Manuscript History of Hastings and St. Leonards Vol 10

Index to Contents of Volume Ten 1862-64

This is a transcription of the index to Thomas Brandon Brett's Manuscript History of Hastings & St Leonards vol 10.

Chapter Sixty Eight: Hastings 1862 Page 1

Accidents and Fatalities (pg. 1)
Town Council meetings (The harbour contention) (pg. 4)
Town council Transactions (pg. 14)
(Great excitement)
Concerts-and Public Entertainments (pg. 20)
Special Dinners, Suppers, etc. (pg. 23)
Public Funerals (pg. 24)
The Lancashire Distress (For the relief of Lancashire) (pg. 26)
The Local Collections (pg. 29)
Schools and School Treats (pg. 30)
A new Ragged School Building proposed (pg. 31)
The Ragged School (pg. 32)
The Ragged School Bazaar (pg. 33)
The Fishery (pg. 34)
The Drowning of Nine Fishermen (pg. 34)
The Fishery Vicissitudes (pg. 36)
"Sympathy for the Afflicted" (pg. 36)
Accidental Fires (pg. 38)
The Autumn Flower Show (pg. 39)
Hastings at the Exhibition (pg. 40)
Sudden deaths and Inquests (pg. 40)
Lectures at Hastings – “The Millennial Rest" by Rev. Dr. Cumming (pg. 41)
Dr. Cumming's Lectures (pg. 41)
Lectures at Hastings (pg. 50)
Maritime Casualties (pg. 52)
Miscellaneous Items (pg. 52)
The Town Council not what it ought to be (pg. 53)
Municipal Matters (pg. 53)
Waldegrave Fountain (pg. 54)
Our Volunteer Soldiers (pg. 57)
Poor rates (pg. 61)
Workmen's treats (pg. 61)
Philosophical Society (pg. 61)
The Regatta and other events (pg. 62)
The Queens Hotel (pg. 63)
Special Sermons (pg. 63)
Hastings Mechanics' Institution (pg. 64).

Chapter Sixty Nine: St. Leonards 1863 Page 65

St.Leonards Commissioners' Meetings (pg. 65)
The West Hill road (pg. 69)
Vestry Meetings (pg. 70)
Accidents and Fatalities (pg. 72)
Balls, etc. (pg. 73)
The Borough Assessment (pg. 74)
Archery Meetings (pg. 74)
The Archery Prize Meeting (pg. 75)
The Artillery Band (pg. 76)
The Bonfire Boys (pg. 76)
Concerts and Musical Entertainments (pg. 77)
The Cottage Building Company (pg. 78)
Church and Chapel News (pg. 79)
Particular Deaths (pg. 80)
Funeral Obsequences (pg. 81)
The Cripples Home (pg. 82)
Drapers' Recreation (pg. 82)
Horticultural Society (pg. 82)
Harvest Homes (pg. 83)
Harvest Homes and Thanksgiving (pg. 84)
Coroner's Inquests (pg. 87)
Improvements (pg. 89)
(pg. 65) A new Galley (pg. 89)
A St. Leonards Guide Book (pg. 89)
Lectures (pg. 90)
Letter Press Music (pg. 91)
Musical Taste (pg. 92)
Lost and Found (pg. 93)
"Magnificent Liberality" (pg. 95)
"The Biter Bit" (pg. 95)
Building Operations (pg. 95)
Rearing Suppers (pg. 96)
The St.Leonards Mechanics Institution (pg. 96)
Fashionable Marriages (pg. 97)
Presentations and Picnics (pg. 98)
Royal Visitors (pg. 99)
Robberies (pg. 99)
Special Sermons (pg. 99)
School Treats (pg. 100)
Evening Schools (pg. 100)
Sale of Property (pg. 100)
St.Leonards Caves (pg. 100)
Abnormal Fish (pg. 100)
Storms and Atmospheric Phenomena (pg. 101)
Earthquakes and Predictions (pg. 104)
Earthquakes and fulfilled Predictions (pg. 105)
The Weather and its Prophets (pg. 107)
A Little Trip to Netherfield (pg. 110)
The Temperance Propaganda (pg. 111)
Thunderstorms and Fatalities (pg. 116)
A Turkish Bath Company (pg. 117)
Chevy-Chase (pg. 117)
Terrific Storms, locally and generally (pg. 118)
A Week's Storms and much damage (pg. 118)
A Breach in the Wall (pg. 119)
Miscellaneous Occurrences (pg. 120).

