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An independent organisation campaigning for the conservation and improvement of the town and its important heritage and rich cultural life.
May 1, 2023 5 tweets 3 min read
We are all very fond of our #TunbridgeWells Chalybeate Spring. Even if some of us are not very fond of the taste! ImageImage After Queen Henrietta Maria visited a physician Dr Lodowick Rowzee in his publication 'The Queens Welles' suggested that visitors drink between two and ten pints a day of the waters!!!
With this in mind we thought we would share some of the images of our Spring for you to enjoy. ImageImage
Apr 30, 2023 4 tweets 1 min read
Our next event for 2023:
Thursday 11th May 7.30pm at Christ Church, High Street, Tunbridge Wells, TN1 1UT
Non-members are welcome (suggested £5 donation).
'Lost Structures within Tunbridge Wells' - an illustrated talk by Nigel Stapple of WKD Archaeology. Image His view is that before our town's commonly assumed founding date of 1606, what we now know as Tunbridge Wells was perhaps not so sparsely inhabited as one might believe: through archaeological research, a broader picture of the wider settled landscape is becoming clearer,...