• 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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    Bidefordians
  • 2 Bideford - as Rowlandson saw it about 1810-15

  • 3 Homage to a well-loved sovereign

  • 4 Success to Festival of the Arts

  • 5 Recognise this resort?

  • 6 'Les Girls' of Hartland

  • 7 Bideford Liberal club new lounge bar opened

  • 8 New civic medallions

  • 9 Jalopy joy for children of Shamwickshire

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    Successful motor cycling team
  • 11 Children's procession with foxgloves

  • 12 New look in the hayfields

  • 13 A sense of humour in advertising

  • 14 Pretty pennies at Beaford

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

  • 16 Northam loses thatched cottage landmark

  • 17 Some 240 exhibits

  • 18 All aboard the ark

  • 19 Six footed lamb

  • 20 Fundraising trip for RNLI

  • 21 Bideford-Torrington road gets 'carpet coat'

  • 22 Bideford A.F.C annual dinner
  • 23 Bideford blacksmith wins English championship

  • 24 Works at craft he learned over 65 years ago

  • 25 Littleham family's five generations

  • 26

    Building works
  • 27 Northam's almshouse

  • 28

    Exhibition of school work
  • 29 Buckland goes to County Show

  • 30 On her 'maiden' trip from Bideford

  • 31 Bideford's new market opens next week

  • 32 New fire and ambulance stations

  • 33 Move for oldest boatyard on Torridge

  • 34 Westward Ho! Tennis Club Winners
  • 35 Tomorrow' night's skittles broadcast from Bideford

  • 36 Off on a great adventure

  • 37 Colour TV salesman at eight

  • 38 Appledore's largest

  • 39 Cement-clad boats being built at Northam

  • 40 Hartland's invitation

  • 41 Old Girls revisit Edgehill

  • 42 Bideford country dancers on TV

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

  • 44 He beat the floods

  • 45 An early 'special' to Bideford

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

  • 47 Bideford's first triplets for 12 years

  • 48 Hartland Dancers
  • 49 Instow local art show was 'tremendous success'

  • 50 Life begins at 80

  • 51 Rowing triumphs at Bideford

  • 52 Four hundred residents leave Bideford!

  • 53 Warmington's garage ad

  • 54 Champagne send-off for Torrington new factory

  • 55 Fish nearly pulled him in

  • 56

    Close associations with North Devon
  • 57 Council agree to demolition of Chanter's Folly

  • 58 Mobile missionary

  • 59 113 years at Instow

  • 60 Cruising down the river

  • 61 Donkey work made easier at Clovelly

  • 62 Circus comes to town

  • 63 Designed all furnishing of new chapel

  • 64 All for the love of a lady!

  • 65 Faints as she wins national competition

  • 66 Last train from Torrington

  • 67 Bideford Bridge re-opens

  • 68 So this is the mainland!

  • 69 Bideford firm develops new non-spill paint

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    Jinxed School Trip
  • 71 Fishing light goes out at close of poor season

  • 72 Penny for the guy

  • 73 Larkworthy Family play in Shebbear's Football Team
  • 74 Repair work on Long Bridge
  • 75 Light reading for the lighthouse

  • 76

    Andre Veillett and Quentin Reed in Judo Demonstration
  • 77 Charter granted by Philip and Mary

  • 78 New art gallery opened

  • 79 They never miss a game at Torrington

  • 80

    Cadets are given certificates
  • 81 Preparations for new Clovelly Court

  • 82 Bideford shipyard workers cheer new minesweeper

  • 83 Clovelly's 91 year old horseman

  • 84 Spring-cleaning the Ridge

  • 85 Quads join a Langtree happy family

  • 86 Out of puff!

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    New gateway
  • 88 Just over a year old

  • 89

    Gus Honeybun meets local children
  • 90 Signed scroll momento of Queen Mother's visit

  • 91 Bideford's gift to Sir Francis

  • 92 Revived market off to splendid start

  • 93 Eight to strike and a race to win

  • 94 Clovelly nightmare

  • 95 Unique holiday adventure!

  • 96 Can spring be far away?

  • 97 Church renovation rejoicing at Northam

  • 98 Bringing shopping home by goat

  • 99 Wine and beer merchants for 150 years

  • 100 Peter poses for TV film

  • 101 Joe the ginger tabby is 21

  • 102 Eight and a half million pound Taw development scheme

  • 103 Hartland Abbey outdoor staff 60 years ago

  • 104 The creative urge on Saturday morning

  • 105 Alderman Anstey's dream comes tru

  • 106 TV features Bideford's New Year bread ceremony

  • 107 Train returns to Westleigh straight

  • 108 Picking the pops

  • 109 Some mushroom!

