cliff; a fire at the Bohemia Mansion while occupied by Earl Sheffield and the death of a young lady named Clackett, at 2 Marine Parade through the sleeve of her dress taking fire while arranging her toilette.
Occurrences in 1829 and 1829
At that time the Marine Parade, 500 feet long, but narrow in width was daily thronged with fashionable company, and in the month of July, a stand was erected for the town band outside of the parade wall, so as to afford more prom for the promenaders. The said parade had then be(sic) added to by the presentation to the Corporation of a new piece in front of Pelham Place by the Earl of Chichester, the site for which in 1820, the Earl had paid the Corporation £200. This money, together with the revenue from Leasements(sic) of stone beach granted to several other persons, had, in 1829, amounted to £2,200 which sum was applied to the expense incurred for building a new Town Hall, repairing the town clock, the erection of a new pier-shop, the covering over the Bourne's mouth and the construction of a new light house. This outlay was the means of realising a yearly income of about £90 [a]. And now, as to the blacksmith's shop which is represented in the preceding view as abutting against the Condemned Hole, the corporation in 1829 gave notice to Thomas Thwaites to pull down the blacksmith's shop erected by him, some years before, on the shipyard ground in front of the Pelham Arcade, and to remove the other encroachments he had made contrary to the covenant in his grant. Mr. Thwaites apologised for his tenants building the shop and the boiling apparatus and acknowledged the right of the Corporation, but at the same time he hoped the building might be allowed to remain by his paying rent for the encroachment. The result was that he had to pay 20/ a year for the shop and 5/ for the boiler. During the same year, the Corporation consented to the retention of waste beach already built upon by "Trewyer" (Thos.) Mann, paying £40; Mr Golden, £15; W. Kirby, £25; Mrs Rogers, on behalf of her brother, Thos. Davies, £20; Wm. Brazier, £30; Edward Stevens, £25; and Thos. Thwaites, for 3½ ft. by 22 ft adjoining the Royal Oak in Castle Street, £5; Also, for the sum of £20, the Corporation granted to Wm. Campbell, jun., a piece of stone-beach near the Priory water (now Pelham Street) on which three small tenements were erected. Another grant was that of a triangular piece of waste beach to Mr. Geo. Clement, nearly in front of his drapers shop, the latter adjoining the Cutter Inn, the same to be his and his heirs for £30. As an assistant at the said shop, it was a part of the current writer's duty to place the shutters every morning on that piece of ground.
To prevent nuisances, a small semicircular rail had been placed against Mr. Camac's stables at the west end of the parade at Beach Cottages and a notice was given by the Corporation to Mr. Lucas Shadwell to remove the encroachment.
The commercial failures in 1828 were very serious, one of them, as stated by the Rev. W. Whistler, in a letter to his son, involving liabilities of £15,000. It is hardly a case for wonderment, therefore, that the bankruptcy of Mr. Breeds, already referred to, became inevitable when are taken into account his enormous law-suit expenses, and his several trade losses.
Occurrences in 1829
In 1829, the now almost obsolete practice of turning out the old year and heralding in the new was in full vigour, and all private houses and shopkeepers premises were besieged by boys and a sprinkling of girls, with the cry (corrupted from the original) of "Turn 'em out, rout 'em out, bundle 'em out!" A large gang of shouting applicants on the first morning of the year wended their way in a systemised -
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