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Rivalling St Moritz?25 February 1955
As at many other places, winter sports (English variety) were in full spring at Hartland over the weekend.
A favourite spot on the steep drop at the 'Bottoms' where the young and not so young enjoyed to the full tobogganing, snow fights and rides full of thrills
and spills on tobaggans drawn by motor cyles.
It was said that experts at St Moritz had a serious rival in local postman. Mr 'Fonso' Dayman, flashing down the steep slopes on his daughter's sledge!
Gazette article dated 25 February 1955
Animals swept away22 August 1952
Worst summer flood for 40 years
Following almost 24 hours continuous rain the River Torridge, already swollen by rain earlier in the week, rose rapidly during the early hours of Saturday morning overflowing its banks and flooding the low-lying Torridge Valley.
While this was the worst summer flood for forty years, many of the valley farmers, who know from bitter experience the rapidity with which the river can rise, had moved livestock to higher ground and heavy losses were avoided.
From 9am on Friday to 9am on Saturday 3.42 inches of rain was recorded at Jennetts Reservoir, the heaviest day’s rain for many years. On Sunday the river dropped back, leaving only a few fields under water.
At Bideford the Torridge continued a turbulent torrent long after low tide and during Saturday morning hundreds of trees and branches, sheaves of corn and a number of carcases were washed down river. As the tide ebbed, flood debris was left strewn on mud and sandbank. The Quay crane was brought into...