FREE TALK AT BRIGHTON UNI ON REGENERATION, Featuring HASTINGS PIER!

You are invited to attend this talk in Brighton at the Bevy Pub, the town’s only community owned pub.
Brains @ The Bevy
Wednesday 27th June
The People’s Pier - Regeneration, community, and popular culture heritage
Olu Jenzen, University of Brighton
This free talk features 2 case studies by Dr. Jenzen, covering Hastings and Clevedon Piers

HASTINGS &; ST. LEONARDS SOCIETY - Open Meeting

Promoting Our Heritage and Civic Pride
Website: www.hastingsandstleonardssociety.org.uk
Secretary’s e-mail: hstlsoc@gmail.com

The next H & St. L Society Open Meeting is on Monday 2 July, 6 pm start, at
the HAVELOCK ROAD Building of the University Campus (Room 415). (Note change of building from  usual location.)
Meeting to be chaired by Dr. Deborah Madden
There are two main topics on the agenda:
1. Discussion of trading at Queen’s Road, Hastings
2. Discussion of the future of the Harold and Edith Statue (West Marina Gardens)
All welcome

, but please advise in advance if you are attending and agenda will
be issued by e-mail.

‘For Crying Out Loud’: The Story of a Town Crier

HASTINGS & ST. LEONARDS SOCIETY

Promoting Our Heritage and Civic Pride

Special Event at Hastings Museum and Art Gallery,

Sunday 8th July, 2 pm.

‘For Crying Out Loud’: The Story of a Town Crier

Illustrated talk by Jon Bartholomew

Admission Charge: £5 (children under the age of 14 free, if accompanied by adult) Pay on the door; no advance booking Proceeds are being donated to provide prize money for the National Champion Town Criers' competition in ‘Hastings Week’

Women March! Saturday, June 23rd 11.30am

St Mary in the Castle

FREE EVENT

Doors: 11:30am
Show: 12pm

Women’s Voice invites you to dress as a suffragette and join the great women’s suffrage procession on Saturday 23 June.

10am: Assemble at Warrior Square Gardens.
11am: Setting off: we will march along the seafront to the town centre, then back to St Mary’s in the Castle.
12.30pm: Speakers, films, theatre and a massed women’s choir singing songs from the suffrage movement. All events are free.

Speaking for Women’s Voice, Ann Kramer says: ‘the march will be one of the highpoints of the events we have organised to celebrate one hundred years since (some) women won the parliamentary vote. Local suffragists and suffragettes processed along the seafront and through the streets of Hastings more than a hundred years ago in their fight for the vote, so we decided it would be good to honour their struggle and re-create one of their processions.’

A visit from Hawaii– Friends of Hastings Cemetery Update

After posting the fascinating story of a Dr. Makalua on the website, a faculty member at the University of Hawaii contacted us to say she is bringing a group of students over in July to retrace the steps and tours of a study abroad program from Hawaii between 1880 and 1892 which includes the student,  ​Matthew Makalua,

New Stories

• Dewar, Rev. David Erskine - there are a number of Dewars and Parrys in the Cemetery, but we are not currently aware of any connection (watch this space!) But we do know that he was the father of Annie Clementina Makalua. (See below)

Updated Story

• Makalua, Matthew M (Dr), MRCS, LRCP & Annie Clementine - First ethnic Hawaiian to qualify as a doctor; practised in Hastings

St Mary in the Castle Tour Wednesday, June 27th 12pm FREE ENTRY

Meet in the cafe just before 12pm.

Join us for an informative and historical tour of the 19th century church and it's crypt.

The tour is free but donations are very welcome.