The ‘Weird Melancholy’ of Torquay author Rosa Praed
“Tis naughty and it is not nice. Why does she dream such things? Why link bad women and bad...
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.
“Tis naughty and it is not nice. Why does she dream such things? Why link bad women and bad...
Did Torquay have its own version of Stonehenge? Unlikely as this may seem, stone monuments were once common in southern...
“April is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with...
“What might have been is a distraction, Remaining a perpetual possibility, Only in a world of speculation”, Torquay visitor the...
“Torquay’s a great town. But I shouldn’t think there’s much to do in the winter’, Mick Jagger, 1964 In 2015...
Wylam Lodge on Torquay’s Haldon Road (pictured right) was originally Malpas Lodge, and by 1906 was known as Kya Lam....
“Most holidaymakers are grockles. But the real ones you can spot a mile off. Usually they wear shorts, woollen socks...
Dangerous things lurk under the waves out there in Torbay. There are monsters waiting to emerge from the sea and...
“I have to admit, it looked better on the website” When the M5 comes to an end you have a...
The great Torquay pub was never just a place to drink. It was a social centre, the focus of community...
“What is the shadow that passes me in the back kitchen and walks across the yard into the church?” It’s...
We’ve long been worried about youth crime. Evidence from the courts and newspaper articles suggests that juvenile crime really...
Here at WASD we’ve mentioned Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873), the nineteenth century's most significant occult author who lived in his Torquay...
“With a paring knife she cut the string of the package and undid its brown paper. The book within...
We very nearly lost the 1922 vampire movie ‘Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror’ - nearly all copies of this...
On the night of 7-8 February 1855 the Devil came to Torquay. The visit came to people’s attention when, after...
The journey towards an independent Ireland was long and troubled. The First Irish Home Rule Bill was introduced in 1886...
It was in the early years of the Second World War that Odette Keun came to live in Torquay. Odette...
“The people of Ellacombe had better renounce the name of religionists, and call themselves ‘alcoholists’.” One of the impressions...
“I have seen more luxury since being in Torquay than in all my previous life, and I know I never...
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