The newly-built National Schools opened in St Leonards.
A High Street resident complained bitterly about the fishing class: “I would more especially direct your attention to the juniors; those chiefly from the age of 10 or 12 to 30: to their disgusting language, poured forth with stentorian lungs: ...
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A Fishermen’s Tea Meeting was held at the National School Rooms, Tackleway, with 170 people present.
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.
St Andrews School
From the Hastings News of 12/09/1851
A night school had been established at StAndrews Church.
Girls School
From the Hastings News of 14/05/1852
The Girls National School had been built in All Saints Street.
Grammar School
From the Hastings News of 17/09/1852
The fixtures of the Hastings Proprietory Grammar School in Hill Street were sold.
The new school of All Saints was to open at Easter for 300 girls; Countess Waldegrave was the principal donor.
Evening School reopened, at the Fishermen’s Club Room and National School House, East Hill.
The National School for Boys opened in Tackleway.
The museum building of the Hastings Literary Institution was sold. The Hastings Mechanics Institute had hired a room at 62 George Street to the museum.
New Ragged School
From the Hastings News of 09/11/1855
The new Ragged School opened in Stone Street. It was to be open in evenings.
New School
From the Hastings News of 21/12/1855
The foundation stone of St Mary Magdalen School, Magdalen Road, was laid by Dowager Lady St John. The school opened on 6 October 1856.
New Boys School
From the Hastings News of 30/05/1856
New Boys British School to be opened under Wellington Square Chapel.
The St Marys School kitchen opened.
A new Infant School opened at Halton, next to the old school.
There was a concert to aid the building of the girls Ragged School.
Ragged School
From the Hastings News of 11/10/1861
It was reported that the Ragged School subscription was very poor.
The Ragged School at Tackleway had just begun to be built, at a cost of £652. The school would be two-storied, with a classroom and offices in the basement and a schoolroom in the upper storey. The school was opened ...
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A tea meeting was held for the inauguration of the Boys British School in Bourne Street.
The School of Art and Design, Robertson Street, opened.
Bourne Walk School
From the Hastings News of 04/03/1864
In the last year the new boys British School in Bourne Walk has been built and is occupied, with "the old dilapidated building finally abandoned". The school is owned by seven trustees. It has 129 scholars, with an average attendance ...
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All Saints Infants
From the Hastings News of 05/08/1864
Funds were to be collected at Old Town churches for the provision of new infant school premises in All Saints.
Tivoli School
From the Hastings News of 02/09/1864
Building work had commenced on a day school at Tivoli.
Streets Renumbered
From the Hastings News of 11/05/1866
Council meeting, 4 May: A new school house for primitive Methodists was approved. Many streets, including Priory Street, Middle Street and Meadow Road, were renumbered. The Gas Band were to play for 2 or 3 evenings in St Andrews Gardens.
The site for proposed British Schools at St Leonards, in a triangle at the junction of London Road and Gensing Station Road [Kings Road], was purchased for £700. To be three schoolrooms. Alfred Vidler jnr’s tender of £2,224 was accepted.
All Saints Church
From the Hastings News of 27/03/1868
All Saints Church vestry: A proposed restoration committee was appointed. The vestry also sent protests to charity trustees that Parker’s School was not being administered properly.
The St Leonards British Schools opened.
The schoolhouse at Baldslow, opposite the Iron Church, was enlarged.
James Elliot BA had decided to build a villa and school at Upper Maze Hill. The tender of £2,424 by Messrs Hughes had been accepted.
St Pauls School
From the Hastings News of 05/08/1870
The tender of G Bridgland of St Leonards of £1,666 for building St Pauls School in Bohemia Road [on corner of what was to be St Pauls Road] was accepted. The architects were Jeffery and Skiller.
New School
From the Hastings News of 02/12/1870
A News advert said Wellington Grammar School, 4 Wellington Square, was to be started by Frederick W Foster, late Master of Saunder's Charity School. £8 a term over-eights, £6 under; reduction for brothers. He had been Master for 22 years.
