We're Back!!
Apologies for the quietness of the blog over the past three weeks but the wife and I have been on holiday to New Zealand. We had a wonderful time and it's nice to be home and we're both really looking forward to getting back into Tunbridge Wells life. Thanks for all your e-mails of concern about this blog whilst we were away too, it seems you all thought we'd stopped writing it. I can assure you that's not the case and we have some great stuff coming up. It seemed I m

Sunrise on a New Panorama
There I was so excited about the release of another local book by our Civic Society that I was up and about before the bookshop had opened, in fact I was up before the sun had even come up. I decided to not waste time sitting around so left the house quietly and took a walk to photograph the sunrise. Sunrise over Royal Tunbridge Wells. Is there anything more beau

Pop Goes The Bus
Usually I wouldn't blog about a bus arriving in town, but this was no ordinary bus. This was the Godfather of British Pop Art, Peter Blake's, Art Bus. Intrigued? Well, the Art Bus is a gallery on wheels designed by the famous Sergeant Pepper artist along with the CCA Galleries in London. It's strikingly decorated with colourful pop art on the outside and filled on the inside with works of Peter Blake's

Black in the Pink
With news that another coffee shop has sprung up here in town to add to our already rather large embarrassment of riches, I thought I'd look back at the history of the coffee shop in Tunbridge Wells. We have to go way back in history, back to some of the very first buildings ever built here in fact. Two buildings of the earliest time were situated on The Pantiles in a small alley known as Pink Alley, a rather salubrious and sometime licentious hive of activity in the 17th Century. The two establishment

The Many Faces of Royal Tunbridge Wells
Following news from a regular reader of this blog of the recent restoration of the NPI clock on Camden Road, I thought it would be a nice idea to make a bit of a list of my favourite public clocks, starting with the wonderful squirrel-adorned clock of NPI, who moved their head office to Tunbridge Wells back in 1966. NPI Squirrel Clock The beautiful gold-emblazoned NPI clock is connected to a socket in an office inside the building and whilst the building was empt