Royal Tunbridge Wells
About Royal Tunbridge Wells
Royal Tunbridge Wells is a town in Kent, England, 30 miles southeast of Central London. It lies close to the border with East Sussex on the northern edge of the High Weald, whose sandstone geology is exemplified by the rock formation High Rocks. The town was a spa in the Restoration and a fashionable resort in the mid-1700s under Beau Nash when the Pantiles, and its chalybeate spring, attracted visitors who wished to take the waters. Though its popularity as a spa town waned with the advent of sea bathing, the town still derives much of its income from tourism. The prefix "Royal" was granted to it in 1909 by King Edward VII; it is one of only three towns in England with the title.
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An invalid chair with tramway for use on staircases was patented in 1931 in Royal Tunbridge Wells by a guy called Walter Muffet. The only other thing I could find about him is that he was once the oldest St. John's ambulance member in the world.
from No Such Thing As York Minster Crisps, 2023-08-17 at 00:17:51 · read transcript
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A lot of people a lot of people in prison were wrongly banged up oh rightly if you look at it that way I think so yeah no you're right it was yeah yeah amnesty was a kind of sexing up way of putting it but yeah there were no punishments yeah they had a load of them in the 80s and 90s I was reading in the newspaper archives in Hull they said that people were using them to hang clothes on like I said and that's why they all gone missing in the whirl they said people using them to grow climbing plants Torbay made a special Zimmaframe bin so you could return them anonymously if you were a bit worried about handing them in that you might get in. That's a big bin. Yeah. I was really waiting for you to say and in Tombridge they used them for their sex parties. I got one link with Tunbridge Wells slightly and that is that the stair lift was invented in Tombridge Wells. Was it? Get away. Yeah.
No Such Thing As York Minster Crisps, 2023-08-17 · listen
We did a book where it was called The Book of the Year, and in it we made references to all over the book. You would say, see this article, and you would go to it. The introduction was full of these things. I was having a dream. This was, I was down in Tumbridge Wells. I just got the Polgate train. I mean... Sorry, in Heathfield, yeah, yeah.
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I don't know why that came out like that. I was thinking, is he the baritone? I did in the most recent book that I bought out, I sort of did an apology of sorts. Joyce, who writes a diary through the books, she goes to Tumbridge Wells, and she said, I had read somewhere, there was a Waitrose, but there isn't. Whoever wrote that had got it wrong. Oh, wow.
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Taube made a special Zimmerframe bin, so you could return them anonymously if you were a bit worried about handing them in that you might get big. Big. I was really waiting for you to say, and in Tombridge, they used them for their sex parties. I got one link with Tombridge Wells slightly, and that is that the stair lift was invented in Tombridge Wells. What is it? Get away.
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No Such Thing As York Minster Crisps put 3 places on the map.
- Heathfield · United Kingdom
- Burgess Hill · United Kingdom
Coordinates: 51.1325, 0.2638