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  • 1 Summer season visits

    8 July 1955

  • 2 Record proportions on roads

    8 August 1958

  • 3 Enrich life in school

    20 October 1972

  • 4 Two approved plaques

    21 September 1951

  • 5 Misses Heywood and Jewell

    5 August 1960

  • Summer season visits

    8 July 1955

    Saturday afternoon brought the first of the summer season visits to Bideford of Messrs P and A Campbell’s pleasure steamers.

    8.7.1955 Cardiff Queen

    It was the Cardiff Queen, and the warm welcome accorded was reminiscent of the occasion last year when she came to reintroduce pleasure trips by the firm from Bideford after a lapse of some thirty years.
    Bideford Town Band played on the Quayside and many of the crowd went aboard for a trip down the Torridge around Bideford Bay and back. Later she again left Bideford for Ilfracombe and her cross-Channel schedule. A series of similar trips is arranged for

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  • Record proportions on roads

    8 August 1958

    Last weekend brought the peak of the year’s holiday traffic to North Devon.

    8.8.1958 peak holiday week1

    By rail and road, thousands of visitors arrived to take up their booking at hotels, guest houses and holiday centres, and large numbers were passing through in the course of tours of the SW.
    Traffic reached record proportions on all main roads, with inevitable delays
    Inquiries among Bideford hoteliers indicated that they were ‘fully booked’. At the New Inn Hotel, Mr Tom Pennington said “The town is certainly full of visitors, many of them inquiring for accommodation but we’ve nothing to offer except for the odd room

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  • Enrich life in school

    20 October 1972

    TURN the clock back a few years

    and the class-room request “Miss will you play the guitar?” would almost certainly have fallen upon unresponsive ears.

    20.10.1972 guitar1

    But not any more. Miss – and, indeed, Sir for that matter – is just as likely to oblige, thanks to a course in guitar playing which has started at the Bideford teachers’ training centre at Grenville Street, Bideford.

    The idea, it has been said, is to “enrich life in school.” Once upon a time, teacher played the piano while the children sang: the new image, it seems, if that of teacher playing the guitar.

    Fewer people,

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  • Two approved plaques

    21 September 1951

    This handsome new gateway to the Bideford Park extension, to be known as King George’s Fields, has recently made its appearance.

    21.9.1951 Bideford new gates

    It is perhaps not generally known that one of the conditions of the grant from the King George’s Fields Foundation towards the development of the park extension was that a suitable gateway to the fields should be erected bearing two approved plaques.

    All the land to the north of this gateway and the one to the river bank opposite is King George’s Fields.

    Gazette article dated 21 September 1951

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  • Misses Heywood and Jewell

    5 August 1960

    Tribute was paid in a recent issue of ‘Gateway’ the journal of the Church of England Children’s Society,

    5.8.1960 Clovelly knitting

    to the work over a number of years of Miss Maria Heywood, who will be 96 next Christmas Day, and her niece, Miss H Jewell, aged 80, both of Clovelly, who have knitted dozens of pairs of socks for the Society.

    In the picture, taken in their home, 106 High Street, Miss Heywood is sitting near the window.

    Miss Heywood is now confined to her house, having broken her hip four years ago. Before coming to Clovelly to live she lived in

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