• 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 Quads join a Langtree happy family

  • 2 113 years at Instow

  • 3 Spray dodging - the new pastime

  • 4 Thorn-apple found in Littleham conservatory

  • 5 Tide sweeps under and over the old bridge

  • 6 Bideford loses training ship

  • 7 Mural in the whimsical fashion

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    Exhibition of school work
  • 9 Inscribed Bibles and silver spoons for babies

  • 10 Larkworthy Family play in Shebbear's Football Team
  • 11 Wilfred and Mabel visit schools and hospital

  • 12 Can spring be far away?

  • 13 New gateway to King George's Fields

  • 14 Battle of the gap at Westward Ho!

  • 15 Huntshaw TV mast

  • 16 Torrington's shelter for the aged

  • 17 Bideford electricity window display qualifies for area competition

  • 18 Westward Ho! Tennis Club Winners
  • 19 Allhalland Street - then and now

  • 20 All for the love of a lady!

  • 21 Wishing well is pixielated

  • 22 Weare Giffard Hall sold for £11,300

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

  • 24 Space dominates Hartland carnival

  • 25 Train returns to Westleigh straight

  • 26 Tramps camp by riverside throughout arctic weather

  • 27 Practical sympathy at Northam

  • 28 Service with a smile

  • 29 Yeo vale road ruin provides a mystery

  • 30 Penny for the guy

  • 31 Donkey and horses enjoy carnival drink

  • 32 Puzzle corner at Bideford!

  • 33 Baby Kate goes home to Lundy

  • 34 Charter granted by Philip and Mary

  • 35

    First Girls at Bideford Grammar School take part in Play
  • 36 All aboard the ark

  • 37 Salmon netting at Bideford

  • 38 Hartland postman retires

  • 39

    Birgitta Whittaker
  • 40 Bideford Liberal club new lounge bar opened

  • 41 Lots drawn to prevent dog fight

  • 42 Bideford's private wharves busier

  • 43 Ships at Bideford

  • 44 Torrington acclaims 400th anniversary of granting of charter

  • 45 Devil sent packing

  • 46 Bideford's gift to Sir Francis

  • 47 So this is the mainland!

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

  • 49 Alverdiscott is proud of its new parish hall

  • 50

    10-year-old scrambler practices
  • 51

    Married in 1908
  • 52

    Wynne Olley's styles impress International Hair Fashion Designer
  • 53

    First prize
  • 54 An early 'special' to Bideford

  • 55 Bideford skifflers, they're no squares

  • 56 Cement-clad boats being built at Northam

  • 57 Peter poses for TV film

  • 58 Move for oldest boatyard on Torridge

  • 59 Buckland farm workers to receive long-service awards

  • 60 Brothers reunion 1947
  • 61 Bideford regatta

  • 62 Mobile missionary

  • 63 Panel sprint for Bideford broadcast

  • 64 Yeoi Vale House finally demolished

  • 65 Life begins at 80

  • 66 Sunshine and shade at Appledore

  • 67 Broomhayes £1,000 Surprise
  • 68 Escaped crane moves into Kenwith Valley

  • 69 Bideford stock car racing entry comes in second

  • 70 Hartland Dancers
  • 71 Do recall the old windmill at Northam?

  • 72 Gloves fit for a king!

  • 73 Fishing light goes out at close of poor season

  • 74 Bravery against bull at Shebbear rewarded

  • 75 Meredith's ironmongers

  • 76 Gift plaque on Clovelly council houses

  • 77 Clovelly's 91 year old horseman

  • 78 Some 240 exhibits

  • 79 North Devon Driving School

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

  • 81 Colour TV salesman at eight

  • 82 Holiday scene near Sandymere

  • 83 Future of Torrington almshouses

  • 84 New Lundy stamps

  • 85 Still hunting aged 80 and a Field Master

  • 86

    Jinxed School Trip
  • 87 A sense of humour in advertising

  • 88 Second Monte Carlo Rally

  • 89

    Bidefordians
  • 90 Unique holiday adventure!

  • 91 Appledore's largest

  • 92 Alwington School closing after 120 years

  • 93 Harvest service in Bideford 'pub' bar

  • 94 The creative urge on Saturday morning

  • 95 Out of puff!

  • 96 'Les Girls' of Hartland

  • 97 Riverside mystery

  • 98 Bideford triplets' first birthday party

  • 99 Happy Days!

