Transcription of Tunbridge Wells in 1909 Supplementary Notes
1 Tunbridge Wells in 1909 Supplementary NotesVersion 2. June 2012 This document contains the source references that wereexcluded from the main also provides an opportunity to correct errors that havebeen identified in the main volume, and to include referencesto new you find further errors - in the main document, or inthese Supplementary Notes ; or if you have additionalinformation about 1909 that you would like to be recorded,please send details youForeword (p1)-Christmas 1908 (p3)p3 The story of the suffragettes is from the Courier Jan 1st postmen - Courier Jan 1st p7.
2 The telegraph-boys in Tonbridge - TonbridgeFree Press Jan 1st ?p4 Festivities at the Spa - Courier Jan 1st p5, Society Dec 18th 1908 p15. (JulietNicholson in The Perfect Summer (2008) describes a fancy dress competition at theSavoy Ball. Lady Diana Manners won 250 gns and a diamond and gold pendant forher representation of Velasquz Infanta )p4 Emmanuel Meal - Society Dec 26th 1908 p2. Courier Jan1st p7. Fund-raising dinnerfor Christmas1909 reported in Courier of Nov 26th Introduction to Tunbridge Wells (p5)p6 Medical Officer of Health Annual Report for 1909. Table XIXp6 The suggestion that other towns were more significant for Anglo-Indian familiescomes from E.
3 Buettner Empire Families: Britain and Late Imperial India (2004),eg p209. She does however have the story of Adelbert Talbot, who retired as BritishResident in Kashmir in 1900. His search for a retirement home in England was donewith care - he needed a certain status, but had limited resources. Barnes was rejected- not a nice neighbourhood - mainly composed of Cockney villas (p192). The moredesirable parts of London were too expensive. He feared that it might have to be theMidlands, but then found a suitable house in figures for Tunbridge Wells as a whole were abstracted from 1901 censussummaries on the web-site, hosted by the Univertsity of figures for St James Road were abstracted from the detailed 1901 of HM Caley from B and G Copus chapter in Residential Parks (ed ).
4 To councillors preference for Cllr Marsh, from Advertiser article October1908, in Borough Archives press 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 localnewspapers: Tunbridge Wells Advertiser, Tunbridge Wells Gazette and FashionableVisitors List, and Tunbridge Wells Society are only available at the British LibraryNewspaper Collection. The Tonbridge Free Press (TFP) is available on microfilm atTonbridge Ref. that all dates are 1909 unless otherwise League. Courier May 21st p7 reported that it had 2000 members - onethird of the Hedges.
5 Society Jan 2nd, p11. The story about him being snubbed in Leighcame from Christopher Rowley (local historian of Leigh). I found surprisingly littleinformation about the history of Benson & Hedges, though the Ellis Islandimmigration records do record Hedges almost annual visits to the United Society Dec 18th includes the following description ofMrs Spender-Clay without being a strikingly beautiful woman, Mrs Clay hasattractive features, and a great charm of manner, and a restful way of talking . Thereis an illustrated article in the Advertiser of Nov 13th 1908.
6 A New York Times articleof July 15th 1904, mentions that he resigned from the Guards in 1902 after the ragging scandal at Windsor. It is not clear whether he was involved in the scandal- the timing may have been coincidental. (The scandal involved senior officersbeing censured for allowing (perhaps encouraging) junior officers to imposeexcessive punishments on colleagues who didn t conform to the behaviour expectedof William Nevill. See, inter alia, The Times Feb 16th 1898. p12. Nevill later wrotea book about his experiences in prison called Penal servitude (1903).)
7 He was infurther trouble in 1907 The Times Apr 15th 1907 Nicolson (The Perfect Summer p115) quotes Kipling, describing Churchill at the1911 coronation, full of his own self-importance like an obscene paper-backedFrench novel in the Bodleian .How we became Royal (p11)p11 Formation of Advertising Association. From the Courier of May 22, June 19, June26 1908, and the Advertiser of 31st July Dennis was brought up by his elder sister, Elizabeth, and her husbandEbenezer Waymark. In 1876 the Waymarks opened a small drapers shop at 78 Calverley Road (NB there were no buildings then between Five Ways and MonsonRoad).
8 In the early 80 s they moved to no 2 Calverley Road, and by 1909 theydominated that corner site, which became known as Waymark s Corner. Ebenezerdied in 1892, and Elizabeth took over the running of the business. Albert, who hadbeen involved in the firm since the late 1870 s was admitted a partner in 1900. TheDrapers Record. Sept 18th 1909. See also Society 19th Dec 1908 of the Advertising Assoc - these were reported each month in the of the details given here were taken from the report on 29th Jan of theassociation s Annual Meeting. Chess competition is perhaps the wrong term.
9 Itwas in fact a chess congress , held in the town, with some hundreds of Whitakers - This was a short-lived publication. Whitakers own archivewas destroyed in 1942 but there is a copy in the British for the Promotion of Tunbridge Wells (footnote). Described in anobituary for Mr Francis Boreham (its first secretary) in the Courier of Feb 5th Nicolson (The Perfect Summer p226) talks of south-coast resorts having PublicityManagers . The Times disliked the term - an House. Papers relating to the application to call it Her majesty s are in theNational Archives at Kew.
10 HO144/603 p151 for an earlier cigarettes. The story about the request to call them Royal George comesfrom WD and HO Wills and the Development of the UK Tobacco Industry BWEA lford. (2005) petition to the King and the various responses to it are at the National Reports in the local newspapers can be identified from dates in thetext. Streatfeild and Hardinge links to the King: Courier 26th Feb p7, Recollectionsof Three Reigns F Ponsonby (1951) of Argyle - better known in Tunbridge Wells as Princess Louise,Marchioness of Lorne, daughter of Queen Victoria, who lived at Dornden in Rusthallin the 1870 that George V s coronation was in 1911, not (p19)p20 Old Age Pensions.
