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The Indian Restaurant in Torwood Street
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It was Pennys Cottage now we wit to see what becomes of the rebuilding i would have burnt the culprit at the stake and then....well Chianti and fotha beans come to mind.
Cockington Church
my house
Electric House - Part of the Torbay council offices, a wonderful art deco survival
The riveria centre
The Queens Hotel on the seafront, classic art deco
anne summers
The Pavillion. South Devon College in Torre, good old days oh except they are closing down and moving to the outback of Paignton which means a very expensive long bus ride there.
Torquay Railway Station. Lovely Brunel Station that needs restoring and inhabiting.
The new state of the art regularly maintained toilets when our "head in the sands" council decides to build them to replace the ones that they've closed,which are probably going to rack and ruin.
Tescos filling Station
st.matthias church
riviera centre
New 'Coastal Life' wildlife centre/aquarium - just finished. Beautiful American West Coast architecture, down on the front - bound to win an award someday soon
Town Hall
Greta
Town Hall, various buildings on the sea front near the Pavillion, amazing fountain between pavillion and Princess Theatre.
400 ballroom along the harbourside....its where they filmed the interior club scenes in quadrophenia.....the bit where jimmie jump off the balcony
clock tower
the pavillion is ok.the rest of the town is looking rough.
The pavillion is pretty good, but they should turn it back into a skating rink instead of using it to prop up all those dreadful tacky shops.
All of Torquay is more or less uniformly beautiful, with perhaps one or two exceptions. The pavillion is especially nice I guess, some of the buildings in Cockington are lovely too.
precint bazzar,garys house
Torquay is full of large white Victorian villas which have mostly been converted into hotels
Cockington (completely original 17th century thatched village) is very pretty. Full of tourists in the summer though.
The Pavilion is a former Edwardian theatre with large green copper roof and ornate stonework.
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My Mother-in-Laws House. Where I work. Currys (Awful). Yellow Tubs on the Newton Road just past Torre Station. Next door so we get a better sea viem :-)
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Clairs night club full of chavs.
The lower union lane multi sorey car park, its full of junkies chavs, weirdos. It also looks ugly.
The flats that replaced that grat pub the Clarence beside Torre station. How to Kill the tourist potential and picturesqe quality of a lovely coastal town.build loads of cheap build tatty granny flats..Grannies we love you but the builders only see your dollar.comeon architects forget cheap and cheefull give us back our architecural pride.
The whole of Torre
the hole town and to se there be a new one built
Fleet Walk Shops
town hall
That crap arcade
Tax office above cafe Prague in Castle Circus, Keep connections tho, art deco again
koko lounge shit music venue, shit dj's etc etc
oxfam
Torbay Community College. Also The English Riviera centre cost millions of pounds of tax payers money and offers vey little except for a swimming pool where you cant have a proper swim because it is a weird shape plus the flume or wave machine rarely works. The ERC seems to ofer little else the bar is usually closed.
Living Coasts costs over five pounds to enter and is so small you have difficulty spending more than 30 minutes looking around, rip off.
The Church - Piazza must be resurrected!!!
All the houses and the Super Stores in the Willows including the Willow Tree Public House. All an Eyesore.
Factory row and their occupants!
MacDonalds Newton Rd. Police Station, Job Center, Greasey Tony's Cafe Babbacombe, Mother-in-Laws House Shiphay (With her in it :-) ), Riviera Centre as an eyesore.
I'd like to see thayt ridiculous penguin place demoslished, that huge ugly net that towers over the harbour.
poll tax office
Central Church - an eye sore and that is being polite!
The cafe near the harbour where the fishwife behind the counter screeches unnervingly to her passing friends as you attempt to buy a drink.
CLAIRS NIGHT CLUB OR SHOULD THAT BE CLAIRS YOUTH CLUB OR DRUG DEN!!!!!!!
the wee shlter at the sea front
The proposed avery (when it is bulit on top of coral island)
Royal Hotel on the Sea Front. Riviera Centre. Houses in Plainmoor and houses near TCC.
Central Church (no offence to Christians, but that is a very ugly building - and you can see it from seemingly everywhere in Torquay)
The police station has now been rebuilt and extended.
Queensway shops are ugly! And I've never been keen on the English Riviera Centre, hideous monstrosity of concrete that it is.
The Princess Theatre used to look awful, but they partially did it up so it's not that bad now, if it was demolished it should be with Jim Davidson and his bigotted audience still inside. I really can't explain my loathing for that section of Torbay residents enough.
