The Royal Tunbridge Wells Civic Society

The Society publishes a quarterly Newsletter which it sends to members and to other interested parties in the town. The Newsletter provides the latest information on planning and development issues, society events, and articles of local history. You can use this page to download previous editions.

	2019 - Spring An unexpected discovery (Mitchells) by Chris Jones Poundbury: boring suburb or the way forward? by Richard Holme Dr Henry Colebrooke 'beloved and skilful physician' by Roger Evernden From the treasurer's perspective by Nigel price Display Spring 2019 Newsletter
	2018 - Winter Society Awards 2018 (Pictures) A Visitor to the Town by Chris Jones Winter Quiz by Brian Lippard "This Mad, Wicked Folly of Women's Rights" by Anne Carwardine Display Winter 2018 Newsletter
	2018 - Autumn Summer Events - Garden Party, Art Competition, Visit to Rochester (Pictures) Connections (short story) by Alison Mackenzie Colebrooke Park - now with pictures by Chris Jones Heritage Open Days 2018 by Paul Avis Display Autumn 2018 Newsletter
	2018 - Summer This could seem boring, but ... (changes to NPPF) by Alastair Tod Repton in Kent by Peta Hodges Lizzie le Blond - an exceptional woman by Chris Jones A well-rounded man: Sir David Salomons and the collecting bug by David Wakefield Display Summer 2018 Newsletter
	2018 - Spring Affordable Housing? Now that would be nice by Alastair Tod Vera Salomons' Postcard Collection by Caroline Auckland Dwellings for the Labouring Classes by Chris Jones International Women's Day 2018 by Caroline Auckland Display Spring 2018 Newsletter
	2017 - Winter Calverley Adventure Grounds by Alastair Tod Forgotten History in a Warwick Park Sideboard by John de Lucy Works of Feeling: Pre-Raphaelite Book Illustration by Amanda-Jane Doran ChristChurch Parish Room and the Votes for Women Campaign by Anne Carwardine Display Winter 2017 Newsletter
	2017 - Autumn Heritage Open Days 2017 by Paul Avis Oral History Interview - Edna MacAndrew by Jenny Peterson Snookered by Keith Palmer An Alternative Reading by Chris Jones Display Autumn 2017 Newsletter
	2017 - Summer The Writing on the Wall (plaques) by Alastair Tod The Tunbridge Wells Helix (station mural) by Michael Holman Summer Quiz by Sue Daniels The Story of Camster by Chris Jones Display Summer 2017 Newsletter
	2017 - Spring Awards 2016 (Pictures) Fifty Years of Conservation Areas by Philip Whitbourn The Richard Burnett Heritage Collection by Richard and Katrina Burnett Let Right Be Done by Chris Jones Display Spring 2017 Newsletter
	2016 - Winter Designed by a Committee? by Alastair Tod The Real Person behind George Smart's 'The Soldier' and 'The Maid' by David Wakefield Tunbridge Wells - a feast for the senses! by Brenda Copus Benjamin Sidney Wilmot - a Tunbridge Wells Polymath by David Bushell Display Winter 2016 Newsletter
	2016 - Autumn The Sights and Sounds and Smells of Tunbridge Wells by Brian Woodgate Trouble at Woods Gate, 1602 by Susan Pitman Stephen Beeching: piecing together a life by Anne Carwardine Display Autumn 2016 Newsletter
	2016 - Summer When is a target not a target? by Alastair Tod Notes from a Sustainable STEM School by Mark Moody Growing up in Tunbridge Wells by Jane Dickson Turning over a new leaf? by Sue Daniels Display Summer 2016 Newsletter
	2016 - Spring Update: The Town Hall and Union Square by Alastair Tod The Stones of Perth by Chris Jones Hungershall Lodge by Ian Marshall Dr Thomson's Diary by David Bushell Display Spring 2016 Newsletter
	2015 - Winter Visions of the Future (Pictures) A Well-known Tunbridge Wells Family by Anne Carwardine Old Photos from Ben Dove Awards 2015 (Pictures) Display Winter 2015 Newsletter
	2015 - Autumn The Night the Zeppelin Came by John Cunningham & Ian Knight Replacing the Vale Road Railway Bridge by John Arkell Olive Walton 1887-1937 by Friends of Tunbridge Wells Cemetery Display Autumn 2015 Newsletter
