Town Centre from the Common
The town centre looks lovely from the Common here near Mount Edgcumbe. The great view on this postcard is covered in trees today. Perhaps one day the Commons Conservators will open up this view again.
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There are 26 postcards postmarked "The Lewis Collection"
November 01, 2011
October 29, 2011
Mount Pleasant Railway Station
A nice high view of Mount Pleasant and the railway station on this postcard shows us the full extent of the bridge and inside the station.
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My Dear Cio. Received letter this morning. Glad to hear you arrived safely. Hope the change will do you good. Mother will write you a letter Sunday. Love from Mum, Dad, Myself and all the chickens. Florrie.
October 28, 2011
Mount Ephraim and the Common
Taxis and bath chairs wait for fares at the junction of Mount Ephraim and London Road.
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October 27, 2011
Mount Pleasant, Opera House and Calverley Parade
This postcard really shows how beautiful Calverley Parade was at the turn of last century. Such a loss..
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Dear G. Louisa and I are at the Wells for the afternoon so thought you would like a card. [ ] you next Sunday as [ ] to Cardiff early next week. I hope you will be able to come - will you write to 27 [ ] Square, Queens Road, Battersea SW. With love from Auntie.
October 26, 2011
The Pantiles
The Pantiles looks really quite empty in this postcard.
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Post Card Archive
776
postcards so far.
Welcome to the Post Card Archive. This is aiming to be the largest collection of post cards of Tunbridge Wells and we need your help to achieve it. All postcards remain the copyright of the respective owners, printers and photographers. They are shown here for educational purposes only. If you have any postcards that you wouldn't mind lending us to scan and add to the archive then please send me an email.
Contributors
This is a list of the generous individuals who have donated their collections to the archive. Clicking the name of each collection will take you to their contributions thus far, with more to come of course.
This wonderful collection is the main reason that this archive was started. A huge thank you goes to John Barber who kindly lent his collection to us here to share with the world. More of the Barber Collection will be shared over at the Friends of the Commons website, of which John is the Chairman. To thank John for sharing this great resource with us please consider stopping by the Friends website and becoming a Friend.
A very kind donation by Carl Lewis with some very unusual and rare scenes of Tunbridge Wells.
A great large donation by Poul Webb, a local artist with some great rare scenes of Tunbridge Wells as well as some of the more modern cards.
A superb collection from Sue Daniels with some really intriguing cards, a very fine collection.
A really fine large collection of postcards from long-time resident, and font of all local knowledge, Fred Scales.
Not all collections have to be large, Martin Edwards was kind enough to send me one postcard that he noticed was missing from the archives. Every card counts!
A collection of King Charles the Martyr postcards from Michael Bacon, organist at the Church.
A small, but vital, collection from local history writer Rachael Hale.
Another small and very helpful donation from Ray and Yvonne at the Kitchen Door Centre in St. John's.
Categories
- Accident
- Bayham Abbey
- Bishop's Down Road
- Bridge Hotel
- Brighton Lake
- Broadwater Down
- Calverley Crescent
- Calverley Grounds
- Calverley Hotel
- Calverley Parade
- Calverley Park
- Calverley Road
- Canon Hoare Memorial
- Carlton Hotel
- Castle Hotel
- Castle Rock
- Castle Street
- Cemetery
- Chalybeate Spring
- Chapel Place
- Christ Church
- Church
- Church Road
- Civic Centre
- Commons
- Corn Exchange
- Crescent Road
- Culverden Down
- Dr. Barnado's
- Dunorlan Park
- Earl's Court
- Eridge Road
- Five Ways
- Gibraltar Cottage
- Goods Station Road
- Grand Hotel
- Grosvenor and Hilbert Grounds
- Grosvenor Road
- Grove
- Happy Valley
- Harewood Hotel
- Hargate Forest
- High Rocks
- High Street
- Hospital
- Hotel
- Hurst Woods
- Inner London Road
- Kent and Sussex Hospital
- King Charles the Martyr Church
- London Road
- Molyneux Park Hotel
- Monson Road
- Mount Edgcumbe
- Mount Ephraim
- Mount Pleasant
- Mount Sion
- News
- Noakes
- Norfolk Hotel
- Opera House
- Pantiles
- Pembury Road
- Railway Bell Hotel
- Ritz Cinema
- Rocks
- Royal Wells Hotel
- Rusthall
- Sandhurst Park
- Spa Hotel
- St. Barnabas Church
- St. James
- St. James Church
- St. John's
- St. John's Church
- St. John's Road
- St. Lo Hotel
- St. Mark's Church
- Swan Hotel
- The Bacon Collection
- The Barber Collection
- The Edwards Collection
- The Hale Collection
- The KDC Collection
- The Lewis Collection
- The Poul Collection
- The Scales Collection
- The Sue Collection
- Toad Rock
- Train Station
- Trinity Church
- Tunbridge Ware
- Vale Royal
- War Memorial
- Wellington Hotel
- Wellington Rocks
