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10 Films and Shows to Watch This Weekend — All Secretly Filmed in Tunbridge Wells 🎬🍿
You’ve walked past these places a hundred times. The Pantiles on a Saturday morning. The cricket ground on the Common. That moated house everyone’s been…
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The Battle of Little Mount Sion: Two Pubs, One Title, No Resolution 🍺👻
The WalkTW Building Files🏛️🔍 A Note Before We Begin Every WalkTW story so far has followed a person — a writer, a mathematician, a Russian…
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The Writers Who Watched Us — Part 4: The Man They Laughed At 🎭✒️
There is a grave in Poets’ Corner, Westminster Abbey, that almost nobody visits. It lies in the most literary postcode on earth — between Chaucer…
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The Russians Who Never Left: Tunbridge Wells Best-Kept Secret ⛪🕯️
Stand on St Luke’s Road, TN4, on a Saturday morning. Look at the Victorian brick church on your left. Note the Church of England noticeboard.…
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The Russians Who Never Arrived: Tunbridge Wells and the Romanovs 👑🚂
Some came to stay. Some never arrived. Some never left. The hidden Russian history of Royal Tunbridge Wells. On 8 April 1909, King Edward VII…
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The Russians Who Came to Stay: Tunbridge Wells and the Revolution 🪆
Some came to stay. Some never arrived. Some never left. The hidden Russian history of Royal Tunbridge Wells. There is a woman walking down a…
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The Writers Who Watched Us — Part 3: The Man Who Actually Loved Tunbridge Wells 🏘️❤️
We owe you this one. Two posts in, the Writers Who Watched Us series has given you a satirist who used the town as target…
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The Writers Who Watched Us — Part 2: The Spy Who Came to Take the Waters ☕🕵️
Let’s set the scene. The year is 1722. Daniel Defoe’s original ambition had been to be a businessman — but following bankruptcy, imprisonment, and the…
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The Writers Who Watched Us — Part 1: The Man Who Invented the Word “Snob” 🍽️📓
There’s a restaurant on London Road that looks slightly too good to be true. Odd angles, sloped ceilings, off-kilter stairways — it feels almost like…
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Capital of Infidelity, Part 3: The “Grand Tour” of Heartbreak 💔🎩
If Part 1 taught us anything, it’s that the Georgian elite didn’t just visit Royal Tunbridge Wells to “take the waters”—they came to completely rewrite…