• 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 End of the line

  • 2 Torrington acclaims 400th anniversary of granting of charter

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

  • 4 TV contest means big job for Bideford Guides

  • 5

    Womens Skittles Competition in Buckland Brewer
  • 6 In their new robes and hats

  • 7 Mobile missionary

  • 8

    Building works
  • 9

    Relatives all over the world
  • 10 New fire and ambulance stations

  • 11 Fishing light goes out at close of poor season

  • 12 Broomhayes £1,000 Surprise
  • 13 Bideford Zoo's first baby is big draw

  • 14 Bideford School Junior Choir Sing in France at Twinning Ceremony in Landivisiau
  • 15

    Successful motor cycling team
  • 16 Bideford's private wharves busier

  • 17

    Mrs Whapham finds ferret in Bridgeland Street while shopping
  • 18

    Holidaying in north Devon
  • 19 Community centre opened at Westward Ho!

  • 20 Big develolpment at Calveford

  • 21 Bideford has built over 500 post-war homes

  • 22 Repair work on Long Bridge
  • 23 East-the-Water's call for new school

  • 24 Holiday traffic in Bideford High Street

  • 25 Happy Days!

  • 26 Devil sent packing

  • 27

    Was a missionary
  • 28 Bideford skifflers, they're no squares

  • 29 Tibbles home again - and fish supper

  • 30 Getting up steam for tomorrow

  • 31 Vessel built 300 feet above sea level

  • 32 Braddicks furniture ad.>
  • 33 Thorn-apple found in Littleham conservatory

  • 34 Puppet characters introduced

  • 35 Weare Giffard potato

  • 36 Town's second woman mayor in 392 years

  • 37 Artisans' Club

  • 38 Calligrapher extraordinary

  • 39 The young smith of Abbotsham>
  • 40 Tide sweeps under and over the old bridge

  • 41 Landmark at Bradworthy

  • 42 Rowing triumphs at Bideford

  • 43 Sooty is quick on the draw

  • 44 Loads of black and white

  • 45 First ship in 8 years

  • 46 Blanchards ad.>
  • 47 Liked holidays here - so starts business

  • 48 Homage to a well-loved sovereign

  • 49 Huntshaw TV mast

  • 50 Meredith's ironmongers

  • 51

    School of Dancing's Annual Display
  • 52 Works at craft he learned over 65 years ago

  • 53 Yeoi Vale House finally demolished

  • 54 Hartland's invitation

  • 55 Recognise this resort?

  • 56 Bridging the stream

  • 57 North Devon author featured in TV documentary

  • 58 Finished in 1876

  • 59 Some 240 exhibits

  • 60 Just over a year old

  • 61 Mayor becomes engine driver>
  • 62 Torridge graveyard of wooden hulks

  • 63 Appledore schooner broadcast

  • 64 A man and his wheel

  • 65 Do recall the old windmill at Northam?

  • 66 Students help model St Sidwell

  • 67 113 years at Instow

  • 68 Fleet of foot and fair of face

  • 69 Cement-clad boats being built at Northam

  • 70 Bicycle now does donkey work

  • 71 Four sisters' nostalgic reunion

  • 72 Allhalland Street - then and now

  • 73 Children's procession with foxgloves

  • 74 Service with a smile

  • 75 Northam wants to continue pumping from river

  • 76 Head Barman appointed Torrington Town Crier
  • 77

    Gus Honeybun meets local children
  • 78 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

  • 79 Bideford's first woman councillor

  • 80 Buckland farm workers to receive long-service awards

  • 81 New look for Torrington Lane

  • 82 Inscribed Bibles and silver spoons for babies

  • 83 Bideford-Torrington road gets 'carpet coat'

  • 84 Decontrol of meat

  • 85 They set out for Bideford and became lost

  • 86 Riverside mystery

  • 87 Birds' convalescent home at Instow

  • 88 Local glove-making factory advertising for staff

  • 89 Bideford country dancers on TV

  • 90 Afternoon tea in the park

  • 91 Modern living at Bideford

  • 92 First tankers arrive at new depot

  • 93 The creative urge on Saturday morning

  • 94 Mural in the whimsical fashion

  • 95 Making way for the double-deckers

  • 96

    Cadets are given certificates
  • 97 Waldon Triplets
  • 98 Clovelly donkey film star

