"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....

On Torquay’s Lucius Street stands the Greek Orthodox Church of St. Andrew. The church was originally called St. Saviours and...

  Just before the outbreak of the Second World War the notorious occultist - and sometime Torquay resident - Aleister...

If you lived in Wetherfield or Brookside Close and wanted a new start, or maybe just a holiday, where would...

“The majority in the world are sinners, and are quite against goodness, and I’m afraid it’s the same in Torquay”,...

It looks like Ryan’s Bar is joining the long list of Torquay’s closed pubs – along with the Upton Vale,...

In the 2011 Census the people of Torbay – all 130,959 of us – were asked whether we had a...

Torre Abbey’s tithe barn was built around 1200 to store taxes paid to the abbey in the form of grain,...

On February 4, 1931 the Torquay Directory told of a 'gang' that had “terrorised the neighbourhood'' of Babbacombe. The same...

As part of Ageing Well a new Jam Night for local acoustic musicians is being launched in Torquay’s historic Clipper...

How things could have been so different! Torquay was on the way to becoming the British Hollywood. Today we could...

Not far from Torquay Harbour is Daddyhole Plain, a limestone plateau 75 metres above the sea. Nearby is the natural...

“Executions are intended to draw spectators. If they don’t draw spectators, they don’t answer their purpose”, Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) Death...