ON a showery autumn day in 1887, a group of men met by appointment in a part of Tunbridge Wells to which most of them probably rarely ventured.It was, admitted Local Board chairman John Stone-Wigg, rather unusual for the board's commissioners to go out on site, but he was nursing a pet project for which he needed their approval.That was why he had summoned them to meet at Grosvenor Bridge, on the edge of town, for a walkabout on what he hoped would eventually become Tunbridge Wells' first...
