Torquay’s Rifle Volunteers March Out
On January 14th, 1858, the French Emperor Napoleon III was attacked in his capital by a gang of assassins who...
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.
On January 14th, 1858, the French Emperor Napoleon III was attacked in his capital by a gang of assassins who...
The growing challenge to Torquay's status as an elite tourist destination was becoming evident from the mid-1960s onward, with the...
During the nineteenth century Torquay's population increased from around 800 to almost 34,000. The town became a place for the...
“Most holidaymakers are grockles. But the real ones you can spot a mile off. Usually they wear shorts, woollen socks...
In 1862 Charles Dickens wrote, "Torquay is a pretty place... a mixture of Hastings and Tunbridge Wells and little bits...
It has been said that Catholic Torquay came to an end in 1539 when Torre Abbey surrendered to Henry VIII's...
This is the story of the 'Torquay War' of 1888.During that year Torquay experienced a sustained challenge to established authority...
If you enjoy and are passionate about History, local Heritage, literature and culture, then why not seize the opportunity to...
During the latest lockdown it's good to hear that the Bay's musicians are still out there, hard at work creating...
For a few years the motorised charabanc was a regular sight on Torquay's streets with locals and tourists being transported...
They look almost prehistoric. A cruciform black silhouette with wings resembling a broken umbrella. This is the cormorant, a bird...
World War I was a prolonged, brutal, and costly conflict; and was followed by a virulent pandemic which killed even...
During the 1920s people in Torbay started taking their clothes off. They had decided that they wanted to change the...
Devon took its name from the county's original Iron Age inhabitants, the Dumnonii 'Celts'. This was the tribe whose...
The 1911 music hall song 'You can do a lot of things at the seaside that you can't do in...
"‘Once upon a time there were three little sisters,’ the Dormouse began in a great hurry; ‘and they lived at...
This is the story of how two gigantic Torquay paintings ended up in a Pittsburg museum with the assistance of...
For centuries folk wandering the Bay's beaches have been discovering unusual bones and stone tools; while, more recently, trawlers have...
So when and why did Torquay's 'Golden Age' come to an end? We begin with the nostalgia for the post-war...
Paignton has a pier; Teignmouth has a pier. But does Torquay? If we define a pier as a structure that...
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