By Brian Lawes Early in the War billeting troops was a contentious issue in Hastings. In a survey of rate payers it showed that of the replies received, only 2,024 ratepayers were in favour of the billeting of troops, six against, and six were neutral.
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Hastings Museum appears here as part of the magazine’s continuing record of local organisations, community effort and the people who kept things moving. Readers can move between “How Dinosaurs Were Discovered in Hastings”, “Trolleybus Show 2015”, and “Billeting of Troops WW1”, seeing how the subject appeared at different moments in the magazine. Together they offer a characterful route through the magazine’s record of local life, memory and change.
Trolleybus Show 2015
Trolleybus Restoration Group’s 23rd Annual Show Restoration Group Chairman Ion Castro was there of course taking pictures and explaining the event. For the past 22 out of 23 years the Hastings Trolleybus Restoration Group’s annual show has been on the third Sunday in May and this
How Dinosaurs Were Discovered in Hastings
By Jennie Ridd In 1832 George Wooll, a lithographer who lived at 5 High Street, Hastings, and George Rubie, local schoolmaster, helped to found the Hastings Literary and Scientific Institute at Rubie’s rooms at 1 Burdett Place, George Street. They were well qualified for the task, since Wooll ran the Repository of Arts from Number … Continue reading How Dinosaurs Were Discovered in Hastings