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Death Follows a Stage Accident Christopher Christian, who played small parts dramas at Hastings Pier, died ..

... Death Follows a Stage Accident Christopher Christian, who played small parts dramas at Hastings Pier, died yesterday in hospital at Hastings, where he was admitted suffering from lockjaw and blood poisoning. At the close of the performance of The Danites ...

Published: Tuesday 18 December 1906
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 72 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Two German naval officers and one Austrian military officer escaped from Donington Hall on Saturday evening. ..

... naval officers and one Austrian military officer escaped from Donington Hall on Saturday evening. The pavilion the end of Hastings pier was destroyed by fire yesterday afternoon. The outbreak helieved due to a dropped cigarette. At Swansea, on Saturday. Samuel ...

Published: Monday 16 July 1917
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 70 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

A PANIC AT HASTINGS

... PANIC AT HASTINGS. An alarming panic lias occurred in the pavilion of Hastings Pier. Towards the conclusion of the perfo rJ)l ance of The Shaughraun, a gun was fired Immediately afterwards man fainted, and then soffl e called out Fire! The entire ...

Published: Tuesday 15 June 1886
Newspaper: Exeter and Plymouth Gazette
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 130 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

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... Armadale, a vessel of 6,153 tons, was built at White Inch, Glasgow, in 1909 for the Australind Shipping Company London.) HASTINGS PIER PAVILION DESTROYED. The pavilion ai the eea end of Tier was completely destroyed fire yesterday afternoon. The fire is ...

Published: Monday 16 July 1917
Newspaper: Exeter and Plymouth Gazette
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 127 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

A BALLOONIST CARRIED TO SEA

... nearly half a mile from land the south-east of the Hastings Pier, the parade, beach, and pier being thronged with people. was kept a life-buoy until picked up in a few minutes a boat. He was to the pier, and drove back the Recreation Ground, was received ...

Published: Wednesday 12 June 1889
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 150 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

LESLIE HOWARD

... are being exhibited Messrs. Colsons. High-street, Exeter. Mr. Julius Harrison. Hastings musical director, will conduct on Hastings Pier next week with a baton made from the pier timbers. FRIDAY. JANUARY 13. 1939 ...

Published: Friday 13 January 1939
Newspaper: Express and Echo
County: Devon, England
Type: | Words: 181 | Page: 8 | 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

NEWS BREVITIES

... Sunday rest passed some years ago. Captain Dalton, the well-known cross-Channe swimmer, will on Saturday next swim from Hastings Pier to Eastbourne, a distance of about 20 miles. The water supply of the East London Water Company, which has been intermittent ...

Published: Thursday 12 September 1895
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 408 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

At Bristol I imagine that this consuie not be shown and Devon must remember

... and biography of Professor Dickinson. Capt. D. Dalton, the well-known cross-Channel swimmer, will to-morrow swim from Hastings Pier to Eastbourne, a distance of about 20 miles, He will enter the water at about half-past ten a.m., and the journey is expected ...

Published: Friday 13 September 1895
Newspaper: Express and Echo
County: Devon, England
Type: | Words: 422 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

TEN BRANCHES REPRESENTED

... consideration and due. More than 5.000 competitions—a record entry—arc taking part In the 32nd Hastings Music Festival, which began yesterday Hastings Pier. ...

Published: Thursday 09 March 1939
Newspaper: Express and Echo
County: Devon, England
Type: | Words: 534 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Chess Notes. S.C.G.U. CHAMPIONSHIP. (SPECIALLY CONTRIBUTED) Westerners will be much interested in the programme ..

... dated for October and November 28th. -Si- Other interesting fixtures are:—September 26th, Kent v. Sussex, 100 aside, on Hastings pier; October loth, North v. Midlands; December 12th, Middlesex v. Yorkshire or Warwickshire in the final of the English Counties' ...

Published: Thursday 21 May 1925
Newspaper: Exeter and Plymouth Gazette
County: Devon, England
Type: Miscellaneous | Words: 460 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE EASTERN QUESTION

... running from Bristol New York, has pat hack S Bristol dismasted. The and crew are Hi The Hastings Pier and Parade are Two-thousand tons diff fail near Hastings. Pier was broken asunder, and the sea wails and breached. Violent gales also visited the east ...

Published: Wednesday 03 January 1877
Newspaper: Exeter and Plymouth Gazette
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1450 | Page: 4 | Tags: none