One of the gifts from the Old Boys of Bideford Grammar School

being handed over to the retiring headmaster, Mr C W Stephenson, by the president of the Old Boys Association, Mr Tom Bonetta, at a social gathering.

The staff presented Mr Stephenson with a picnic set and, at morning assembly, the last day of term, boys of the school gave him two picnic chairs, a picnic table and a pair of garden secateurs.

The gifts were handed to him by school captain John Duncan.

Gazette article dated July 1970