• 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 Practical sympathy at Northam

  • 2 Broomhayes children will keep their winter pet

  • 3 TV features Bideford's New Year bread ceremony

  • 4 New addition to Quay front

  • 5 Unique holiday adventure!

  • 6 Dismantling of wireless mast

  • 7 Torrington children build igloo
  • 8 Lady Godiva comes to Torrington

  • 9 Inscribed Bibles and silver spoons for babies

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

  • 11 Faints as she wins national competition

  • 12 Down at the 'Donkey House'

  • 13 Bank Holiday weather was beach weather

  • 14 Rowing triumphs at Bideford

  • 15 New gateway to King George's Fields

  • 16 End of the line

  • 17 Yeo vale road ruin provides a mystery

  • 18 Old Girls revisit Edgehill

  • 19 Ships at Bideford

  • 20 A bird of their own!

  • 21 Meredith's ironmongers

  • 22

    Married in 1908
  • 23 Yelland potter's exhibition at Bideford

  • 24 Alverdiscott is proud of its new parish hall

  • 25 Variety in summer weather

  • 26

    Cadets are given certificates
  • 27 Getting up steam for tomorrow

  • 28 Harvest service in Bideford 'pub' bar

  • 29 Cement-clad boats being built at Northam

  • 30 Liked holidays here - so starts business

  • 31

    Successful motor cycling team
  • 32 Simple Item 138
  • 33 Bideford Liberal club new lounge bar opened

  • 34 School crossing patrol begins

  • 35 Death - and birth - of a telephone exchange

  • 36 Littleham cow tops 70 tons mark in milk production

  • 37 Record player of 80 years ago

  • 38 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

  • 39 Modern living at Bideford

  • 40 For crying out loud!

  • 41 Thrush builds nest in cauliflower

  • 42 Cruising down the river

  • 43 Beach search for mines takes longer

  • 44 Donkey and horses enjoy carnival drink

  • 45 Chess - their bridge over the years

  • 46

    Mrs Whapham finds ferret in Bridgeland Street while shopping
  • 47 Head Barman appointed Torrington Town Crier
  • 48 Pretty pennies at Beaford

  • 49 Bideford loses training ship

  • 50 Penny for the guy

  • 51 Gift plaque on Clovelly council houses

  • 52 Eight to strike and a race to win

  • 53 Eleven million pound scheme's official opening

  • 54 Parkham plan realised

  • 55 Barley from Bideford to Bonnie Scotland

  • 56 New look in the hayfields

  • 57 Bideford's gift to Sir Francis

  • 58 Brothers reunion 1947
  • 59 Instow local art show was 'tremendous success'

  • 60 Decontrol of meat

  • 61 Mural in the whimsical fashion

  • 62 Children's procession with foxgloves

  • 63 Centenary of Gazette

  • 64 A roof-top view - where?

  • 65 Appledore's new lifeboat

  • 66 Sooty is quick on the draw

  • 67 Charter granted by Philip and Mary

  • 68 Northam wants to continue pumping from river

  • 69 'Les Girls' of Hartland

  • 70 East-the-Water sets town an example

  • 71 North Devon author featured in TV documentary

  • 72 Bideford blacksmith wins English championship

  • 73 North Devon Driving School

  • 74 Finished in 1876

  • 75 Torrington's shelter for the aged

  • 76 Bideford firm develops new non-spill paint

  • 77 First ship in 8 years

  • 78 The Geneva marionettes

  • 79 Bideford stock car racing entry comes in second

  • 80 Birds' convalescent home at Instow

  • 81 New look for Torrington Lane

  • 82 Clovelly custom

  • 83

    Jinxed School Trip
  • 84 Hartland Dancers
  • 85 John Andrew Bread Charity
  • 86 Spring-cleaning the Ridge

  • 87 Bideford regatta

  • 88 Fundraising trip for RNLI

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

  • 90

    Close associations with North Devon
  • 91 Still hunting aged 80 and a Field Master

  • 92

    Hamburger is part of modern life
  • 93 Church renovation rejoicing at Northam

  • 94 Happy Days!

  • 95 America's tribute to 'J.H.'

  • 96 All for the love of a lady!

  • 97 No ancient Grecian temple this

  • 98

    Youth Clubs Join Together For Entertainment
  • 99 Torrington to have first woman mayor

  • 100 Symbol of Lundy independence

  • 101 Just over a year old

  • 102 Bideford-Torrington road gets 'carpet coat'

  • 103 Second Monte Carlo Rally

  • 104 The art of the thatcher

  • 105 Police station view of Bideford

  • 106 They set out for Bideford and became lost

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

  • 108 Lady Churchill congratulates Bideford artists at nursing exhibition

  • 109 Four hundred residents leave Bideford!

