Our latest WASD homage to movies filmed in glorious South Devon is to the Totnes-set 1955 comedy ‘Where There's a Will’. The movie was directed by Vernon Sewell and starred Kathleen H…

After a century as a pub Torquay’s historic Clipper Inn in Melville Street, off Abbey Road, is closing. It’s the latest in a series of town pubs that have closed their doors over the last 20 years…

Continuing our WASD series of movies filmed in South Devon, here’s ‘Sons of the Sea’. This 1939 Dartmouth-set British colour drama was directed by Maurice Elvey and starred Leslie Banks, Kay Walsh…

Regular readers of WASD will know that we like to remember old movies filmed in South Devon. This time it’s the turn of the 1950 Ashburton-set 'Guilt Is My Shadow', a low-key and low-budget Britis…

Continuing our series of movies filmed on location in glorious South Devon, it’s now the turn of Run Wild, Run Free (1969). This “sensitive and beautiful film” was mostly filmed on Dartmoor but it…

  “They do say that to look on the ghost train would mean death”. Here’s another movie filmed locally, this time in Teignmouth and Dawlish Warren. It’s The Ghost Train, a 1941 English m…

Here at WASD we like to recognise movies that have been filmed in South Devon. This time it’s the Teignmouth and Shaldon-set Norman Wisdom 1966 comedy 'Press for Time'. The screenplay, a slapst…

A few weeks ago we posted an article called the Great Torquay Slalom Run. It was about the Torquay Saturday night drinking game based on downhill skiing between poles - with the poles being replaced…

There used to be a Torquay Saturday night drinking game called the Great Torquay Slalom Run. The name comes from Alpine downhill skiing between poles where skiers would start at the top of the hil…

Two completely different British movies were released in the same week early in 1996. One was based on Scottish heroin addicts and called Trainspotting and the other was a costume drama, based on th…

Up at Gallows Gate there’s an old plaque which reads: “Gallows Gate Picnic Area. The popular legend is that of a man who stole a sheep, which he tried to carry away. Hanging by a rope over his bac…

Here at WASD we recently ran an article on the Churston Sasquatch. Now it’s the turn of the Goodrington Sea Serpent. Sightings of sea serpents have, of course, been reported for hundreds of ye…

We all know that every twenty years or so we build a white elephant in Torbay. These tend to be sold to us with the promise that they won’t cost rate payers anything and will enhance our towns. We…

  In 1929 the Hungarian author Frigyes Karfinthy wrote a short story called  ‘Chains’ suggesting the modern world was 'shrinking' due to the ever-increasing connectedness of human beings.…