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SEPTEMBER NEWS Heritage Open Days in Tunbridge Wells
T
aking place this year from 13th- 22nd September, there’s more than ever to see and do in Tunbridge
Wells and around when Heritage Open Days returns for 2019. It’s your chance to look inside some of the surviving great houses of the area, to visit historic churches and castles and holes in the ground and even a working windmill!
New this year is the Quaker Meeting
House in Grosvenor Park and the Science Room at Salomons in Southborough. As usual there are a number of conducted tours. One of the most popular is the back- stage tour at the Opera House on Mount Pleasant (Glyndebourne’s predecessor) – now a pub but still fully equipped for opera once a year. And for the fi rst time there’s a
chance to go back-stage at the Assembly Hall Theatre and the Trinity Arts Centre, plus a chance at Trinity for children to try on some of the costumes. There are plenty of other things for
children too. At the windmill in Cranbrook they can make fl our by wind power, while at the Cultural Centre in Tunbridge Wells they will be able to make biscuits for which the town was once famous. And there are churches galore to
explore, ranging from Norman to late Victorian. For stained glass enthusiasts there are the nationally-celebrated High Victorian Burne Jones windows at Speldhurst and Chagall’s modernist memorials to a drowned girl at All Saints, Tudeley, with just down the road some rare 13th century wall paintings at Capel. Memorials
and mementoes everywhere include Princess Victoria’s personal seat (King Charles the Martyr Church on The Pantiles) or links to Edith Cavell (St Thomas’s in Southborough), while top cemetery tour is at Woodbury
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Park. In addition to a host of historic buildings there are a number of out of doors possibilities. You can take a steam train on the Spa Valley Railway (exhibition at the station) to High Rocks with its eight acres of sandstone rock and – unusually – free all weekend. Or if you want to get right down into the sandstone and mud, the Southborough Archaeological Society can take you into its diggings off Vauxhall Lane to see what our Neolithic ancestors were up to! • Visit
tunbridgewellsheritageopendays.org for more information.
CHARITY OF THE MONTH Gardening for Disabled Trust Charity
Adapting gardens, changing lives, defying disability since 1968, Gardening for Disabled Trust Charity aims to help people back into gardening in spite of disability. We do this by means of small fi nancial grants for adaptions to make gardening possible. Our clients tell us that it can change their lives,
enhance their wellbeing and help them defy their disability. The charity is entirely staffed by volunteers. Based in Kent, we award grants to individuals, groups and communities across the UK and support people with all kind of mental and physical challenges. We believe we are the only charity to do this. Our most common request is for raised beds and planting tables: we often pay for accessibility ramps, handrails for outside steps, adapted tools,
polytunnels and much more. Sometimes we simply pay for the seeds or bulbs to get the garden going again. We are all about actively gardening, and the pleasure and proven, long-term health benefi ts that it brings. If you are interested in fi nding out
more about our life-changing work visit our website –
gardeningfordisabledtrust.org.uk – to read about successful applicants, fi nd out how you can help us raise money so we can help more people, or how to make an application.
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