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BODY ON HASTINGS BEACH

... BODY ON HASTINGS BEACH. The initials F.R., written on the inside a linen collar, arc the only means of identification which the Hastings Police possess an unknown man who was found lying dead the beach near the Hastings pier early on Thursday. He wore ...

Published: Saturday 25 September 1926
Newspaper: Gloucester Journal
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 72 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

BODY ON HASTINGS BEACH

... BODY ON HASTINGS BEACH. The initials F.R., written on the inside linen collar, are the only means of identification which the Hastings Police possess of mi unknown man who was found lying dead the beach near the Hastings pier early on Thursday. He ...

Published: Friday 24 September 1926
Newspaper: Gloucester Citizen
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 74 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

OCTOPUS CAUGHT BY BOY ANGLER

... Ronald Dole, while fishing for dabs Hastings pier, landed an octopus with mi ordinary rod and lice. The fish struggled vigorously and was only brought to the deck of the pier after a prolonged struggle. When on the pier it caused much excitement by vigorously ...

Published: Tuesday 14 August 1923
Newspaper: Gloucester Citizen
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 119 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

MAN WHO HELPED PRINCE

... guilty. The Chief Constable explained thai August 31, 1925, the Prince was smuggled aboard tbe steamer Devonia lying at Hastings Pier bound for Boulogne. Pilbeam and Bastone went with the Prince to Turkey, where they been living under 1-is patronagj at ...

Published: Saturday 12 May 1928
Newspaper: Western Daily Press
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 121 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

POLITICAL PLOT?

... novel is the disappearance from Hastings pier of Prince Ahmed Siefeddin, brother-in-law to the King of Egypt. Motoring, from the mental home, where for 24 years had been patient, at Ticehurst, Sussex, to spend Monday at Hastings, all trace of him has been ...

Published: Friday 04 September 1925
Newspaper: Gloucestershire Chronicle
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: | Words: 192 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

TIDAL WAVE

... wave which accoinpa storm of wind and rain over the J and South-east Coast on ur evening caused several fatalities. A Hastings pier official the tidal wave as like a white a the water about five feet high- tide was low at the time, or the ie would have ...

Published: Monday 22 July 1929
Newspaper: Exeter and Plymouth Gazette
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 211 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

SECRETARY DRAWS UNEMPLOYMENT PAY WHILE EARNING OVER £«

... directed that of £l4 13s. 3d. found on prisoner £l2 should go towards his keep. A deep-sea octopus was landed on Monday the Hastings pier by a lad named Ronald Dale, who was fishing with a rod and line for bass. The octopus struggled violently when hooked, ...

Published: Tuesday 14 August 1923
Newspaper: Gloucestershire Echo
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: | Words: 239 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

HUNG BY HANDS TO SAVE WOMAN

... the sea below Hastings pier late on Wednesday night in extraordinary circumstances. Cries for help were heard, and Mr. E. M. Ratcliffe, aged 10. Alexandra-road. St. Leonards. once ran to the beach and out on to the steel work beneath the pier. At considerable ...

Published: Friday 29 May 1925
Newspaper: Gloucestershire Echo
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: | Words: 306 | Page: 1 | 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

SEARCH FOR LOST PRINCE

... disappeared from home at Ticelnirst, Sussex, has not yet been found. Statement made to the Hastings police by Mr. Frank Hedgecock, who is staying at No. 32a, Taekleway, Hastings, and whose home at Picton-road, Wavertree, Liverpool, has satisfied them that the ...

Published: Thursday 03 September 1925
Newspaper: Western Morning News
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 483 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

LAND WON FROM THE SEA

... with his fleet no more —and the ' island ' of Oxney is part of mainland. The centre of Hastings—now half mile inland—wae once its harbour, while the piles of Hastings Pier are driven among roots of submerged forest beech trees. Langney Point, near Eastbourne ...

Published: Thursday 12 February 1920
Newspaper: Western Daily Press
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 428 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

Heat and Gun Explosion

... Ronald Dale, while fishing for dabs on Hastings pier, landed an octopus with an ordinary i>od and line. Its fish struggled vigorously and was only brought the deck the pier after prolonged straggle. When on the pier it caused much 11 ill nfltl by vigorously ...

Published: Saturday 18 August 1923
Newspaper: Gloucester Journal
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 449 | Page: 4 | Tags: none