Eversfield Parade
As Punch remarked, “Building up and pulling down is all the go”. So it was with us, that whilst the buildings at Eversfield place were being rapidly erected, the parade wall in front of them was ruinously broken down by the sea. For repairing the large breaches thus made tenders were invited, the lowest of which was from Vennell and Wellard, but as they refused to find sureties or sign the contract, the next lowest tender — that of Hughes and Hunter — was accepted. The respective amounts were £531 and £666. Hughes and Hunter’s tender of £450 for a smaller restoration was also accepted.
Sudden and regretted Deaths
At Lynn, on the 22nd of March, the death occurred of Mr. Alexander Tyrie, who had been the local reporter of the Sussex Advertiser and Hastings and St. Leonards Chronicle, when Mr. Bacon was the proprietor of those papers and I was the sole agent for this district. I was therefore well acquainted with this literary and talented Scotchman, and, with others who knew him, sincerely deplored his later misfortunes and his death. An appeal was made through the Hastings and St. Leonards News for help to the widow and two children who were left entirely destitute. After struggling severely against adverse circumstances, Mr. Tyrie procured employment on the Lynn Advertiser. The labour, however, proved too much for a shattered constitution, and the unfortunate man gradually sank. The highest testimonials were received from his employer as to his ability and integrity, which served to increase the feeling of sorrow for his death.
Another lamentable death was that of Mrs. Edwards, a widow and schoolmistress of Norman road, and the mother of William Carey Edwards, an accountant and occasional reporter. On Friday, the 26th of March, Mrs. Edwards took train at Bopeep for Bexhill, to see her daughter, who lived in service of Col. Lane at Broad Oak. She proceeded in an open carriage — the last one of the train — and on arriving at Bexhill, the station-master, seeing her alone, asked if she wished to alight, but she made no reply. When the train was again in motion, she was observed to become excited, rise from her seat, pace the carriage, wave her hand, and make other signs as if wishing to alight. The officials at the station watched her until the train was out of sight. Soon afterwards a person engaged on the line found the unfortunate woman, in an insensible state lying in the six-foot way, and bleeding extensively from a wound in the head. A doctor was sent for, but the sufferer, who was 67 years of age, soon died.
A misadventure of another kind was the cause of another death, in the -
