Great memories. Thank you for making these then and now videos. I didn't live in Tunbridge Wells but i do remember myself, my mum and dad going there in the 80's, we lived in Crowborough. Every couple of weeks we would go and park in that car park, walk through to Calverley road when it was still a road with cars going along it. Towards the end of the 80's we stopped going there, I didn't know why at the time but a few years later came back and the shopping centre was there. I remember my dad hating the shopping centre car park as it was too tight to get his big car round the sharp ramps to go up a level. He would always park in Crescent road car park after that. Will you be making any more of these videos ? It would be so great for a catch-up with all the people replying to their memories.
Used to be my job on a Saturday to go to town and get fish and chips from the shop on Victoria Road and get them back to the Sherwood estate walking. They were cold when I arrived but they went in the oven to warm them up. This was the early 70's. Imagine a 10/11 year old being allowed let alone expected to do that these days.
Nice one Vince, I grow up in TW, Upper Grosvenor road, I saw Status Que at the Assembly Hall in 1972, I still have the concert ticket, my grand parents had a shop on Queens road 1951 I think it was also a post office
Hello Vince, just stumbled across your video of TW and Golding Street. this brought back so many memories I was a RUSTHALL boy but attendeed Royal Victoria Scool anjd then when i married i lived in one of "The Flats" in Golding Street and my sister lived in a house in Goods Station Road and so i knew the alley from Victoria Road to the back of houses in GSR, and yes i can confirm that the builders yard did belong to JOHN JARVIS. MY best friend served his apprenticeship at LEVINGS BLACKSMITHS. Then behind that was Tunbridge Wells Glass Works where another friend worked.i whent to school wih so many of the boys from that area including Fred Scales . Thanks for the memories Vince, i could go on and on with my memories.
i lived in tunbridge wells till 1976 worked at the baltic sawmills i have lived in norwich since 1984 seems like we swapped places and my first girl friend was called melony i also worked in tesco maybe the same 1971. used to drink in the bristol camden road
Hello my name is James Osborne I remember working for break away motorcycle it was opposite benson's yard I think it was about 1985/86 before he moved to Camden road
Great memories.
Thank you for making these then and now videos.
I didn't live in Tunbridge Wells but i do remember myself, my mum and dad going there in the 80's, we lived in Crowborough. Every couple of weeks we would go and park in that car park, walk through to Calverley road when it was still a road with cars going along it. Towards the end of the 80's we stopped going there, I didn't know why at the time but a few years later came back and the shopping centre was there. I remember my dad hating the shopping centre car park as it was too tight to get his big car round the sharp ramps to go up a level. He would always park in Crescent road car park after that.
Will you be making any more of these videos ? It would be so great for a catch-up with all the people replying to their memories.
I do remember Beeline Taxis in Tunbridge wells, silverdale lane
Used to be my job on a Saturday to go to town and get fish and chips from the shop on Victoria Road and get them back to the Sherwood estate walking.
They were cold when I arrived but they went in the oven to warm them up.
This was the early 70's.
Imagine a 10/11 year old being allowed let alone expected to do that these days.
Nice one Vince, I grow up in TW, Upper Grosvenor road, I saw Status Que at the Assembly Hall in 1972, I still have the concert ticket, my grand parents had a shop on Queens road 1951 I think it was also a post office
Great stuff, Nigel Good to have you on board!
Hello Vince, just stumbled across your video of TW and Golding Street. this brought back so many memories I was a RUSTHALL boy but attendeed Royal Victoria Scool anjd then when i married i lived in one of "The Flats" in Golding Street and my sister lived in a house in Goods Station Road and so i knew the alley from Victoria Road to the back of houses in GSR, and yes i can confirm that the builders yard did belong to JOHN JARVIS. MY best friend served his apprenticeship at LEVINGS BLACKSMITHS. Then behind that was Tunbridge Wells Glass Works where another friend worked.i whent to school wih so many of the boys from that area including Fred Scales . Thanks for the memories Vince, i could go on and on with my memories.
i lived in tunbridge wells till 1976 worked at the baltic sawmills i have lived in norwich since 1984 seems like we swapped places and my first girl friend was called melony i also worked in tesco maybe the same 1971. used to drink in the bristol camden road
I remember Bensons scrap metal dealers in Victoria Road 😃😃😃
Hello my name is James Osborne I remember working for break away motorcycle it was opposite benson's yard I think it was about 1985/86 before he moved to Camden road
my dad had a fruit and veg and frozen foods down camden road also new a hickmote use to see chelsea a lot also drank in the bristol
Can you do a film of Rusthall ?
I'll give that one some thought, Kevin. I lived in Rusthall for several years.
My Grandmother. Yard .Darren .Benson
Yes was. Jarvis .Grand son .of .my Grandmother .Nancy Benson ..