	2015 - Summer 'Green Network' and 'Urban Design Framework' by Alastair Tod Green Belt and Street Trees - discussion documents by Brian Lippard and Sue Daniels Charles Tattershall Dodd - BiCentenary by Philip Whitbourn Garden Party at the Postern (Pictures) Display Summer 2015 Newsletter
	2015 - Spring Commons Question Time by John Cunningham Blamire Young Sketchbook by Chris Jones I'll See You in My Dreams (oral history report) by Charmian Clissold-Jones The Postern by Chris Jones Display Spring 2015 Newsletter
	2014 - Winter Awards 2014 (Pictures) The Many Tunbridge Faces of Eridge Castle by Dianne Brick History of the Central Station by John Arkell Nourish - Tunbridge Wells' Community Foodbank by Laurel Soden Mohammed Ali at Christ Church? by Chris Jones Display Winter 2014 Newsletter
	2014 - Autumn An Enemy of the People?by Ted Robbens Familiar in the mouth as household words (remembering Arnhem) by David Wakefield Golden Drop (Lord Mansfield) by Chris Jones Garden Party at Blackhurst (Pictures) Display Autumn 2014 (2.517 KB)
	2014 - Summer Water in the Wells Update by John Forster The Adult Education Centre by Richard Marsden Alice and the boy from the Phthisical Ward by Amelia Scott Blackhurst Park by Chris Jones Display Summer 2014 (1,480 KB)
	2014 - Spring A Tunbridge Wells Sculpture Park? by June Bridgeman Allison Fairbairn and her Children by June Bridgeman A Victorian Poisoner and the Victorian Press by Stephen Bates King Charles Parish Hall 1914 - 2014 by David Bushell Display Spring 2014 (878 KB)
	2013 - Winter Awards 2013 (pictures) A Visit to the Wells in 1279 by Deborah Cole Katharine Tynan by Chris Jones Ely Lane and Head's Fish Shop by Rita Gallard Display Winter 2013 (1,412 KB)
	2013 - Autumn So Create a Difference Tunbridge Wells: What Now?by James Galpin and Stuart Page So Create a Difference - Comment from the Society by Alastair Tod Visit to Rochester 20th July by Sue Brown Garden Party at Somerhill (Pictures) Display Autumn 2013 (5,270 KB)
	2013 - Summer Looking at Tunbridge Ware - Topographical Views by Dianne Brick Baroness Audrey Emerton by Janet Sturgis Home needed for Working Horses by Chris Jones Decreasing boundaries, increasing congregations: the history of St Augustines by John Cunningham Display Summer 2013 (1,351 KB)
	2013 - Spring New Grot Spot Campaign by John Forster Holding up a Mirror (questionnaire results) by Sue Daniels The Body in the Museum by Jo Wiltcher The Baltic Saw Mills by Veronica Kelly Wallace Display Spring 2013 (1,335 KB)
	2012 - Winter Putting Water back in the Wells by John Cunningham Clayton Stanford Willicombe, Hans Busk and Julia Clara Byrne by Chris Jones The Southborough Valley by Fiona Woodfield The History of Crocodile Lodge by Robert Manning Display Winter 2012 (1,125 KB)
	2012 - Autumn Garden Party at Holden House(Pictures) Plus ça change (Tunbridge Wells in 1873) by June Bridgeman Tunbridge Wells - no backwater by Alastair Tod A Wealden Rap by Edward Tirbutt Display Autumn 2012 (1,933 KB)
	2012 - Summer Civic Society Awards 2012 (pictures) Who was Pauline Gower? by Susan Rogers The Suspicions of Mr Topp by Chris Jones Holden House by Chris Jones The Tunbridge Wells Experience by Brian Lippard Display Summer 2012 (1,014 KB)
	2012 - Spring Why 'Sherwood'? by Chris Jones In Search of Great Lodge by Linda Glanville Sherwood Park 1867-2012 by Ed Gilbert Sherwood Lake by Chris Jones Display Spring 2012 (1,217 KB)
	2011 - Winter Planning at a Crossroads by Alastair Tod Picture Quiz by Brian Lippard Vienna, Paris and Blatchington Road by Alastair Tod Sydney Gillingham RN by Janet Sturgis Display Winter 2011 (1,158 KB)
	2011 - Autumn Wiesbaden 2011 by Muriel Thatcher The New Tunbridge Wells Hospital by Devon Twells Thomas Bayes (1702-1761) by David Bushell Visit to Chatham Historic Dockyard (Pictures) Display Autumn 2011 (1,385 KB)
	2011 - Summer Putting Heritage First by Fiona Woodfield Finding Henry by Peter and Michèle Clymer Grosvenor Recreation Ground by Philip Whitbourn Mabledon Park by Fiona Woodfield Display Summer 2011 (1,552 KB)