  • 100 Bank Holiday weather was beach weather

  • 101 Emergency ferry services

  • 102 Eight and a half million pound Taw development scheme

  • 103 Bideford A.F.C annual dinner
  • 104 Bideford schoolboy's courage recognised

  • 105 Decontrol of meat

  • 106 Parkham plan realised

  • 107 Torrington in 1967

  • 108 Bideford has built over 500 post-war homes

  • 109 Burnard family reunion

  • 110 Repair work on Long Bridge
  • 111 A story to tell!

  • 112 Wine and beer merchants for 150 years

  • 113 Puppet characters introduced

  • 114 Bideford country dancers on TV

  • 115 Centenary of Landcross Methodist Chapel

  • 116 Bicycle now does donkey work

  • 117 Joe the ginger tabby is 21

  • 118

    Gus Honeybun meets local children
  • 119 Chess - their bridge over the years

  • 120 North Devon author featured in TV documentary

  • 121 Shipbuilding hobby at Hartland

  • 122 What is future of railway goods yard?

  • 123 Steep street of old Bideford

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

  • 125 End of the line

  • 126 Safe door weighing two tons

  • 127 Revived market off to splendid start

  • 128 Bideford's first triplets for 12 years

  • 129 Preparations for new Clovelly Court

  • 130 Bideford shipyard workers cheer new minesweeper

  • 131 TV features Bideford's New Year bread ceremony

  • 132 The Geneva marionettes

  • 133 Boys from Bideford school complete Ten Tors

  • 134 Big develolpment at Calveford

  • 135 Torrington's new amenity

  • 136 New addition to Quay front

  • 137 Symbol of Lundy independence

  • 138 Celebrations for 103rd birthday

  • 139 Photo of town's first car wins prize

  • 140 Head Barman appointed Torrington Town Crier
  • 141 School's link with cargo ship

  • 142

    Successful motor cycling team
  • 143 Town's second woman mayor in 392 years

  • 144 In their new robes and hats

  • 145 Simple Item 138
  • 146 First steel ship built at Bideford

  • 147 Launching the 'Golden Hinde'

  • 148 Broomhayes children will keep their winter pet

  • 149 New life for Hartland organ

  • 150 Ancestral home nestling in lovely combe

  • 151 Cruising down the river

  • 152 Five generations link Woolsery, Clovelly and Bideford

  • 153 A roof-top view - where?

  • 154 Appledore tugs fete London Tower

  • 155 Jalopy joy for children of Shamwickshire

  • 156 On her 'maiden' trip from Bideford

  • 157 Northam wants to continue pumping from river

  • 158 Some mushroom!

  • 159 Fishermen of Greencliff

  • 160 Westward Ho! sand yacht to challenge speed record

  • 161 Pet squirrels at Monkleigh

  • 162 Torrington's enterprise's new extensions

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

  • 164 Olympic riders to compete at Bideford Horse Show

  • 165 Torrington Youth Club rewarded by party
  • 166 America's tribute to 'J.H.'

  • 167 Littleham cow tops 70 tons mark in milk production

  • 168

    FA Cup Match for the Robins
  • 169 The art of the thatcher

  • 170 Traditions and skills still there

  • 171 Bridging the stream

  • 172 Cavaliers join the Hunt
  • 173 Clovelly custom

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

  • 175 Donkey work made easier at Clovelly

  • 176 Holiday traffic in Bideford High Street

  • 177 New Post Office

  • 178 Death - and birth - of a telephone exchange

  • 179 Children's procession with foxgloves

  • 180 Spring-cleaning the Ridge

  • 181 Panto time at Westward Ho!

  • 182 Appledore's new lifeboat

  • 183 Fundraising trip for RNLI

  • 184 Modern living at Bideford

  • 185 Tibbles home again - and fish supper

  • 186 Just over a year old

  • 187

    Womens Skittles Competition in Buckland Brewer
  • 188 Can-carrying over cobbles has disappeared

  • 189 Torrington school's sundial - fashioned by Headmaster

  • 190 New fire and ambulance stations

  • 191 River scenes that enchant the visitors

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

  • 193 Works at craft he learned over 65 years ago

  • 194 Northam's almshouse

  • 195 Last of Bideford factory chimney

  • 196 A lost Bideford 'island'

  • 197 Thirty bridges cross Torridge

  • 198 Fish nearly pulled him in

  • 199 Pannier Market's future?

  • 200 John Andrew Bread Charity
  • 201 Capers on the cobbles

  • 202 Sooty is quick on the draw

  • 203 What's the time?

