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Note
Unfortunately the copies of the Brighton Gazette for 1894, 1896, 1897 and the first half of 1899 are not available. This information is being gathered from other sources.
January 1 A new year’s dinner for 2,000 poor children is held at the Dome.
January 4 Closure of the Brighton and Hove International Exhibition.
January 7 Amateur theatricals at the Brighton Workhouse.
January 15 The Bachelors’ Ball at the Pavilion.
January 16 Sussex beats Kent in a football match in Preston Park.
January 23 Electric lighting is adopted (see 1891 September 14).
January 21 Death of Dr N M Adler, the Chief Rabbi.
January 22 The Brighton Railway Company declares dividends of 7⅛ on undivided ordinary stock and 8⅛ on preference shares.
January 23 Brighton Town Council adopts electric light for a part of the western centre of the town and resolves to borrow £20,000 towards the cost.
January 26 Wildman Whitehouse dies in Hove.
February 6 A ratepayers’ meeting at the Town Hall protests about the town council’s scheme for local electric lighting.
February 8 Death of Mr Edward Booth, the famous bird collector.
February 28 A local Government Board inquiry is held into the scheme for improving the ‘condemned area’ in Brighton.
March 3 Brighton town council decides to pay £7,000 to Vallance, Catt & Co for a block of property between Bread Street and Spring Gardens for a site for the corporation electric lighting works.
March 7 Brighton West Pier changes hands for £49,000.
March 19 Financial difficulties are discovered at the annual meeting of the Brighton School of Art.
April 3 Directors of the West Pier Company declare a half-yearly divided of three per cent.
April 16 A presentation is made to Dr Moon for his fifty years’ work among the blind.
April 24 The Brighton & South Coast Aerated Bread Company declares a dividend of five per cent.
April 29 A Local Government Board inquiry is held into the application by Brighton Corporation to borrow £87,000 for establishing electric lighting works.
May 15 The corner stone of the St Nicholas parish rooms is laid by the Bishop of Chichester.
May 23 A Brighton centre for ambulance work is established.
May 24 Madeira Terrace, the Madeira Lift and Shelter Hall are opened.
May 29 A noisy meeting at the Dome protests against the government’s housing proposals.
June 5 The area including Derby Place, Thomas Street, Chesterfield Street and Court and Cumberland Place is condemned as insanitary. Mr Ingram, a councillor for Park Ward, resigns his seat.
June 14 The prospectus for the Brighton Marine Palace and Pier Company is published.
June 25 A cyclist riding from London to Brighton and back beats Selby’s coach record by 19 minutes.
June 27 A child is knocked down and killed by a Brighton water cart.
July 3 Pay of the Brighton police force is increased.
July 3 The annual meeting of Tamplin’s Brewery Company declares a dividend of 10 per cent.
July 4 Royal Assent for the Brighton West Pier Act authorises the creation of a company to acquire the West Pier Company.
July 4 A meeting in support of uniform early closing is held at the Town Hall.
July 10 Brighton town council accepts seven sets of tenders for the electric lighting scheme.
July 10 Hove Commissioners decide to purchase the Vallance Lawns for £4,000.
July 17 The Race Trustees present Queen’s Park to the town.
July 26 The Hotel Metropole opens.
July 28 The Gaiety Theatre opens.
July 31 Brighton town council decides to give £7.000 to the Guardians to vacate their offices in Church Street.
August 4 Herbert Beerbohm Tree and the Haymarket company appear at the Brighton theatre.
August 19 Mr C W Catt presents the town with a drinking fountain erected at the bottom of West Street.
August 25 The Sanitary Institute’s Congress is held at the Royal Pavilion.
October 2 The Booth Museum is presented to the town.
October 6 Lily Langtry appears at the Brighton theatre.
October 9 Brighton town council agrees to clear the condemned area off Edward Street (see June 5).
November 3 The Booth Museum is formally transferred to the town.
November 4 The foundation stone is laid for the Brighton Electric Light Station.
November 7 The Pocock collection is presented to the town.
November 28 General Booth speaks at Brighton on behalf of his scheme for the relief of ‘Darkest England’.
November 29 The Brighton Alhambra Company declares a dividend of six per cent.
December 2 Alderman Hallett is re-elected chairman of the Brighton Sewers Board for the 21st time.
December 16 Sir Charles Hallé and Mme Norman Neruda visit Brighton.