  • 110 Farewell to passenger trains

  • 111 Five generations link Woolsery, Clovelly and Bideford

  • 112

    Andre Veillett and Quentin Reed in Judo Demonstration
  • 113 Water Board mains spread through villages

  • 114 Centenary of Landcross Methodist Chapel

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

  • 116 A craftsman's 'potted' history

  • 117 Sight of a lifetime

  • 118 A sense of humour in advertising

  • 119 Weare Giffard Hall sold for £11,300

  • 120 Cavaliers join the Hunt
  • 121 So this is the mainland!

  • 122 An early 'special' to Bideford

  • 123 Fleet of foot and fair of face

  • 124 Bideford's new market opens next week

  • 125 Hartland's invitation

  • 126 Torridge wins on time schedule

  • 127 Photo of town's first car wins prize

  • 128

    Birgitta Whittaker
  • 129 Diamond Jubilee of St Peter's Church, East-the-Water

  • 130 The creative urge on Saturday morning

  • 131 Train returns to Westleigh straight

  • 132 Two kinds of hovercraft at Bideford

  • 133 Circus comes to town

  • 134 Repair work on Long Bridge
  • 135 It really was the 'last time'

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

  • 137 Thunderstorm destruction of 25 years ago

  • 138 Life begins at 80

  • 139 Wilfred and Mabel visit schools and hospital

  • 140

    FA Cup Match for the Robins
  • 141

    Toasted with musical honours
  • 142 Alderman Anstey's dream comes tru

  • 143 Appledore schooner broadcast

  • 144 Huntshaw TV mast

  • 145 No ancient Grecian temple this

  • 146 Record pebble-throwing day

  • 147 Bideford electricity window display qualifies for area competition

  • 148 Childrens' model of Torrington

  • 149 Bideford A.F.C annual dinner
  • 150 Revenge in style

  • 151 Mobile missionary

  • 152 Clovelly's 91 year old horseman

  • 153 X-ray shoe fitting

  • 154 Escaped crane moves into Kenwith Valley

  • 155

    Relatives all over the world
  • 156 Baby Kate goes home to Lundy

  • 157 Little 'Big Ben'

  • 158 Warmington's garage ad

  • 159 Recognise this resort?

  • 160 Weare Giffard potato

  • 161 Northam's almshouse

  • 162 Preparations for new Clovelly Court

  • 163 Burnard family reunion

  • 164 Designed all furnishing of new chapel

  • 165 Appledore Juniors Football
  • 166 A lost Bideford 'island'

  • 167 Puppet characters introduced

  • 168 All aboard the ark

  • 169 Photo mural in Bideford bank

  • 170 New Lundy air-mail stamps

  • 171 Do recall the old windmill at Northam?

  • 172 Fishing light goes out at close of poor season

  • 173 Thirty bridges cross Torridge

  • 174

    Wynne Olley's styles impress International Hair Fashion Designer
  • 175 No sale of Springfield House

  • 176

    Building works
  • 177 Bideford Bridge re-opens

  • 178 New Post Office

  • 179 Bideford's private wharves busier

  • 180 Picking the pops

  • 181

    School of Dancing's Annual Display
  • 182 He beat the floods

  • 183 Homage to a well-loved sovereign

  • 184 Sunshine and shade at Appledore

  • 185

    Double Baptism on Torridge
  • 186 No laughing matter

  • 187 Bridging the stream

  • 188 Championship Trophy for Hartland
  • 189 Capers on the cobbles

  • 190 Eleventh hour bid to save last sailing barge

  • 191 Largest salmon caught in Torridge

  • 192 A man and his wheel

  • 193 Hartland postman retires

  • 194 Clovelly nightmare

  • 195 Launching the 'Golden Hinde'

  • 196 Clovelly donkey film star

  • 197

    Gus Honeybun meets local children
  • 198 Revived market off to splendid start

  • 199 Bideford's first triplets for 12 years

  • 200 Bideford School Junior Choir Sing in France at Twinning Ceremony in Landivisiau
  • 201 Safe door weighing two tons

  • 202 Ancestral home nestling in lovely combe

  • 203 Waldon Triplets
  • 204 Torrington acclaims 400th anniversary of granting of charter

  • 205 Twenty-one yachts

  • 206 First tankers arrive at new depot

  • 207 Yeoi Vale House finally demolished

  • 208

    Was a missionary
  • 209 Fishermen of Greencliff

  • 210 A Weare Giffard speciality - delicious strawberries

  • 211 Service with a smile

  • 212 When horses score over the tractor

  • 213

    First Girls at Bideford Grammar School take part in Play
  • 214 Holiday traffic in Bideford High Street

  • 215 Boys win hockey on the sands challenge

  • 216 Northam footballers of the future

  • 217 Polish custom on Pancake Day

  • 218 New choral society's growing response

  • 219 Loads of black and white

  • 220 Smiling welcome to Hartland visitors

  • 221 Torrington in 1967

  • 222 Council agree to demolition of Chanter's Folly

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

  • 224 Westward Ho! public conveniences get go ahead
  • 225 Alwington School closing after 120 years