Ther Police Station
westlands school,garys house
Coral Island leisure complex. Once a series of bars, clubs and amusement arcades, it's a concrete monstrosity which has been boarded up for about 10 years. It wasn't pretty before it started falling down!
The Best Things
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Cheap Houses, Plenty of Highly Paid jobs for local people. Fast Access Roads. The local Police!!. Browns Bridge Road during NEXT sales.
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Cafe Mambo latino nights in the summer. You dont often get chav scum in Mambo
Cafe Mambo on Torquay Harbour has awesome latino nights in Summer. In general Cafe Mambo is the best place to meet, not many chavs if any go to mambo which is good.
It's all gravy!! The best of life and the worst of life are in your own mind be in control.
The cheap house prices - where else can you get a terraced house for £150,000 or less? The wonderful scenery.
dave at applestone music for developing http://www.muzo-trader.org.uk - a nifty free trade and musician site for all things musical - check it out, it's novel and cool
Being close to countryside and sea is nice. Cockington is the most beautiful place in the whole world once the tourists have gone (autumn is best). It's my home so i just like it anyway...Nice ice cream. Great atmosphere early evening down the harbour with all the people fishing.
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fantastic scenery beautiful area stunning!If you have money.
The View from Berry Head
cruisin around torbay!
The people were friendly, and weather was nice. Just a nice chilled out place.
skaters and goths
A truly beautiful place, drive down Preston Down Road from the ring road and I dare you not to be reduced to tears by the view.
trickey one that...food in torbay is prob best thing, if there was no beach no1 would wanna live here i say that.
The summer. Quay west In Paington
Torquay is a really lovely place to live. People that have lived here all their lives and moan should try living in another part of the country, they would soon change their minds.
The bay itself is beautiful on a sunny clear day.
So close to Dartmoor.
Two Steam Railways nearby
The Climate
Things to do and places to go.
Beautiful sunsets, the view from babbacombe downs especially when golden cap is not covered in mist, when the seagulls leave town and that eeire silence at 4.00am!
Harbour area on Sat night. The Scenery. Lack of real crime. The people. The Winter. The Palm Trees. So much to do,see and explore. Near Dartmoor and 2 Steam Railway's. Good Food and Drink Places. Howlers Restaurant. Wonderful Bus Service by Stagecoach.
the sea, the sea, the sea, being close to cornwall, the sea
round -a -bout kinskerswell , heading out,
Torre Abbey Gardens, the Seafront, Coastal Life Centre.
EVERYTHING!!!
Torquay has everything! Its the best place in the UK without a doubt!!
Cockington
Sea Front on a BMX dodging grokels
The sea front, sunny days at Cockington, summer evenings, the new harbour area (if you avoid looking at the £1 shops it could almost be continental).
HOT SUMMERS DAYS
Happy place, sunny and expensive
In actual fact he local weather in Torbay is almost always a little better than the national or even regional forecasts since they have to cater for inland areas too. It often turns out brighter and less rainy than the forecast suggested.
The sea. Being close to Dartmoor
The pubs. The people.
They can party. Probably because theres really little else to do...!
Water sports in summer
It's beautiful in the winter when it's quiet. The sea! Amazing place, but you just can't live there.
Torquay United - The best football club in the land. All of it. Torquay really is one of the best places on earth in my opinion (apart from Watcombe). The atmosphere on a warm summer's evening here is one of the nicest feelings in the world. The people are friendly - and due to the north-south drift, it now has a reasonably cosmopolitan mix of people down here. This IMPROVES the area's culture and doesn't detract from it, like some small minded idiots think. Foriegn students add a continental air to the
precint bazaar st marychurch torquay is great because gary baker and laura moon work there and they are sooo friendly,but watch out for pam beazley ,she mad!!!
It's in Devon with some amazing scenery and coastline. In the Summer there's no better place to be.
A great atmosphere round the harbour on warm summer evenings. Lots of bars and nightlife.
Plenty of quality shops in town.
There's always something to do (if you've got the money that is..)
The Worst Things
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The awful surrounding Countryside. My Mother-in-Law. My Missis. My Boss. My Screaming kids!, The Willows, The local CID, Traffic Wardens on bonus for their Argos Points
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Within 10 minutes of arriving in the harbour area, we saw a group of drunken yobs throw one of their friends into a wheelie bin; they seemed highly amused when it overturned and his head was cut open.
Regular sections of the pavement were decorated with the partially digested contents of various revellers stomach.
We witnessed 2 girls almost get killed by a chav driving his pride and joy clapped out piece of sh*t with a loud exhaust at high speed through the harbour area as they attempted to cross the road.
