The Burton Art Gallery and Museum is over 65 years old. With its friendly team of staff and volunteers, it has been celebrating, exhibiting and nurturing all kinds of artists since being established on 31 October, 1951 by Thomas Burton and Hubert Coop.
Who would of thought, a meeting on a cold miserable February day, could turn out so well, with just one random idea? Tonia Quance of Businesses of Bideford (B.O.B) thought how wonderful it would be to have our very own bronze Tarka in Bideford. After much fund raising, and with the help of many
Bideford shop was formerly a RSPCA shop and joined us at Little Valley just before Christmas 2021 following the North Devon area merging with us. Claire is the manager and very focused on offering a great range of items and a great friendly service from her team.
Jonathan Biggs is the fourth generation in the trade and specialises in treen and wooden bygones (over 400 items in stock), with the occasional piece of seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth century oak, country and formal furniture.
Arts organisation in Bideford. Original Made in Devon Art and leather goods - original prints, painting, drawing and related merchandise, sustainably sourced hand-made leather goods, including bags, sheepskins, bespoke leather goods and sheepskins - for sale and to commission.
The Bideford Railway Heritage Centre has restored the railway. The railway opened in 1855, being extended from Barnstaple and ran onwards to Torrington in 1871. For many years direct trains ran to and from London Waterloo, including the famous “Atlantic Coast Express.” Sadly the line fell victim of