In November 1997, a slim book sewn together with string was discovered in a palazzo in Italy. This was the...

Claude Friese-Greene (1898-1943) was a British cinema technician, filmmaker, and cinematographer. He made more than 60 films between 1923 and...

Local history can tell us how we got here. A knowledge of the past can also suggest ways to tackle...

In the late nineteenth century, Torquay was the richest town in England. Many millionaires lived or visited the town. However,...

Remarkable as it may seem, not all of Torquay’s residents are honest and upstanding. Indeed, over the years we seem...

"Someone who struggled with a difficult family background and a host of prejudices, against his ethnicity, his sexuality and his...

During the 1930s the cinema was one of the main forms of entertainment in the UK. Even through the war...

“Who does not know the ‘comics’ of the cheap stationers’ windows, the penny or two penny coloured post cards with...

  We recently posted some Torquay Rock memories... They seems popular so here's some more flyers from past visitors to ...

For decades all the big bands came to Torquay. We were on the national music circuit and tours wouldn't have...

If you ever find youself in the city of Haifa in Israel and it all looks a bit familiar, this...

Torbay’s most notable ghost is that of the Spanish Lady of Torre Abbey. The back story to the supposed haunting...

"Where there is no imagination, there is no horror," Torquay visitor Arthur Conan Doyle "Every day is Halloween isn't it?...

In the early 1970s the permissive society came to Torquay, and some amongst us didn’t like it. In the front...

"I had a little bird, Its name was Enza. I opened the window, And in-flu-enza" A 1918 children’s skipping rhyme...

Torquay has some odd bits of architecture. One example is the 'medievil-style castle' which can be seen as you leave...

While many of Torquay’s men acquired the right to vote in 1867, women were still excluded. In 1903 Emmeline Pankhurst...

“The necessity for these experiments I dispute. Man has no right to gratify an idle and purposeless curiosity through the...

Annie Kenney and Christabel Pankhurst Torquay has always had a small number of residents who have asked awkward questions of...

  "So we all went down to the Esplanade, where the lager tastes like lemonade...” The Piranhas 1980 There’s something...