The following references from the Hastings Watch Committee’s correspondence are taken from catalogue entries of documents at The Keep, Falmer. The date is followed by the document reference and then the full catalogue entry. I have not looked at the actual documents, but even with the brief quotations cited they tell a vivid story. I […]
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The Hastings and St Leonards Observer, 25 October 1879, gave a long account of a case before two magistrates sitting on the Hastings Bench. The following is only a summary, with some quotations. It was later stated that the accused was 13 years old. Charlotte Sargent, a ‘respectably dressed young girl’, was charged with stealing […]