's visit

  • 234 X-ray shoe fitting

  • 235 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

  • 236 Torrington acclaims 400th anniversary of granting of charter

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    Inter-school Road Safety Quiz Cup Winners
  • 238 Fleet of foot and fair of face

  • 239 Cruising down the river

  • 240 Two kinds of hovercraft at Bideford

  • 241 Bideford stock car racing entry comes in second

  • 242 'Out of Appledore' sailing memories

  • 243 New fire and ambulance stations

  • 244 Rowing triumphs at Bideford

  • 245 No laughing matter

  • 246 Faints as she wins national competition

  • 247 Bideford's first triplets for 12 years

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

  • 249 Bideford triplets' first birthday party

  • 250 East-the-Water sets town an example

  • 251 Five generations link Woolsery, Clovelly and Bideford

  • 252 Centuries old but today busier than ever

  • 253 Westward Ho! combined op

  • 254 Appledore tugs fete London Tower

  • 255 Olympic riders to compete at Bideford Horse Show

  • 256 Move for oldest boatyard on Torridge

  • 257

    Youth Clubs Join Together For Entertainment
  • 258 John Andrew Bread Charity
  • 259 Local glove-making factory advertising for staff

  • 260 Hartland postman retires

  • 261 New Estate's view of estuary activities

  • 262 Birds' convalescent home at Instow

  • 263 Quads at Thornhillhead

  • 264 Bideford childrens' cinema opens

  • 265 Sunshine and shade at Appledore

  • 266 Alderman Anstey's dream comes tru

  • 267 Yeoi Vale House finally demolished

  • 268 Northam loses thatched cottage landmark

  • 269 Meredith's ironmongers

  • 270 Record player of 80 years ago

  • 271 Broomhayes children will keep their winter pet

  • 272 Torrington's shelter for the aged

  • 273 Ancestral home nestling in lovely combe

  • 274 Variety in summer weather

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

  • 276 Gift plaque on Clovelly council houses

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    Double Baptism on Torridge
  • 278 Thirty bridges cross Torridge

  • 279 No ancient Grecian temple this

  • 280 Clovelly donkey film star

  • 281 From Bobby to Brian

  • 282 Bideford's gift to Sir Francis

  • 283 Making way for the double-deckers

  • 284 Gloves fit for a king!

  • 285 Symbol of Lundy independence

  • 286 A Weare Giffard speciality - delicious strawberries

  • 287 Students help model St Sidwell

  • 288 Revived market off to splendid start

  • 289

    Mums protest in Coronation Road
  • 290 Cement-clad boats being built at Northam

  • 291 Broomhayes £1,000 Surprise
  • 292 Bideford 'What's my line?' challenger

  • 293 New life for Hartland organ

  • 294 Council agree to demolition of Chanter's Folly

  • 295 Happy Days!

  • 296 Liked holidays here - so starts business

  • 297 Baby Kate goes home to Lundy

  • 298 Decontrol of meat

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

  • 300 Steep street of old Bideford

  • 301 Bideford's first woman councillor

  • 302 New Lundy stamps

  • 303 Bideford Liberals' fashion show

  • 304 113 years at Instow

  • 305 Artisans' Club

  • 306 Instow local art show was 'tremendous success'

  • 307 Tibbles home again - and fish supper

  • 308 Shipbuilding hobby at Hartland

  • 309 Fundraising trip for RNLI

  • 310 Daisy's pride and joy

  • 311 They are parted pro-tem

  • 312 Launching the 'Golden Hinde'

  • 313 Ships at Bideford

  • 314 Clovelly's 91 year old horseman

  • 315 Westward Ho! public conveniences get go ahead
  • 316 Out of puff!

  • 317 Appledore skill brings 'Hispaniola' to life

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    Toasted with musical honours
  • 319 To build racing cars in former blacksmith's shop

  • 320 Speeding communications: Bideford firm's new installation

  • 321 New choral society's growing response

  • 322 Boys win hockey on the sands challenge

  • 323 Private home for public pump

  • 324 An early 'special' to Bideford

  • 325 Bideford Zoo's first baby is big draw

  • 326 Bideford computer stars

  • 327 New art gallery opened

  • 328 Pannier Market's future?

