History

History of the Mill Stream

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Today, the Mill Stream is within a conservation area and is a shallow, slow-running back water. But this was not always the case and its historical importanc...

A Town Of Bridges

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A Threat To Public Health

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The centre of the town was around the Market Building opposite where East Street meets the High Street and was relatively clean compared to many similar mar...

The Twentieth Century

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The Mill was still operating as a corn mill at the turn of the 20th century but at the end of WW1 in 1918, the site was purchased by Tonbridge Urban Distric...

Ghostly Goings-On

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One evening in 1933, 17 year old Frank Goldsmith took over from a colleague for a night shift alone at Electro Chemical Development Syndicate in one of thes...

At The Mercy of Town Planners

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For a number of years the Mill Stream was at risk of being lost forever. Pedestrianisation of the High Street was a proposal of the 1969 Town Centre Plan an...

Other Notes

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Ghost Bridges

References

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Sources Medieval Tonbridge reviewed in the light of recent excavations at Lyons, East Street. By Eliott Wragg, Chris Jarrett and Jeremy Haslam Archaeologia C...