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'We can move forward': Baldwins Travel's Tricia Lester joins Ashdown Travel along with nine colleagues

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Harry Kemble
28 July 2025

Ashdown Travel’s new retail chief Tricia Lester believes “every” member of Baldwins Travel staff has been able to find a new job after the Kent miniple was wound up earlier this month after 130 years.

Tricia Lester, Ashdown Travel, 28 July

Tricia Lester took up hew new role on 24 July after working with Ashdown to bring across nine colleagues from Baldwins (Credit: Ashdown Travel)

Ten former Baldwins Travel staff, including its marketing and commercial manager Lester, have joined Surrey’s Ashdown Travel as it prepares to expand into Kent with new shops in Tunbridge Wells and Sevenoaks opening “in the next couple of weeks”. 

Lester took up the position of head of retail at Ashdown Travel on Thursday 24 July and will be based in its new Tunbridge Wells shop when it opens.

She told TTG she had been working with Ashdown – a member of the Advantage Travel Partnership – for “a couple of months” to find new jobs for nine ex-Baldwins employees after the agency approached her on LinkedIn.