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Post by stuhuggett on Mar 10, 2009 17:29:25 GMT 1
I'm gonna try and put together a useful reference list of books (non-fiction, fiction, photos etc) on Hastings and the surrounding area. Feel free to add your suggestions to the thread, and I'll incorporate them in this top post, as & when I'm able.
Brand, Jo - It's Different For Girls (2005, paperback). Fiction.
Cox, Tom - Educating Peter (Bantam Press, 2003, paperback). Memoir. The chapter 'Mr Ed' apparently recounts a trip to Hastings, but (unless Tom Cox is a very bad writer indeed) I'd almost certainly guarantee he's covering-up for a different location.
Craic, Seamus - Keane (Artnik Books, 2006, paperback). Biography. Illustrated.
Dellar, Robert - Homicide (in 'Suspect Device' ed. Stewart Home, Serpent's Tail, 1998, paperback). Anthology. Hastings, conceptually, provides the pay-off in this psychotic short story, set in Brighton and Seaford.
Eldridge, Charles - The Second Battle Of Hastings (2004, paperback). Fiction/History(?)
Evans, Richard - The Zookeeper (Egg Box Publishing, 2002, paperback). Poetry. Photos by Camilla Stapleton-Hibbert.
Graham, Ranald - Last Train (in 'London: City Of Disappearances' ed. Iain Sinclair, Hamish Hamilton, 2006, hardback; Penguin Books, paperback). Anthology.
Hanna, Nick & Cross, Tim (eds.) - Hastings Today (Seachange Publishing, 2001, paperback). Photography. Contributors: Andrew Catlin, John Cole, Tim Cross, Kathe Deutsch, Steven Differ, George Greaves, Peter Greenhalf and Janet Pollard, Nick Hanna, Roland Jarvis, Peter Johns, John Kenward, Bob Mazzer, John Miles, Denise O'Neil, Chris Parker, Steve Pyke, Camilla Stapleton-Hibbert, Sussex Wildlife Trust, Nick Wates, Anna White.
Hegley, John - 'Sheds' (in collection Can I Come Down Now Dad? Methuen, 1991/Mandarin, 1992, paperback). Poem.
Horowitz, Anthony - Foyle's War (various titles). Fiction.
Marshall, Rebecca E - Ways To Disappear (Etruscan Books, 2009, paperback). Poetry. One of the pieces, 'Mortar', also appears on an accompanying DVD as an abstract, audio-visual "Film Poem", partially shot in the Old Town.
Milligan, Spike - The Goon Show Scripts (The Woburn Press 1972; Sphere Books, 1973, paperback). Radio scripts. Includes 'The Dreaded Batter Pudding Hurler (of Bexhill-on-Sea)', 'The Hastings Flyer', and others. Illustrated.
Sharpe, Graham - The Man Who Was Screaming Lord Sutch (Aurum Press, 2005, hardback). Biography. Chapter 14 'Battle Of Hastings' recounts Sutch's Hastings period during the 90s.
Sinclair, Iain - Dining On Stones (Hamish Hamilton, 2004, hardback; Penguin Books, 2005, paperback). Fiction.
Sinclair, Iain - Buried At Sea (Worple Press, 2006, paperback). Poetry, with prose & photographs. (nb: Worple Press also published The Verbals, 2003, paperback - a collection of interviews with Sinclair by Kevin Jackson, inc. some Hastings discussion. Most of Sinclair's post-2000 books contain some Hastings references.)
Spleen, O./Speer, Oliver - Depravikazi (Running Water Publications, 2003, paperback). Fiction/autobiography. Introduction by Salena Saliva Godden. Cover photos by Camilla Stapleton-Hibbert & Hannah Neech.
Tookey, Oliver - Hastings Beautiful Town (Breedon Books, 2009, hardback). Photography.
Tressell, Robert - The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists (various editions). Fiction.
anonymous - Foyle's Hastings (Hastings Borough Council, 2006, paperback). Location guide. Illustrated.