  • 226 Students help model St Sidwell

  • 227 Television comes to Torridge District

  • 228

    Exhibition of school work
  • 229 Westward Ho! combined op

  • 230 Last of Bideford factory chimney

  • 231 Saving money, wear and tear

  • 232 New life for Hartland organ

  • 233 Speeding communications: Bideford firm's new installation

  • 234 Torridge graveyard of wooden hulks

  • 235 Devil sent packing

  • 236 Bideford has built over 500 post-war homes

  • 237 Allhalland Street - then and now

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

  • 239 Torrington Youth Club rewarded by party
  • 240 River scenes that enchant the visitors

  • 241 Broomhayes £1,000 Surprise
  • 242 Big develolpment at Calveford

  • 243 Ten year old scrambler

  • 244 New Estate's view of estuary activities

  • 245

    Gift from Bideford Town Council
  • 246 In the tortoise nursery - eight hatched at Bideford

  • 247 Bideford country dancers on TV

  • 248 Spray dodging - the new pastime

  • 249 Calligrapher extraordinary

  • 250 Lots drawn to prevent dog fight

  • 251 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

  • 252

    Womens Skittles Competition in Buckland Brewer
  • 253 Bicycle now does donkey work

  • 254 Donkey work made easier at Clovelly

  • 255 Success to Festival of the Arts

  • 256 Buckland goes to County Show

  • 257 Shipbuilding hobby at Hartland

  • 258 Signed scroll momento of Queen Mother's visit

  • 259 New civic medallions

  • 260 Westward Ho! sand yacht to challenge speed record

  • 261 Artisans' Club

  • 262 Colour TV salesman at eight

  • 263 Olympic riders to compete at Bideford Horse Show

  • 264 Daisy's pride and joy

  • 265

    Appledore boys beat mums at football
  • 266 Watch the dicky bird!

  • 267

    Holidaying in north Devon
  • 268 Quads at Thornhillhead

  • 269 Can spring be far away?

  • 270 Centuries old but today busier than ever

  • 271 Making way for the double-deckers

  • 272 Larkworthy Family play in Shebbear's Football Team
  • 273 Riverside mystery

  • 274 Six footed lamb

  • 275 Calf thinks of mare as mum

  • 276 Space dominates Hartland carnival

  • 277 Entente cordiale in Bideford

  • 278 By pony and trap to market

  • 279 Celebrations for 103rd birthday

  • 280 Torrington's enterprise's new extensions

  • 281 Salmon netting at Bideford

  • 282 Bideford shipyard workers cheer new minesweeper

  • 283 Jumble sale fever

  • 284 Tomorrow' night's skittles broadcast from Bideford

  • 285 A story to tell!

  • 286 New fire and ambulance stations

  • 287 Holiday scene near Sandymere

  • 288

    Mums protest in Coronation Road
  • 289 Up-to-date Bideford!

  • 290

    First prize
  • 291 Pannier Market's future?

  • 292 What the television camera saw at Abbotsham

  • 293 Four sisters' nostalgic reunion

  • 294 What's the time?

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

  • 296

    Bidefordians
  • 297 Bideford skifflers, they're no squares

  • 298 Gloves fit for a king!

  • 299 Bideford Zoo's first baby is big draw

  • 300 Town's second woman mayor in 392 years

  • 301 Emergency ferry services

  • 302 Bringing shopping home by goat

  • 303 Fish nearly pulled him in

  • 304 Vessel built 300 feet above sea level

  • 305 They never miss a game at Torrington

  • 306 Peter poses for TV film

  • 307 Bideford Liberals' fashion show

  • 308 Teenager Peter Jackson Makes Horror Film
  • 309 Designed and made in Bideford

  • 310 Ship-in-bottle world record

  • 311 Passing of a Torrington landmark

  • 312 Buckland farm workers to receive long-service awards

  • 313 Traditions and skills still there

  • 314 Bideford childrens' cinema opens

  • 315

    Inter-school Road Safety Quiz Cup Winners
  • 316 Torrington school's sundial - fashioned by Headmaster

  • 317 Move for oldest boatyard on Torridge

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

  • 319 Born 1883 - still going strong

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

  • 321 Future of Torrington almshouses

  • 322 Some mushroom!

  • 323 Jalopy joy for children of Shamwickshire

  • 324 School's link with cargo ship

  • 325 Last train from Torrington

  • 326 Puzzle corner at Bideford!

  • 327 Works at craft he learned over 65 years ago

  • 328 Northam loses thatched cottage landmark

  • 329 Thorn-apple found in Littleham conservatory

  • 330 Bideford schoolboy's courage recognised

  • 331 Private home for public pump

  • 332 Panto time at Westward Ho!

