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'Hastings and St Leonards, the charming marine resort of fashionable English society, possess attractions and recommendations that render the borough unique and unrivalled among English watering places. Strangers who have not visited the place are liable to be misled by the separate mention of the two names into the idea that St Leonards and Hastings form two separate and independent towns, which in fact they originally were. That stage, however, has long since been passed - ' The above extract was taken from the 1897 edition of Views and Reviews - Hastings and exemplifies how the town was regarded as a stylish seaside resort by Victorian and Edwardian society. The town eventually lost favour among the wealthier classes, which set in motion a steady decline, only worsened by the onset of the Second World War. But Hastings today is undergoing a process of change and revival; a number of developments have been taking place which are moving the town towards a position in which it is once again 'unique and unrivalled among English watering places'.

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Hastings was often bombed during the Second World War. John Bristow, describing a raid on 23 May 1943 says 'There was a god-almighty explosion and we went into the passage by The Havelock pub and we dived onto the ground and lay there looking out before a bomb hit what was the old Royal Oak Hotel. Along by Woolworth's there was a car going by and it was set up into the air by the bomb and over and over. While we lay there, there was another terrific explosion down the side of Plummer's and I'll never forget seeing a huge lump of yellow coloured masonry coming over an land on the tram wires...' This experience is one of more than forty people's memories, cleverly incorporated by the author into his vivid account of what Hastings endured when it was a 'front-line' town - and of its great defiance and fortitude in the face of the enemy. He tells how Hastings folk coped with the daily wartime hardships of blackout, rationing, the billeting of evacuees, the evacuation of the town, constant fear of invasion, and the relentless bombing raids, day and night, leaving in their wake a trail of death, destruction and the apprehension of where and when the next attack would come.

Hastings: Wartime Memories and Photographs weaves the personal stories of 75 people who endured life in Hastings during the Home Front war years with more than 140 photographs, the majority of which have never been published before. It describes the dramatic and turbulent way in which a peaceful seaside resort quickly became a town in grave danger of enemy attack, whose residents had to adapt very rapidly in order to cope with the numerous problems that now faced them. The book delves into the lives of ordinary men, women and children, as well as the soldiers and evacuees who made Hastings their home at the time and so lived with the constant fear of invasion, and provides a detailed and colourful account of life on the front line. The personal stories and photographs are complemented by documentary evidence from various sources, including local newspapers, local and national government records and two very informative private diaries that were meticulously kept in Hastings during the Second World War by John Turner and Charles Chalk. The focus of this book is once again Hastings and St Leonards, but inevitably the surrounding towns and villages are also included.

Peter Coldrick hatte keine Vergangenheit; zu dem Schluss kam man nach Jahren pers nlicher und professioneller Nachforschungen. Dann beauftragte er den forensischen Genealogen Morton Farrier mit der Suche - einen hartn ckigen, entschlossenen Mann, der vor keinem Mittel zur ckschreckt, der Vergangenheit auf die Spur zu kommen. Mit dem Fall Coldrick steht Morton vor seiner bislang schwierigsten und gef hrlichsten Aufgabe, die seine gesamten investigativen und genealogischen F higkeiten auf die Probe stellt. Indessen gibt es auch andere, die Interesse an der Coldrick Familie zeigen, Leute, die vor nichts Halt machen, die Vergangenheit zu verbergen - nicht einmal vor Mord. Als Morton beginnt, die mysteri se Vergangenheit seines Klienten zu enth llen, wird er auch gezwungen, die dunkle Geschichte seiner eigenen Familie zu konfrontieren, eine Geschichte, ber die er wenig wei .

Morton Farrier was no longer at the top of his game. His forensic genealogy career was faltering and he was refusing to accept any new cases, preferring instead to concentrate on locating his own elusive biological father. Yet, when a particular case presents itself, that of finding the family of a woman abandoned in the midst of the Battle of Britain, Morton is compelled to help her to unravel her past. Using all of his genealogical skills, he soon discovers that the case is connected to The Spyglass File-a secretive document which throws up links which threaten to disturb the wrongdoings of others, who would rather its contents, as well as their actions, remain hidden forever. This is the fifth book in the Morton Farrier genealogical crime mystery series, although it can be enjoyed as a stand-alone story.

Sussex, 1919. The Great War is over, but for Harriet Agnes McDougall its effects endure with a lingering uncertainty of exactly what became of her middle son, Malcolm in the trenches around Ypres. With peace now prevailing across Europe, Harriet decides to embark on a quest to discover precisely what happened to her son. As she works to uncover the facts of his death she encounters a range of dispossessed and affected young men who have returned from war to find that they no longer have a place in a changing world, something which Harriet McDougall is determined to do something about.For updates on Nathan Dylan Goodwin's releases: Website & newsletter: www.nathandylangoodwin.comTwitter: @NathanDGoodwinFacebook: www.facebook.com/nathandylangoodwin Pinterest: www.pinterest.com/dylan0470/ Blog: theforensicgenealogist.blogspot.co.u