Bill Pascoe - Sport - 8th March 1968

Mr Bill Pascoe, after being a member for over 50 years, is the new captain of the Bideford Amateur Athletic Club. He joined the Club as a boy and specialised in bar and trapeze work. At 70 years old, Mr Pascoe is working full time for a Bideford garage

Mr Jack Rowe, the well known Northam golfer, who for 48 years has been professional at Ashdown Forest Club, told Bideford Rotarians recently of an incident with the famous British Prime Minsiter, Mr A J Balfour (later Earl Balfour), who used to play golf with him.

Snooker Semi-Final - 15th February 1957

It was a 'civic surprise' night at Bideford Conservative Club on Monday when the only second division team left in Bideford Snooker League's knock-out cup competition, Town Hall, beat the Newsboys by 3 games to 2, to go into the hat for the semi-final draw. Town Hall team comprises members of Bideford Corporation staff, while the Newsboys are now back again writing headlines instead of trying to make them!
Front row (left to right) - D Bidgway, D R F Arnold, R Cudmore, D Woolley, S Eastman; Back-row - B Hockin, P G Day, L S

Nearly 400 Runs in Under Four Hours - September 1961

Nearly 400 runs were scored in under four hours at Bideford on Saturday when Bideford Casuals met Pilton.
The visitors set the pace when they rattled up 189 for 3 in the two hours before tea. Although the rate in the first hour was almost sedate, 55 runs only being scored, the advent of T Treloar (81, 15 fours) made up for this. Together with K Pedlar (58 n.o.) they put on 117 for the third wicket.
Set to score 190 in two hours, Casuals took up the challenge, the

Ladies Football Match - 1st August 1975

Special Attraction - First Time in Bideford

Ladies Football Match - Thame Ladies (Oxford) England League Finalists including Eight Full Internationals v Devon Representative XI

Saturday August 9
Kick-off 7pm
Sports Ground, Bideford

Followed by an OX ROAST, Various Side Shows, Brass Band, Refreshments and Bar in the Club House 
Don't Miss This Unique Event!

Bideford Chiefs - Rugby - 10th March 1963

Bideford Chiefs haven't had a successful season. In the picture are R Bird, B Smale, C Balsdon, R Grigg, R Spry, M Poole, W Hopkins, E Slade, C Davis, G Folland, M Stevens, R Moses, B Welford, W Lock, M Grigg, T Langbridge, P Colwill, R Johns.

Margaret Fulford - 13th November 1970

To Be Devon Women's golf Captain

Mrs Margaret Fulford, of Orchard Hill House, Bideford, wife of Mr Norman Fulford, has been elected Devon women's captain for 1971.
She is the first member of the Royal North Devon Golf Club since the war to be appointed to this position. She plays off a 16 handicap and with her R.N.d clubmate Mrs Peggy Fourt, this year reached the final of the county foursomes.

B.A.R.C. Proudly Displays Season's Trophies 29.10.1954

Sports. A representative gathering of members of Bideford Amateur Rowing Club photographed with some thirty cups and shields won during the past rowing season. Messrs A.Taylor; E.Down; G.Moore; J.Evans; R.Galsworthy; J.Day; J.Mitchell; C.Morris; J.Roy Ellis; H.W.Fulford; R.Hancock; E.F.Day; R.Lake; K.Day; N.Wiltshire; H.Shute; K.Hearn; J.Eastmond; G.Cox; F.R.Way; L.Bright; W.Lee; J.Edwards; N.Drew; R.Scoynes; A.Elliott; C.Fishleigh; C.Mitchell; M.Moore; C.Ashton; K.Mitchell; H.Shute; B.Shute; J.Conibeare; M.Scoynes; B.Tilke; T.Johns; B.Taylor; R.Longstone; C.Lamey; D.Rice; L.Lamey; C.Williams; B.Cole; R.Branch; P.Lee; A.Patt; T.Johns (junr); R.Day; E.Brown; F.Stevens; N.Beer

