Manuscript History of Hastings and St. Leonards Vol 5

Index to Contents of Volume Five 1853-1855

This is a transcription of the index to Thomas Brandon Brett's Manuscript History of Hastings & St Leonards vol 5.

Chapter Forty Nine: St.Leonards 1853 Page 1

Application from the Hastings Local Board to the St.Leonards Commission re drainage (pg. 1)
The Commissioners' reply (pg. 4)
St.Leonards Coal dues (pg. 2)
Stone crossings (some to be re-laid and some to be taken up) (pg. 2)
Sea-wall to be re-pointed (pg. 2)
Groynes to be altered (pg. 3)
Groynes to be repaired (pg. 3)
Pigs to be removed as a nuisance (pg. 4)
Commissioners disqualified and others elected. (pg. 3)
Notice that a resolution of the Local Board respecting alteration of groynes had been rescinded (pg. 4)
Parochial officers of St. Leonards. Ditto of St. Mary Magdalen (pg. 5)
Rates and new assessments (pg. 5)
St.Leonards and St. Mary Magdalen Vestries (pg. 5)
Cemetery movements (pg. 5)
Mechanics Institution and its unique Exhibition (pg. 6)
Mechanics Institution affiliated on the Society of Arts (pg. 7)
Melancholy deaths and Coroner's Inquests (pg. 7)
Sheep-stealing (pg. 7)
Drowning cases (pg. 7)
Horticultural exhibitions (pg. 8)
Prize meeting of the Queen's St.Leonards Archers (pg. 8)
Confirmations (pg. 8).
Mrs. Smith convicted of manslaughter for fatally stabbing her husband; sentenced to ten years transportation, but died in gaol(pg. 9).

Chapter Fifty: Hastings 1853 Page 10

Contents: (See also general index) Town Council meetings pages 10-31(pg. 10)
Street lighting, (pg. 10)
payment of map, (pg. 10)-(pg. 111)-& (pg. 15)-[(pg. 16)
Baths and Washhouses, (pg. 11)
District rates, (pg. 2),(pg. 26),(pg. 37)
Cavendish Place (pg. 12)
Putland's resignation, (pg. 12)
His successor (pg. 103)
Thanks to ex-Surveyor, (pg. 14)
Site of old lighthouse, (pg. 14)
Town Clerk's "extras", (pg. 14)
Financial accounts (pg. 14)
Steps and crossings, (pg. 15)
Pelham Place improvement, (pg. 16)
Drainage, (pg. 16) & (pg. 21) (pg. 26)
Cinque Ports privileges, (pg. 16)
Custom House (pg. 17), (pg. 22), (pg. 28)
Crier's fees,(pg. 17)
Widening parade and road, (pg. 17)
Removal of rocks, (pg. 18)
Watch house (pg. 19), (pg. 22)
Condolence (strange proceedings), (pg. 19), (pg. 20)
Election of Alderman, (pg. 20)
Leanstock show, (pg. 20), (pg. 36)
Cemetery required, (pg. 21)
Parade improvement, (pg. 21).
Chalk-road groyne, (pg. 21)
Old Warm Baths, (pg. 22), (pg. 27), (pg. 29), (pg. 30)
Tackleway improvement, (pg. 23), {{BLnk|5|50|Hastings 1853|30}
Water supply, (pg. 13), (pg. 30)
Naming of houses, (pg. 21), (pg. 23) to (pg. 25)
Watering roads, (pg. 25)
Surveyor's enlarged sphere, (pg. 25)
Rise in rates, (pg. 26)
Condemned Hole, (pg. 28)
Queen Elizabeth's Charter, (pg. 28)
Encroachments, (pg. 31)
Balls, concerts & lectures, (pg. 31) to (pg. 36)
School treats, (pg. 34)
Mechanics Institution, (pg. 34)
Athenaeum, (pg. 35)
Literary Institution (pg. 35)
Board of Guardians, (pg. 35)
Gas Company, (pg. 35)
Cinque Ports pilots, (pg. 36)
Carpenters' strike, (pg. 36)
Printers' demands (pg. 36)
Proposed new road, (pg. 36)
Building operations, (pg. 36)
Mayor at church (pg. 36)
Cost of negligence, (pg. 37)
Death of Sir Godfrey Webster, (pg. 37)
St Mary Magdalen Church, (pg. 37)
Fishing, (pg. 37)
Accidents, (pg. 38)
Burglaries, (pg. 39)
Rowing matches, (pg. 39)
From Australia, (pg. 39)-(pg. 40).

