The Hastings Post Office in George Street was relocated in Wellington Place, part of the move of the heart of Hastings from the Old Town to the Priory Valley.
Postmen’s Uniforms
From the Hastings News of 12/08/1859
Postmen were to have uniforms of red coats.
Postal Problem
From the Hastings News of 21/09/1860
Only one postal sorting office was now working in Hastings. There was a dispute with St Leonards over this.
At a Hastings Council meeting, Captain Sleigh applied for a portion of the beach at Bopeep for the construction of sections of the proposed sea barrier. At the same meeting, the surveyor to the Post Office asked for a pillared ...
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Postal Services
From the Hastings News of 21/06/1861
There was still much doubt over the wisdom of the revision of the postal services. The bags were brought to Hastings instead of Bopeep Station.
New Post Service
From the Hastings News of 27/01/1865
Mr T Williams of Sutton and Co had started a Penny Parcel and Message Delivery.
New Post Office
From the Hastings News of 10/05/1867
Many sites were being considered for a new Post Office building. On 6 March 1868 the News reported that the new location of the Post Office would be 1, 2 and 3 Meadow Cottages [later 1 Queens Road], belonging to ...
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Planning Meeting
From the Hastings News of 11/09/1868
A Council meeting gave planning permission for a new Post Office, Excise Office and Tax Office; plus stables and a coach house in Dorset Place for Wastel Brisco; and six houses with shops in Tower Road.
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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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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At 8am the Head Post Offices at Hastings and St Leonards commenced transmitting telegraphic messages, in common with some 800 other offices. There was a uniform shilling rate for 20 words.
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.
An advert for what is almost certainly the town's first telephone exchange appeared in the Observer on 4 July: "The South of England Telephone Company Ltd, 98 Cannon Street, London EC, under license from HM Postmaster General, and sole licensees ...
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The town's telephone exchange moved to new premises: 52 Cambridge Road. The aerials were on the roof of No 51. The first exchange seems to have been that started about July 1885 in 12 Claremont (upstairs at the back) by ...
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Mail Raid Defeated
From the Hastings News of 21/12/1894
An attack on the Hastings mail carrier between Hastings and Hawkhurst on Thursday 20 December was beaten off by the horse driver.
New Post Office
From the Hastings News of 31/07/1896
A new post office had opened at St Helens, in the shop of Mr E Wilson at Homefield Terrace. [It was to remain there, close to the school.]
Mail Driver Killed
From the Hastings News of 02/04/1897
The Hastings-to-Hawkhurst horse-drawn mail cart overturned at Johns Cross, near Robertsbridge, on Tuesday 30 March and its driver Mr Lavender died underneath it.
A large motor mail van arrived at the Central Post Office. It was to run from London to Hastings and vice versa with the parcel post, commencing on July 2. The vehicle, which is of considerable proportion, was loaded up ...
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