Outraged of Tunbridge Wells

Outraged of Tunbridge Wells

Author: Nigel Cawthorne

Publisher:

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 9781908096913

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The people of Britain have always loved to complain and we do it very well, but the people of Tunbridge Wells have made it into an art. In this book, the first ever collection from the legendary letters page of the Tunbridge Wells Advertiser, we are offered an insight into just what makes complaining so much fun.


A Castle in England

A Castle in England

Author: Jamie Rhodes

Publisher: Nobrow

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781910620199

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A unique and fascinating series of short stories taking place over five different eras in a English castles past.


Francis Frith's Around Royal Tunbridge Wells

Francis Frith's Around Royal Tunbridge Wells

Author: Geoffrey Butler

Publisher: Frith Book Company

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 91

ISBN-13: 9781859375044

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Approximately 100 photographs from the Francis Frith Collection of the town and surrounding villages spanning over 100 years.


Still Life

Still Life

Author: Richard Cobb

Publisher: Faber & Faber

Published: 2009-06-04

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 0571252974

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Still Life: Sketches from a Tunbridge Wells Childhood (the sub-title is important) was first published in 1984. It won the J.R. Ackerley Prize for Literary Biography in that year. It is a classic among middle-class memoirs. In twenty-one short chapters the town is vividly anatomized. So too are its residents: meet Dr Ranking and, best of all, meet the Limbury-Buses living a life of contented ossification. 'Cobb remembers, and that, as well as his redeeming freedom from all conventional standards of dignity and relevance, is what makes this offbeat, capricious book a rare treasure'. John Carey, Sunday Times 'A remarkable feat of making purest autobiography part of a general, social history... Cobb has broken one of the strangest silences in English social commentary; on the missing history of the English bourgeoisie'. Michael Neve, Times Literary Supplement


The Final Crumpet

The Final Crumpet

Author: Ron Benrey

Publisher: Barbour Pub Incorporated

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 9781593108700

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Forty years after his disappearance, the hastily buried remains of a famed British radio personality are discovered in a tea museum's garden--along with the pistol that killed him. The curator and a tea chemist are thus embroiled in the second mystery to threaten the integrity of the museum. Are they in over their heads this time?


Tunbridge Wells in the Great War

Tunbridge Wells in the Great War

Author: Stephen Wynn

Publisher: Pen and Sword

Published: 2016-09-30

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 1473865204

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Using original material and letters from the First World War, this captivating and eye-opening account uncovers the unnerving realities of the First World War and the impact it had on the town of Tunbridge Wells. It looks at world events, which ultimately determined the outbreak of the war, and how these same events affected the small town in Kent and the people who made up the community.From an early stage the hostilities of the war became very real for the people of Tunbridge Wells. Because of its geographical location, close proximity to major ports and rail links, the town became the headquarters of the nations Territorial Army, which brought with it 5,000 troops from all over the country.Out of nearly 3,000 people from Tunbridge Wells who enlisted in the military between 1914–1918, a staggering 801 did not return, and out of those who did, many suffered terrible wounds and injuries, both physically and mentally. Many moving stories are illustrated throughout, such as that of Private William Starks Vidler of the Royal Marines Light Infantry who became the town's first casualty of the war when his ship, HMS Amphion struck a mine and sunk. Ironically, eighteen others who died in the disaster were German sailors who had been rescued by the Amphion when their ship was sunk by the British Royal Navy.The book looks at letters sent from husbands and sons, who had seen action in the war, and how they were received by families on the Home Front, who were anxiously waiting for new of their loved ones. It documents the triumphs and tragedies of Tunbridge Wells' people as they sought to find normality amongst a reality far removed from anything they had ever known before


Royal Tunbridge Wells

Royal Tunbridge Wells

Author: Christopher W. Chalklin

Publisher:

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13:

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The site of Tunbridge Wells was once a wilderness of forest and heath, although it is likely that the medicinal value of the local wells was appreciated in Elizabethan times. Within a few years of their discovery by London society in 1606, however, the Wells had become one of the leading English watering places. The celebrated Pantiles had been built by the end of the 17th century and the hills covered with lodging houses. The new community depended, at first, for its livelihood on the services it provided to summer visitors, but within a hundred years a leisured class of retired professional and business men, and single gentlewomen, had begun to settle here. The grant of self-governing powers to the town in 1835 saw the beginning of modern Tunbridge Wells. The town was reached by the railway in 1846 and was designated 'Royal' in 1909. It was famous for the making of Tunbridge Ware, and big houses were built in spacious gardens adjoining the Common and parks. Public buildings now included the Grand Hall and the Opera House. Summer visitors remained important until the 1960s, though the number of commuters to London grew steadily from the 1920s. The town developed as a commercial centre for East Sussex and became, in some respects, the administrative heart of an enlarged borough. The daily habits and entertainments of visitors to Tunbridge Wells and of its leisured residents were described in contemporary guide books, diaries, letters and novels. On the other hand, the planners and builders of the town and the local professional, trades and craftsmen were largely ignored until quite recently. Nowadays the history of the community is studied alongside the lives of the visitors. This informative and readable, and fully illustrated, account brings together the best of the published work on Tunbridge Wells, and includes much new material. It will appeal to all those with an interest in this unique and special place.