Friday 23 October 2015

Friends of Hastings Cemetery

NEW:

  • Boase, Frederic - lawyer and biographer, (Modern English Biography, in 6 volumes) died in St Leonards.
  • Slade, William & Mary Ann - lived many years in Hastings.  Mary Ann formed the Bourne Mission for Fishermen and was a schoolteacher.

Updated:

  • Yeates, Victor Maslin - author of 'Winged Victory', died in Fairlight Sanitorium of an illness due to World War One, (WW1).

Recent:

Friday 16 October 2015

Monday 12 October 2015

1066 Harold's Way - Talk by David Clarke

Events Leading up to October 14th 1066

Friday October 16th - 5.30PM
Hastings History House, 21 Courthouse Street
Tickets £3 including refreshments
Tickets can be reserved.

Wednesday 7 October 2015

Hastings History House - 11th October, 4 PM

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Napoleon and the Fishwives
Presented by Rattlebag Players

A musical play told by three saucy fishwives.

Donations to OHPS and Hastings Week

Monday 5 October 2015

FoHC - latest



NEW:
  • Strickland Family - Corn merchants, actually an update but included here because of close relationship (including inter-marriage) with Slades.

Updated:
  • The Bowerman Family, William, Edith (later Chibnall) & Elsie - Edith and Elsie, who survived the Titanic disaster, were strong in the suffragette movement.
  • Alfred Hassam - a portrait painter and stained glass designer who worked mainly in Birmingham
  • Arthur Foord Hughes - son of Arthur Hughes, painter associated with the Pre-Raphaelites, Arthur junior was a painter in the same mould and lived for many years in the area.Lindridge, George  -organist at St Mary in the Castle, Professor of Music, composer, Owner - pianoforte, harmonium & music warehouse, no.44 Robertson St.
  • Lindridge, George  - organist at St Mary in the Castle, Professor of Music, composer, Owner -