  • 99 X-ray shoe fitting

  • 100 Wasps' nest in sewing machine

  • 101

    Andre Veillett and Quentin Reed in Judo Demonstration
  • 102 Largest salmon caught in Torridge

  • 103 Barley from Bideford to Bonnie Scotland

  • 104 Torridge wins on time schedule

  • 105 Cruising down the river

  • 106 Off on a great adventure

  • 107

    Double Baptism on Torridge
  • 108 Ships at Bideford

  • 109 School's link with cargo ship

  • 110 Thriving 'orphan of the storm'

  • 111 Light reading for the lighthouse

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

  • 113 Bideford loses training ship

  • 114

    Close associations with North Devon
  • 115 A lost Bideford 'island'

  • 116

    Reds Womens Team Are First To Compete Throughout Season
  • 117 Centenary of Gazette

  • 118

    Wynne Olley's styles impress International Hair Fashion Designer
  • 119 Brothers reunion 1947
  • 120 Open-air art exhibition by 'under 40' group

  • 121 Twenty-one yachts

  • 122 Westward Ho! combined op

  • 123 Sweet success at Langtree School

  • 124 Death - and birth - of a telephone exchange

  • 125 Jalopy joy for children of Shamwickshire

  • 126 Photo mural in Bideford bank

  • 127 What the television camera saw at Abbotsham

  • 128 Broomhayes children will keep their winter pet

  • 129 Yelland potter's exhibition at Bideford

  • 130 Torrington's new amenity

  • 131 Floral dancing at Appledore

  • 132 New Post Office

  • 133 Bideford's new market opens next week

  • 134 New Estate's view of estuary activities

  • 135 Ten year old scrambler

  • 136 Parkham plan realised

  • 137 One thousand visit zoo at Whitsun

  • 138 Watch the dicky bird!

  • 139 Yeo vale road ruin provides a mystery

  • 140 Baby Kate goes home to Lundy

  • 141 Buckland goes to County Show

  • 142 Eight to strike and a race to win

  • 143 Bringing shopping home by goat

  • 144 Over the bank together>
  • 145 Some mushroom!

  • 146 River scenes that enchant the visitors

  • 147 Hartland Abbey outdoor staff 60 years ago

  • 148 Clovelly's 91 year old horseman

  • 149 For crying out loud!

  • 150 North Devon Driving School

  • 151 Can-carrying over cobbles has disappeared

  • 152 Variety in summer weather

  • 153

    Appledore boys beat mums at football
  • 154 Church renovation rejoicing at Northam

  • 155 Cavaliers join the Hunt
  • 156 Meeting at 10 Downing Street

  • 157 Housing progress at East-the-Water>
  • 158 Appledore Juniors Football
  • 159

    Exhibition of school work
  • 160 Lady Churchill congratulates Bideford artists at nursing exhibition

  • 161 Second Monte Carlo Rally

  • 162 Puzzle corner at Bideford!

  • 163 No ancient Grecian temple this

  • 164 Tramps camp by riverside throughout arctic weather

  • 165 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

  • 166 Record player of 80 years ago

  • 167

    First Girls at Bideford Grammar School take part in Play
  • 168 Penny for the guy

  • 169 Championship Trophy for Hartland
  • 170 Picking the pops

  • 171

    Hamburger is part of modern life
  • 172 Thrush builds nest in cauliflower

  • 173 Boys win hockey on the sands challenge

  • 174 The cab at the corner>
  • 175 Bideford 'What's my line?' challenger

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

  • 177 Torrington in 1967

  • 178 New gateway to King George's Fields

  • 179 Torrington Youth Club rewarded by party
  • 180 Holiday scene near Sandymere

