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    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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    Youth Clubs Join Together For Entertainment
  • 2 Blanchards ad.>
  • 3 New fire and ambulance stations

  • 4 Amsterdam to Bideford double success

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    Hamburger is part of modern life
  • 6 Bideford shipyard workers cheer new minesweeper

  • 7 Private home for public pump

  • 8 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

  • 9 Appledore Juniors Football
  • 10 Champagne send-off for Torrington new factory

  • 11 Yeo vale road ruin provides a mystery

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

  • 13 Pannier Market's future?

  • 14 Brothers reunion 1947
  • 15 Hartland Dancers
  • 16 Just over a year old

  • 17 Record player of 80 years ago

  • 18 Quads at Thornhillhead

  • 19 Escaped crane moves into Kenwith Valley

  • 20 Launching the 'Golden Hinde'

  • 21 First ship in 8 years

  • 22 Floral dancing at Appledore

  • 23 Tomorrow' night's skittles broadcast from Bideford

  • 24 Devil sent packing

  • 25 Clovelly donkey film star

  • 26 Where Bideford rope-makers walked>
  • 27 Faints as she wins national competition

  • 28 They set out for Bideford and became lost

  • 29 Twenty-one yachts

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

  • 31 A man and his wheel

  • 32 Big develolpment at Calveford

  • 33 Lots drawn to prevent dog fight

  • 34 Bideford inquest on French trawlermen opens

  • 35 Speeding communications: Bideford firm's new installation

  • 36

    New gateway
  • 37 Polish custom on Pancake Day

  • 38 Bideford Zoo's first baby is big draw

  • 39 Record pebble-throwing day

  • 40 Two kinds of hovercraft at Bideford

  • 41 Shoes certainly not made for walking

  • 42 Smiling welcome to Hartland visitors

  • 43

    Married in 1908
  • 44 A Weare Giffard speciality - delicious strawberries

  • 45 Move for oldest boatyard on Torridge

  • 46 Larkworthy Family play in Shebbear's Football Team
  • 47 For crying out loud!

  • 48 Landmark at Bradworthy

  • 49

    Inter-school Road Safety Quiz Cup Winners
  • 50 Revenge in style

  • 51 Preparations for new Clovelly Court

  • 52 Torrington's new amenity

  • 53 They are parted pro-tem

  • 54

    Bidefordians
  • 55 Barley from Bideford to Bonnie Scotland

  • 56 Joe the ginger tabby is 21

  • 57 Torrington to have first woman mayor

  • 58 In the tortoise nursery - eight hatched at Bideford

  • 59

    Building works
  • 60 Appledore's largest

  • 61 Space dominates Hartland carnival

  • 62 Olympic riders to compete at Bideford Horse Show

  • 63 Bideford schoolboy's courage recognised

  • 64 Buckland goes to County Show

  • 65 By pony and trap to market

  • 66 Council agree to demolition of Chanter's Folly

  • 67 Light reading for the lighthouse

  • 68 Mural in the whimsical fashion

  • 69 Symbol of Lundy independence

  • 70 Service with a smile

  • 71 Peter poses for TV film

  • 72 No ancient Grecian temple this

  • 73 Sweet success at Langtree School

  • 74 What's the time?

  • 75 Bideford A.F.C annual dinner
  • 76 When horses score over the tractor

  • 77 Bideford electricity window display qualifies for area competition

  • 78 Huntshaw TV mast

  • 79 Gateways with rhymes>
  • 80 Bringing shopping home by goat

  • 81 Loads of black and white

  • 82 Head Barman appointed Torrington Town Crier
  • 83 Thunderstorm destruction of 25 years ago

  • 84

    Relatives all over the world
  • 85 Puzzle corner at Bideford!

  • 86 Watch the dicky bird!

  • 87 The Geneva marionettes

  • 88

    Wynne Olley's styles impress International Hair Fashion Designer
  • 89 The art of the thatcher

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

  • 91 Practical sympathy at Northam

  • 92 Mobile missionary

  • 93 No laughing matter

  • 94 Getting up steam for tomorrow

  • 95 Hartland postman retires

  • 96

    Mrs Whapham finds ferret in Bridgeland Street while shopping
  • 97 Colour TV salesman at eight

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

  • 99 Panto time at Westward Ho!

