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All Saints School : Miss Martin
Does anyone have any school photos,class groups etc who taught at All Saints and rose I believe to be Deputy Head.
She was my wifes Aunt and I am trying to put together a family history file to include details.
Was there a school magazine or photo archive etc
She later became Olive Gammage
Thank you
John Wells
Contributed by John Teddyfoot
B. W. Matthews (butchers) 406
Hi
My wife has acquired a photo of a Butchers shop ,possibly in Hastings or Brede area
The shop nameboard is BW Matthews and shows the 4 shop staff outside the front of the building.
One of the butchers is apparently my wifes Aunts father but there are other towns with the family connection, so it may NOT be a Hastings Area photo
The photo was taken by a C W Pooke (or similar) but carries no other notes
Does anyone recognise the de scription estimate 1890-1900 photo
Can send scan
Thankyou
John Wells
Contributed by John Teddyfoot
Bathing Pool!
I think that this id the boating lake in Old Town. Wonderful memories - trained at RESH 61 - 66.
Contributed by Sheila OHara
Chapmans Dairy.
This building was Chapmans Dairy and belonged to my family. It was originally two houses, numbers 22 and 23, with a stable at the rear for the ponies. The door now remaining led into the shop and the downstairs windows were bay windows. The whole building was painted white! How it has changed!
Extracts From Hastings & East Sussex books
Alexandra Park has long
been a popular venue
for entertainment, fetes
and shows. The lake and
reservoir have been
stocked with trout and
coarse fish for the
benefit of local anglers.
An extract from from"Hastings and Bexhill Photographic Memories".
This area was once known
at St Andrews Gardens;
after the Prince and
Princess of Wales, later
Edward VII and Queen
Alexandra, opened
Alexandra Park, the park
was later renamed in
honour of Princess
Alexandra. Its 80 acres
comprise woodland, lakes
and sports grounds.
An extract from from"Hastings and Bexhill Photographic Memories".
Victorians flocked to see the
Lovers’ Seat in the beauty spot
of Fairlight Glen. Tradition
alleges that a naval lieutenant
called Lamb trysted here with
his sweetheart Miss Boys.
Their relationship met with
family disapproval, hence the
secret meeting-place. The pair
eventually married at St
Clement Danes Church in
London in 1786. The original
seat was a long rock that
tumbled away in a landslide.
An extract from from"Hastings and Bexhill Photographic Memories".
On wilder winter days, with a storm beating up the Channel, the walk along the cliffs east of Hastings can be an
exciting excursion, with salt spray soaking the clifftop rambler and fierce winds making progress difficult.
An extract from from"Hastings and Bexhill Photographic Memories".
Little remains of the chapel inside the castle of which Thomas Becket was once Dean in the reign of Henry II. The
later Collegiate Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary is also just a ruin. The presence of religious buildings within the
castle shows the increasing influence of the church during the reigns of the Angevin and Plantagenet kings.
An extract from from"Hastings and Bexhill Photographic Memories".