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Hastings Bygones

Hastings Bygones are published by Hastings Local History Group and feature works by multiple authors. All titles are available from Hastings History House or libraries.

​Hastings Bygones - Volume 1

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Contents

  • The Great Mastins Fire Of 1904
  • Comments From The Past
  • Escape By Air
  • Alexandra Park: A Brief History
  • Social Housing In Hastings
  • The Good Old Days
  • The Old Priory Farm
  • Bathing At Hastings
  • Tragedy At Sea
  • John Evans, Railwayman and Pugilist
  • Comments From The Past

Hastings Bygones – Volume 2 (reprint)

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Contents

  • Putting Hastings On The Map
  • Hastings Castle Through The Millennium
  • Turnpike Roads In Hastings
  • Through The Year Through The Centuries
  • Hastings & St Leonards, Firsts In The British Isles. Firsts In Hastings & St Leonards.
  • Edward Leslie Badham 1873-1944
  • Small Town Women - Hastings And The Feminists
  • Hastings Old Town ‘A Past Gone But Not Forgotten’
  • The Census 1801-1891 And Its Use To The Local Historian

Hastings Bygones – Volume 3

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Contents

  • Local Lifeboats And Lifeboat Houses
  • Two Land Names In Ore
  • Hastings Power Stations
  • Pictorial Quiz
  • The Coming Of The Railways
  • 1788 Advertisement By The Sea Bathers Of Hastings
  • A Scandal In Bohemia: A Late Victorian White Collar Crime
  • Fish Catches
  • Past Uses of ​building​s Competition .
  • Photography and Hastings, The first fifty Years, 1850 — 1900
  • Snippets From St.Mary Magdalen’s Rate Books
  • A Case Before The County Bench, 23'“ January 1880

Hastings Bygones – Volume 4

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Hastings Bygones – Volume 5

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Contents

  • The Windmills Of Hastings
  • William Draper
  • Jenyns Tour Of 1824 To Sussex And Kent
  • The Queen’s Hotel
  • “No Popery” Demonstration
  • Childhood Sickness In 1706 - An Early Sussex Letter
  • Judges Postcards — A Collector’s History
  • Some Old Town Scenes By Badham
  • Frederick Tuppenney: A Hastings Worthy

Hastings Bygones – Volume 6

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Contents

  • Hastings Old Town In The 1920s And Today
  • Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show Visits Hastings In 1903
  • ‘Audley End’ Water Tower, Windmill Road
  • Churchwardens’ Presentments
  • Beach And Street Commerce
  • The Hare and Hounds Theatre, Ore
  • Hastings Public House Names
  • A Hastings Child’s View Of World War Two
  • The Wreck Of "The Waterman"
  • The Guinness Clock
  • The Bathing Pool, St Leonards
  • The Postcards Of Donald Mcgill
  • The New Town Of St Leonards
  • Bohemia And The Magdalen Charity Lands

Hastings Bygones – Volume 7

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Hastings Bygones – Volume 8

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References & Notes