  • 100 Entente cordiale in Bideford

  • 101 Bideford - as Rowlandson saw it about 1810-15

  • 102 Success to Festival of the Arts

  • 103 Quads join a Langtree happy family

  • 104 The creative urge on Saturday morning

  • 105 Ships at Bideford

  • 106 Eight to strike and a race to win

  • 107

    Jinxed School Trip
  • 108 Bideford has built over 500 post-war homes

  • 109 Littleham family's five generations

  • 110 'Les Girls' of Hartland

  • 111 Bravery against bull at Shebbear rewarded

  • 112 Appledore boy is youngest recipient of RNLI vellun

  • 113 Centenary of Gazette

  • 114 Alverdiscott is proud of its new parish hall

  • 115 Battle of the gap at Westward Ho!

  • 116 Death - and birth - of a telephone exchange

  • 117 Baby Kate goes home to Lundy

  • 118 One thousand visit zoo at Whitsun

  • 119 Northam loses thatched cottage landmark

  • 120 Steep street of old Bideford

  • 121 Bideford's gift to Sir Francis

  • 122 Last train from Torrington

  • 123 Some mushroom!

  • 124 Torridge graveyard of wooden hulks

  • 125 Simple Item 138
  • 126 Bideford stock car racing entry comes in second

  • 127 Bideford blacksmith wins English championship

  • 128 Thrush builds nest in cauliflower

  • 129 School's link with cargo ship

  • 130 Westward Ho! public conveniences get go ahead
  • 131 End of the line

  • 132 'Out of Appledore' sailing memories

  • 133 Hartland's invitation

  • 134 Finished in 1876

  • 135 Harvest service in Bideford 'pub' bar

  • 136 Bideford's private wharves busier

  • 137 Bridging the stream

  • 138 Buckland farm workers to receive long-service awards

  • 139 Lady Churchill congratulates Bideford artists at nursing exhibition

  • 140 Braddicks furniture ad.>
  • 141 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

  • 142 Christmas tree on Bideford Quay>
  • 143 North Devon author featured in TV documentary

  • 144 A story to tell!

  • 145 A roof-top view - where?

  • 146 Artisans' Club

  • 147 Four hundred residents leave Bideford!

  • 148 Championship Trophy for Hartland
  • 149 Fundraising trip for RNLI

  • 150 Off on a great adventure

  • 151 Appledore schooner broadcast

  • 152 America's tribute to 'J.H.'

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    Toasted with musical honours
  • 154 Bideford Liberal club new lounge bar opened

  • 155 Ten year old scrambler

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

  • 157 Old Girls revisit Edgehill

  • 158 Torrington's shelter for the aged

  • 159 River scenes that enchant the visitors

  • 160 Torrington in 1967

  • 161 Broomhayes £1,000 Surprise
  • 162 Water Board mains spread through villages

  • 163 Thorn-apple found in Littleham conservatory

  • 164 Fleet of foot and fair of face

  • 165 113 years at Instow

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

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

  • 168 Decontrol of meat

  • 169 Unique holiday adventure!

  • 170 Allhalland Street - then and now

  • 171 Northam's almshouse

  • 172 Sight of a lifetime

  • 173 Bideford childrens' cinema opens

  • 174 New gateway to King George's Fields

  • 175 Clovelly's 91 year old horseman

  • 176 TV contest means big job for Bideford Guides

  • 177 Torrington Church's new organ

  • 178 Riverside mystery

  • 179 Church renovation rejoicing at Northam

  • 180 So this is the mainland!

