Tunbridge Wells in 1909 Supplementary Notes Version 2. June 2012 This document contains the source references that were excluded from the main volume. It also provides an opportunity to correct errors that have been identified in the main volume, and to include references to new information. Should you find further errors - in the main document, or in these supplementary notes; or if you have additional information about 1909 that you would like to be recorded, please send details to:
[email protected] Thank you The main source for Tunbridge Wells in 1909 was the Kent and Sussex Courier (Courier), as this was available on microfilm in TW Reference Library. Other local newspapers: Tunbridge Wells Advertiser, Tunbridge Wells Gazette and Fashionable Visitors List, and Tunbridge Wells Society are only available at the British Library Newspaper Collection. The Tonbridge Free Press (TFP) is available on microfilm at Tonbridge Ref. Library. Note that all dates are 1909 unless otherwise stated. Foreword (p1) - Christmas 1908 (p3) p3 The story of the ‘suffragettes’ is from the Courier Jan 1st p5. p3 The postmen - Courier Jan 1st p7. The telegraph-boys in Tonbridge - Tonbridge Free Press Jan 1st ? p4 Festivities at the Spa - Courier Jan 1st p5, Society Dec 18th 1908 p15. (Juliet Nicholson in The Perfect Summer (2008) describes a fancy dress competition at the Savoy Ball. Lady Diana Manners won 250 gns and a diamond and gold pendant for her representation of Velasquz’ ‘Infanta’) p4 Emmanuel Meal - Society Dec 26th 1908 p2. Courier Jan1st p7. Fund-raising dinner for Christmas1909 reported in Courier of Nov 26th p7.