Developers have submitted proposals for up to 208 dwellings, to be built on land to the south of Holmhurst St Mary, off The Ridge.

The site where the homes would be built is more than 13 hectares in size. Part of the land was formerly part of the Holmhurst St Mary estate.

The land has open fields with densely wooded areas, elements of a former formal garden, old outbuildings and classrooms, old tennis courts, a graveyard and a statue of Queen Anne which is Grade II* listed.

Objectors’ concerns include possible traffic generation and congestion, road safety, insufficient parking, impacts of the Bexhill to Hastings Link Road (BHLR) on The Ridge, impacts on heritage including the gardens and statue, impact on the environment and harm to ancient woodland.

Read more: http://www.hastingsobserver.co.uk/news/local/plans-for-200-new-homes-in-st-leonards-1-7072501#ixzz3rr6KPTao

Hastings Cemetery Update

Updated:

• Devey, George - Architect & unacknowledged Father of the Arts & Crafts Movement - evidence of his connection with William Morris

• Woodruffe, Charles Sheldon Pearce - Captain, Royal Navy, Hastings Coastguard

Save Ecclesbourne Glen’s AGM - Sunday, 15th November from 3pm to 5pm at the White Rock Hotel

Don’t forget that Save Ecclesbourne Glen’s AGM takes place this Sunday, 15th November from 3pm to 5pm at the White Rock Hotel.

There will be a public meeting first with news, updates and an opportunity to ask questions, followed by the AGM itself. The SEG committee have been working extremely hard behind the scenes and all the issues are still very acute, so public support is still vital and very much appreciated.

The public hearing concerning Rocklands will take place on 20th January, 2016 and we will send you details of that in due course.

Please note the following retrospective application from Rocklands Caravan Park re solar panels which have been installed without planning consent:
http://publicaccess.hastings.gov.uk/online-applications/applicationDetails.do?activeTab=summary&keyVal=_HSTBC_DCAPR_102723

Boost for Hastings Prince Albert statue campaign

Campaigners have scored a victory in their bid to have an historic statue placed in a prominent position in the town centre.

A project to have the statue of Prince Albert erected outside the town hall in Queen’s Square, Priory Meadow, has been given approval by the Planning Inspectorate.
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“Now that the community group has the planning inspectorate’s approval for having the statue relocated to alongside the town hall, it is hoped the council, which owns the land where the statue is to be erected, will be happy to let the project to go ahead without any further complications.

“As soon as the council confirms this to the community group, fundraising for the project will start.

Read more: http://www.hastingsobserver.co.uk/news/local/boost-for-hastings-prince-albert-statue-campaign-1-7053406#ixzz3qon3Gey4

Pier Talk 13th November - Amendment

This talk will not be presented by John Hodges as previously advertised, but by volunteers from the Hastings Pier Charity

Just to remind you:

History House, 13th November, 7PM
Admission £2 – free to Friends of the Country Park.

http://hastingspeerlesspier.blogspot.co.uk/search?q=motion

Literary Connections Exhibition Back Up in the History House

There is also a list of writers buried in the Cemetery on The Ridge at
http://friendsofhastingscemetery.org.uk/writers.html

Many of these are writers of non-fiction, autobiography, travel, biography, poetry etc.

Rider Haggard – A talk - 7th November

Dr Elizabeth Allen

History House, 21 Courthouse Street

Tickets available - £3  - refreshments available

Friends of Hastings Cemetery

NEW:

• Boase, Frederic - lawyer and biographer, (Modern English Biography, in 6 volumes) died in St Leonards.
• Slade, William & Mary Ann - lived many years in Hastings.  Mary Ann formed the Bourne Mission for Fishermen and was a schoolteacher.

Updated:

• Yeates, Victor Maslin - author of 'Winged Victory', died in Fairlight Sanitorium of an illness due to World War One, (WW1).

Recent:

• Gant, Major John Castle - Solicitor, lived locally, died Chiddingly, buried with his aunt in Hastings Cemetery; lived to 100.
• Gant, William John & Family - Architect & Surveyor; appointed by the Town Council to make a survey of the built up areas of the town. Appointed Borough Surveyor.
• White, John Ebenezer & Family - local dairyman, Devonshire Dairy of Queens Road ………

Hastings Herring Fair – October 31st – Nov. 1st

Three Castle’s and an Ironmaster’s House – New Book

by David Clarke

£9.99 (postage extra) – available from Hastings History House, 21 Courthouse Street

New Book! The Hastings Omnibus by David Padgham

Available from Hastings History House, 21 Courthouse Street

£12 (Postage extra)

1066 Harold's Way - Talk by David Clarke

Events Leading up to October 14th 1066

Friday October 16th - 5.30PM
Hastings History House, 21 Courthouse Street
Tickets £3 including refreshments
Tickets can be reserved.

Hastings History House - 11th October, 4 PM

Napoleon and the Fishwives

Presented by Rattlebag Players

A musical play told by three saucy fishwives.

Donations to OHPS and Hastings Week

FoHC - latest

NEW:

• Slade, Robert & Family  - shown as visitors in 1891 census; Robert was William’s uncle.  He and his son were corn merchants.
• Slade, William the younger - Local music dealer. Born at Leeds in 1854. Came to Hastings 1862.

• Strickland Family - Corn merchants, actually an update but included here because of close relationship (including inter-marriage) with Slades.

Updated:

• The Bowerman Family, William, Edith (later Chibnall) & Elsie - Edith and Elsie, who survived the Titanic disaster, were strong in the suffragette movement.
• Alfred Hassam - a portrait painter and stained glass designer who worked mainly in Birmingham
• Arthur Foord Hughes - son of Arthur Hughes, painter associated with the Pre-Raphaelites, Arthur junior was a painter in the same mould and lived for many years in the area.Lindridge, George  -organist at St Mary in the Castle, Professor of Music, composer, Owner - pianoforte, harmonium & music warehouse, no.44 Robertson St.
• Lindridge, George  - organist at St Mary in the Castle, Professor of Music, composer, Owner -