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 […]
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By chance I came across, in the Hastings and St Leonards Times, 22 May 1880, two interesting reports of begging in St Leonards by men who had come a considerable distance. The details given about the prisoners are touching. HASTINGS BOROUGH BENCH. SATURDAY. Before Mr H.C. CAULFEILD and Mr Alderman WILLIAMS. BEGGING ALMS William Cooper, […]