Summer season visits8 July 1955
Saturday afternoon brought the first of the summer season visits to Bideford of Messrs P and A Campbell’s pleasure steamers.
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 the summer season.
Gazette article dated 8 July 1955
Record proportions on roads8 August 1958
Last weekend brought the peak of the year’s holiday traffic to North Devon.
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 between reservations”.
Mrs Middleton of the Royal Hotel also anticipated ‘capacity business from now on’. Generally it was the same story from other districts. At Hartland Quay Hotel it was stated that business had been building up over the past weeks, with people seeking accommodation having to be refused.
At the West Country Inn, on the trunk road, a spokesman said that one night last week at...
Enrich life in school20 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.
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, it appears, play the piano nowadays, whereas it is relatively easy, provided some natural aptitude is present, for a few basic chords to be learnt on a guitar – and let’s face it, it is much cheaper and more portable!
NO AGE BAR
Nearly 30 teachers, both men and women, are taking advantage of the once-a-week beginners’ course at their Bideford centre and an age range from the early 20s to around the 60-mark shows that...
Two approved plaques21 September 1951
This handsome new gateway to the Bideford Park extension, to be known as King George’s Fields, has recently made its appearance.
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
Misses Heywood and Jewell5 August 1960
Tribute was paid in a recent issue of ‘Gateway’ the journal of the Church of England Children’s Society,
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 Barnstaple.
Miss Jewell, however, every Sunday climbs the hill to the Church, and she has been a member of the Church Council for the past 37 years.
Gazette article dated 5 August 1960