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Great post! Stunned by taxi offer and great photo of Ellen Terry's house.
Jan Jones | Homepage | 11.10.10 - 8:52 a.m. | #
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Did you not take a look at the Kent and East Sussex Railway, based in Tenterden?
Tony Martin | 11.10.10 - 9:02 a.m. | #
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I'm shocked - how could you possibly mention Sarah Siddons without mentioning the incredibly tenuous link with London Underground? :)
martin | Homepage | 11.10.10 - 9:20 a.m. | #
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My god, have you done an assertiveness course you've omitted to tell us about? ;)
BW Blue Star for asking if anything could be done in that situation, and getting a taxi (mind you, did you have to pay and then reclaim it?) :)
dg writes: I was just nice (and asked my question in as clear a way as possible).
And the journey was completely free, nothing to pay at all (apart from a decent tip).
In penance, we got stuck behind an Austin 8 most of the way there.
Blue Witch | Homepage | 11.10.10 - 10:55 a.m. | #
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I hate to be picky, but I very much doubt whether Ellen Terry knew Sarah Siddons, since Ellen Terry was born in 1847 and Sarah Siddons died in 1831.
dg writes: Point taken. Sarah swapped for Ivor.
Otherwise an excellent article. I went to Tenterden a month or so ago, chiefly to ride on the K&ESR, and a taxi from Headcorn to Tenterden cost £20, so the man at Ashford did you a real favour.
Baldassaro | 11.10.10 - 10:57 a.m. | #
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I drove through Tenterden yesterday. Twice. You should have waved.
Funnily enough, we were discussing if it would be a nice place to live. My wife, who likes cafes and Waitrose, said yes. I said no, on the basis that there isn't much there (aside from the steam trains) and it's all a bit twee. But then there isn't much here in Ruralville, either.
graybo | Homepage | 11.10.10 - 12:25 p.m. | #
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You went too late to see the most famous thing - the offices of Estate Publications, who were publishers of the Red Book maps - basically the only decent maps available of anywhere outside London before Geographers A-Z map company deigned to explore anywhere beyond Borough Green.
Their boardroom was straight out of a Seventies sitcom, but the maps were good. Sadly, time caught up with them, and no doubt Google Maps provided the final nail in the coffin.
Still, I have happy memories of the ludicrous drive I always ended up doing as I'd have an appointment with them, then one in Hastings, then another in the centre of Ashford, then have to go to the depot in Canterbury, then drive back to London.
Christopher Griffin | 11.10.10 - 12:38 p.m. | #
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Love it, and it looks beautiful. I saw you post the photos to Flickr yesterday so was wondering the connection. Now I see - 10/10/10 of course!
Jon Combe | 11.10.10 - 1:37 p.m. | #
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Now that's the sort of adventure one just can't do (without a car) out here in the Wild West of America! I miss England. :(
Thanks for letting me live vicariously. :)
CornishCockney | 11.10.10 - 6:18 p.m. | #
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I think Terry-Thomas was also some kind of relative but changed his name so as not to play on it.
Debster | Homepage | 11.10.10 - 7:30 p.m. | #
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