“The grave’s a fine and private place…”

27th April to 23rd June
At Hastings Museum &  Art Gallery

This display shows the work of a project to record extant memorials in the older sections of Hastings Cemetery and then to research some of the people and topics found. Whistler's mother, Queen Victoria's pastry chef, two Naval officers who were present at the siege of Sebastopol, are just a few fascinating stories the project’s uncovered.

There are mysteries you may be able to solve!

A new look for the seafront? Public Consultation

 

Stade Hall

Friday, April 26th – 4 – 6 PM

 

Old Town Walks 2013

http://ohps.org.uk/hastings_old_town_guided_walks.php
Old Town Walks start again on Tuesday 7th May
Meet at 2:30 pm at the top of the West Hill Lift.
These walks will run every Tuesday until the end of July.
Then in August,as well as the Tuesday walks,  there will be walks on Thursdays 8th, 15th, 22nd and the 29th; the first two Saturdays, and on Friday 9th.
In September the dates are Tuesday 3rd, 10th and Friday, and in October Saturday 12th, Sunday 13th and Monday 14th.
walks@ohps.org.uk

Friends of Hastings Cemetery Update

Updated

• George Devey- Architect & unacknowledged Father of the Arts & Crafts Movement
• Gambier, Dr. Thomas
• Useful Links

New Stories:

• The Borrow Family, Local schoolteachers, artist,
• William Montagu Glenister, “Father of the Hastings Police Force”; Founder of the Volunteer Fire Brigade, Inventor - Glenister-Merryweather Fire-fighting Tricycle
• Dr Arthur Henry Headley Huckle Local Dentist, Doctor, Lawyer and much more

• Alice Headley Neave, nee Huckle  Local Artist

What has this to do with it?  Click on photo to find out!

Brooke and Badham - Observing Hastings

20th April to 7th July

At Hastings Museum & Art Gallery
This exhibition is a pictorial history of Hastings as seen through the eyes of the two artists W.H. Brooke (1772-1860) and E.Leslie Badham (1873-1945). In 1922 Badham was invited to study Hastings Museum's collection of sketches of the town between 1820 and 1840 which had been drawn by Brooke, and to compile a contemporary record of Hastings. This exhibition will bring the two collections together.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/artists/William-Henry-Brooke

The Ridge - A Short History of a Long Road.”

Weds 17th April 11am

History House, 21 Courthouse Street Coffee morning and talk by local author Victoria Seymour £2

Friends of Hastings Cemetery Updated

http://friendsofhastingscemetery.org.uk/

●    Frederick Chamier - Gravestone & Inscription
●    Charles Vigant Monterossi de Falbe- Gravestone & Inscription
●    Gambier, Dr. Thomas
●    Lieut.Col the Hon Gilbert Elliot  & Katherine Ann Childers - Inscriptions & grave stones
●    Ionides Family
●    John McClelland and Sophie Swaine
New Stories:
●    George Devey - Architect & unacknowledged Father of the Arts & Crafts Movement
●    Ransom, Charlotte – Servant

Useful Links added

New group set up with aim to save town's heritage

Save Our Heritage
In Hastings & St. Leonards
Working to preserve and promote the Borough’s historic environment
OPEN
PUBLIC
MEETING
WEDNESDAY 10th APRIL 2013
VENUE
WHITE ROCK HOTEL
HASTINGS
6.30pm for 7.00pm
Inaugural Meeting Chair: STEPHEN GRAY
Your opportunity to show your concerns
about the protection of the boroughs
heritage

(Associated with OHPS)

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.

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  

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

1
2
3
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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

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.

“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