  • 181 Variety in summer weather

  • 182 John Andrew Bread Charity
  • 183

    First Girls at Bideford Grammar School take part in Play
  • 184 Bideford's new market opens next week

  • 185 Northam footballers of the future

  • 186 Making way for the double-deckers

  • 187 Picking the pops

  • 188 What the television camera saw at Abbotsham

  • 189 Golden Bay Hotel ad.>
  • 190 Local glove-making factory advertising for staff

  • 191 Farewell to passenger trains

  • 192 Spray dodging - the new pastime

  • 193 Sunshine and shade at Appledore

  • 194 Housing progress at East-the-Water>
  • 195 Northam wants to continue pumping from river

  • 196 Burnard family reunion

  • 197 Weare Giffard Hall sold for £11,300

  • 198 Bideford's first woman councillor

  • 199 Salmon netting at Bideford

  • 200 Bideford Liberals' fashion show

  • 201 Sooty is quick on the draw

  • 202 Liked holidays here - so starts business

  • 203 Down at the 'Donkey House'

  • 204

    Mums protest in Coronation Road
  • 205 New Post Office

  • 206 Clovelly nightmare

  • 207 Charter granted by Philip and Mary

  • 208 The cab at the corner>
  • 209 New Estate's view of estuary activities

  • 210 In their new robes and hats

  • 211 Celebrations for 103rd birthday

  • 212

    Successful motor cycling team
  • 213 Westward Ho! sand yacht to challenge speed record

  • 214 Yeoi Vale House finally demolished

  • 215 School crossing patrol begins

  • 216 Wasps' nest in sewing machine

  • 217 Dustmen of the days of yore>
  • 218 New addition to Quay front

  • 219 Bideford Bridge re-opens

  • 220 Cavaliers join the Hunt
  • 221

    10-year-old scrambler practices
  • 222

    School of Dancing's Annual Display
  • 223 Alwington School closing after 120 years

  • 224 New art gallery opened

  • 225 New look for Torrington Lane

  • 226

    Birgitta Whittaker
  • 227 Cruising down the river

  • 228 Safety-first dipomas awarded to Torrington drivers

  • 229 A craftsman's 'potted' history

  • 230 A sense of humour in advertising

  • 231 Birds' convalescent home at Instow

  • 232 Recognise this resort?

  • 233 Homage to a well-loved sovereign

  • 234 Centenary of Landcross Methodist Chapel

  • 235 Thriving 'orphan of the storm'

  • 236

    Andre Veillett and Quentin Reed in Judo Demonstration
  • 237 Some 240 exhibits

  • 238 Pet squirrels at Monkleigh

  • 239 At Bideford Arts Ball>
  • 240 All aboard the ark

  • 241 Repair work on Long Bridge
  • 242 Future of Torrington almshouses

  • 243 First tankers arrive at new depot

  • 244 First steel ship built at Bideford

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    Cadets are given certificates
  • 246 It really was the 'last time'

  • 247 Bideford's first triplets for 12 years

  • 248 Can-carrying over cobbles has disappeared

  • 249 Signed scroll momento of Queen Mother's visit

  • 250 Shipbuilding hobby at Hartland

  • 251 Bideford skifflers, they're no squares

  • 252 X-ray shoe fitting

  • 253 Littleham cow tops 70 tons mark in milk production

  • 254 Designed all furnishing of new chapel

  • 255 Cement-clad boats being built at Northam

  • 256 Hartland Abbey outdoor staff 60 years ago

  • 257 Inscribed Bibles and silver spoons for babies

  • 258 Bicycle now does donkey work

  • 259 Donkey and horses enjoy carnival drink

  • 260 Can spring be far away?

  • 261 The young smith of Abbotsham>
  • 262 Safe door weighing two tons

  • 263 Eight and a half million pound Taw development scheme

  • 264 Holiday traffic in Bideford High Street

  • 265

    Exhibition of school work
  • 266 Grenville House for Bideford R.D.C.

  • 267 Modern living at Bideford

  • 268 New choral society's growing response

  • 269 Still hunting aged 80 and a Field Master

  • 270 Born 1883 - still going strong

  • 271 New look in the hayfields

  • 272 Tibbles home again - and fish supper

  • 273 Meeting at 10 Downing Street

  • 274 New civic medallions

  • 275 Boys from Bideford school complete Ten Tors

  • 276 Bideford computer stars

  • 277 Filming at Hartland

  • 278 Appledore skill brings 'Hispaniola' to life

  • 279 No ancient Grecian temple this

  • 280 Television comes to Torridge District

  • 281 From Bobby to Brian

  • 282 Fishermen of Greencliff

  • 283 Out of puff!

