Over the years Torquay has featured in many movies. One often-forgotten film reflecting its time was 'That Summer'. Released in 1979,...

In February 1873 the Torquay novelist Annie Hall Cudlip visited a séance. She came to explore her interest in Spiritualism,...

“If you touch me, I’ll kill you!” (Winnaretta Singer to her first husband on their wedding night, while on top...

In 1888 a series of murders took place in the East End of London and were blamed on an unidentified...

  St Michael's Chapel Torbay’s many fine churches show how important the Christian faith was to local people. Yet there...

In April of 1937 Torquay had two guests, unwelcome to many local people who were well aware of the true...

During the 1970s and early 1980s, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie wrote and starred in a surreal British...

Torquay's Stoodley Knowle School purchased Ilsham Grange (now known as The Manor) in 1950 to house its Junior pupils. In its...

“Americans must learn that there is no such place as Devonshire in England. The name of the county is 'Devon'....

Torquay's visitors and residents have had a significant influence on the evolution of Horror and Science Fiction literature. One of...

  "You've never made love, until you've made love in a gondola", Scandal (1989) Over the years some of Torquay's...

  In the original script of ‘Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade’ (1989), George Lucas wrote the role of Indiana...

"Come on down to the Summertime Sound, Kick off your shoes, 'Cos Summertime City, Ain't got the summertime blues."  ...

Seaside rock is a British phenomenon. Wherever there's a British working class tourist, there's rock - from Blackpool, Benidorm, and,...

"I think of Torquay as being the home of British comedy. The first time I saw Bruce Forsyth was in...

Back in July of 1947 the Spectator Magazine’s James Pope Hennessy spent three days in Torquay… and he didn’t like...

“Fascism is an effort to mechanise humanity and cause men and women to become no more than cogs in a...

“Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.” Aleister Crowley 1904 Torquay has had a number of...

“The time of childhood is not the time for labour, but growth, for development, mental, physical, moral and spiritual.” The...

  By now we’ve probably all noticed that Torquay has more than its fair share of eccentric locals and visitors....