Anstey’s Cove is quiet, peaceful and beautiful, backed by limestone cliffs and a thickly wooded hillside. It seems to have...
Read moreThe true mothers and fathers of Torbay were never the Georgian gentlefolk we are told about.Our real forebears were organised...
Read moreBetween the communities of Torbay and the city of Exeter are the Haldon Hills. This ridge of high ground, the...
Read moreMany towns have an origin myth- a story that tells of how their community began.The origin myth of Torquay was...
Read moreDoes your Torbay home have a name or a number, or perhaps both? These days all urban houses have a...
Read more"Upward he shoots By the springs on his boots, Like an inverted angel. When things go black Appears Old Spring...
Read moreIt's the oldest profession in the world and Torquay has always had its ‘Ladies of the Night’, prostitution often being...
Read moreIt has just been announced that the TV mystic Derek Acorah has died aged 69. Derek found fame as a...
Read moreBeginning on Sunday 29th December at 9pm on BBC One is 'The Trial of Christine Keeler'.Starring Sophie Cookson, James Norton,...
Read moreWas 'Domnu' the first god of Torbay? On the Churston limestone plateau, in the field system on the cliff top...
Read moreIt's probably best not to read this if you're just about to have lunch...Anyway, it's a bit of an awkward...
Read moreAs Torquay developed during the nineteenth century, the town's traditional burial grounds of St Saviour's in Torre and at Upton...
Read morePub tokens give us a glimpse into working class life in Torbay in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.First...
Read moreThis Sunday sees the first broadcast by the BBC of their new 3 part mini-series of 'The War of the...
Read moreThere's an idea in archaeology and history called a palimpsest. It comes from a parchment manuscript page. These were originally...
Read moreThe Anglo Saxon Chronicle records that in the year 850AD:“Here Ealdorman Ceorl with Devonshire fought against the heathen men at...
Read moreAbove the natural arch of London Bridge is the limestone plateau of Daddyhole Plain. Unlike London Bridge, which was named...
Read moreTorquay grew rapidly during the nineteenth century: in 1801 there were 838 persons; by 1851, 11,474; and by 1901 it...
Read moreIn 1858 a terrorist attack in Paris caused a reaction in Torquay. On January 14th, 1858 the French Emperor Napoleon...
Read moreBy Margaret Forbes-Hamilton & Kevin Dixon Just off Torquay’s Lucius Street stands the Greek Orthodox Church of St. Andrew. The...
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