Presentation at Bideford Ladies' Bowling Club Dinner 30.3.1951 

Sport. A shield was presented to Bideford Ladies' Bowling Club at a dinner held at the Rose of Torridge Cafe, on Wednesday March 21st. Arthur McTaggart Short, Edwin Short, Mrs AC Fulford, Mrs SF Jameson, Mrs SA Luxton

Bideford's New Bowling Green 9.12.1947

Sport. The Mayor of Bideford laid the first sod of Cumberland turf on the new bowling green being constructed in the Victoria Park and it was hoped the green would be completed in March 1948 at a cost of £1,831. Cllrs FT Upton, WH Chubb, JH Sharley, JH Bright, Mr FC Backway, Ald FE Whiting, Messrs Maxwell Hart, Mr Dunlop

The 1951 Bowling Season commences 4.5.1951

Sport. Opening day on Wednesday 25th April. SF Marshall, Mrs Marshall, EC Parr, CP Ashton, H Guard, G Bluett, J Lang, C A'Court, J Heal, J Burrow, Charlie the groundsman, Jimmy Huxtable

War-Time Souvenir of a Most Successful Season 26.9.1939

Sport. Group photograph of the Bideford Amateur Rowing Club to wind up a great season. G.Staddon; W.P.Cox; F.Stevens; J.Poole; R.Galsworthy; C.G.Metherell; J.T.Mitchell; H.W.Fulford; C.Morris; E.F.Day; F.W.Beer; E.J.Day; T.Lock; F.Johns; C.Dicker; J.Seldon; R.Walters; R.Lake; L.F.Ross; R.Day; J.Way; R.P.Blackmore; A.Day; R.H.Moore; J.James; S.A.Moore; E.G.Cawsey; J.W.Taylor; W.H.Taylor; K.J.Braunton; J.Fisher; R.Williams; T.Bird; G.Williams; R.Taylor; W.Chubb; D.Colwill; W.Headon; P.Bushen; R.Hancock; L.Colwill; K.Welch; D.Scott; K.J.Brend; W.Hocking; A.S.Cawsey; O.Reveley; K.Lesslie; T.Emberry; A.S.Moore; F.Short; M.Burnett; L.Rendell; R.Keates; J.R.Lake; A.Brend; J.Rees; E.Newcombe; E.B.Lemon; L.Daniell; D.Mills; B.Shute; R.Babb; H.Galliford; E.W.Budd; F.R.Lane; C.A.Metherell; W.Parsley; C.Littlejohns; C.Galsworthy; G.Dymond; W.Thisby; J.Day; R.Palmer; R.Day

County President Visits Bideford Lady Bowlers 4.9.1953

Sport. President of Devon County Ladies' Bowling Association Mrs Broughton was entertained at the Victoria Park. Mrs B Elliott, Mrs H Lethbridge, Miss M Meredith, Mrs G Blackmore

An inscribed tankard, in recognition of his notable scoring last season when he created a new individual record of 252 points – over a hundred more than the previous best – has been presented by Bideford Rugby Football Club to Chief’s full back Mike Grigg.

Mike, a 14 stone farmer from Monkleigh, has just completed his eighth season with Bideford, first playing for the Chiefs soon after leaving the North Devon Technical College.
Before the club president, Mr Terence Bird, presented the tankard, the chairman, Mr Mervyn Bird, said of Mike’s score ‘It is a truly magnificent effort by any standard’. Proposing

Northam Golfers at Jubilee Gathering 7.9.1938

Sport.  PH Andrews, CH Gibson, J Rowe, H Snell, E Slocombe, GH Cann, JH Taylor, N Sanders, H Heaman, T Shutt, FV Cole, JW Fulford, T Mounce, H Braund, RW Littlejohns, HJ Grantham, R Gale, T Jones, T Walters, G Harris, HC Squire, G Tuplin