December 16 The last meeting of the original West Pier Company.
December 23 The new railway bridge at Hove is opened.
January 7 Brighton fishermen protest at the Town Hall against the increase in dues payable for fish imported to France.
January 8 The Hove Commissioners decide to erect public baths in Livingston Road.
January 15 Brighton Council adopts the Notification of Diseases Act.
January 16 Free tea for 700 poor children at Brighton Town Hall.
February 9 The mayor opens the new St Nicholas Sunday school.
March 10 Royal visit to Brighton: Duke of Connaught is installed Provincial Grand Master of the new Brighton lodge of Mark Master Masons.
April 1 A town poll in Hove is in favour of establishing a free library.
April 16 G E Woodruff is elected chairman of Hove Commissioners.
May 1 Archdeacon Hannah memorial bust is unveiled and presented to the Council at the Pavilion.
May 2 Hove Recreation Ground opens.
May 2 H M Stanley lectures at The Dome.
May 21 Local Government Board inquiry into Brighton Corporation’s application to borrow £5,000 for improvements to the seafront.
June 19 Birth of a sealion at the Aquarium.
June 26 French firemen visit Brighton.
July 9 Hove Commissioners approve premises in Grand Avenue foir the free library.
August 3 The Gaiety re-opens.
August 17 First performance of the Old Steine Band.
September 14 Inaugural ceremony for Brighton Corporation Electric Lighting, opened by the mayoress.
September 19 First edition of Brighton and Hove Entertainment Chronicle.
September 29 Local Government Board inquiry into Brighton Corporation’s application to borrow £8,500 for laying out Queen’s Park.
October 6 Death of Charles Parnell in Hove.
October 10 Removal of Charles Parnell’s body from Brighton for burial next day in Dublin.
October 12 Buffalo Bill appears in Brighton.
October 13 Great storm at Brighton.
October 19 Ginnett’s New Hippodrome and Circus opens in North Road.
October 27 The Guardians resolve to hold elections every three years rather than annually.
October 29 Brightoin Council approves the abattoir plans.
November 7 First pile is driven for the Marine Palace and Pier is fixed by the mayoress, Mrs Soper.
November 11 Another great gale: shipwrecks and loss of life at Brighton, including the wreck of the John and Robert at Aldrington.
November 14 Death of Edward Sattin, master of the workhouse.
December 5 The mayor opens a new working men’s club in Richmond Street.
December 18 Herbert Green is sentenced to 15 years’ penal servitude for the manslaughter of his child at Brighton by administering chloroform.
December 19 George Henry Wood is convicted for the wilful murder of a child at Brighton.
December 21 Distribution of the Brighton poor box.
December 30 G Henry Wood committed for trial for the murder of Edith Jeal.
January 1 Dinner for 3,500 poor children at The Dome.
January 12 Death of C Somers Clarke. His wife dies on 16 April.
January 27 An early closing association formed in Hove.
February 4 Dr Newsholme’s salary is increased to £800 a year.
February 11 H Endacott is appointed town clerk at Hove.
February 23 Death of Ellen Nye Chart.
April 16 The bells at St Nicholas’ Church are restored.
May 20 Turkish Baths company is wound up.
June 2 Chief Constable J Terry’s salary is increased from £2350 to £400 a year.
June 17 Preston Park Clock is dedicated.
July 5 The School Board decides to borrow £17,000 for a new school in Stanford Road.
July 6 In the general election Gerald W E Loder and Sir William Marriott are returned for Brighton with a majority of 1,686.
July 11 The Mohawks appear at the Aquarium.
August 3 W Edwards returned to the council for St Peter’s ward.
August 10 Queen’s Park opened to the public.
August 11 Hove Commissioners agree to borrow £11,000 to extend the Marine Esplanade.
August 22 Empire Theatre of Varieties re-opens, rebuilt after being gutted by fire.
September 1 J G Blaker is appointed an alderman.
September 5 E J Pankhurst is returned to the council for Park ward.
September 28 Union Street Chapel re-opens.
October 3 A footpath preservation society is formed.
October 6 Brighton Council decides to take over the science and art department of the grammar school.
October 13 Hove Commissioners accept amalgamation with Aldrington.
October 18 Sayajirao Gaekwad III, Maharajah of Baroda, visits Brighton.
October 29 Mallison’s skating rink opens in West Street.