  • 284 Meredith and Son ad.>
  • 285 Life begins at 80

  • 286 Boys win hockey on the sands challenge

  • 287 Bideford-Torrington road gets 'carpet coat'

  • 288 Holiday scene near Sandymere

  • 289 Spring-cleaning the Ridge

  • 290 Afternoon tea in the park

  • 291 Instow local art show was 'tremendous success'

  • 292 Picture bought for shillings may be worth thousands

  • 293 Do recall the old windmill at Northam?

  • 294 Happy Days!

  • 295 TV features Bideford's New Year bread ceremony

  • 296

    Appledore boys beat mums at football
  • 297 Tide sweeps under and over the old bridge

  • 298 Largest salmon caught in Torridge

  • 299 Saving money, wear and tear

  • 300 Up-to-date Bideford!

  • 301 Childrens' model of Torrington

  • 302

    Lenwood Squash Club
  • 303 Eleventh hour bid to save last sailing barge

  • 304 Broomhayes children will keep their winter pet

  • 305 They never miss a game at Torrington

  • 306 Chess - their bridge over the years

  • 307 Designed and made in Bideford

  • 308 North Devon Driving School

  • 309 Centuries old but today busier than ever

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    First prize
  • 311 Vessel built 300 feet above sea level

  • 312 Last of Bideford factory chimney

  • 313 Westward Ho! Tennis Club Winners
  • 314 Gloves fit for a king!

  • 315 Sailing to victory at Appledore

  • 316 Westward Ho! combined op

  • 317 No sale of Springfield House

  • 318 Picking the pops

  • 319 Works at craft he learned over 65 years ago

  • 320 Calligrapher extraordinary

  • 321 Dismantling of wireless mast

  • 322 Puppet characters introduced

  • 323 Rowing triumphs at Bideford

  • 324 Photo of town's first car wins prize

  • 325 Police station view of Bideford

  • 326 Six footed lamb

  • 327 Students help model St Sidwell

  • 328 Parkham plan realised

  • 329 Fishing light goes out at close of poor season

  • 330 Appledore tugs fete London Tower

  • 331 Bideford 'What's my line?' challenger

  • 332 Jalopy joy for children of Shamwickshire

  • 333 Mayor becomes engine driver>
  • 334 Ship-in-bottle world record

  • 335 Five generations link Woolsery, Clovelly and Bideford

  • 336 New Lundy air-mail stamps

  • 337 Warmington's garage ad

  • 338

    Reds Womens Team Are First To Compete Throughout Season
  • 339

    Gift from Bideford Town Council
  • 340 Prizewinning babies at Torrington

  • 341 Gift plaque on Clovelly council houses

  • 342 An early 'special' to Bideford

  • 343 Ancestral home nestling in lovely combe

  • 344 Teenager Peter Jackson Makes Horror Film
  • 345 Alderman Anstey's dream comes tru

  • 346 Passing of a Torrington landmark

  • 347 Down at the dump something stirs

  • 348 Torrington school's sundial - fashioned by Headmaster

  • 349 Bank Holiday weather was beach weather

  • 350 What is future of railway goods yard?

  • 351 Meredith's ironmongers

  • 352 Appledore's new lifeboat

  • 353 Four sisters' nostalgic reunion

  • 354

    Double Baptism on Torridge
  • 355 Emergency ferry services

  • 356 Wilfred and Mabel visit schools and hospital

  • 357 Over the bank together>
  • 358 Jumble sale fever

  • 359 New shipyard on schedule

  • 360 Torrington children build igloo
  • 361 Found the answer waiting for him>
  • 362 Caught in the act>
  • 363 A bird of their own!