[See also non-fiction document below]
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Post by stuhuggett on Mar 12, 2009 11:23:08 GMT 1
Thanks to Carolyn's Dad for sending over his exhaustive non-fiction reference list, I'll just post it straight up here rather than try re-typing any of it:
The Antiquities of Hastings and the battlefield. By Thomas Holwell Cole. New edition. Hastings and St Leonards Philosophical Society, 1884.
A Brief history of Hastings. By John F C Powys. East Sussex County Library, 1981. 0 86147 028 1.
Fishermen of Hastings: 200 years of the Hastings fishing community. By Steve Peak. NewsBooks, 1985. 0 9510706 0 6.
George Woods: photographs from the 1890s. By Irene Rhoden and Steve Peak. Midnight Press, 1987. 1 85360 000 8
Hastings past. By Rex Marchant. Phillimore, 1997. 1 86077 046 0.
Hastings revisited. By Susan E King. (Images of England.) Tempus Publishing, 2005. 0 7524 3543 4
Hastings. By L F Salzman. (The Story of the English Towns.) SPCK, 1921.
Hastings. Compiled by Tony Wales. (The Archive Photographs Series.) Chalford Publishing Company, 1998. 0 7524 1109 8
Hastings: a history and celebration. By Rex Marchant. Printed by The Francis Frith Collection for Ottakar’s, 2004. 1 90493 831 0.
Hastings: a living history. By David William Thornton. The Hastings Publishing Company, 1987. 0 9512201 0 1
Hastings: a pictorial history. By D Robert Elleray. Phillimore, 1979. 0 85033 324 5.
Hastings: a survey of times past and present. By members of the Hastings Natural History Society and others. Edited by Anthony Belt. Kenneth Saville, 1937.
Hastings: of bygone days, and the present. By Henry Cousins. F J Parsons, 1911 [actually 1912].
Historic Hastings. By John Manwaring Baines. 3rd edition. Cinque Port Press, 1986. 0 948869 00 3
The History and antiquities of the town and port of Hastings. By W G Moss. W G Moss, 1824.
A History of Hastings. By R A Smyth. William Parker School, 1988.
How the railways came to Hastings. Hastings Area Local Studies Project. Centre for Continuing Education, 1984. 0 904242 25 0.
Hastings then and now. By Ken Brooks. 2nd edition. S.B. Publications, 2004. 0 9540513 1 9.
Around Hastings then and now. By Ken Brooks. Ken Brooks, 2004. 0 9540513 2 7.
Hastings in old photographs. By Pamela Haines. Alan Sutton, 1989. 0 86299 621 X.
Hastings in old photographs: a second selection. By Pamela Haines. Alan Sutton, 1991. 0 86299 863 8.
Hastings in old picture postcards. By Anne Scott. European Library, 1993. 90 288 5582 3.
Hastings and St Leonards-on-Sea. By Gavin Haines. (Britain in Old Photographs.) Sutton Publishing, 1997.0 7509 1355 X.
Hastings and Bexhill. By John Bainbridge. (Francis Frith’s Photographic Memories.) Frith Book Company, 2000. 1 85937 131 0.
A Walk round Burton’s St Leonards. By Michael Barnard. East Sussex County Council, 1977.
Hastings: a backward glance. By Robert Weatherburn. Siren Books, 1992.
Titus Oates lived here, and tales of old Hastings. By A Donovan Young. Bookscoops, 1958.
Hastings bygones. Volume 1. Hastings Local History Group, 1998.
Hastings bygones. Volume 2: millennium edition. Hastings Local History Group, 1999.
Hastings bygones. Volume 3. Hastings Local History Group, 2000.
Hastings bygones. Volume 4: millennium edition. Hastings Local History Group, 2001.
Hastings bygones. Volume 5. Hastings Local History Group, 2003.
Hastings childhoods. Hastings Modern History Workshop. Centre for Continuing Education, 1987. 0 904242 32 3.
The Millennium in miniature: stories of the Old Town, Hastings. Hastings Old Town Millennium Group, 1999. 0 9536962 00.
Hastings voices. 2nd edition. Hastings Local History Group, 2002. 0 9529766 4 1.
