Recently we were delighted to be contacted by Roy Beattie, great grandson of Alfred Romary the biscuit baker to Royalty. On researching the family tree Roy found his grandmother Annie was the eldest of Alfred’s nine children, who lived opposite the bakery. His parents worked at Romary’s in Tunbridge Wells where Roy was born. More…

When Archbishop Thomas Becket was murdered in 1170 by four knights it was probably the gruesome way it happened – and within the sanctity of the Cathedral itself – that created such enormous outrage across European Christendom. And then the pilgrimages started … much encouraged by reports of miracles in and around the murder site. More…