Friends of Hastings Country Park Talk

Colin Page on "Wildlife on the Seashore":

Date: Friday 15th November @ 7pm

Venue: History House, Courthouse Street, Old Town, Hastings

Free to Friends of HCPNR

The Rock-a-Nore Story with Ken Brooks

Saturday 9th November 2013 – 5.30PM

Tickets - £2.50

Hastings History House

21 Courthouse Street

Stade Walks in November

 

More Information on Stade Winter Photography Competition

Down load an information sheet and entry form from the website.
http://stadephotographycompetition.wordpress.com/

Open Photography Competition

Upcoming Talks at Hastings History House

The Rock-a-Nore Story with Ken Brooks
Saturday 9th November 2013 – 5.30 PM
£2.50

Christmas Day in the Workhouse with Dorothy & Judith Kinnison Bourke
Saturday 7th December 2013 – 5.30PM
£3

Twenty-Five Years as a Local Tour Operator with Clive Richardson
Saturday 11th January 2014, 5.30PM
£3

Specific reminders will be posted a week or so before each event.

Artscape: Muriel Matters!

Muriel Matters was a South Australian actress who moved to London in 1905 and became a pivotal figure in the suffragette movement. Matters made a remarkable contribution to the fight for women's right to vote but her story is surprisingly little-known by most Australians. Through archive footage, interviews and dramatic reconstruction Muriel Matters! explores how this extraordinary woman got lost from history, and reveals what her story tells us about the links between art, politics and women's rights in England and Australia…………

Good precis, worth a read, but am denied access to the video.

http://www.abc.net.au/arts/stories/s3864731.htm

Sunday 13th October 11 am Tree walk in Hastings Cemetery

Just to remind you or let you know that Sunday 13th October at 11 am Dr Owen Johnson will lead a tree walk in Hastings Cemetery.  We meet by the car park.

Owen is the author of the Sussex Tree Book and is our local expert on all things aboricultural.

http://friendsofhastingscemetery.org.uk/

Saturday 12th October 5.30PM - Sidney Little – A Man with a Vision, More than a Concrete King

Sat 12th October 5.30
OHPS Illustrated talk by Andre Palfrey-Martin
21 Courthouse Street
Hastings
014240424744
Tickets £2

Sidney Little – A Man with a Vision, More than a Concrete King

Sat 12th October 5.30
OHPS Illustrated talk by Andre Palfrey-Martin
21 Courthouse Street
Hastings
014240424744
Tickets £2

Books Wanted for Book Sale! Saturday 19th / Sunday 20th October

Donations of good quality second hand books much appreciated.

And do come and buy when the time comes!

 

Heritage Open Day at the Cemetery

Anne will be at the cemetery on Sunday 15th; part of the Museum Exhibition will be on display, and Trail leaflets for exploring part of the cemetery available.

HOD has produced some videos to publicise events.  We feel this one is particularly relevant.  Enjoy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehLWG-MMlB0

Current Exhibitions at the Hastings History House

Old Town Carnival Week

A superb exhibition of the history and nature of Hasting Country Park, including interesting information of local fossils and dinosaurs.

And a perpetual source of interest – Some Old Town Twittens

Cemetery Exhibition – some of the information from Friends of Hastings Cemetery research – for more see http://friendsofhastingscemetery.org.uk/

Does anyone remember……

the skinny-dipping suffragette from Pelham Crescent.

Two members of the Muriel Matters Society, headquarters in Adelaide, have been here recently and would love some more memories, they are intrigued that her later life in Hastings seems to have disappeared from the collective memory.

She stood as a Labour MP for Hastings in 1924 (but was defeated) and came here to live in the later 1940’s, early 1950’s, living here until she died in 1969.

She is known variously as Muriel Matters, (Mrs) Muriel Porter, and Muriel Matters-Porter.

Any information at all, please email to marijsak@gmail.com and/or Frances.Bedford@parliament.sa.gov.au

Many Thanks