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A plaque has been unveiled at a railway station in East Sussex for a train driver who was killed while operating a service in ...
He died on January 9. And his funeral was held in Tunbridge Wells on Tuesday (January 4) where the Last Post was played by an RAF bugler.
This story was submitted to the People’s War site by a volunteer from Age Concern, Dorchester on behalf of Mrs V E Charker, and has been added to the site with her permission. Mrs Charker fully ...
This gentleman lived in Tunbridge Wells all his life. He was 17 when he joined up. He worked in the RAF. He travelled all over England as part of his pilot training, even though he enjoyed it he ...
We lived at the end of Mountfield Road in Tunbridge Wells, which backed onto the grounds of Calverley Gardens. It was a lovely area where there was a bandstand with a glass roof. We didn't have an ...
Contractors investigating drainage issues made the grim – and potentially lethal discovery – yesterday at around 2.15pm while working near the play area at Calverley Grounds, Tunbridge Wells.
A police cordon has been set up in a residential road after a suspected wartime bomb was found. The device, thought to be an explosive from the Second World War, was earthed in Tunbridge Wells ...
Frog Lane. The Kent town of Tunbridge Wells isn't short of charmingly-named thoroughfares, but the residents of Frog Lane have gone one further, by adopting the amphibian as their unofficial mascot.
Ada Edwards, 12, was reported missing after she was last seen at 4.30pm on Wednesday near St John’s Park in Tunbridge Wells.
A sudden thunderstorm caused havoc in a Kent town this afternoon, sparking a flash flood which left streets underwater.
Spanish novelist Félix J. Palma outdoes himself in “The Map of Chaos,” the third installment in a fantasy trilogy that features writers H.G. Wells, Lewis Carroll and Arthur Conan Doyle as ...
This gentleman lived in Tunbridge Wells all his life. He was 17 when he joined up. He worked in the RAF. He travelled all over England as part of his pilot training, even though he enjoyed it he ...