November 1 Six new members are returned to Brighton Council: A H Costerton, F W Carter, W Fowler, A Gill, G T Humphreys and W F Wishart.
November 9 Alderman J Ewart is re-elected mayor of Brighton.
November 10 Conservation gathering at The Dome.
November 15 The School Board decides to spend £14,000 on enlarging York Place School.
November 26 Electric lighting inaugurated in Hove.
December 1 Brighton Council decides to light King’s Road with electricity.
December 5 Harry Furniss at the Clarence Rooms.
December 10 Ignatz Paderewski recital at The Dome.
December 13 The School Board decides to appoint a local inspector.
December 25 1,200 people are fed at The Dome.
January 3 Brighton Soup Charity opens a fourth kitchen in Cobden Road. ‘The neighbourhood . . . is almost wholly inhabited by the working classes, to many of whom a basin of soup twive a week will come as a luxury.’
January 5 During a 4¾-hour meeting. Brighton Town Council reduced the charge for electric light from 7d to 3½d.
January 19 In Hove Arthur Black BSc kills his wife and child and commits suicide.
January 25 The mayor of Brighton, Alderman J Ewart, invites 1,300 guests to a ball at the Pavilion.
January 25 A labourer is killed by electricity at the Gloucester Road works.
January 31 Brighton Corporation applies for sanction to borrow £37,700 for electric lighting.
February 2 Brighton Town Council passes revised plans for an abattoir costing £7,800.
February 4 Nelly Melba performs at the Dome.
February 5 Another fatal accident at the Gloucester Road Electricity works.
February 21 Aquarium Company decides on a scheme for reconstruction.
March 2 Brighton Town Council decides to have a town band.
March 8 St Saviour’s New Mission Hall in Ditchling Rise is opened by the Bishop of Chichester.
March 17 Police clear a temperance meeting at the Dome when ‘riotous opposition’ occurs.
March 21 Protestant demonstration against Home Rule [for Ireland] at the Dome.
March 23 Preston Rugby Club formed.
March 29 Another protestant demonstration against Home Rule at the Dome.
April 5 Fire at Preston Barracks.
April 6 Another record marathon sitting of Brighton Town Council: from 15:00 to 21:30. A Pavilion winter garden scheme is rejected but a sewer extension scheme is passed at an estimated cost of £25,000.
April 15 Sir Charles and Lady Hallé’s pianoforte and violin recital at the Clarence Rooms.
April 20 G B Woodruff is elected chairman of the Hove Commissioners for the third year.
May 1 Local labourers on strike.
May 6 New board schools in Holland Road are opened by G B Woodruff.
May 8 David Black, the Brighton borough coroner, dies.
May 9 The late Halliwell Phillips’ estate at Hollingbury Copse is sold for £2,000.
May 24 Mass meetings of strikers.
June 1 Corporation Band gives its first performance at the Pavilion.
June 2 Brewer E W Robins dies.
June 8 Brighton and Hove Gas Act received Royal Assent.
June 15 E Lowther elected alderman in place for the late Alderman Wood.
June 15 The mayor of Le Havre visits Brighton.
June 16 H F Plunkett is elected Brighton coroner.
June 24 Proposal to build a new parish church at Aldrington.
June 27 By-election in Preston ward to replace Alderman Lowther and H F Plunkett: A Dunn and Mr Brown are elected.
June 30 The mayor entertains blind cyclists at the Pavilion.
July 6 Festivities in Brighton and Hove for the marriage of the Duke of York and Princess May.
July 8 Elm Grove board school is opened by G W Kekewick.
July 13 A man is found poisoned in a railway carriage at West Brighton station.
July 20 Brighton Council agrees to purchase a site in Richmond Place for a Technical School.
July 27 Brighton Marine Palace and Pier Act and the Brighton and Rottingdean Seashore Electric Tramroad Act (authorising the Daddy-Long-Legs) receive Royal Assent.
August 5 Music hall comedienne Daisy Hughes commits suicide by jumping from a third-floor window at the Grand Hotel.
August 7 First Tradesmen’s Horse Parade on Marine Parade.
August 9 Work begins on a tramway line at Devil’s Dyke.
September 11 R H Nibbs dies.
September 16 Electric lighting along the seafront is inaugurated by Miss Ewart, the mayoress, at a lamppost opposite Regency Square.
September 26 Aldrington is absorbed into Hove.
