Tonbridge blog (Free subscription) | 11/20/2008
A walk along Tonbridge High Street today caused me to do a double take, I thought I'd been transported to the Mile End Road in the East End, as I noticed the sign outside the Castle Inn on the Big Bridge luring people in to eat their pie and mash lunch specials. The Cray twins, Reginald and Ronald, Ronnie and Reg to their family and close muckers. Smashin lads they where, used to treat their...
Tonbridge blog (Free subscription) | 11/18/2008
I've just been exchanging views with a local resident outside Bronsdon's newsagents (as one is supposed to do in a proper community) about whether the Courier is doing Tonbridge a disservice by crapping all over its Community columnists one week and then closing down its local office on the High Street the next. The view which seems to be gathering momentum (see some of the comments below)...
Tonbridge blog (Free subscription) | 11/12/2008
A lovely old lady from the Tonbridge WI came into my shop yesterday to ask if I'd put a piece in my Courier column about their Christmas bazaar. "No madame" I said, "I'd love to help you but I don't write it anymore!" This is the fifth such request I've had since Friday and the answer has been the same. The lovely old lady, who by the way is always on the bread stall at the Friday Country Market,...
Tonbridge blog (Free subscription) | 11/07/2008
What's this? Surely it can't be! It is you know. It's a green grocers shop. Remember them. They used to be everywhere. They were the shops where you'd get your fruit and veg from before Asda and Tesco started to take over the world. Well someone, Bishops of Tonbridge, has had the guts to give it a go, taking on a shop which I happen to know will be costing them about £25,000 a year in rent...
Tonbridge blog (Free subscription) | 11/06/2008
There's a rumour going around that the recently fallen from grace M&S Foods could be taking one of the two large retail units on Tonbridge High Street on the site of the old Capitol Cinema building, the new Crest Nicholson development pretty much opposite Church Lane. Anybody heard anything? If it's true it would be great for the North end of the High Street, which badly needs a lift. I know...
Tonbridge blog (Free subscription) | 10/30/2008
Well it's good bye from me! Here is my very last column in the Kent and Sussex Courier, due out in tomorrow's paper; I've been the Central Tonbridge Correspondent for nearly four years but it's time to call it a day. This is the unedited version, which is usually quite a bit different from the edited version once the subs have hacked it to pieces. Don't worry Tonbridge blog will continue...
Video Game Watchdog (Free subscription) | yesterday
The BBC is reporting that Michael Demetris, who is accused of being part of a £53m raid on a Securitas depot in Tonbridge UK in 2006, is claiming that he thought a disguise he provided for the mastermind of the robbery was actually for a role in a Playstation game. Demetris is being accused of [...]
Tonbridge blog (Free subscription) | 10/29/2008
... up books. If Mr. Sayer ever wishes to give up his Beat n' Track music shop on Quarry Hill Parade, Tonbridge, he could open a Pop up Books shop. Now there's an idea. Maybe in five or six years time there'll be several book shops in the town and we could become a mini Hay on Wye, which if you don't know, is a small town in Wales which hosts a massively successful, long running literary festival...
Tonbridge blog (Free subscription) | 10/21/2008
... on a half term break. Go for a walk around the park, then go and have a browse around the fair at Tonbridge School, visiting Mr. Books on the way of course. See you there. What do you mean you're playing with the kids' X-Box 360!!..
Times Online (Free subscription) | 12/03/2008
Michael Henry Ray Soper was born in 1913 in Essex, the son of a barrister. He was educated at Tonbridge School and Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he read natural sciences for two years and then spent two years obtaining a diploma in agriculture. His first professional appointment was in 1936 as assistant lecturer in crop husbandry at the University of Reading. He took part in the first trials...
The Electric Chair (Free subscription) | 11/30/2008
... played some lovely football but without a cutting edge. And with a run of games coming up against Tonbridge, Ashford and Sutton before we play Harrow the coming weeks will be tough. I ended up taking James Gray back from the game as he needed to get to hospital where he found he has badly bruised his ribs. James is the original hard man, who comes back from every knock he gets in next to...
Anorak News (Free subscription) | 11/24/2008
LOCAL newspapers are in trouble. Tonbridge blogger explains why he’s no longing writing for the Kent Courier (part of DMGT’s Northcliffe, and offers Bee Shaffer and any other media students some work: This is how it is for local hacks: Are the senior people at the Courier group so divorced from reality that they can’t notice when they’ve [...]
Tonbridge blog (Free subscription) | 11/19/2008
There's an old fellow who wanders around Tonbridge muttering to himself. He grunts and occasionally swears at passes by. The other day I was on the other side of the road and couldn't help looking at him; I could hear him grunting at me under his breath "...what you f'in lookin' at..." Now some people who didn't understand might get offended by such behaviour. Not me though. He can't help himself...
Making the Most of the Internet (Free subscription) | 11/15/2008
Fraud. Note that this address is often used. It is actually that of Fidelity, one of the most respected companies in the UK. One out of five! Mr. Samuel Babangida. Auditor General. Address: Oakhill House, 130 Tonbridge Road, Hildenborough, Tonbridge, Kent TN11 9DZ, United Kingdom. "RELATIONSHIP ESTABLISHMENT & DEAL NOTIFICATION" I am aware that this is certainly an unconventional approach...
New Musical Express (Free subscription) | 11/18/2008
Hop Farm festival bosses are set to appeal the Tonbridge and Malling Borough Council's decision to deny their application to increase the event's capacity.
