Thomas Brandon and Celia Brett - Friends of Hastings Cemetery

Someone has pointed out that Thomas Brandon Brett was born one hundred years ago this year, so this is to pay tribute to him.

EE M34 - Thomas Brandon and Celia Brett

In Remembrance of

Celia

66 years devoted wife of

T B Brett

Born May 23rd 1821

Died October 19th 1900

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Also of Thomas Brandon Brett

Husband of the above named Celia Brett

For many years proprietor

Of the St Leonards and Hastings

Gazette and writer of

Local History

Born May 30th 1816

Died April 4th 1906

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"Honour thy Father and thy Mother

That thy days may be long in the land

that the Lord, thy God giveth thee"

Cemetery Update

New Stories:

• The Blomfield Family - missionaries in Jamaica, the sons were famous Hastings Photographers; buried in three separate plots (one lost to grass).

View from the FoHC/OHPS bench

Recent Stories

• Dibley, Johnathon & Emma & William Dengate - local contractor, his daughter and son-in-law
• Furley, William Deey very little known
• Phillips, Charles Henry Leigh died aged 8, his father was Charles, but which of the 45 - 50 Charles Phillips in Hastings at the time?
• Phillips, Frederick Charles - fisherman, drowned

Fishermen's Tonight - Hope you see this before this evening!

Last minute Stocking Present?

Winkle Club Calendar £4.50
with historic photos to bring back memories
and identify family members

Available from the History House, 21 Courthouse Street, and other locatons

No more Hastings planning application notification letters

Hastings residents will no longer be sent notification letters to alert them to planning applications in their area as the council tries to save time and money.

Hastings Borough Council is not sending out the letters anymore as part of its move to provide more services digitally and online.  Information about planning applications can be found on the council’s new ‘customer-friendly and more interactive’ website which was launched in the summer.

“Eye catching yellow site notices will be placed in the near neighbourhood

You can sign up for a MyHastings account on the council’s self-service system; you will see a list of all open planning applications in your postcode area.”

Information about planning applications can be found online and the 21 day period within which people have to comment on applications will stay the same. Yellow site notices will be erected for the majority of planning applications to notify neighbours about applications close to them.

Residents can also look up planning applications in their area on the council’s website: www.hastings.gov.uk/planning. “These changes have arisen from a wider review of council procedures with a view to making efficiencies, meeting our statutory duties and moving to a ‘digital by design’ approach where possible,” Cllr Forward said.
Read more at: http://www.hastingsobserver.co.uk/news/no-more-hastings-planning-application-notification-letters-1-7734136

Rare chance to see Andrew Kotting’s Edith film Edith

One of the few showings of Andrew Kotting’s Brilliant new film Edith is takes place on the film-maker’s home turf of St Leonards on Wednesday December 14.

The hour long film is being shown at the Kino Teatr, Norman Road at 7.30pm and features an introduction, Q&A and a mini performance.

The statue in St Leonards of the fallen King Harold in the arms of his mistress Edith Swan-Neck became the inspiration for an epic walk by Hastings based film-maker Andrew Kotting and writer Iain Sinclair.

Edith is remembered in history and folklore chiefly because it was she [allegedly] who identified Harold’s body after the Battle of Hastings.

During the walk Edith was represented by local singer Claudia Barton. Drummer David Aylward and musician and former Pogues member Jem Finer also made the journey. The 108 mile journey, from Waltham Abbey to St Leonards as the crow flies, reflects on Edith and features a conversation between Alan Moore, Iain Sinclair and Edith Swan Neck.

Tickets are £9, £8 and £7 available from Kino online at www.kino-teatr.co.uk.
Read more at: http://www.hastingsobserver.co.uk/news/rare-chance-to-see-andrew-kotting-s-edith-film-1-7716552

OHPS–Seasonal Celebration–3rd December 2016

at The History House, 21 Courthouse Street

“My Hastings” with Kevin Boorman

Tickets:
Members £5
Non members - £6

5.30 pm – Mulled wine and mince pies