Torquay’s history is all around us in names and places. There’s a term used in archaeology – palimpsest. This word...

  The English Riviera website assures visitors that “the warmest of welcomes awaits on the English Riviera, South Devon’s Beautiful...

  There were more ‘hard drugs’ in Torquay in the nineteenth century than any time before or since. An estimated...

  For the first time in decades it’s possible to glimpse the medieval St Michael’s Chapel. It’s along the side...

  Torquay has always had its ‘Ladies of the Night’, prostitution often being the final resort of desperate women in the...

Torquay was once the richest town in England. We had a large number of very wealthy and educated residents and...

Here at WASD we love the weird side of the Bay. One of these odd stories concerns an ancient  South...

  Annie Kenney and Christabel Pankhurst It wasn't until 1928 that women claimed the right to vote, and the women...

Victory in Europe Day, generally known as VE Day, was the public holiday celebrated on 8 May 1945 to mark...

At 2am on 2 May 1997, after three recounts, the Liberal Democrat Adrian Sanders was elected as MP for Torbay....

From 1955 to 1987 Torquay’s MP was the Conservative Sir Frederic Mackarness Bennett. Born in 1918 Sir Frederic was educated...

Commemorations have been taking place around the world to mark the 100th anniversary of the Gallipoli campaign, one of the...