History

  On October 8th 1834 the darkness was banished from Torquay. Forty gas lamps were installed in our main thoroughfares...

“I resent Mrs Langtry, she has no right to be intelligent, daring and independent, as well as lovely”, Torquay resident...

  In 1973 Trevor Ravenscroft (pictured), who would later live in Torquay, wrote a book called ‘The Spear of Destiny’....

Continuing our WASD theme of South Devon’s weird landscape, let’s turn our attention to our haunted coastal route - the...

Continuing the WASD theme of South Devon’s weird landscape, here’s the story of Kingskerswell’s Creeping Coffin. During the mid eighteenth...

For centuries the main way out of Torquay to our nearest town was the Newton Road – the route to...

Now the new road between Torquay and Newton Abbot is open there’s a far quicker way to get to Plymouth....

“There’s something in the trees!” Here at WASD we like movies made locally in places we can recognise. It’s therefore...

Here at WASD we recently ran an article - Big in Berlin - about how Torquay was a favoured location...

Here at WASD we like to remember past residents of Torquay. We also have a fondness for books that feature...