Above: View showing the inside south-eastern wall, with shelving and records ca. 2006.
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This page will have some sources relating to Bideford, and places that are there or used to be.
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Bideford town guide 2007-08 [pdf] Bideford town guide 2007-08. Non-OCR at present.
Discovery Music, Grenville St.
Discovery was a music, record, and book shop on Grenville street, although this wasn't its original location. The shop had existed in a number of different locations over time, although the Grenville street site was to be the last one (In Bideford, at least).
The view below looks south-east, and a view looking in the opposite direction is shown in Illustrations of Old Bideford vol. 13:34. The second picture below shows a view of the desk (to the left) and the bookcase (right). To the far right of the main room (out of view here) there was a flight of stairs going down to the cellar. The third picture shows the desk. These pictures have been cropped from larger ones as the full-size pictures included people who probably don't want to be on the internet (although, I haven't asked them).
A view of the shop front is shown in Illustrations of Old Bideford vol. 10:36.
Above: View showing the inside south-eastern wall, with shelving and records ca. 2006.
Above: Showing desk (left) and bookcase (right) at Discovery Music, ca. 2006.
Above: Showing desk at Discovery Music, ca. 2006.
Chic-O-Land
Chic-O-Land was one of the more well known chicken shops in Bideford, and was situated on the Quay for a time. (beneath the Talbot Inn- pictures of which also exist!)
Above: Chic-O-Land, the Quay, Bideford.
Lang and sons
Found on the back of a picture frame, this sticker advertised Lang and sons, a picture framing business of Grenville street.
Above: Sticker advertising Lang and sons (picture framers), of Grenville street.
Places to stay, from varous sources.
Some entries from the 1947 edition of Signpost, Independent Guide to Pleasant Ports of Call (McMinnies, W. G.). A .pdf of the book entry relating to the following two sites (pp. 252-253) is here.
First, Knapp House:
Above: Entry in the 1947 edition of Signpost, Independent Guide to Pleasant Ports of Call (McMinnies, W. G.) for Knapp House.
The Dormy House (p. 252):
Above: Entry for the Dormy House, Westward Ho! (p. 252) in the 1947 edition of Signpost, Independent Guide to Pleasant Ports of Call (McMinnies, W. G.).