#wedding cars Tonbridge

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Tunbridge Wells Taxi Services

Day Hire Taxis and Cars:

Experience the convenience of our hourly taxi service, available for hire throughout the day (minimum 4 hours booking required). Explore central London’s attractions with ease, as our day hire service covers all locations within the city. Ideal for sightseeing tours, contact us for pricing details!

Corporate Meetings & Events Car Rentals:

Book our 24/7 taxi services specializing in corporate transportation to and from all London Airports. Rest assured with our flight monitoring service, ensuring timely pickups with personalized name-signs upon arrival.

Wedding Car Services:

Elevate your special day with our prestigious fleet of AAA chauffeur-driven cars. Choose from a variety of luxury vehicles to suit your wedding needs, whether it’s transporting the bride and groom or accommodating family members. With competitive pricing, luxury is within reach without exceeding your budget.

Roadshow Vehicle Service:

Embark on your roadshow journey with ease by simply contacting us with your itinerary. Our experienced team excels in meticulous planning for both small and large group sizes, ensuring seamless transportation with chauffeur-driven cars, people carriers, or minibuses. Let us handle the details while you focus on your roadshow success.

London Tours Taxis:

Explore London’s landmarks with our trained and professional chauffeurs, dedicated to your comfort and safety throughout the journey. Benefit from their extensive local knowledge as they guide you through the city’s financial and business districts, catering to corporate road shows and other travel needs.

Our Taxi Services & Areas Covered

Airport Transfers:

Bells Yew Green Airport Transfers

Cousley Wood Airport Transfers

Crowborough Airport Transfers

Eridge Airport Transfers

Fordcombe Airport Transfers

Frant Airport Transfers

Lamberhurst Airport Transfers

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Mayfield Airport Transfers

Paddock Wood Airport Transfers

Pembury Airport Transfers

Penshurst Airport Transfers

Speldhurst Airport Transfers

Stonegate Airport Transfers

Ticehurst Airport Transfers

Tonbridge Airport Transfers

Tunbridge Wells Airport Transfers

Wadhurst Airport Transfers

Withyham Airport Transfers

Areas we cover:

Bells Yew Green Taxis

Cousley Wood Taxis

Crowborough Taxis

Eridge Taxis

Fordcombe Taxis

Frant Taxis

Groombridge Taxis

Lamberhurst Taxis

Matfield Taxis

Mayfield Taxis

Paddock Wood Taxis

Pembury Taxis

Penshurst Taxis

Speldhurst Taxis

Stonegate Taxis

Ticehurst Taxis

Tonbridge Taxis

Tunbridge Wells Taxis

Wadhurst Taxis

Withyham Taxis

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Kent Airport Travel: Premier Airport Taxi in Sevenoaks

Drive in style at affordable rate. With Kent Airport Travel, rest assured that you will arrive at your destination securely and right on time. We provide an excellent, professional private hire service in Tunbridge Wells, Sevenoaks, Tonbridge, Paddock Wood and Wadhurst. For more information, visit: https://www.kentairport-transfer.co.uk

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MAIDSTONE STROKE GROUP

SEPTEMBER NEWSLETTER 2021

AT LAST

OUR DOG AND DUCK TRIP

We had waited some 18 months for this day to happen, and on the 18th August it did. Back in 2019 we were awarded a lottery community grant fund which I applied for and we got, this come with certain criteria and conditions which our group meet. We had to state what the money would be used for and how our group would benefit from the grant, this we did and decided the next trip to the dog and duck would be good, the lottery fund agreed and wanted photos of the event when it took place, which is why you were asked to dance waving the community funds flags. Some 38 people attended the dog and duck some by coach and some by their own cars, as far as I am aware everyone enjoyed the day with excellent food and our old friend Geoff Stevens providing the entertainment. We had invited Deal and Distict stroke group and a few were able to attend also invited a few from Kings Lodge in Maidstone which is where one of our members live June Dines who has a carer name Diane Simmonds and a couple were able to attend from their, so shows our group is very inclusive. It was very good to see lots of you getting up and enjoying yourselves, and what can I say about Junes carer Diane what a breath of fresh air taking photos of every one and getting people up to dance even June, In my opinion reminded me of our Ann ( matron ) and how ann used to be, it was excellent to see and hope we can get Diane involved more somehow in our group. I think an excellent day and a huge thank you to John as allways and also The lottery community fund for the grant that contibuted to our outing and maybe we can try again at a latter date. We now have our next outing booked to Brick lane in feb 2022 so if your not booked see John and get your name down before its to late.

