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A new school was opened at Silverhill on Monday 13 January to replace the cramped quarters adjoining St Matthews Church in London Road. The new St Matthews School was built at the back of Clarence Terrace [in Strood Road]. It ...
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Hurst Court
From the Hastings News of 24/01/1879
There was a notice in the news concerning the sale of Hurst Court School, St Helens, in consequence of its removal to Bournemouth.
Fire Engines
From the Hastings News of 14/02/1879
A new manual engine had been puchased for the Hastings and St Leonards Fire Brigade. The engine was met at Hastings Station on 8 February by the three sections of the Fire Brigade. The engine will be stationed at Mercatoria, ...
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A distress fund had been started due to the unusually severe conditions for the lower working class.
Tea for the Poor
From the Hastings News of 07/03/1879
A third tea was given to over 60 deserving men out of work by Miss Garrett on Thursday 27 February. Grace was sung before and after the meal by the men. The Rev Hodges also gave a kindly word of ...
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York Hotel Sold
From the Hastings News of 14/03/1879
The York Hotel was bought under the hammer for £240. The building was to be pulled down for road improvements. The licence was retained for another building for the site.
A large new drinking fountain at the top of High Street and All Saints Street, set in a prominent wall connecting the two streets, was opened on 2 April by Mrs Shepherd, in memory of her late father, Francis Willian ...
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The Subscription Gardens in Burton's St Leonards had been offered to the town for £9,000. Around £2,000 had been raised by the owners/occupiers of the neighbourhood and it was suggested that the Town Council find the rest of the money ...
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The official opening of the new Mount Pleasant Church took place on 15 April. As a great number of houses had sprung up here lately, the church would be useful. [It was on the corner of Hughenden Place and Mount ...
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Three Men Rescued
From the Hastings Observer of 25/04/1879
The fishing lugger Favourite, under Captain James Bumstead, rescued three men near Failight.
New Post Office
From the Hastings News of 02/05/1879
A new branch Post Office had been opened at Gensing Station Road [now Kings Road] on 27 April.
No Telegraph
From the Hastings Observer of 06/06/1879
The Council reused to have a telegraph wire in the town.
More Vandalism
From the Hastings News of 20/06/1879
The News commented on the vandalism continually carried out on Old Humphrys tomb and on Mr North's Seat, at Fairlight Down. Miss Marianne North had instructed that the seat be repaired and repainted.
The Ladies Baths at White Rock were opened by Lady Brassey on 14 July. The adjoining Gentlemens Baths were opened last May and the remaining space was to be devoted to private and other baths.
Sales took place at the Castle Hotel on 10 September when about 75 plots of the St Marys Lodge and the Gate Field building estates, adjoining each other and abutting on to Emmanuel Road, were sold at prices of between ...
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Origin of Library
From the Hastings News of 01/08/1879
Mr Brassey had given his recently-built Claremont Rooms to the Borough after a tiff between Brassey and the Rowing Club, which used the basement. Mr Brassey hoped the building would be used as a free library [which it was eventually].
Skull Found
From the Hastings Observer of 01/08/1879
A skull was found in the rear garden of 1 Castle Terrace.
On Tuesday 23 September, Mrs White, who lived at 1 Banks Building, Caroline Place, opened a parcel addressed to her husband from London and found a dead newly born baby. The parcel was posted from London Bridge at 12 o'clock ...
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The Royal Concert Hall in Warrior Gardens opened on 13 October. First called the Warrior Square Opera House and Concert Room, it was for many years the leading centre of entertainment and social function in St Leonards. Many famous artistes ...
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Work began on enlarging and improving Hastings Station with the arrival of about 50 workers. They were making preparations for the construction of a bridge near the tunnel.
Yachtman Dies
From the Hastings News of 14/11/1879
Henry 'Jerry' Curtis died on 8 November. He was for many years skipper of the Albertine yacht. In the storm a few years before, Jerry in securing his boats near the Fishermen’s Church was so seriously injured that both his ...
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The well-known sailing coaster the Pelican, a brigantine, came ashore at the Fishmarket on Tuesday 11 November to discharge her coal. In the evening when a stiff breeze was blowing she was being hauled off when the hawser broke. She ...
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A public meeting was held at the Wellington Square Lecture Hall on 10 December to form a St John's Ambulance Association and to organise treatment of injured persons.