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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

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

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

CONSTRUCTION OF PLEASURE PIERS AT PLYMOUTH AND TORQUAY. MARINE TIERS COMPANY (Limited). JL Capitol £-200,000. ..

... late Mayor of Hastings, Director of the Hastings Pier Company (Limited). William Stevens, Esq., Springfield, Tulse Hill, Surrey. Engineer—Eugenius Birch, Esq., Mem. Inst. C.E., Designer and, Engineer to, amongst others, the following Piers:—Brighton (West ...

Published: Friday 20 August 1880
Newspaper: Western Gazette
County: Somerset, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 2243 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

HOLIDAY HORRORS

... while bathing. She rushed into tbe water up to her neck trying to save hi™, and had be dragged cut. HASTINGS.—A body found floating under Hastings Pier has been identified as that of Harry Croshier, gardener, of Sevenoakfl, whe is believed to bave fallen ...

Published: Friday 08 August 1913
Newspaper: Western Gazette
County: Somerset, England
Type: Article | Words: 1859 | Page: 12 | 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

A HASTINGS LOVE TRAGEDY

... HASTINGS LOVE TRAGEDY. EIGHT YEARS' PENAL SERVITUDE. At the Sussex Assize on Tuesday Thomas Foster, aged 27, a journeyman baker, was charged with the attempted murder cf his sweetheart, Jane Smith, cutting her throat. The accused, it appears, called Upon ...

Published: Friday 15 February 1895
Newspaper: Western Gazette
County: Somerset, England
Type: Article | Words: 187 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Bathing Floodlight. cre popularity of night bathing, the Hastings Corporation has arranged for a wide stretch ..

... Bathing Floodlight. cre popularity of night bathing, the Hastings Corporation has arranged for a wide stretch the sea and beach near the pier to be floodlit at night Two Negroes Lynched. Two negroes were lvnched at Columbus, Mississippi, on Monday a party ...

Published: Friday 19 July 1935
Newspaper: Western Gazette
County: Somerset, England
Type: Article | Words: 80 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE OCEANA'S GOLD

... Eastbourne Pier it was stated that twe further boxes of gold and two bars to the total value of of silver had been 0u0. over £10. Alter an mz five hoors a verdict of “ Acciden “ag pol was returned on Tuesday at the ad the Oceana swag Hastings on the victams ...

Published: Friday 05 April 1912
Newspaper: Western Gazette
County: Somerset, England
Type: Article | Words: 85 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

BOURNEMOUTH POLICE-COURT

... Beale), Captain Burbidge, and Alderman W. Bolton. OBSTRUCTING THE PIER APPROACH. —Bertie Staddon, a youth, of 318, Holdenhurst-road, pleaded not guilty to a charge of obstruction at the Pier Approach.—P.C. Chandler said the defendant obstructed the footpath ...

Published: Friday 15 March 1907
Newspaper: Western Gazette
County: Somerset, England
Type: Article | Words: 386 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

VIOLENT GALE

... small yacht anchored in fe over Naval Harbour drove into the Promenade Pier | d foundered, and the Admiralty Pier extension sus- ined considerable damage. I A foreman was swept off the pier by a beavy sea, fo) id was rescued Ly a lifeboat frem the Ostend packet ...

Published: Friday 27 October 1911
Newspaper: Western Gazette
County: Somerset, England
Type: Article | Words: 413 | Page: 10 | Tags: none