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An Interesting Post. Literally. 21 Aug 2013 | 08:12 pm
"That’s really interesting. I’ve never seen one of those before". It's not often I manage to get Ian Beavis at the Museum to say that. Let's back up a bit in this story. A little while ago I was invi...
Royal Wells Park - Demolition Underway! 6 Aug 2013 | 11:03 pm
At the end of last week David and I paid a visit to one of our favourite sites, the old Kent & Sussex Hospital. We were invited by Berkeley Homes to document the site for our Tunbridge Wells Project. ...
Documenting The New Hospital 6 Aug 2013 | 11:03 pm
David and I paid a visit to the new Tunbridge Wells Hospital at Pembury last week. Don't worry we hadn't got our heads stuck in saucepans...again. This time we were on a mission. One of the shiny new...
The Architectural Art of David Ramshaw 5 Aug 2013 | 04:07 pm
This was a day I’d been looking forward to for quite some time. I was going to meet one of my favourite artists. David Ramshaw in his home studio. You may have read about David Ramshaw on the blog h...
We're Back Home! 24 Jul 2013 | 07:13 pm
Finally back home from a week or so in the Cairngorms in the Highlands of Scotland. Looks like we timed it perfectly too to avoid that heatwave. That doesn't look like Tunbridge Wells? You'd be right...
The Illustrations of Chris Burke 9 Jul 2013 | 10:57 pm
Sometimes Lady Luck smiles upon you, and she was positively beaming on the day that I noticed a small sign on a lamppost pointing towards Newton Road. The small cardboard sign was advertising the Sout...
Bandages and Benevolence, the NHS at 65 6 Jul 2013 | 08:23 am
To mark the 65th Anniversary of the NHS, Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust held a special event at Tunbridge Wells Hospital on Friday morning. Richard Grasby, Lady De L'Isle, and Janet Grasby p...
Doing Asbestos They Can 1 Jul 2013 | 02:32 pm
It's the 1st of July and as promised work has started on the Ritz Cinema site. I had a quick chat with the site manager, John, from Alfred McAlpine. Click photo to see giant 6,000px version. John sa...
So Debate a Difference 27 Jun 2013 | 01:28 am
Tonight was the long-awaited debate and presentation from So Create A Difference. Robert Adam, architect responsible for the Ritz Cinema site. Back in January the So Create a Difference team, along ...
Shake To Wake The Taste 15 Jun 2013 | 01:48 pm
We are a spa town. Spa water is what our town was founded upon. It’s our raison d'être, or as the French would say our reason for being. So perhaps we should make more of it. Right then, how about...
