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Herb Lester

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Independent publisher of maps and guides to the unusual, the hip, the historic. New guides regularly.

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Look at the sky, look at the river…
Our new guide charts 40 places connected to Syd Barrett, Roger Waters and David Gilmour and the embryonic Pink Floyd. Family homes and schools, the Mill Pond, the dance halls and the laundry on Laundry Lane that gave “Arnold Layne” its name.
Written by Glenn Povey.
Design and illustration by @pederbernhardt taken in Grantchester Meadows by @herb_lester

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🌲 Our Twin Peaks guide is out now and we are doing a GIVEAWAY DRAW! Just leave a comment on who your favourite Twin Peaks character is and we will add your name ( instagram handle ) to the draw! The winner will be announced LIVE here on Instagram on Sunday Oct 18th at 6pm UK time.

🌲 If you can’t wait that long .. then you can also pick up a copy at the link in my bio

🌲 Adam and I have had a mutual love for Lynch ever since we met in 1994. We’ve visited all the real life filming locations of Twin Peaks and this guide and map is a love letter to David Lynch and all of you peakers out there!

🌲INTO THE PINES

This fold-out guide charts 42 real-world locations behind Twin Peaks, tracing the sites that stood in for David Lynch and Mark Frost’s fictional town. It pinpoints the Double R Diner and the Great Northern Hotel, Ronette Pulaski’s Bridge and White Tail Falls, drawing together sites from the original series, Fire Walk With Me and The Return.
Based on rigorous on-the-ground research, the guide is for fans planning a trip to Twin Peaks country as well as anyone revisiting the series from an armchair. Most locations are roadside or a short walk from parking; a few, including a wooded stretch of the Weeks Falls Trail and the ascent of Mount Si, the peak from the opening titles, call for proper footwear and a bit more time. what3words coordinates are given for these harder-to-pin-down spots. A list of the essential sights is included for those with limited time, alongside a suggested two-day itinerary.

The folder includes the fold-out map and a separate double-sided A5 card with the itinerary.

Written by Adam Carr and Tree Carr @4d4m_c4rr
Design by Beth Mathews @bethmathews
Published by @herb_lester

Litho-printed in Sussex, England on sustainably sourced paper

#twinpeaks by @herb_lester

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Double R Diner, North Bend, WA – Twede’s Cafe in real life, and the nerve centre of any Twin Peaks pilgrimage. Damn fine coffee and cherry pie, served here since 1941.
Opened as Thompson’s Cafe and later the Mar-T, it was already a local landmark by the time filming began in 1989. The Series One and Two interiors were shot on a studio set, not here. A fire gutted the place in 2000, and it was restored in a different style, so for The Return in 2015 the interior was remodelled to match its 1990s look.
Into the Pines maps this and the rest of the real Twin Peaks, link in bio. Written & researched by @4d4m_c4rr and @tree_carr, pictured here on one of many research trips.
Design & illustration @bethmathews

@tree_carr and @4d4m_c4rr outside Twede’s Cafe aka the Double R Diner by @herb_lester

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Joan Didion’s “Notes from a Native Daughter” first ran in Holiday magazine, October 1965, in an issue promising California without clichés. Our Joan Didion’s Los Angeles (designed by @mike_lemanski) sits here with How To Find Old Los Angeles (written by @esotouric, designed by @pulpandpapercreative), next to the original magazine. Link in bio. by @herb_lester

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🦉 SOLD OUT!

TWIN PEAKS IS COMING TO MARGATE with @herb_lester @tree_carr @4d4m_c4rr @jack.goldstein at @ghostpapamargate !

🦉 We’re bringing 35+ events to Margate + online throughout Samhain with A Dead Good Festival and this one is for all of you Lynch fans, liminal explorers, coffee lovers and Peakers!

📙Join authors Adam & Tree Carr in conversation with Jack Goldstein for the launch of:

📖 INTO THE PINES: AN UNAUTHORISED GUIDE TO THE REAL LOCATIONS OF TWIN PEAKS published by @herb_lester

📅 Friday 9th October
⏰ 7–10pm
📍 Ghost Papa, Northdown Road, Margate
🎟️ Ticket link in bio. Browse through our event listings and find The Owl!