Memento Picture of Golf Championship at Westward Ho! 10.10.1952

Sport. English Ladies' Singles Championship meeting at Westward Ho!.  Miss Greaves, Miss Ann Phillips, Miss Elizabeth Price, Miss Pamela Davies, Lady Katharine Cairns, Miss Holdsworth, Miss Jeanne Bisgood, Mrs Allen, Miss Rudgard, Mrs Bolton, Miss Gordon, Miss Halsted, Miss Howell, Mrs Dickenson, Miss Jane Redgate, Miss Jocelyn Davies, Miss Jean McIntyre, Miss Sheila Taylor, Miss Esme Taylor, Mrs DO Taylor, Mrs Lang, Mrs Richards, Miss Machin, Mrs Morland, Mrs Brooks, Mrs Armitage, Mrs Wright, Miss Anstey, Mrs Ferguson, Miss Nancy Jupp, Mrs FR Brown, Mrs Newton, Mrs Salmon, Mrs Shearman, Mrs

Northam Golf Jubilee 27.9.1938

Sport.  First of all Artizan Clubs, Northam Artizan Golf Club this year reached its golden jubilee. Special celebration programme. CH Gibson, Phillip Andrews, William Puncher, Tom Geen, Ernest Cawsey, Richard Burch, Charlie Cook, Jesse Braund, Louis Chapple, John Penhorwood, Alfred Stevens, Sidney Dymond, EJ Labbett, Jack Hutchings, Richard Davis, Charlie Cowler, William Worth, William Pursey, George Cann, JH Taylor, T Metherell, William Hutchings, Harry Williams, William Davis, Ernest Way, Jack Rowe, William Hearn, William Fulford, Samuel Fulford, T Glover, JW Fulford

Westward Ho! Club to Close After 80 Years 13.07.1956

Sport.  Short history of the Union Club originally for golfers. Capt SL Bell, Rev IH Gosset, Hon Denys Scott, Capt HJ Fletcher, Colonel Langley, Mr EM Allen, General Boyle, Mr GH Moorhead, Capt SL Bell, Col Stanley Smith, Mr RV Mitchell

Members of Victoria Park and Ladies’ Bowling Club and the Mayor and Mayoress of Bideford after the Mayor (Mrs E J Brown) had presented the season’s cups and prizes at the Club on Thursday week.

The doll, which the Mayor and Mayoress (Mrs L B Galliford) are holding, will be the club’s mascot. It was dressed and presented to the club by Mrs B Cupit, this year’s captain.
Tea followed the presentations.
Cupwinners were: Mrs L Elliott, Mesdames L Elliott and L Taylore, Mrs F Blackmore.

Tennis Club Prizewinners

Prizewinners of Westward Ho! Tennis Club received their awards at the club’s annual dinner. The awards were distributed by Mrs Rendle, sister of the president, Mr Arthur Saunders.
All former members who could be traced were invited to the occasion, which was the third annual function of its kind.
Awards were: Wally Worwood; Mrs Rosemary Hughes; Miss Janine Trapnell; Donald Colwill; Fred Pittman; Mrs Margaret Petherbridge; Miss Margaret Mortimer; Derek Johns; Miss Pam Plum; Peter White.

100 Years of Women's Golf at Westward Ho! 07.06.1968

Sport. The Royal North Devon Golf Club is celebrating the centenary of its associated ladies' golf club. Mrs Mary Hutchinson, Horace Hutchinson, Mrs Cicely Sparling, Rev IH Gossett, Lady Heathcote-Amory, Joyce Wethered, Bernard Darwin, Roger Wethered, Mrs Gladys Tamworth, Mrs Judy Dering, Judy Boyd, Mrs Argles, Miss Thona Newton-King, Mrs Margaret Sillem, Mrs Kathleen Grahame, Mrs Laura Scott, Laura Foster, Mrs AA Smalley, Miss Mary Justice, Mrs WB Wright, WJ Gale, J Long, M Barnett, PBF Brown, TJ Bonetta, GF Day, J Baglow, J Slocombe, AM Barnett, CR Mugford, M Elliott,

