Category:Newspapers

Hastings & St Leonards were well covered by a number of periodicals. This table conveniently provided by the first edition of the Hastings & St Leonards' Times reveals that there was at least one periodical for each day of the week excepting Sundays and Mondays in 1877^[1]:-

Additionally, Brett wrote in a letter to the Hastings & St Leonards Observer of the 25th December 1909 that during the 19th century, Hastings was reported upon in a large number of periodicals, listing them as follows^[2]:-

Among the local and provincial papers in which Hastings and its neighbourhood were wholly or largely represented and catered for were the Sussex Advertiser, established in 1745 ; Brighton Herald, 1805; Brighton Gazette, 1821 Brighton Guardian, 1827; the Kentish Gazette, 1769; the Hastings Iris, 1830; Cinque Ports Chronicle, 1838 ; Dover Chronicle, 1835 (edited by. the Rev. Thos. Bigg: Hastings) ; the Sussex. Express, 1857; the Southern Advertiser, 1840; Hastings News, Hastings and St. Leonards Penny Press, by T. B. Brett, 1854; Hastings and St. Leonards Fashionable Record, by W. Walter, 1854; St. Leonards Advertiser, by C, H. Southall, 1853 or 1854; St. Leonards and Hastings Gazette, by T. B. Brett, 1855; South Eastern Advertiser, by Isaac Parsons, 1855 ; Hastings and St. Leonards Herald, 1861; Hastings, St. Leonards and Battle Advertiser, printed at Battle, 1855 ; Hastings and St, Leonards Times, by Isaac Parsons, at Rye, 1857; Hastings and St. Leonards Herald, 1861; Hastings and St. Leonards Observer, by J. H. Knight, 1859 or 1850; Herald and Observer, 1665; Rye Telegram, by B. B. Stuchbery, 1866; Osborne's Hastings Paper, some time in the 1860s ; Hastings and St. Leonards World, 1878; Hastings and St Leonards Guardian, 1674; Randle and Jenner's Visitors List, 1878; East-Sussex News, 1855. Bexhill Chronicle, 1889; Bexhill Observer. 1896; Sussex Daily News, 1868 ; Weekly News, 1376; Morning Argus, 1896 ; Evening Argus, 1879; Hastings and St. Leonards Evening Journal. 1839; Hastings and St Leonards Times, by Mr. Halley Stewart, 1877 ; Hastings and St. Leonards Weekly Mail, 1893 the Kentish Express, 1855 ; and upwards of 100 other papers in the three counties of Sussex Surrey and Kent

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