  • 181 Burnard family reunion

  • 182 Eleven million pound scheme's official opening

  • 183 Designed and made in Bideford

  • 184 Bideford schoolboy's courage recognised

  • 185 Down at the dump something stirs

  • 186 Fishermen of Greencliff

  • 187 Gift plaque on Clovelly council houses

  • 188 Torrington's enterprise's new extensions

  • 189 On her 'maiden' trip from Bideford

  • 190 Preparations for new Clovelly Court

  • 191 Wilfred and Mabel visit schools and hospital

  • 192 In the tortoise nursery - eight hatched at Bideford

  • 193 Council agree to demolition of Chanter's Folly

  • 194 Passing of a Torrington landmark

  • 195 New look in the hayfields

  • 196

    Gift from Bideford Town Council
  • 197 Lots drawn to prevent dog fight

  • 198 Colour TV salesman at eight

  • 199 The art of the thatcher

  • 200

    Mums protest in Coronation Road
  • 201 Torrington's shelter for the aged

  • 202 A roof-top view - where?

  • 203 Northam loses thatched cottage landmark

  • 204 Jumble sale fever

  • 205 When horses score over the tractor

  • 206 Panel sprint for Bideford broadcast

  • 207 Symbol of Lundy independence

  • 208 Childrens' model of Torrington

  • 209 Littleham family's five generations

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

  • 211 Battle of the gap at Westward Ho!

  • 212 Space dominates Hartland carnival

  • 213 Two kinds of hovercraft at Bideford

  • 214 Torrington to have first woman mayor

  • 215 First steel ship built at Bideford

  • 216

    Married in 1908
  • 217 Police station view of Bideford

  • 218 A sense of humour in advertising

  • 219 Torrington Church's new organ

  • 220 New Lundy stamps

  • 221 New life for Hartland organ

  • 222 Spray dodging - the new pastime

  • 223 He beat the floods

  • 224

    Youth Clubs Join Together For Entertainment
  • 225 Caught in the act>
  • 226 Appledore tugs fete London Tower

  • 227 Warmington's garage ad

  • 228 Salmon netting at Bideford

  • 229 Alwington School closing after 120 years

  • 230 Alderman Anstey's dream comes tru

  • 231 Hartland Dancers
  • 232 Smiling welcome to Hartland visitors

  • 233 Bideford A.F.C annual dinner
  • 234 Chess - their bridge over the years

  • 235 Water Board mains spread through villages

  • 236 Teenager Peter Jackson Makes Horror Film
  • 237 Last train from Torrington

  • 238 It really was the 'last time'

  • 239 Appledore skill brings 'Hispaniola' to life

  • 240 Peter poses for TV film

  • 241 Shipbuilding hobby at Hartland

  • 242 Disastrous dock fire at Appledore>
  • 243 Found the answer waiting for him>
  • 244 School crossing patrol begins

  • 245 Joe the ginger tabby is 21

  • 246 Faints as she wins national competition

  • 247 New Lundy air-mail stamps

  • 248 Sight of a lifetime

  • 249 Olympic riders to compete at Bideford Horse Show

  • 250 Donkey and horses enjoy carnival drink

  • 251 Westward Ho! Tennis Club Winners
  • 252 Picking the pops

  • 253 Train returns to Westleigh straight

  • 254 Safety-first dipomas awarded to Torrington drivers

  • 255 Dustmen of the days of yore>
  • 256 Bideford childrens' cinema opens

  • 257 Designed all furnishing of new chapel

  • 258 Dismantling of wireless mast

  • 259 Entente cordiale in Bideford

  • 260 Bideford blacksmith wins English championship

  • 261 No ancient Grecian temple this

  • 262 Appledore's new lifeboat

  • 263 Hartland postman retires

  • 264 Appledore boy is youngest recipient of RNLI vellun

  • 265 Unique holiday adventure!

  • 266 Four hundred residents leave Bideford!

  • 267 Capers on the cobbles

  • 268 Panto time at Westward Ho!

  • 269 Daisy's pride and joy

  • 270 Farewell to passenger trains

  • 271

    Inter-school Road Safety Quiz Cup Winners
  • 272 They never miss a game at Torrington

  • 273 Little 'Big Ben'

  • 274 A craftsman's 'potted' history

  • 275

    FA Cup Match for the Robins
  • 276 Beach search for mines takes longer

  • 277 Bideford shipyard workers cheer new minesweeper

  • 278 Eight and a half million pound Taw development scheme

  • 279 'Les Girls' of Hartland

  • 280 Traditions and skills still there

  • 281 Out of puff!