Those were the days: the residents of Old Hastings House. Hastings Local History Group and ‘Old Hastings House’, 2003. 0 9529766 5 X.
The Albert Memorial: an illustrated history. 2nd edition. Hastings Local History Group, 2004. 0 95297 666 8.
History of Hastings Castle. By Charles Dawson. 2 volumes. Constable, 1909.
Researcher’s companion to Charles Dawson’s History of Hastings Castle, 1909, in two volumes. By Rod Lavers and John Clements. [HAARG?], 1996.
Bulverhythe: unpublished notes by Revd Marriott from his brown foolscap notebook of lecture notes on Bulverhythe 1950s. Transcribed by John Clements and Rod Lavers. [HAARG?], 1995.
Whatever happened to the Oojah Kappivvy: a stroll down memory lane in the Old Town, Hastings. By Harry Veness. Harry Veness, [1986].
Hastings in 1605. By John Manwaring Baines. Hastings Museum, 1971.
Hastings and St Leonards in the front line. 2nd edition. Hastings and St Leonards Observer 1985. [Originally published: 1945.]
Court in the act: crime and policing in WWII Hastings. By Victoria Seymour. Victoria Seymour, 2004. 0 9543901 2 1.
Letters to Hannah: WWII recollections of Hastings and South East England. By Victoria Seymour. Victoria Seymour, 2003. 0 9543901 1 3.
Hastings in peace and war, 1930-1945. By Mary Haskell Porter. Ferndale Press, 2002. 1 870096 06 1.
Hastings at war 1939-1945. By Nathan Dylan Goodwin. Phillimore, 2005. 1 86077 328 1.
The Memorial: in memoriam, 1862-1973. Hastings Area Local Studies Project, 1983.
Central Hastings: the early years. Hastings Modern History Workshop, 1984.
The America Ground. By Barry Funnell. 2nd edition. HAARG, 1999.
Monumental inscriptions, Wallinger’s Walk, Hastings: the cemetery of St Mary-in-the-Castle 1828-1900. By James C Rose. Hastings Trust, 2002. 0 9514094 6 8.
The Story of Hastings Castle. By W H Dyer. Hastings Tourism and Recreation Department, [1979?].
Hastings Country Park history and archaeology. By Anne Scott. HAARG, 1992.
The Archaeology and history of Hastings Country Park. By David Padgham. HAARG, 2004.
Tales from around the Wishing Tree: memories from Hollington, Four Courts, Robsack and Tilekiln. Edited by Eileen Parish and others. Centre for Continuing Education, 2000.
Hollington, the village: past and present. Revised edition. Hastings Local History Group, 2003.
Make a model of the famous Hastings fishermen’s net shops and learn about their unique history. Hastings Trust, 1991. 0 9514094 41.
Old Town Hastings: a pictorial guide. By James Meredith. Meredith Press, 1986. 0 9511486 0 5.
The Old Town, Hastings: a report on its conservation and development. By Lord Holford and R A Haskell. William Holford and Partners, 1966.
The Story of Hastings Pier. By Gaby Koppel and Mike Baron. Hastings Pier Company, 1982. [15 pages]
Priory Meadow and the town centre. Hastings Modern History Workshop, 1997. 0 9529766 1 7.
Burton’s St Leonards. By John Manwaring Baines. 2nd edition. Hastings Museum, 1990.
Burton’s St Leonards: the contribution of Decimus Burton. By Barry Funnell. Burtons’ St Leonards Society, 1982. [16 pages]
West St Leonards: a walk back in time. West Marina Society History Group, [1994?]. [24 pages]
Hastings Tramways. By Robert J Harley. Middleton Press, 1993. 1 873793 18 9.
The Hastings Tramways Company 1899-1959: an illustrated social history. By Cliff Mewett. Cliff Mewett Publications, 1999. 0 9534778 1 9.
Hastings trolleybuses. By Lyndon W Rowe. (Trolleybus Classics; No 3.) Middleton Press, 1996. 1 873793 81 2.
The Wreck of the Amsterdam. By Peter Marsden. Hutchinson, 1974. 0 09 119850 X.
