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...

Imagine that you've just got the job as a location scout for a film company. You have loads of exotic...

The English Civil Wars lasted between 1642 and 1651 and were fought between Parliamentarians (Roundheads) and Royalists (Cavaliers). The conflict...

“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...

For several years in the mid-80s Torquay’s Ilsham Marine Drive was home to Larry Grayson. Larry (1923-1995) was born William...

Is Torquay in Devon? This seems like a straightforward question. We know that Devon is an English county that reaches...

The English have fought so many wars - many now forgotten as are the men and women who died as...

  Ransom Stoddard: “You're not going to use the story, Mr. Scott?” Maxwell Scott: "No, sir. This is the West,...