• 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 Clovelly custom

  • 2 Lots drawn to prevent dog fight

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    Hamburger is part of modern life
  • 4 Quads join a Langtree happy family

  • 5 Picture bought for shillings may be worth thousands

  • 6 Revenge in style

  • 7 Six footed lamb

  • 8 Farewell to passenger trains

  • 9 The art of the thatcher

  • 10 A roof-top view - where?

  • 11 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

  • 12 Birds' convalescent home at Instow

  • 13 Sweet success at Langtree School

  • 14 Champagne send-off for Torrington new factory

  • 15 Torrington's shelter for the aged

  • 16 Steep street of old Bideford

  • 17

    Holidaying in north Devon
  • 18 Some mushroom!

  • 19 Tibbles home again - and fish supper

  • 20 Two kinds of hovercraft at Bideford

  • 21 Some 240 exhibits

  • 22

    Relatives all over the world
  • 23 Tomorrow' night's skittles broadcast from Bideford

  • 24 Hartland Abbey outdoor staff 60 years ago

  • 25 Hartland's invitation

  • 26 Television comes to Torridge District

  • 27 Jumble sale fever

  • 28 Bideford country dancers on TV

  • 29 America's tribute to 'J.H.'

  • 30 Thrush builds nest in cauliflower

  • 31 Future of Torrington almshouses

  • 32 New addition to Quay front

  • 33 Instow local art show was 'tremendous success'

  • 34 Northam wants to continue pumping from river

  • 35 Northam loses thatched cottage landmark

  • 36 Sunshine and shade at Appledore

  • 37 Children's procession with foxgloves

  • 38 They set out for Bideford and became lost

  • 39 John Andrew Bread Charity
  • 40

    Youth Clubs Join Together For Entertainment
  • 41 Bideford's private wharves busier

  • 42 Chess - their bridge over the years

  • 43 Space dominates Hartland carnival

  • 44 Childrens' model of Torrington

  • 45 Clovelly nightmare

  • 46 All for the love of a lady!

  • 47 Sight of a lifetime

  • 48 Centuries old but today busier than ever

  • 49 Torrington school's sundial - fashioned by Headmaster

  • 50

    FA Cup Match for the Robins
  • 51 Making way for the double-deckers

  • 52

    Reds Womens Team Are First To Compete Throughout Season
  • 53 Entente cordiale in Bideford

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

  • 55 Loads of black and white

  • 56 Light reading for the lighthouse

  • 57 Off on a great adventure

  • 58 Hartland postman retires

  • 59 Inscribed Bibles and silver spoons for babies

  • 60 Mural in the whimsical fashion

  • 61 Beach search for mines takes longer

  • 62 Yelland potter's exhibition at Bideford

  • 63 Westward Ho! sand yacht to challenge speed record

  • 64 Eight and a half million pound Taw development scheme

  • 65 Traditions and skills still there

  • 66 Church renovation rejoicing at Northam

  • 67 Liked holidays here - so starts business

  • 68 First tankers arrive at new depot

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

  • 70 Vessel built 300 feet above sea level

  • 71

    Gus Honeybun meets local children
  • 72 Northam footballers of the future

  • 73 Water Board mains spread through villages

  • 74 Fishing light goes out at close of poor season

  • 75 A bird of their own!

  • 76 Largest salmon caught in Torridge

  • 77

    10-year-old scrambler practices
  • 78

    Wynne Olley's styles impress International Hair Fashion Designer
  • 79 Clovelly donkey film star

  • 80 Practical sympathy at Northam

  • 81 Do recall the old windmill at Northam?

  • 82 Yeoi Vale House finally demolished

  • 83 Meredith's ironmongers

  • 84 Devil sent packing

  • 85 Modern living at Bideford

  • 86 New Post Office

  • 87 Up-to-date Bideford!

