Hastings & St Leonards Heritage

Old Hastings Preservation Society was founded in 1952 to promote the permanent preservation of buildings of beauty/historic interest, especially in Hastings & St. Leonards and foster an appreciation of the history of Hastings. We encourage and record research which supports our objectives. Good architecture, design and town planning is encouraged. In 1956 we founded the Hastings Fishermen’s Museum open daily in Rock-a-Nore Road and more recently Hastings History House.

Friday, 29 March 2013

Visit to Highgate and Abney Park Cemeteries

Tuesday 11th June

Please let Anne Scott know ASAP if you would like to come. The cost will be £14 each for the Highgate Tour unless you are one of the project researchers and there may be a small donation sought for the minibus. So would you let me know ASAP if you would like a place.

We have to be at Highgate at 11 and I will try and book Abney Park for 2.15. If you are making your own way to London but need transport between the 2 Anne needs to know that as well please.

Monday, 18 March 2013

Hastings local history goes online

History buffs will be buoyed to read that reports of Hastings court cases from the Victorian era are being released online along with other items of local historical interest. Their publication is part of the 125th year celebrations of Sussex law firm Gaby Hardwicke Solicitors, which was founded in 1889, the year in which the hit BBC One TV series Ripper Street is set.

Only a year after the infamous ‘Jack the Ripper’ killings, Britain was a very different place in 1889, and this is reflected in the often bizarre nature of local court cases. Alongside the familiar occurrence of burglaries and assaults, quirky cases involving speeding ponies, drunken horsemen, unlicensed hawkers, rogue railway porters and animal theft were regularly heard in the Hastings courts.

The archive also sheds light on the serious issue of social deprivation at a time when poverty was widespread and Hastings had its own workhouse. Sadder cases include a woman charged with keeping her child from school because she couldn’t afford to buy him boots, and a girl charged with begging alongside her mother, who was charged with causing the child to beg.

Elsewhere in the new ‘125th year’ section of Gaby Hardwicke’s website are extracts from wartime letters about local bombing (including the 1940 bombing of Gaby Hardwicke’s Hastings office), reminiscences from solicitors and employees from days gone by and profiles of the firm’s key former partners, among them some well-known local figures.

David Young, Senior Partner at Gaby Hardwicke, said: “History and a sense of place are important to all of us. Over the years, Gaby Hardwicke has been an important reference point and resource for the whole community and I am delighted with the positive feedback we have received from those with whom various episodes and personalities in the firm’s colourful and rich history have resonated so loudly. We are immensely proud of our unique heritage.”

The material is available online at http://www.gabyhardwicke.co.uk/history.asp

For further information, please contact:

Alex Daley

01424 735083

atd@gabyhardwicke.co.uk

Sunday, 17 March 2013

A DAY SCHOOL : TWO MAJOR NEW REPORTS ON THE OLD ST HELEN’S CHURCH

SUSSEX HERITAGE TRUST

A DAY SCHOOL :
TO PRESENT TWO MAJOR NEW REPORTS
ON THE OLD ST HELEN’S CHURCH, ORE

To be held at :
The Lecture Theatre, Havelock Road, Hastings, TN34 1BE
(University of Brighton)

Wednesday 10 April 2013

COST FOR THE MORNING - £15
To book your place for the morning please copy and paste into Wordor other WP programme and complete the following.

WWW.OLDSTHELENSCHURCH.ORG.UK

SUSSEX HERITAGE TRUST

BOOKING FORM

A DAY SCHOOL :
TO PRESENT TWO MAJOR NEW REPORTS
ON THE OLD ST HELEN’S CHURCH, ORE

Wednesday 10 April 2013, 9.30am

Please reserve …… place/s at the day school at £15 per person

I enclose a cheque for £……….

Please make cheques payable to ‘Sussex Heritage Trust’

Name

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Please note:
Places are limited.
Please reply by Friday 22 March.

Please send this booking form with your cheque to:

Day School Booking,
Sussex Heritage Trust,
The Granary,
Cornfords Yard
High Street
Uckfield
TN22 1RJ

Thursday, 14 March 2013

Public exhibition of New Archery Ground proposals to be aired

Gladedale is preparing new plans for the development of the Archery Ground site in St Leonards. In the next few days there will be an exhibition of its proposals and a chance for stakeholders to give their responses.

Assembly Rooms, East Ascent, St Leonards-on-Sea.

Friday 15 March, 4-7pm, Saturday 16 March, 10am-1pm.

Pre-Application Forum:

Hastings Town Hall, Monday 18 March, 6pm.

Talk Friday, 15th March (ides of)

Talk by Lyn and Kevin Cornwell (of HAARG) on The Archaeology and History of the Country Park.

Organised by the Friends of Hastings Country Park; £2 for non-members.

7.00 at the History House

21 Courthouse Street.

Saturday, 9 March 2013

“An Old Town Boy Made Good”

Saturday March 16th at 5.30 PM

We are delighted to welcome The High Sheriff for East Sussex, David Allam, to tell us the story of a boy’s rise in the world from All Saints Street in the 19th Century. Tickets £2.00

Friday, 8 March 2013

Spirit of Plaice

Fishing for a sense of place: major new survey
http://hastingsonlinetimes.co.uk/hastings-life/hastings-people/fishing-survey-under-control-nt

A survey has been launched to find out how the fishing fleet influences the way people feel about Hastings. Working with the Hastings Fisheries Local Action Group (FLAG), the University of Greenwich’s School of Science is conducting a major new survey, called Sensing Fishing Places, to find out how marine fishing contributes to a sense of place in Hastings.

If you live or work in Hastings and would like to take part in this survey, please go to the following link to complete the survey online. Or, for a paper copy of the survey, please contact Dr Julie Urquhart at GIFS@greenwich.ac.uk, telephone 0208 331 8227/9751 or pick one up at the University of Brighton in Hastings campus reception in Priory Square. The survey will run until 19 April 2013. Join others in shaping the voice of what marine fishing means for our coastal communities today.

Help!

The OHPS is in desperate need of a Treasurer and possibly someone willing to help with financial routines at The fishermen’s Museum.

Our current treasurer has given sterling service for many years and over a year ago announced her intention to resign,.but she has soldiered on in the interim while we look for a replacement.

If you can help please contact Carol Porter on 812662, or Anne Scott at the History House. 424744 or email.

Wednesday, 6 March 2013

Getting excited about a roundabout…

Maquettes of the two sculptures shortlisted from seven internationally known artists’ works for Pelham Roundabout have been unveiled.
http://hastingsonlinetimes.co.uk/arts-culture/arts-news/pelham-roundabout-sculpture

A mobile exhibition van will be set up to view the shortlisted prize-entries as follows:
Friday 8 March 2013 - at Pelham carpark on the seafront 10-4pm
Saturday 9 March 2013 – Robertson Street outside Debenhams 10-4pm Sunday 10 March 2013 – Stade Open Space 10-4pm