• 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 Landmark at Bradworthy

  • 2 New fire and ambulance stations

  • 3 Last train from Torrington

  • 4 Gift plaque on Clovelly council houses

  • 5 Appledore tugs fete London Tower

  • 6 Do recall the old windmill at Northam?

  • 7 Baby Kate goes home to Lundy

  • 8

    Reds Womens Team Are First To Compete Throughout Season
  • 9 Works at craft he learned over 65 years ago

  • 10 First ship in 8 years

  • 11 New gateway to King George's Fields

  • 12 Symbol of Lundy independence

  • 13 Celebrations for 103rd birthday

  • 14 Beach search for mines takes longer

  • 15

    Close associations with North Devon
  • 16 Private home for public pump

  • 17 Life begins at 80

  • 18 Inscribed Bibles and silver spoons for babies

  • 19 Bideford skifflers, they're no squares

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

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

  • 22

    Hamburger is part of modern life
  • 23 Off on a great adventure

  • 24 Holiday scene near Sandymere

  • 25 Appledore boy is youngest recipient of RNLI vellun

  • 26 Broomhayes £1,000 Surprise
  • 27 Olympic riders to compete at Bideford Horse Show

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

  • 29 Donkey and horses enjoy carnival drink

  • 30 Success to Festival of the Arts

  • 31 So this is the mainland!

  • 32 New art gallery opened

  • 33 Alwington School closing after 120 years

  • 34 Record player of 80 years ago

  • 35 Calf thinks of mare as mum

  • 36 Peter poses for TV film

  • 37 Chess - their bridge over the years

  • 38 Picking the pops

  • 39 Weare Giffard Hall sold for £11,300

  • 40 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

  • 41 Panto time at Westward Ho!

  • 42 Some 240 exhibits

  • 43 Bideford electricity window display qualifies for area competition

  • 44 Escaped crane moves into Kenwith Valley

  • 45 They set out for Bideford and became lost

  • 46 Photo of town's first car wins prize

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

  • 48 Mayor becomes engine driver>
  • 49 Torridge wins on time schedule

  • 50 End of the line

  • 51 School crossing patrol begins

  • 52 Can-carrying over cobbles has disappeared

  • 53 Weare Giffard potato

  • 54 When horses score over the tractor

  • 55 Faints as she wins national competition

  • 56 First tankers arrive at new depot

  • 57 Devil sent packing

  • 58 Barley from Bideford to Bonnie Scotland

  • 59 Birds' convalescent home at Instow

  • 60 Students help model St Sidwell

  • 61 Ten year old scrambler

  • 62 Wine and beer merchants for 150 years

  • 63 New addition to Quay front

  • 64 Watch the dicky bird!

  • 65 New life for Hartland organ

  • 66 Amsterdam to Bideford double success

  • 67 Bideford Zoo's first baby is big draw

  • 68 Westward Ho! combined op

  • 69 Bicycle now does donkey work

  • 70 Future of Torrington almshouses

  • 71 A lost Bideford 'island'

  • 72 Hartland postman retires

  • 73 Westward Ho! public conveniences get go ahead
  • 74

    Double Baptism on Torridge
  • 75 Preparations for new Clovelly Court

  • 76 Town's second woman mayor in 392 years

  • 77 Bideford schoolboy's courage recognised

  • 78 Battle of the gap at Westward Ho!

  • 79 In the tortoise nursery - eight hatched at Bideford

  • 80 Little 'Big Ben'

  • 81 Instow local art show was 'tremendous success'

  • 82

    Gus Honeybun meets local children
  • 83 Burnard family reunion

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

  • 85 Traditions and skills still there

  • 86 Littleham cow tops 70 tons mark in milk production

  • 87 Farewell to passenger trains

  • 88 Bideford School Junior Choir Sing in France at Twinning Ceremony in Landivisiau
  • 89 Launching the 'Golden Hinde'

