Building Torquay: the Cary Archive on Film
The Cary family built much of the Torquay we know today.Back in 2023 The South West Heritage Trust was awarded...
Preston’s ‘Medieval’ Bank
As you travel along the Torquay Road towards Paignton, through Preston – from the Old English for ‘priest’s settlement’ -...
Anne, Duchess of Sutherland: the Queen’s Confidant in Torquay
We’ve often noted that Torquay was once the richest town in England and attracted many of the nation’s most affluent,...
From Torquay to Israel: red paths, green lawns, and ornamental vases
If you ever find yourself in the city of Haifa in Israel and it all looks a bit familiar, this...
William Scoresby in Torquay: explorer of the world and of invisible forces
At St Mary Magdalene Church by Castle Circus is a memorial to Arctic explorer, scientist and clergyman William Scoresby (1789-1857)...
A Book Gift for Christmas
Torquay: A Social History’ is a 10,000-year journey telling of how a collection of rural hamlets came together to become...
The darker side of Torquay: William Pryor’s The Survival of the Coolest
Acclaimed author and poet William Pryor (1945- ) is the great-great-grandson of Charles Darwin. But what interests us here is...
Haunted Torquay – the Science
Surveys of public opinion and people’s experiences aren’t unusual. We’re often asked about schools and transport links. But in 2015...
Exploring Torquay’s Gallows
During the 18th century over 200 crimes in England were punished by hanging. Each town had a place of execution....
An Afternoon with Internationally Best-Selling Author Philip Reeve
An Afternoon with Internationally Best-Selling Author Philip Reeve Saturday 4th November 3pm to 5pm Fans of fantasy in books and...
The Ghost of Torquay’s Lowe’s/Lawe’s Bridge
In July 1951 taxi driver Jack Driscoll was returning home from Newton Abbot early one Monday morning in “drenching rain”...
The Haunting of Torquay’s Castel-a-Mare
For decades Torquay’s Castel-a-Mare on Middle Warberry Road was regarded as England’s most haunted house. The crumbling Victorian...
Witches & the Unquiet Dead: Torquay’s Occult Heritage
Torquay was once the richest town in England. We had a large number of very wealthy and educated residents and...
The Haunting at Torquay’s Scott’s Bridge
The Scott's Bridge intersection is where the old roads of Torquay, Kingskerswell, Collaton and Newton Roads met. This was a...
Torquay’s Comedy Heritage
“I think of Torquay as being the home of British comedy. The first time I saw Bruce Forsyth was in...
Discovering the Cary Family; Poznajcie Rodzinę Cary
Discovering the Cary Family Stuart Tyler A rich source of Torquay history will soon be available for people to use...
The Forgetting of Torquay’s Medieval Chapel
Torquay’s St Michael’s Chapel is a mystery. We don’t know who built it and what it was for, and we...
Are you an unpaid Torbay Carer? If you weren’t there, who would care? Does someone rely on you?
There are more than 32,000 people across Torbay and South Devon who support a friend or relative. They may be...
Sex and jobs and rock and roll: a Torquay Interregnum
For perhaps thirty years Torquay offered a welcome interruption between school and the kind of good life that most people...
‘Home for a Royal Heart’ in Torbay
As we all know Torbay has been used dozens of times as a movie and TV location. Sometimes these locations...
