• 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 Fish nearly pulled him in

  • 2 Record pebble-throwing day

  • 3 Designed and made in Bideford

  • 4 Old Girls revisit Edgehill

  • 5 Passing of a Torrington landmark

  • 6 Eight and a half million pound Taw development scheme

  • 7 Where Bideford rope-makers walked>
  • 8 Torridge wins on time schedule

  • 9 What is future of railway goods yard?

  • 10 Fleet of foot and fair of face

  • 11 Bideford computer stars

  • 12 Ten year old scrambler

  • 13

    Gus Honeybun meets local children
  • 14 Bravery against bull at Shebbear rewarded

  • 15 New Lundy air-mail stamps

  • 16 Riverside mystery

  • 17 Littleham cow tops 70 tons mark in milk production

  • 18 Last train from Torrington

  • 19

    Cadets are given certificates
  • 20 Twenty-one yachts

  • 21 New Post Office

  • 22 Thriving 'orphan of the storm'

  • 23 New Lundy stamps

  • 24 Joe the ginger tabby is 21

  • 25 Holiday traffic in Bideford High Street

  • 26 What the television camera saw at Abbotsham

  • 27 X-ray shoe fitting

  • 28 A roof-top view - where?

  • 29 Torrington acclaims 400th anniversary of granting of charter

  • 30 Launching the 'Golden Hinde'

  • 31 Shoes certainly not made for walking

  • 32 Championship Trophy for Hartland
  • 33 Speeding communications: Bideford firm's new installation

  • 34 Jalopy joy for children of Shamwickshire

  • 35 A Weare Giffard speciality - delicious strawberries

  • 36 Housing progress at East-the-Water>
  • 37 Huntshaw TV mast

  • 38 Dustmen of the days of yore>
  • 39 Watch the dicky bird!

  • 40 Born 1883 - still going strong

  • 41 New addition to Quay front

  • 42 Bideford Bridge re-opens

  • 43 Northam footballers of the future

  • 44

    Hamburger is part of modern life
  • 45 New gateway to King George's Fields

  • 46 'Out of Appledore' sailing memories

  • 47 Alderman Anstey's dream comes tru

  • 48 Panto time at Westward Ho!

  • 49

    Lenwood Squash Club
  • 50 Sunshine and shade at Appledore

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

  • 52 Barley from Bideford to Bonnie Scotland

  • 53 Getting up steam for tomorrow

  • 54 Bideford A.F.C annual dinner
  • 55 Bideford childrens' cinema opens

  • 56 Westward Ho! combined op

  • 57 Torrington's shelter for the aged

  • 58 Bideford firm develops new non-spill paint

  • 59 Bideford Liberals' fashion show

  • 60 Westward Ho! public conveniences get go ahead
  • 61 Space dominates Hartland carnival

  • 62 A craftsman's 'potted' history

  • 63 Bideford country dancers on TV

  • 64 Landmark at Bradworthy

  • 65 Disastrous dock fire at Appledore>
  • 66 Puppet characters introduced

  • 67 John Andrew Bread Charity
  • 68

    Birgitta Whittaker
  • 69 East-the-Water's call for new school

  • 70

    Inter-school Road Safety Quiz Cup Winners
  • 71 Bideford's first triplets for 12 years

  • 72 Signed scroll momento of Queen Mother's visit

  • 73 Fishing light goes out at close of poor season

  • 74 Photo of town's first car wins prize

  • 75 Warmington's garage ad

  • 76 Weare Giffard potato

  • 77 Yeo vale road ruin provides a mystery

  • 78 Last of Bideford factory chimney

  • 79 One thousand visit zoo at Whitsun

  • 80 Mural in the whimsical fashion

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

  • 82 Do recall the old windmill at Northam?

  • 83 Service with a smile

  • 84 Gloves fit for a king!

  • 85 Calf thinks of mare as mum

  • 86 Filming at Hartland

  • 87 Symbol of Lundy independence

  • 88 Can spring be far away?

