Latest Stories from The Cemetery

New Stories:

• Balcombe, Charles Edward local; died WW1, 1917
• Davis, W E; died (Cooden Camp) WW1 1916
• Gale, Frank - local; died WW1 1917
• Helsdown, James Arthur  - fishermen, drowned off Fairlight (PioneerRX255)
• Muggridge, Harry Daniel - Skipper on the Pioneer RX255, drowned off Fairlight
• Russell, George Edward - died WW1 1918. (Served under alias, Longley)
• Samways, Alexander, local; died WW1 1916
• Williams, James Frederick - fishermen, drowned off Fairlight (PioneerRX255)

Recent Stories

• Bennett, Samuel James - well known in local Nonconformist circles

• Considine, Jane - died in Hastings / O'Clery, Countess Katharine - married and lived in Hastings

• Ransom, William -  founder and first editor of the Hastings and St Leonards News; lifelong friend of Barbara Bodichon.

FoHC Publications available from the History House - Donation

Friends of Hastings Cemetery - Update

NEWS

• The Cemetery Project has been completed
• The work so far forms a database of names in the older part of the cemetery, sections A - G.  This is available as a CD
• We have produced two books available from Hastings History House related to some of the stories we have researched
• The next Cemetery Walk will be on 5th June, 2016.  Meet at the Car Park

Friends of Hastings Cemetery

New Stories:

• Adams, Charles - local fisherman who died of pneumonia while on leave from H.M.S."Island Prince" WW1
• Adams, James & parents Edward & Alice -fishing family; James served in the RAF, WW1

Updated Stories:

• Jenkins, Peter & Family - local builder
• Thorburn, Charles - hastings resident, died WW1
• Whistler, Anna
• Willis Family

Recent Stories

• Lansdell Family: landowners, solicitor, surveyor
• Turner, Thomas - landlord of the Havelock Hotel

Opening Wednesday 27th April 2016. Hastings Pier Charity is proud to present a new, unique pier for the 21st Century.

VINTAGE FUNFAIR

Presented by: Funtime Rides

Wednesday April 27th - Thursday July 28th

from 10:00am

Come and experience all the fun of the fair on Hastings Pier! Funtime Rides' Vintage Funfair will offer lots of fun and games for adults and children alike. The centrepiece to this event is the beautiful Traditional Carousel.

Sea Shanty Evening with the RX Shantymen

Date/Time
Date(s) - 21/05/2016
6 PM

Location
Hastings Fishermen's Museum

- See more at: http://www.ohps.org.uk/events/sea-shanty-evening-with-the-rx-shantymen/#sthash.HnFc1Nbl.dpuf

The Hastings Fishermen's Museum celebrates 60 years as a museum on 17th May and we would love for you to come and help us celebrate with an evening of shanties, beer and fish rolls! 

Food will be available from 6pm and the singing will start at 7pm. Tickets are available from the museum for £8 which includes entry, one

drink (local beer, wine or squash) and a Tush & Pat Fisherman's Roll.

- See more at: http://www.ohps.org.uk/events/sea-shanty-evening-with-the-rx-shantymen/#sthash.HnFc1Nbl.dpuf

Sea Shanty Evening with the RX Shantymen

Date/Time
Date(s) - 21/05/2016
6 PM

Location
Hastings Fishermen's Museum

- See more at: http://www.ohps.org.uk/events/sea-shanty-evening-with-the-rx-shantymen/#sthash.HnFc1Nbl.dpuf

The Hastings Fishermen's Museum celebrates 60 years as a museum on 17th May and we would love for you to come and help us celebrate with an evening of shanties, beer and fish rolls! 

Food will be available from 6pm and the singing will start at 7pm. Tickets are available from the museum for £8 which includes entry, one

drink (local beer, wine or squash) and a Tush & Pat Fisherman's Roll.

- See more at: http://www.ohps.org.uk/events/sea-shanty-evening-with-the-rx-shantymen/#sthash.HnFc1Nbl.dpuf

Public memorial for Robert Tressell

A St Leonards-based master stone carver and a seafront retailer have brought together their passion for Robert Tressell to launch a project to create a permanent  to the author in the town.

The Tribute to Tressell project was conceived after an event in 2014 to mark the centenary of the first version of The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists being published.

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With the block of deep bed Portland stone that will become the bust now delivered and marked up, the project is launching its crowdfunding campaign to complete the commission and then look to tour the piece to other places with a connection with Tressell, such as Liverpool and Dublin, where he was born in 1870,– before finding a permanent public home for it in St Leonards

More information about the project, links to their videos and to the funding campaign can be found at www.tribute2tressell.org.uk from where you can also follow it on Facebook and Twitter.

Read more: http://www.hastingsobserver.co.uk/news/local/st-leonards-project-for-memorial-to-robert-tressell-1-7334447#ixzz46HeJSz4W

IMPORTANT - Rocklands Caravan Park

The Planning Inspector will be holding a public hearing relating to the unauthorised building at Rocklands Caravan Park this coming Thursday 21st April at 10am in the Sussex Hall, White Rock Theatre.

All are welcome to attend and the more who do so the more the Inspector will be able to see the level of public concern about this case.

The hearing may continue on Friday 22nd if the Inspector deems it necessary. Members of the public, including representatives of the Friends, may be asked to speak at the Inspector’s discretion.

Norman long boat on the beach

Plans to erect a six metre-tall sculpture of a  to mark the 950th anniversary of the Battle of Hastings have been submitted to the council

Leigh Dyer is building the sculpture for the Root 1066 Festival later this year and planning permission is now being sought from Hastings Borough Council.

Mr Dyer hopes to place the boat on the shingle opposite Denmark Place.

All the comments are supportive of the ‘beautiful thing with great resonance’, as Val Hunnisett described it.

The project is being done in collaboration with British Artist Blacksmith Association but Leigh is also relying on crowdfunding to make it happen.

To donate and find out more, visit: www.youcaring.com/residents-of-and-visitors-to-hastings-england-54493.

Read more: http://www.hastingsobserver.co.uk/news/local/norman-long-boat-sculpture-to-mark-1066-anniversary-1-7337256#ixzz46HdW0vtJ

JIG - Dancing on Hastings Pier, 12.30pm Saturday 30th April

Dancing on the newly opened Pier - join Hastings' Morris dancers and visiting sides between 12.30pm and 2pm

Lovely Hastings scenes from 130th Anniversary Collection of John Bray

Albert Memorial, both piers, donkeys, High Street, etc.

£1 for a pack of six from Hastings History House

Old Town Hall–Next Meeting

Monday, 11th April, 2016

6.00 PM for 6.30

21 Courthouse Street

See the new OTH website at https://1066centre.wordpress.com/

Humbug & Gifts - Pelham Arcade

The facade has been taken back to the original, and looks wonderful - but if you want to see it, you need to get along there quickly as apparently the Council / English Heritage (and apologies if these are not the bodies responsible) want it to match the St Mary in the Castle new facade.

Inside the shop the false ceiling has been removed and the original arched ceiling of the Arcade can be seen, and you can look up through the skylight.