A-Z of Torbay: A selection of images from the Museum's Archive

PR4644 - Fleet Street, Summer 1959

PR20049 - Redgate Beach

PR16960 - Coral Island

PR32580 - Castle Circus, c.1900

PR7253 - Castle Circus in 1961

PR7021 - Cockington Summer Fair 1965

PR5406 - Daddy Hole Plain

PR10190 - Deller's cafe

PR6622 - Sailing ship Emily in the Harbour, c.1880

PR9077 - Fishing Fleet in Brixham

PR22316.35 HMS Torquay in the Bay, 28-29.7.1969

PR6623 Colonel Charles Burn sitting in a carriage outside the Grand Hotel, 13.12.1910

PR7037 - Man Feeding Gulls in February 1963

PR7735 - Arrival Of Replica Of Golden Hind April 1962

PR10278 - Gerston Hotel, Station Square and Victoria Street

PR5689 - Hesketh Crescent

PR7040 - Hydrofoil in the Harbour in September 1964

PR16178 - Hancock's Fair in Paignton, c.1900

PR5702 - The Imperial Hotel

PR11101.1 - Valley's Ice Cream, Magdalene Road, Torquay

PR16830 - Italian Gardens on Torquay seafront, 1980s

PR4468 - Jenkins Marble Works

PR22333.46 - The Queen at Torre Abbey, 1977

Kent's Cavern North Entrance Watercolour

Arthur Ogilvie with the finds from Kent's Cavern.

PR20540- Kilmorie from the Manor Gardens, September 1962.

PR24736 - King George VI and Queen Elizabeth at Torre Station in 1942

PR4003 - Longpark Pottery

PR7086 - Railway accident on the bridge at Livermead in August 1962.

PR24822.131 - Livermead Cliff Hotel

PR35114 - Lymington Road Town Hall Coach Station and Car Park

PR4936.17 - Empire Day, Strand, 1905

PR11549 - Laying tramlines at the Clock Tower in 1906.

A column of the U.S. 4th Infantry Division march past the Clock Tower, June 1944.

PR4737 - Double-decker buses and the Clock Tower in February 1960.

PR5936 - Typhoon on Meadfoot Beach, Torquay, in May 1943

PR17018 - Elevated view of Meadfoot Beach showing the Osborne Hotel & Kilmorie

PR20079 - The Marine Spa and Beacon Cove

PR11021 - Marina Spa Ballroom, c.1930

PR4585 - Marine Spa with sun lounge overlooking Beacon Cove, July 1964.

PR7249 - Beacon Cove, Marine Spa 1959

PR4244 - Babbacombe Cliff Railway and crowded Oddicombe Beach.

PR17003 - Elevated view of Oddicombe Beach, Babbacombe Downs in the background.

PR10473 - Nurses Outside Oldway Mansion 1914

PR10526 - Magnificent Oldway Mansion in Paignton.

PR13831 - Display of cars for Concours d'Elegance in Paignton

PR24538 - Crowded Paignton Sands and promenade, August 1964

PR15065 - Photograph of bathing machines on Paignton beach.

PR10565 - Palace Avenue looking towards Victoria Square and the Naval Bank, 1890.

PR10413 - A rare photograph by J. Valentine of the working harbour.

PR16854 - View of the promenade leading to Palm Court Hotel

PR26142 - The Pavilion Theatre

PR17661 - Centenary of Torbay Royal Regatta, 25-7 August 1913

PR25048 - View of Pimlico - a narrow street behind Primark and WH Smith

PR4956 - Construction of the Princess Gardens, 1890.

PR7783 - The Palk Street Arch (at the entrance to Palk Street)

PR17915 - Penny's Cottage, Parkhill Road, Upton, 8th June 1889.

Visit of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and Duke of Edinburgh in May 1956 at Torquay Town Hall.

Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II escorted by the Mayor at Torre Abbey in May 1956.

Queen Elizabeth II arriving at Beacon Quay to review the Fleet on 28 July 1969.

PR23843 - Unveiling of a plaque for the tercentenary of the landing of William of Orange in Brixham on 21 July 1988.

