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...

This is the story of how one of Britain’s best movies was inadvertently banned in Torquay for almost three decades....

As part of their Carers support meetings Teignmouth’s 'Volunteering in Health' recently organised a talk on local ghosts. Before the...

  The Daily Mail journalist Quentin Letts recently wrote, “We’re the last generation to make a living from newspapers”. Certainly...

In the 2004 science fiction movie ‘I Robot’ Will Smith states “Robots don't feel fear. They don't feel anything. They...

We’re all familiar with the headland opposite the Grand Hotel on Torquay sea front known as Corbyn Head. First the...

  Back in the 1980s – before the internet and multiple TV channels – Torbay had more than a dozen...

  Was Torquay’s most famous haunting and sensational exorcism inspired by a novel? In 1859 Edward Bulwer-Lytton (pictured above) wrote...