  • 110 Daisy's pride and joy

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    Toasted with musical honours
  • 112

    Holidaying in north Devon
  • 113 Capers on the cobbles

  • 114 Ship-in-bottle world record

  • 115 New Estate's view of estuary activities

  • 116 Escaped crane moves into Kenwith Valley

  • 117 No ancient Grecian temple this

  • 118 North Devon author featured in TV documentary

  • 119 Holiday scene near Sandymere

  • 120 First steel ship built at Bideford

  • 121 A bird of their own!

  • 122 Do recall the old windmill at Northam?

  • 123 New choral society's growing response

  • 124 A story to tell!

  • 125 What the television camera saw at Abbotsham

  • 126 Designed and made in Bideford

  • 127 Steep street of old Bideford

  • 128 Torridge graveyard of wooden hulks

  • 129 New gateway to King George's Fields

  • 130 Boys from Bideford school complete Ten Tors

  • 131 Chess - their bridge over the years

  • 132 Bideford Liberals' fashion show

  • 133 Alverdiscott is proud of its new parish hall

  • 134

    Wynne Olley's styles impress International Hair Fashion Designer
  • 135 Death - and birth - of a telephone exchange

  • 136 'Out of Appledore' sailing memories

  • 137 A Weare Giffard speciality - delicious strawberries

  • 138 Bideford schoolboy's courage recognised

  • 139 Bideford stock car racing entry comes in second

  • 140 Ten year old scrambler

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

  • 142 Wilfred and Mabel visit schools and hospital

  • 143 Up-to-date Bideford!

  • 144 Appledore tugs fete London Tower

  • 145 Yeo vale road ruin provides a mystery

  • 146 Panel sprint for Bideford broadcast

  • 147 New Lundy air-mail stamps

  • 148 X-ray shoe fitting

  • 149 They are parted pro-tem

  • 150 Ancestral home nestling in lovely combe

  • 151 Photo of town's first car wins prize

  • 152 Inscribed Bibles and silver spoons for babies

  • 153 Lady Churchill congratulates Bideford artists at nursing exhibition

  • 154 Holiday traffic in Bideford High Street

  • 155 No laughing matter

  • 156 A man and his wheel

  • 157 Thorn-apple found in Littleham conservatory

  • 158 Bideford skifflers, they're no squares

  • 159 One thousand visit zoo at Whitsun

  • 160 Quads at Thornhillhead

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

  • 162 Safe door weighing two tons

  • 163 Meredith's ironmongers

  • 164 Second Monte Carlo Rally

  • 165 Jumble sale fever

  • 166

    Lenwood Squash Club
  • 167 Huntshaw TV mast

  • 168 Bideford's private wharves busier

  • 169 Simple Item 138
  • 170

    Married in 1908
  • 171 Ships at Bideford

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

  • 173 Private home for public pump

  • 174 Gloves fit for a king!

  • 175 Teenager Peter Jackson Makes Horror Film
  • 176 Sunshine and shade at Appledore

  • 177 Torridge wins on time schedule

  • 178 Allhalland Street - then and now

  • 179 Bridging the stream

  • 180 For crying out loud!

  • 181 Baby Kate goes home to Lundy

  • 182 Northam footballers of the future

  • 183 Lots drawn to prevent dog fight

  • 184 Future of Torrington almshouses

  • 185 New Post Office

  • 186 What's the time?

  • 187 Burnard family reunion

  • 188 Entente cordiale in Bideford

  • 189 Still hunting aged 80 and a Field Master

  • 190 Torrington children build igloo
  • 191 It really was the 'last time'

  • 192 Record pebble-throwing day

  • 193 Centenary of Gazette

  • 194 A craftsman's 'potted' history

  • 195 Panto time at Westward Ho!

  • 196 Bideford inquest on French trawlermen opens

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

  • 198 The Geneva marionettes

  • 199 Bideford has built over 500 post-war homes

  • 200 Down at the 'Donkey House'

  • 201 Loads of black and white

  • 202 Westward Ho! combined op

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

  • 204 Symbol of Lundy independence

  • 205 Appledore schooner broadcast

  • 206 Championship Trophy for Hartland
  • 207 Weare Giffard potato

  • 208 Gift plaque on Clovelly council houses

  • 209 Boys win hockey on the sands challenge

  • 210 Lady Godiva comes to Torrington

  • 211 Students help model St Sidwell

  • 212 Waldon Triplets
  • 213 Making way for the double-deckers

  • 214 Parkham plan realised

  • 215 Battle of the gap at Westward Ho!

