Rootschat Meet No 4 in Historical Hastings.

[sarah]

Travelling can be a nightmare....Trystan and I are planning to travel down a few days before hand but if it helps we can always swap mobiles numbers before hand so we can all keep intouch with the group incase any of us are running late.

If anyone needs accomodation please shout as we will be staying for the Saturday evening.

Sarah

[acorngen]

Skb,
I must admit that when I tried to put in an itinerary request for the train from Cambridge to Battle, it gave me one where I had to change 4 times, including at Robertsbridge (which is a place I really enjoyed visiting re my SHERWOOD ancestry 3 years or so ago - had a pint in the George Inn or Hotel, that Hilaire Belloc made famous), so I think this journey might be a bit of an adventure, even if I do miss the vital moments in the Battle of Hastings mid-morning...
keith

Keith,

Was in robertsbridge last weekend and the George Hotel is for sale.  I can't see it being a pub much longer myself.  As for Hillaire Belloc making it famous there is indeed contention that this is the original george that he stayed at.  Won't bore you with the details but I have seen documents that suggest the George was elsewhere.

For those travelling and who get to Robertsbridge and find a bus in place take heart its only 10 minutes max to Battle from Robertsbridge..  Will be there tomorrow night as well

Rob

[Keith Sherwood]

Rob,
All very interesting - when I visited the George not long ago it was in a sorry state then, had in fact just been taken over by a new landlord with plans.  It obviously didn't work out for him...
In his book, "The Four Men", the start of his first chapter, entitled: "The Twenty-Ninth of October 1902" Hilaire Belloc begins:
Nine years ago, as I was sitting in the "George" at Robertsbridge, drinking that port of theirs and staring at the fire..."
That's all I was going on, it's a small work of fiction, but is about a journey made by four individuals across Sussex.
Do hope there'll be more than just four of us meeting up on 30th Sept. 2006 just down the road from Robertsbridge at Battle!
keith 

[sillgen]

Really sorry that I can't make it on that day.   Hope you all have a super time.
Andrea

[acorngen]

Went past the George tonight and it as scaffolding around it and the garden is now closed off and looks like a building site so I wonder if a developer as got his hand on it.  Shame really and yes I have seen that piece on the George Wall as well   Miss the old village.

Rob

[kerryb]

Rob

I drive through Robertsbridge village 6 times a week on my way to and from work.  Lovely village and a brilliant butcher's shop!

Kerry

[Keith Sherwood]

...And I seem to remember almost falling down a small but unexpected flight of steps into quite a good second-hand book-shop in Robertsbridge.  I wonder if that is still there...
Also came across an advertisement in a local publication for someone who had the same forename and surname as me - contacted him, but discovered our ancestry didn't quite match up.
keith
p.s. But I'm only going to get a few minutes to gaze from the Railway Station up towards the village before I jump on that bus connection to Battle on the 30th...

[Mobo]

 

Wish I was coming - Boo-hoo 
Love the area, had many lovely holidays down there - Chichester, Battle, Rye, Bosham, Birdham, Selsea, Arundel etc. etc.

Hope you all have a really great time, and that the weather stays fine.

 

[kerryb]

I jsut realised I've made a boo boo

I've booked a weeks holiday on the Isle of Wight for the first week of October, however the first week of October starts on Saturday 30 September.

I'm really really sorry and very disappointed  but I won't be able to come to Hastings.   

Kerry