Outraged of Tunbridge Wells

Outraged of Tunbridge Wells
Author: Nigel Cawthorne
Publisher:
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2013
Genre: Letters to the editor
ISBN: 9781908096913

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
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017
Genre: COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS
ISBN: 9781910620199

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
Total Pages: 91
Release: 2002
Genre: Tunbridge Wells (England)
ISBN: 9781859375044

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

The Final Crumpet

The Final Crumpet
Author: Ron Benrey
Publisher: Barbour Pub Incorporated
Total Pages: 348
Release: 2005
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781593108700

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?

Still Life

Still Life
Author: Richard Cobb
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2009-06-04
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0571252974

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

Tunbridge Wells in the Great War

Tunbridge Wells in the Great War
Author: Stephen Wynn
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2016-09-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 1473865204

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:
Total Pages: 168
Release: 2008
Genre: History
ISBN:

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.

British Spas from 1815 to the Present

British Spas from 1815 to the Present
Author: Phyllis May Hembry
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Total Pages: 318
Release: 1997
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780838637487

Phyllis Hembry, author of The English Spa 1560 to 1815, wrote about the origins and development of the spas and their flowering in the eighteenth century. Her book deals not only with their healing and recreational aspects, but also with their status as political, religious, social, and economic gathering places. Hembry had intended to produce a second volume, taking the story further, but died before being able to do so. She had gathered a considerable amount of material and written several draft chapters for this volume. Dr. and Mrs. Cowie have made use of this, revising and supplementing Hembry's text to create a study that continues to the present time and is extended to include Welsh, Scottish, and Irish spas as well.