  • 88 Bideford Bridge re-opens

  • 89 In their new robes and hats

  • 90 New art gallery opened

  • 91 Alwington School closing after 120 years

  • 92 Ship-in-bottle world record

  • 93 Rowing triumphs at Bideford

  • 94 Eight to strike and a race to win

  • 95 One thousand visit zoo at Whitsun

  • 96

    Appledore boys beat mums at football
  • 97 Centenary of Landcross Methodist Chapel

  • 98 A craftsman's 'potted' history

  • 99 Bank Holiday weather was beach weather

  • 100 Capers on the cobbles

  • 101 Photo of town's first car wins prize

  • 102 Centenary of Gazette

  • 103 They are parted pro-tem

  • 104 Torrington to have first woman mayor

  • 105 Bideford's first triplets for 12 years

  • 106 Decontrol of meat

  • 107 New shipyard on schedule

  • 108 Bideford Liberal club new lounge bar opened

  • 109 Five generations link Woolsery, Clovelly and Bideford

  • 110 Allhalland Street - then and now

  • 111 Polish custom on Pancake Day

  • 112 Bideford Liberals' fashion show

  • 113 Weare Giffard potato

  • 114 Ships at Bideford

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

  • 116 Second Monte Carlo Rally

  • 117 Torrington in 1967

  • 118 The Geneva marionettes

  • 119 Calligrapher extraordinary

  • 120 Bideford computer stars

  • 121

    Womens Skittles Competition in Buckland Brewer
  • 122 Bideford has built over 500 post-war homes

  • 123 Eleventh hour bid to save last sailing barge

  • 124 Broomhayes £1,000 Surprise
  • 125 So this is the mainland!

  • 126 Landmark at Bradworthy

  • 127 New gateway to King George's Fields

  • 128 Ten year old scrambler

  • 129 Lady Churchill congratulates Bideford artists at nursing exhibition

  • 130 Quads at Thornhillhead

  • 131 Police station view of Bideford

  • 132 Train returns to Westleigh straight

  • 133 Alverdiscott is proud of its new parish hall

  • 134 Launching the 'Golden Hinde'

  • 135 Salmon netting at Bideford

  • 136 Getting up steam for tomorrow

  • 137 No laughing matter

  • 138 Bideford-Torrington road gets 'carpet coat'

  • 139 Torridge wins on time schedule

  • 140 Safe door weighing two tons

  • 141 Fundraising trip for RNLI

  • 142 Barley from Bideford to Bonnie Scotland

  • 143 Boys win hockey on the sands challenge

  • 144 Daisy's pride and joy

  • 145 Warmington's garage ad

  • 146 Photo mural in Bideford bank

  • 147 What is future of railway goods yard?

  • 148 What's the time?

  • 149 New look for Torrington Lane

  • 150 Burnard family reunion

  • 151

    Bidefordians
  • 152 Life begins at 80

  • 153 No ancient Grecian temple this

  • 154

    Married in 1908
  • 155 Spray dodging - the new pastime

  • 156 Waldon Triplets
  • 157 Appledore's largest

  • 158 Escaped crane moves into Kenwith Valley

  • 159 Bideford Zoo's first baby is big draw

  • 160 Happy Days!

  • 161 Bringing shopping home by goat

  • 162 Buckland farm workers to receive long-service awards

  • 163 Simple Item 138
  • 164 Appledore schooner broadcast

  • 165 First steel ship built at Bideford

  • 166

    Toasted with musical honours
  • 167 Thorn-apple found in Littleham conservatory

  • 168 North Devon author featured in TV documentary

  • 169 Mobile missionary

  • 170 Bicycle now does donkey work

  • 171 First ship in 8 years

  • 172 River scenes that enchant the visitors

  • 173 Designed and made in Bideford

  • 174 Baby Kate goes home to Lundy

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

  • 176

    Cadets are given certificates
  • 177 Gift plaque on Clovelly council houses

  • 178 Sooty is quick on the draw

  • 179 Dismantling of wireless mast

  • 180 Spring-cleaning the Ridge

  • 181 Bideford shipyard workers cheer new minesweeper

  • 182 A Weare Giffard speciality - delicious strawberries

  • 183 Recognise this resort?

