Probably the Hastings & St Leonards Carnival for the Hospital – but what year?
Any information, guess etc. you can offer will be welcome.
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Monday 22 December 2014
Friday 19 December 2014
Friday 5 December 2014
This lovely book, “The Ridge”, full of photos and illustrations, would make a grand Christmas present
£12.50
Available from Hastings History House
21 Courthouse Street
01424 424744
Email: ohpscontact[@]gmail.com [Please remove square brackets!]
Friday 28 November 2014
Friday 14 November 2014
Christmas Cards available from the Hastings History House & Fisherman’s Museum
£3.80 per pack of 10 (assorted designs)
Friday 7 November 2014
Tuesday 4 November 2014
1966 – Triodome, Hastings Embroidery – 2016???
Maybe Hastings Insurance will insure it gratis? Or in return for use of some of the images?
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/condition_and_future_of_the_hast
Monday 3 November 2014
Victoria Seymour launches her 10th modern social history book at the Hastings History House
Award-winning historian
Looking Back on Hastings was launched during the recent Hastings Week celebrations at the Hastings History House in the Old Town.
The book is priced £9.99 is available from the History House
Saturday 1 November 2014
Latest from Friends of Hastings Cemetery
- Barthram, Edward, Ivy & Florence -Hastings born, served in Navy during WW1 and later with the Coastguard.
- Beagley, Richard & Mary - lived locally, members of the temperance movement.
- Kearne, Hubert Lindsey - lived locally; returned from abroad to fight in WW1, suffered severely and was found drowned.
- The Lutwidge Family - Lewis Carroll’s relations
- Pollard, James - local family; died 1925 of tubercular encephalitis, presumably contracted during war service.
Deaths in 1914:
- Beaney, Charles Arthur and Albert Edward, both in the Navy, lost within six weeks of each other in 1914
- Bumstead, Stephen J - local, serving with the 5th Royal Sussex, died aged 16. WW1- 1914
- Herbert Knollys Foster - local connections, KIA, WW1 1914, just a month before his 20th birthday.
- Kember, John William - lived locally; KIA, WW1 1914
- Shaw, Cuthbert Frank - born locally; WW1, KIA, 1914 aged 21
- Tompkins, Edgar James - Quartermaster Sergeant, regular soldier, served in South Africa and India. Wife’s grave - Edith Mary - KIA, WW1, 1914
- World War One Stories
- WW1 Cemeteries & Memorials
Cemetery Trail Leaflet
Friday 31 October 2014
New e-book - A smuggling adventure set in 1820s Hastings
In The Wake Of Amy Coaster: A smuggling adventure set in 1820s Hastings [Kindle Edition]
Rebecca Shalfield (Author)
Kindle Price:
£1.92 includes VAT* & free wireless delivery via Amazon Whispernet
- Length: 239 pages (estimated)
Set in 1820s Hastings and a prequel to "Echoes of Bourne Valley"
Friday 24 October 2014
Friday 3 October 2014
Saturday 11th October 2014
5.30 - Talk – Virginia Hinze – Sussex Gardens Trust – including Hastings & St Leonards Project
£2.50
Refreshments available
Wednesday 1 October 2014
Talk on Hastings Weather
The re-scheduled talk by Hastings weather recorder, David Powell, about the local weather will take place on Friday 3rd October at 7pm at the History House, 21 Courthouse Street, Old Town, Hastings.
Cost: £2, free to Friends of HCPNR
Monday 29 September 2014
Two new names added to the 1914 roll call–and help wanted
Does anyone have any more information on Stephen Bumstead, who died aged 16, while enlisted under the alias Barnes?
New -
- Bumstead, Stephen J - local, serving with the 5th Royal Sussex, died aged 16. WW1- 1914
- Foster, Charles, Edith Susan & Herbert Knollys Foster - local connections, Herbert was KIA, WW1 1914, just a month before his 20th birthday.
- Yeates, Victor Maslin - author of 'Winged Victory', died in Fairlight Sanitorium.
Updated -
- Arbuthnott, John Campbell, Jeannie and Hugh Hamilton- Hugh killed in action, buried in what is now Iraq, WW1- 1915
- Bannister, Sodi, Maud & Fred - local family; Frederick killed in action, WW1 - 1917
- Ventris, Francis, Helen Maud, Alan, Edward (E.F.V.), C. Peyton, Mona Goss, Madeline Bount, Patrick Clavell Blount - a Services family - Francis lived in St Leonards after his retirement from the Army. Alan was killed in Action, WW1, 1915, aged 18
A linked list of the people so far recorded who gave their lives as a result of World War One (the Great War) who are recorded in the common wield, not in the CWG areas, (apart from a few exceptions) can be found here
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