Hastings Council decided to ask the Privy Council to order a School Board to be created and elected for the borough. The News of 24 February said the first election of the Board was held, and elected were George Scrivens ...
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Schools Census
From the Hastings News of 19/05/1871
Census of schools in the town: There were 26 schools, plus two being supplied. 25 were public schools, three private. 19 were connected with the established church, nine were on unsectarian principles. Eight were boys schools, seven girls, five mixed, ...
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Halton School
From the Hastings News of 14/07/1871
Council meeting discusses plan for a new schoolroom and classroom in Union Street, Halton.
Respected Death
From the Hastings News of 17/11/1871
On 12 November at home in Whipps Cross, Walthamstow, died Rickman Godlee, aged 67, of Lincolns Inn. He was one of the founders of the Literary and Mechanics Institutions, and he gave the first geological lecture in Hastings, classes etc. ...
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There was a meeting on 20 January at St Mary Magdalen schoolroom to form the East Sussex Elementary Teachers' Association. The chairman was JB Ayers, who had just retired after 28 years as master of All Saints and St Clements ...
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The Schools Board is to appoint a school attendance officer for the first time.
Teaching the Poor
From the Hastings News of 07/06/1872
The Rev JW Tottenham told the School Board that it was quite impossible for some poor parents with young families to send their elder children to school. He advocated providing some places to serve as infant nurseries, as the London ...
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Art School Idea
From the Hastings News of 14/06/1872
A special meeting of the East Sussex Schoolmasters Association, held in Wellington Grammar School in Castle Hill Road on 8 June, discussed the urgent need to teach children science and art, which had low priority. It was suggested that a ...
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School Absentees
From the Hastings News of 13/11/1872
The first prosecutions for non-attendance at school were carried out. In St Leonards, a defendant had sent four children to school, but kept the youngest at home to nurse its mother.
First Board School
From the Hastings News of 21/03/1873
The first school to be built by the new School Board was nearing completion in Waterloo Place. Building started in December 1872 and was expected to be completed by June 1873. There were two rooms, 70' x18'x15' high. The ground ...
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Death on 18th at The Mansion of Sarah Countess of Waldegrave, widow of Vice Admiral William, 8th Earl of Waldegrave, in her 87th year. She was the youngest daughter of Rev William Whitear, Prebenadry of Chichester, Rector of All ...
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The vestries of the parishes of All Saints and St Clements condemned the trustees of the Magdalen Charity for trying to divert a large part of the benefit of that charity away from those two parishes to the western parishes ...
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The new University School, at Step Meadow [junction Holmesdale Gardens and Redmayne Drive] was opened by Mr UJ Kay-Shuttleworth MP and Lord Brassey. It was designed by Thomas Elsworthy of St Leonards. It was a large building, with a square ...
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A memorial stone for the new Congregational School building in Priory Street was laid on 20 March.
The Queen formally approved the setting up of the Hastings Grammar School Foundation, by joining the Parker's, Saunder's and part of the Magdalen charities.
New rooms for the school connected to St Matthews Church, Silverhill, were opened by Thomas Brassey. The small school, adjacent to the church which was near the top of London Road, was still the only one in Silverhill, despite the ...
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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.
A new temporary home for the grammar school was opened on Monday 3 May by the mayor. For over two years a Board of Governors had been trying to sort out the problems in carrying out the grammar school scheme, ...
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A new boys' school was opened in Hollington. Until then the boys had been in the St Johns Church Sunday school room, but the church had refused to renew the lease and bigger premises were needed. The schools for girls ...
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Charities Inquiry
From the Hastings News of 14/01/1881
On 13 January, a public inquiry was held into the working of the Magdalen and Lashers charities. One of HM Inspectors of Charities held the inquiry in the Market Hall in George Street. He examined the on-going argument about whether ...
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The Council agreed to create a new road from the junction of Waterworks Road and Stonefield Road up to planned site of the Grammar School, on the Milward Estate. [Later named Nelson Road.]
The Mount Pleasant School for infants was opened on Monday 23 May. The News said: "During the past five years it is probable that no locality in the whole borough has made such rapid strides in regard to building operations ...