  • 90 Entente cordiale in Bideford

  • 91 Torrington Church's new organ

  • 92 Service with a smile

  • 93 Sweet success at Langtree School

  • 94 John Andrew Bread Charity
  • 95 Bideford-Torrington road gets 'carpet coat'

  • 96 Bideford country dancers on TV

  • 97 Down at the 'Donkey House'

  • 98 Six footed lamb

  • 99 Down at the dump something stirs

  • 100 New Post Office

  • 101 Space dominates Hartland carnival

  • 102 Boys from Bideford school complete Ten Tors

  • 103

    Inter-school Road Safety Quiz Cup Winners
  • 104 'Out of Appledore' sailing memories

  • 105 Cavaliers join the Hunt
  • 106 Photo mural in Bideford bank

  • 107

    Building works
  • 108 Picking the pops

  • 109 Bideford stock car racing entry comes in second

  • 110 The cab at the corner>
  • 111 Northam footballers of the future

  • 112 Tomorrow' night's skittles broadcast from Bideford

  • 113 Thorn-apple found in Littleham conservatory

  • 114 It really was the 'last time'

  • 115 Championship Trophy for Hartland
  • 116 Fishing light goes out at close of poor season

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

  • 118

    Mums protest in Coronation Road
  • 119 Ship-in-bottle world record

  • 120 Littleham family's five generations

  • 121 Move for oldest boatyard on Torridge

  • 122

    School of Dancing's Annual Display
  • 123 Television comes to Torridge District

  • 124 Bideford regatta

  • 125 Dismantling of wireless mast

  • 126 He beat the floods

  • 127 Capers on the cobbles

  • 128 Wilfred and Mabel visit schools and hospital

  • 129 Bideford Bridge re-opens

  • 130 Getting up steam for tomorrow

  • 131 Sailing to victory at Appledore

  • 132 Appledore Juniors Football
  • 133 Cruising down the river

  • 134 Emergency ferry services

  • 135 Thirty bridges cross Torridge

  • 136 Community centre opened at Westward Ho!

  • 137 All for the love of a lady!

  • 138 Artisans' Club

  • 139 Golden Bay Hotel ad.>
  • 140 Lady Godiva comes to Torrington

  • 141 Homage to a well-loved sovereign

  • 142 Clovelly's 91 year old horseman

  • 143 Spray dodging - the new pastime

  • 144 Eleven million pound scheme's official opening

  • 145 Pet squirrels at Monkleigh

  • 146 Bideford Liberals' fashion show

  • 147 Steep street of old Bideford

  • 148 Afternoon tea in the park

  • 149 Simple Item 138
  • 150 Twenty-one yachts

  • 151 For South Africa from Westward Ho!

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

  • 153

    Mrs Whapham finds ferret in Bridgeland Street while shopping
  • 154 Tramps camp by riverside throughout arctic weather

  • 155 Boys win hockey on the sands challenge

  • 156 Jalopy joy for children of Shamwickshire

  • 157 113 years at Instow

  • 158 Variety in summer weather

  • 159 Liked holidays here - so starts business

  • 160 Childrens' model of Torrington

  • 161 In their new robes and hats

  • 162 Brothers reunion 1947
  • 163 Bridging the stream

  • 164 New choral society's growing response

  • 165 Bideford's new market opens next week

  • 166 Warmington's garage ad

  • 167 Harvest service in Bideford 'pub' bar

  • 168 Eleventh hour bid to save last sailing barge

  • 169 Eight to strike and a race to win

  • 170 Big develolpment at Calveford

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

  • 172 TV features Bideford's New Year bread ceremony

  • 173 Finished in 1876

  • 174 Jumble sale fever

  • 175

    Holidaying in north Devon
  • 176 Council agree to demolition of Chanter's Folly

  • 177 The art of the thatcher

  • 178 Colour TV salesman at eight

  • 179 Meeting at 10 Downing Street

  • 180 Salmon netting at Bideford

  • 181 School's link with cargo ship

  • 182 Police station view of Bideford

  • 183 X-ray shoe fitting

  • 184 Thriving 'orphan of the storm'