If you have managed to avoid being glared at, attacked or vomitted on during the early part of the evening, why not try the piece de resistance and go to Valbonne nightclub. We went there on the basis of reviews from this and other sites and surprisingly comments from locals - perhaps it was just a bad night but I can honestly say that it was the worst club I have ever been to. I thought at first I had walked into a weight watchers class at the start of a new course; or a gurning contest, such was the attractiveness of the clientele. The atmosphere was hostile, with groups of very drunk males and females clearly looking for trouble. Needless to say we did not hang around. The journey to the taxi rank from the club involves walking past large groups of frustrated males standing outside eating chips, throwing up, asking you for a fag, asking you what you're looking at etc..
Nearby Paignton - For a moment I thought I had taken a wrong turn and gone to Rhyll; this place is truly awful - tacky souvenir shops and "amusement" arcades line the entire route from the seafront to the town and vest wearing Northerners can be seen buying rock to take home as a souvenir of their trip to the English "riviera". What a joke. If you have already booked a trip to Torquay and want to take an excursion go to Dartmouth instead.
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People who slag of Torquay Community College that don't know the first thing about it or have never been there and are probably from Grammar, Westlands or Cuthbert.
People who moan about those on DSS when most cases are genuine and those that moan are normally either into dodgy dealings themselves or have everything paid for by mummy and daddy
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No clubs which do rock music, just the usual Chav scum rap, hip hop, garage and r n b rubbish again an establisment thats all for the chav scum.
Crossways shopping mall in Paignton. An obscene mass of decaying concrete in its bizzare tangle or brutalist 1960s concrete. Very ugly indeed!
If i havent complained enough then right now i would have to say the growning violence and criminal element the careless governing bodies and the amount of doggy kakka on the streets.
The lousy third world wages. The oafs who infest the centre of Torquay at the weekend. The silly girls who walk around dressed in summer clothes when the temperature is below freezing. The horrible smell of burnt fat and stodgy pastry coming from so many of the restaurants. If it smells as bad as that, what on earth does it taste like? Cafes that advertise "panini" but don't know that that is a plural word, as in one panino, two panini. The hills.
drunks, druggies and knobheads - torquay seems to attract them all!
Don't go out after sunset...The amount of homeless people. All the chavs. NO decent shoe shops! OLD PEOPLE!
DRUGGIES
lack of jobs even being able to get a job!evry job minimum wage,no future narrow minded devon people who have only ever been out of telegraph hill once!prejudiced locals!
The Bloody council
the police
The one down side was on my first night out, a group of lads walked past me and my wife, and told us to f off back to Africa.I thought strange, because Im from Birmingham. Then about 5mins later a car drove past, shouted out more of the same, and then threw a bottle at us. I thought to myself, Welcome to Torquay
chavs and townies
Virtually everyone on the road, from grockles (tourists), to the abundance of pensioners driving in hats. Leave at least three seconds gap between vehicles, expect no signals (why brake? that`s what the gearbox is for). Expect to be cut up and to drive at 15 mph behind retired brummies behind the wheel of mercedes. Follow the diversion routes to and from Paignton, especially in the summer or lose the will to live in traffic jams. Typical local headline "Pensioner reverses into primary school, 15 dead. `I didn`t realise that it was in gear` states Sidney Oldbloke (79)."
Skates, boards and bikes keep to the pavement but beware of the eponimous electric disabled chariots - these people are blind as well as arrogant.
the arrogance and igorance of the general public, and the slowness of people's cretinous ways! thats true.
Townies and Chavs who gain great plessure in assaulting anyone not like themselves. Often they grow up into binge drinking lager louts who beat you unconciouss for a laugh on a weekend evening. There are also lots of chlidrens homes who invite savages from all over the country to come to Torbay and intimidate and beat up the residents whilst corrupting our own youths to indulge in violent savage behavior.
Public Transport very expensive and some drivers are quite rude to users.
Er hello? Torquay? Not enough room.
Locals that moan about the place.
Price of Property now. Local working families are unable to purchase because of influx from elsewhere pushin prices thru the roof!
The main road in and out of here is a nightmare. This is 2004 aint it?
No decent local work unless you are lucky or Hotel and Catering. We all have to commute to Exeter or Plymouth.
The One-Way system that takes you miles out of your way to go 200 yards. Stuck in traffic burning up precious fossil fuels and contaminating the atmosphere.