  • 89 Bideford triplets' first birthday party

  • 90 A man and his wheel

  • 91 Bideford schoolboy's courage recognised

  • 92 Bideford's new market opens next week

  • 93 Cement-clad boats being built at Northam

  • 94 Pretty pennies at Beaford

  • 95 Happy Days!

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

  • 97 Buckland goes to County Show

  • 98 School's link with cargo ship

  • 99 Four sisters' nostalgic reunion

  • 100 Clovelly donkey film star

  • 101 End of the line

  • 102 What's the time?

  • 103 Bideford blacksmith wins English championship

  • 104 TV features Bideford's New Year bread ceremony

  • 105 A story to tell!

  • 106 Largest salmon caught in Torridge

  • 107 New art gallery opened

  • 108 Childrens' model of Torrington

  • 109 No ancient Grecian temple this

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    First prize
  • 111 Picking the pops

  • 112 Penny for the guy

  • 113 Lots drawn to prevent dog fight

  • 114 When horses score over the tractor

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

  • 116 He beat the floods

  • 117 Donkey and horses enjoy carnival drink

  • 118 Move for oldest boatyard on Torridge

  • 119 Donkey work made easier at Clovelly

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

  • 121 Spray dodging - the new pastime

  • 122 Thirty bridges cross Torridge

  • 123 Meredith's ironmongers

  • 124 Tomorrow' night's skittles broadcast from Bideford

  • 125 Cruising down the river

  • 126 Buckland farm workers to receive long-service awards

  • 127 Eleven million pound scheme's official opening

  • 128 Big develolpment at Calveford

  • 129 Artisans' Club

  • 130 The art of the thatcher

  • 131 Unique holiday adventure!

  • 132 Amsterdam to Bideford double success

  • 133

    Was a missionary
  • 134 Westward Ho! Tennis Club Winners
  • 135 Future of Torrington almshouses

  • 136 Champagne send-off for Torrington new factory

  • 137

    Gift from Bideford Town Council
  • 138 America's tribute to 'J.H.'

  • 139 Salmon netting at Bideford

  • 140 Bideford's private wharves busier

  • 141 Golden Bay Hotel ad.>
  • 142 Torrington children build igloo
  • 143

    Relatives all over the world
  • 144 Success to Festival of the Arts

  • 145 Torridge graveyard of wooden hulks

  • 146 A bird of their own!

  • 147 Works at craft he learned over 65 years ago

  • 148 New shipyard on schedule

  • 149 Found the answer waiting for him>
  • 150 Appledore's largest

  • 151 Braddicks furniture ad.>
  • 152 Holiday scene near Sandymere

  • 153 Light reading for the lighthouse

  • 154 Peter poses for TV film

  • 155 Picking the pops

  • 156 Christmas tree on Bideford Quay>
  • 157 Tibbles home again - and fish supper

  • 158 Cavaliers join the Hunt
  • 159 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

  • 160 Hartland postman retires

  • 161 Down at the 'Donkey House'

  • 162 East-the-Water sets town an example

  • 163 Pannier Market's future?

  • 164 Local glove-making factory advertising for staff

  • 165 By pony and trap to market

  • 166 Students help model St Sidwell

  • 167 Hartland Dancers
  • 168

    Successful motor cycling team
  • 169 Emergency ferry services

  • 170 Safety-first dipomas awarded to Torrington drivers

  • 171 Water Board mains spread through villages

  • 172 Mayor becomes engine driver>
  • 173 Northam loses thatched cottage landmark

  • 174 Liked holidays here - so starts business

  • 175 Afternoon tea in the park

  • 176 Broomhayes £1,000 Surprise
  • 177 Teenager Peter Jackson Makes Horror Film
  • 178 Centenary of Gazette

  • 179 Bideford inquest on French trawlermen opens

  • 180 Tramps camp by riverside throughout arctic weather

  • 181 Six footed lamb

  • 182 Wishing well is pixielated

  • 183 Repair work on Long Bridge
  • 184 Broomhayes children will keep their winter pet

  • 185 Instow local art show was 'tremendous success'

  • 186 Harvest service in Bideford 'pub' bar

  • 187 North Devon author featured in TV documentary

  • 188 New life for Hartland organ

  • 189 Safe door weighing two tons

  • 190 Bicycle now does donkey work

  • 191 They set out for Bideford and became lost

  • 192 Steep street of old Bideford

  • 193 Smiling welcome to Hartland visitors

  • 194 All for the love of a lady!