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    Womens Skittles Competition in Buckland Brewer
  • 217 Yeoi Vale House finally demolished

  • 218 Olympic riders to compete at Bideford Horse Show

  • 219 No sale of Springfield House

  • 220 Pannier Market's future?

  • 221 Sight of a lifetime

  • 222 Five generations link Woolsery, Clovelly and Bideford

  • 223 Salmon netting at Bideford

  • 224 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

  • 225 Buckland farm workers to receive long-service awards

  • 226 End of the line

  • 227 Liked holidays here - so starts business

  • 228 Alwington School closing after 120 years

  • 229 Artisans' Club

  • 230 New shipyard on schedule

  • 231 Record player of 80 years ago

  • 232 Clovelly custom

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

  • 234 East-the-Water sets town an example

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

  • 236 Thirty bridges cross Torridge

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    First prize
  • 238 Celebrations for 103rd birthday

  • 239 Wishing well is pixielated

  • 240 Polish custom on Pancake Day

  • 241 Landmark at Bradworthy

  • 242 Watch the dicky bird!

  • 243 New addition to Quay front

  • 244 Happy Days!

  • 245 Four sisters' nostalgic reunion

  • 246 Cavaliers join the Hunt
  • 247 Little 'Big Ben'

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    Youth Clubs Join Together For Entertainment
  • 249 Weare Giffard Hall sold for £11,300

  • 250 Eleven million pound scheme's official opening

  • 251 Appledore's new lifeboat

  • 252 Television comes to Torridge District

  • 253

    Hamburger is part of modern life
  • 254 North Devon Driving School

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    Double Baptism on Torridge
  • 256 Shipbuilding hobby at Hartland

  • 257 Puzzle corner at Bideford!

  • 258 Calf thinks of mare as mum

  • 259 Appledore boy is youngest recipient of RNLI vellun

  • 260 First tankers arrive at new depot

  • 261 Eleventh hour bid to save last sailing barge

  • 262 Tibbles home again - and fish supper

  • 263 In the tortoise nursery - eight hatched at Bideford

  • 264 Speeding communications: Bideford firm's new installation

  • 265 Torrington to have first woman mayor

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    Was a missionary
  • 267 Practical sympathy at Northam

  • 268 Traditions and skills still there

  • 269 Thrush builds nest in cauliflower

  • 270 America's tribute to 'J.H.'

  • 271 Variety in summer weather

  • 272 Yelland potter's exhibition at Bideford

  • 273 Bideford childrens' cinema opens

  • 274 Beach search for mines takes longer

  • 275 Service with a smile

  • 276 What is future of railway goods yard?

  • 277 Bideford School Junior Choir Sing in France at Twinning Ceremony in Landivisiau
  • 278 First ship in 8 years

  • 279 Largest salmon caught in Torridge

  • 280 Riverside mystery

  • 281 Picture bought for shillings may be worth thousands

  • 282 River scenes that enchant the visitors

  • 283 Torrington acclaims 400th anniversary of granting of charter

  • 284 Finished in 1876

  • 285 Birds' convalescent home at Instow

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    FA Cup Match for the Robins
  • 287 Fishermen of Greencliff

  • 288 Centuries old but today busier than ever

  • 289 Clovelly donkey film star

  • 290 Passing of a Torrington landmark

  • 291 Bideford electricity window display qualifies for area competition

  • 292 Police station view of Bideford

  • 293 Twenty-one yachts

  • 294 Modern living at Bideford

  • 295 Childrens' model of Torrington

  • 296 Torrington in 1967

  • 297 Fleet of foot and fair of face

  • 298 Head Barman appointed Torrington Town Crier
  • 299 Thunderstorm destruction of 25 years ago

  • 300 Northam wants to continue pumping from river

  • 301 Brothers reunion 1947
  • 302 Getting up steam for tomorrow

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    Reds Womens Team Are First To Compete Throughout Season
  • 304 Two kinds of hovercraft at Bideford

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    Mums protest in Coronation Road
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    10-year-old scrambler practices
  • 307 Spray dodging - the new pastime

  • 308 Big develolpment at Calveford

  • 309 Torrington's shelter for the aged

  • 310 Bideford Zoo's first baby is big draw

  • 311 New life for Hartland organ

  • 312 Farewell to passenger trains

  • 313

    School of Dancing's Annual Display
  • 314 A roof-top view - where?

