The Votes for Women campaign in Tunbridge Wells

In April 1913 the Nevill Cricket Pavilion was destroyed by arson. A photograph of Emmeline Pankhurst was pinned to the ground outside, alongside scattered Suffragette literature. “Tunbridge Wells is declared to be a hot bed of militants!” cried the mayor, and local author Arthur Conan Doyle also condemned the action, saying, “Outrages like this must be stopped because they mean neither more nor less than anarchy!”