  • 195 Children's procession with foxgloves

  • 196 Bideford electricity window display qualifies for area competition

  • 197 An early 'special' to Bideford

  • 198 Brothers reunion 1947
  • 199 Torrington's enterprise's new extensions

  • 200

    Married in 1908
  • 201 From Bobby to Brian

  • 202 Bideford loses training ship

  • 203

    Close associations with North Devon
  • 204 Designed all furnishing of new chapel

  • 205 Death - and birth - of a telephone exchange

  • 206 School crossing patrol begins

  • 207 Torrington in 1967

  • 208 Clovelly's 91 year old horseman

  • 209 Eleventh hour bid to save last sailing barge

  • 210 Daisy's pride and joy

  • 211 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

  • 212 Bringing shopping home by goat

  • 213 They are parted pro-tem

  • 214 No ancient Grecian temple this

  • 215 It really was the 'last time'

  • 216 Hartland's invitation

  • 217 New choral society's growing response

  • 218 Littleham family's five generations

  • 219 Calligrapher extraordinary

  • 220 Council agree to demolition of Chanter's Folly

  • 221 A lost Bideford 'island'

  • 222 Bideford School Junior Choir Sing in France at Twinning Ceremony in Landivisiau
  • 223 'Les Girls' of Hartland

  • 224 Dismantling of wireless mast

  • 225 Waldon Triplets
  • 226 Community centre opened at Westward Ho!

  • 227 Torrington Church's new organ

  • 228

    Womens Skittles Competition in Buckland Brewer
  • 229 Thunderstorm destruction of 25 years ago

  • 230 Homage to a well-loved sovereign

  • 231 Over the bank together>
  • 232 Finished in 1876

  • 233

    School of Dancing's Annual Display
  • 234 In their new robes and hats

  • 235 Mobile missionary

  • 236 Appledore's new lifeboat

  • 237

    Jinxed School Trip
  • 238 Bideford regatta

  • 239 TV contest means big job for Bideford Guides

  • 240 Entente cordiale in Bideford

  • 241 Some mushroom!

  • 242 Alwington School closing after 120 years

  • 243 Boys from Bideford school complete Ten Tors

  • 244 Practical sympathy at Northam

  • 245 Modern living at Bideford

  • 246 Yelland potter's exhibition at Bideford

  • 247 Northam's almshouse

  • 248 Off on a great adventure

  • 249 Torrington's new amenity

  • 250 Some 240 exhibits

  • 251 Bideford stock car racing entry comes in second

  • 252 Quads at Thornhillhead

  • 253 New look for Torrington Lane

  • 254 Puzzle corner at Bideford!

  • 255 Still hunting aged 80 and a Field Master

  • 256 At Bideford Arts Ball>
  • 257 So this is the mainland!

  • 258 Bideford shipyard workers cheer new minesweeper

  • 259 Centenary of Landcross Methodist Chapel

  • 260

    FA Cup Match for the Robins
  • 261 Bideford skifflers, they're no squares

  • 262 The cab at the corner>
  • 263 Out of puff!

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    Toasted with musical honours
  • 265 Yeoi Vale House finally demolished

  • 266 Meeting at 10 Downing Street

  • 267

    Reds Womens Team Are First To Compete Throughout Season
  • 268 Celebrations for 103rd birthday

  • 269 First tankers arrive at new depot

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

  • 271 Faints as she wins national competition

  • 272 Panel sprint for Bideford broadcast

  • 273 New fire and ambulance stations

  • 274 Capers on the cobbles

  • 275 New look in the hayfields

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

  • 277 Boys win hockey on the sands challenge

  • 278 Parkham plan realised

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

  • 280 Chess - their bridge over the years

  • 281 Baby Kate goes home to Lundy

  • 282 Fishermen of Greencliff

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

  • 284 Lady Churchill congratulates Bideford artists at nursing exhibition

  • 285

    Youth Clubs Join Together For Entertainment
  • 286 Sailing to victory at Appledore

