• 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 Bideford 'What's my line?' challenger

  • 2 Up-to-date Bideford!

  • 3 New addition to Quay front

  • 4 Brothers reunion 1947
  • 5 Eight and a half million pound Taw development scheme

  • 6

    Youth Clubs Join Together For Entertainment
  • 7 Blanchards ad.>
  • 8

    First Girls at Bideford Grammar School take part in Play
  • 9 Ships at Bideford

  • 10 Bideford blacksmith wins English championship

  • 11 Quads join a Langtree happy family

  • 12 Torrington's new amenity

  • 13 Spring-cleaning the Ridge

  • 14 A man and his wheel

  • 15 Bideford skifflers, they're no squares

  • 16

    Gift from Bideford Town Council
  • 17 Calligrapher extraordinary

  • 18 Landmark at Bradworthy

  • 19 Some 240 exhibits

  • 20 From Bobby to Brian

  • 21 America's tribute to 'J.H.'

  • 22 Water Board mains spread through villages

  • 23 Bank Holiday weather was beach weather

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

  • 25 Designed all furnishing of new chapel

  • 26

    Inter-school Road Safety Quiz Cup Winners
  • 27 Artisans' Club

  • 28 Bideford's first triplets for 12 years

  • 29 Salmon netting at Bideford

  • 30

    Gus Honeybun meets local children
  • 31 Afternoon tea in the park

  • 32 Allhalland Street - then and now

  • 33 Bideford stock car racing entry comes in second

  • 34 Boys win hockey on the sands challenge

  • 35

    Appledore boys beat mums at football
  • 36 At Bideford Arts Ball>
  • 37 Hartland postman retires

  • 38 Record player of 80 years ago

  • 39 New look in the hayfields

  • 40 Floral dancing at Appledore

  • 41 Riverside mystery

  • 42 Rowing triumphs at Bideford

  • 43 Appledore tugs fete London Tower

  • 44 Where Bideford rope-makers walked>
  • 45 Fleet of foot and fair of face

  • 46 Record pebble-throwing day

  • 47 End of the line

  • 48

    Married in 1908
  • 49 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

  • 50 School's link with cargo ship

  • 51 Centenary of Gazette

  • 52 Puzzle corner at Bideford!

  • 53 Alwington School closing after 120 years

  • 54 Town's second woman mayor in 392 years

  • 55 Bideford shipyard workers cheer new minesweeper

  • 56 Smiling welcome to Hartland visitors

  • 57 Hartland Abbey outdoor staff 60 years ago

  • 58 Repair work on Long Bridge
  • 59 Appledore Juniors Football
  • 60 They never miss a game at Torrington

  • 61 Littleham cow tops 70 tons mark in milk production

  • 62 New look for Torrington Lane

  • 63 Thunderstorm destruction of 25 years ago

  • 64 Calf thinks of mare as mum

  • 65 Eleven million pound scheme's official opening

  • 66 Twenty-one yachts

  • 67 Can spring be far away?

  • 68 Success to Festival of the Arts

  • 69 Bideford-Torrington road gets 'carpet coat'

  • 70 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

  • 71 Bideford Zoo's first baby is big draw

  • 72 Torrington children build igloo
  • 73 Sailing to victory at Appledore

  • 74

    Mums protest in Coronation Road
  • 75 Church renovation rejoicing at Northam

  • 76 Designed and made in Bideford

  • 77 Weare Giffard Hall sold for £11,300

  • 78 Hartland's invitation

  • 79 Cruising down the river

  • 80 What the television camera saw at Abbotsham

  • 81 For crying out loud!

  • 82 Westward Ho! public conveniences get go ahead
  • 83 Little 'Big Ben'

  • 84 Modern living at Bideford

  • 85

    Andre Veillett and Quentin Reed in Judo Demonstration
  • 86 Life begins at 80

  • 87 Torrington Church's new organ

  • 88 New civic medallions

  • 89 Last of Bideford factory chimney

  • 90 Saving money, wear and tear

  • 91 Six footed lamb

  • 92 No ancient Grecian temple this

  • 93 Bideford's first woman councillor

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

  • 95 Pretty pennies at Beaford

  • 96 Out of puff!

