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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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Contents

• The Albert Memorial And The Town Centre
• Fire At Bohemia House
• Edward Leslie Badham
• Story Of A Hastings Witch
• Early Hastings Pleasure Steamers
• Summerhill House
• The Buchanan Hospital
• The Hastings Halfpenny
• Shipwreck At Hastings
• Memories Of War
• The Hastings Volunteer Fire Brigade
• William Guest, Master Shoemaker
• Donkeys And Donkey Boys
• The Cresy Report

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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Contents

• Elisa Cook’s Journal: A Visit To Hastings
• Verulam Place
• Hastings And Aviation
• Stereoscopic Photography
• Hastings Station
• Local Brickmaking
• Bo-Peep
• The Nye Family Of Bohemia
• The New Parade At Hastings

Hastings Bygones – Volume 8

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Contents

• The Bus That Went To War
• Hastings Breweries
• Strike up the Band
• Robinson Crusoe’s Cave
• The Entente Cordiale Fetes
• Hastings Automobile Carnival and Gymkhana Pier Professors
• Convent of the Holy Child Jesus
• Fire on the S. S. Lugano
• A Graf Zeppelin flies over Hastings
• Lord Mayor of London's Visit
• The Submarine U-118 ashore at Hastings
• The Road to Windycroft - and The Stables
• St. Leonards Green