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unusual facts about Oast Theatre, Tonbridge



1747 English cricket season

Hadlow, near Tonbridge in Kent, was stated to be a famous parish for cricket.

Arthur Haddy

Although the company was based at Tonbridge in Kent, Crystalate made many of its recordings at the acoustically excellent town hall of West Hampstead in north west London.

Epileptic spasms

West syndrome was named after the English doctor and surgeon William James West (1793–1848), who lived in Tonbridge.

Hugh Christie

The school Hugh Christie Comprehensive in Tonbridge, Kent, was founded in 1957 in his name.

Humphrey Burton

Born 1931 in Trowbridge, Wiltshire, he attended Long Dene, a co-educational progressive school 1943-47, and the Judd School, Tonbridge 1947-49, and did 18 months National Service in the Royal Corps of Signals before reading music and history at Fitzwilliam House, Cambridge during 1951-54.

Johnnie Stewart

Born in Tonbridge, Kent, Stewart was the son of Dr Haldane Campbell Stewart, who was also musical but in a different sphere - he was organist and choirmaster at Magdalen College, Oxford, the director of music at the Tonbridge School, Kent, and also notable as a cricketer on the Kent County Cricket Team.

Khenemetneferhedjet I

She is mentioned on a seal found in Kahun (now located in Tonbridge), a papyrus from Kahun (now located in Berlin), a statue (now located in the British Museum) and in her son's pyramid complex.

Leaderboard Golf Ltd

Leaderboard Golf Ltd is a company that owns four renowned Golf Clubs in South East England, including The Oxfordshire Golf Club near Oxford, Sandford Springs Golf Club near Basingstoke and Newbury, Dale Hill Hotel and Golf Club near Tonbridge and Royal Tunbridge Wells and Chart Hills Golf Club near Ashford in Kent.

Maud, Countess of Huntingdon

# Matilda of St Liz (Maud) (d. 1140); she married Robert Fitz Richard of Tonbridge; she married secondly Saer De Quincy.

New Enterprise Coaches

New Enterprise now operates a number of local bus services in the Tonbridge and Sevenoaks areas under contract to Kent County Council.

Oast Theatre, Tonbridge

The extension was opened by Prince Edward, who attended a performance of Children of a Lesser God.

Richard Burke, 4th Earl of Clanricarde

He was appointed governor of Connaught, member of the privy council in Ireland, and, in 1624, created Viscount Tunbridge and Baron of Somerhill, a manor which he owned in Kent.

Stefania Zahorska

Zahorska was an author of works Matejko (1925), Eugeniusz Żak (1927), Szczęśliwe oczy. Wybór studiów i esejów z dziedziny filozofii, historii i krytyki sztuk plastycznych z lat 1921-1960 (published posthumously in London, 1970), novels Stacja Abbesses (Tonbridge, 1952), Ziemia pojona gniewem (London, 1961), Ofiara, memoirs Warszawa - Lwów 1939 (London, 1964).

Tonbridge

The guilty driver was a Mr Walter Arnold of East Peckham, who was fined one shilling for speeding at eight miles per hour (mph) in a 2 mph zone in Paddock Wood, in his Karl Benz powered car.

On 28 January 2008 five people were convicted at the Old Bailey.

Tonbridge and Malling

From Tonbridge, the Hastings line services run to Tunbridge Wells and Hastings, with some through services from Hastings to London, and the Redhill to Tonbridge Line services run to Redhill: through services on that line to Guildford have been discontinued.

Worshipful Company of Skinners

It has evolved into an educational and charitable institution, supporting schools such as Tonbridge School in Tonbridge, Kent; The Skinners' School in Tunbridge Wells Kent; The Judd School (also in Tonbridge) and Skinners' Academy in Hackney, London.


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