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If you are a seller for this product, would you like to suggest updates through seller support? Nigel Cawthorne read physics at University College, London, but switched to journalism and writing after his degree. He currently lives in Bloomsbury, London, within striking distance of his favourite hunting ground for curious facts the British Library. Why, by having the paths covered with fresh liquid tar.

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The British have always loved to complain and we do it very well. But the people of Tunbridge Wells turned it into an art that became a figure of speech: This first-ever collection of letters culled from the archive of the defunct Tunbridge Wells Advertiser, shows what makes complaining so much fun. Decrying everything from telephones to shoddy pavements and excessive singing, and providing irritable, entertaining and often touching missives, Outraged of Tunbridge Wells encapsulates the charm, compassion, mischief and madness of our nation.

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On eventually arriving, it usually has three carriages, and very often one is reserved. I, myself, this week on one occasion had to let five buses go and not until the sixth was I able to get on. No doubt if you publish this a good many women will want to pull my hair out, but I take that chance, knowing full well the menfolk will agree I am correct.

So come along, ladies, look after your husband. Shop early and help him get home in comfort and good time. This is simply pandering to the fashion of the day, and is utterly unworthy of the heads of the Church. The Bible is an eternal book written for all time, and all talk about modern times and modern thought is worthless. Not only is their teaching erroneous, but seeking, as they do, to draw young girls over to Utah, they become a danger to women.

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And they may be seen and heard day after day in Tunbridge Wells, talking with maid-servants at the doors, seeking to ensnare them. SIR — I have seen people come into parks with a dog on a lead and immediately let it off the lead to relieve itself, and then children run around and sit in some of this filth.

A lady a few doors away from me slipped on some in Norman Road and broke her wrist and was attending the hospital for some weeks. Make it an offence for any dog to be about the streets, and if it has no collar and nameplate, have it destroyed. I will merely point out that it is a crime of the meanest and most contemptible kind, and one against which every right-minded person should protest. Nothing can be said in its defence.

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I remain, Sir, disgusted after all these years...