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A SWIM FROM HASTINGS TO EASTBOURNE

... A SWIM FROM HASTINGS TO EASTBOURNE. Captain D. Dalton, the well-known cross-Channel swimmer, will attempt on Saturday, weather permitting, to swim from Hastings Pier to Eastbourne, a distance of about twenty miles. He will enter the water at 10.30 a.m ...

SHOCKING DOMESTIC TRAGEDY

... throats of her infant daughter and herself ; both are dead. A PIER WASHED AWAY. The landing stage of St. Leonard's pier was washed away last night's storm, and the debris dashing against Hastings pier did great damage that structure. A portion of the sea wall ...

Published: Thursday 08 October 1896
Newspaper: Wells Journal
County: Somerset, England
Type: | Words: 72 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

SINGULAR SCENE AT HASTINGS

... SINGULAR SCENE AT HASTINGS. An extraordinary scene occurred the other night on Hastings Pier. Just before the evening per. formance the pier master (Mr. bootee) received following message : Keep sharp look-out on pier to night. Young mu ...

Published: Saturday 25 June 1892
Newspaper: Central Somerset Gazette
County: Somerset, England
Type: | Words: 187 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

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

Monetary and Commercial

... Jute Mills is spreading, and on Monday there were nearly 10,000 operatives out on strike. At half-yearly meeting of the Hastings Pier Company, a dividend of 8 per cent, whs declared. It was reported that nearly 300,0 X) persons had paid for admission during ...

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

THE WESTON MERCURY AJTD SOMERSETSHIRE HERALD, SATURDAY, AUGUST 7, 1875

... however, that if the Hastings Pier Company had stopped where the Weston-super-Mare Pier had stopped, that they would not be able to pay a dividend any more than the Weston-super-Mare) Company had, and he had quoted the doings of the Hastings Company to shew ...

Published: Saturday 07 August 1875
Newspaper: Weston Mercury
County: Somerset, England
Type: Article | Words: 1562 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

SINGULAR SCENE AT HASTINGS

... SINGULAR SCENE AT HASTINGS. An extraordinary scene occurred the other night on Hastings Pier. Just before the evening performance the piet master (Mr. Lenton) received the following message : Keep sharp look-out on pier to night. Young niaa intends to ...

Published: Saturday 25 June 1892
Newspaper: Langport & Somerton Herald
County: Somerset, England
Type: Article | Words: 252 | Page: 3 | 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

few friends are endeavouring to assist young man, named Thomas White, of 3, Woodbine-cottages, Dolemeads, aged ..

... entitled Love's Sacrifice: Story the Commune —the work of Mr. J. Macer ! Wright, a well-known journalist of Hastings—was presented at the Hastings Pier Pavilion on Wednesday last before audience of nearly two thousand people, and met with enthusiastic reception ...

Monetary and Commercial

... the West of Scotland have agreed to give notice of reduction of 10 percent, in the ironworkers wages. The directors the Hastings Pier Company have recommended a dividend the rate six per cent, per annum. The Associated Chambers of Commerce closed their ...

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