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.
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.
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.
Donations of good quality second hand books much appreciated.
And do come and buy when the time comes!
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/
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
Available from Hastings History House, 21 Courthouse Street, (and other places)
Also available from Hastings History House:
Ron Veness: Bakers and Bakeries in the Old Town of Hastings
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
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.
