Actor William Hartnell, star of ITV’s ‘The Army Game’ programme as CSM Bullimore, met friends in Bideford over the weekend. 

Mr Hartnell is seen with Mr Arthur Braunton, a well-known local hairdresser, and Mrs Mel Moore, wife of the licensee of the Swan, Mill Street. 

Mr Hartnell, who comes from South Devon, and now lives in Sussex, has an aunt, Mrs Bessie Andrew, living at 4 Torridge Mount, Bideford. He stayed at Portledge Hotel.This part of North Devon is one of his favourite holiday haunts and he has been here on several occasions. Beside his TV work he is, of course, well known on the stage. Appearance in the four year run of ‘Seagulls over Sorento’ is particularly well remembered. 

Full Gazette article is dated 21 April 1961