'Torquay: A Social History' is a 10,000 year journey telling of how a collection of rural hamlets came together to become the richest town in England. From living in fear of unfamiliar ships in T…
Unleashed Theatre Company @ The Royal Lyceum proudly presents 'Our Torquay Townscape: History, People & Places' A free Talk presented by Dr Kevin DixonWednesday August 17th at 2.00-3.30 at The…
Sometimes you could just weep for the fine folk tasked with promoting the English Riviera as a modern, exciting and cutting-edge tourist destination.For decades they had been trying to change Torqua…
"You're not in London now!" Back in 1949 the romantic comedy drama 'Adam's Rib' starred Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracey as married lawyers who come to oppose each other in court. The film was …
Across Torbay our ancient medieval churches have strange grooves carved into their outside walls. In 1932 the historian Waterfield, while describing St Mary the Virgin in Brixham Brixham, suggested…
Today Torquay has around 65,000 residents -Devon as a whole is about 1.2 million. Bear that in mind as we look at the past population of our part of Torbay. This can give us some answers about why …
Over £55,000 of funding is available for community projects that improve the health and wellbeing of Torbay residents. Funded by Torbay Council and managed by Torbay Community Development Trust, th…
Is it possible to be a Christian Atheist? This might sound to be a contradiction in terms, an oxymoron. However, many thousands of folk in Torbay define themselves as Christians while having no bel…
“These murders are the most heinous crime to have been committed in this country for a generation or more”, Justice Glyn-Jones Inside St Luke’s Church in Torquay’s Warren Road there’s a mode…
Join us on Thursday 25 November at 2pm at Babbacombe Theatre for 'Memories of Babbacombe and St Marychurch'.All are welcome to this free event!There will be speakers on local history and an opportun…
A glittering lineup of events is on offer at the 2021 English Riviera Film Festival returning for it's Seventh annual Celebration of film making in the South West and around the World. A record numb…
The fiction writer Elizabeth Goudge (1900-1984) lived in Marldon for 12 years and played an important role in the creation of the mystique of Torbay. After her father's death in 1939, Elizabet…
Hydropathics - or Hydros - were institutions created to practice hydropathy, a cure-all which played an important part in Torquay's development as a tourist resort. To the tourism industry's slight…
The most familiar of Torquay's supernatural tales is of the Spanish Lady of Torre Abbey. The setting is the Abbey's barn, built around 1200 and generally accepted to be a tithe barn designed to stor…