	2011 - Spring Localism Bill Workshop by John Forster Marian Caldecott by Geoffrey Copus The Story of Wilfred Haughton Hodgkin by Chris Jones The Pioneer Woman by John Sworder Display Spring 2011 (1,200 KB)
	2010 - Winter Consultation, and after? by Alastair Tod The Burton Sarcophagus Monument by Philip Whitbourn We might have been Brombridge Wells by Fiona Woodfield The Metropolitan Drinking Fountain and Cattle Trough Association by Chris Jones Display Winter 2010 (1,758 KB)
	2010 - Autumn The Future of the Town Hall and Civic Centre by Philip Whitbourn Tunbridge Wells: 'Disgusted' with good cause by Ptolemy Dean (from Country Life) Farewell to the Dungeons by Jane Dickson FRS and RTW by Mike Hinton The Metropolitan Drinking Fountain and Cattle Trough Association by Chris Jones Display Autumn 2010 (1,384 KB)
	2010 - Summer What's going on at the Town Hall? by Alastair Tod Broadwater Primary School - Young Historians by Ruth Adams The First Assembly Room at Tunbridge Wells by John Fuller Another Tennis Champion - C.E. Welldon by Chris Jones Display Summer 2010 (1,003 KB)
	2010 - Spring Civic Society Awards 2010 Pictures Arthur Shearly Cripps 1869-1952 by June Bridgeman Dresden - a city rebuilt by Christo Skelton The Summer Air was Soft and Warm Pictures by Richard Storkey Display Spring 2010 (450 KB)
	2009 - Winter The Calverley Bandstand by Alastair Tod Another Wimbledon Champion by Chris Jones The Past is a Foreign Country by Charmian Clissold-Jones The Delights of Victorian Scrapbooks by Geoffrey Copus The Restoration of Frindsbury Barn by Chris Jones Display Winter 2009 (1,046 KB)
	2009 - Autumn Unveiling the Panorama. by Chris Jones Frogs, Cars and Conservatories by Alastair Tod The Burtons and St. Leonard's by Chris Jones Welcoming the 'Tigers' by Chris Jones The Restoration of the Whitefield Monument by Bryan Senior Display Autumn 2009 (1,888 KB)
	2009 - Summer Civic Society's 50th Birthday Party. by Chris Jones The Fall and Rise(?) of the Civic Trust by Roger Joye Proud to be Different by Alastair Tod Camden Road - The Musical by Chris Jones Tunbridge Wells Horticultural Fete 1859 by Mike Hinton Display Summer 2009 (1,634 KB)
	2009 - Spring Society Views on the Town Hall and Bandstand. by Alastair Tod The Tunbridge Wells Motor Industry by Chris Jones William Willicombe - at last Pictures from the Children's Ward of the General Hospital Display Spring 2009 (2,047 KB)
	2008 - Winter Proposed Rejuvenation Strategy for the Pantiles. by Chris Jones A First World War Soldiers’ Soviet in Tunbridge Wells? by Chris Jones The Landmark Trust (pt 2) by Roger Joye Accounts and AGM 2008 Conservation Awards 2008 (Pictures) Display Winter 2008 (1,808 KB)
	2008 - Autumn Concerns over the 'Killian Pretty' Review of Development Control Procedures. by Alastair Tod Fordcomb Green, otherwise Fordcombe. by John Sworder The Landmark Trust (pt 1) by Roger Joye Home or Colonial? - the Development of Poona Road. by Alastair Tod Garden Party 2008 by Richard Still Display Autumn 2008 (1,172 KB)
	2008 - Summer The Great Garden Grab? by Alastair Tod An Update on Pauline Chase by Chris Jones Camden Road - in Progress by Anne Goldstein St John's - 1858 to 1908 by Alistair Nurdin St John's - It's much older than that by Fiona Woodfield Warberry House and the Legat School by Chris Jones Display Summer 2008 (1,408 KB)
	2008 - Spring The 'Ritz' Cinema Site - A New Vision for 2008 Samuel Pepys at the Rhenish Wine House by John Fuller / Chris Jones Shadowy Character in Tunbridge Wells (5,3) by Chris Jones A New Surgical Unit for Knights Park? Adopt a Grave (Friends of Woodbury Park Cemetery) Display Spring 2008 (1,989 KB)
	2007 - Winter The 'Local List' of Heritage Assets by Philip Whitbourn Looking Both Ways by Paul McKinnell (Spa Valley Railway) Green Room Music by Dennis Smith Tanks for the Memory by Chris Jones Conservation Awards 2007 (Pictures) Display Winter 2007 (1,989 KB)
	2007 - Autumn An Uncommonly Complicated Business by Chris Jones Joseph Josiah and Charles Tattershall Dodd - Artists of Tunbridge Wells by Philip Whitbourn Absolutely SPAB by Kate Minnis Heritage Open Days 2007 (Pictures) A Season of Arias by Chris Jones Garden Party 2007 (Pictures) Display Autumn 2007 (1,166 KB)
