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AXBRIDGE BOARD OF GUARDIANS

... both legs are fractured, and she has sustained severe internal injury. A Panic at Hastings. —An alarming panic occurred on Saturday night in the pavilion of the Hastings pier. Towards the conclusion of the performance of the Steugraun,” a gun was fired by ...

Published: Saturday 19 June 1886
Newspaper: Weston Mercury
County: Somerset, England
Type: Article | Words: 1780 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

General News

... the City of London, some of which had been accumulating for 30 or years. , new life-saving apparatus was tried off the Hastings Pier on Tuesday. It consists in having the seats a boat coated with cork, and consequently in the case of an accident the seats ...

Published: Friday 23 October 1874
Newspaper: Western Gazette
County: Somerset, England
Type: Article | Words: 3210 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

OTHER FIXTURES

... gckill. Capt. D. Dalton, the well-known croa-Chasnel swimmer, will attempt Saturday, weather permittiag, to swim from Hastings pier to Eastbourne, distance about 20 miles. He will enter the water 10.30 a.m., and it is expected tile task will take hub ...

Published: Friday 13 September 1895
Newspaper: Western Chronicle
County: Somerset, England
Type: Article | Words: 2387 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

MUSTN'T TO MILS HICKS raw( HS ILLIIIITY,

... They were unable to get back and were drifting fast down the Channel. The Glen Rosa, a pleasure steamer, was returning to Hastings pier when the captain noticed the position the couple were in. He took them on board and landed them safely at the An inquest ...

Published: Saturday 10 September 1892
Newspaper: Central Somerset Gazette
County: Somerset, England
Type: | Words: 4259 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

(Epitome of jletas

... among our popular magazines. DALTON'S Swot. —Capt, Dalton, the champion back-swimmer, entered the sea from a steamer off Hastings pier just after half-past ten on Saturday morning to proceed to Eastbourne, which he hoped to reach in seven hours. The journey ...

Published: Thursday 19 September 1895
Newspaper: Wells Journal
County: Somerset, England
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CHARD REGISTRATION COURT

... the mail boats arrived at Dover very late. The landing stage of St. Leonard's pier was carried away by the storm on Tuesday night, and great damage was done to Hastings pier. A large portion of the sea wall and roadway in front of Sandgate Coastguard Station ...

Published: Saturday 10 October 1896
Newspaper: Chard and Ilminster News
County: Somerset, England
Type: Article | Words: 4010 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

LION SHOOTING

... handa, that I may tire well I moil waste powder, Charlie. She will never want soother shot. threat God is that • 'tried pier Hastings, and fell down an if idiot hiniaelf. In the revelin of feeling lie hail fainted. I issulel not torn towards him, foe ...

Published: Saturday 21 September 1867
Newspaper: Central Somerset Gazette
County: Somerset, England
Type: | Words: 1668 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

POLITICAL

... sentenced to long terms of penal servitude for man- slaughter. The ceremony screwing the first pile of the Leonards, Hastings, new pier was performed oo Thursday, Three boys woe sliding oo loch itt Burrs lilt, on Friday, when the gave away, and all three ...

Published: Friday 09 March 1888
Newspaper: Western Chronicle
County: Somerset, England
Type: Article | Words: 1830 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

The Weston-super-Mare Gazette and Somersetshire Advertiser, Saturday, August 7, 1875

... he maintained that • Raving of expenditure was not always the most profitable course, as he showed by reference to the Hastings Pier Company, who spent f 1,700 a year upon a hand and had a dividend of 8 per cent. If it were true that the tone of the Board ...

THE CENTRAL SOMERSET GAZETTE, SEPT. 2, 1882

... which occurred just an hour and a half after the accident. Verdict of accidental death. AT the annual meeting of the Hastings Pier Company it was reported that over 300,000 persona had paaned through the turnstiles in six mouths. Jirinsu ENV:M/710W TO ...

Published: Saturday 02 September 1882
Newspaper: Central Somerset Gazette
County: Somerset, England
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