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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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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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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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On 10 January 1882 the Hastings School Board agreed to enlarge Mount Pleasant Infant School, by adding two new blocks for older boys and girls, and these were officially opened on Monday 15 January 1883. The News of 19 January ...
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The Hastings School Board published in the News a summary of its work over the three years to February 1883. It looked back to the 1870 Education Act, which had aimed to improve all education by setting up 'school boards' ...
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The "very rapidly increasing" district of Clive Vale urgently needed to have an infant school, the Hastings School Board had decided. There was not an immediate need for schools for older children, but the Board should find a site for ...
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Colonel Lewis, the gentleman owner of High Beech house, was re-elected chairman of the Hollington School Board, by the board members. They were holding their first meeting on 11 June following the three-yearly elections that had recently taken place. Col ...
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Lady Brassey on 27 July lay the foundation stone of the new Sunday school going to be built onto the north end of Christ Church, Blacklands. It would hold 250 children, with one room 60 feet by 21 feet, plus ...
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Dr Elizabeth Blackwell, the first woman doctor of medicine in modern times and a resident of Hastings, chaired a meeting of the National Society for Women's Suffrage on Wednesday 29 August. The meeting took place in the Assembly Rooms above ...
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There was a site for a new school in Athelstan Road, Clive Vale.
The foundation stone of the new Beaulieu House was laid. In 1874 Stephen Hankey had bought the old Beaulieu House (a late 18th century farmhouse) and its 88 acres from Mr Habershon, the architect of St Helens Church and St ...
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Creche for Poor
From the Hastings News of 23/05/1884
A creche for children of the poor, while their mothers worked, was opened at 42-and-a-half All Saints Street. It cost 6d a day, including food. "There is no lack of toys for the use of the little inmates." It was ...
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Clive Vale School
From the Hastings News of 13/02/1885
A new school was to be built in Clive Vale by the School Board.
The Hastings Mechanical Institute was wound up.
Brassey’s Gift
From the Hastings News of 22/06/1888
The formal handing over of the Brassey Institute, containing the reference library and the School of Art, from Lord Brassey to the town took place on 9 June. But Hastings Council did not adopt the Public Libraries Act to support ...
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The School Board decided that a new school should be built in Priory Road, on the corner of Croft Road. The site would cost £1,100. The new school would replace the Bourne-walk Schools which were too small, although some members ...
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On 3 January there was a meeting of the committee about the proposed free library. It was decided to press forward the adoption of the Free Libraries Act in Hastings. (p3)
Two New Schools
From the Hastings News of 02/05/1890
A special meeting of the Hastings School Board on Monday 28 April agreed to build two new schools. One, a boys school, would be on the corner of Priory Road and Croft Road, replacing the Bourne-walk Schools. The architect was ...
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Priory Road School
From the Hastings News of 25/09/1891
The new Priory Road School, on the corner of Croft Road, opened on Friday 18 September. It had been built for the Hastings School Board. The News of that day carried a photo of it.
The new Hastings Board schools in Githa Road, Clive Vale, opened on Friday 26 Febuary.
The opening ceremony of the Hastings Museum, in the Brassey Institute in Claremont, took place on Tuesday 16 August. The Museum was situated on the upper floor. The mayor (Alderman Tree), Mr Wilson Noble MP and others presided.
A meeting in support of Dr Thomas Barnardo's homes for orphan and destitute children was held in the St Leonards Assembly Room, behind the Royal Victoria Hotel, on Thursday 25 August. Lord Brassey and Dr Barnardo himself presided. On 23 ...
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The Hastings Technical School in Bourne Walk, in the Old Town, opened on 26 September. Its purpose was to implement the Technical Instruction Scheme formulated by the Hastings School Board for the local elementary schools.
Tower Road School
From the Hastings News of 29/09/1893
The Hastings School Board ratified a decision for a new school in Tower Road, St Leonards.