	2007 - Summer The Planning White Paper by Alastair Tod The Heritage White Paper by Philip Whitbourn Persistence Rewarded: Restoration of the Gower Fountain by Bryan Senior Visit to the Palace of Westminster by Chris Jones A Welcome to Tunbridge Wells by Alan Mayhew "Beneath the Clock" - further finds from the Borough Archives by Charmian Clissold-Jones Display Summer 2007 (1,299 KB)
	2007 - Spring Who is to Blame? KCC for poor standards or TWBC for its 'can't be bothered' attitude? by Daniel Bech Trees of Tunbridge Wells 2: Woodbury Park Cemetery by Richard Still Power to the People: Sustainability and the Civic Society by Alastair Tod Down in the Vaults. Part 6 - "The Box of Delights" by Jane Dickson The Military Camp on Waterdown Forest by Ann Bates Display Spring 2007 (1,343 KB)
	2006 - Winter Great War Recollections and two great mayors by Philip Whitbourn Down in the Vaults 5: The Tunbridge Wells Hero of 1952 by Charmian Clissold-Jones The big demo - May 1914 by Chris Jones Conservation Awards 2006 (Pictures) Display Winter 2006
	2006 - Autumn It don't mean a thing if it ain't got a sting by Daniel Bech Down in the Vaults 4: not a particularly savoury subject for discussion by Charmian Clissold-Jones Trees of Tunbridge Wells by Richard Still What did the 19th Century do for us? by Chris Jones Garden Party 2006 (Pictures) Display Autumn 2006
	2006 - Summer Skinners' School Memorial Pavilion by Philip Whitbourn Dancing in the Park (pictures) Philip Whitbourn in Tunbridge Wells - a Tribute by Norman Collings and Don Joyce '... that villain, Bradshawe' by Fiona Woodfield Display Summer 2006
	2006 - Spring 1606 and All That by Chris Jones So what did the Stuarts do for us? by Chris Jones ... and who was Lord North? by John Cunningham Tunbridge Wells in Literature by Chris Jones Display Spring 2006
	2005 - Winter RVP Extension Scoping Report by Philip Whitbourn/Chris Jones Conservation Awards by Pauline Everett FW Boreham - Daydream Believer by Chris Jones A Newcomer's View of Tunbridge Wells Report of talk by Ptolemy Dean Display Winter 2005
	2005 - Autumn Section 215 - Time for Action? by Daniel Bech Heritage Open Days 2005 by David Wakefield Sculpture at Trinity by Philip Whitbourn A Perennial Question (Nelson's Hardy) by Chris Jones Display Autumn 2005
	2005 - Summer Visit to Cranbrook Windmill by Gill Twells Review: 'Dead as a Scone' by Daniel Bech Early years of the Salvation Army in Tunbridge Wells by Ian Beavis Culverden Castle, Wadhurst Park and Castle Drogo by John Cunningham In Search of Clayton Stanford Willicombe by Chris Jones A bird in the mouth - the Wheatear by Chris Jones Display Summer 2005
	2005 - Spring A Day in the Life of a Planner by Ruth Chambers Michael Wheeler, Photographer by Chris Jones The View from Forest Road by Mary Wardrop Using the DNB on-line by Richard Still T. Bates & Sons, Builders Pt 2 by Ann Bates Found - the lost church of Dode by Chris Jones Display Spring 2005
	2003 - Winter Conservation Awards 2003 Pictures Local Plan Review by Philip Whitbourn Tunbridge Wells on CD by Daniel Bech New Life Church by Amy King Oulu - One Year Older Than Us by Chris Jones Down in the Vaults by Charmian Clissold-Jones Display Winter 2003 (369 KB)
	2003 - Autumn Local Plan Review by Philip Whitbourn Low Life in Victorian Tunbridge Wells by Sue Brown My Favourite Buildings by Chris Jones Display Autumn 2003 (587 KB)
	2001 - Autumn Local Plan Review by Chris Jones Civic Society Art Competition by Chris Jones 1951 - A Tonic for the Nation and a new Council estate for Sherwood Part 2 by Carole Tyrrell The Countess of Huntingdon and Emmanuel Church - A Site Re-Visited by David Wakefield Display Autumn 2001 (890 KB)
	2001 - Summer KFAS Conference - Conservation Area Appraisals by Chris Jones 1951 - A Tonic for the Nation and a new Council estate for Sherwood Part 1 by Carole Tyrrell Emmanuel Church, Mt. Ephraim by Sue Brown Display Summer 2001 (771 KB)