Chapter Fifty One: St. Leonards 1854 Page 41

Contents: Transactions of the Commissioners and parish offers (pg. 41)
Appointment of a Burial Board (pg. 43)
Difficulties in the search of site for a cemetery (pg. 44)
Severe weather and a trying winter (pg. 45)
The distressed poor (pg. 45)
Accidents (pg. 46)
Sudden deaths (pg. 46)
The Baltic fleet (pg. 47)
The Jasper gun-boat destroyed by fire off St.Leonards and Hastings (pg. 47)
Collections for those engaged in war (pg. 47)
Horticultural shows (pg. 49)
A sleigh ride in the snowy streets (pg. 45)
Railways blocked (pg. 45)
Fall of Sebastopol (pg. 47)
Archery meetings (pg. 48)
The autumn season (pg. 48)
Public bands (pg. 48)
The St.Leonards Mechanics' Institution – Lectures in connection therewith (pg. 49)
Postal arrangements (pg. 51)
An attempt to get the St. Leonards post-office abolished (pg. 51)
For and against memorials thereupon (pg. 52)
Humorous and serious letters concerning the same (pg. 54).

Chapter Fifty Two : Hastings 1854 page 55

Contents :(See also general index) Town Council meetings (pg. 56) to (pg. 70)
police tippling, (pg. 56)
Removal of boats, (pg. 56)
District rates,(pg. 56)
Advertising, (pg. 56)
Groynes, (pg. 56)
Parade seats (pg. 56)
General drainage plans exhibited (pg. 56)
Plan approved (pg. 58)
Finance condition,(pg. 57)
"No hurry" (pg. 58)
"No delay", (pg. 59)
"Intermediate action", (pg. 59)
Braithwaite's high charges,(pg. 60)
Memorial to proceed (pg. 62)
More objections, (pg. 62)
Putland disapproves, (pg. 63)
Another claim (pg. 61)
Petition for delay (pg. 61)
Rating the poor, (pg. 64)
New road at Wallinger's Walk proposed, (pg. 65)
Water supply, (pg. 65)
Cinque Ports' jurisdiction, (pg. 66)
No educational help, (pg. 66)
Numbering of houses,(pg. 67)
New Fishmarket, (pg. 67)
Ironstone (pg. 67)
Defensive works, (pg. 68)
Market room, (pg. 68)
Viscount Chewton (pg. 69)
East parade (pg. 69)
Pierwardens, (pg. 69)
Choosing Mayor (pg. 69)
Curious potato (pg. 71)
Escape from gaol, (pg. 70)
burglaries and robberies, (pg. 71)
Distressed poor, (pg. 71), (pg. 73)
Relief fund, (pg. 72)
Vestry meetings, (pg. 72), (pg. 73)
Herrings, (pg. 73)
Coal famine, (pg. 73), (pg. 74)
The fishery, (pg. 73), (pg. 74)
Maritime casualties, (pg. 74)
Deaths of "Blind Tom", Henry Went Tree, Joseph Simmons, Musgrave Brisco, Mrs. Lloyd Shoesmith, Samuel Phillips, John Banks, "Old Humphrey” & Mrs Simmonds (pg. 75) to (pg. 77)
Vital statistics, (pg. 74), (pg. 77)
Census tables (pg. 77)
Accidents, (pg. 77),(pg. 78)
Dinners (pg. 77),(pg. 78)
Welcome home to Capt. McClure, (pg. 79), (pg. 80), (pg. 85)
Welcome home to Jeremiah Smith, (pg. 86), (pg. 88)
Balls, concerts and entertainments, (pg. 88)
An outlaw's dividend, (pg. 89)
New magistrates, (pg. 89)
Coastguards' exodus, (pg. 89)
Volunteers at a premium, (pg. 89)
A daring feat, (pg. 90)
Removal of baths, (pg. 90)
The Infirmary, (pg. 90)
Gas company's new Bill, (pg. 90)
Chalybeate spring, (pg. 90) – Anti Church-rate movement. (pg. 91)
Annual Lamb Fair, (pg. 91)
The right of way, (pg. 91)
Schools, (pg. 95).
Guy Fawkes scrimmage, (pg. 91)
An Irish wake (pg. 91)
Early closing, (pg. 98)
Mechanics' Institution, (pg. 95), (pg. 96)
Athenaeum (pg. 96)
Literary Institution, (pg. 97)
Hastings Regatta, (pg. 139)
Church matters, (pg. 92)
Proposed cemetery, (pg. 93)
Board of Guardians, (pg. 94)
Ellsworth's Charity, (pg. 98)
Postal contention, (pg. 99)
The Russian War; Letters from Hastings men serving thereat, Local articles, poems, etc., together with pictorial representations (26 engravings), and other special information, compiled from the "Hastings News" and the “St. Leonards Penny Press” (pg. 102) to (pg. 139).

