Friends of Hastings Cemetery Update

"the grave's a fine and private place…"

  exploring Hastings Cemetery

• The next Cemetery Walk is on Sunday 16th June at 11 am.  Meet at the main gate.
• Exhibition - Hastings Museum & Art Gallery, 27 April - 23 June.

New Stories & Features

• Charles Alderton J.P.  Hastings ironmonger, Alderton & Shrewsbury

• Edward Thomas Booth– Founder of Booth Museum of Natural History (Brighton)

• Ore Cemetery (aka Ore Burial Ground)

So much on in Hastings!

OHPS AGM 7th June 2013

History House
21 Courthouse Street

7 for 7.30pm

The meeting will be followed by a talk on Churches of Hastings & St Leonards presented by Joy Collins.

Fishermen’s Museum

Sea Shanties – Saturday 8th June (£10 including Fish supper and drink)

And while you are there have a look at a special exhibition in the Fishermen’s Museum, on the 30th anniversary of the return of the Edward and Mary RX74 to Hastings.

Friends of Hastings Cemetery

• The next Cemetery Walk is on Sunday 16th June at 11 am.  Meet at the main gate.
• Exhibition - Hastings Museum & Art Gallery, 27 April - 23 June.

Updated:

• Prelooker, Jaakoff - Russian emigre, founder of ‘New Israel’, prolific writer, lecturer and emancipist.
• Tolhurst, Tilden - Publican. Thief
• Various other pages updated with photos, memorials, etc.

New Stories & Features

• Diplock, William - Father (buried in All Saints) & son -librarians, and lots more besides
• Goodsell, Rowland & William - local, both drowned, 12 years apart
• Boulnois, Charles & Family - legal, India, explorers, Sudan, authors, artists……..

OHPS AGM 7th June 2013

History House
21 Courthouse Street

7 for 7.30pm

The meeting will be followed by a talk on Churches of Hastings & St Leonards presented by Joy Collins.

Fri 7th June 7.30 OHPS AGM

Roll up!  Roll up!  More details later, this is just so you can put it in your diary.

Cemetery Walk

The Next Cemetery Walk will be on Sunday 12th May at 2PM – Meet at the Main Gate.

Website update

• Exhibition - Hastings Museum & Art Gallery, 27 April - 23 June.

The next Cemetery Walk is on Sunday May 12th at 2pm.  Meet at the main gate.

New Stories & Features

• Sergiusz Piasecki -  a Polish writer, convicted armed robber and smuggler, a brave resistance fighter, a member of Intelligence forces, an executioner……..
• Gallery (in Beta) - use F11 to go to Full screen

Announcing Jack in the Green 2013

Hastings – where else?

Traditional Jack-in-the-Green: 03 - 06 May

http://www.hastingsjack.co.uk/

 

The Stade Guided Walks 2013

Stade Guided Walks have already begun but here are future dates.
Meet at the Lifeboat Station. StadeWalks@gmail.com
MaySunday 5th 11am
Saturday 25th 2pm
Sunday 26th 2pm
Monday 27th 2pm
June – all at 2pmSunday 2nd,  16th, 30th
July – all at 2 pmSunday 14th, 20th, 28th
August – November dates in a later post!

“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