  • 287

    Mums protest in Coronation Road
  • 288 Sweets derationing

  • 289 Television comes to Torridge District

  • 290 Ship-in-bottle world record

  • 291 Private home for public pump

  • 292 Wilfred and Mabel visit schools and hospital

  • 293 In the tortoise nursery - eight hatched at Bideford

  • 294 New Estate's view of estuary activities

  • 295 First steel ship built at Bideford

  • 296 Larkworthy Family play in Shebbear's Football Team
  • 297 Northam wants to continue pumping from river

  • 298 North Devon Driving School

  • 299 Thorn-apple found in Littleham conservatory

  • 300 First ship in 8 years

  • 301 Wine and beer merchants for 150 years

  • 302 Appledore schooner broadcast

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

  • 304 Escaped crane moves into Kenwith Valley

  • 305 Just over a year old

  • 306

    Exhibition of school work
  • 307 For crying out loud!

  • 308 Bideford-Torrington road gets 'carpet coat'

  • 309 Floral dancing at Appledore

  • 310 Meredith and Son ad.>
  • 311

    Double Baptism on Torridge
  • 312 Shipbuilding hobby at Hartland

  • 313 New civic medallions

  • 314 On her 'maiden' trip from Bideford

  • 315 113 years at Instow

  • 316 Head Barman appointed Torrington Town Crier
  • 317 Fundraising trip for RNLI

  • 318 Variety in summer weather

  • 319 Bideford Zoo's first baby is big draw

  • 320 Second Monte Carlo Rally

  • 321 Picture bought for shillings may be worth thousands

  • 322 Birds' convalescent home at Instow

  • 323 Revived market off to splendid start

  • 324 Traditions and skills still there

  • 325 Decontrol of meat

  • 326 Four hundred residents leave Bideford!

  • 327 Torrington school's sundial - fashioned by Headmaster

  • 328 Life begins at 80

  • 329 Bridging the stream

  • 330 Town's second woman mayor in 392 years

  • 331 Church renovation rejoicing at Northam

  • 332 Down at the dump something stirs

  • 333 Clovelly custom

  • 334 Saving money, wear and tear

  • 335 Appledore Juniors Football
  • 336 Polish custom on Pancake Day

  • 337 Westward Ho! sand yacht to challenge speed record

  • 338

    Andre Veillett and Quentin Reed in Judo Demonstration
  • 339 Weare Giffard Hall sold for £11,300

  • 340 Vessel built 300 feet above sea level

  • 341 Farewell to passenger trains

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

  • 343 Allhalland Street - then and now

  • 344 Charter granted by Philip and Mary

  • 345 Ancestral home nestling in lovely combe

  • 346 River scenes that enchant the visitors

  • 347 Ships at Bideford

  • 348

    Building works
  • 349 A sense of humour in advertising

  • 350 Circus comes to town

  • 351 Devil sent packing

  • 352 Sweet success at Langtree School

  • 353 Appledore boy is youngest recipient of RNLI vellun

  • 354

    Bidefordians
  • 355 Recognise this resort?

  • 356 Battle of the gap at Westward Ho!

  • 357 Record player of 80 years ago

  • 358 Two kinds of hovercraft at Bideford

  • 359 Lady Godiva comes to Torrington

  • 360 Gateways with rhymes>
  • 361 To build racing cars in former blacksmith's shop

  • 362

    First Girls at Bideford Grammar School take part in Play
  • 363 Up-to-date Bideford!

  • 364 Thrush builds nest in cauliflower

  • 365 Revenge in style

  • 366

    Holidaying in north Devon
  • 367 For South Africa from Westward Ho!

