Save Rammell Field - Cranbrook

Tunbridge Wells Borough Council are currently planning to build an extra 300 houses in Cranbrook and Sissinghurst. The War Memorial Field (aka Rammell Field) is a possible site for a number of houses (up to 104 we have been told). This field is a Memorial Field which was left to the community of Cranbrook in 1919, a letter addressed all Cranbrookians asking for generosity and appealed for funds in support of the scheme to build a small chapel on the Memorial Field in memory of the 55 Cranbrookians who lost their lives in the Great War and a further 250 Cranbrookians who also served but were spared their lives. The Community raised £859 13 shillings and 6 pence but support from the community was not there to build the chapel. It was then decided that a cricket field would be purchased with this money... but this did not happen either. After Cranbrook School came into a little bit of trouble, and lost their football field, it was agreed that Memorial Field would be purchased for the sum of £700 for the use of the school, but the War Memorial Field funds raised would be the ones used. With the rest of the money it was proposed that a new double gate would be built in the corner of the field and they would put in good order the hedges around the field. A record of these facts is inscribed on small tablets in the Bursar's Accounts Department and reads:

"WITH THE FUNDS SUBSCRIBED FOR THIS MEMORIAL
A PLAYING FIELD WAS PURCHASED FOR THE USE OF THE SCHOOL IN PERPETUITY"

The definition of "Perpetuity" is Forever, passed down through eternity. Therefore this field must not be built on and the community of Cranbrook do have a say over what happens to this field. MAKE A STAND WITH US AND MAKE SURE RAMMELL FIELD IS LEFT AS IT WAS INTENDED - TUNBRIDGE WELLS BOROUGH COUNCIL HAVE BEEN AND ALWAYS WILL BE SLY ABOUT THIS... 'LIKE' THIS PAGE TO GET ALL THE LATEST NEWS & REGULAR UPDATES.