Bideford Chiefs, 9pts – Tiverton, nil

In conditions which suggested forward play, the handling of the Bideford team turned out surprisingly good and, in fact, the tries came from handling movements and not from forward rushes as might have been expected.
The clean, consistent hooking of G Woolf gave the Chiefs an initial advantage of which the backs made good use. C Davis, wing three-quarter played a fine game and scored two of the tries; the first coming from an orthodox three-quarter movement and ending when he threw off three defenders and touched down in the corner.
Ray Sawtell, intercepting and

Bideford was represented by three crews in the women's fours at the regatta on Saturday.

All of the rowers in two of the crews - A and B - were aged 16 or under.
They are seen grouped together in one of the fun fair waltzers for their photograph: Rosemary Phillips, Judith Northcott, Jenny Robinson, Karen Witt, Gill Andrews, Julie Branch, Ann Shortridge, Ruth Portus, Robert King and Mervyn Symons

The full Gazette article is dated 10 September 1965

Mr Fred Patt's many years of service to the Hansen Cup competition were recognised at the annual meeting when he was elected president after having held the office of chairman for the past 12 years.

Mr Roy Day was elected the new chairman with Mr Ken Rookes as vice-chairman. Mr Frank Norman will once again be secretary and elected independent members were Messrs W Lane, B Newnham, W Griffiths, D Miller and D Mounce.It was reported that the competition had a balance in hand of £15.

Next season's final was fixed provisionally for April 29 at Bideford Sports Ground, and

With a goal in the dying seconds Bideford County Secondary School senior netball team managed to make it an 8-8 draw when, at Torrington County Secondary School, they met Torrington seniors.

The teams seen in the accompanying photographs comprised:
Torrington – Marion Curtis, Valerie Tyler, Nina Rookes, Gillian Cox, Pat Van Laneker, Pauline Balkwill, Gillian Copp
Bideford – Susan Hillman, Wendy Harris, Pat Rogers, Sandra Miles, Maureen Tithecott, Susan Slade, Sally Holliman.
The full Gazette article is dated 27 January 1961

Mr Andrew Joynson, son of Col and Mrs N H W Joynson, of Yatton Court, Beaford, is seen above with the Michelmore Challenge Cup which he won when he retained the title of the Devon Junior Squash Champion.

Gazette article dated 21 January 1955

Some of the local girl footballers who tonight are competing for the title of North Devon Soccer Personality Girl.

With the title goes a prize valued at £10.
The occasion is the first annual dinner of the Legs Eleven ladies FC of Appledore, at the Westward Ho! Holiday Centre. An attendance of 450 is expected.
In the picture are: Barbara Riley, Liz Lawrence and Diane Moore, who play for the Shammy Tigers; Rosalind Smale and Christine Hale, from Bell Bombers; Janet Pearson, Liza Stanbury and Anne Powe, of the Legs Eleven team. Another entrant, Juliet John, of Legs Eleven, was

In the golfing world, Northam has gained its own small niche in the game’s history books as the home of John Henry Taylor, one of the Great Triumvirate who was British Open champion no less than five times.

But Northam licensee Peter Long believes that Northam has an even greater claim to fame golfwise by having provided more professionals for the game than anywhere else in the country. With the help of his customers at the Kingsley Inn, Northam, Peter has so far traced 76 golfers who left Northam to join the professional ranks. The list, an impressive one in size alone,

One of three Bideford boxers who made the journey to Kingsbridge on Saturday, light-middleweight Graham Fishleigh, won his tenth bout in succession.

He twice sent his opponent J Flower to the canvas for counts of nine before the referee stopped the content in the third round. Six of Fishleigh’s verdicts have been secured inside the distance and he remains unbeaten. 