  • 282 Weare Giffard Hall sold for £11,300

  • 283 Old Girls revisit Edgehill

  • 284 Six footed lamb

  • 285 Last of Bideford factory chimney

  • 286 Circus comes to town

  • 287 A story to tell!

  • 288 Centenary of Landcross Methodist Chapel

  • 289 All aboard the ark

  • 290 Bideford's first triplets for 12 years

  • 291 Up-to-date Bideford!

  • 292 Safe door weighing two tons

  • 293

    10-year-old scrambler practices
  • 294 What is future of railway goods yard?

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

  • 296

    First prize
  • 297 Pannier Market's future?

  • 298 TV features Bideford's New Year bread ceremony

  • 299 Eleventh hour bid to save last sailing barge

  • 300 Instow local art show was 'tremendous success'

  • 301

    Bidefordians
  • 302 Lundy memorial to John Pennington Harman V.C.

  • 303 Clovelly custom

  • 304 Thirty bridges cross Torridge

  • 305 Move for oldest boatyard on Torridge

  • 306 Bideford's gift to Sir Francis

  • 307 Northam footballers of the future

  • 308 Picture bought for shillings may be worth thousands

  • 309 Steep street of old Bideford

  • 310 America's tribute to 'J.H.'

  • 311 The Geneva marionettes

  • 312

    Jinxed School Trip
  • 313 Can spring be far away?

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

  • 315 By pony and trap to market

  • 316 Record pebble-throwing day

  • 317 Bank Holiday weather was beach weather

  • 318 Saving money, wear and tear

  • 319 Littleham cow tops 70 tons mark in milk production

  • 320 Speeding communications: Bideford firm's new installation

  • 321 Future of Torrington almshouses

  • 322 Sailing to victory at Appledore

  • 323 Northam's almshouse

  • 324 Revived market off to splendid start

  • 325 Practical sympathy at Northam

  • 326 Boys from Bideford school complete Ten Tors

  • 327 Donkey work made easier at Clovelly

  • 328 Ancestral home nestling in lovely combe

  • 329 Bideford Bridge re-opens

  • 330 Pretty pennies at Beaford

  • 331 Fish nearly pulled him in

  • 332 A bird of their own!

  • 333 Westward Ho! public conveniences get go ahead
  • 334 Sunshine and shade at Appledore

  • 335 Thunderstorm destruction of 25 years ago

  • 336 Bideford inquest on French trawlermen opens

  • 337 Photo of town's first car wins prize

  • 338

    Lenwood Squash Club
  • 339 Wishing well is pixielated

  • 340 Lady Godiva comes to Torrington

  • 341 Tomorrow' night's skittles broadcast from Bideford

  • 342 Quads at Thornhillhead

  • 343 Simple Item 138
  • 344 Revenge in style

  • 345 Harvest service in Bideford 'pub' bar

  • 346 Gloves fit for a king!

  • 347 East-the-Water sets town an example

  • 348 Amsterdam to Bideford double success

  • 349 Centuries old but today busier than ever

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    Toasted with musical honours
  • 351 Not Bideford's answer to the moon rocket!

  • 352 New civic medallions

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

  • 354 Filming at Hartland

  • 355 Champagne send-off for Torrington new factory

  • 356 An early 'special' to Bideford

  • 357 Five generations link Woolsery, Clovelly and Bideford

  • 358 Bideford Liberals' fashion show

  • 359 Bideford triplets' first birthday party

  • 360 All for the love of a lady!

  • 361 Bravery against bull at Shebbear rewarded

  • 362 For South Africa from Westward Ho!

