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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

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

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

OTHER FIXTURES

... gckill. Capt. D. Dalton, the well-known croa-Chasnel swimmer, will attempt Saturday, weather permittiag, to swim from Hastings pier to Eastbourne, distance about 20 miles. He will enter the water 10.30 a.m., and it is expected tile task will take hub ...

Published: Friday 13 September 1895
Newspaper: Western Chronicle
County: Somerset, England
Type: Article | Words: 2387 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

POLITICAL

... sentenced to long terms of penal servitude for man- slaughter. The ceremony screwing the first pile of the Leonards, Hastings, new pier was performed oo Thursday, Three boys woe sliding oo loch itt Burrs lilt, on Friday, when the gave away, and all three ...

Published: Friday 09 March 1888
Newspaper: Western Chronicle
County: Somerset, England
Type: Article | Words: 1830 | 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

A HASTINGS LOVE TRAGEDY. EIGIIT YEARS' PENAL SERVITUDE

... A HASTINGS LOVE TRAGEDY. EIGIIT YEARS' PENAL SERVITUDE. At the Sussex Assize on Tuesday Thomas Foster, aged 27, a jeurneyinau baker, was charged with the attempted murder of his sweetheart, Jana Smith, by netting her throat. The accused, it appears, called ...