Chapter Seventy: Hastings 1863 Page 121

Accidents at Hastings (pg. 121)
Fashionable-Balls (pg. 121)
Concerts (pg. 121)
Wonderful Discovery of Gold (pg. 123)
Entertainments (pg. 124)
Fire Alarms – The Fishery (pg. 125)
Forresters' Fete (pg. 125a)
Lectures (pg. 126)
The Letter H and its Friends (pg. 126)
Mnemonics Entertainments (pg. 127)
Municipal Matters (pg. 129)
Maritime Casualties (pg. 129)
Weather Predictions (pg. 129)
A Promenade Pier (pg. 131)
The Volunteers and the Brighton Review (pg. 132)
Volunteer Review at Hastings (pg. 133)
Artillery Inspection (pg. 135)
Volunteer Prize Meeting (pg. 136)
Town Council Meetings (pg. 137)
Agitation for a Central Ward (pg. 137)
Council Meeting; Re-division of Wards (pg. 137)
Election of Mayor (pg. 140)
The Queen's Hotel (pg. 140)
Workmen's Treats (pg. 141)
Workingmen’s Clubs (pg. 142)
A Dutchman on the Mayor's Dinner (pg. 142)
Quarter Sessions (pg. 144)
The Royal Marriage (pg. 145)
The Roman Catholics (pg. 144)
Marriage of the Prince of Wales (pg. 145)
The Royal Marriage General Notice (pg. 147)
The Wedding Festivities (pg. 150)
Aquatics: Success of Hastings Men (pg. 153)
Successes of Hastings Rowers (pg. 153)
Special Sermons (pg. 154)

Chapter Seventy One: St.Leonards 1864 Page 155

Accidents and Fatalities (pg. 155)
An Unfortunate Church (pg. 157)
Workman alias Rawlings (pg. 167)
Mr. Workman inhibited by the Bishop (pg. 171)
Letters and Replies re the St Leonards Church (pg. 173)
Attempted Murder and Arson – Burglaries (pg. 177)
Mose v. Gas Company (pg. 178)
Archery Meetings (pg. 178)
Sale of Archery Grounds – Archery Gardens Company (pg. 179)
Scripture Readers Society (pg. 181)
Balls and Fashionable Parties (pg. 183)
The Board of Guardians (pg. 184)
Battle and Sedlescombe New road (pg. 185)
Bonfire Boys (pg. 186)
Concerts (pg. 186)
Churches and Chapels (pg. 186)
Christmas Amusements (pg. 191)
Dissolution of Marriage (pg. 192)
Fires and Fire Brigade (pg. 193)
Influx of visitors (pg. 192)
Facetiae (pg. 193)
East Sussex Fox Hunt (pg. 196)
The Health of the Borough (pg. 197)
Coroner's Inquests (pg. 197)
An Industrial Exhibition (pg. 199)
Loss of Sheep (pg. 200)
Lord's Day Observance Society (pg. 200)
Fashionable Marriages (pg. 203)
Mechanics Institution (pg. 207)
The "New Old Roar" (pg. 207)
Fancy Fair at the "New Old Roar" (pg. 208)
Testimonials (pg. 209)
Popular Readings (pg. 209)
Powder Mill Explosion (pg. 209)
Royal Visit (pg. 209)
Visit of the Prince and Princess of Wales (pg. 209)
St. Leonards Commissioners (pg. 218)
Special Sermons (pg. 221)
Sudden deaths (pg. 222)
Suicide Mania (pg. 222)
St.Leonards Total Abstinence Propaganda (pg. 223)
School Treat (pg. 223)
Temperance Hall and Working mens Institute (pg. 224)
Temperance Matters (pg. 225)
Editorial Articles (pg. 227)
The Permissive Bill (pg. 224)
Temperance and Total Abstinence (pg. 226)
Editorial Comments, Temperance versus Total Abstinence (pg. 226)
Temperance Hall Festival (pg. 234)
The Turkish Bath opened (pg. 234)
Vestry Meetings (pg. 235)
Wesleyan Meetings (pg. 236)
The Sheffield Disaster (pg. 237)
Another Great Calamity (pg. 238)
A Tarry Subject (pg. 238)
The Tarred Hedge (pg. 239)
"Guy Fawkes Re-enacted" (pg. 239).

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