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Summer 2012 Summer Events Annual Garden Party Holden House, Southborough Royal Tunbridge Wells Civic Wells Society Royal Tunbridge Summer 2012 Summer Events Annual Garden Party Holden House, Southborough. Saturday July 21st. Tickets (which must be bought in advance) are £10 each. Please contact Christo Skelton, address at bottom of page 3, and include sae. Visit to Battle Abbey Saturday August 18th. See page 22. NEW Visit to the new Kent History Centre Thursday October 4th. See page 22. JOHN GOODFELLOW (1924-2012) John Goodfellow, a very active member of the Society for many years, died peacefully on June 7th at the age of 87, surrounded by his family and following a short illness. John was very well known in Tunbridge Wells as a citizen activist. He belonged to many societies and organisations but was also a prolific letter writer to the Courier on the quality of life in the town, on traffic, transport, safety, access and mobility issues, and on the medical services. He was a good, moral and determined man with complete integrity and a very strong sense of responsible citizenship. He also had an impish sense of humour. He made a major contribution to the life of Tunbridge Wells, particularly in the last seven years as a founder and very active member of the Town Forum. John could be counted on to cut through the waffle, the smokescreens and the prevarification which have so often clouded the running of the town - to get at the truth which he presented in terms which no one could misunderstand. I am proud to have worked with him on the Town Forum over these years. John was a Chartered Patent Officer all his career. He leaves two sons, a daughter, six grandchildren and a great grandson, his wife Patricia having died two years ago. He leaves a large void for his family and a legacy to the Tunbridge Wells community of integrity and responsibility. We shall all miss him. John Cunningham 2 Contents Personally Speaking ... 4 From the Planning Scrutineers by Alastair Tod ... 5 Chairman’s Letter by John Forster ... 6 Civic Society Awards 2012 ... 8 Rusthall’s Fallen ... 10 Alastair Tod reviews a new book by Clive Roberts. Who was Pauline Gower? ... 11 Susan Rogers tells the story of a significant woman. The Suspicions of Mr Topp ... 14 A drama of 1859. Holden House ... 18 Our Garden Party venue. The Tunbridge Wells Experience ... 20 Brian Lippard looks back from 2019. ‘Sherwood’ - an update ... 21 Local History Group ... 22 Heritage Open Days ... 23 Forthcoming Events ... 24 Editor: Chris Jones. 52 St James Road, Tunbridge Wells, TN1 2LB Tel 01892 522025 Email [email protected] Secretary: Christo Skelton. 4 Caxton House, 19 Mount Sion, Tunbridge Wells TN1 1UB. Tel 01892 513241 Email [email protected] 3 www.thecivicsociety.org News & Views Personally Speaking by Chris Jones Jubilee ... I did consider having a Jubilee theme for this Newsletter. Fiona Woodfield found a reference to a special drink created for the Coronation by Fry’s of Tunbridge Wells. It was made from orange and pineapple and sugar. And John Sworder provided a description of a royal visit to Fordcombe. I even looked into celebrations for the jubilee of George III in 1809 (which I think was at the start of the fiftieth year). But the timing was all wrong. The jubilee came and it has now gone. One thing that you might like to note is that Queen Victoria’s journals are now available on-line - www.queenvictoriasjournals.org.uk. There are 118 entries written in Tunbridge Wells, from August to November 1834 (in Mount Pleasant House), and August to September 1835 (in Boyne House on Mount Ephraim). She ‘liked Boyne House better a good deal than old Mount Pleasant ... much better air’. There are two versions - one in Victoria’s own hand, and one in purple typescript by Lord Esher which is much easier to read. How Proud Are You? ... On June 23rd, Civic Voice, the national organisation of civic societies, will be asking communities across the country ‘how proud are you of where you live?’ While we may not be having a formal survey within Tunbridge Wells, it is a good question to ask ourselves. Brian Lippard’s article on page 20 demonstrates perhaps a potential pride, with the message that more could be done. Remembering Rosemary ... Another loss to the Society - Rosemary Beales died on 2nd April. She had been involved with the Society since its earliest days. She and her husband Walter Coltham came to Tunbridge Wells with their younng family in 1947. In the 1950s they became involved with other young radicals like Don Joyce and Philip Whitbourn, and in 1959 the forerunner of the Civic Society was created in their drawing room at 4 St James Road. Walter died in 1971as the Society was fighting plans for an Arndale Centre in the