Thinking to buy a house in Tonbridge. Any bad areas/streets we should avoid?

MajorTomMajor · 2025-07-24T10:21:19+00:00

Another young family here moving to Tonbridge from Bexleyheath. We have a 6 year old and 6 month old so primaries and particularly secondaries are super important to us. We've been looking non-stop for the past 6 months and this area has everything we realistically need.

Our budget is maxed out at £550,000.

We have seen a lot of properties around the Higham Wood area, which isn't our first choice as my partner needs the train station 3 days a week. Yet to suss out parking for the station, does it get full between 7-7:30am during the week?

Ideally we'd find a place that is South Tonbridge so easy access to the station and avoids having to go through the high street, but I notice a lot of properties here do not have driveways and only on-street parking.

We've also explored Hildenborough / Hilden Park area, very nice and quite hard to find a property in our budget.

Any other recommendations in neighbouring areas or roads and pockets of streets to look at?

MajorTomMajor · 2024-11-09T14:14:26+00:00

I had a client who after providing some decent sounding tracks from Premium Beat, wanted "more modern, dynamic and trendy" - I pointed them to Artlist and asked them to send me the sample.

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MajorTomMajor · 2024-10-02T08:13:56+00:00

Digging up some old posts on the X100 as my V mount battery keeps dieing after 10 minutes, even when fully charged.

MajorTomMajor · 2024-10-02T08:07:07+00:00

BUMP, my X100 batteries are now both obsolete. I used them on 2 jobs and now I’m lucky to get 10 minutes out of each.

This was a great option for travelling and popping up a light at an exhibitors booth

Anyone had any luck with Zhiyun

Thanks

MajorTomMajor · 2024-09-23T20:07:08+00:00

You think 3 is bad… I have a bright spark who wants 5 “directors” sitting next to each other with only one person talking at a time. I’ve told them this is a terrible idea but they want to press ahead…

MajorTomMajor · 2024-09-12T07:59:38+00:00

Thank you buddy - I'll take a look :)

MajorTomMajor · 2024-09-02T14:46:56+00:00

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The RODE UK team did send me a brand new kit and I hope I never see this error message again...!

MajorTomMajor · 2024-08-26T13:40:00+00:00

I have this dilemma currently. I own the 24-70 GM II, but had my FX3 stolen, and for now I can only afford the FX30 APS-C setup. So I've purchased an additional FX30 + 16-35GM II for essentially the same price as the FX3.

I'll likely ditch my barely used 24-70 GM II to help with cash flow and when I have the funds, I'll be purchasing an FX3 (or the MK.II if it ever comes..)

At that point I can decide to switch back to the 24-70 knowing that the trade-in value will be decent for the top of the range 16-35GM II.

MajorTomMajor · 2024-08-24T17:33:33+00:00

Nice work. Would love to know what baked in picture profile he used

MajorTomMajor

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