Torquay’s Patricia Perry AKA Dame Edna’s Madge Allsop
Here at WASD we like to remember local folk who went on to greater things. This time it’s Torquay-born Patricia...
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.
Here at WASD we like to remember local folk who went on to greater things. This time it’s Torquay-born Patricia...
Donovan was Britain’s Bob Dylan. Emerging from the folk scene, he came to fame in early 1965 with a series...
For three decades the Radio 1 Roadshow was an annual summer event. Hosted and broadcast by BBC Radio 1 from...
Scottish actor and author Iain Blair was a 6′ 3″ Glaswegian who lived in Torquay. From this information and the...
In 1899 Eden Phillpotts returned to Devon and moved into his Torquay house. The house is long gone, first to...
“Gary don't need his eyes to see, Gary and his eyes have parted company”. For years there were stories that...
The Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) wrote more than 60 plays and is the only person to have been...
We’ve mentioned Torquay resident Violet Tweedale on WASD before. It was Violet’s investigations of Torquay’s Castel-a-Mare, documented in her book...
Keep an eye out for elderly relatives and neighbours and support them in the cold weather to Stay Well This...
Tucked away on Park Lane off Torquay Harbourside is the historic Devon Arms. The pub was taken on earlier this...
There’s a joke going around at the moment: a young boy opens his Christmas present from his grandfather and...
With the death of Christine Keeler it’s worth remembering the role played in the Profumo scandal by Torquay osteopath Stephen...
For decades anyone sitting their GCSE Geography exam was prepared for a question about sea arches. It would be along...
Back in the 1970s and 80s if you went to Princess Theatre you could see two stars that have almost...
Here are just a few of the lesser-known women who lived or worked in Torquay. They helped make our town...
Do you ever give a tip in Torquay? If you do, why do you do it and who do you...
The Western Times of November 6, 1914, covered a story, ‘Col. Burn’s Late Son: Torquay’s Expression of Sincere Sympathy.’...
Following the recent Spotted discussion on Torquay’s Lost Pubs, here’s a list taken from White’s Directory of those Inns, Taverns...
A few weeks ago a handmade cardboard Ouija board was found abandoned in some Torquay woodland and an image...
“There been over twenty attacks around Exmoor in the last two months and no one has managed to get a...
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