Torquay’s Blackball: “Is it on the condom?”
Imagine, if you may, that you are one of Hollywood’s ‘Frat Pack’ of young comedy actors. You’ve been out with...
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.
Imagine, if you may, that you are one of Hollywood’s ‘Frat Pack’ of young comedy actors. You’ve been out with...
Torquay has its Green Ginger; Paignton has the Talk of the Town and the Isaac Merritt, Brixham has the Vigilance....
Gracie Fields was a comedienne and singer in the British Music Halls. In 1937 she was the highest paid film...
During the inter-war period Torquay’s MP and the editor of the town’s newspaper had a similar and very surprising view...
"I am very sorry for what I have done here, but this is the place. I had to be here...
Continuing WASD’s interest in all things weird about South Devon, here’s a tale of sex, communism & Satanism in Dartington....
Our latest WASD homage to movies filmed in glorious South Devon is to the Totnes-set 1955 comedy ‘Where There's...
Continuing our WASD series of movies filmed in South Devon, here’s ‘Sons of the Sea’. This 1939 Dartmouth-set British colour...
Regular readers of WASD will know that we like to remember old movies filmed in South Devon. This time it’s...
Continuing our series of movies filmed on location in glorious South Devon, it’s now the turn of Run Wild, Run...
“They do say that to look on the ghost train would mean death”. Here’s another movie filmed locally, this...
Here at WASD we like to recognise movies that have been filmed in South Devon. This time it’s the Teignmouth...
A few weeks ago we posted an article called the Great Torquay Slalom Run. It was about the Torquay Saturday...
There used to be a Torquay Saturday night drinking game called the Great Torquay Slalom Run. The name comes from...
Two completely different British movies were released in the same week early in 1996. One was based on Scottish heroin...
Up at Gallows Gate there’s an old plaque which reads: “Gallows Gate Picnic Area. The popular legend is that of...
Here at WASD we recently ran an article on the Churston Sasquatch. Now it’s the turn of the Goodrington Sea Serpent....
We all know that every twenty years or so we build a white elephant in Torbay. These tend to be...
In 1929 the Hungarian author Frigyes Karinthy wrote a short story called ‘Chains’ suggesting the modern world was 'shrinking' due...
Sasquatch or Bigfoot is the ape-like creature that supposedly inhabits the forests of the Pacific Northwest. Scientists generally discount...
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