🌲 Published by Herb Lester Associates, this lovingly researched guide and map follows the trail into the real-world landscapes that became Twin Peaks : from Twede’s Cafe, the real-life Double R Diner, and Salish Lodge, aka the Great Northern Hotel, to Ronette’s Bridge, the old mill buildings, forests, roads and waterfalls of Washington’s Snoqualmie Valley.

🌲 For this special launch, Adam & Tree will be in conversation with Jack Goldstein, talking about the origins of the guide, their years as devoted Twin Peaks fans, their cult Shoreditch video shop TODAY IS BORING from back in the noughties and the many journeys they’ve made into the Pines.

🖤 And what better place to launch it than Ghost Papa in Margate?

☕️ Owned by fellow Twin Peaks devotees Keir & Jack, the shop is practically a portal to the Pacific Northwest complete with a black-and-white zig-zag floor worthy of the Black Lodge.

🦉 Expect stories, maps, music, mysteries and the chance to buy the new guide plus, naturally:

☕ Damn fine coffee
🥧 Cherry pie
🍩 Donuts

☕️ Whether you’re a lifelong Twin Peaks obsessive, a Lynch devotee, a curious traveller, a lover of strange places, or simply someone who knows that the owls are not what they seem .. enter the Black Lodge!

#TwinPeaks #DavidLynch by @herb_lester

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Into The Pines: Written by @tree_carr and @4d4m_c4rr and designed by @bethmathews, this guide covers the diners, motels, sawmills and waterfalls that became Twin Peaks, with notes on where each appears across the series, Fire Walk With Me and The Return.
Inside you’ll find a fold-out map, a separate Damn Fine Itinerary to help plan a trip and even a shortlist of essential stops for anyone short on time. The town’s businesses advertise on the reverse. Cherry pie at the Double R, naturally.
Preorders are open now, and copies ship as soon as they arrive from the printer. Link in bio. by @herb_lester

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Park Lane, W1 – setting for The Empty House, in which Sherlock Holmes returns from the dead to catch Colonel Sebastian Moran.
Doyle's 427 Park Lane had disappeared from the street numbering by the time he wrote it. Sherlockians put Adair's house around Nos. 128–129, just north of Green Street.
Into the Fog maps this and the rest of Holmes's London, link in bio.
Design & illustration by @chgohoods
Written & researched by Ron Tiner by @herb_lester

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In the early days of Herb Lester, we published a guide to 1960s London called Wish You Were There, designed by @pederbernhardt and written by me.
The Tokyo streetwear label A Bathing Ape came across it and liked it so much they wanted one of their own. So we redrew it to fit a cotton square, which they printed and packaged as a promotional handkerchief.
Both the guide and the handkerchief map the West End’s boutiques, clubs and bars, but the handkerchief has one key addition: the BAPE Store on Upper James Street.
Wish You Were There has been out of print for years, and the handkerchief was never on general sale, but we thought you might like to see it anyway. It’s also a reminder that we make things for clients too. by @herb_lester

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Preorders are open for Into the Pines, our unauthorised guide to the real locations of Twin Peaks. Forty-one sites, from the Double R Diner to the falls above the Great Northern, mapped from the original series through Fire Walk With Me and The Return. Link in bio.
Writing and research by @4d4m_c4rr and @tree_carr
Design and illustration by @bethmathews taken in Snoqualmie, Washington by @herb_lester

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Blandings And Beyond, our guide to the real places behind PG Wodehouse’s timeless fiction. Walsingham Hall is the ancestral pile baronet Sir Buckstone Abbott can’t offload in Summer Moonshine (1938), which is generally thought to be modelled on Chateau Impney, Droitwich Spa. Its “glazed red bricks, dome and minarets” match Wodehouse’s description.
It was a spa hotel in Wodehouse’s day, where he’s said to have stayed, working on a novel between salt baths.
Written by Robert Bruce, designed and illustrated by @daniele_simonelli by @herb_lester

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One reader on Fear City, our guide to New York’s underground scene, 1974 to 1981.
It’s written by Gary Lachman, who was there for a lot of it, as Gary Valentine, founding member of Blondie. by @herb_lester

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