  • 97 To build racing cars in former blacksmith's shop

  • 98 Thrush builds nest in cauliflower

  • 99 Photo mural in Bideford bank

  • 100 Fishermen of Greencliff

  • 101 River scenes that enchant the visitors

  • 102

    Successful motor cycling team
  • 103 An early 'special' to Bideford

  • 104 Bideford electricity window display qualifies for area competition

  • 105 Hartland Dancers
  • 106 Birds' convalescent home at Instow

  • 107

    Cadets are given certificates
  • 108 Some mushroom!

  • 109

    New gateway
  • 110 School crossing patrol begins

  • 111 Eleventh hour bid to save last sailing barge

  • 112 Bideford triplets' first birthday party

  • 113 Symbol of Lundy independence

  • 114 Polish custom on Pancake Day

  • 115 Harvest service in Bideford 'pub' bar

  • 116 Torrington acclaims 400th anniversary of granting of charter

  • 117 No sale of Springfield House

  • 118 Appledore's new lifeboat

  • 119 Students help model St Sidwell

  • 120 Christmas tree on Bideford Quay>
  • 121 Eight to strike and a race to win

  • 122 New Post Office

  • 123 Beach search for mines takes longer

  • 124 Shipbuilding hobby at Hartland

  • 125 Yelland potter's exhibition at Bideford

  • 126 Devil sent packing

  • 127 Faints as she wins national competition

  • 128 First steel ship built at Bideford

  • 129

    School of Dancing's Annual Display
  • 130 New fire and ambulance stations

  • 131 Waldon Triplets
  • 132 Quads at Thornhillhead

  • 133 Escaped crane moves into Kenwith Valley

  • 134 Five generations link Woolsery, Clovelly and Bideford

  • 135 Charter granted by Philip and Mary

  • 136 The young smith of Abbotsham>
  • 137 Bideford inquest on French trawlermen opens

  • 138 Inscribed Bibles and silver spoons for babies

  • 139 Death - and birth - of a telephone exchange

  • 140 Champagne send-off for Torrington new factory

  • 141 Can-carrying over cobbles has disappeared

  • 142 Just over a year old

  • 143 Disastrous dock fire at Appledore>
  • 144 Bideford - as Rowlandson saw it about 1810-15

  • 145 New shipyard on schedule

  • 146 Bridging the stream

  • 147 Holiday traffic in Bideford High Street

  • 148 Council agree to demolition of Chanter's Folly

  • 149 Private home for public pump

  • 150 Meredith and Son ad.>
  • 151 Burnard family reunion

  • 152 Daisy's pride and joy

  • 153 Tibbles home again - and fish supper

  • 154 Thriving 'orphan of the storm'

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

  • 156

    Hamburger is part of modern life
  • 157 113 years at Instow

  • 158 Space dominates Hartland carnival

  • 159 Bravery against bull at Shebbear rewarded

  • 160 So this is the mainland!

  • 161 Colour TV salesman at eight

  • 162 Revived market off to splendid start

  • 163 Bideford Bridge re-opens

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

  • 165 Centenary of Landcross Methodist Chapel

  • 166 Head Barman appointed Torrington Town Crier
  • 167 A story to tell!

  • 168 Panel sprint for Bideford broadcast

  • 169 Golden Bay Hotel ad.>
  • 170 Ten year old scrambler

  • 171 Appledore schooner broadcast

  • 172 Four hundred residents leave Bideford!

  • 173 First ship in 8 years

  • 174 Emergency ferry services

  • 175 Loads of black and white

  • 176 Bideford's private wharves busier

  • 177 Torrington's enterprise's new extensions

  • 178 Last train from Torrington

  • 179 Bideford's gift to Sir Francis

  • 180 Wasps' nest in sewing machine

  • 181

    Wynne Olley's styles impress International Hair Fashion Designer
  • 182 Bideford childrens' cinema opens

  • 183 Bideford computer stars

  • 184 Mobile missionary

  • 185 Recognise this resort?

