The former Anchor pub is almost hidden up an alley from East Ascent, and is now numbered 5a East Ascent. As with the other buildings on the road, it is almost certainly a James Burton designed house. Access is either from an alley leading up from East Ascent or from its continuation, going forward from […]
Author Archives: Stephen van Dulken
Much on begging and efforts to stamp it out in this post. Also a letter of complaint about the high cost of bathing machines. 1 April 1851, Sussex Advertiser: John Mooney, late of the 36th Regiment, was brought up for begging. Constable Barnes deposed that on the previous day he found prisoner in the back […]
It is unusual for an Anglican minister to be a hotel keeper. Thanks to his going bankrupt there are many details of this man’s finances, which is unusual, both as a bankrupt and, especially, as a clergyman. He was later imprisoned for assaulting a French footman at Folkestone ! Robert Richard Duke was baptised at […]
This post is about the delicate matter of the master’s son taking advantage of a household servant, and his attempt to wriggle out of paying for his behaviour. If you are easily shocked, please read no further. The Sussex Advertiser of the 24 March 1863 has a detailed account of the proceedings before the Bench. […]
An acquaintance of mine bought a year ago six property deeds on eBay which were for 75 and 76 Marina, covering the years 1850 to 1895. These terrace houses are located on the seafront between St Leonards Church and Sussex Road, and are mirror images of each other, with adjoining tunnelbacks (rear extensions). They continue […]
In my monthly list of newspaper extracts I normally simply give them in date order. In 1850-51 there were numerous lengthy accounts of railway building, the AI sensation of its time. So I’m giving, first, summaries of a few railway mentions. The Sussex Advertiser, 29 October 1850, had a lengthy account of the railway being […]
On the 1 February 1853 the London Gazette published the following notice: Norman Buchanan, insolvent debtor, by his petition at Hastings. Formerly of 28 George Street, Hastings, hair dresser and general dealer, afterwards of the same, in partnership with Horace Sparks Prior, same business, and now of 32 Norman Road West, St Leonards, hair dresser […]
The Prince of Wales public house reopened in brightly painted and refurbished style on the 5 March with the declared aim of being a not-for-profit enterprise as part of the Hastings Project, a community brewery. The style is simple with no music, and the décor is the same inside and out: dark green and a […]
9 February 1849, Hastings & St Leonards News: FIRE. – At noon, on Wednesday, a fire broke out in the workshop of Mr J. Smith, cabinet-maker, Norman Road West, which was happily extinguished by the exertions of the neighbours, assisted by P.C. Jones, without the aid of the fire-engine, which arrived just as the danger […]
On the 3 April 1881 the census recorded the following household at 33 Warrior Square: Archibald R. Shaw, head, M[arried], 58, physician, born Middlesex Laura E.S. Shaw, wife, M, 47, born Kent Charles K. Shaw, son, U[nmarried], 26, Surgeon M.R.C.S., [then in pencil] Medical Office[r] of Health Hastings, born Middlesex Frank H. Shaw, son, U, […]