• 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 Eight and a half million pound Taw development scheme

  • 2 'Out of Appledore' sailing memories

  • 3 Centenary of Gazette

  • 4 Bideford childrens' cinema opens

  • 5 New art gallery opened

  • 6 Torrington Church's new organ

  • 7

    Mums protest in Coronation Road
  • 8 Weare Giffard Hall sold for £11,300

  • 9 Picking the pops

  • 10 Harvest service in Bideford 'pub' bar

  • 11 Bideford blacksmith wins English championship

  • 12 Little 'Big Ben'

  • 13

    First Girls at Bideford Grammar School take part in Play
  • 14 Still hunting aged 80 and a Field Master

  • 15 Fish nearly pulled him in

  • 16 Peter poses for TV film

  • 17 Westward Ho! sand yacht to challenge speed record

  • 18 Saving money, wear and tear

  • 19 First ship in 8 years

  • 20 Yeoi Vale House finally demolished

  • 21 Boys from Bideford school complete Ten Tors

  • 22 Pet squirrels at Monkleigh

  • 23 Sight of a lifetime

  • 24 New look in the hayfields

  • 25 Torridge wins on time schedule

  • 26 A man and his wheel

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

  • 28 Bideford Liberal club new lounge bar opened

  • 29 Beach search for mines takes longer

  • 30 Entente cordiale in Bideford

  • 31 Westward Ho! public conveniences get go ahead
  • 32 Passing of a Torrington landmark

  • 33

    Married in 1908
  • 34

    10-year-old scrambler practices
  • 35 Littleham family's five generations

  • 36 Fundraising trip for RNLI

  • 37 Wine and beer merchants for 150 years

  • 38 Bideford's new market opens next week

  • 39 All aboard the ark

  • 40 Hartland Abbey outdoor staff 60 years ago

  • 41

    Reds Womens Team Are First To Compete Throughout Season
  • 42 Appledore boy is youngest recipient of RNLI vellun

  • 43

    FA Cup Match for the Robins
  • 44 Charter granted by Philip and Mary

  • 45

    Close associations with North Devon
  • 46 Championship Trophy for Hartland
  • 47 Alwington School closing after 120 years

  • 48 Spring-cleaning the Ridge

  • 49 Circus comes to town

  • 50 Ship-in-bottle world record

  • 51 Train returns to Westleigh straight

  • 52 New choral society's growing response

  • 53 Thirty bridges cross Torridge

  • 54 Sooty is quick on the draw

  • 55 Amsterdam to Bideford double success

  • 56 Fishermen of Greencliff

  • 57 Panel sprint for Bideford broadcast

  • 58 Steep street of old Bideford

  • 59

    Youth Clubs Join Together For Entertainment
  • 60 Hartland postman retires

  • 61 New gateway to King George's Fields

  • 62 Farewell to passenger trains

  • 63 Modern living at Bideford

  • 64 Ten year old scrambler

  • 65 Alverdiscott is proud of its new parish hall

  • 66 Largest salmon caught in Torridge

  • 67 No laughing matter

  • 68

    First prize
  • 69 Down at the dump something stirs

  • 70 Yelland potter's exhibition at Bideford

  • 71 Holiday traffic in Bideford High Street

  • 72 Where Bideford rope-makers walked>
  • 73

    Womens Skittles Competition in Buckland Brewer
  • 74 Bideford 'What's my line?' challenger

  • 75 New Estate's view of estuary activities

  • 76 Colour TV salesman at eight

  • 77 Shoes certainly not made for walking

  • 78 New shipyard on schedule

  • 79 The Geneva marionettes

  • 80 Success to Festival of the Arts

  • 81 A craftsman's 'potted' history

  • 82 Smiling welcome to Hartland visitors

  • 83 Revenge in style

  • 84

    Mrs Whapham finds ferret in Bridgeland Street while shopping
  • 85 No ancient Grecian temple this

  • 86 New civic medallions

  • 87 Getting up steam for tomorrow

  • 88 Waldon Triplets
  • 89 A sense of humour in advertising

  • 90 Bringing shopping home by goat

  • 91 Local glove-making factory advertising for staff

  • 92 Cruising down the river

  • 93 Floral dancing at Appledore

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

  • 95 Holiday scene near Sandymere

  • 96 Appledore skill brings 'Hispaniola' to life

  • 97 Torrington's shelter for the aged

  • 98 Afternoon tea in the park

  • 99 Puzzle corner at Bideford!

