Torquay’s Curious Castle
Torquay has some odd bits of architecture. One example is the 'medievil-style castle' which can be seen as you leave...
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.
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...
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“Therefore the Lord was very angry with Israel and removed them out of his sight. None was left but the...
Back in 1989 Torbay claimed to be, “one of Europe’s most sophisticated holiday venues… with an unrivalled cosmopolitan atmosphere”. The...
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The English have fought so many wars - many now forgotten as are the men and women who died as...
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"Upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it". Matthew 16:18...
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During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries some British towns and cities with large factories had set periods when the...
Sometimes you have to think twice before writing an article on local history. Usually past events are so long...
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