  • 368 Centuries old but today busier than ever

  • 369 Rowing triumphs at Bideford

  • 370 Police station view of Bideford

  • 371 Simple Item 138
  • 372 The Geneva marionettes

  • 373 Sight of a lifetime

  • 374 Making way for the double-deckers

  • 375 The creative urge on Saturday morning

  • 376 Preparations for new Clovelly Court

  • 377 Bideford has built over 500 post-war homes

  • 378 Bank Holiday weather was beach weather

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    10-year-old scrambler practices
  • 380 Alverdiscott is proud of its new parish hall

  • 381 Hartland Abbey outdoor staff 60 years ago

  • 382 Blanchards ad.>
  • 383

    Appledore boys beat mums at football
  • 384 Colour TV salesman at eight

  • 385 No sale of Springfield House

  • 386 Train returns to Westleigh straight

  • 387 Tide sweeps under and over the old bridge

  • 388 The young smith of Abbotsham>
  • 389 Gift plaque on Clovelly council houses

  • 390 Quads join a Langtree happy family

  • 391

    Mrs Whapham finds ferret in Bridgeland Street while shopping
  • 392 Clovelly nightmare

  • 393

    Wynne Olley's styles impress International Hair Fashion Designer
  • 394 Eight to strike and a race to win

  • 395 Bideford's gift to Sir Francis

  • 396 Grenville House for Bideford R.D.C.

  • 397 Little 'Big Ben'

  • 398 Jumble sale fever

  • 399 Wasps' nest in sewing machine

  • 400 Spring-cleaning the Ridge

  • 401 Olympic riders to compete at Bideford Horse Show

  • 402 Loads of black and white

  • 403 Bideford's first woman councillor

  • 404 Beach search for mines takes longer

  • 405 Inscribed Bibles and silver spoons for babies

  • 406 No laughing matter

  • 407 Burnard family reunion

  • 408 They never miss a game at Torrington

  • 409 Torrington Youth Club rewarded by party
  • 410 Pet squirrels at Monkleigh

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    New gateway
  • 412 Prizewinning babies at Torrington

  • 413 All aboard the ark

  • 414 Can-carrying over cobbles has disappeared

  • 415 Appledore skill brings 'Hispaniola' to life

  • 416 Photo mural in Bideford bank

  • 417 Bideford Liberal club new lounge bar opened

  • 418 Caught in the act>
  • 419 Appledore tugs fete London Tower

  • 420 Torrington to have first woman mayor

  • 421 Sooty is quick on the draw

  • 422 Five generations link Woolsery, Clovelly and Bideford

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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  • 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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  • 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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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 Gloves 1971

Bideford Gloves - 15th January 1971

15 January 1971 Bideford gloves
 

Bideford Gloves for London's Lady Mayoress

The Worshipful Company of Glovers, one of the ancient guilds of London, who each year present gloves for use by the Lady Mayoress of the capital, have asked Sudbury's Gloves, of Bideford, to supply the fabric gloves this year.
Mr Ray Sawtell, a director of the company, said they were delighted to have been chosen for the work.

Wynne Olley Success - 1962

Wynne Olley Success - 12th September 1962

12.10.1962 Wynne Olley success
Wynne Olley Success - September 1962
 

Their Crowning Glory Successes

Young hairstylists from the salons of Mrs Wynne Olley, of Bideford, Barnstaple, Torrington and Winkleigh, recorded their finest achievement yet at the women's section of the south-west area hair-styling competition at Taunton. Five girls between them took first and second places in all three classes for women's hairdressing.
They were Miss Nancy Stacey (18) of Barnstaple and formely of Torrington, Miss Rosemay Short (21) of Bideford, Mrs Bernice Weeks (25) of St Giles and who works at the Torrington salon, and apprentices Miss Ella Cox (17) of Bideford and Barbara Squires (18) of the Torrington salon and whose home is at Frithelstock.

Sudbury Glove Factory For Sale 1937

Sudbury Glove Factory For Sale - 16th February 1937

Sudbury Glove Factory for sale
 

For Sale As A Going Concern

The old established glove manufacturing business of F A Sudbury Limited.
The assets consist of Factory at Silver Street, Bideford. Also four freehold cottages - Silver Street, Bideford

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