  • 100 No ancient Grecian temple this

  • 101 Celebrations for 103rd birthday

  • 102 Torrington to have first woman mayor

  • 103 School's link with cargo ship

  • 104 Donkey work made easier at Clovelly

  • 105

    Was a missionary
  • 106 Torrington acclaims 400th anniversary of granting of charter

  • 107 Some mushroom!

  • 108

    Holidaying in north Devon
  • 109 Wilfred and Mabel visit schools and hospital

  • 110 Five generations link Woolsery, Clovelly and Bideford

  • 111 Broomhayes children will keep their winter pet

  • 112 Designed all furnishing of new chapel

  • 113 Students help model St Sidwell

  • 114 Liked holidays here - so starts business

  • 115 Westward Ho! combined op

  • 116 Sweets derationing

  • 117 Birds' convalescent home at Instow

  • 118 113 years at Instow

  • 119 Mayor becomes engine driver>
  • 120 Ships at Bideford

  • 121 Bideford A.F.C annual dinner
  • 122 Bideford country dancers on TV

  • 123 Childrens' model of Torrington

  • 124 Appledore tugs fete London Tower

  • 125 Appledore's largest

  • 126 Bideford inquest on French trawlermen opens

  • 127 Torrington school's sundial - fashioned by Headmaster

  • 128 Bideford electricity window display qualifies for area competition

  • 129 Meredith's ironmongers

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

  • 131 Can-carrying over cobbles has disappeared

  • 132 Diamond Jubilee of St Peter's Church, East-the-Water

  • 133 Bideford-Torrington road gets 'carpet coat'

  • 134 Cement-clad boats being built at Northam

  • 135

    Lenwood Squash Club
  • 136 Clovelly nightmare

  • 137 Hartland Dancers
  • 138 A lost Bideford 'island'

  • 139 Space dominates Hartland carnival

  • 140 Four sisters' nostalgic reunion

  • 141 A roof-top view - where?

  • 142 Warmington's garage ad

  • 143 Tramps camp by riverside throughout arctic weather

  • 144 Thunderstorm destruction of 25 years ago

  • 145 Water Board mains spread through villages

  • 146 Devil sent packing

  • 147

    Wynne Olley's styles impress International Hair Fashion Designer
  • 148 Head Barman appointed Torrington Town Crier
  • 149 Rowing triumphs at Bideford

  • 150 Making way for the double-deckers

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

  • 152 Works at craft he learned over 65 years ago

  • 153 Daisy's pride and joy

  • 154 Bideford loses training ship

  • 155 Last train from Torrington

  • 156 What the television camera saw at Abbotsham

  • 157 Housing progress at East-the-Water>
  • 158 Larkworthy Family play in Shebbear's Football Team
  • 159 Loads of black and white

  • 160 School crossing patrol begins

  • 161

    Relatives all over the world
  • 162 Boys win hockey on the sands challenge

  • 163 First tankers arrive at new depot

  • 164 Two kinds of hovercraft at Bideford

  • 165 Hartland's invitation

  • 166 Bideford computer stars

  • 167 By pony and trap to market

  • 168 Bideford School Junior Choir Sing in France at Twinning Ceremony in Landivisiau
  • 169 Parkham plan realised

  • 170 Littleham cow tops 70 tons mark in milk production

  • 171 Record pebble-throwing day

  • 172 What's the time?

  • 173 Torrington children build igloo
  • 174 North Devon author featured in TV documentary

  • 175 Panto time at Westward Ho!

  • 176 Allhalland Street - then and now

  • 177 A story to tell!

  • 178 Four hundred residents leave Bideford!

  • 179 Thorn-apple found in Littleham conservatory

  • 180 Penny for the guy

  • 181 Alderman Anstey's dream comes tru

  • 182 For crying out loud!

  • 183 In the tortoise nursery - eight hatched at Bideford

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

  • 185 Chess - their bridge over the years

  • 186 Future of Torrington almshouses

  • 187 Up-to-date Bideford!

  • 188 Cavaliers join the Hunt
  • 189 Tomorrow' night's skittles broadcast from Bideford

  • 190 Tibbles home again - and fish supper

  • 191 Watch the dicky bird!