  • 185

    Married in 1908
  • 186 Torrington acclaims 400th anniversary of granting of charter

  • 187 Yeoi Vale House finally demolished

  • 188

    Exhibition of school work
  • 189 Sweets derationing

  • 190 Shoes certainly not made for walking

  • 191 Polish custom on Pancake Day

  • 192 Westward Ho! sand yacht to challenge speed record

  • 193 Light reading for the lighthouse

  • 194 Tibbles home again - and fish supper

  • 195 Vessel built 300 feet above sea level

  • 196 Clovelly custom

  • 197 No ancient Grecian temple this

  • 198 Torridge graveyard of wooden hulks

  • 199 Fish nearly pulled him in

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

  • 201 New Lundy stamps

  • 202

    Toasted with musical honours
  • 203 Sunshine and shade at Appledore

  • 204 Bideford loses training ship

  • 205 Fleet of foot and fair of face

  • 206 Can spring be far away?

  • 207 Unique holiday adventure!

  • 208

    First Girls at Bideford Grammar School take part in Play
  • 209 Bringing shopping home by goat

  • 210 Bideford's private wharves busier

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

  • 212 Shipbuilding hobby at Hartland

  • 213 Smiling welcome to Hartland visitors

  • 214 Bideford firm develops new non-spill paint

  • 215 Appledore's new lifeboat

  • 216 Torrington's shelter for the aged

  • 217 They never miss a game at Torrington

  • 218 Repair work on Long Bridge
  • 219 A man and his wheel

  • 220 From Bobby to Brian

  • 221 Church renovation rejoicing at Northam

  • 222 Safe door weighing two tons

  • 223 Penny for the guy

  • 224

    Wynne Olley's styles impress International Hair Fashion Designer
  • 225 A craftsman's 'potted' history

  • 226 Revived market off to splendid start

  • 227 Hartland Abbey outdoor staff 60 years ago

  • 228 Water Board mains spread through villages

  • 229 Centuries old but today busier than ever

  • 230 Recognise this resort?

  • 231 Bideford childrens' cinema opens

  • 232 A bird of their own!

  • 233 Bideford's gift to Sir Francis

  • 234 East-the-Water sets town an example

  • 235 Waldon Triplets
  • 236 Holiday traffic in Bideford High Street

  • 237 Bideford computer stars

  • 238 Born 1883 - still going strong

  • 239 'Les Girls' of Hartland

  • 240 Torrington's new amenity

  • 241 Ancestral home nestling in lovely combe

  • 242 Bideford shipyard workers cheer new minesweeper

  • 243 Sooty is quick on the draw

  • 244 Saving money, wear and tear

  • 245 America's tribute to 'J.H.'

  • 246

    Youth Clubs Join Together For Entertainment
  • 247

    Lenwood Squash Club
  • 248 Quads join a Langtree happy family

  • 249 One thousand visit zoo at Whitsun

  • 250 Lots drawn to prevent dog fight

  • 251 Designed all furnishing of new chapel

  • 252 Bideford's first woman councillor

  • 253 By pony and trap to market

  • 254 No sale of Springfield House

  • 255 The creative urge on Saturday morning

  • 256 Northam wants to continue pumping from river

  • 257 Teenager Peter Jackson Makes Horror Film
  • 258 Sixty-two year old Picarooner makes ready for season

  • 259 New Lundy air-mail stamps

  • 260 Where Bideford rope-makers walked>
  • 261 Bideford's first triplets for 12 years

  • 262 Huntshaw TV mast

  • 263 A Weare Giffard speciality - delicious strawberries

  • 264

    Relatives all over the world
  • 265 Alverdiscott is proud of its new parish hall

  • 266 Northam's almshouse

  • 267 Parkham plan realised

  • 268 Largest salmon caught in Torridge

  • 269 Just over a year old

  • 270 Speeding communications: Bideford firm's new installation

  • 271 Train returns to Westleigh straight

  • 272 Prizewinning babies at Torrington

  • 273 Clovelly nightmare

  • 274 Daisy's pride and joy

  • 275 Designed and made in Bideford

  • 276 Clovelly donkey film star

  • 277 Buckland farm workers to receive long-service awards

  • 278 Children's procession with foxgloves

  • 279 Bideford Liberal club new lounge bar opened

  • 280 A story to tell!

