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OCTOPUS CAUGHT BY BOY ANGLER

... Ronald Dole, while fishing for dabs Hastings pier, landed an octopus with mi ordinary rod and lice. The fish struggled vigorously and was only brought to the deck of the pier after a prolonged struggle. When on the pier it caused much excitement by vigorously ...

Published: Tuesday 14 August 1923
Newspaper: Gloucester Citizen
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 119 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

PIER PAVILION LOOTED

... PIER PAVILION LOOTED. Early on Thursday morning the Hastings pier Mall found that the pavilion bad been intend by some persons unknown and holed. thieves apparently got on to the pier from a boat. The door of the pavilion was shed. the and the n4n ...

Published: Friday 29 March 1907
Newspaper: Cornish Guardian
County: Cornwall, England
Type: | Words: 128 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

HASTINGS MYSTERY

... HASTINGS MYSTERY The body of a well-dressed man, aged about was seen floating among the piles by visi tors on Hastings pier. In the clothes were found two return-half tickets Hastings to Sevenoaks, a watch that was still going, and a handkerchief marked ...

Published: Tuesday 05 August 1913
Newspaper: Gloucestershire Echo
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 127 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

MAN WHO HELPED PRINCE

... guilty. The Chief Constable explained thai August 31, 1925, the Prince was smuggled aboard tbe steamer Devonia lying at Hastings Pier bound for Boulogne. Pilbeam and Bastone went with the Prince to Turkey, where they been living under 1-is patronagj at ...

Published: Saturday 12 May 1928
Newspaper: Western Daily Press
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 121 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

Hutings Pic Plymouth „ Blackpool ~ Sonthsea „ Margate „ Llandodno.. £11,250 £30,000 Debentures') 1 reduced to ..

... supplied under hie rnsnareiaent for the poet 17 years at the Hastings Pier, and where bo is still retained ae Entertainment Manager. It ie intended tbnt the entertainments provided at the Paignton Pier shall be under hit personal supervision. The Directors ...

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

New Hastings Promenade

... New Hastings Promenade. With the voiction of the Ministry of Health to an expenditure of 1:32.00U, work is to iw put to band hy the Hastings Corporation for the vonstructiow of a threedecker parade from Hastings Pier to Warrior Stoiare. St. Lecuards ...

Published: Friday 03 November 1933
Newspaper: Swanage Times & Directory
County: Dorset, England
Type: Article | Words: 118 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

JUMPED . FROM PIER

... JUMPED . FROM PIER CORONER AND MANS ACTION A verdict of death by misadventure was returned yesterday the inquest at Hastings Clements B. Welsman (21), a clerk, of Ashcombe-road, Fulham, who fell from Hastings pier on Sunday midnight. Henry R. Spivey, ...

Published: Saturday 29 September 1934
Newspaper: Gloucester Citizen
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 146 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

UNKNOWN RESCUER

... dancers, known professionally as the Trevelyan '3irls, members of the Poppies Concert Party appearing Hastings Pier, were rescued from drowning Hastings yesterday by a woman who declined to give her name and hurried away. The girls Nita Buckle and Gladys ...

Published: Saturday 04 August 1934
Newspaper: Gloucester Citizen
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 156 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

ENGINEER HERO OF BLAZING YACHT

... owned Colonel J. W. Abrahams, raced to their assistance. The injured engineer was transferred to launch and rushed to Hastings Pier, where ambulance was summoned and he wag taken to hospital. His first request on recovering consciousness was for a cigarette ...

Published: Monday 01 May 1933
Newspaper: Western Daily Press
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 168 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

PIER PAVILION LOOTED

... PIER PAVILION LOOTED. The Hastings pier staff found that the Eavilion had been entered some persons unnown and looted early the other morning. Tho khieves apparently got to tho pier from a boat. The door of the pavilion was smashed, the ticket office ...

Published: Saturday 30 March 1907
Newspaper: East & South Devon Advertiser
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 129 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

EXCURSIONISTS

... EXCURSIONISTS. carious meeting took place on Friday morning em the desk of Hastings pier, when aboat 150 visitors assembled by agreement to demand what they considered ta be their rights from the proprietor one the local steamboats wbo Thursday took them ...

Published: Monday 19 August 1889
Newspaper: Western Daily Press
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 169 | Page: 7 | Tags: none