Torquay’s Halloween: after darkness falls
“Deep night, dark night, the silence of the night, spirits walk, and ghosts break up their graves”, William Shakespeare Night-time...
Kevin Dixon went to Audley Park – now Torquay Academy – and South Devon College when it was at Torre.
After studying at Birmingham City University, he returned home because there’s nowhere else quite like Torquay.
He then became involved in community and adult education, completed a PhD at Exeter University , and started writing about the weird and unknown side of town.
He now Chairs Healthwatch Torbay and is involved in health and social care in the Bay.
“Deep night, dark night, the silence of the night, spirits walk, and ghosts break up their graves”, William Shakespeare Night-time...
On October 8th 1834 the darkness was banished from Torquay. Forty gas lamps were installed in our main thoroughfares...
Hidden away on the outskirts of Torquay is Orestone Manor, a boutique country hotel & restaurant with an interesting past....
“I resent Mrs Langtry, she has no right to be intelligent, daring and independent, as well as lovely”, Torquay resident...
In 1973 Trevor Ravenscroft (pictured), who would later live in Torquay, wrote a book called ‘The Spear of Destiny’....
Continuing our WASD theme of South Devon’s weird landscape, let’s turn our attention to our haunted coastal route - the...
Continuing the WASD theme of South Devon’s weird landscape, here’s the story of Kingskerswell’s Creeping Coffin. During the mid eighteenth...
For centuries the main way out of Torquay to our nearest town was the Newton Road – the route to...
Now the new road between Torquay and Newton Abbot is open there’s a far quicker way to get to Plymouth....
“There’s something in the trees!” Here at WASD we like movies made locally in places we can recognise. It’s therefore...
Here at WASD we recently ran an article - Big in Berlin - about how Torquay was a favoured location...
Here at WASD we like to remember past residents of Torquay. We also have a fondness for books that feature...
On the TV screens of millions of Germans there’s an alternative reality Torquay. For romantics from Dresden to Dortmund our...
Back in February 1926 visitors to Torquay Town Hall could visit Gipsy Leah. Leah followed the profession of fortune-telling. This was...
In 1982 unemployment reached a peak of 3,070,621, representing 12.5 per cent of the working population. In some areas...
As we see daily on Spotted, a lot of us have a great fondness for animals. This wasn’t always...
The Reverend Edwin Emmanuel Bradford (1860-1944) was a clergyman, poet and novelist. Edwin was born in Torquay where his family...
During the campaign for voting rights for women, Torquay had two organisations with differing tactics. These were the National Union...
During the nineteenth century the Industrial Revolution brought about massive economic changes to Britain. It also transformed the small villages...
Recently there have been a number of local folk and visitors that have been concerned about the over development of...
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