Spreading creativity in Torquay
People in Chelston, Torquay have been making mini willow sculptures to decorate their gardens during lockdown. The idea began when...
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.
People in Chelston, Torquay have been making mini willow sculptures to decorate their gardens during lockdown. The idea began when...
"Torquay is a pretty place... a mixture of Hastings and Tunbridge Wells and little bits of the hills about Naples",...
The study of the origin of words - or etymology- isn't an exact science.Some Torquay names are obscure but fairly...
Before the coming of the National Health Service and a modern police force, who would you go to if you...
Following our theme of weird South Devon, here's a local incident that fits in to that most rare of paranormal...
In 1644 the English Navy was in Torbay hunting down England's Queen. This was Henrietta Maria of France, queen consort...
When we look at a picture of Victorian Torquay there's one thing that we can't really see. That's what the...
During lockdown the 1981 West German war film Das Boot has been regularly on TV. It's the fictionalised story of...
During the wars against Napoleon the villagers of Torbay could be forced into joining the Royal Navy.It wasn't always so.While...
Take a look at the two images above and below. Depending on where you're reading this, one should bring out...
"Here I sitting behind in a dark place, a lady spit backward upon me by a mistake, not seeing me,...
Those movies filmed in Torbay still keep coming to our attention. One reason for this is that location data bases...
It's just been announced that actor and comedian Tim Brooke-Taylor has just died from coronavirus aged 79. Depending on your...
On Tuesday 14 April at 9pm Film4 is showing the movie version of Torbay author Adam Nevill's novel, 'The Ritual'....
Local writer David Scott has just released his latest book, entitled 'The Funk Hole Myth- Torquay during World War Two'.David...
We all know St Michael's Chapel opposite Torre Station. Less well known are the other ruins next to the chapel....
"You owed our dad money, you paid with your life", Billy Kimber’s daughter Maudie Peaky Blinders is the period crime...
Young folk growing up in Torquay were often told stories of body snatchers in Torquay Cemetery. There's also a specific...
All tourist resorts are not the same... They evolved in their own ways, making Paignton a different town to Torquay....
Why was Torre Abbey's Gatehouse built? When the antiquary John Leland visited Torre Abbey in the sixteenth century he described...
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