  • 204 Born 1883 - still going strong

  • 205 Bideford School Junior Choir Sing in France at Twinning Ceremony in Landivisiau
  • 206 Church renovation rejoicing at Northam

  • 207 Appledore boy is youngest recipient of RNLI vellun

  • 208 What the television camera saw at Abbotsham

  • 209 New shipyard on schedule

  • 210 New art gallery opened

  • 211 Childrens' model of Torrington

  • 212

    Relatives all over the world
  • 213 Beach search for mines takes longer

  • 214 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

  • 215 Revenge in style

  • 216 They are parted pro-tem

  • 217 By pony and trap to market

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

  • 219 Six footed lamb

  • 220 Thrush builds nest in cauliflower

  • 221 Up-to-date Bideford!

  • 222 No ancient Grecian temple this

  • 223 Faints as she wins national competition

  • 224 Yelland potter's exhibition at Bideford

  • 225 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

  • 226

    Lenwood Squash Club
  • 227 It really was the 'last time'

  • 228 Record player of 80 years ago

  • 229

    Mrs Whapham finds ferret in Bridgeland Street while shopping
  • 230 Variety in summer weather

  • 231 In the tortoise nursery - eight hatched at Bideford

  • 232 Down at the 'Donkey House'

  • 233 Passing of a Torrington landmark

  • 234 Private home for public pump

  • 235 New civic medallions

  • 236 Ten year old scrambler

  • 237 Picking the pops

  • 238 Light reading for the lighthouse

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    Gift from Bideford Town Council
  • 240 Signed scroll momento of Queen Mother's visit

  • 241 Bideford Bridge re-opens

  • 242 Bideford Liberals' fashion show

  • 243 Twenty-one yachts

  • 244 New Estate's view of estuary activities

  • 245 Barley from Bideford to Bonnie Scotland

  • 246 Sight of a lifetime

  • 247 Police station view of Bideford

  • 248 Quads at Thornhillhead

  • 249

    Double Baptism on Torridge
  • 250 Little 'Big Ben'

  • 251 Four hundred residents leave Bideford!

  • 252 Bideford childrens' cinema opens

  • 253 TV contest means big job for Bideford Guides

  • 254 Warmington's garage ad

  • 255 Four sisters' nostalgic reunion

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    New gateway
  • 257 To build racing cars in former blacksmith's shop

  • 258 Off on a great adventure

  • 259 Television comes to Torridge District

  • 260 Eleventh hour bid to save last sailing barge

  • 261 Dismantling of wireless mast

  • 262 Bideford-Torrington road gets 'carpet coat'

  • 263 No ancient Grecian temple this

  • 264 Bringing shopping home by goat

  • 265 Hartland Abbey outdoor staff 60 years ago

  • 266

    Cadets are given certificates
  • 267 Students help model St Sidwell

  • 268 They set out for Bideford and became lost

  • 269 Bideford blacksmith wins English championship

  • 270 'Out of Appledore' sailing memories

  • 271 Council agree to demolition of Chanter's Folly

  • 272 Hartland's invitation

  • 273 Waldon Triplets
  • 274 Torrington to have first woman mayor

  • 275 Picking the pops

  • 276 Liked holidays here - so starts business

  • 277 Watch the dicky bird!

  • 278

    Holidaying in north Devon
  • 279 Fleet of foot and fair of face

  • 280 They never miss a game at Torrington

  • 281

    Building works
  • 282

    Close associations with North Devon
  • 283 Weare Giffard potato

  • 284 School crossing patrol begins

  • 285 He beat the floods

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

  • 287

    Youth Clubs Join Together For Entertainment
  • 288 Torrington children build igloo
  • 289 Birds' convalescent home at Instow

  • 290 Littleham family's five generations

  • 291 Northam footballers of the future

  • 292 Instow local art show was 'tremendous success'

  • 293 Rowing triumphs at Bideford

  • 294 Success to Festival of the Arts

  • 295 Champagne send-off for Torrington new factory

  • 296

    Mums protest in Coronation Road
  • 297 Appledore schooner broadcast

  • 298 Largest salmon caught in Torridge

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

  • 300 A bird of their own!

  • 301 Farewell to passenger trains

  • 302 New look in the hayfields

  • 303 Lady Churchill congratulates Bideford artists at nursing exhibition

  • 304 Old Girls revisit Edgehill

  • 305 Bideford computer stars

  • 306 Jumble sale fever

  • 307 Teenager Peter Jackson Makes Horror Film
  • 308 Clovelly nightmare

  • 309 Eight to strike and a race to win

  • 310 Entente cordiale in Bideford

  • 311 One thousand visit zoo at Whitsun

  • 312 No laughing matter

  • 313 Recognise this resort?