  • 184 Bideford skifflers, they're no squares

  • 185

    Andre Veillett and Quentin Reed in Judo Demonstration
  • 186 Picking the pops

  • 187 Private home for public pump

  • 188 Pet squirrels at Monkleigh

  • 189 Still hunting aged 80 and a Field Master

  • 190 Bideford childrens' cinema opens

  • 191 Bideford School Junior Choir Sing in France at Twinning Ceremony in Landivisiau
  • 192 Donkey and horses enjoy carnival drink

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

  • 194 Down at the 'Donkey House'

  • 195 By pony and trap to market

  • 196 Fleet of foot and fair of face

  • 197 Torrington's enterprise's new extensions

  • 198

    Jinxed School Trip
  • 199

    Was a missionary
  • 200 X-ray shoe fitting

  • 201 Appledore tugs fete London Tower

  • 202 Faints as she wins national competition

  • 203 In the tortoise nursery - eight hatched at Bideford

  • 204 Bideford's gift to Sir Francis

  • 205 He beat the floods

  • 206 Variety in summer weather

  • 207 All aboard the ark

  • 208

    Exhibition of school work
  • 209 Cruising down the river

  • 210 New Estate's view of estuary activities

  • 211 Bideford blacksmith wins English championship

  • 212

    Mums protest in Coronation Road
  • 213 Bideford regatta

  • 214 Championship Trophy for Hartland
  • 215 Calf thinks of mare as mum

  • 216 Out of puff!

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

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    Building works
  • 219 Larkworthy Family play in Shebbear's Football Team
  • 220 Doing time - over 300 years of it - at Hartland

  • 221 An early 'special' to Bideford

  • 222 Artisans' Club

  • 223

    Mrs Whapham finds ferret in Bridgeland Street while shopping
  • 224 Wine and beer merchants for 150 years

  • 225 Fish nearly pulled him in

  • 226

    Lenwood Squash Club
  • 227 Eleven million pound scheme's official opening

  • 228 Circus comes to town

  • 229 Thirty bridges cross Torridge

  • 230 Torrington children build igloo
  • 231 Pretty pennies at Beaford

  • 232 Thunderstorm destruction of 25 years ago

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

  • 234 Bideford A.F.C annual dinner
  • 235 Battle of the gap at Westward Ho!

  • 236 Jalopy joy for children of Shamwickshire

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    Inter-school Road Safety Quiz Cup Winners
  • 238 East-the-Water sets town an example

  • 239 New fire and ambulance stations

  • 240 Brothers reunion 1947
  • 241 Puzzle corner at Bideford!

  • 242 Bideford inquest on French trawlermen opens

  • 243 'Les Girls' of Hartland

  • 244 Town's second woman mayor in 392 years

  • 245 Broomhayes children will keep their winter pet

  • 246 Appledore Juniors Football
  • 247 Lady Godiva comes to Torrington

  • 248 Puppet characters introduced

  • 249

    Double Baptism on Torridge
  • 250 Clovelly's 91 year old horseman

  • 251 Holiday traffic in Bideford High Street

  • 252 Westward Ho! public conveniences get go ahead
  • 253

    Birgitta Whittaker
  • 254

    Gift from Bideford Town Council
  • 255 Appledore's new lifeboat

  • 256 Panel sprint for Bideford broadcast

  • 257 Littleham cow tops 70 tons mark in milk production

  • 258 Cavaliers join the Hunt
  • 259 Bideford loses training ship

  • 260 Boys from Bideford school complete Ten Tors

  • 261 Peter poses for TV film

  • 262 TV contest means big job for Bideford Guides

  • 263 No sale of Springfield House

  • 264 Council agree to demolition of Chanter's Folly

  • 265 A sense of humour in advertising

  • 266 New Lundy air-mail stamps

  • 267 Westward Ho! Tennis Club Winners
  • 268 Last train from Torrington

  • 269 Students help model St Sidwell

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

  • 271 Finished in 1876

  • 272 Twenty-one yachts

  • 273 Hartland Dancers
  • 274 Pannier Market's future?

  • 275 Joe the ginger tabby is 21

  • 276 Passing of a Torrington landmark

  • 277 Huntshaw TV mast

  • 278 New life for Hartland organ

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

  • 280

    School of Dancing's Annual Display
  • 281

    New gateway
  • 282 Watch the dicky bird!

  • 283 Success to Festival of the Arts

  • 284 Bridging the stream

  • 285 Symbol of Lundy independence

  • 286 113 years at Instow

  • 287 Little 'Big Ben'

  • 288 Big develolpment at Calveford

  • 289 Head Barman appointed Torrington Town Crier
  • 290

    First Girls at Bideford Grammar School take part in Play
  • 291 School crossing patrol begins

  • 292 Panto time at Westward Ho!

