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Electric Light
From the Hastings News of 13/01/1882
The Council set up a committee to look into using electric light in the town. A year before, the councillors on 7 January 1881 had thrown out such a suggestion, but with electricity clearly becoming a serious rival to gas, ...
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The Junior Liberals' Association was formed on 16 January, followed by the Junior Conservatives' Association on 14 March.
A large meeting of working men called for the reduction of work hours so that they could have Saturday afternoons free. The crowded meeting took place in the Market Hall, George Street, on Monday 20 February. It had been arranged ...
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Laundry Destroyed
From the Hastings News of 03/03/1882
A laundry at Alma Terrace, Silverhill, was destroyed by fire.
Attempts to improve the behaviour of the working class by closing pubs on Sundays sparked a riot. The Hastings and St Leonards Temperance Union had started the closure debate at two big meetings of 1,300 people in the Warrior Square ...
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A meeting of "influential residents" launched a movement to create a free lending library and museum in Hastings. The gentlemen met in the town hall on Tuesday 28 March. The Rev JW Tottenham said the reference library donated by Sir ...
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Kings Road Created
From the Hastings News of 07/04/1882
Gensing Station Road should be renamed Kings Road, the Council agreed on 5 May. This was partly because it was confused with Gensing Road.
Three Park Houses
From the Hastings News of 07/04/1882
The large sum of £1,700 would be spent on building three lodges (house) in Alexandra Park, the Council agreed on 5 April. They would be near the main gates by the railway bridge, at the centre of the park and ...
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East Hill Gorse
From the Hastings Observer of 08/04/1882
The East Hill was one of the many attractions of Hastings, and the gorse on it added to the enjoyable features. "It is a pity, therefore, that there should be so much destruction of property as has taken place of ...
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The Holy Trinity Church in Robertson Street was consecrated on 13 April.
New Infirmary?
From the Hastings News of 21/04/1882
The governors of the East Sussex, Hastings and St Leonards Infirmary held a long and important meeting on Tuesday 18 April, where it was finally agreed, after ten years argument, that the Infirmary would not be moved, but would remain ...
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Fairlight Mill
From the Hastings News of 28/04/1882
At an auction on 22 April, "Fairlight Mill, with house etc adjoining, was bought in at £1,000". [This was at Jenner's Lane, having taken on the name of Fairlight Mill after that mill, at what became North's Seat, was burnt ...
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Net Shops Damaged
From the Hastings News of 05/05/1882
A serious gale destroyed two net shops and damaged several others, because of the deliberate failure of the Council to provide proper sea defences in front of the Old Town, meaning there was little beach there.
The 13 year old Iron Church in St Andrews Square was described as a "disgrace and scandal" by councillors and local residents at a meeting on 2 May in the Princes Hotel, South Terrace. The meeting had been called because ...
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RX Saved
From the Hastings News of 19/05/1882
Rye Liberal MP Mr FA Inderwick obtained an Order in Council enabling all Rye and Hastings fishing boats to retain the familiar registration letters 'RX', otherwise they would have come under Folkestone, using 'FE', in which Rye had recently been ...
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A large meeting of ratepayers in the town hall on Tuesday 16 May rejected a proposal to create a free lending library in Hastings. The meeting was organised by the Council, to decide whether the provisions of the Free Libraries ...
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The natural history paintings of Miss Marianne North had been put together at the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew and would go on display from 8 June. Miss North left Hastings in 1869, after the death of her father Frederick ...
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John Banks Dies
From the Hastings News of 09/06/1882
Local worthy John Banks died on 3 June, aged 74. He had written the popular book Reminiscences of Smugglers and Smuggling, first published in 1871.
John Howell jnr, the son of the prominent local builder John Howell, married Mrs Harford of Cambridge Gardens on 7 June. The father and son had been trading as Messrs Howell and Son, although Mr Howell snr had recently retired ...
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Clive Vale History
From the Hastings News of 16/06/1882
The June issue of the parochial magazine covering Clive Vale said that the district lay within the old parish of All Saints, and contained nearly 140 acres. Twenty years before [in 1862] there were only four houses in the Clive ...
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The Prince and Princess of Wales officially opened Alexandra Park on Monday 26 June. They had originally planned to come to the town to open the new Convalescent Home for Poor Children, in West Hill Road, St Leonards, overlooking Grosvenor ...
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Chess Club Formed
From the Hastings News of 30/06/1882
The Hastings and St Leonards Chess Club was formed at a meeting of gentlemen in the Temperance Hotel, Queens Road, on the evening of Wednesday 28 June. The motion was put by Mr H Cheshire, "who said there were several ...
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The new lifeboat house was opened on Monday 3 July, and the new lifeboat, the Charles Arkcoll, was christened. Both had been "provided as a monument of esteem and honour to the late Mr Charles Arkcoll of Maidstone, who was ...
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The St Leonards Temperance Hall and Working Men's Institute celebrated its 21st anniversary with a large meeting in the hall, in Norman Road [no. 42?]. The institute was opened with a tea on 17 May 1861. It opened every evening ...
