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1950 political candidates

17 February 1950

Candidates

Mr Thomas B H Chappell, the Labour candidate in the Torrington Division, is 50 and was born near High Wycombe. In the first world war he put on his age to enlist and was wounded on the Somme at the age of 15. Later he became a sergeant in the Coldstream Guards and completed seven years’ regular service. In 1926 he joined Exeter City Police and served until 1939 when he resigned on winning £13,000 in a football pool. He has since been a license at North Tawton and Hatherleigh and in 1948 returned to Exeter. From 1946 until last year he was chairman of the South Molton Division Labour Party. Mr and Mrs Chappell have brought up a family of thirteen, of whom four boys and three girls served in the last war. Their third son was killed on the Glorious in 1940.

The Hon G Lambert, the National Liberal-Conservative candidate, is the elder son of Viscount Lambert, and lives in the family home, Spreyton, Devon.
Viscount Lambert first entered Parliament as Liberal member for South...

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Bathing Belle Competition

18 August 1961

The winners of the Bideford Conservative's Bathing Belle competition.

On the left is the winner, Susan Stewart, and on the right, Wendy Robins (second) and Christine Cannan (third).

18.8.1961 Percy Browne MP

Gazette article dated 18 August 1961

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One 'accident'

11 November 1960

Hartland Round-the-Houses Race

There was a ‘meet’ of prams, trucks and trolleys in Hartland Square on Saturday night for the start of an open novelty race, organised by the Hartland branch of the Young Conservatives.

11.11.1960 Hartland Young Conservatives

Dressed in the gaudiest of outfits, competitors dashed through the streets and lanes. Five minutes later, the winners were spotted – Mr Colin Ritchie, from RAF Hartland Point, with his pram passenger Miss Valerie Jeffery. Second were Mr N Pomeroy, with Mr Norman Westlake; third were Mr J Downie and Miss J Sanson.

Only ‘accident’ of the occasion involved Miss Joyce Goaman with her passenger Miss Brenda Heard.

11.11.1960 Hartland Young Conservatives1

Gazette article dated 11 November 1960

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Politics

by Jim Lowe

Parliament and the Parish of Buckland Brewer (by Jim Lowe)

When I started researching this project, I thought I would find it interesting and, with a head start in having a Politics Degree from Bristol University, pretty straight forward in terms of number crunching and tabulating historical events. How wrong I was!

Buckland Brewer has found itself in a number of constituencies over the past 200 years. Prior to the 1832 reform act it was in the county constituency of Devon which returned two MPs. Following the act, Devon was split into two constituencies excluding the boroughs and Buckland found itself in the new Northern Division. The 1867 Reform Act Rural Devon was split into three Parliamentary seats - East, West and North. The 1885 redistribution of seats act split Devon into smaller constituencies it thereafter was called the Barnstaple and Northwest Devon Constituency and this time returning only one member of parliament. Up until the 1950 election the Parish of Buckland Brewer

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