Dunorlan Park skies light up for 65th time
TUNBRIDGE WELLS’ annual fireworks display got off to a bang at the weekend, despite the dreary weather that saw other events cancelled. More than 8,000 attended the display put on by the Royal Tunbridge Wells Round Table in Dunorlan Park on Saturday November 5. The event has been running in the town since 1957 and […]
Country estate’s Garden Cottages open to boost town’s holiday accommodation
A country estate in Tunbridge Wells has created four new holiday cottages that will boost the amount of holiday accommodation in the town. Salomons Estate in Broomhill Road, Southborough, is to welcome guests to four newly refurbished ‘Garden Cottages’ available for holidays, business trips and short- and long-term lets. The four holiday homes are each […]
Hawkenbury car collector sells off 47 microcars for £300,000
A KENT collector of ‘microcars’ has sold off 47 of the miniature motors at auction for almost £300,000. The vehicles were part of a collection accumulated over 50 years by Jean and Edwin Hammond from Hawkenbury, near Staplehurst and formed the Hammond Microcar Museum Collection. Among them is a blue Peel P50, similar to one […]
What does healthy eating mean to you?
Sussex-based broadcaster and health and wellbeing expert Monica Price talks to the Times about the best ways to improve your diet and eat healthily… You need to think of your body as a top-of-the-range car, and in order to keep that car in top condition it needs the right fuel and oil to maintain […]
Say ‘cin cin’ to this expert Italian craft brewer which produces some truly bellissimo beers
In his monthly column, Alex Greig from the Fuggles Beer Café and Bottle Shop, savours a taste of Italy’s pioneering craft brewer Birrificio Italiano… Founded in 1996, Birrificio Italiano was one of the earliest Italian craft breweries – originally starting out as a brewpub in the Lombardy region. Initially the brewery launched two beers […]
Pupils encouraged by teachers and experts set to go full STEAM ahead
Last week children at Rose Hill School participated in their annual STEAM Week. The Times finds out more about this academic yet fun celebration of science, technology, engineering, art and maths… The theme for Rose Hill School’s 2022 STEAM Week – a focus on science, technology, engineering, art and maths – was ‘What’s the […]
Dance company holds its first arts festival
AN ACCESSIBLE and inclusive festival, delayed for two years by the pandemic, left children and families smiling and serene last week. The inaugural ‘Be You’ festival by Tunbridge Wells-based This Is Us dance company finally found its moment to bring families together in a day of low-key and inclusive fun at the Tonbridge campus of […]
Creole banjo star to raise the roof for church fund
A WORLD-FAMOUS banjo artist from New Orleans is on his way to pluck at the heartstrings of concertgoers in Frant, as he performs under the rafters of St Alban’s Church tonight (November 9). Playing a style of Creole banjo with its origins in the early days of jazz, Don Vappie will be making a stop […]
Why not try a gamble on a ramble?
A LOCAL rambling organisation is encouraging Tunbridge Wells and Tonbridge residents to get involved. Nicola Brown, a spokesperson for Tonbridge & Malling Ramblers, said that across the county there are 13 Ramblers groups, all part of The Ramblers, Britain’s walking charity. They offer a variety of walks each week, ranging from leisurely short walks to […]
Southborough and Lambersart celebrate their ‘entente cordiale’
SOUTHBOROUGH’S residents welcomed their ‘twins’ from Lambersart in northeast France last week, celebrating 30 years of their Amitiés Internationales. Southborough and District Overseas Friendship Association (SHDOFA) celebrates its twinning with Lambersart, near Lille, every five years, renewing the aims of their founding charter. SHDOFA and Southborough’s Mayor Dianne Hill welcomed the Amitiés Internationales led by […]
