“In man’s quarrel crucified”, Nurse Alberta at Torquay’s Town Hall Hospital
“The ward is strangely hushed today; The morning nurses, sober-eyed, Recall the screened space, where, they say, At midnight Number...
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.
“The ward is strangely hushed today; The morning nurses, sober-eyed, Recall the screened space, where, they say, At midnight Number...
Some folk in Torbay believe that the world is only a few thousand years old, that dinosaurs are fake, and...
Long ago – way before the internet gave us all unlimited instant access to any book – the young people...
There’s an intriguing bit of local folklore that still surfaces today. It’s the story that Napoleon fathered a Torbay baby....
“Gilbert Vinter was a luminary of the brass band world as a composer and led its much needed rebirth away...
Here at WASD we recently ran an article about the effects – good and bad – that new technology could...
The science-fiction writer William Gibson said, “The future is here, it’s just not evenly distributed yet.” William has a...
“George flashed like a brilliant meteor over our horizon. The movement lost an inspiring personality when he died”, anarchist and...
“Work is the curse of the drinking classes.” Torquay visitor Oscar Wilde Torquay folk have been in love with alcohol...
For the first time in British history, there are probably now more atheists and agnostics in Torbay than believers in...
Back in the 1880s Torquay-born Sir Richard Francis Burton invented sex. Actually, that might be a bit of an exaggeration....
For a few days in 1977 Torquay ruled the world, or that’s what many thousands of conspiracy theorists would have...
Bomb damage in Chelston’s Rosary Road in 1942. During the 1930s, there was a desperate desire that the Great...
“A garish flag, to be the aim of every dangerous shot” William Shakespeare There’s a Torquay town centre pub which...
Here at WASD we recently ran an article called ‘Torquay Peculiar’ on what made our town unusual. There followed a...
We’ve said before that Torquay isn’t an average town. Here’s some statistics to back that feeling up: • Torquay...
Torquay was once the richest town in England and attracted many of the nation’s most affluent, both as visitors and...
‘The Black and White Minstrel Show’ finally died of embarrassment in the summer of 1987, with a stage tour...
“In this place no one can hide from witchcraft, superstition and fear. A land dominated by men without morals. A...
Here at WASD we recently ran an article about Torquay’s site for public executions, Gallows Gate. There seems to have...
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