  • 363 Meredith and Son ad.>
  • 364 New art gallery opened

  • 365 Calf thinks of mare as mum

  • 366 They are parted pro-tem

  • 367 Bideford stock car racing entry comes in second

  • 368 Celebrations for 103rd birthday

  • 369 Emergency ferry services

  • 370 New choral society's growing response

  • 371 New addition to Quay front

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    New gateway
  • 373 Television comes to Torridge District

  • 374 Wine and beer merchants for 150 years

  • 375 Torrington school's sundial - fashioned by Headmaster

  • 376 Quads join a Langtree happy family

  • 377 Bideford firm develops new non-spill paint

  • 378 At Bideford Arts Ball>
  • 379 Larkworthy Family play in Shebbear's Football Team
  • 380 A Weare Giffard speciality - delicious strawberries

  • 381 Bideford regatta

  • 382 Westward Ho! sand yacht to challenge speed record

  • 383 Still hunting aged 80 and a Field Master

  • 384 Fundraising trip for RNLI

  • 385 Golden Bay Hotel ad.>
  • 386 Christmas tree on Bideford Quay>
  • 387 Born 1883 - still going strong

  • 388 Torrington children build igloo
  • 389 John Andrew Bread Charity
  • 390 Pet squirrels at Monkleigh

  • 391 From Bobby to Brian

  • 392 What's the time?

  • 393 Private home for public pump

  • 394 Ship-in-bottle world record

  • 395 Prizewinning babies at Torrington

  • 396 No sale of Springfield House

  • 397 Sweets derationing

  • 398 New shipyard on schedule

  • 399 Clovelly nightmare

  • 400 Life begins at 80

  • 401 Bideford computer stars

  • 402 Bideford Liberal club new lounge bar opened

  • 403 Down at the 'Donkey House'

  • 404 'Out of Appledore' sailing memories

  • 405 Signed scroll momento of Queen Mother's visit

  • 406 Launching the 'Golden Hinde'

  • 407 Gateways with rhymes>
  • 408 Charter granted by Philip and Mary

  • 409 Escaped crane moves into Kenwith Valley

  • 410 So this is the mainland!

  • 411 Spring-cleaning the Ridge

  • 412 Bideford electricity window display qualifies for area competition

  • 413 Success to Festival of the Arts

  • 414 Where Bideford rope-makers walked>
  • 415 Appledore's largest

  • 416 No laughing matter

  • 417

    Birgitta Whittaker
  • 418 One of the luckier farmers in getting in the problem harvest

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

  • 420 Shoes certainly not made for walking

  • 421 Alverdiscott is proud of its new parish hall

  • 422 Polish custom on Pancake Day

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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Victorious Under-15 team

Two wins for track and field club

5 May 1978 Bideford Track Club

Victorious under-15 team - Stephen Spry, Dave Bryant, Garry Stanbury, Robin Looms and Stephen Cook. Also in the team was Andrew Chambers

In their first season the North Devon Track and Field Club carried off two championships and came runners-up in four more after the final race of the season in the North Devon Cross-Country League, held in Bideford.

They took the boys' under-15 team title and Ricky Butler, unbeaten in his five races, became the senior individual champion.

The club also gained runners-up positions in the team events for Colts, under 11 girls and under 13 girls and Adrian Ivory and Nigel Holmes were second and third in the Colts' individual championship.

Robin Looms, who won his race, came third in the boys' under 15 individual championship.

Gazette article dated 5 May 1978

Elated Robins

Cheers!

Eleven elated Robins raise the Western League runners' up tankards they received at the Sports Ground after they defeated a Devon Professional XI 3-2.

23.5.1969 Bideford Robins football

Presenting the tankards the man of the League, Mr Reg Broome, declared "The performance I saw tonight was the finest I have witnessed by a Western League side this season. Judging by this, Bideford ought to have gone one better and won the League." But the grins suggest that the Robins were quite pleased to be runners up.

Gazette article dated 23 May 1969

A Sensation at Westward Ho!

Royal North Devon Golf Club hosts the English Women's Golf Championship

Participating in her fourth National Championship since she was runner-up in the Girls’ Championships in 1924, Miss Dorothy Pearson, of Nevill, Tunbridge Wells, defeated Miss Mary Johnson (Hornsea) by 5 and 3 in the thirty-six holes final of the English Women’s Golf Championship at Westward Ho! Miss Pearson is 25 and Miss Johnson, 22.

Miss Gloria D Minoprio caused a sensation with her attire.

10.10.1933 Gloria Minoprio 2

RNDGC

Gazette article dated 10 October 1933

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