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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

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

PIER FOR SALE

... PIER FOR SALE. Si. Leonards Palace Pier has been offered to Hastings Town Council, for £9,000, of which £3,000 represents debentures the value of £lO,OOO belonging to the Southern Railway. The council by 29 votes to decided including in their coming ...

Published: Friday 25 November 1927
Newspaper: Shepton Mallet Journal
County: Somerset, England
Type: | Words: 326 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

DEATH ON RHYL PIER

... DEATH RHYL PIER. A profound sensation was caused on Rhy. pier during the Pierrots’ performance by the death of the theatrical manager the Grand Pavilion. He was sitting with his sister, when collapsed and died a few minutes from heart disease. was actor ...

Published: Friday 26 July 1901
Newspaper: Shepton Mallet Journal
County: Somerset, England
Type: | Words: 1169 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

THE SHEPTON MALLET

... At Bimbeok Pier feature of interest consisted of the recently-constructed moans of access down to the rocks on the west and southern sides of the island, and hero hundreds basked in the sunshine. There was also brisk business at the Grand Pier, whore the ...

Published: Friday 21 April 1933
Newspaper: Shepton Mallet Journal
County: Somerset, England
Type: | Words: 403 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

TRAM RUNS OVER A BRIDGE

... small yacht anchored in Dover Naval Harbour drove into the Promenade Pier and foundered, and the Admiralty Pier extension sustained considerable damage. A foreman was swept off the pier by heavy sea, and was rescued by lifeboat from the Ostend packet. Four ...

Published: Friday 27 October 1911
Newspaper: Shepton Mallet Journal
County: Somerset, England
Type: | Words: 721 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

ROMANTIC SUICIDE OF A BOY

... years age, residing with his parents at Hastings, has committed suicide under romantic circumstances. Ho was found lying jammed between the rocks on the beach atEcclesbourno valley, about a mile to the cast of Hastings, the other evening, tho coastguard. ...

Published: Friday 20 July 1888
Newspaper: Shepton Mallet Journal
County: Somerset, England
Type: | Words: 486 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

HANDCROSS MOTOR DISASTER

... spades that they might imagine they were at the seaside. The owners of St, Leonard’s pier complained that it had been rendered unsafe in the event of storms through the Hastings Corporation having removed shingle from under it. Legal proceedings were started ...

Published: Friday 10 August 1906
Newspaper: Shepton Mallet Journal
County: Somerset, England
Type: | Words: 563 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

STRUGGLE IN THE SEA

... STRUGGLE THE SEA. The crowd proraenaders Hull Corporation Pier on Sunday afternoon were horrified to see a horse ridden by a man plunge over the pier edge into the Humber. Both man and horse sank, and coming to the surface terrified animal struck out ...

Published: Friday 24 April 1914
Newspaper: Shepton Mallet Journal
County: Somerset, England
Type: | Words: 581 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

DEMOBILISATION

... myriads of people. Seaside places around—like Brighton, Hastings and St. Leonard's, Margate and Ramsgate. Clacton and Southend, were, says one correspondent, swamped,” and sleeping the sands, under piers, stalls and boats was general occurrence—2,ooo such ...

Published: Friday 08 August 1919
Newspaper: Shepton Mallet Journal
County: Somerset, England
Type: | Words: 351 | Page: 2 | Tags: none