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01 Dec 2025

Video: Moment Dame Agatha statue is unveiled on Torquay harbourside

Crowd cheers as bronze tribute to Torbay's most famous daughter is unveiled

Crowds cheered as a statue of Dame Agatha Christie was unveiled on Torquay harbourside.

The bronze statue of the world's best selling Torquay-born author will take pride of place in a recently refurbished Strand area of the waterfront. 

Dame Agatha's grandson Matthew Prichard and Brixham artist Elizabeth Hadley, the woman behind the sculpture, did the unveiling

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