Peter Fenton

JOHNS NOTICE BOARD

1. Thankyou everyone for making the outing to the dog&duck a memorable one, it was so nice to see everyone enjoying themselves and quiet a few shaking their tail feather on the dance floor, and a few shaking other things.

2. I am in negotiation with the village hotel maidstone with a view to having our xmas dinner there as we would have done last year, had it not been for covid lockdown. I have suggested a date of thurs 9th dec, as a possibility I am just awaiting some callback on that to confirm.

3. I have sent off the guest list for the Bournemouth break next may so they can allocate the rooms, a deposit of £30 p.p. Is required by November if you can send/give to me, or you may want to pay a bit off gradually as its convenient to you. A reminder that it is fri 27th may to tues 31st may 2022 at a cost of £285 p.p. For 5days(4nights).

4. Another reminder that brick lane panto is weds 23rd feb 2022 at a cost of £50 p.p, we have block booked for 50 people and we are up to 34 at the MOMENT SO 16 more to go, make sure you have booked your place.

5. Tovil club will return to our usual Tuesday slot as of Tuesday 14th September and then fortnightly.

6. As most of you are aware des has not been too well of late and has been hospitalised for a while, I believe he is at home at the moment trying to build up strength for a precedure. Meanwhile pam is in residence at LITTLE COURT CARE HOME 26 ROOPERS, SPELDHURST, TONBRIDGE WELLS, TN 30 QL. WE ALL WISH THEM WELL AND DES A SPEEDY RECOVERY.

BIRTHDAYS

16th September ----  MICK HYDES ( 65 )

20th September ---- SANDY GREGORY

22nd September ---- JOAN MOUNT

24th September ---- DIANE FERRIS ( DEAL&DISTRICT )

MEETINGS

TUESDAY  14TH SEPTEMBER

TUESDAY  28TH SEPTEMBER

TUESDAY  12TH OCTOBER.

Newsletter compiled by Peter Fenton and John Ward

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Kent Airport Transfer service agency offers affordable wedding car hire and airport taxi transfer in Tonbridge. Call 01892 670780 today for Tonbridge taxi to the airport.

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Platinum Cars-Wedding Cars Kent

Platinum Cars are a luxury chauffeur service based in Maidstone , Kent. Our niche services include Wedding Cars Kent and Wedding Car Hire Kent . With our luxury fleet of E , S AND V Class Mercedes Benz AMG Executive Wedding Cars you will be guaranteed to arrive in pure luxury on your wedding day. For the ultimate in luxury and style we have our Brand New Rolls Royce Phantom Series 2 Wedding Cars and Luxury Range Rover Autobiography Long Wheel Base. All of our luxury wedding cars are washed and polished on the morning of the wedding day then fully dressed with wedding ribbons and bows in the colour of your choice with a floral display at the rear of the wedding car an optional extra. A complimentary bottle of champagne for the bride and groom to toast their wedding day is standard with our wedding car packages.All of our wedding chauffeurs are smart,professional,discreet and will always go above and beyond to ensure your wedding day is everything you dreamed it would be and more. We cover all of the Kent region including Maidstone,Ashford,Dartford,Gravesend,Gillingham,West Malling,Rochester,Chatham,Sevenoaks,Tonbridge and Tunbridge Wells. Read the full article

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Shell - Landmarks

Both beautiful and inspiring, the artwork that Shell used on their posters was a shift in advertising for two reasons: They were selling the ambitions of the motorist beyond commuting; a generation of day-trippers without trains. Also they were presenting modern art to the public in an era when museums charged admission. The posters were pasted on the sides of petrol stations, lorries and billboards with that simple line “You Can Be Sure of Shell”.

