NEWS
CATCHPOLE & RYE – OFFICIAL OPENING 1st JUNE IN TUNBRIDGE WELLS
POP UP PARK TO OPEN AT WESTWOOD CROSS
Set to delight families throughout the summer season, Westwood Cross will be home to a Pop Up Park for the first time.
Open from 28th May until 4th September, the park will allow guests the opportunity to shop, eat and enjoy the sun with deckchairs providing the perfect place to relax after a long day shopping. Families can picnic al fresco and each weekend enjoy a selection live music, or get involved in other family-friendly activities set to be scheduled throughout the summer.
Francesca Donovan, centre manager at Westwood Cross, said:“ We hope families will enjoy our summer programme of activities hosted in the Pop Up Park. With Café Rouge opening at the end of the month and Five Guys also set to open in time for summer, families can indulge with an even wider choice of dining options.”
NEW MANAGER APPOINTED AT KENT LIFE HERITAGE FARM PARK
Catchpole & Rye Limited is pleased to announce the opening of its new showroom in Tunbridge Wells, with the newly elected Town Mayor officially opening the doors on Wednesday 1st June. Headed up by founder and managing director, Tony O’ Donnell and his expert team of bathroom consultants, the new showroom represents yet another milestone in the company’ s continued expansion.
With a large flagship showroom in London and another in Pluckley, Kent, the 3,500 square foot showroom is set over two floors and showcases their exclusive collections of luxury freestanding baths as well as their full range of ceramic and marble washbasins, bathroom taps, thermostatic showers and bespoke cisterns.
As well as beautiful bathroom collections, Catchpole & Rye offers a full bathroom design service, as well as site visits to ensure perfect product placement. They also offer the personalisation of any artwork on all of their cast-iron baths and cisterns, allowing customers the opportunity of a completely bespoke design service.
With a long standing reputation for British manufacturing, exceptional quality and personal service, Catchpole and Rye Limited expects its third and largest showroom to date, to provide a valuable service to their existing clients, as well as the opportunity for new specifiers and residential customers to view their offerings first hand.
Visit the new showroom at 70 Calverley Road, Tunbridge Wells TN1 2UJ. www. catchpoleandrye. com
Kent Life Heritage Farm Park’ s operations manager has been promoted to general manager of the award-winning attraction.
Natalie Kirk, 28, first joined Kent Life, near Maidstone, in June 2011 as an administrator providing maternity cover. She quickly excelled and, just 11 months later, became the attraction’ s events duty manager, planning and managing 25 events a year – including Kent Life’ s hugely popular annual Hops‘ n’ Harvest Beer Festival and Bonfire and Fireworks Spectacular.
Last July, Natalie, who was nominated for a Tourism South East Unsung Hero Award 2015, was promoted to operations manager, with overall responsibility for health and safety across Kent Life’ s 28- acre site as well as managing the attraction’ s team.
Mike Stickland, managing director of Planning Solutions, which operates Kent Life, says:“ Natalie is very hard working, driven and committed to making Kent Life the best it can be. She’ s a great team motivator and the perfect person to build on the attraction’ s success.”
There is something for all ages and generations at Kent Life. Kids can go wild in the outdoor adventure play area or soft indoor play barn, as well as enjoy donkey rides, a pottery studio, junior electric quad bikes, tractor rides, dressing up, stilt walking and more.
Set in 28 acres of glorious countryside, Kent Life is also a real working farm, so there are plenty of animals to see including pigs, sheep, ducks, goats and alpacas. Young visitors can even snuggle up to the smaller farmyard friends in Cuddle Corner. The attraction also has special events all year round so there’ s always something to do, whatever the weather.
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