![]() ![]() This gave Hastings Council new powers, which made redundant the Hastings Commission, which had been implementing the 1832 Hastings Improvement Act. Hastings Council set up a board of health to implement the recommendations of the act. In 1849 sixty five people in the town had died of cholera, which was generated by dirt, bad drainage and overcrowding in sleeping compartments. #Tom and jerry in war of the whiskers cabin series#Sewage was discharged into the sea via a series of short outfalls all along the seafront. Many people were living in utter squalor in All Saints parish, with large families crowded into decrepit tenements, with no drainage or water supply. In February 1850 an 11-day official public inquiry under the power of the 1848 Act found that 795 of the 2,209 houses in Hastings were in ‘the worst condition as to private drainage’ and that a good sewage system was urgently needed. Historian Thomas B Brett reported seeing an eagle in the Hastings area in 1844.ġ850 Feb – Following a serious cholera outbreak in Britain, the 1848 Public Health Act gave local authorities new powers to deal with public health issues. It had a wingspan of 6½ feet, was three feet long and weighed 8½ pounds. The Bopeep-Ashford line officially opened on 13 February 1851 (cf).ġ850 Jan 3 – An eagle was shot under the cliffs near Pett Level. ![]() All this work was more-or-less finished by December 1850. On the western part of the line, work had started in February 1849, digging two tunnels through St Leonards to Hastings Station, while in the east a huge embankment was laid across the Priory Valley and two tunnels were dug, under Mount Pleasant Road to the Ore valley, and then under the Ridge. 1850 – Throughout this year extensive work was carried out on building the Bopeep-Hastings-Ashford railway line. ![]()
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