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CAR CHASE ENDS IN THE SEA

... THE WATER. A Hastings garage owner on Thursday night saw a man driving away in a car which he believed belonged to someone else, and immediately gave chase. He was joined by a number of police constables. The chase continued to Hastings Pier, where the ...

Published: Friday 14 July 1933
Newspaper: Central Somerset Gazette
County: Somerset, England
Type: | Words: 196 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

HOLIDAY FATALITIES

... DIVES TEOM HASTINGS PIER SAVE LADT BATHER. exciting scene was witnessed by the crowds the front at Tuesday afternoon. A young lady, who was bathing, was some way beyond her depth, when she was seized with cramp, and sank, A man, dived from the pier, and swam ...

Published: Friday 26 July 1907
Newspaper: Western Gazette
County: Somerset, England
Type: Article | Words: 236 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

TIDAL WAVE'S FATAL SWEEP

... Pollard, who had been on a fishing expedition with her husband, was dead when picked up. Mr. Wilkins, an official of the Hastings Pier Company, an eye-witness of the tidal wave, said:— It was a remarkable phenomenon, and I don't think anyone here has ever ...

Published: Friday 26 July 1929
Newspaper: Central Somerset Gazette
County: Somerset, England
Type: | Words: 345 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

DISOBEDIENT SEAMEN

... custody, and ordered l*'-r la? examined. PIER PAVILION LOOTED. Early on Thursday morning the Hastings pier found that pavilion had b «-.ut_rcd somo jjersotis unknown and looted. The thieves apparently rot to the pier from boat. Tho door of the pavilion was ...

Published: Friday 29 March 1907
Newspaper: Western Chronicle
County: Somerset, England
Type: Article | Words: 441 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

VANISHED PRINCE

... newel the disappearance from Hastings pier of Prince Ahmed Siefeddin, brother-in-law to the King of Egypt. Motoring from the mental home, -where for years had been a patient, at Ticehurst, Sussex, spend Monday at Hastings, all trace of has been lost since ...

Published: Friday 04 September 1925
Newspaper: Western Gazette
County: Somerset, England
Type: Article | Words: 630 | Page: 16 | Tags: none

FATAL PISTOL ACCIDENT

... FATAL PISTOL ACCIDENT. Christopher Christian, who played small parts in dramas at the Hastings Pier, died Monday in the hospital at Hastings, where he was admitted suffering from lockjaw and blood-poisoning. At the close of the performance of The Danites ...

Published: Friday 21 December 1906
Newspaper: Shepton Mallet Journal
County: Somerset, England
Type: | Words: 609 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

VANISHED PRINCE

... of a romantic novel the disappearance from Hastings pier of brother-in-law the Kin# Kgypt. Motoring, from the mental home, where for 24 years he had been a patient, Tieehum, Sussex, spend Monday at Hastings, all traco of him has bceu lost since a few ...

THE SHEPTON MALLET JO LB

... two hours life was declared to extinct. The body well-dressed man, aged about 50, was found floating about the piles of Hastings Pier late on Monday afternoon. /Artificial respiration was tried without avail. The body has not been identified. Deceased watch ...

Published: Friday 08 August 1913
Newspaper: Shepton Mallet Journal
County: Somerset, England
Type: | Words: 832 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

STORM FURY

... WALL ON THE WATER. Mr. Wilkins, an official of Hastings Pier Company, eye-witness of the tidal wave, described the scene there: I was looking out to see when suddenly it became dark and beyond the pier I saw what looked like a white wall on the water ...

Published: Friday 26 July 1929
Newspaper: Western Gazette
County: Somerset, England
Type: Article | Words: 1188 | Page: 15 | Tags: none

BRICKETT WOOD TRAGEDY. AIRMAN'S HEROIC DEATH

... power to diepo-e of to Sir Joln F. Rnio‘den. Bt.. of Bulntro& Pork, Gerrord's Crone, Books. FIRE ON HASTINGS PIER. epa. pow paTilsom •I era end et Raatings Pier deettoyed hy en day. The fire i. anp;.e.ed VI hare lestwed 11. • drapped cigarette. a strong wind ...

Published: Saturday 21 July 1917
Newspaper: Langport & Somerton Herald
County: Somerset, England
Type: Article | Words: 1348 | Page: 5 | Tags: none