  • 186 Watch the dicky bird!

  • 187 Bideford regatta

  • 188 A lost Bideford 'island'

  • 189 Signed scroll momento of Queen Mother's visit

  • 190 'Les Girls' of Hartland

  • 191 Joe the ginger tabby is 21

  • 192 Liked holidays here - so starts business

  • 193 Sweets derationing

  • 194

    Lenwood Squash Club
  • 195 Filming at Hartland

  • 196 Fish nearly pulled him in

  • 197 New Lundy air-mail stamps

  • 198 A Weare Giffard speciality - delicious strawberries

  • 199 Centuries old but today busier than ever

  • 200 Bideford's new market opens next week

  • 201 Instow local art show was 'tremendous success'

  • 202 Westward Ho! Tennis Club Winners
  • 203

    Close associations with North Devon
  • 204

    Double Baptism on Torridge
  • 205 Childrens' model of Torrington

  • 206 Gift plaque on Clovelly council houses

  • 207 Mural in the whimsical fashion

  • 208 John Andrew Bread Charity
  • 209 He beat the floods

  • 210

    Toasted with musical honours
  • 211 For South Africa from Westward Ho!

  • 212 Yeoi Vale House finally demolished

  • 213 Still hunting aged 80 and a Field Master

  • 214 One thousand visit zoo at Whitsun

  • 215 Holiday scene near Sandymere

  • 216 Buckland goes to County Show

  • 217 Lady Churchill congratulates Bideford artists at nursing exhibition

  • 218 Torrington's shelter for the aged

  • 219 North Devon author featured in TV documentary

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

  • 221 They are parted pro-tem

  • 222 Move for oldest boatyard on Torridge

  • 223 On her 'maiden' trip from Bideford

  • 224 Gateways with rhymes>
  • 225 Works at craft he learned over 65 years ago

  • 226 Meredith's ironmongers

  • 227

    Reds Womens Team Are First To Compete Throughout Season
  • 228 Speeding communications: Bideford firm's new installation

  • 229 All for the love of a lady!

  • 230 Panto time at Westward Ho!

  • 231 The cab at the corner>
  • 232 Traditions and skills still there

  • 233 Preparations for new Clovelly Court

  • 234 Ship-in-bottle world record

  • 235 Circus comes to town

  • 236 Mayor becomes engine driver>
  • 237 North Devon Driving School

  • 238 Local glove-making factory advertising for staff

  • 239 Baby Kate goes home to Lundy

  • 240 Boys from Bideford school complete Ten Tors

  • 241 Meeting at 10 Downing Street

  • 242 Bideford schoolboy's courage recognised

  • 243 Community centre opened at Westward Ho!

  • 244 Getting up steam for tomorrow

  • 245 Jumble sale fever

  • 246 Littleham family's five generations

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

  • 248 Sixty-two year old Picarooner makes ready for season

  • 249 Housing progress at East-the-Water>
  • 250 Bringing shopping home by goat

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

  • 252 Amsterdam to Bideford double success

  • 253

    First prize
  • 254 Finished in 1876

  • 255

    Mrs Whapham finds ferret in Bridgeland Street while shopping
  • 256 New choral society's growing response

  • 257 Pannier Market's future?

  • 258 Bideford Liberal club new lounge bar opened

  • 259 New life for Hartland organ

  • 260 Bideford School Junior Choir Sing in France at Twinning Ceremony in Landivisiau
  • 261 Teenager Peter Jackson Makes Horror Film
  • 262 Light reading for the lighthouse

  • 263 Practical sympathy at Northam

  • 264 Bideford firm develops new non-spill paint

  • 265 The creative urge on Saturday morning

  • 266 Passing of a Torrington landmark

  • 267 X-ray shoe fitting

  • 268 Sooty is quick on the draw

  • 269 Making way for the double-deckers

  • 270 TV contest means big job for Bideford Guides

  • 271 Bideford loses training ship

  • 272 Lots drawn to prevent dog fight

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    Womens Skittles Competition in Buckland Brewer
  • 274 Broomhayes £1,000 Surprise
  • 275 Bicycle now does donkey work