  • 364 Bideford firm develops new non-spill paint

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

  • 366 On her 'maiden' trip from Bideford

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

  • 368 Wishing well is pixielated

  • 369 Torrington's enterprise's new extensions

  • 370 East-the-Water sets town an example

  • 371 Town's second woman mayor in 392 years

  • 372 Circus comes to town

  • 373 Tramps camp by riverside throughout arctic weather

  • 374 Capers on the cobbles

  • 375 Torrington acclaims 400th anniversary of granting of charter

  • 376 Waldon Triplets
  • 377 Wine and beer merchants for 150 years

  • 378 Children's procession with foxgloves

  • 379 Fish nearly pulled him in

  • 380 Little 'Big Ben'

  • 381 Penny for the guy

  • 382 Revived market off to splendid start

  • 383 Bideford country dancers on TV

  • 384 A lost Bideford 'island'

  • 385 Beach search for mines takes longer

  • 386 Pretty pennies at Beaford

  • 387 Yelland potter's exhibition at Bideford

  • 388 Disastrous dock fire at Appledore>
  • 389 Eleven million pound scheme's official opening

  • 390 New Lundy stamps

  • 391 Photo mural in Bideford bank

  • 392 He beat the floods

  • 393 Train returns to Westleigh straight

  • 394 Lady Godiva comes to Torrington

  • 395 Bideford regatta

  • 396 Second Monte Carlo Rally

  • 397

    Womens Skittles Competition in Buckland Brewer
  • 398 Sweets derationing

  • 399

    FA Cup Match for the Robins
  • 400 For South Africa from Westward Ho!

  • 401 Calf thinks of mare as mum

  • 402 Weare Giffard potato

  • 403 Daisy's pride and joy

  • 404 Donkey work made easier at Clovelly

  • 405 All for the love of a lady!

  • 406 Panel sprint for Bideford broadcast

  • 407 Thirty bridges cross Torridge

  • 408 Clovelly custom

  • 409

    Gus Honeybun meets local children
  • 410

    Was a missionary
  • 411 Community centre opened at Westward Ho!

  • 412

    Holidaying in north Devon
  • 413 Torrington Youth Club rewarded by party
  • 414 Lundy memorial to John Pennington Harman V.C.

  • 415 Bideford triplets' first birthday party

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

  • 417

    Close associations with North Devon
  • 418 Torridge wins on time schedule

  • 419 Traditions and skills still there

  • 420 New life for Hartland organ

  • 421 Bideford School Junior Choir Sing in France at Twinning Ceremony in Landivisiau
  • 422 Bideford loses training ship

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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BIDEFORD & DISTRICT HORSE SHOW

BIDEFORD & DISTRICT HORSE SHOW

1 May 1928 Bideford Horse Show
 

The annual show will be held at the Sports Ground, Bideford on Wednesday, June 27th when prizes to the amount of about £250 and 6 silver cups, plate and silver medals will be competed for. Driving and jumping. The Band of the Metropolitan Police will be in attendance during the day. Schedule and entry forms:- W. Ascott, H. A. Lomas, Hon. Secretaries

 

NO RISE FOR 20 YEARS

NO RISE FOR 20 YEARS

2 April 1971 Harbour Master salary
 

Bideford harbour master's salary has not been increased for 20 years, Ald. R. D. D. Birdwood told the Town Council. And because of harbour finances, no application had bene made by the official.
Job evaluation by the County Council management services unit was to be carried out in June, it was pointed out, and it was generally agreed that the case of the harbour master should not be dealt with in isolation. Other recommendations for review of gradings had been deferred pending the Organisation and Methods report.

The Council agreed to await the report

 

P. M. Barrow the Famous Bonesetter

P. M. BARROW THE FAMOUS WEST of ENGLAND BONE-SETTER WILL VISIT TO-DAY

P. M. Barrow the Famous Bonesetter
 
  • Tuesday, White Hart Hotel, Launceston, (April 3rd)
  • Martyn's Shoe Shop, Chapel Street, Holsworthy, To-morrow, Wednesday (April 4th)
  • The Royal & Fortescue Hotel, Barnstaple (April 6th)
  • At Friendship's Cafe, Bideford (tel. 236) On Saturday, April 7th, Consultations from 11am to 5pm

Dislocated shoulders, hips, curvature of the spine and all feet troubles can be remedied by manipulation under her sensitive hands. P M Barrow is the only bonesetter in the West of England who can by manipulation alone take a flat foot and make it normal within a few minutes. The operation can be witnessed by the patient and can be done practically without pain. Paralysis often caused by pressure of a dislocated bone can be righted. If you think your trouble is caused by misplaced bones, see P. M. Barrow as above.

All consultations are absolutely free.

 
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