  • 293 Bravery against bull at Shebbear rewarded

  • 294 Move for oldest boatyard on Torridge

  • 295 Littleham family's five generations

  • 296 Bideford schoolboy's courage recognised

  • 297 Cement-clad boats being built at Northam

  • 298 Westward Ho! combined op

  • 299 Torridge graveyard of wooden hulks

  • 300 What the television camera saw at Abbotsham

  • 301 No ancient Grecian temple this

  • 302 North Devon Driving School

  • 303 Weare Giffard Hall sold for £11,300

  • 304 On her 'maiden' trip from Bideford

  • 305

    Successful motor cycling team
  • 306 Torrington Youth Club rewarded by party
  • 307

    First prize
  • 308 Gloves fit for a king!

  • 309 Parkham plan realised

  • 310 Service with a smile

  • 311 Four sisters' nostalgic reunion

  • 312 Shoes certainly not made for walking

  • 313 Alderman Anstey's dream comes tru

  • 314 'Out of Appledore' sailing memories

  • 315 Repair work on Long Bridge
  • 316 It really was the 'last time'

  • 317 Bideford's new market opens next week

  • 318 Shipbuilding hobby at Hartland

  • 319 Penny for the guy

  • 320 Tramps camp by riverside throughout arctic weather

  • 321 Bideford triplets' first birthday party

  • 322 Speeding communications: Bideford firm's new installation

  • 323 Fishermen of Greencliff

  • 324 School's link with cargo ship

  • 325 End of the line

  • 326 A man and his wheel

  • 327 Tide sweeps under and over the old bridge

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

  • 329 TV features Bideford's New Year bread ceremony

  • 330 Smiling welcome to Hartland visitors

  • 331 Holiday scene near Sandymere

  • 332 They never miss a game at Torrington

  • 333 A lost Bideford 'island'

  • 334 Wishing well is pixielated

  • 335 Emergency ferry services

  • 336 A story to tell!

  • 337 Bideford stock car racing entry comes in second

  • 338 Born 1883 - still going strong

  • 339 Bideford electricity window display qualifies for area competition

  • 340 New look in the hayfields

  • 341 New Lundy stamps

  • 342 Yeo vale road ruin provides a mystery

  • 343 Buckland goes to County Show

  • 344 Four hundred residents leave Bideford!

  • 345 Olympic riders to compete at Bideford Horse Show

  • 346

    Close associations with North Devon
  • 347 New civic medallions

  • 348 Can spring be far away?

  • 349 Donkey work made easier at Clovelly

  • 350 Harvest service in Bideford 'pub' bar

  • 351 Preparations for new Clovelly Court

  • 352 When horses score over the tractor

  • 353 Record player of 80 years ago

  • 354 Death - and birth - of a telephone exchange

  • 355 Charter granted by Philip and Mary

  • 356 Unique holiday adventure!

  • 357 The creative urge on Saturday morning

  • 358 Appledore boy is youngest recipient of RNLI vellun

  • 359 Old Girls revisit Edgehill

  • 360 Homage to a well-loved sovereign

  • 361 Celebrations for 103rd birthday

  • 362 New choral society's growing response

  • 363 Torrington acclaims 400th anniversary of granting of charter

  • 364 Can-carrying over cobbles has disappeared

  • 365 Riverside mystery

  • 366 Designed all furnishing of new chapel

  • 367 Colour TV salesman at eight

  • 368 Just over a year old

  • 369 Torrington's new amenity

  • 370 Signed scroll momento of Queen Mother's visit

  • 371 Works at craft he learned over 65 years ago

  • 372 Bideford firm develops new non-spill paint

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

  • 374 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

  • 375 Ancestral home nestling in lovely combe

  • 376 Northam's almshouse

  • 377 For crying out loud!

  • 378 Picking the pops

  • 379 Last of Bideford factory chimney

  • 380 Teenager Peter Jackson Makes Horror Film
  • 381 Wilfred and Mabel visit schools and hospital

  • 382 Saving money, wear and tear

  • 383 Revived market off to splendid start

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

  • 385 Record pebble-throwing day

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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  • 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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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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