David Found, having his second fight, also did well to get a judges’ unanimous decision in a lightweight bout against H Holden. L Cudmore, the junior member of the Bideford and District Amateur Youth Boxing Club party, shaped promisingly in his

Played five, won five, is the notable record of Langtree County Primary School Netball team for the Easter term.

The team wears the same colours as the school’s footballers and, like them, the girls appeared in new kit for their final matches. With the team is Mrs E Stone, a member of the school staff. Mrs E Stone, Josephine Huxtable, Pamela Ford, Winnie Box, Rosalind Gent, Eileen Vanstone, Patsy Sutton, Marilyn Gerry

Gazette article dated 7 April 1961

Winners of Bideford Snooker League’s knock-out cup competition are Bideford Conservative Club. 

In the final at Bideford and District Club they defeated the District Club team by 3-2, although the issue had, in fact, been decided when the Conservative Club won the first three frames. Norman Gale and Albert Hedden staged an exciting finish, Gale winning after the black had been re-spotted, and thus starting the Conservative Club on their winning margin. 

Details: N Gale; A Hedden; W Headon; S Fishleigh; S Shute; K Seymour; G Jones; I Whitaker; F Dee; A Mills.

The Conservative Club team, seen above, with Mr

Tennis champion Bob Clarke received a singles trophy on Friday – from his wife.

Mrs Clarke presented the prizes at Westward Ho! Tennis Club’s first dinner in the absence of the president Mrs C Stephens.
Awards: R Clarke; D Worwood; Mrs R Hughes; Mrs M Petherbridge; P Colwill; Mrs B Worwood; R Colwill and R Rendle; D Colwill and W Milton; Mrs M Beer and Mrs Ganstis; Mrs D Brown and Miss C Symons.
Table tennis: W Milton, A Petherbridge; Miss S Cooksley, Mrs G Anstis.

Gazette article is dated 22 October 1965

Ex-Navy man Mr Les Mott, superintendent of Bideford Parks, stands ready to run up the Western League championship flag presented to Bideford Football Club during their mid-week meeting with Bristol City last week.

Watching the ceremony on the far left is Mr Ernie Hopkins, the club chairman, Mr Les Phillips, Bideford's representative on the Western League, and Mr George Templeman, donor of the flag and vice-chairman of the league.
The flat will be flown from the Sports Ground flagpole at every home fixture this season. And next....?

Gazette article dated 4 September 1964

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On Saturday last the summer meeting of the Westward Ho! Ladies’ Golf Club came off on the Northam Burrows.

The interest aroused by this game of skill is still on the increase, as was evident from the goodly number of ladies who came forward to compete for the prizes. Nine couples started, each couple attended by a gentleman associate member as scorer, while the friends of the players and other visitors looked on and enjoyed the gay scenes. 

After playing one round of the golf links of 18 holes, the following were declared to the best score i.e. the smallest

Cross-country grit

A course of three and three quarter miles, complete with a fence, a four foot stone wall and a two foot wall with a ditch, lay in store for the seniors of the newly formed Appledore Boys’ Sports Club when they set out on a cross-country run which took them over Northam Burrows on Saturday.
For the juniors the course was shortened to one and a half miles, but they still had to combat the three obstacles. Winner of the senior section was 16 year old John Hocking, of 34 Tomouth Road, Appledore, with Ken Taylor second and

Mr G Gosset gets the Moncrieff Cross.

The annual autumnal meeting of the members of the Royal North Devon and West of England Golf Club were held on Thursday and Friday last, when a competition took place on the Burrows – on the former day for Sir Hope Grant’s Gold Medal, and on the latter for the Silver Medal of the Club. The weather was not very propitious, nor was the attendance of distant golfers so great as on former occasions.

Eighteen competitors entered on each day, and the six best scores stand as follows: - Thursday – Mr George Gosset, 105: Lt

Bideford schools swept the board when twenty-two teams from nine different schools in North Devon entered the North Devon netball rally, held at Edgehill College on Saturday.

