James Joyce and a Torquay Bloomsday
“The sea, the snotgreen sea, the scrotumtightening sea”, Ulysses The Irish novelist and poet James Joyce (1882-1941) is considered...
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.
“The sea, the snotgreen sea, the scrotumtightening sea”, Ulysses The Irish novelist and poet James Joyce (1882-1941) is considered...
This one’s for all you merry swains and maids of Torquay – a swain, apparently, is a country lad or...
In 1865 Charlotte Winsor was arrested at her small cottage at Lawe’s Bridge - pretty much where MacDonald’s now...
In September 1964 Sean O’Casey died of a heart attack in Torquay at the age of 84. He was cremated...
From its very beginnings as a town, Torquay had a significant gay population. As in many other coastal towns, the...
In November 1997, a slim book sewn together with string was discovered in a palazzo in Italy. This was the...
Claude Friese-Greene (1898-1943) was a British cinema technician, filmmaker, and cinematographer. He made more than 60 films between 1923 and...
Local history can tell us how we got here. A knowledge of the past can also suggest ways to tackle...
In the late nineteenth century, Torquay was the richest town in England. Many millionaires lived or visited the town. However,...
Remarkable as it may seem, not all of Torquay’s residents are honest and upstanding. Indeed, over the years we seem...
"Someone who struggled with a difficult family background and a host of prejudices, against his ethnicity, his sexuality and his...
During the 1930s the cinema was one of the main forms of entertainment in the UK. Even through the war...
“Who does not know the ‘comics’ of the cheap stationers’ windows, the penny or two penny coloured post cards with...
We recently posted some Torquay Rock memories... They seems popular so here's some more flyers from past visitors to ...
For decades all the big bands came to Torquay. We were on the national music circuit and tours wouldn't have...
If you ever find youself in the city of Haifa in Israel and it all looks a bit familiar, this...
Torbay’s most notable ghost is that of the Spanish Lady of Torre Abbey. The back story to the supposed haunting...
"Where there is no imagination, there is no horror," Torquay visitor Arthur Conan Doyle "Every day is Halloween isn't it?...
In the early 1970s the permissive society came to Torquay, and some amongst us didn’t like it. In the front...
"I had a little bird, Its name was Enza. I opened the window, And in-flu-enza" A 1918 children’s skipping rhyme...
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