Soft Opening as from Last Week!

 Hopefully it will be Thursday - Saturday, 11 - 4.

New volunteers welcomed with open arms!

Friends of Hastings Cemetery Update - 

New Stories

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Absolon, William & grandson, Hackebarth, William H H - We do not know a lot about William Absolon, partly because it was a common name in Wallingford. From whence he came, probably for his health.  Also mentioned is his grandson, William H H Hackebarth, who died aged 10 months.  William was only 39.

Corby, Charles & Desiree Hortense Blanche - He was a London tailor and they lived at lived at Hollybank, Seddlescombe Road South. Currently there is not a lot known of them.

Strickland, Georgiana & Jane, (daughters of George, who built Harpsichord House and started a Hastings dynasty) and their nephew Louis Waghorn

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Glen, John M Grey, his wife, sister in law, (M A Graham) and step-son - (Thomas Goldsworthy) Lucknow story; some of the mourners at the funerals

Strickland Family - son Herbert; parents, Francis (grandson of George) and Jane - daughter of Mary Ann Slade, and like her an active supporter of women’s emancipation and much more.

                          

We have been advised of free online talks by the Church Monuments Society.

The nexttwo are as below.  We have been assured by a viewer that they were well worth watching and she can’t wait for the next one.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/144062327299

The Cross-Legged Effigy in Context: Myth and Legend

A talk about cross-legged effigies of medieval knights, by Mr Mark Downing, President of the Church Monuments Society.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/144059825817

A Dead Good Job: Gravedigging in Municipal Cemeteries

An in-depth talk about the role of gravediggers, by Dr Helen Frisby and Dr Stuart Prior.