Man Of Kent?

A Memory of Tunbridge Wells.

I was born in June 1944. My mother started labour in Farmcombe Rd (the Sussex end of TW) but delivered in the Kent & Sussex (the Kent end of TW). The Kent Sussex border ran (does it still?) by the St Johns church, Pantiles. Does this make me born in Kent or Sussex?
My mother told me the story of looking out the Farmcombe Rd bedroom window, on or near the day I was born, and seeing a fighter plane going by with it's engine spluttering then a great big bang. She realised later it wasn't a fighter...? In my youth I was wandering along the path between the Spa and the back of Linden Park cricket pavilion (Wellington rocks area) when I noticed a large sign there marking the spot where the first doodlebug landed.... in June 1944. The plane she had seen go by the window was the doodlebug.
I have lived in Australia for many years but a few years ago, while in TW I wandered along the path from the Spa to the cricket pavilion but the sign was no more ?!
Just to prompt anyone's memory... who remembers catching the hop-picking bus from Calverley Rd to Bowmans in Hawkenbury. Or exploring the tunnels under the large government building, at Dunorlan, overlooking the lake in the fifties, or sledging down the slope towards the bandstand in Calverley Gardens.


Added 07 June 2021

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