  • 333 Torrington's new amenity

  • 334 Bideford inquest on French trawlermen opens

  • 335 New Lundy stamps

  • 336 Joe the ginger tabby is 21

  • 337 Bideford triplets' first birthday party

  • 338 Appledore boy is youngest recipient of RNLI vellun

  • 339 Boys from Bideford school complete Ten Tors

  • 340 New art gallery opened

  • 341 Wine and beer merchants for 150 years

  • 342 Hartland Abbey outdoor staff 60 years ago

  • 343 Wishing well is pixielated

  • 344 Steep street of old Bideford

  • 345 First steel ship built at Bideford

  • 346 Champagne send-off for Torrington new factory

  • 347 What is future of railway goods yard?

  • 348 Light reading for the lighthouse

  • 349 Tibbles home again - and fish supper

  • 350 113 years at Instow

  • 351 Eight and a half million pound Taw development scheme

  • 352 Picking the pops

  • 353

    Lenwood Squash Club
  • 354 Quads join a Langtree happy family

  • 355 TV contest means big job for Bideford Guides

  • 356 Picture bought for shillings may be worth thousands

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

  • 358 Bideford computer stars

  • 359 One thousand visit zoo at Whitsun

  • 360 Bravery against bull at Shebbear rewarded

  • 361 Littleham family's five generations

  • 362 Shoes certainly not made for walking

  • 363 New shipyard on schedule

  • 364 In their new robes and hats

  • 365

    10-year-old scrambler practices
  • 366 Tide sweeps under and over the old bridge

  • 367 Appledore's largest

  • 368 Westward Ho! Tennis Club Winners
  • 369 Can-carrying over cobbles has disappeared

  • 370 Off on a great adventure

  • 371 Battle of the gap at Westward Ho!

  • 372

    Reds Womens Team Are First To Compete Throughout Season
  • 373

    New gateway
  • 374 Panel sprint for Bideford broadcast

  • 375 Some 240 exhibits

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

  • 377 They are parted pro-tem

  • 378 Out of puff!

  • 379 On her 'maiden' trip from Bideford

  • 380 Landmark at Bradworthy

  • 381 Pet squirrels at Monkleigh

  • 382 'Out of Appledore' sailing memories

  • 383 Sweet success at Langtree School

  • 384 Appledore tugs fete London Tower

  • 385 Tramps camp by riverside throughout arctic weather

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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  • 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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  • 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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Buckland beat Bradworthy in YFC Quiz Challenge

Throughout the country Young Farmers’ Clubs are helping to fit a new generation of British farmers for their part in the great industry of agriculture.

11.2.1955 YFC quiz challenge

Typical of the friendly rivalry that exists between neighbouring branches was the Quiz contest at Buckland Brewer last week when the Bradworthy Club Advisory Committee challenged the local committee to a test of knowledge of agriculture and general topics. A close contest was won by Buckland Brewer by only five points.

One of the most interesting, and certainly the most amusing, items on the programme were the one-minute speeches on subjects selected by Mr R C Roe, area officer, NAAS, who also set the quiz questions.

Appearing in the group photograph are: Messrs D Trewin, R C Roe, M Jackman, R Trewin, S A Brimacome, P Trewin, R G Pomeroy, W Harris, A Hockridge, G Quance, Miss O Hancock, Messrs A Barham, T Taylor, M Andrew and S Brown, J Cann.

Gazette article dated 11 February 1955

YFC Quiz at Hartland

Hosts, Hartland Young Farmers’ Club finished third when a friendly Y.F.C. quiz was held at the Hartland Church Hall on Tuesday night.

21.11.1957 Hartland YFC

Three club teams visited Hartland for the quiz – Bradworthy, Buckland Brewer and Shebbear. The contest resulted: Bradworthy 30 ½ points, Buckland 28, Hartland 22 ½, Shebbear 14 ½. Tuesday’s quiz was one of a series of friendly contests arranged by the local Y.F.C.s.

Question-master was Mr. F. M. Shore, of Bideford, group secretary of the Torridge branches of the N.F.U. Adjudicators were Messrs. L. Goaman and E. G. Quance.

Members of the teams were: Hartland – W. Goaman, D. Williams, J. Heard, J. Cottle, Mrs. A. Gray; Bradworthy – C. Bellew, J. Quance, T Rozuaduski, Miss M. Harris and Miss J. Wickett; Buckland – D. Poole, B. Stevens, E. Ley, W. Moase, Miss J. Dunn; Shebbear – E. Haste, J. Lawton, M. Pedrick, E. Finnemore, C. Nicholls. The scorer was Mr. Andrew Goaman, chairman of the Hartland club.

The quiz was followed by a social.
Music was supplied by Mr. E. J. Fulford.

 

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