town. Rosemary later married Alan Beales, who was Secretary to the Society. They were also involved in the creation of Trinity, and the Young Concert Artists Competition, and somehow found time to cross Siberia and travel overland to India. In 1997 they hosted the Society Garden Party in Lansdowne Road. She recently lived in Beulah Road. 4 From the Planning Scrutineers by Alastair Tod New proposals for the Kent and Sussex Hospital site have now been seen. These are for a reduced (about 235) number of homes, half town-houses, and half flats in small blocks in a formal layout with many trees but little public open space; and commercial blocks on the Mt Ephraim frontage. The developer, St James, focusses on the upper end of the market and expects to start work immediately his plans are approved. He is building a largely pastiche scheme on the site of Queen Mary’s Hospital Roehampton, and we have told him we would prefer a distinctive scheme for Tunbridge Wells. We have considered proposals for a new Thai restaurant Sucheera in a Decimus Burton building on the east side of Calverley Road. The proposals are for a new shopfront and extensive signage. We find the shopfront proposals acceptable, but the signage excessive, especially in respect of lettering on the stucco frontage of the first floor which oversails the windows. We believe there is no other signage at first floor level in this part of Calverley Road, and have made an objection. Blue Cedars, Langton Road is a 1950s Colt bungalow which the owners wish to replace with a two-storey house with high energy efficiency. Adjacent houses are mainly mid-Victorian coach houses and converted stables originally attached to the Nevill Park mansions. Previous applications have been refused twice, and the owners are appealing against the second refusal while submitting an amended application. The Council has argued that the ridge height of the new house should not exceed that of the adjacent Victorian coach-house, which is not really compatible with modern construction standards. We have written in support of the current application. Consent was granted in 2006 for three houses on part of a derelict garage site in Cambridge Gardens. This is now due for renewal. We feel it is undesirable to approve partial development of this site, and although our previous objections were not successful we have objected again that any approval should be related to development of the whole site, even if it can not be wholly implemented at present. We have also objected to proposals for 69/71 Culverden Down, a steeply sloping site which has been the subject of earlier proposals for flats, the most recent of which was dismissed on appeal. The present proposal is for a semi-detached pair of elaborate 4/5 storey houses with balconies and bays. Because of the slope the development is not greatly out of keeping with adjoining villas from the road side (north-western elevation) but will be highly conspicuous and out of keeping from Connaught Way at the rear. 5 www.thecivicsociety.org Chairman’s Letter Tunbridge Wells June 2012 Those who attended the Annual Awards Evening in May will have heard our Past President, Dr Philip Whitbourn’s, summary of over fifty year’s activities and achievements of the RTWCS and its predecessor, the 59 Society. Philip did exceptionally well, managing to cover them all in the short time available on the evening. For those of you who missed it we hope to produce a document recording the history of the Society. It is particularly relevant at this time for people to appreciate what the Civic Society can achieve with the support of its members. It is all too easy to accept a situation as impossible to change or challenge. How many times do you hear someone say “That’s wrong, someone should do something about it”. But how often is the speaker prepared to be that ‘someone’ or part of a group that will challenge the situation. I was thinking only recently of the things once considered the norm that have changed in my lifetime. When I started driving there was no legal limit of how much you could drink before driving, it was down to what the individual considered acceptable. There were no seat belts in cars and when they were proposed there was a reluctance to wear them for all sorts of spurious reasons. Cigarette smoke spoilt the atmosphere in theatres and restaurants; the top deck of buses was a fog to be avoided. And who would have thought that people could be persuaded to pick up their dog’s mess on the street? All these changes have improved the quality of life for the majority. It may have been due to the battles fought and won by my predecessors, or maybe I was just fortunate, but my last period as chairman 2000/01 was fairly quiet.
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