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There was a south-south-west storm. The schooner Fairy, 110 tons, broke her back on the groyne at the unloading slipway at the bottom of London Road. She was 20 years in the coasting trade. Captain Eastland, who had half shares ...
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Mary Ransom Dies
From the Hastings News of 01/01/1869
Mary, widow of William Ransom, formerly the proprietor of the Hastings News, died on 25 December, 1868, at 42 George Street, aged 70.
Fishermen Drown
From the Hastings News of 05/02/1869
In two days of storms, the fishing boat Dove lost a man overboard at the East Groyne. Power Love lost her entire crew of four off South Foreland: George (Tonser) Adams, George Sutton, John Boreham and a pensioner, Woods. There ...
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Scrivens Building
From the Hastings News of 12/02/1869
Council meeting: Planning permission was given for 20 cottages in the meadow below Blacklands Church, and flats in Crown Lane to provide 32 sets of rooms for the Cottage Improvement Society [Scrivens Building]. The police were allowed to recruit two ...
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Horse Bus
From the Hastings News of 05/03/1869
A handsome three-horse omnibus, after the model introduced in London in 1862, started this week, from the Fishmarket to South Coast at St Leonards.
Pony Saved
From the Hastings News of 05/03/1869
A pony was recovered safely from a 20 foot well near Smith’s mills on the West Hill. He was sitting there with his head above water.
There was a proposal to erect a new parish church at St Andrews for 2,000 people. On 27 August 1869 the News reported that the committee for the new church selected the tender of prominent local builder John Howell for ...
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A Council meeting on 5 March agreed there could be a restaurant, beer cellars etc, with terrace, at the Queens Hotel.
The Ore Burial Society was wound up after 25 years and 358 funerals, due to decreased membership.
Poor Post Service
From the Hastings News of 19/03/1869
There was a complaint that business letters sent to London by the 10.20am train, arriving in London Bridge at 1.20pm, were not delivered within moderate distance of the GPO until after 5pm, so there was no time to answer the ...
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There was a complaint about the habit of seagoing vessels unloading coal and timber in the dead of night on the beach under the windows of the Queens Hotel.
The famous landmark the Fairlight windmill, on the top of Fairlight Down, burned down early in the morning of Wednesday 21 April. The large mill was completely destroyed, along with a large quantity of grain, flour and meal, and three ...
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MPs Win Libel Case
From the Hastings News of 23/04/1869
The two Hastings MPs, Frederick North and Thomas Brassey, both Liberals, were found not guilty of corrupt practices to win their seats in the November 1868 general election. Some members of the Tory Party had petitioned the Crown after the ...
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The schoolhouse at Baldslow, opposite the Iron Church, was enlarged.
In the Clive Vale Estate, 43 building plots were put up for sale on 27 May, chiefly in Athelstan Road near the farmhouse.
Ore Church Closes
From the Hastings News of 11/06/1869
The last service was held in the old parish Church of Ore, near the Ridge at St Helens on Sunday 6 June. The building was densely crowded and numbers were unable to obtain admission. The Rector, the Rev WT Turner, ...
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Local Museum?
From the Hastings News of 18/06/1869
There was talk of establishing a local borough museum.
The town's new main post office opened on Tuesday 29 June. It was located on the corner of York Gardens and Meadow Road [Queens Road], on the site of Nos 1, 2 and 3 Meadow Cottages. The News of 18 ...
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A Council meeting approved the building of 13 cottages in Lennox Street and Priory Road, and eight houses on Priory Road, in the garden at the rear of Pynlimmon House. The News of 30 July reported that property and land ...
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The improvements that had long been promised were at last being carried out at Gensing [Warrior Square] Station. The platforms were being extended and a footbridge was being built over the line.
Roads at St Helens
From the Hastings News of 16/07/1869
Mr T Spalding, owner of Ore Place, organised a meeting there of neighbouring freeholders on Saturday 10 July to "see if some steps could not be speedily taken to improve the present disgraceful state of the road known as Ore ...
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Builders’ Holiday
From the Hastings News of 30/07/1869
About 70 employees of the prominent local builder John Howell enjoyed their annual day out on Saturday 24 July. They left early in the morning in six wagonettes, going to Northiam, where the Bell Inn was their centre for the ...
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In May that year it had been said that the Priory Coastguard Station in Prospect Place would close the following month. But now it was reported that the order had been countermanded and it would re-open.
Council meeting approved plans for a new fishmarket and a temporary Iron Church in St Andrews Square (for five years).
The highly respected and popular Liberal MP Frederick North died on Friday 29 October, aged 69. On November 3 he was buried in Halton churchyard, in a brick vault near the Halton Villa entrance. The News said that the unproved ...
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Liberal Ughtred Kay-Shuttleworth won the parliamentary by-election following Frederick North’s death. He defeated the former Conservative MP Patrick Robertson 1,218 votes to 1,084. This was the last time the old open-voting system was used in Hastings.
Council meeting approved plans for two new roads between Tower Hotel and Shornden Villas, off Bohemia Road, and 30 cottages on the line of the roads [one Clarence Road?].
Harsh Winter
From the Hastings News of 10/12/1869
The News commented on the harshness of the winter for the poor, and the lack of work for builders, due partly to some of them having “struck for higher wages”.
The temporary Iron Church built in St Andrews Square opened. The town council meeting on 1 October 1869 had given five-year approval to the Rev Dr May for the church. The meeting had also approved plans for a new church ...
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The first pile of Hastings Pier was driven at 3.00 am. It was to open on August Bank Holiday 1872.