Accidents - Curiosities
The Church collections, on Thanksgiving day, Sunday, May 4th were £34 for the Memorial Church at Constantinople and £54 at St. Mary Magdalen's for widows and orphans of the Crimean soldiers. The collections at the Hastings churches are stated in the next chapter.
Accidents
A Broken Breast Bone and other injuries were sustained by Richard Craig on Jan. 24th, just as he was leaving work on a new building at the Tivoli through a ladder being blown down by the wind, whereby he was thrown a distance of 30 feet.
Thrown from their horses were Mr. and Miss Hanbury on the 25th of September at the St Leonards Archway, they having previously lost control of the animals which galloped at a fearful pace along Eversfield place and Grand parade. The gentleman was not much hurt, but the lady was carried unconsciously into Hempsted's chemist's shop, where restoratives were applied sufficiently for her to be sent to her lodgings at Caroline place.
Another Archway Accident occurred a week later by the falling of a horse while conveying some ladies in a fly, by which the shafts were broke, the horse's shoulder injured. and the ladies much alarmed.
A Fortunate Escape from fatal or serious injury was that of Mrs. Hills, who whilst cleaning windows at Eversfield place, lost her balance and fell on to the balcony below.
Curiosities
A Sword Fish, which is a rarety in the Channel, was caught in the "kettle" nets at Bulverhithe on the 4th of June; and two days later another of the species got entangled in the nets of a fishing lugger. They were sent to the London market the flesh of this kind of fish having the reputation of being a great delicacy.
A Remarkable Flint. At a little further westward - namely at Bexhill, was discovered a mass of flint, in which was embedded a large piece of fossil wood, completely petrified and which appeared to have been bored in holes by worms or some other means, previously to its being embedded in the flint; but the said holes were filled up by the flint, thus showing that the flint must have been in a soft condition at the time when the wood was enveloped by it. A sub-marine forest exists at Bexhill, as well as at Bulverhithe and Hastings.
Belgravia
Under this name, on the 13th of September, was laid the first stone of what are now Nos. 18 to 24 Warrior Square - four houses that were built by Mr. John Kenwood and Mr. Joseph Sidney Cooper. The former was a builder by trade, and the latter had retired from the "Battery" (or East Parade) Library, originally known as Powell's. The formal laying of the stone was by Miss Baynes of London, in the presence of a considerable number of persons. In a cavity of the stone were deposited a medal, having on one side the "Lord's Prayer" and on the other the "Apostles' Creed". The young lady pronounced -