Headmaster Charged
From the Hastings News of 19/01/1894
John Collins Roberts, headmaster of St Peter's National School, Bexhill, was charged at Hastings Petty Sessions with committing gross indecent assault upon his boys. But at the Sussex Winter Assizes on 11 February he was found not guilty through lack ...
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Technical School
From the Hastings News of 20/04/1894
The Hastings School Board opened its new Technical School at Mount Pleasant School on Sunday 15 April. Technical instruction was a requirement of recent education legislation. A "plain but very substantial building" had been erected for £3,000 in the precinct ...
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A public meeting of St Mary-in-the-Castle parishioners on 14 August opposed the possible closure of the St Mary's schools in Portland Place. It had been said that the schools were no longer suitable for permanent recognition by the authorities.
The eminent naturalist and philosopher Dr Dallinger gave a lecture at the Public Hall in Robertson Street on 22 and 23 November, under the auspices of the YMCA.
New Bopeep Schools
From the Hastings News of 23/08/1895
The new Hastings Board schools at the junction of Bexhill Road and Filsham Road opened on Friday 30 August. There was a central hall, plus six classrooms, holding 400 pupils. The architect of the red-brick building was Cllr Elworthy, and ...
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Bohemia Chapel
From the Hastings News of 20/09/1895
The Bohemia Primitive Methodist Chapel had decided to erect a schoolroom and renovate the chapel.
The new Tower Road school was officially opened on Monday 4 May. "The gathering was perhaps the largest ... educational gathering ever held in the borough." It replaced the condemned London Road building, and cost £14,000, a somewhat high price ...
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The foundation stone was laid by Sir George Williams on Thursday 9 July for the new St Mary-in-the-Castle school in Portland Place. The old boys' school and master's house had been pulled down. The girls had been using a nearby ...
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A new laboratory for the Hastings School of Science and Art opened at 42 George Street on 11 September. The two large upstairs rooms had been the Literary Institute. The funding of £200-£300 came from the Corporation, from the grant ...
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Corrupt Teacher
From the Hastings News of 17/12/1897
Dr Gregory, of Manor House College, appeared at Hastings Bankruptcy Court. He also faced criminal charges of obtaining money by false pretences.
The new infant school at West St Leonards was formally opened on Monday 16 May, reflecting the rapid development taking place in that area. It was built on the west side of the West St Leonards boys school at the ...
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John Blomfield, the 13 year old son of the well-known local photographer of the same name, was killed by a cricket ball which struck him over the heart while playing in the Grammar School nets. John senior ran a photographers ...
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The new girls' and infants' department at Priory Road School were officially opened on Monday 9 January. This completed the group of schools there.
Brassey Institute
From the Hastings Observer of 20/01/1900
The Council on 19 January agreed to rearrange the Brassey Institute in Claremont because the School of Art and Science did not have enough room and were in very bad working conditions. The possible loss of grants had forced the ...
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The Grammar School: The Council had given the school £1,000 towards the cost of creating a laboratory for science. This followed correspondence between the Charity Commissioners and the Magdalen and Lasher charities which owned the school. The Observer asked why ...
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Dr William Knighton, ex-vice-chairman of the School Board, died at his home Tileworth, St Leonards, on Sunday 1 April
The opening of a new school at St Helens owing to the growth of the district took place on Monday 7 January. The old Infants School at St Helens under Miss Alice Nelson was closed to transfer to the new ...
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Burial at Fairlight of Richard D’Oyly Carte (1844-1901), of the Savoy Theatre. Death of Miss Margaret Griffiths, for 35 years headmistress of Halton Infant School.
A three-day al-fresco market was held in Clive Vale, in the grounds of Normanhurst Lodge, at 38 Edmund Road, to help the Old Town Church Schools. It was opened by the borough MP Mr Freeman-Thomas.
Educated Plumbers
From the Hastings News of 08/11/1901
The Technical Education Committee decided on 1 November to devote the Brassey Institute basement to the technical education of plumbers
Defending Liberty
From the Hastings Mail of 18/10/1902
A mass meeting was held on 13 October at the Public Hall, Robertson Street, in defence of civil and religious liberty issues arising from the Education Bill, which was strongly condemned.
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