  • 315 Centenary of Landcross Methodist Chapel

  • 316 Torrington's new amenity

  • 317 Tramps camp by riverside throughout arctic weather

  • 318 Tide sweeps under and over the old bridge

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

  • 320 Space dominates Hartland carnival

  • 321 Bideford triplets' first birthday party

  • 322 Broomhayes children will keep their winter pet

  • 323 New Lundy stamps

  • 324 Puppet characters introduced

  • 325 No ancient Grecian temple this

  • 326 Water Board mains spread through villages

  • 327 Calligrapher extraordinary

  • 328 Bicycle now does donkey work

  • 329 Last of Bideford factory chimney

  • 330 Hartland postman retires

  • 331 New look for Torrington Lane

  • 332 Westward Ho! public conveniences get go ahead
  • 333 Bideford regatta

  • 334 When horses score over the tractor

  • 335 Can-carrying over cobbles has disappeared

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    Gift from Bideford Town Council
  • 337 Photo mural in Bideford bank

  • 338 Broomhayes £1,000 Surprise
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    Appledore boys beat mums at football
  • 340 Barley from Bideford to Bonnie Scotland

  • 341 By pony and trap to market

  • 342 Emergency ferry services

  • 343 Torrington school's sundial - fashioned by Headmaster

  • 344 Town's second woman mayor in 392 years

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    First Girls at Bideford Grammar School take part in Play
  • 346 In their new robes and hats

  • 347 Devil sent packing

  • 348 Dismantling of wireless mast

  • 349 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

  • 350 The art of the thatcher

  • 351 Picking the pops

  • 352 Bideford computer stars

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    Relatives all over the world
  • 354 Smiling welcome to Hartland visitors

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

  • 356 Launching the 'Golden Hinde'

  • 357 Harvest service in Bideford 'pub' bar

  • 358 Sweet success at Langtree School

  • 359 Bank Holiday weather was beach weather

  • 360 TV contest means big job for Bideford Guides

  • 361 Pet squirrels at Monkleigh

  • 362 Saving money, wear and tear

  • 363 John Andrew Bread Charity
  • 364 Vessel built 300 feet above sea level

  • 365 Revenge in style

  • 366 Donkey and horses enjoy carnival drink

  • 367 Bideford loses training ship

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    Birgitta Whittaker
  • 369

    Inter-school Road Safety Quiz Cup Winners
  • 370 School crossing patrol begins

  • 371 Torrington's enterprise's new extensions

  • 372 Decontrol of meat

  • 373 School's link with cargo ship

  • 374 Born 1883 - still going strong

  • 375 Shoes certainly not made for walking

  • 376 Westward Ho! sand yacht to challenge speed record

  • 377 Bravery against bull at Shebbear rewarded

  • 378 They set out for Bideford and became lost

  • 379 Mural in the whimsical fashion

  • 380 Torrington Youth Club rewarded by party
  • 381 Sooty is quick on the draw

  • 382 A lost Bideford 'island'

  • 383 Littleham cow tops 70 tons mark in milk production

  • 384 Appledore Juniors Football
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    Mrs Whapham finds ferret in Bridgeland Street while shopping
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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Bellringers marry 22nd June 1979

Bellringers marry 22nd June 1979

Bellringers marryBellringing.  A Buckland Brewer couple, both bellringers, were married in the parish church - the bride in a dress and veil she made herself.

Bridegroom was Mr David Leonard Blight, son of Mr & Mrs L P Blight of Tower Hill, Buckland Brewer and his bride Miss Joan Elizabeth Brown, daughter of Mr & Mrs T H Brown, of Cleverdons, Buckland Brewer. 

Bride's attendants were her sister, Mrs Brenda Mills and cousin Miss Jayne Wright.  Best man was Mr Alan Wright.

Hartland bellringers 10th October 1975

Hartland bellringers 10th October 1975

Hartland bellringing

Hartland Deanery bellringers and their guests pictured after their annual dinner at Penstowe Manor, Kilkhampton.  In the forefront is the Rev R O H Eppingstone, Rector of Clovelly, who is the president.

Woolsery parish church's six bell peal 18th January 1974

Woolsery parish church's six bell peal 18th January 1974

Woolsery parish church bellsOriginally the work of restoring Woolsery parish church's six bell peal was estimated to cost around £3,000, but after a further examination, now the bells have been taken down, it is considered that all of them, instead of just two, will have to be re-cast.

The bells are to be re-cast by Messrs Taylor, of Loughborough, who cast them 148 years ago when the firm had a branch at nearby Buckland Brewer.

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