 Edward Scroggie - Temple Bar

The respectability of motor touring was reinforced by the list of artists commissioned by Shell. It reads like a Who’s Who of the British art establishment of the period - Paul Nash, Graham Sutherland, Vanessa Bell, Ben Nicholson, Rex Whistler and Edward McKnight Kauffer - who between them produced some of the finest examples of commercial art while promoting a nostalgic view of England at the same time. At this stage of the century the motor car itself was not perceived as a threat to the countryside. Buying a car meant buying into a new world. ‡

 Richard Guyatt - Ralph Allen’s Sham Castle

Ralph Allen’s Sham Castle: Ralph Allen was an entrepreneur, philanthropist and was notable for his reforms to the British postal system. He his home, Prior Park, a Palladian house, built to demonstrate the properties of Bath stone as a building material, Allen happened to own a few stone mines in Bath. On the creast of Bathwick Hill facing the city of Bath is the colloquially dubbed “Ralph Allen’s Sham Castle”, built in 1755. Guyatts poster is the most modernist in this post, making use of positive and negative line drawing in the shade and light. 

 Edward McKnight Kauffer - Dinton Castle, Near Aylesbury

Dinton Castle:

A most charming, innocent folly, standing on a little mound by the Aylesbury-Thame road and circled by pine trees. It was built in 1769 by Sir John Vanhatten to house his collection of fossils, some of which are let into the random rubble walls. The plan is a hexagon with towers at two opposite corners, one for fireplaces and the other for a spiral staircase. ♠

 Graham Sutherland - Bringham Rock, Yorkshire

Bringham Rock, Yorkshire.

Sutherland visited this site in the autumn of 1935 at the suggestion of Jack Beddington, who wanted it to figure as one of a series of Shell posters. The result is a dreamlike lithograph, more in the style of Paul Nash. There are other rock structures on the site, all unique. ♣

There are many variations of rock formations, caused by Millstone Grit being eroded by water, glaciation and wind, some of which have formed amazing shapes. ♣

 Paul Nash - Kimmeridge Folly, Dorset

Kimmeridge Folly, Dorset When Paul Nash was working for Shell in 1937 it was to produce the Shell Guide of Dorset. He relocated for the project. His boss for the guide was not just Jack Beddington but also John Betjeman. It was Betjeman who suggested he paint Kemmeridge Folly for the ‘Landmark’s’ campaign. Paul Nash was paid 50 guineas when the picture was accepted as a poster in 1938.

 Denton Welch - Hadlow Castle, Kent

Hadlow Castle, Kent

The first few months of 1937 saw Denton working on a large-scale panel of Hadlow Castle, a building some three miles east of Tonbridge. Although the main part of the house dated from the end of the eighteenth century and had been inspired by Strawberry Hill, the 170-foot tower, built between 1938-40, was modelled on William Beckford’s Fonthill. The whole ambience of the place appealed greatly to Denton’s love of the Gothic. His naive painting, which shows the puny tower rising above the other parts like a coffee-iced wedding cake, was designed specifically to be reproduced as a poster. †

Hadlow Castle was built on the site of Hadlow Court Lodge, a country house. The Castle was built over a number of years from the late 1780s, commissioned by Walter May in an ornate Gothic style, it became known as May’s Folly. The architect was J. Dugdale.

His son, Walter Barton May inherited the estate in 1823. It was he, who added a 170 feet (52 m) octagonal tower in 1838, the architect was George Ledwell Taylor. The tower was based in part on James Wyatt’s at Fonthill Abbey. A 40 feet (12 m) octagonal lantern was added two years later in 1840 and another smaller tower was added in 1852. This was dismantled in 1905. Walter Barton May died in 1858 and the estate was sold.

The property passed from many owners in the early twentieth century. During the Second World War it was used as a watchtower by the Home Guard and Royal Observer Corps. The unoccupied castle changed hands several times after the war too, until it was demolished in 1951, except for the servants’ quarters, several stables and the Coach House, which was saved due to campaigning from the society portrait painter and local resident, Bernard Hailstone. The Tower was Listed as a historic structure on 17 April 1951.