  • 192 Bideford triplets' first birthday party

  • 193 Eight to strike and a race to win

  • 194 Bideford's first woman councillor

  • 195 Eleven million pound scheme's official opening

  • 196 Death - and birth - of a telephone exchange

  • 197 Sweet success at Langtree School

  • 198

    Exhibition of school work
  • 199 Safe door weighing two tons

  • 200 Bideford schoolboy's courage recognised

  • 201 Salmon netting at Bideford

  • 202 He beat the floods

  • 203 Bicycle now does donkey work

  • 204 Some 240 exhibits

  • 205 Homage to a well-loved sovereign

  • 206 Barley from Bideford to Bonnie Scotland

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

  • 208 Bravery against bull at Shebbear rewarded

  • 209 Torrington Youth Club rewarded by party
  • 210 Quads join a Langtree happy family

  • 211 Instow local art show was 'tremendous success'

  • 212 Record player of 80 years ago

  • 213 Decontrol of meat

  • 214 Vessel built 300 feet above sea level

  • 215 Just over a year old

  • 216 Torrington's new amenity

  • 217 Preparations for new Clovelly Court

  • 218 New look for Torrington Lane

  • 219 Service with a smile

  • 220 Simple Item 138
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    Toasted with musical honours
  • 222 Sixty-two year old Picarooner makes ready for season

  • 223 At Bideford Arts Ball>
  • 224

    Appledore boys beat mums at football
  • 225

    Andre Veillett and Quentin Reed in Judo Demonstration
  • 226 New Post Office

  • 227 Shipbuilding hobby at Hartland

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

  • 229 'Les Girls' of Hartland

  • 230 They never miss a game at Torrington

  • 231 Inscribed Bibles and silver spoons for babies

  • 232 New Lundy air-mail stamps

  • 233 Variety in summer weather

  • 234 Bridging the stream

  • 235 They are parted pro-tem

  • 236 Mobile missionary

  • 237 Speeding communications: Bideford firm's new installation

  • 238 Down at the 'Donkey House'

  • 239 Bideford Liberals' fashion show

  • 240 Clovelly custom

  • 241 New addition to Quay front

  • 242 Broomhayes £1,000 Surprise
  • 243 To build racing cars in former blacksmith's shop

  • 244 Picture bought for shillings may be worth thousands

  • 245 Spray dodging - the new pastime

  • 246 Appledore's new lifeboat

  • 247 From Bobby to Brian

  • 248 Life begins at 80

  • 249 Revived market off to splendid start

  • 250 Eleventh hour bid to save last sailing barge

  • 251 Found the answer waiting for him>
  • 252 The cab at the corner>
  • 253 Bideford's gift to Sir Francis

  • 254 Huntshaw TV mast

  • 255 Photo of town's first car wins prize

  • 256 Meeting at 10 Downing Street

  • 257 Buckland goes to County Show

  • 258 Northam's almshouse

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

  • 260 Bideford's first triplets for 12 years

  • 261 Teenager Peter Jackson Makes Horror Film
  • 262 One thousand visit zoo at Whitsun

  • 263 Out of puff!

  • 264 Off on a great adventure

  • 265 Clovelly donkey film star

  • 266 Quads at Thornhillhead

  • 267 Practical sympathy at Northam

  • 268 Yeo vale road ruin provides a mystery

  • 269 When horses score over the tractor

  • 270 Puppet characters introduced

  • 271 Happy Days!

  • 272 Sunshine and shade at Appledore

  • 273 Capers on the cobbles

  • 274 Children's procession with foxgloves

  • 275 Donkey and horses enjoy carnival drink

  • 276 Torrington in 1967

  • 277 Finished in 1876

  • 278 So this is the mainland!

  • 279 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

  • 280 Calf thinks of mare as mum

  • 281 All for the love of a lady!

  • 282 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

  • 283

    Cadets are given certificates
  • 284 Council agree to demolition of Chanter's Folly

  • 285 Faints as she wins national competition

  • 286 Battle of the gap at Westward Ho!

  • 287 Lots drawn to prevent dog fight

  • 288 Centuries old but today busier than ever

  • 289 Lundy memorial to John Pennington Harman V.C.

  • 290 Buckland farm workers to receive long-service awards

  • 291 Riverside mystery

  • 292 Centenary of Landcross Methodist Chapel

  • 293 An early 'special' to Bideford

  • 294 Emergency ferry services

  • 295

    Bidefordians
  • 296 Calligrapher extraordinary

  • 297 Christmas tree on Bideford Quay>
  • 298

    School of Dancing's Annual Display
  • 299

    Building works
  • 300 On her 'maiden' trip from Bideford

  • 301 Safety-first dipomas awarded to Torrington drivers

  • 302 They set out for Bideford and became lost

  • 303 For South Africa from Westward Ho!

  • 304 A bird of their own!

