New strip for a new season in a new league…

and Bideford Blues, busily preparing for their baptism in North Devon’s Junior Division One, find time to pause for a photograph. A memoir, like the runners-up plaques displayed, of their soccer return last season when they won promotion. Average age of the side is just 19.

Photographed are: Dave Butler, Bob Arnold, Ken Taylor, Richard Hookway, Dave Backway, Keith Sowden, Frank Parkhouse, Ivor Jones, Roy Mitchell, Les Braddick, Jack Mitchell, Donald Cawsey, Eddie Shortridge, Bob Barter, Colin Curtis, Freddie Lamey, Chris Sowden.

Gazette article dated 20 August 1965