Talk:Tonbridge

Tonbridge School
The article describes Tonbridge School as 'prestigious'. It is, undoubtedly, somewhat prestigious, but for local people it is the preferred option (if they can afford it) if offspring fail to gain a place in a grammar school. An interesting notion of 'prestigious'. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.102.167.176 (talk) 08:32, 7 August 2013 (UTC)


 * (reffered to as famous sounds like promotional material, non-objective 2A00:23C7:C18A:A001:9C29:417A:9A05:F109 (talk) 17:17, 16 February 2024 (UTC)

Tonbridge today
Balance needed!!

The two most recent contributions to this page have both been mainly ones of opinion, rather than objective facts. In the interests of both points of view, I have combined and rewritten the two contributions. My arguments for doing this are written below (note that I wrote these BEFORE rewriting the article).

While the contributor "202.161.103.6" on 20 July overstated the downsides a bit unrealistically (it isn't "full of graffiti and petty crime", certainly no more than most places - but the abundance of "cheap shops" is a fair claim), the most recent by "195.188.27.33" mentions the word "visit" several times, and lines like "a joy to visit" don't tend to appear in many encyclopedias I've read. It is pretty obvious that the latter contributor is writing as someone who has recently visited the town, rather than someone who has lived here and seen the changes of the last 10-15 years. The fact that "there is plentiful parking, all at ground level" could alternatively be read that too much land is being taken up by sprawling car parks.

I would have thought a toned down version of both contributions would be more appropriate. The downsides alluded to in the first contribution could be stated as: "There has been criticism from many local residents at the abundance of restaurants, 'cheap' shops and charity shops, and comparative lack of major high street brands. Recent moves to improve edge-of-town shopping facilities, particularly increasing the range of supermarkets, has met with stiff opposition from high street traders.  The town also suffers from its proximity to large shopping centres such as Maidstone and Bluewater." Unless there are crime figures that suggest Tonbridge is far worse for petty crime than anywhere else (frankly I doubt it), I suggest this is not included at all, otherwise out of fairness it would need to be included in all similar articles.

--Halsteadk 10:58, 30 July 2005 (UTC) (Tonbridge resident)

- A quick note - Highly questionable addition of Hayesbrook school to the Wikipedia - clearly by a Hayesbrook pupil or teacher.

Sports facilities
I believe that further entries should be made to highlight the vast array of sporting facilities in Tonbridge. Just a few clubs include: Tonbridge Angels Football Club (from junior through to the Ryman League) Tonbridge Juddians Rugby Club Angel Indoor Bowls Club Tonbridge Sailing Club Athletics facilities at Tonbridge School Tennis at the Racecourse Sportsground Swanmead Sports Ground Longmead Sports Ground including Skate Park and the many teams based at the Angel Centre.

Perhaps someone from TMBC or Tonbridge Sports Association may consider contributing. We have an Olympics to look forward to almost on our doorstep, perhaps Tonbridge may benefit from this?

Must now include a mention of the new, highly successful Tonbridge Half Marathon, first run on 25 September 2011 and will be established as an annual event — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.172.4.91 (talk) 19:48, 1 October 2011 (UTC)

Securitas robbery
Ref edit by 86.141.171.214 - Please try to keep details of this in the Securitas depot robbery article (especially specific numbers which may change frequently and would need to be updated to keep two articles in sync). Oh, and please don't remove the link! Halsteadk 12:39, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

The town name
The Post Office, in renaming the town as it is commonly held to have done, completed igored the fact that its pronunciation, whether spelt Ton- or Tun- still does not rhyme with gone-bridge!!! Peter Shearan 16:25, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

Spelling of town name in article
Should the spelling used be Tunbridge when referring to events before 1870, as Tonbridge did not exist then? Mjroots (talk)

Wikipedia convention is to usually use the current legal name & redirect other names: eg Breslau; Stalingrad; Leningrad; Salisbury, Rhodesia; while making allowance for disputes & usage eg Derry.Mattymmoo (talk) 21:20, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

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Does anybody remember the old wallpaper shop in Tonbridge Kent during the early 1960s?

90.198.153.105 (talk) 10:32, 16 October 2012 (UTC)

Assessment comment
Substituted at 09:02, 30 April 2016 (UTC)

Lede
- re your removals from the lede. I can accept the removal of the historic spelling for the reasons you gave, but why remove the IPA pronunciation? It is there to show that "Ton" rhymes with "dun" and not "don". Mjroots (talk) 06:14, 29 March 2018 (UTC)
 * No reply in a week, I've restored the IPA to the lede. Mjroots (talk) 16:08, 3 April 2018 (UTC)

Population source
you changed the population here, adding ref name of "UK Office for national statistics", but forgot to define that reference. Could you please fill in your source? Thanks.&#32;-- Fyrael (talk) 20:06, 26 May 2021 (UTC)