Update on SMIC from HOT

Hail St Mary’s!

St Mary-in-the-Castle has succeeded in completing the formalities for establishing its new management structure as a charitable trust and company limited by guarantee under the supervision of an  independent board of trustees. The trustees designate have been meeting for the last six months to plan how they will run the venue. Last week Charity Commission approval was obtained, writes Chris Cormack.

This confirmation of status will enable St Mary’s to start applying for various grants and get itself recognised on the arts touring circuit following a long-term plan instead of managing from day to day.

http://hastingsonlinetimes.co.uk/arts-culture/music-sound/hail-st-mary

New book – Silverhill; from Waterfall to Windmill

New Book
Silverhill; from Waterfall to Windmill

Slide show and talk by the author Alan Buckle
Saturday 6th July – 7.30 PM
St Luke’s Church, Silverhill

John Logie Baird's house featured tonight on Britain's Secret Homes programme.

Presenter Michael Buerk visits the house at 21 Linton Crescent in Hastings, where Baird carried out his early TV experiments.

The episode will be shown on ITV at 9pm tonight Friday July 5.

“I went for a walk over the cliffs to Fairlight Glen, and my mind went back to my early work on television.  Might there not be something in it now?”

He worked it out in his mind and with his friend constructed a ‘means of seeing wireless’ from a  lot of odds and ends.

Old Town Carnival Week – Tickets for Talks& Walks

Tickets now available from the Hastings History House, 21 courthouse Street
email ohps@ohps.org.uk
Tel: 01424 424744

Tickets limited to 20 for a walk, and 40 for a talk.

AUGUST 2013

Monday 5th

2PM Dandies and Dragoons – a Walk – Meet at Hastings History House (this walk is repeated on Wednesday)
Refreshments available
Tickets - £3.50

4.30PM – “Knickers for Dusters” – the true story of an austerity household in 1947.
A Talk by Victoria Seymour
Refreshments available
Tickets - £3

Tuesday 6th

10.30AM – a Walk with John Shirlaw - “Exploring the Architecture of All Saints Street”
Starts with an introduction at the History House
Tickets - £3.50

4.30PM – Illustrated talk “A History of Ore” with Christine Hayward
Refreshments available
Tickets - £3

Wednesday 7th

11AM – 1PM Coffee Morning at the History House
Browse the exhibitions and some of our archive material

2PM Dandies and Dragoons – a Walk – Meet at Hastings History House
Refreshments available
Tickets - £3.50

Thursday 8th
10AM Outside the Wall – a walk exploring the “suburbs”
Meet at Hastings History House.  Discover traces of Old Town Wall and the life outside it.
Tickets - £3.50

Friday 9th

12 Noon – 2.30PM – Cheese and Wine Lunch at Hastings History House
Local cheeses from Penbuckles. Organised by OHPS.  Raffle tickets available.
Tickets - £5

4.30PM – Exploring the Lost Roads of the Old Town – Walk
Meet at Hastings History House.
Lost roads, twittens and rows – traces that can be seen today
£3.50

Saturday 10th
4PM
Grand Raffle winning ticket will be drawn.  Tickets are on sale to raise money towards the installation of a lift.  Tickets £1 each, First Prize £50, second prize – tickets for the London Eye.

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!