Brett's Manuscript History - Volume Ten
1862-1864
| Chapter Sixty Eight: Hastings 1862 | Page 1 |
Accidents and Fatalities - Town Council meetings (The harbour contention) - Town council Transactions - (Great excitement) - Concerts and Public Entertainments - Special Dinners, Suppers, etc. - Public Funerals - The Lancashire Distress (For the relief of Lancashire) - The Local Collections - Schools and School Treats A new Ragged School Building proposed - The Ragged School - The Ragged School Bazaar - The Fishery - The Drowning of Nine Fishermen — The Fishery Vicissitudes - "Sympathy for the Afflicted" - Accidental Fires - The Autumn Flower Show - Hastings at the Exhibition - Sudden deaths and Inquests - Lectures at Hastings - "The Millennial Rest" by Rev. Dr. Cumming - Dr.Cumming's Lectures - Lectures at Hastings - Maritime Casualties - Miscellaneous Items - The Town Council not what it ought to be - Municipal Matters - Waldegrave Fountain - Our Volunteer Soldiers - Poor rates - Workmen's treats - Philosophical Society - The Regatta and other events - The Queen's Hotel - Special Sermons - Hastings Mechanics' Institution.
| Chapter Sixty Nine: St. Leonards 1863 | Page 65 |
St.Leonards Commissioners’ Meetings - The West Hill road - Vestry Meetings - Accidents and Fatalities- Balls, etc. - The Borough Assessment - Archery Meetings - The Archery Prize Meeting - The Artillery Band - The Bonfire Boys - Concerts and Musical Entertainments ~ The Cottage Building Company - Church and Chapel] News - Particular Deaths - Funeral Obsequies - The Cripples Home - Drapers' Recreation - Horticultural Society - Harvest Homes - Harvest Homes and Thanksgiving - Coroner's Inquests - Improvements - A new Galley - A St.Leonards Guide Book - Lectures - Letter Press Music - Musical Taste - Lost and Found "Magnificent Liberality" -"The Biter Bit'- Building Operations - Rearing Suppers - The St.Leonards Mechanics Institution - Fashionable Marriages - Presentations and Picnics - Royal Visitors - Robberies - Special Sermons - School Treats - Evening Schools - Sale of Property - St. Leonards Caves - Abnormal Fish - Storms and Atmospheric Phenomena - Earthquakes and Predictions - Earthquakes and fulfilled Predictions - The Weather and its Prophets - A Little Trip to Netherfield - The Temperance Propaganda - Thunderstorms and Fatalities -A Turkish Bath Company - Chevy-Chase - Terrific Storms, locally and generally - A Week's Storms and much damage - A Breach in the Wall - Miscellaneous Occurrences.
| Chapter Seventy: Hastings 1863 | Page 121 |
Accidents at Hastings - Fashionable Balls - Concerts - Wonderful Discovery of Gold - Entertainments - Fire Alarms - The Fishery - Forresters' Fete - Lectures - The LetterH and its Friends - Mnemonics Entertainments - Municipal Matters - Maritime Casualties - Weather Predictions - A Promenade Pier - The Volunteers and the Brighton Review - Volunteer Review at Hastings - Artillery Inspection - Volunteer Prize Meeting - Town Council Meetings - Agitation for a Central Ward - Council Meeting. Re-division of Wards - Election of Mayor - The Queen's Hotel - Workmen's Treats - Workingmens Clubs.
A Dutchman on the Mayor's Dinner - Quarter Sessions - The Royal Marriage