Winners of the senior section were the Stella Maris Convent school, Bideford. The intermediate section was played in two parts, the finalists being Stella Maris and Convent High school, Ilfracombe, and again the Stella Maris team won. Bideford County Secondary School were the winners in the junior section. 

This is the fourth time in succession that Stella Maris Seniors have won the rally and the second time in succession that their intermediates have

Ten years old Patricia Johnson, of Westward Ho! described as an extremely promising players, get instruction from coach Bob Clarke during a session at Edgehill College.

Local youngsters who show an aptitude for tennis – and who perhaps have hopes of one day making the Wimbledon scene – get an opportunity during term time of improving their early technique by attending a series of local coaching courses run by Mr Bob Clarke, of Appledore.
The scheme has been in operation now for eight years, with an average of 45 youngsters taking part each year. Every youngster makes a contribution towards the cost

Friendly rivalry was keen last week when Bideford and Torrington County Secondary Schools met in football and netball games.

The soccer score of 7-0 to Bideford was flattering, the game being closer than the margin suggests.
Bideford County Secondary School football team: Michael Eastman, Kenneth Hocking, Dennis Pengelly, David Hare, Paul Ashby-Crane, John Lockyer, Keith Sowden, Christopher Sowden, Brian Fishleigh, Kevin Naylor, Tony Beer.
Torrington – Christopher Jeffery, Rodney Nancekevell, Jeffery Rookes, Christopher Copp, Melvin Lee, Desmond Nancekevell, John Bryant, Lesley Hutchings, Arthur Jones, Gordon Glover, Melvin Wheeler.
Full Gazette article is dated 19 February 1960

Bideford, Westleigh, Appledore and Fairy Cross

Winners of the Bideford and District Skittles League President’s Cup are the Penpushers, a Bideford side, who beat Westleigh at the Swan Inn, Bideford, last week.
The team is: Charlie Mountjoy, Clarrie Metherell, Trevor Beer, John Cleverdon, Ken Brend, Bob Whitefield.
Westleigh put up a strong fight. Their team was: Cyril Shaxton, Bert Gibbons, Henry Martin, Leonard Poole, Clifford Gillard, Alan Dart.
Appledore British Legion ‘A’ go forward to the final of the Starkey Cup. Their team was: William Headon, Charlie Daniel, John Bailey, Jack Fowler, Bobby Bailey, Dave Hocking.
Fairy Cross were the

Plans for Unique Rowing Reunion at Bideford 30.03.1962

Sport. A unique rowing reunion is being planned for Easter Saturday at Bideford. It is the idea of Mr E.Frank Day, former secretary of Bideford Amateur Rowing Club (the Reds)  Messrs J.James; Stan Rendle; Desmond Moyse; P.Oke; M.Holm; J.Mitchell; J.Bale; Walter Johns; Harry Johns; P.Oke; C.Morris; S.Rendle; A.K.Chope; N.Wiltshire; R.Hocking; W.Eastman; F.Montague; C.Hammond; R.Kellaway; F.Gayette; S.Moore; R.Moore; A.Day; W.Thisby; S.Cawsey; L.Lamey; I.Lamey; D.Moyse; M.Holm; F.R.Way; C.Lamey; R.Hancock; G.Tithecott; W.Lee; L.Bright; J.Edwards; B.Taylor; K.Hearn; F.J.Evans

New H.Q. For B.A.R.C. 24.01.1939

Sport. £3,400 Scheme - local appeal launched. Provision of new headquarters, specially designed and equipped with all the latest "Keep Fit" appliances, is announced by the Bideford Amateur Rowing Club. The National Fitnress Council have made a grant of £1,000. Sir Hugh Stucley; Messrs C.Morris; J.T.M.Mitchell; C.G.Metherell; E.Frank Day; Reg Galsworthy; C.Dicker; E.J.Day; J.Tilke; Sergt.-Major Johns