  • 281 Picture bought for shillings may be worth thousands

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

  • 283 Northam loses thatched cottage landmark

  • 284 Decontrol of meat

  • 285 Practical sympathy at Northam

  • 286 No ancient Grecian temple this

  • 287 Out of puff!

  • 288 Quads at Thornhillhead

  • 289 Wishing well is pixielated

  • 290

    FA Cup Match for the Robins
  • 291 Torrington's enterprise's new extensions

  • 292 Yeo vale road ruin provides a mystery

  • 293 Modern living at Bideford

  • 294 Thunderstorm destruction of 25 years ago

  • 295 Riverside mystery

  • 296 New shipyard on schedule

  • 297

    Gift from Bideford Town Council
  • 298 Ships at Bideford

  • 299 Bideford has built over 500 post-war homes

  • 300 Torrington Youth Club rewarded by party
  • 301 Wasps' nest in sewing machine

  • 302 Torrington children build igloo
  • 303

    10-year-old scrambler practices
  • 304 Making way for the double-deckers

  • 305 Appledore schooner broadcast

  • 306 First steel ship built at Bideford

  • 307 Housing progress at East-the-Water>
  • 308 A sense of humour in advertising

  • 309 Four sisters' nostalgic reunion

  • 310 Puppet characters introduced

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

  • 312 Appledore's largest

  • 313

    First prize
  • 314 Champagne send-off for Torrington new factory

  • 315 All aboard the ark

  • 316 Torrington school's sundial - fashioned by Headmaster

  • 317 Bideford A.F.C annual dinner
  • 318 North Devon author featured in TV documentary

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

  • 320 Buckland goes to County Show

  • 321 Some mushroom!

  • 322 Floral dancing at Appledore

  • 323

    Was a missionary
  • 324

    New gateway
  • 325 The Geneva marionettes

  • 326 What is future of railway goods yard?

  • 327 Bravery against bull at Shebbear rewarded

  • 328 Mural in the whimsical fashion

  • 329 Bideford blacksmith wins English championship

  • 330 Second Monte Carlo Rally

  • 331 Rowing triumphs at Bideford

  • 332 Tide sweeps under and over the old bridge

  • 333 Westward Ho! Tennis Club Winners
  • 334 Gloves fit for a king!

  • 335 Torrington to have first woman mayor

  • 336 Bank Holiday weather was beach weather

  • 337

    Jinxed School Trip
  • 338 Alderman Anstey's dream comes tru

  • 339

    Andre Veillett and Quentin Reed in Judo Demonstration
  • 340 New look in the hayfields

  • 341 New look for Torrington Lane

  • 342 Cement-clad boats being built at Northam

  • 343 Appledore skill brings 'Hispaniola' to life

  • 344

    Cadets are given certificates
  • 345 No laughing matter

  • 346 Lady Churchill congratulates Bideford artists at nursing exhibition

  • 347 Found the answer waiting for him>
  • 348 Five generations link Woolsery, Clovelly and Bideford

  • 349 Pannier Market's future?

  • 350 Two kinds of hovercraft at Bideford

  • 351 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

  • 352 Four hundred residents leave Bideford!

