Torquay Irons

You don't expect to encounter a West Ham exhibition while on holiday in Torquay. But visitors to Bygones Museum can find several cabinets of Hammers memorabilia. Most of the museum is devoted to Victorian shops, quirky artefacts and a recreation of the world war one trenches. But upstairs, the West Ham display is all the work of Rick, the son of the owner. Rick is a season ticket holder at the London Stadium and used to go to matches as a boy with his godfather, Bert Willis, who worked in the bars and the boot room at the Boleyn Ground.

The Bygones exhibition contains an astonishing array of West Ham memorabilia, including the warm-up shirt worn by Pablo Fornals before the Europa Conference League Final and Lucas Paqueta's boots (which look more like slippers) from the same game. There's lots of 1975 FA Cup Final material including a collection from Mervyn Day. You can see the shirt worn by Bill Roberts in 1937-38. Trivia fans will know that Bill was Len Goulden's understudy. There's a signed Declan Rice shirt, a signed photo of Alan Stephenson taking on Denis Law and a 1976 Cup Winners' Cup Final shirt. If you're tired of Agatha Christie and Basil Fawlty in Torquay, then give Bygones a visit.