† Denton Welch: Writer and Artist by James Methuen-Campbell, 2003 ‡ The English Landscape in the Twentieth Century by Trevor Rowley 2006 ♠ Follies & Grottoes by Barbara Jones, 1953 ♣ Wikipedia: Brimham Rocks

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Tips for hiring a Tonbridge wedding cars

We all pine to make our nuptial ceremony turn out to be the best day of our life. As individuals we try and titivate ourselves in style so that we could grab accolades from the guest. At the same time we make sure that the wedding venue that we select or the foods that are to be catered should be unparallel.

We try and make sure to append the best apparel so that we turn out to be the cynosure of all eyes. One thing that you should keep in mind is to hire a cab that would ferry you to the wedding destination. Listed below are quite a few tips that would allow you to know the approach of booking a Tonbridge wedding cars:

Book your wedding transportation at least six months before-

To make sure that you can get the best wedding vehicle, you can go for the booking well in advance. If you are going for a vintage car or a rare car, it is being advised to go for the booking nine months in advance.

Keeping the budget in mind-

If you are all in readiness to book your wedding cab, then you need to work on your budget. What it does is, it would help you in making a realistic plan and search out for budget friendly cabs.

The wedding theme-

If you are going for a theme wedding, then you need to choose a car, that would not only suit your theme, but it would complement it. If the particular car does not match your wedding, then it would seem outdated and it would not match up with the style quotient.

Asking about the decorations-

There are numerous tonbridge executive cars companies that do not really permit to decorate the vehicle. So you need ask the owners of the company if they are allowing you to decorate the vehicle or not.

Getting to know about the reliability-

While you book a car for your wedding, it is extremely important to be sure about the reliability of the car renting company. You need to make sure that the credibility drivers or chauffeurs operating these cabs. At the same time the proven track record of the particular company is to be verified.

Carry out a few researches and make your wedding remain special till eternity.

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Tonbridge executive car Do not worry how you will arrive on your destination, trust that our chauffer are professional and will get you there sound and safe. Airport Car Services specialises in chauffeur driven, longer distance and special occasion travel including wedding car hire. Experience travelling in style with our Tonbridge executive car. For more information, visit: https://www.airport-car-services.co.uk

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From “Our Street: East End Life in the Second World War”:

...I was surprised yet again – this time when reading through the local east London newspapers that were being published little more than a month before war was declared.  I had not expected to see how 'ordinary' much of the news coverage seemed to be, and how nonchalant were the references to what was brewing across the Channel – despite the ever-increasing possibility of war breaking out. Headlines concerned themselves with Stepney council's response to the district auditor, who had criticized the inappropriate use of the mayoral car and an expensive claim that had been put in for a trip to Paris.  It wasn't until page 5 that there was any mention of matters that would prove to have such a profound impact on the year's entire population for the next six years.

This was in a report on arrangements for shelters.  Stepney Borough Council's ARP Committee had discussed the matter, but they were not exactly cracking on with the arrangements, and overall there was no particular sense of urgency.

Whether or not the lightness of tone in the papers was adopted or imposed as a matter of national policy, it reads today as being either remarkably composed or incredibly gung-ho.

By the following week, there was, almost incidentally, a little piece announcing, 'Black out.  Lights go out at 12.30 a.m. next Thursday morning.  The streets of Poplar and Stepney will be darker than they have been since the war...' – the 'war', of course, being a reference to 1914-18.  But inside the same edition is a far bigger piece, accompanied by a large map, showing Bank Holiday tours of Kent and East Sussex as recommended by the Automobile Association, and an item celebrating the joys of a Belgian camping holiday to be enjoyed by 500 lucky East End children.  The choice of venue might, with hindsight, seem a little curious, not to say positively dangerous.

