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...

Alfred Hitchcock was right- they are out to get us... (*) At the topmost part of the 1893 Torquay Arms...

Just released is 'Colour Out of Space', a new Nicolas Cage movie. This is a science-fiction horror movie about a...

The River Fleet gives its name to Torquay's Fleet Street and is the town's subterranean watercourse. Behind Torquay harbour two...

If you drive along the Torbay Road from Torquay towards Paignton, through Livermead - from ‘laefer mead’, ‘the meadow of...

Devon was once a land of giants. Or it was according to the historian Geoffrey of Monmouth's 'Historia regum Britanniae'...

Here's another Torquay ghost story... "I resent Mrs Langtry, she has no right to be intelligent, daring and independent, as...