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Post by carlton43 on Mar 13, 2016 23:56:07 GMT
Greeuhert. Your Tonbridge proposals are a nonsense. You have added places that look to Maidstone and never look to Tonbridge for anything at all. Barming and Loose are close in suburbs of Maidstone and Sutton Valence looks more to Ashford than Tonbrige but is an integral part of the sphere of influence of Maidstone as are all the others you suggest. Their buses all go to Maidstone. That is a total non-starter.
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Post by Pete Whitehead on Mar 21, 2016 10:29:13 GMT
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Post by krollo on Mar 23, 2016 18:52:42 GMT
Being but a Northerner, how pitchforky would a Tonbridge and Tunbridge seat be?
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Post by finsobruce on Mar 23, 2016 19:15:09 GMT
Being but a Northerner, how pitchforky would a Tonbridge and Tunbridge seat be? Well as the name of Tunbridge was changed to Tonbridge so that it wasn't confused with the hallowed avenues of the Wells I suspect the curtains would certainly start twitching. |
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Post by Khunanup on Mar 23, 2016 20:02:33 GMT
Being but a Northerner, how pitchforky would a Tonbridge and Tunbridge seat be? Only if you call it High Brooms... |
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Post by iainbhx on Mar 24, 2016 7:46:35 GMT
Being but a Northerner, how pitchforky would a Tonbridge and Tunbridge seat be? It would be disgustingly pitchforky. My first attempt at Kent had a Tonbridge ward in Royal Tunbridge Wells as well as a very odd Dover and Deal |
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Post by Pete Whitehead on Mar 24, 2016 8:38:38 GMT
They were together in the Tonbridge (or Tunbridge) seat prior to 1974. I'm not a Kentish man, but I don't think it would be a particular problem
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Post by finsobruce on Mar 24, 2016 9:52:15 GMT
They were together in the Tonbridge (or Tunbridge) seat prior to 1974. I'm not a Kentish man, but I don't think it would be a particular problem ah, of course. Probably part of the reason Labour never got closer than they did in Tonbridge. |
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Post by carlton43 on Mar 24, 2016 11:28:30 GMT
Being but a Northerner, how pitchforky would a Tonbridge and Tunbridge seat be? Perfectly good fit. Tonbridge is the old town and Tunbridge Wells the new boy and the far newer constituency. |
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Post by carlton43 on Mar 24, 2016 11:32:31 GMT
Being but a Northerner, how pitchforky would a Tonbridge and Tunbridge seat be? Well as the name of Tunbridge was changed to Tonbridge so that it wasn't confused with the hallowed avenues of the Wells I suspect the curtains would certainly start twitching. Are you sure of that? Tonbridge is ancient and a very old constituency. The Wells is a latter day Georgian invention and I imagined it was the one with the new name? |
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Post by finsobruce on Mar 24, 2016 14:21:53 GMT
Well as the name of Tunbridge was changed to Tonbridge so that it wasn't confused with the hallowed avenues of the Wells I suspect the curtains would certainly start twitching. Are you sure of that? Tonbridge is ancient and a very old constituency. The Wells is a latter day Georgian invention and I imagined it was the one with the new name? Carlton, Indeed it is true. While it is possible/likely that it had (like surnames) been spelt both ways down the centuries by the 19th century (at the latest) the choice had settled on Tunbridge. Then the Wells grew up and in 1870 the Post office ruled that the older place was officially Tonbridge to avoid confusion... Jane Austen's father was born there. sussexhistoryforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=7450.0;wap2 |
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Post by carlton43 on Mar 24, 2016 17:24:01 GMT
Are you sure of that? Tonbridge is ancient and a very old constituency. The Wells is a latter day Georgian invention and I imagined it was the one with the new name? Carlton, Indeed it is true. While it is possible/likely that it had (like surnames) been spelt both ways down the centuries by the 19th century (at the latest) the choice had settled on Tunbridge. Then the Wells grew up and in 1870 the Post office ruled that the older place was officially Tonbridge to avoid confusion... Jane Austen's father was born there. sussexhistoryforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=7450.0;wap2Thank you. I am astonished. I had always thought it to be the other way round. And I thought the name was stabilized by the railway company not the Post Office. |
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Post by krollo on Mar 24, 2016 17:51:43 GMT
Ready the pitchforks... I attempted Kent and Sussex, with an East/West Sussex border crossing. There are many more options for Kent than for Sussex, and the cross-border seats and environs are disgusting, but it's a start. I'm fairly sure there's the potential for a decent Sussex arrangement, but I have yet to find it...   |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 24, 2016 18:25:41 GMT
"Bays of Herne and Sandwich" is a brilliant name
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Post by carlton43 on Mar 24, 2016 22:11:43 GMT
"Bays of Herne and Sandwich" is a brilliant name Its a crap name. |
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Post by carlton43 on Mar 24, 2016 22:13:25 GMT
"Bays of Herne and Sandwich" is a brilliant name I hope the Boundary Commission goes for Random Rural Bits of Kent over the boring prosaic Weald. No. It needs a proper name based on one or two actual places. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 24, 2016 22:56:25 GMT
"Bays of Herne and Sandwich" is a brilliant name Its a crap name. It's a brilliant name. |
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Post by finsobruce on Mar 25, 2016 1:04:50 GMT
"Bays of Herne and Sandwich" is a brilliant name sounds like an obscure 60s psychedelic album. |
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Post by carlton43 on Mar 25, 2016 9:02:27 GMT
"Bays of Herne and Sandwich" is a brilliant name sounds like an obscure 60s psychedelic album. By Krollo, Bay and Palmer? |
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Post by The Bishop on Mar 25, 2016 11:35:55 GMT
I agree with dok  |
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