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A march past of the Canadian contingent outside Torre Abbey. The square vase over the door will hold the torch brought from Wembley by runners for the Olymic Games, 1948 (PR7635)

Olympic flame brought to Torre Abbey Gardens
The seafront takes a battering

Stephen Coombes’ pictures: Seafront takes a battering
The West End branch of Shapley’s in Lucius Street in circa 1910 from the lost collection of David Mason

The archive alphabet of Torbay
Brixham fishing boat coming into Torquay harbour

Pictures: Torbay’s harbours
75014 Braveheart has just left Paignton for Kingswear

Terrific trains steam their way to Paignton
Holden Gallery in the 1960s

Museum celebrates 175 years of preserving culture in Torbay
Torbay's Ageing Well Festival

Ageing Well Festival taking to virtual stage
Torquay sunset

Spectacular sunsets
An inkwell made of South Devon stones in a style known as scrapwork

Marvellous marble - South Devon’s decorative stone industry
The horse and carriage ride at Cockington

Picture special: Colourful Cockington
Emerson Ives standing by his adopted penguin at Torquay Museum

Boy, 11, runs marathon during lockdown to raise more than £600 for Torquay Museum

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Sean O'Casey in 1924

Two Blue Plaques honour Irish playwright Sean O’Casey at Torquay villa
46100 The Royal Scot and 7000 Britannia

Stephen Coombes: Steam power
A ward at the American Women’s War Hospital at Oldway Mansion, Paignton, where they treated US servicemen who had flu

Torquay Museum predicted pandemic in 2018 exhibition
Torquay seafront with a nice welcome

Delights found around seafront
VE Day celebrations at Merritt Flats, Paignton

The real end of World War Two
The exhibition ‘The Russians Are Coming! Soviet Spies and the Secret Mapping of Torbay’ starts soon

When Soviet spies mapped Torbay
Chef Simon Hulstone and his wife Katy

Chef Simon Hulstone: It’s all about getting together and celebrating life with great food
Parted Friends

Torquay’s lost terracotta industry
Artist Fred Gray from Chelston, Torquay

Artists plan open-air events across Torbay
The World in Dartmouth

Memories of when The World paid us a visit
Visitor services officer Francesca behind a newly-installed protective screen

Torquay Museum reopens
Brixham harbour

Stephen Coombes: Beautiful Brixham and Broadsands
UK Music's Let the Music Play campaign

How coronavirus has impacted the music industry
Actor John Slater, who camapigned to save Brixham Theatre

Torbay Civic Society Blue Plaques - 2: John Slater at Brixham Theatre
Hester Pengelly

The discovery of a lost autograph collection
Alex Turner with Arctic Monkeys

Music: What if your music vanished? S
Oldway Mansion in Paignton

Views of Oldway Mansion
The coach station and car park near the town hall, Lymington Road (PR35105)

Pictorial glimpse into Torquay’s past

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Novelist Lesley Pearse

Author Lesley Pearse: Why I never read my books again after publishing
This Ford Roadster 1932 won a prize

Vintage cars on parade
Percy Harrison Fawcett, self-portrait, Bolivia in 1911. Courtesy and copyright of the Fawcett Estate

Col Fawcett - Torbay’s answer to Indiana Jones
Broadsands beach is the winner of the Torbay Weekly World Cup of Beaches contest

World Cup of Beaches title winner revealed
Carnival Magic docked off Thatcher Rock, Torquay

Stephen Coombes: Scenes around Torbay
Bob Dylan

Music: Bob Dylan’s new album Rough and Rowdy Ways contains a universe
Frank Browning in his Terra Nova uniform

Frank Browning’s ‘Antarctic Adventure’
Dane Vera siging autographs at the garden party

Torbay man’s meeting with ‘national treasure’ Dame Vera Lynn