A memorial stone in connection with the erection of a new nave for the Church of St John the Evangelist in Maze Hill was laid on 5 February by the Hastings Tory MP Mr CJ Murray. After a special service, ...
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A golf club should be started in Hastings, a packed public meeting at the town hall agreed on Wednesday 8 March. The meeting had been called by the mayor in response to an offer by the Rev WC Sayer-Milward to ...
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There was major disappointment amongst all local Freemasons when a promised royal visit was cancelled at the last moment. Many ceremonies, displays and elaborate engagements had been prepared for the visit to the borough on Wednesday 26 November 1896 of ...
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The old and respected architect Henry Carpenter died on Saturday 13 November at his residence, 133 Marina. He first came to Hastings in 1850 and practised for many years in Robertson Street, designing many of the principal buildings erected around ...
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A new Freemasons' lodge had been set up. The 'Hastings' Lodge, No 2692, was officially consecrated at a meeting of the Provincial Grand Lodge of Sussex on Tuesday 22 February at the Public Hall in Robertson Street. The ceremony was ...
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Freemason Honours
From the Hastings Mail of 26/07/1902
The borough engineer was given an honour as a Freemason. Mr PH Palmer was awarded a special title, as was Castle Hotel manager Mr H Boyce. The awards were part of a special meeting of Sussex Freemasons on July 23 ...
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Wick Gallop Dies
From the Hastings Mail of 13/06/1903
Death of Councillor ‘Wick’ Gallop on 8 June, a staunch Liberal and friend of the fishermen. He was born 1849 and had been the very popular councillor for St Clements since 1898. He went to sea as skipper of one ...
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Death on 13 December of John Howell, solicitor, at his residence at 20 Holmesdale Gardens. He was past master of the St Leonards Lodge of Freemasons, and only son of the late John Howell, one of the most prominent members ...
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Rechabites AGM
From the Hastings Mail of 12/03/1904
The annual meeting of the Sussex District Council (No 25) of the IOR (Independent Order of Rechabites) was held at Gensing Hall recently. The number of members had gone up 68 to 767; 145 sick benefits had been claimed. The ...
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The Mail said that Mr Reed was a generous-hearted man, of many public services and a supporter of the RSPCA. He was “one of the pioneers of the St Leonards Pier. He was a prominent Freemason and was always held ...
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George Gaze Dies
From the Hastings Mail of 14/05/1904
The funeral of George Gaze took place on 11 May, in his 73rd year. He had been a director of the Royal Victoria Hotel since it was built. At one time he owned the Castle Hotel. He sold the Castle ...
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Death of Councillor William Cooper at his residence 11 St Matthews Drive, St Leonards, on 14 June. He was an architect in partnership with HW Coussens, a Harbour Commissioner and a Freemason. “Of retiring nature” but “much respected”. He was ...
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Rechabites AGM
From the Hastings Mail of 11/03/1905
The Sussex Rechabites held their annual meeting, in Shoreham. It was a benefit temperance society, with 394,000 members nationally, 767 in Sussex. District officers included W Austin Hubbard (St Leonards), B Crouch (Silverhill) and CR Jeffery (Ore).
Death of Dr T Trollope at his residence, 9 Maze Hill, on 21 April. He was a highly rated physician, aged almost 80, who came to Hastings in the early 1860s and was lately the chief honorary surgeon at Hastings ...
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Hastings lost one of its oldest and best known personalities in George William Veness, who died at Fairmount, St Johns Road, Bexhill. He was a cabinet maker and upholsterer by trade. He started a big furnishing warehouse at the bottom ...
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