No hand car wash company
Greedy Councillors
slappers!!
there are some excellent local bands but enough suitable venues, for instance why do some pubs insist on shutting their doors when the bands perform so we the audience and the band have "sweat it out"! Get rid of the homeless scum who think it is their right to be aggressive to innocent passers by as well as amongst themselves.
tourists, seagulls, foreign students, druggies, townies, general seaside nastiness, lack of character, lack of live music,
Lee69's pants.
torquay smells of urine after 6 pm weekends , especially the step's by shiptons in fleet street, it's not an ornamental fountain !!!!! guy's and girl's leek everywhere and anywhere no police there, car's in fleet street more traffic than the m25 , speeding on sea front no cam's no police, busy week end and no police on monday , tuesday, wednesday (sorry should i say low police presence ?) drunk's , druggie's , dope smoking freely on the street call police on a fri, sat , sun nite they to busy , more domestic's on the street on sunday nite than any other nite, pub's and club's doing 2-4-1's and happy hour's , god you seen the cleintele ? in crazy horse by the time they leave, over zealous entreupreneurs ? who get above them selve's
DEADLY after 7.00pm during Autumn weekdays - no after-work drink culture.
£1 shops and discount stores
I lived in Paignton and Torquay for 3.5 years (2 Years Paignton & 18 months Torquay). It was the most miserable experience of my life and I believe sent me into a mild state of depression. The range of shops is appalling - I used to come to W-ton to get decent stuff and then take it back to Devon. The people are rude, unwelcoming, unfriendly, seem to think they're superior to everyone else and so far up their own a***s they're stuck. The area is stuck in a "chilled-out rut" which was no good for me, the relaxing pace of life nearly killed me. Everyone lives a geriatric pace of life and the technology is non-existant. Never lived anywhere so primative in my life. Not even Channel 5 - five years after it was launched. The only good thing is the weather. And then there's Gemini FM - a station worth axing to save the taxpayer's money and eardrums. Wouldn't visit again out of choice if I was offered £1,000,000. Nice weather, hellhole of a place !!!
Fat Northern Sun-burnt losers walking around like it is actually good here!!
The general seedy air of Torre. This is basically a continuation of the High St. but has the atmosphere of a Dickensian garret district being largely full of takeaways, charity shops and various brain damaged individuals staggering into the street, abusing each other and brawling with their husbands/wives/partners etc. This is a real shame as the actual buildings are good, the area has potential, there are some nice parks in the vicinity which are quite pleasant after the police have released the dogs and flushed out the prostitutes and dealers. With a bit more self-respect the area could be great.
Castle Circus is also atrocious. It is the civic centre of Torquay, including the Town Hall etc, yet also acts as the meeting place for every scrofulous drunk, soapdodger, chancer, junkie and scrote that has retired to South Devon from the big cities. Periodic crackdowns by the local police often dispers these characters in to back alleys but, like pleuresy, they return.
ALL THE SCUM OF THE EARTH THAT HAVE DICIDED TO MOVE TO TORQUAY AND GO ON THE DSS GET A FREE FLAT AND INVITE ALL THE REST OF THE FAMILY DOWN, AND A LOT OF THEM SEEM TO BE FROM THE LIVERPOOL AREA??????????? SO ANYTHING TO RUN AND HIDE FROM TORQUAY SEEMS TO BE THE PLACE TO COME
tourists pigeons/seagulls
Tourists, and especially those who choose to come in the winter, and those who seem to have the disallusioned view that TQ is such a nice place to migrate to.
Clubs, lack of money, bastards who live off social security, lib dem Mp, washouts, homeless population, spoon muggers, people who insist on having 20 sky dishes outside their houses, 1 star hotels. Shopping is Shit.
Torquay has been blessed for many years with an anachronistic Tory council but since the late nineties the ageing electorate are no longer voting for their natural Lords & Masters out of "deference". Change is now creeping in at last.
Too many rough people have moved to the area
The weather (not as good as you think) and the fact that Torquay is almost devoid of culture
tourists
All the goddamn tourists
winter
There is so little to do becoming a nun seems like a good idea.
The Small town attitude of some of the residents. Some of the native Devonians here (I am one), get very angry about northerners who moved down here during the 70's/80's. I am not one who holds that opinion, I think it makes the area more interesting. The way some of the locals treat foreign students, who are for the most part well-behaved, respectful and polite.
no chess club!
Trendy Assholes all over the place.
jason mildons clumsiness
Like anywhere can be rowdy in the summer. Police cars chase boy racers round the harbour, drunks pissing in the sea, louts, tarts, foreigners (lots)
It turns into a ghost town in the winter
If it rains it's really grim (But if it's bright it easily makes up for it)
A favourite tourist destination for the blue-rinse brigade
It's not near any major cities. (Exeter & Plymouth aren't really big enough)
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