Friends Group for Trinity Cemetery Garden

This fabulous engraving of the building whose grounds became the first cemetery in Tunbridge Wells is drawn by Bartlett and engraved by B.Winkles and is taken from a book published in 1829.
I was rather excited to receive this email and felt it was important to share.



You may all be interested to know that there is to be a launch of a 
Friends Group for Trinity Cemetery garden on Monday 8th June at 7.00 in 
the Trinity Arts Centre.  Do come along if you are interested in 
supporting the conservation and history work there.

This is of course the first of the Town's three cemeteries spanning the 
Victorian years, and has over 2,000 burials . Woodbury Park Cemetery was 
opened in 1849 when Trinity  was almost full, and then as in its turn 
WPC filled up, the Tunbridge Wells Cemetery at Hawkenbury opened in 
1873.  Depending on whether they had an existing family grave with 
remaining spaces, people had a choice between all three cemeteries for a 
span of 55 years.  There are obviously many family connections therefore 
between the three and the history work intertwines.

Thanks to a great deal of hard work by Jan Holly and her husband, who 
have done so much to clarify and add to the records at WPC, the Trinity 
burial register has now been transcribed and work on the memorial 
inscriptions is in hand .Some fascinating discoveries are already being 
made and it is hoped to create a heritage walk and publish historical 
booklets there like those at the other cemeteries as well as help 
Trinity to conserve the Listed graveyard and its memorials as one of the 
town's precious green spaces, thus adding to the attractions of Trinity 
Arts Centre itself as a place to visit.