This will be familiar to anyone who has lived for any amount of time in Tunbridge Wells. The town had its own brickworks, which produced a particular kind of hard wearing red brick that turned out to be perfect for paving sidewalks with. Therefore, where most town would have used paving slabs, Tunbridge Wells had block paving. It has its advantages and its disadvantages. The advantages are that it looks great and it means that workment can reach the services underneathe the pavement by simply lifting the bricks and replacing them when they’re done. The disadvantages are that the bricklaying skills of the Victorian workmen that originally laid the pavements have nigh-on vanished in the 21st Century, and no-one has yet invented an app that can help today’s workmen lay new ones, and that every time it rains, a loose brick can mean you get a squirt of muddy water up the inside of your trouser leg when you step on it.