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Shops and Hobbies in Tunbridge Wells, Kent*

Tunbridge Wells, Kent Clothes, Magazines, Art, Galleries, Hobbies

Clothes Shops, Shoe Shops, Fashion and Bargains

• In gear, pacific blue, and pacific girl, cherry pie, fat face, buddies are good places to buy cool clothes
• Rumble fish is a brand new shop which has just opened in the precint, next to RVP. It sells cool scarfs, hats, headbands, belts, tights, socks etc. Funky alternative heaven!!!
• Buddies, Route one , pacific girl and pacific blue
• TOPSHOP>>>>the best clothes shop in town!
• Anywhere with a decent summer sale on!
• RVP and the ones outside RULE
• none really, tey're all crap.
• InGear - great if u REALLY wana get away from all the New Look frills
• buddies is a good shop although some clothes rip and after spending 5 mins in there you feel like you wanna scream!It's sssooooooooo crowded.
• Next, River Island, Gas Station, Fenwicks. For the skater's there's Route one thats moved recently, and PAcific Blue
• Buddies, Pacific Blue, Fenwicks for Miss Sixty and other hip labels, Route One..
• Yes, every type you could imagine, the shopping in Tunbridge Wells is brilliant.
• None unless you want old ladies' clothes
• fenwicks for miss sixty,chilli pepper and even playboy.......the buddies £5 sale(neva ends and getting cheaper)pacific blue 1 and 2...all my mates working in the same shop,very handy!
• Buddies is the only place to be seen buying baggy jeans, which must be bought long enough (minimum 3 inches below ground level) for severe tearing and ripping of the bottoms to occur. They also provide a variety of cool hoodies and tops.
• New Next...........Sports Soccer & Hargreaves had complete refits...........Fenwicks....Savoy Taylors Guild....it all depends on what flicks ure switch
• Ingear-Quite away along Camden Road, no ones metioned it, its a great shop. Its just like a smaller version of camden market, also near Inskin-very dodgy piercings, dont recommend it unless u want it to get infected.
• In Gear
• Fenwicks (for expensive designer labels), Woods opposite Pizza Hut stock Armani and Ted Baker etc. Their are loads of cool skaters shops down Camden Road which also has "In Gear" T.Wells only smoking shop (if you like that sort of thing)!
• Too many to mention, we do have RVP
• A good selection of clothing shops for both male, female and children. In RVP theres Next, River Island, Burtons, Top Shop, Oasis, La Senza, Fenwicks, Ciro Cittereo, Blakes and other accessory shops icluding retailers selling jewelery, ties, watches, sunglasses etc. Out side on the old Calverley Road theres New Look and The Officers Store, but if you have a lot of money to spend then you can head down to the old High Street and there you can find a lot of little shops selling designer gear.
• 1)Fewnwick-way too expensive 2)River Island-please stock longer trousers, we aren't all 5ft models! 3)Top Shop-kinda small, but ok 4)Buddies-WE LOVE YOU!but still kinda expensive!
• buddies - bad clothes rip off shack -, route one - good clothes rip off shack -
• Bog Standard chain stores, but for a bit of a difference try Buddies, stocks some cool individual stuff.
• Air walk (Ely court), Pacific blue (camden road), Skaters UK (accross the road from the station)
• It's a choice of Skaters UK in Vale Road opposite Safeways, or Air Circus in Ely Court, between Camden Road and Royal Victoria Place.

Arts, crafts and such (Anything from pukka art galleries to craft shops. Trendy and twee both welcome.)

• theres the tunbridge wells art centre and a cool little shop called "beesknees" which sells loads of crafty things including earrings and beads- me and my friends have so many homemade earrings! theres another actual art shop across the road from that. (cant remember the name :s ) theres a plane/trian/other makeable models shop on upper grosvenor road.
• south has a gallery upstairs
• Euca down by Morrisons
• You can normally pick up some great finds in and around the High Street and Pantiles. They have all these little specialised craft, toy or card shops and again, some great Charity shops. I've found some good CD's in the second Oxfam near the Pantiles.
• Trinity Theatre is ace.
• Has anyone been to the Art Gallery next to Laura Ashley in Calverley Road, and does it have a website?? It is owned by an fantastic plant artist? (there is a special name for this,but I cant remember it) Any help please
• inskin for all your tatooing needs.
• Get out to the surrounding countryside. Kent is heaving with it!
• Loads down the Pantiles
• Trinity is at least something.
• Assembly Hall has had a massive refurb and has a great line up of shows. Opera is great there - particularly Madame Butterfly - and they bring in the best companies. The bar is pretty swanky now with low lighting. Trinity also worth keeping an eye on, especially the world cinema.
• The high street is full of art and craft shops
• The main art gallery next to the museum in the centre is really nice. it's small and you could easily miss it but when you need to escape and fall into another world it really does serve a purpose
• High Street, funky shops.
• ppl wit d wires r sooooo kool dey shood all go ridin on ponies
• You must go and see 'A Day At The Wells' on The Pantiles! Is that still open? It's GREAT! Royal, Royal Tunbridge Wells!
• shut down...one good artist in town...MR DAnes (old art teacher)
• kinda a long walk from town and expensive too, goddamnit!
• Loads of plonkers weaving kaftans AND rambling on about kafka. Arse. Loads in Tunbridge Wells though.

Magazine and Comic Shops

• Quix!
• Martins the newsagents - small but ok
• Newsagent???
• No we used to have a shop specialising in American Comics but it wasn't making enough and had to close down - we were all gutted!
• WH, and loads of newsagents
• No all closed
• A year ago two opened at the same time, and rapidly put each other out of business.

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