Chapter Fifty Three: St. Leonards 1855 Page 140

Contents: (See also general index).
Meetings and transactions of the St.Leonards Commissioners, (pg. 140)
Vestry meetings and Burial Board proceedings of St. Leonards parish, (pg. 141)
Ditto of St. Mary Magdalen parish (pg. 143)
Local Health statistics, (pg. 144)
Slanderous reports refuted, (pg. 145)
Royal visitors sojourn, (pg. 145)
Concerts and other amusements, (pg. 146)
Mechanics Institution and its progress, (pg. 148)
Atmospheric, Celestial and meteorological phenomena, (pg. 149)
prize meetings of the Queen's Royal St.Leonards Archers, (pg. 153)
The Parochial Schools, (pg. 154)
Founding of the St. Mary Magdalen Schools, (pg. 153)
Proposed Towns Improvement Association (pg. 155)
Collections, Offertories, etc., (pg. 155)
Railway matters (Great fall on the Hastings and Tonbridge route, & the line obstructed for six months) (pg. 157)
Railway accidents (personal) (pg. 157)
Robberies, etc., (pg. 158)
Antiquarian discovery, (pg. 158)
Flower show, (pg. 158)
Repairing the Martello Towers (pg. 158)
Fetes and pyrotechnics at the Tivoli Tea-Gardens, (pg. 146)
The St.Leonards Choral Society, (pg. 147)
The "Wizard of the South", (pg. 147)
Lectures, various, (pg. 148)
Phenomenon, (pg. 152)
Destructive thunderstorm (pg. 153).

Chapter Fifty Four: Hastings 1855 Page 158a

Contents (See also Index)
General Drainage,(pg. 159),(pg. 165), (pg. 169)
Prejudice against the Surveyor, (pg. 159)
Want of confidence vote, (pg. 170)
Sheepwash Bridge, (pg. 161)
The Foyster Legacies, (pg. 161)
Bill posting, (pg. 163)
Hastings & St. Vallery communication, (pg. 163)
Railway matters, (pg. 164)
Parade seats, (pg. 165)
Election of Mayor, (pg. 168)
Assessment returns, (pg. 169)
Vestry Burial-Board meetings (Turbulence and personalities) (pg. 171)
School items, (pg. 191)
Collections, various (pg. 192)
Special Relief Fund, (pg. 192)
The Fishery (Marvelous and enormous catch of Herrings), (pg. 193)
Four-masted ship, (pg. 196)
The Annual Regatta, (pg. 196)
Surveyors "extras" objected to, (pg. 100)
Troup's promised generosity, (pg. 160)
Borough rates, (pg. 100)
Water supply (pg. 160a)
Waterworks manager's defalcations and discharge, (pg. 160)
Town Council's petition to the Queen to assume the functions of a Burial-Board granted, (pg. 160a) & (pg. 162)
Cemetery question, (pg. 164)
Distances to cemetery site, (pg. 166) – Enlarged Burial Board, (pg. 168)
In search of cemetery site, (pg. 171)
A site at last, (pg. 166)
Cemetery plans, (pg. 171)
Fencing cemetery ground, (pg. 168)
Wellington Square, (pg. 163)
Charities Trustees, (pg. 164)
Deaths of Archdeacon Hare, Mrs. Frederick North, Rev. W. Davis, Rev. J.G. Foyster, Count de Vandes and Mr. Hoof (pg. 188)
Death memorials, (pg. 191)
Market tolls, (pg. 165) – Corn dealers' memorial, (pg. 167)
West Hill path obstructed, (pg. 165)
Removal of same ordered, (pg. 166)
"Smiler” to be sold, (pg. 165)
Great gale and high tide (cause and effect), (pg. 194)
Shipping arrivals & landing of passengers from abroad, (pg. 195)
The schooner Herbinger, (pg. 195)
King of the Belgians at Hastings, (pg. 197)
Prince Albert and the Queen at Hastings, (pg. 198)
The Pett Clerical case (Rev. R. West suspended) (pg. 201)
Early closing and early rising, (pg. 207)
Proposed Holy Trinity Church, (pg. 211)
Municipal Elections (remarkable addresses) (pg. 214)
Political Partnership condemned, (pg. 214)
Accidents, (pg. 224)
Curiosities, (pg. 225)
"England a naval power", (pg. 196)
Church rates defeated, (pg. 204)
Mechanics' Institution, (pg. 198)
Literary Institution, (pg. 200)
Rate-collector's defalcation (sureties called upon,) (pg. 206)
Inquests and Burglaries, (pg. 224)
The H.I.P.S. severely censured, (pg. 219)
The Russian War, with numerous letters from Hastings, men serving thereat, together with local articles, poems, diary of events, and six illustration, making 32 with those given in chapter 52. This History of the war, as compiled from local sources (Hastings News and St. Leonards Penny Press) is altogether unique (pg. 226)

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