  • 353 Spring-cleaning the Ridge

  • 354

    Successful motor cycling team
  • 355 They are parted pro-tem

  • 356 New Estate's view of estuary activities

  • 357 River scenes that enchant the visitors

  • 358 Bideford inquest on French trawlermen opens

  • 359 Sight of a lifetime

  • 360

    Birgitta Whittaker
  • 361 Death - and birth - of a telephone exchange

  • 362 Calligrapher extraordinary

  • 363 Mobile missionary

  • 364 Charter granted by Philip and Mary

  • 365 Eight and a half million pound Taw development scheme

  • 366 Signed scroll momento of Queen Mother's visit

  • 367 Bideford triplets' first birthday party

  • 368 Old Girls revisit Edgehill

  • 369

    Womens Skittles Competition in Buckland Brewer
  • 370 What the television camera saw at Abbotsham

  • 371 Broomhayes children will keep their winter pet

  • 372 Record pebble-throwing day

  • 373 Up-to-date Bideford!

  • 374 Puzzle corner at Bideford!

  • 375 Larkworthy Family play in Shebbear's Football Team
  • 376 Local glove-making factory advertising for staff

  • 377 Hartland Dancers
  • 378 North Devon Driving School

  • 379

    Appledore boys beat mums at football
  • 380 Fundraising trip for RNLI

  • 381 Circus comes to town

  • 382 Happy Days!

  • 383 Head Barman appointed Torrington Town Crier
  • 384 Joe the ginger tabby is 21

  • 385 On her 'maiden' trip from Bideford

  • 386

    Bidefordians
  • 387 Fishermen of Greencliff

  • 388 TV contest means big job for Bideford Guides

  • 389 Torrington in 1967

  • 390 Last of Bideford factory chimney

  • 391 New civic medallions

  • 392 Pretty pennies at Beaford

  • 393 A roof-top view - where?

  • 394 Hartland's invitation

  • 395 Panel sprint for Bideford broadcast

  • 396 Allhalland Street - then and now

  • 397 Still hunting aged 80 and a Field Master

  • 398 Centenary of Gazette

  • 399 At Bideford Arts Ball>
  • 400 For crying out loud!

  • 401 Centenary of Landcross Methodist Chapel

  • 402 An early 'special' to Bideford

  • 403 Loads of black and white

  • 404 Donkey work made easier at Clovelly

  • 405 Yelland potter's exhibition at Bideford

  • 406 Revenge in style

  • 407 Meredith's ironmongers

  • 408 Christmas tree on Bideford Quay>
  • 409 What's the time?

  • 410 Thrush builds nest in cauliflower

  • 411 Filming at Hartland

  • 412 Safety-first dipomas awarded to Torrington drivers

  • 413 Passing of a Torrington landmark

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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Coast Defence: Three Local Interests Confer 10.10.1958

Coast Defence: Three Local Interests Confer 10.10.1958

Coast Defence Three Local Interests Confer 10.10.1958

Coastal Defence. £11,000 plan for groynes. Northam Urban Council, Northam Burrows Committee, the Lords of the Manor. Mr JE Boyles, met to discuss coast protection at Westward Ho! and Appledore as far as it affects the Burrows. Mr LB Galliford, Mr W Gale, Mr HJ Bishop, Mr C Clarke, Mr MWV Richards

Anxiety Over Weakness in Pebble Ridge 22.10.1954

Anxiety Over Weakness in Pebble Ridge 22.10.1954

Anxiety Over Weakness in Pebble Ridge 22.10.1954

Coastal Defence. Appledore and Barnstaple would be the places threatened if the sea broke through Westward Ho! pebbleridge at the point where erosion was taking place between the fifth groyne and the Bailey Bridge. Mr GWG Hutchings, Mr A Brewer, Mr S Guard, Mr FW Hockaday, Mr TG Parsons, Rev AE Green, Mr J Heywood, Mr HV Cope, Mr CR Mill

Westward Ho! Coast Erosion 11.05.1948

Westward Ho! Coast Erosion 11.05.1948

Westward Ho Coast Erosion 11.05.1948

Coastal Defence. M.P.'s questions to Minister of Health Mr Aneurin Bevan, Delay in starting the work, estimated cost of £95,000, Brig. CHM Peto, M.P. for North-West Devon, Mr FW Hockaday

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