  • 329 Afternoon tea in the park

  • 330 Torrington's new amenity

  • 331 Six footed lamb

  • 332 Shoes certainly not made for walking

  • 333 By pony and trap to market

  • 334 Wilfred and Mabel visit schools and hospital

  • 335

    FA Cup Match for the Robins
  • 336 Pretty pennies at Beaford

  • 337 Appledore's new lifeboat

  • 338 Children's procession with foxgloves

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

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

  • 342 Eleventh hour bid to save last sailing barge

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    Bidefordians
  • 344 Big develolpment at Calveford

  • 345 Lots drawn to prevent dog fight

  • 346 Tomorrow' night's skittles broadcast from Bideford

  • 347 When horses score over the tractor

  • 348

    Successful motor cycling team
  • 349 Modern living at Bideford

  • 350 Warmington's garage ad

  • 351 Thrush builds nest in cauliflower

  • 352 Sweet success at Langtree School

  • 353 Ten year old scrambler

  • 354 Space dominates Hartland carnival

  • 355 Torrington Youth Club rewarded by party
  • 356 A man and his wheel

  • 357 North Devon author featured in TV documentary

  • 358 Wasps' nest in sewing machine

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    Reds Womens Team Are First To Compete Throughout Season
  • 360 Northam's almshouse

  • 361 Tide sweeps under and over the old bridge

  • 362 Church renovation rejoicing at Northam

  • 363 New gateway to King George's Fields

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    New gateway
  • 365 A lost Bideford 'island'

  • 366 Torrington's enterprise's new extensions

  • 367 Death - and birth - of a telephone exchange

  • 368 Revenge in style

  • 369 Sweets derationing

  • 370 Bideford loses training ship

  • 371 Westward Ho! sand yacht to challenge speed record

  • 372 Appledore's largest

  • 373 The Geneva marionettes

  • 374 Light reading for the lighthouse

  • 375 Sailing to victory at Appledore

  • 376 So this is the mainland!

  • 377 All for the love of a lady!

  • 378 Passing of a Torrington landmark

  • 379 They set out for Bideford and became lost

  • 380 Panel sprint for Bideford broadcast

  • 381 Bideford A.F.C annual dinner
  • 382 Buckland goes to County Show

  • 383 Weare Giffard potato

  • 384 Smiling welcome to Hartland visitors

  • 385 Watch the dicky bird!

  • 386 Safety-first dipomas awarded to Torrington drivers

  • 387 Bideford country dancers on TV

  • 388 Jalopy joy for children of Shamwickshire

  • 389 The creative urge on Saturday morning

  • 390 Escaped crane moves into Kenwith Valley

  • 391 TV contest means big job for Bideford Guides

  • 392

    Appledore boys beat mums at football
  • 393 Sooty is quick on the draw

  • 394 New civic medallions

  • 395 Recognise this resort?

  • 396 Traditions and skills still there

  • 397 Homage to a well-loved sovereign

  • 398 No sale of Springfield House

  • 399 Golden Bay Hotel ad.>
  • 400 New addition to Quay front

  • 401 Four hundred residents leave Bideford!

  • 402 Bideford shipyard workers cheer new minesweeper

  • 403 Wine and beer merchants for 150 years

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    First Girls at Bideford Grammar School take part in Play
  • 405 Childrens' model of Torrington

  • 406 Panto time at Westward Ho!

  • 407 Donkey and horses enjoy carnival drink

  • 408 Parkham plan realised

  • 409 Bideford blacksmith wins English championship

  • 410 Chess - their bridge over the years

  • 411 Safe door weighing two tons

  • 412 Yelland potter's exhibition at Bideford

  • 413 Torrington Church's new organ

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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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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