I have just come back from a very pleasant garden party at Ford Bank, together with many others from the Society. Many thanks to our generous hosts ! Enough to say it is an interesting example of, in effect, a forerunner of the English arts and crafts style. Below is a photo of the south, […]
Tag Archives: World War I
On Remembrance Sunday I am writing about what happened to a single local family in World War I. My main source is the newspaper, extracts from which are given in date order. No comments are, I think, necessary. In the 1901 census the Jinks family were at 7 Aldborough Road, Bohemia, but by the 1911 […]
In the 1 February 1947 issue of the Hastings and St Leonards Observer we have the following interesting autobiographical account. Veteran Driver’s memories WHEN BOROUGH HAD ONE MOTOR BUS. Days of the horse cabs and the town’s only motor bus, which plied between Hastings Station and the Fishmarket, are recalled by Mr George William Spice, […]