  • 276 Wine and beer merchants for 150 years

  • 277 'Out of Appledore' sailing memories

  • 278 Jalopy joy for children of Shamwickshire

  • 279

    Holidaying in north Devon
  • 280 Northam footballers of the future

  • 281 Television comes to Torridge District

  • 282 Pet squirrels at Monkleigh

  • 283 Decontrol of meat

  • 284 Picking the pops

  • 285 Revenge in style

  • 286 When horses score over the tractor

  • 287 Caught in the act>
  • 288 Bideford country dancers on TV

  • 289 Future of Torrington almshouses

  • 290 Variety in summer weather

  • 291 Torrington to have first woman mayor

  • 292 Torridge graveyard of wooden hulks

  • 293 Off on a great adventure

  • 294 Two kinds of hovercraft at Bideford

  • 295 It really was the 'last time'

  • 296 Yeo vale road ruin provides a mystery

  • 297 New Estate's view of estuary activities

  • 298 Westward Ho! combined op

  • 299 Northam wants to continue pumping from river

  • 300 Buckland farm workers to receive long-service awards

  • 301 Ancestral home nestling in lovely combe

  • 302 Peter poses for TV film

  • 303 Huntshaw TV mast

  • 304 New Lundy stamps

  • 305 Prizewinning babies at Torrington

  • 306 Braddicks furniture ad.>
  • 307 Alderman Anstey's dream comes tru

  • 308 Over the bank together>
  • 309 Largest salmon caught in Torridge

  • 310 Fundraising trip for RNLI

  • 311 Old Girls revisit Edgehill

  • 312 Big develolpment at Calveford

  • 313 New gateway to King George's Fields

  • 314 Donkey work made easier at Clovelly

  • 315 The Geneva marionettes

  • 316 A roof-top view - where?

  • 317 Northam loses thatched cottage landmark

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    Relatives all over the world
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    Building works
  • 320 Clovelly nightmare

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    10-year-old scrambler practices
  • 322 Barley from Bideford to Bonnie Scotland

  • 323 Torridge wins on time schedule

  • 324 Penny for the guy

  • 325 Clovelly donkey film star

  • 326

    FA Cup Match for the Robins
  • 327 Clovelly custom

  • 328 Happy Days!

  • 329 New art gallery opened

  • 330 Safety-first dipomas awarded to Torrington drivers

  • 331 Found the answer waiting for him>
  • 332 Farewell to passenger trains

  • 333 Sweet success at Langtree School

  • 334 Dustmen of the days of yore>
  • 335 Westward Ho! sand yacht to challenge speed record

  • 336 Down at the dump something stirs

  • 337 Vessel built 300 feet above sea level

  • 338 What is future of railway goods yard?

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

  • 340 Safe door weighing two tons

  • 341

    Jinxed School Trip
  • 342 Tide sweeps under and over the old bridge

  • 343 Battle of the gap at Westward Ho!

  • 344 In their new robes and hats

  • 345 By pony and trap to market

  • 346 A craftsman's 'potted' history

  • 347 Alverdiscott is proud of its new parish hall

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

  • 349

    Was a missionary
  • 350 Weare Giffard potato

  • 351 Lady Godiva comes to Torrington

  • 352 Bideford Liberals' fashion show

  • 353 Capers on the cobbles

  • 354 Broomhayes children will keep their winter pet

  • 355 No laughing matter

  • 356 Simple Item 138
  • 357 First tankers arrive at new depot

  • 358 No ancient Grecian temple this

  • 359 Torrington in 1967

  • 360 Do recall the old windmill at Northam?

  • 361 Second Monte Carlo Rally

  • 362 Donkey and horses enjoy carnival drink

  • 363 Launching the 'Golden Hinde'

  • 364 What's the time?

