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Database of extant memorials in A - G, based on the work done by R A Longley

Database A - G

"the grave's a fine and private place…" exploring Hastings Cemetery

Why not rest, relax and reflect awhile, sitting on the OHPS / FoHC seat, located on EL, and take in the magnificent view.

New Stories

• The Story of the Stone of Sacrifice, The Cross of Remebrance and the Screen Wall

•   Cemetery History 1916 from the Hastings & St Leonards Observer (“How we bury our heroes”)

• The Mystery of Plot JB I Burials

• The Names on the Screen Wall

• Brown, Private Hugh H W - Born in St Leonards, enlisted in Canada. WW1 1918

• Proudfoot, James - Canadian, died 1939, last person buried in Heroes’ Corner before the Second World War?

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Recent Stories-

• Boucher, Thomas - “a many sided local celebrity” greengrocer, theatrical agent, actor, fireman,swimmer, stuntman………

• Broughton, Joshua & Harriet Mary Ann - retired to Hastings, where their daughter Alice married Henry Blackman, of Upfield & Sons

• Graves Family - moved from Kent to become a ‘local’ family

• Graves, Charles Atkins - landscape artist & drawing master

• M’Clelland, John and Sophia Swaine - a very busy man, spent most of his life in India. He was a surgeon with wide ranging interests, including metallurgy,  geology and biology.  Sophia was his widower, and although remarried, was buried with him

• Trimming Family - two generations, with connections to Ebenezer Chapel, in two graves. Son John built in Clive Vale and later emigrated to Canada with some of his family

Updated Stories

• Devey, George - Architect & unacknowledged Father of the Arts & Crafts Movement buried at Ore, “…..overlooking his favourite Hastings”.  Owned East Cliff House for a short time before his death.

• Furniss, Harry - cartoonist, illustrator, traveller, writer, lecturer and pioneer animator. Active locally

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email Anne Scott