News of the council's progress regarding shelters was slipped in between stories about IRA threats to the mainland, supplies of continental sugar candy to be found in the West India Dock, the dental care of Bethnal Green toddlers and personal ads offering the services of 'psycho-analysis' for those 'in trouble' and euphemistically-described 'medical samples and advice', which were 'free to the married'.

A few weeks later and it wasn't until page 6 – in a piece about the imminent hop-picking season – that the possibility of war was even mentioned.  At the end of the item, pickers were told that they should take their own gas-masks with them when they left for Kent at the beginning of September, as Tonbridge Rural District Council did not have sufficient reserves for the temporary incomers.  Other than that, the rest of the inside of the paper had a regular diet of late-summer weddings, sports reports and short pieces on petty crime, including in this edition, a story about a rag-and-bone man having been fined five shillings for giving children goldfish and inflatable balls in exchange for rags (the offence he had committed was putting the children in danger of infection, though whether from the rags, the fish or the balls was not made clear).  However, the back page did have a letter from the No-Conscription League, and a very positive item about the effectiveness of the blackout in the docks.

Astonishingly, even as late as Saturday 26th August, the headlines were still not looking to Europe, but were dedicated to a very sad but parochial story about the drowning of a young lighterman.  In retrospect, despite the numbers who would die in the conflict to come, it reminds us that every death is a tragedy for someone.  Inside the paper, there were two full columns devoted to a picturesque cycling route for those wishing to visit friends during the coming hop harvest, alongside a far briefer appeal from County Hall for volunteers to assist mothers with under-fives, should there be a need for mass evacuation in the event of a 'national emergency'.

That same edition carried an article about 'our friend the dog' and an ad for a Stimo dog food that 'wags tails' at just 4 ½ d a pop – the same doggy friends, presumably, who would, in just a few weeks' time, be destroyed in their tens of thousands in a patriotic gesture to save food.

But the possibility of that national emergency was not enough of a threat to prevent a complaining note on the back page following the traffic chaos that resulted from troops returning to London through the Blackwall Tunnel after manouevres.

It isn't until September 2nd 1939 – the day before the declaration of war – that the tone eventually changed.

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Reputed Taxi Services Online For Airport Transfer, Wedding, Leisure And Business Trips

Traveling from one place to another can be a common and usual requirement of many people residing various corners of the city. For this occasional transfer, it may not be feasible and practically possible to rely on public transport and similarly it would not be possible to take the own car everywhere we move. In these cases we would need a mode of transport that would be like our own in terms of friendly service and comfort, and would pick us up and drop to the desired destination as soon as possible.

There are online taxi services that offer door to door transport services for various reasons. Aspirants can book their drive well in advance for transport to wedding venues, airports and even business or long distance leisure trips along with a group. The charges would be based on the distance of travel and the specialist drivers provided would take the customers through the safest and shortest routes so that they would reach the desired destination comfortably and quickly.

Aspirant travelers can book Airport transfer tonbridge to get a drop to the airport well within the scheduled reporting time for a flight they would be planning to take. The passengers can select the class of the car they would like to move in and the expected time to reach the airport. The customers can book taxis online through the online booking facility that avails additional 5% discount on the subsequent rides.

It is very easy and convenient to book Hildenborough airport taxis a trip to reach the airport. The online booking service also provides search option through which it would be possible to located the nearest taxi and interact with the subsequent driver to get to know the estimated time for pick up from the location. Thus passengers can book the drive from wherever they are well before the time of departure of the flight.

Passengers can book airport transfer Kent for round trip to airport as well. If both arrival at the airport and the departure for return journey would be reserved, passengers can hire airport taxi for their entire short term stay in the city. According to their arrival at the airport the driver would receive the passengers at the airport with a sign board in hand displaying their name. Now, the taxi and the driver would remain with the passenger till they come back to the airport completing all their scheduled assignments during the visit.

The comfortable and luxurious airport taxi would take the passengers to their hotel where they would have put up for the short trip. Later the taxi would take them to their desired destinations according to their schedule of meetings. The same taxi can be used for a short leisure trip in the evening to a tourist destination and then to a restaurant for a dinner meeting. Finally, after taking the entire luggage from the hotel the taxi would drop the passengers back to the airport to allow them to catch the return flight.