  • 365 A sense of humour in advertising

  • 366 Steep street of old Bideford

  • 367

    Bidefordians
  • 368 Born 1883 - still going strong

  • 369 Olympic riders to compete at Bideford Horse Show

  • 370

    Exhibition of school work
  • 371 Tramps camp by riverside throughout arctic weather

  • 372 Picture bought for shillings may be worth thousands

  • 373 Children's procession with foxgloves

  • 374 Celebrations for 103rd birthday

  • 375 Wilfred and Mabel visit schools and hospital

  • 376 Sight of a lifetime

  • 377 The art of the thatcher

  • 378 Down at the 'Donkey House'

  • 379 Picking the pops

  • 380 All aboard the ark

  • 381

    Birgitta Whittaker
  • 382 Entente cordiale in Bideford

  • 383 Thorn-apple found in Littleham conservatory

  • 384 Four sisters' nostalgic reunion

  • 385 They set out for Bideford and became lost

  • 386 Spray dodging - the new pastime

  • 387 Thirty bridges cross Torridge

  • 388 Wishing well is pixielated

  • 389 Torrington Youth Club rewarded by party
  • 390 Police station view of Bideford

  • 391 Warmington's garage ad

  • 392 Service with a smile

  • 393 Unique holiday adventure!

  • 394 Sunshine and shade at Appledore

  • 395 A bird of their own!

  • 396 Chess - their bridge over the years

  • 397 Appledore's largest

  • 398 Bideford A.F.C annual dinner
  • 399 Grenville House for Bideford R.D.C.

  • 400 Parkham plan realised

  • 401 Championship Trophy for Hartland
  • 402 East-the-Water sets town an example

  • 403 Puppet characters introduced

  • 404 Larkworthy Family play in Shebbear's Football Team
  • 405 Northam's almshouse

  • 406 Fishing light goes out at close of poor season

  • 407 TV features Bideford's New Year bread ceremony

  • 408 Train returns to Westleigh straight

  • 409 In the tortoise nursery - eight hatched at Bideford

  • 410 Cavaliers join the Hunt
  • 411 Photo of town's first car wins prize

  • 412 Gloves fit for a king!

  • 413 Torrington school's sundial - fashioned by Headmaster

  • 414 Homage to a well-loved sovereign

  • 415 Bideford has built over 500 post-war homes

  • 416 Appledore skill brings 'Hispaniola' to life

  • 417 Dismantling of wireless mast

  • 418 Tomorrow' night's skittles broadcast from Bideford

  • 419 Shoes certainly not made for walking

  • 420 Clovelly's 91 year old horseman

  • 421 Appledore boy is youngest recipient of RNLI vellun

  • 422 Cement-clad boats being built at Northam

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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  • 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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  • 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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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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Lundy Memorial to John Pennington Harman V.C.

Friends gather at his favourite boyhood spot

On the fifth anniversary of the publication of the citation announcing the V.C. in the London Gazette a large party of personal friends of Mr Martin Coles Harman, owner of Lundy, assembled in the ‘ V.C. Quarry’ named by Mr Harman as the spot which his son made his playground.

24 June 1949 Lundy Memorial to John Pennington

Lance-Corporal Harman was 29 when he lost his life in action in some of the bitterest fighting of the Burma Campaign in 1944.

Gazette article 24 June 1949

 

Community centre opened at Westward Ho!

‘Realisation of hopes and dreams’

The opening ceremony of the new community centre was carried out by Mr Hadyn Wood, the distinguished violinist and composer who resided in the district for some years.

10 June 1949 Community centre opened at Westward Ho

The centre, formerly known as the Kingsley Gym and originally built as part of the old Roman Catholic College at Clevelands Terrace, is believed to be the first of its kind in North Devon. Now to be known as Kingsley Hall, the centre was purchased by the local Community Association by means of gifts and loans and with the aid of a grant from the Ministry of Education.

Gazette article 10 June 1949

 

Floral dancing at Appledore

Headed by May Queen

Headed by the May Queen, 13 year old Eunice Simms with her four attendants – Wendy Simms, Frances Hailwood, Ann Harding and June Pinnick – a floral dance procession wended its way through the streets of Appledore on Saturday.

20 May 1949 Floral dancing at Appledore

The event was in aid of the building fund of the Appledore Branch, British Legion, and was organised by the Branch Social Committee.

Gazette article 20 May 1949

 

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