  • 305 Lady Churchill congratulates Bideford artists at nursing exhibition

  • 306 Northam loses thatched cottage landmark

  • 307 Bideford has built over 500 post-war homes

  • 308 Appledore schooner broadcast

  • 309 Picking the pops

  • 310 Repair work on Long Bridge
  • 311 Landmark at Bradworthy

  • 312 Last of Bideford factory chimney

  • 313 Torrington's enterprise's new extensions

  • 314 Bideford shipyard workers cheer new minesweeper

  • 315 Pretty pennies at Beaford

  • 316 Born 1883 - still going strong

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    New gateway
  • 318 Symbol of Lundy independence

  • 319 Champagne send-off for Torrington new factory

  • 320 Golden Bay Hotel ad.>
  • 321 Gift plaque on Clovelly council houses

  • 322 Bideford Bridge re-opens

  • 323

    Birgitta Whittaker
  • 324 Photo mural in Bideford bank

  • 325 Police station view of Bideford

  • 326 Torridge graveyard of wooden hulks

  • 327 Jumble sale fever

  • 328 Thriving 'orphan of the storm'

  • 329 In their new robes and hats

  • 330 Designed and made in Bideford

  • 331 Bideford Zoo's first baby is big draw

  • 332 Community centre opened at Westward Ho!

  • 333 Bideford's private wharves busier

  • 334 Town's second woman mayor in 392 years

  • 335

    Gus Honeybun meets local children
  • 336 Bideford stock car racing entry comes in second

  • 337 Launching the 'Golden Hinde'

  • 338 Fleet of foot and fair of face

  • 339 Bideford regatta

  • 340 Twenty-one yachts

  • 341 New Lundy stamps

  • 342

    Inter-school Road Safety Quiz Cup Winners
  • 343 John Andrew Bread Charity
  • 344 Clovelly's 91 year old horseman

  • 345 Filming at Hartland

  • 346 TV features Bideford's New Year bread ceremony

  • 347 Private home for public pump

  • 348 End of the line

  • 349 River scenes that enchant the visitors

  • 350 No sale of Springfield House

  • 351

    Jinxed School Trip
  • 352 Ancestral home nestling in lovely combe

  • 353 Can spring be far away?

  • 354 Sailing to victory at Appledore

  • 355 Northam footballers of the future

  • 356 Big develolpment at Calveford

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

  • 358

    Gift from Bideford Town Council
  • 359 Joe the ginger tabby is 21

  • 360 Wishing well is pixielated

  • 361 Television comes to Torridge District

  • 362 East-the-Water sets town an example

  • 363 First steel ship built at Bideford

  • 364 Jalopy joy for children of Shamwickshire

  • 365 Baby Kate goes home to Lundy

  • 366 X-ray shoe fitting

  • 367

    Hamburger is part of modern life
  • 368 Olympic riders to compete at Bideford Horse Show

  • 369 Pannier Market's future?

  • 370 The creative urge on Saturday morning

  • 371 Unique holiday adventure!

  • 372 What is future of railway goods yard?

  • 373 Church renovation rejoicing at Northam

  • 374 Move for oldest boatyard on Torridge

  • 375 Brothers reunion 1947
  • 376 Westward Ho! Tennis Club Winners
  • 377 Second Monte Carlo Rally

  • 378 It really was the 'last time'

  • 379 Wasps' nest in sewing machine

  • 380 Prizewinning babies at Torrington

  • 381 A Weare Giffard speciality - delicious strawberries

  • 382

    Successful motor cycling team
  • 383 Burnard family reunion

  • 384 Fishing light goes out at close of poor season

  • 385 Weare Giffard potato

  • 386 Tide sweeps under and over the old bridge

  • 387 Mural in the whimsical fashion

  • 388 Lady Godiva comes to Torrington

  • 389 The art of the thatcher

  • 390 New life for Hartland organ

  • 391 Polish custom on Pancake Day

  • 392 TV contest means big job for Bideford Guides

  • 393 Gloves fit for a king!

  • 394 Recognise this resort?

  • 395

    Double Baptism on Torridge
  • 396 America's tribute to 'J.H.'

  • 397 North Devon Driving School

  • 398 Do recall the old windmill at Northam?

  • 399 Dismantling of wireless mast

  • 400 Six footed lamb

  • 401 Artisans' Club

  • 402 Bideford skifflers, they're no squares

  • 403 Bank Holiday weather was beach weather

  • 404 Thrush builds nest in cauliflower

  • 405 New fire and ambulance stations

  • 406 Old Girls revisit Edgehill

  • 407 Escaped crane moves into Kenwith Valley

  • 408 Appledore Juniors Football
  • 409 Northam wants to continue pumping from river

  • 410 Signed scroll momento of Queen Mother's visit

  • 411 Traditions and skills still there

  • 412 Light reading for the lighthouse

  • 413 Bideford firm develops new non-spill paint

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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  • 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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  • 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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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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