The Wreck of the Amsterdam. By Peter Marsden. 2nd edition. Hutchinson, 1985. 0 09 160811 2.
The Story of the Hastings lifeboats. By Jeff Morris. Jeff Morris, 2000.
A Geological sketch of the vicinity of Hastings. By William Henry Fitton. Longman, 1833.
Geology and fossils of the Hastings area. By Ken Brooks. Ken Brooks, 2001. 0 9540513 0 0.
Geology of the Central Weald: the Hastings Beds. By P Allen. (Geologists’ Association Guides; No 24.) Geologists’ Association, 1960.
The Geology of the Eastbourne-Hastings coastline. By H B Milner and A J Bull. Geologists’ Association, 1925.
Geology of the country around Hastings and Dungeness: memoir for 1:50 000 geological sheets 320 and 321 (England and Wales). By R D Lake and E R Shephard-Thorn. (British Geological Survey. Natural Environment Research Council, 1987. 0 11 884411 3.
Bristow and the Hastings Rarities affair. By James M Harrison. A H Butler Ltd, 1968. 0 950010006.
The Medical History of Hastings. By C Allan Birch. 1980. [Typescript.]
Women of Victorian Hastings, 1830-1870: their lives and occupations. By Helena Wojtczak. Hastings Press, 2002. 1 904109 02 0.
Hastings considered as a resort for invalids. By James Mackness. 2nd edition. John Churchill, 1850.
On the curative influence of the southern coast of England, especially that of Hastings. By William Harwood. Henry Colburn, 1828.
The Highlands of Hastings and St Leonards as a health resort, with notes on the chalybeate water of St Andrew’s Spa. By Francis H Parsons. 1877.
The Fishing boats of Hastings. By James Hornell. (Reprinted from the Sussex County Magazine, Vol XI, November and December, 1937.) [12 pages]
The Fishing luggers of Hastings. By James Hornell. (Reprinted from The Mariner’s Mirror, Vol XXIV, No 3, July 1938.) Society for Nautical Research, 1974.
The Mariner’s Mirror. Vol 58, No 1, February 1972. [Includes article: The Wreck of the Dutch East Indiaman ‘Amsterdam’. By Peter Marsden. Pages 5-26.]
St Helen’s Hospital, Hastings (1837-1994): paupers to pacemakers. Rosewell Publishing, 2000.
The Buchanan Hospital, St Leonards-on-Sea. [1936?] [40 pages]
An Account of the Hastings, St Leonards and East Sussex Hospital, and its work. By W H M [W H Mullens]. 1910. [15 pages]
A History of the ‘Church-in-the-Wood’, Hollington, Sussex. By F W B Bullock. Budd and Gillatt, 1949.
A History of ‘The Church-in-the-Wood’ in the parish of St Leonard, Hollington. By Paul Matthews. 2001.
The Story of the parish church, St Leonards-on-Sea: centenary 1834-1934. By Cuthbert C Griffiths. 1934
The Story of Christ Church, St Leonards-on-Sea. By Henrietta Catherine Nicoll; edited by A Clifton Kelway. C Whittaker, Royal Victoria Library, 1909.
Christ Church, St Leonards-on-Sea: 1859-1975. Compiled by Barry Funnell. Budd and Gillatt, [1975].
A History of the parish church of St Helen, Ore, Sussex. By F W B Bullock. Budd and Gillatt, 1951.
Christ Church, St Leonards-on-Sea, 1859-1935. Compiled by Ruth Kenyon. Budd and Gillatt, 1935.
The Parish Church of St Leonard, 1831-1931. Printed by A H Butler Ltd. [Centenary Calendar.]
Christ Church, Blacklands, 1881-1981: the centenary history of a later Victorian church. By Richard Ralph. [R Ralph], 1981.
History of the church and parish of Christ Church, Blacklands, 1878-1928. [By James Morgan.] [24 pages]
A Church on No Man’s Land: being the romance of Holy Trinity, Hastings. By E W Leachman. King Bros and Potts, 1934.
An independent chapel: the story of St Lukes in Silverhill 1853-2003. By Alan G Buckle. 2003.
