When we think of a Torquay stream the usual contenders are the Shire Brook which feeds into the King's...

Plans have just been submitted to convert the old Torquay Magistrates’ Court into ten residential apartments. Pre-Lockdown, there was a...

  In 1724 Daniel Defoe wrote of Torbay: "In the Bottom of this Bay is a beautiful, well-built, and finely-situated...

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

    If we look at images from Victorian Torquay, it's noticeable that everyone wore a hat. And for much of...

We have a couple of 1870 prints entitled 'The Strand';' and 'Torquay Morning Promenade in the Paignton Road'. Both these...

This one is about the secret language of Torquay's promenading parasol. First, a definition. A parasol is not an umbrella....

This is about Tuscan Torquay; and why we decided to build mock Italian church bell towers across our town. In...

 Just next to Torquay Police Station in Torre is an unusual four-storey building. This is the old Torre Conservative Club...

  Sybil Fawlty really ran Fawlty Towers. She was a far more effective manager than her husband, handled crises calmly, and...

Torbay's Heritage Interpretation Framework has just been published. 'A Haven Through Time’ uses the eight themes of the Heritage Strategy...

During the nineteenth century a few families transformed a collection of rural hamlets into the richest town in England. By...

Torbay's hospitality industry has suffered due to the pandemic but now venues are about to open on June 21st and...

Torquay has Jungle Journey Adventure Golf, Paignton has Pirates Bay Adventure Golf, and there's Crazy Golf at Goodrington. And, at...

"Lo! time shall come, when on yon throng’d paradeShall groups assemble, swains and many a maid,And elder dames and sires,...

What was Torquay's St Michael's Chapel actually for? Over the years it has been described as: a sea mark; a...

By 1870 there were 48 places classified as seaside resorts in a halo around Britain; but not all were the...

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...