PR4909 - The Incorporation of the Borough, Sept 1st. 1892

PR13485 - Archery lesson in the Queen's Park, Paignton.

PR11245 - Wartime special constables in 1940.

PR9050.1 - Launch of the R.N.L.I. Torbay Lifeboat the Princess Alexandra of Kent, 25th July 1958.

PR4802 - Torquay's oldest hotel - The Royal Hotel in 1909.

PR4328 - Opening of Royal Terrace Gardens, 1893?

PR7195 - Rock Walk in 1913.

PR17534 - Glass slide of Princess Gardens and Vane Hill from Rock Walk, 8.7.1895

PR25722 - Women customers in the fashion department of Rossiters, March 1957.

PR25644 - Rossiters staff in fancy dress celebrating 120th anniversary in 1978.

PR26169 - Tram And Connectors 1920s

PR4936 - The Strand in 1900.

The Strand in c. 1840

View of the Strand in 1820.

PR4249 - This photograph from 1900 shows amongst others the premises of Williams & Cox, Iredale & Son, and Narracotts.

PR4234 - A Guards Band marches through Torquay.

Historic view of Torquay Museum

PR4118 - Thatcher's Rock

PR6132 - Lithograph of St Marychurch Town Hall in 1883, the year of its opening.

PR17408 - Brixham Town Hall, 15.9.1892 from the Priestley Collection.

PR24822.15 - Torwood Street

PR35520 - Torbay Aircraft Museum

PR35526 - Torbay Aircraft Museum

Old Town Hall in August 1962.

Elizabeth II coronation decorations on the Town Hall which exterior had been very thoroughly cleaned, 2 June 1953.

PR24917 - A Salmon postcard showing Torbay Road.

PR8891 - Children feeding seagulls on Torre Abbey Sands in 1960.

The Torbay Hotel on Torbay Road in 1875.

PR4682 - Coach and horses held up at the Toll House on Torbay Road, 1850.

Olympic Games 1948

Olympic opening ceremony crowd on Abbey Meadows, 1948.

PR4331 - Torre Station 1866

PR14688 - US canteen in Upton Park.

PR4283 - View of Lymington and Teignmouth Roads.

PR5401 - Watercolour of Upton Church, 1860

PR26230 - Lantern Slide inscribed 'The old bridge at Upton'.

Vegetation around Penny's Cottage, 1800s.

Traffic in Union Street, August 1965.

PR26770 - View of snow-covered Union Street on 4th February 1963.

PR7254 - View of Union Street in 1961 showing the Union Hotel which came down in 1963.

PR25071 - View of Lower Union Street.

Bombed Union Street, 30th May 1943.

PR11556 - Street scene looking towards Castle Circus with horse-drawn carriages.

PR16907 - Elevated view over the inner harbour with Victoria Parade in the background, 1970s

PR20460 - View of Victoria Parade in 1960s.

PR10994 - The Sailors Rest at Nos 29-30 Victoria Parade was erected in the early 1900s and offered reasonably priced food and temperance accommodation for men of the Royal Navy.

PR4939 - Pictured here is the arch erected in Victoria Parade on the occasion of the laying of the foundation stone of Princess Pier (6th May 1890).

PR4329 - A morning promenade on a sunny day is enjoyed on a tree lined Victoria Parade. This photograph was taken some six years before the coming of the Tram car service. (c1900)

PR17662 - A glass slide showing Vaughan Parade in 1897.

PR20541 - Lloyds Bank Ltd. In 1899, Vivian, Kitson & Co. Bank merged with Lloyds Bank and subsequently this handsome new building was erected on Vaughan Parade about 1900.

PR20538 - School of Art, 1966

PR4232 - Williams & Cox

PR4495 - Interior view of the Drapers shop of Williams & Cox

PR11601 - Willicott's Steam Laundry located on St. Michael's Road, Paignton

PR4549 A Steam Yacht 1890s

Royal Yacht Britannia with Royal Party aboard reviewing Fleet

Ships of the Western Fleet in line astern overhaul the Royal Yacht Britannia July 29 1969

PR7628 - The 70ft motor-launch Zephyrus which sank in the outer harbour.

PR14590.2 - Paignton Zoo's entrance in Totnes Road.