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Launch of a large 48 ton fishing vessel, built in the Priory Valley by Mr Winter for Messrs Blacklock of Lydd.
Two Hastings fishermen, Messrs Tassell and Hook, were washed overboard and drowned in rough seas off Shoreham.
The East Well water spring in Rock-a-Nore Road had been completed, Hastings Council was informed. It was funded from the surplus collected following the burning down of 20 net shops in 1846, and was the only free fresh water in ...
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New waterworks, supplied from springs, were being excavated in Newgate, Thornden and Ore woods. Also: Portable stocks were to be obtained and kept in the jail.
A Fishermen’s Tea Meeting was held at the National School Rooms, Tackleway, with 170 people present.
Start of a three-month stay by Louis Phillipe, ex-King of France, at the [Royal] Victoria Hotel. He was in exile after escaping from the 1848 French revolution in a fishing boat. In addition, the Queen of Belgium arrived on June ...
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Spring
From the Hastings News of 20/04/1849
Opening of a new chalybeate spring at 2 West Hill by Lady Helen McDowell.
Lighthouses
From the Hastings News of 11/05/1849
Hastings Council decided that the Lower Lighthouse, close to the Cutter pub, which was nearly burnt through, should be rebuilt like the Upper Lighthouse, which was near the Caves entrance.
Railway Tunnels
From the Hastings News of 27/07/1849
The first stones were laid in the Hastings railway tunnel by Miss Mackay on July 24, and in the St Leonards tunnel by Mrs Barlow on July 25.
Dr Henry Burton, son of St Leonards founder James Burton and brother of Alfred Burton, then the Mayor of Hastings, had died.
Railway Chaplain
From the Hastings News of 17/08/1849
A chaplain commenced duties on the railway workings.
Guestling Murder
From the Hastings News of 24/08/1849
Mary Ann Geering was executed at Lewes for poisoning her husband at Guestling, with arsenic.
Death of Mr NP Nell, a railway worker buried by an earthfall on the Hastings-Ashford line.
Railway Problems
From the Hastings News of 11/09/1849
Cracks appeared in railway bridge at Ore Lane [now Queens Road].
Mill
From the Hastings News of 14/09/1849
A steam flour mill was erected on the West Hill [close to Priory Road / Gordon Road junction] by Mr TN Ward of Ore.
Railway Works
From the Hastings News of 21/09/1849
The South Eastern Railway half-yearly report said the Hastings to Ashford line (then building) would be double tracked. Work on the Tunbridge Wells to Hastings line was also under way.
St Mary Magdalen
From the Hastings News of 28/09/1849
An appeal was made for money to build a church for the parish of St Mary Magdalen.
There was a flood at the Priory; workmen fled, and many rats were seen.
Workhouse
From the Hastings News of 26/10/1849
The Board of Guardians of the Hastings Union had decided to exclude the press from its meetings.
Railway Chapel
From the Hastings News of 02/11/1849
The Wesleyan Methodists opened a chapel for railway labourers east of the Gensing Valley.
Railway Tunnel
From the Hastings News of 23/11/1849
A 40 yards earthslip in the Hastings tunnel delayed the opening of the railway line.
Gas Monopoly
From the Hastings News of 07/12/1849
The News published a letter complaining about the gas monopoly in the town, resulting in consumers paying nearly twice as much as in other towns for “an article miserably bad in quality”. The News had two letters on the issue ...
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Railway Benefactor
From the Hastings News of 14/12/1849
Mr W Hoof, the contractor for the Hastings-Ashford railway line, donated an empty brick kiln in his brickyard near Coghurst Gateway to be used as a chapel and school house.