Marriages at Hollington - London Road &c
Thus it is shown that there were married at Hollington church in those comparatively few years as many as 181 couples from the Trinity parish, whilst at one of the Hastings churches there were only six, and probably not more at the other. There were also during the same period 29 couples married at Hollington from the Magdalen parish and 66 from St. Leonard, the church for those two parishes not being then built. It is therefore here shown in that phase at least how distinctly were the interests of the dwellers east and west of the Priory Bridge and how determined were the inhabitants of the three newly populated parishes to demonstrate their freedom from control by the Hastings authorities whose jurisdiction at that time did not extend westward of the said Bridge. But this apart, the point has been in giving the fore-going statistics, to show that the first inhabitants of that part of Holy Trinity now known as Government property were as law-abiding as those of the old town and that their observance of marriage rites and duties were no less regular.
The next view represents Hollington Church, not as it now is but as it was, at the time when the marriages in the foregoing list were effected.
The London road out from St. Leonards was contracted for by Messrs. Tester and Marchant, of Tunbridge Wells, and with which Mr. Putland was also connected. A large amount of sandstone was got out between the lower part of Norman road and the site on which Christ Church was afterwards erected. The land on which the upper part of Norman road]] was built was purchased by Mr. Manser, and a portion of it sold to Mr. Tree, whereon was also built a portion of Gensing road and Shepherd street, also the Wesleyan Chapel (in 1836), of which Mr. Walter Insliff was the architect. Shepherd street took its name from Mr. Shepherd, a lodging house keeper on the Marina, who purchased some of the building plots.