  • 314 Landmark at Bradworthy

  • 315

    Hamburger is part of modern life
  • 316 Ship-in-bottle world record

  • 317 Lady Godiva comes to Torrington

  • 318

    Reds Womens Team Are First To Compete Throughout Season
  • 319 Centenary of Gazette

  • 320 Appledore Juniors Football
  • 321 Picture bought for shillings may be worth thousands

  • 322 Photo mural in Bideford bank

  • 323 Bideford Zoo's first baby is big draw

  • 324 Homage to a well-loved sovereign

  • 325 A craftsman's 'potted' history

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

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

  • 328 Smiling welcome to Hartland visitors

  • 329 Artisans' Club

  • 330 X-ray shoe fitting

  • 331 Polish custom on Pancake Day

  • 332 Centuries old but today busier than ever

  • 333 Making way for the double-deckers

  • 334 Calligrapher extraordinary

  • 335 Water Board mains spread through villages

  • 336 Circus comes to town

  • 337 East-the-Water sets town an example

  • 338 New choral society's growing response

  • 339

    Appledore boys beat mums at football
  • 340 New look for Torrington Lane

  • 341 Clovelly donkey film star

  • 342 Vessel built 300 feet above sea level

  • 343

    Andre Veillett and Quentin Reed in Judo Demonstration
  • 344 Torridge graveyard of wooden hulks

  • 345 Torridge wins on time schedule

  • 346 Finished in 1876

  • 347 Alderman Anstey's dream comes tru

  • 348 First tankers arrive at new depot

  • 349 Getting up steam for tomorrow

  • 350 Eleven million pound scheme's official opening

  • 351 When horses score over the tractor

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    Toasted with musical honours
  • 353 A man and his wheel

  • 354 Pretty pennies at Beaford

  • 355 Sweet success at Langtree School

  • 356 Thunderstorm destruction of 25 years ago

  • 357 Bideford's new market opens next week

  • 358

    Inter-school Road Safety Quiz Cup Winners
  • 359 New Lundy air-mail stamps

  • 360 Speeding communications: Bideford firm's new installation

  • 361 Buckland goes to County Show

  • 362 Record pebble-throwing day

  • 363

    School of Dancing's Annual Display
  • 364 Bideford inquest on French trawlermen opens

  • 365 Shoes certainly not made for walking

  • 366 Daisy's pride and joy

  • 367 Designed all furnishing of new chapel

  • 368 Two kinds of hovercraft at Bideford

  • 369 Northam loses thatched cottage landmark

  • 370 Westward Ho! public conveniences get go ahead
  • 371 For crying out loud!

  • 372 No sale of Springfield House

  • 373 Westward Ho! combined op

  • 374

    Was a missionary
  • 375 Boys win hockey on the sands challenge

  • 376 Bideford firm develops new non-spill paint

  • 377 First ship in 8 years

  • 378 Last train from Torrington

  • 379 A Weare Giffard speciality - delicious strawberries

  • 380 Calf thinks of mare as mum

  • 381 Designed and made in Bideford

  • 382 Championship Trophy for Hartland
  • 383 Saving money, wear and tear

  • 384 Loads of black and white

  • 385 Tomorrow' night's skittles broadcast from Bideford

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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  • 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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  • 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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Northam Council press on with sewage into sea plan 11.08.1967

Northam Council press on with sewage into sea plan 11.08.1967

Northam council press on with sewage into sea planIt needed 2 votes from the chairman, Mrs E M Hilder, to prevent Northam Urban Council referring back to the Housing and Public Health Committee a recommendation that for the proposed new sewerage scheme negotiations to continue with Bideford Town Council for an extended sea outfall either at Rocks Nose or at Abbotsham Cliffs.

Submitting the report, the committee chairman, Mr A C Saunders, referred to a study on the Lubeck process widely circulated by a rate payer, Major G A Wilde.  The consultants, he said, felt that much of the information it contained was "misleading".

Proposing that the recommendation be referred back, Mr R F Hill said that the people in this locality were living in a effluent rather than an affluent society.  As a fighter for lost causes, said Mr R H K Evers, he admired Major Wilde's doggedness.   Brigadier T P Keene said that he had been impressed by the possibilities of the Lubeck process.

Bideford Sewage and the Torridge 28th September 1948

Bideford Sewage and the Torridge 28th September 1948

bideford sewage and the torridgeAnswer to an allegation, made at a recent meeting of the Taw and Torridge Board of Conservations, that under Bideford's new sewerage scheme a larger volume of sewage would be thrown into the Torridge, is contained in a letter received by the Town Clerk of Bideford, Mr F C Backway, from Mr F W S Stanton, Bideford Borough Council's consulting engineer.

The volume of sewage is equal to that of the water supply, for the water, after use and consumption, enters the sewers as sewage and is discharged through the outfall.

Sewerage

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