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...

 Are you are an unpaid Carer in Torbay, and would you like to have a break from your caring role...

During the mid nineteenth century Torquay was beginning to lose its image of being a substitute inland spa, to becoming...

Around four thousand years ago the inhabitants of Torbay died out- and we don't know why.This near extinction took place...

On 2 January 1873, 'The Wallace', a ship from Boston, was taking a cargo of petroleum to Antwerp and returning...

Little is known about Torquay author W Grove except that he was born Reginald Colebrooke Reade in 1853. He was...

In November 1997 an English writer discovered a long-forgotten 200-year old book in a palazzo in Italy. To her delight,...

One Thursday in April of 1866 a sick 16 year old man wrote a letter to his parents from his...