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Ride in Style at Kent Airport Travel

You can ride in style with the car of your choose when you book for your offer airport transfers, airport taxis and chauffeur driven wedding cars at Kent Airport Travel. Since 2005, we have been providing excellent, professional private hire service in Tunbridge Wells, Sevenoaks, Tonbridge, Paddock Wood and Wadhurst. For more information, visit: https://www.kentairport-transfer.co.uk

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Riding an airport taxi is made enjoyable by Kent Airport Travel. We provide an excellent, professional private hire service in Tunbridge Wells, Sevenoaks, Tonbridge, Paddock Wood and Wadhurst.

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11th September, Muggsy’s Bugle

August MSG meeting

With John’s absence at the MSG meeting on 31st August, some 20  people actually bothered to turn up and lots of conspiracy theories were being suggested. All toi no avail though as John had gone to a friends wedding on Lake Garda, Italy, with Jude. The meeting continued as usual with a few hiccups and a different bingo caller, Mick, who made a sterling job.

Baby News

Lee and Peter Savage on the 9th August last, became grandparents for the first time when their son and daughter in law had a baby boy, who they named Bear, Crichton, Elijah and Peter, Lee and their daughter made the journey to Glasgow by car to visit their new family member

Big Mick Barham also became a grandfather, as his daughter, Kennedy, gave birth to a bouncing baby boy, who weighed in at 7lb 1oz. No names as yet.

We send warm congratulations to Lee and Big Mick.

Fred Lucette

Fred enjoyed his 80th  birthday with family and friends on Saturday 11th August last, at the Pilgrim’s Rest Home.

Bob Sawyer and Viv Sinclair

Marion and Les Dujigg met up with Bob recently  in Tonbridge and said that he was in the pink healthwise and that he said that he would be trying to attend the Group meetings soon. Viv was doing well and settling in to her new Dementia Home in Gravesend.

Christine Thomas

At the Group meeting on 17th August last we had a visit from one Chris Thomas the new Community Matters officer from the ASDA  store at King’s Hill. She came to find out just what we got up to and will be putting forward our Group into their community collection scheme and also attending our 20th Anniversary night and will hopefully bring along a rasffle donastion or two on behalf of ASDA.

Kathryn Norman

John has just heard from the aforementioned Kathryn Norman, that the Waitrose branch at King’s Hill during August had managed to collect £120 for the Group in their Community Matters scheme and that there is a cheque waiting to be collected.  Excellent news.

Kent Fire and Rescue Service

John has arranged a short talk to be given by Anna and  Taylie from the Kent Fire and Rescue Service, including projector pictures and short films for the Group meeting on Tuesday 23rd October

Martin Hartley

We have been informed that Martin will be moving to a flat in the Allington area on 7th September. Hopefully this is more suitable and we wisg him well.

Hope for Stroke Survivors

Stroke survivors could be spared a second stroke thanks to a matchstick sizes implant implanted into their chest. An undiagnosed heasrt rhythm  problem , called an Atrial Fibrillation, which affects  around a million Britons, is believed to be responsible for as many as 30,000 of the 200,000 stroke affected people every year. The Reveal Linq device  is an insertable cardiac monitor that records the heart rhythm for 24 hours a day , transmitting the information  via WiFi back to the patient;s GP. Several NHS CCG’sd are now using the device in stroke patients to establish whether an abnormal heartbeat caused their initial stroke.More information can be found on Medtronic. com

Kathy Ritchie

We wish Kathy a very successful outcome to her operation  and a very speedy recovery from every member of the MSG.

MSG 20th Anniversary 

Not too long to go now and lets hope that we have sold enough tickets to make this jaunt on 28th September next a real success

Birthday dates

MSG forthcoming birthdays for September., Mick Hydes on 16th, Sandy Gregory 20th ans Joan Mount on 22nd

Meeting dates

Dates for this coming month of September  are Tuesday 11th and Tuesday 25th

Compiled by Muggsy, ably supported by his wife Roof