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Gaiety Opens
From the Hastings News of 04/08/1882
The spacious and well-appointed Gaiety Theatre in Queens Road opened on Tuesday 2 August. The first performance was of Gilbert and Sullivan's English opera HMS Pinafore, by Mr D'Oyley Carte's company. Until then Hastings had lacked a good theatre, but ...
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New Baptist Church
From the Hastings News of 11/08/1882
Memorial stones were laid for the new Baptist Church in Chapel Park Road on 7 August. The church would cost £4,000, and the building work was under way. The architect was Mr T Elworthy. It was opened on 11 April ...
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Street Lights
From the Hastings News of 11/08/1882
The Council agreed to an experimental trial of electric light for street lighting.
Railway Bridge
From the Hastings News of 11/08/1882
There was a meeting of property owners from the Blacklands area to discuss improving the narrow St Andrews Archway, the brick-built arch carrying the railway over Queens Road. Should it be a much wider light-iron bridge instead of a brick ...
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A new pathway linking Kenilworth Road and Maze Hill would be built, Hastings Council decided on 4 August. Mr F Cruttenden would be apid £164 for the work.
Very large quantities of shingle were being removed from the beach at Rock-a-Nore, and this was endangering the sewage tanks, Cllr Bradnam, chairman of the Council's Stonebeach Committee told the Council on 4 August. He said no less than 2,200 ...
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Bigger Cemetery
From the Hastings News of 11/08/1882
The Council agreed on 4 August to buy ten acres of land on the north side of the cemetery from Mrs Lord. Despite objections from some councillors, they would pay £3,000 for the land, which was then let for just ...
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Stade Storm
From the Hastings News of 01/09/1882
There was serious damage to the Stade, caused by a storm, and made worse by the absence of groynes. A relief fund for sufferers was set up on 12 September.
Farm Arson?
From the Hastings News of 08/09/1882
An extensive fire at Mr Rush's Fishponds Farm, Barley Lane, was attended by Hastings fire engines. Five hay ricks containing over 100 tons of new hay, worth £600, were destroyed. The police were alerted when a farmworker rode by horse ...
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New Roads
From the Hastings News of 08/09/1882
For a long time there had been pressure on the railway companies to open up the roads that had still not been finished immediately to the north Warrior Square Station, on railway land. The Council meeting of 1 September agreed ...
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More Queens Road
From the Hastings News of 08/09/1882
The Council agreed on 1 September that St Andrews Road would be renamed Queens Road and be renumbered. Queens Road then ran from the Memorial to the junction with South Terrace; St Andrews Road ran from there to the railway ...
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New Grammar School
From the Hastings News of 15/09/1882
The foundation stone of the new Hastings Grammar School was laid on Tuesday 5 September by the mayor, Cllr Revill. There had been great difficulty in finding a site, which was at the top of a field known as Standen's. ...
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YMCA Formed
From the Hastings News of 06/10/1882
A meeting was held in the Public Institute, Claremont, on Friday 29 September to inaugurate a local branch of the Young Men's Christian Association. It was chaired by Admiral Williams. There was a very fair attendance.
Fishmarket Works
From the Hastings News of 13/10/1882
The Council agreed that works at the Fishmarket should proceed without delay.
A Strict Baptist Chapel opened in Manor Road on Thursday 12 October. "The building is small and has no pretensions." The chapel was on the ground floor, with a Sunday school on the first floor and a residence for the ...
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Electric Go-Ahead
From the Hastings News of 20/10/1882
A special meeting of the Council agreed to allow the Hastings and St Leonards Electric Light Company to apply to the Board of Trade for a licence to supply electric light to Hastings.
The new Queens Avenue was formally opened on Monday 23 October. The under-cover shopping Avenue [now also called the Queens Arcade] linked Queens Road and York Buildings. There were 16 shops to let, plus an upstairs Assembly Room with its ...
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Severe Gale
From the Hastings News of 27/10/1882
The worst gale since November 1881 hit the town on the night of 23/4 October. Many buildings all around the town suffered damage, and West Street and part of George Street were flooded. The spray was higher than the tops ...
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Old Gaol to Go
From the Hastings News of 08/12/1882
The old gaol ('lock-up') in the Bourne was to be demolished and replaced by a new police station, the Council agreed on 1 December. The police station would be built by Thomas Taylor, for £705. [The site is today the ...
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The new telephone system should be used to help fight fires, the Council agreed on 1 December. Councillors agreed to look into installing telephone lines linking the town's various fire and police stations, plus electric bells in the residences of ...
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The new Fishermen's Institute, at 97 All Saints Street, opened on Tuesday 19 December. It was a new charity hoping to give fishermen an alcohol-free alternative venue for social events, mending nets, etc. [It still exists, mainly as a club ...
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Ore Fire Brigade?
From the Hastings News of 22/12/1882
There was a plan for a volunteer fire brigade for Ore. A committee was set up to explore the proposal, but the News of 6 April 1883 reported that this had been unsuccessful. A public meeting a few days before ...
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Temperance reading rooms for working men were opened at Baldslow on Saturday 23 December by Mr and Mrs Ebden, who had made the donation. With the spread of development from Hollington, there were more working men in the area, and ...
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