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HOME PAGE WELCOME TO OUR DATABASES OF SPECTACULAR PLACES AND SCENERY (spas) The Research Fellowship has spent decades investigating the natural landscape and man's intervention, producing stunning results. To explore our data click on the subjects below and then head off to investigate for yourself their whereabouts in real life. Our home is the Tower House in Tadworth, Surrey from where Dr Bruce E Osborne has pioneered our research since the 1970s. As you will see below our activities are far ranging, worldwide, and include everything from grottoes to water towers. We disseminate much of our research work through our publishing, which includes books and papers as well as on-line. Our investigations into the diaries of Lady Somerville in the mid-19th century has yielded amazing detail of the life of the aristocracy during the Victorian era. The grotto.directory uses a sophisticated encyclopaedia database management system to enable grotto sites to be searched on the internet. This is enhanced by the Great British Grotto Grading scheme run by the voluntary group, the Minstrels of Mythology. The directory is the original web search facility for grottoes, is unique and is a world leader. A number of our resources are of unique value to the industry. We hold the largest known library of mineral waters and related subject books. We also conduct overseas study tours that are featured in the media. The Malvern Waters web site is a unique database and search engine specifically designed to promote the activities of the Friends of Malvern Springs and Wells and Malverns Worldwide. The Research Fellowship supports the range of activities associated with Malvern Waters, having been participant with research and development of the theme over the last 27 years. The activities in Great Malvern, England have resulted in an international project to bring the hand of friendship to the 30 Malverns world wide. With the support of leading community figures in the various Malverns, interaction is encouraged throughout the Malverns indentified on the web site accessed by clicking the globe above. Other projects on the same Malvern Waters web site includes subjects related to Malvern waters including the Droitwich Canal restoration, gold prospecting in the Malvern Hills and elsewhere, etc. To view the site click on the Malverns Waters logo above. Interests in natural waters include Epsom Waters (click left), the Springs and Fountains of the River Wandle (click right) and much more. Through our Water for Health scheme we seek to promote of the use of natural source waters for therapeutic and recreational purposes. And for those who wish to embark on our mythology programme, click the oracle right and discover the Astrospa Almanac. Alternatively click on Ancient Mysteries on the menu top left to view a range of papers related to ancient belief systems. Martello Towers were a product of the early 19th cenury when many were built around our southern and eastern shores in England. Our database summarises these following extensive landscape and archive research. And for anyone interested in life in Sussex, Kent and Surrey in recent centuries we have a genealogical site called "Destiny". All our lives are moulded by past generations and to understand where you come from and who you are offers amazing insights. Here we look at Steers, Osborn(e)s, Bakers and other selected southern England families. As a result we have explored smuggling, wrecking, Irish immigration and a whole host of other fascinating experiences of the past. Click the ? for the home page. Pursuing our geography interests, we have carried out various studies on southern England. These include the London to Brighton Railway, Rory's Grotto in Brighton, the origins and development of Brighton as a spa, Royal retreat and tourist resort. We also carried out extensive studies as to the implications of making the South Downs a National Park. To explore these studies click the links to subjects in the south of England below. CLICK THE BRIGHTON FISH BELOW TO EXTEND YOUR EXPLORATION OF SOUTHERN ENGLAND Brighton's Past on Shifting Sands Part ONE. Brighton's Past on Shifting Sands Part TWO. Brighton's Past on Shifting Sands Part THREE. Brighton's Crimean Cannon. The London, Brighton and South Coast Railway. The Last Fisherman - Rory's Grotto. Tourism and the Sussex Downs - South Downs National Park. For those who seek something different, our web database for Weird and Wonderful Water Towers illustrates not only the architecture but also the ingenuity in adapting for re-use, water towers that decorate the British landscape. Click the picture above to discover more. Our web sites have been devised and are provided by Paul Clevett of nbtafelberg. Since inception they have received many prestigious awards and these are now displayed in our Awards Gallery (click menu top left). The world saw our first data warehouse go live in 2000, after extensive user research and two trial sites had proven the principal. There followed several years of innovation and development, resulting in our initial directories going international. Access to our services is totally free for anyone with internet access. Twenty four hours a day, seven days a week, the Fellowship is making the world a more integrated, intellectually stimulating place. The SRF is a non-profit making Fellowship that promotes education, research and scholarship into all aspects of geography. The Fellowship provides a forum for the conducting of such research and the dissemination of the results. To contact the Fellowship: E-mail: bruce.e.osborne@gmail.com Spas Research Fellowship, Tower House, Tower Road, Tadworth, Surrey. 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