The Story of Robertson Street Congregational Church, Hastings, 1858-1958. By Charles A Haig. [1958]
Robertson Street Congregational Church, Hastings: Jubilee Year, 1906. [By Charles New?]
Church manual of Robertson Street Chapel. A manual for the use of the Church and Congregation assembling at Robertson Street Chapel, Hastings. 1868. With which is bound: Year Book for 1875; Year Book for 1876; Year Book for 1877; Year Book for 1878.
St Leonards Baptist Church 1880-1980. Compiled by Kenneth N Kirby. 1980.
A History of Hollington Methodist Church, 1887-1987.
[The Cresy Report.] Report to the General Board of Health on a preliminary inquiry into the sewerage, drainage, and supply of water, and the sanitary condition of the inhabitants of the town and port of Hastings, in the county of Sussex. By Edward Cresy. 1850. [Bound with spine title: Inquiry into sewerage etc of Hastings.]
Dramatic story of the Stables Theatre, Hastings. By Tom Sobey. The Stables Trust Ltd, [1978].
That’s all folks! the cinemas of Hastings and St Leonards. By Nick Prince. Mercia Cinema Society, 1996. 0 946406 40 5
Life’s rich tapestry: profiles of Hastings residents. Stirling Press, 1998. 1 902211 00 6.
Notables and innkeepers etc of Hastings. Compiled by George Plaine. Hastings and Rother Family History Society, 1989.
Heroes, villains and others from Hastings. By Mary Haskell Porter. Ferndale Press, 1999. 1 870096 03 7.
More heroes, villains and others from Hastings. By Mary Haskell Porter. Ferndale Press, 2000. 1 870096 04 5.
Notable women of Victorian Hastings: a collection of mini-biographies. By Helena Wojtczak. The Hastings Press, [2002].
The History of Hastings Grammar School, 1619-1966. By John Manwaring Baines, J R Conisbee and N Bygate. Revised edition. Governors of the Hastings Grammar School Foundation, 1967.
A Walk through Ore Valley. Compiled by the Ore Valley History Group. 2005. [32 pages]
Cricket at Hastings: the story of a ground. By Gerald Brodribb. Spellmount, 1989.
Hastings and men of letters. By Gerald Brodribb. Revised edition. Old Hastings Preservation Society, 1971.
The Tanfrocks: a record of the Rock-a-Nore Football Club, Old Town, Hastings, Sussex: 1894-1954. Compiled by Harry Veness. 1979. [Reproduced typescript.]
Some past greats of local soccer: Hastings football in its palmy days: from my scrapbook and my memories. Compiled by Harry Veness. [1983?] [Reproduced typescript.]
The Story of Silverhill and St Luke’s: our heritage. By Elizabeth Montgomery. Aldria Printers, [1978].
West St Leonards: a walk back in time. (West Marina Society History Group.) 1994.
The Oldest house in High Street, Hastings: 103 (circa 1450). By Marrion Wells. Arion Presentations, 2000.
The History of the Hertfordshire Sea-side Convalescent Home at St Leonards-on-Sea. By Gordon M Frizelle. [1964].
Queens Road, Hastings in 1929, as recalled, in 1991, by G D Coleman, in collaboration with Mrs V V Coleman. G D Coleman, 1991.
St Andrews Square area study: a feasibility study commissioned by the St Andrews Residents Association from Adams Johns Kennard, architects and surveyors, for environmental improvements to the St Andrews Square area. St Andrews Residents Association; Neighbourhood Revitalisation Services; Adams Johns Kennard, 1989.
Waldegrave Testimonial Drinking Fountain: list of subscribers, with copies of inscriptions and names of the Committee, etc, 1862.
A History and description of the Bohemia Estate. By J F Wilbraham and C K Wiper. Hastings Grammar School Historical Society, 1971.
The Roman bath house at Beauport Park. By Gerald Brodribb. Friends of Roman East Sussex, 1995. [24 pages]
Hastings in Saxon and Norman times. By W H Dyer. [1968.]
Hastings Elizabethan Charter. By John Manwaring Baines. Hastings Museum, 1962.
