SAVING TRINITY - by Brian Lippard
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How the town fought to save Holy Trinity from demolition.
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The Society publishes two ranges of inexpensive, illustrated books about the town and its history.
'Monographs' are usually 'perfect-bound' and printed on glossy paper. 'Occasional Papers' are slightly smaller, stapled, and on plain paper.
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How the town fought to save Holy Trinity from demolition.
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Price: 9.95 plus 2.70 p&p (UK only).
The history of brewing beer in and around the town.
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Price: 11.95 plus 3.00 p&p (UK only).
The remarkable role of Tunbridge Wells in the development of revolutionary politics in Britain 1884-1919.
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The commemorative Plaques of Royal Tunbridge Wells.
Price: 5.95 plus 2.15 p&p (UK only).
The Unknown Political Agent, The Tory Bloodhound, The Peer Maker - the life and times of William Nevill, KG. 1st Marquess of Abergavenny.
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How the people of Tunbridge Wells responded to the war. A collection of essays by members of the Local History Group and others.
Price: 4.95 plus 2.25 p&p (UK only).
The story behind Tunbridge Wells' best-known historic feature.
Price: 3.95 plus 1.00 p&p (UK only) .
A compilation of previously-published articles, together with new and updated information.
Price: 4.95 plus 1.00 p&p (UK only).
A facsimile reproduction of some 31 steel-engravings of Tunbridge Wells published by Rock & Co between the late 1840s and the late 1860s.
Price: 5.00 plus 2.70 p&p (UK only).
A compilation of 21 'panoramas' of Tunbridge Wells from the early 18th century.
Price: 9.95 plus 2.70 p&p (UK only).
It is over 70 years since the outbreak of the Second World War. Nobody under the age of 67 can claim to have any personal memory of it.
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An explanation of why Tunbridge Wells is entitled to call itself 'Royal'.
Price: 8.95 plus 2.70 p&p (UK only).
Boy Scouts and suffragettes, right to work marchers and d butantes. All this while the House of Lords led the country into a constitutional crisis.
Price: 6.95 plus 2.15 p&p (UK only).
Extracts from the writings of thirty-four residents and visitors.
Price: 16.95 plus 6.50 p&p (UK only).
A collection of some 79 maps of Tunbridge Wells and its immediate area, from 16th to 20th centuries.
Our apologies - the Historical Atlas is currently out-of-print.
Price: 7.95 plus 2.70 p&p (UK only).
The story of how and why the Home Farm Estate of the Marquess of Abergavenny became the Warwick Park Estate and Nevill Ground.
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A new history of the town to mark the 400th anniversary of the discovery of the wells.
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Calverley, Camden, Nevill, Hungershall - by the end of the 19th century, Tunbridge Wells was ringed by residential 'parks'. They continue to add to its pleasant character.
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Since 1887 the High-Victorian buildings of The Skinners' School have been a landmark on the main approach to Tunbridge Wells from the north. Their birth involved a tale of rivalry between two local townships.
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A bibliography of sources of the history of the town and its inhabitants.
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Decimus Burton is of seminal importance to the history of Tunbridge Wells. In the 1820s and 1830s, he established an architectural and landscape character that remains a prominent feature of the town to this day.