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May was a time for celebration in local villages. Events were being planned for Whit Monday which was on May 21st in 1923 or Empire Day which was the Thursday of the same week. The adverts for these events appeared in the Gazette in early May. All three had a wide...

At the end of April 1923 the 4th Tiverton Eisteddfod was held. An Eisteddfod is a cultural festival with competitions including poetry and music. It was organised by the Congregational Church and took place over three evenings. The preliminary rounds were followed by...

The people of Cullompton, as elsewhere in the towns and villages of Mid Devon, were preparing for Easter. We have photos available to view at the Museum which show that people made an effort to look smart on their Easter outings. The Museum items with connections to...

At the end of March 1923, Blundells School was the venue for a very interesting talk by Captain Finch. The Gazette reports that he was a member of the 1922 expedition, the first to explicitly state the aim of reaching the summit of Mount Everest. He started by...

In early March 1923 the following appeared in the Tiverton Gazette: A close up of a newspaper article entitled 'Observations'. The text reads ' An object of interest in the Town Hall, Tiverton, during the past few days has been the bell from the H.M Minesweeper...

In mid February 1923 the Nature Notes column in the Tiverton Gazette reported ‘unusually mild weather continued to be a marked feature of our daily lives; for strange as it may seem, we are still in winter according to the calendar’. Included was a report from...

Are you looking for a new, fulfilling challenge? Would you like to bring your skills and experience to make a real difference to the future success of an important part of Devon’s heritage? Tiverton Museum of Mid Devon Life is one of the South West’s most impressive...

Heathcoat Amateur Operatic Society following the excellent initial performance on Wednesday were patronised by crowded houses on Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings and a matinee on Saturday. There were many encores including a treble recall for the ‘Dance a...

‘The present year should be more successful from the motorists point of view than any of its predecessors. Never has the prospective buyer had so wide a range to select from..........  Reliability too has been appreciably improved. Journeys of 60 miles and upwards can...

The first edition of the Tiverton Gazette in 1923 included several ‘look backs’ at the year just ended. ‘It cannot be said of 1922 that it was a year of prosperity - certainly not in Tiverton. For agriculturalists it was an exceptionally lean year. So also was it for...

December 1922 continues with more adverts from the Gazette in the couple of weeks leading up to Christmas. They show the variety of loose goods on sale in a Cullompton grocery and an Exeter toy shop hoping to attract customers from the Tiverton district. ‘ Peter Pan’s...

In late October 1922, 45 traders met in the Town Hall to plan for Tiverton ‘Shopping Week’ which was to take place in early December. There was already £150 worth of advertising pledged towards the production of a handbook to promote the week. Three sub-committees...