“England expected …”: being a brief record of the 23rd Sussex (Hastings) Battalion, Home Guard, 1940 to 1945. By R A H Weight. [Printed by F J Parsons Ltd.] [20 pages]
Hastings: an illustrated miscellany. Produced by The Francis Frith Collection for Ottakar’s, 2004.
So you think you know? Hastings. Produced by The Francis Frith Collection for Ottakar’s, 2004.
The Hastings papers: a history of the Hastings and St Leonards newspapers, by Steve Peak. SpeaksBooks, 2007.
Hastings Jack in the Green, by Keith Leech. 1989.
The Hastings traditional Jack in the Green, by Keith Leech. Hastings Borough Council, 2008. 0 901536 10 5
Turner to Burra: painters of Hastings 1780-1950. Hastings Museum and Art Gallery, 1991. 0 9518262 0 4
Bygone weather in Hastings, and Victorian weather instruments,by Alan Buckle & Hastings Local History Group. 2005. 0 95297 667 6
150 years of the Fishermen’s Church (1854-2004), by Dennis Collins. Old Hastings Preservation Society, 2004.
Ring 50, 1940-1990: fifty years of boxing in Hastings. By Dave Harris. 1990.
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Hollington chronology. Compiled by C Stonestreet. 1993. [Photocopied typescript. Mostly a selection of entries relevant to Hollington taken from Hastings Library’s Chronology of Hastings and St Leonards.]
Sussex, Hastings and the Irish. By Sean Byrne. 1985. [photocopy of a typescript, unpublished]
Hastings Country Park [information booklet]. Urban Design and Research Group, Hastings Borough Council, 1972. [Duplicated typescript on 14 foolscap single-sided pages.]
Halton: landscape and community, continuity and change. By Caroline Thomas. 1997. [Research project; looseleaf in a binder.]
The Work of James and Decimus Burton at St Leonards. By Nigel Mark Wade. 1988. [Dissertation for the University of Reading. Photocopies, looseleaf in binder.]
St Michael’s Place, Hastings: information pertaining to St Michaels Place Hastings, from street directory information (1871-1974) electors rolls (1975-1992) and Historic Hastings by John Manwaring Baines. [1992?] [Single-sided photocopies of typescript; in strip binder.]
Willie Wobbler’s Walk. By Harry Veness. [1980s?] [Single-sided photocopies of typescript; in spring-back binder.]
South-east coast town, 1938-1943. By John W Sims. [Single-sided photocopies of typescript.]
The Toss of a coin, parts one and two: childhood memories of 1909 to 1927. By Eileen Roberts. [Acquired by Hastings Library in 1987.] [Photocopies of typescript.]
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Post by stuhuggett on Mar 12, 2009 15:25:03 GMT 1
Actually there was a guy who was writing a biog of Martyn who was in the Hastings Observer quite some time back asking for people with stories to get in touch - I don't know if this has come out yet, and I don't know if I've still got the clipping with the writer's name.
I'd imagine that there could well be a few Martyn biogs published later in the year to commemorate/cash-in on his life: his death made a larger splash than was expected, as far as public response goes. Maximise the Nick Drake connections and any publisher could be quids in.
But you're right, it'd make a good piece of fiction - not for me to attempt though.
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Post by stuhuggett on Jun 8, 2009 14:03:07 GMT 1
Etruscan sent a second parcel of books to me today, after their first lot got mis-directed to Hastings, so I've added Rebecca's one in to the list above. Also, I only just realised when I was writing it up for the East Soapbox that the Keira Knightley film being shot in Bexhill recently is an adaptation of the Kazuo Ishiguro novel Never Let Me Go (Faber & Faber, 2005), set, presumably co-incidentally, in a school called "Hailsham House". |
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Post by stuhuggett on Oct 4, 2009 11:40:18 GMT 1
Not actually a book, but Salena Godden's given me a bundle of copies of The Book Club Boutique newspaper to distribute - A large, quality newspaper format thingy. Dickon Edwards (Fosca/Orlando/Shelley) contributes.
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