Ring the Bells
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...
Winter or Spring?
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...
Chair of Trustees
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The Gondoliers at Tiverton
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...
Motoring in 1923
‘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...
Looking Back
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...
A Christmas Greeting
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...
Tiverton’s Best, Come and Invest!
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...
New cloth seal on display
Cloth seal for George Lewis, Tiverton. George Lewis was exporting cloth between 1748 - 1776. The seal features a lion on one side and the number 56 1/2 on the other. This number means it is likely to have been used on a type of cloth called a drugget. This seal was...
Broadcasting Begun
BROADCASTING BEGUN was the headline in the Gazette when the news and the weather forecast were ‘sent out’ from the BBC station in Marconi House, London on the 14th November 1922, and from Birmingham and Manchester as well the following day. The Gazette reports ‘In...
The growth of the WI in Devon
In November 1922, an article appeared in the Gazette outlining the, then fairly recent, development of the Women’s Institute (WI). Founded in Canada in 1897, it was brought to this country by a Canadian immigrant. The first WI in the UK was founded in 1915, during the...
Bowled Over
In late October 1922 the Gazette reported: ‘ A storm of protest has disturbed the peaceful atmosphere in which recreations in People’s Park have hitherto been conducted. The Bowling Club have erected a fence around their greens, and it is of such a design that...