September 27 Alderman J Ewart is elected mayor of Brighton for the third time.
September 30 Concert at the Dome is aid of the East Brighton creche.
October 5 A Local Government Order ratifies the amalgamation of Hove and Aldrington.
October 8 H F Plunkett, Brighton coroner (see 16 June), dies.
October 17 Last meeting of the old School Board.
October 19 J Terry’s resignation as Chief Constable is accepted by Brighton Council.
October 19 Initial concert at the West Pier Pavilion.
October 23 John Corney is sentenced to three years’ penal servitude for defrauding the ABC Building Society of £7,500. Charles Alderton is sentenced to six months’ hard labour for falsifying the accounts of the Extra-Mural Cemetery.
November 1 At the municipal election, three Labour candidates are returned.
November 4 The Duke of Fife opens the Prince’s New Tennis Court.
November 6 Covered tennis tournament at the Drill Hall in Church Street.
November 8 Foundation stone is laid for the new abattoir.
November 14 Shareholders of the ABC Building Society agree on a voluntary wind-up.
November 16-18 Albert Chevalier appears at The Dome.
November 25 Masonic visit of the Duke of Connaught to the Clarence Rooms.
December 5 Liberal government is defeated.
December 7 Sir William Marriott MP resigns; he received the Chiltern Hundreds next day. Bruce V C Wentworth is selected as Conservative candidate.
December 14 In the parliamentary by-election Mr Wentworth is elected unopposed.
December 16 Ignatz Paderewski performs at the Dome.
December 16 The Alhambra Opera House and Music Hall on King’s Road is re-opened by Mr Graydon.
December 20 The Brighton poor box is distributed.
December 21 The Hove poor box is distributed.
December 29 A winding-up order is granted for the ABC Building Society.
• The Jewish Cemetery Chapel in Florence Place opens.
January 20 Last edition of Brighton and Hove Entertainment Chronicle.
January 29 The horse pulling a victoria in which Oscar Wilde is riding takes fright and bolts, only coming to rest when the carriage collides with the railings at Regency Square. Neither Wilde nor the driver is injured.
June Work begins on construction of Magnus Volk’s Sea-going Car tramway.
June 30 Public abattoir opened.
September 10 Eden Theatre opens in North Road.
September Oscar Wilde, spending eight weeks in Worthing, meets 16-year-old Alfonso Conway at the Royal Albion Hotel.
• West Brighton station is renamed Hove and West Brighton.
October There are public complaints about children playing on the new footbridge at Hove station.
November 6 First slaughtering at the public abattoir.
November 17-18 Oscar Wilde gives two lectures on ‘Dress’ and ‘The Value of Art in Modern Life’ at the Royal Pavilion. Stalls 4s, unreserved seats 2s.
November Blaker Park opens to the public on land donated to the town in 1893.
• Council wards in Brighton are re-organised, doubling in number from seven to 14.
• Primitive Methodist Church moves from Viaduct Road to larger premises in London Road. The old building is sold to the Brighton Railway Mission.
• Parishes of Hove and Aldrington combine to form the Hove Urban District.
• Florence Road Baptist Church opens.
• G Albert Smith takes a lease on St Ann’s Well Gardens to operate a pleasure garden.
January 1 J G Bishop, proprietor of the Brighton Herald, is presented with an illuminated address and a testimonial of £300.
January 1 Dinner for 2,500 poor children at the Dome.
January 1 First meeting of the new Board of Guardians.
January 2 Dinner for 1,100 poor children at Hove.
January 3 Brighton town council passes a plan for the erection of a technical school.
January 16 Free dinner for poor children at the Corn Exchange.
January 16 Public meeting re the soup fund.
February 9 Concert by pianist Cécile Chaminade at the Dome.
February 11 Brighton town meeting about unemployment at the town hall.
February 14 Lecture by Edward Whymper on mountain climbing at the Dome.
March 12 New Corporation Swimming Baths opened by the mayor of Brighton, Alderman W Botting.
March 13 Piano recital. By Emil Sauer at the Dome.
March 20 Local Government Board enquiry into the application for £61,150 for electric lighting and extension of Madeira Road.
March 22 Admiral Lord Clarence Edward Paget dies aged 83 at 65 Regency Square.
March 23 Lady Paget dies at 65 Regency Square.
March 26 Death of brewer John Dudney, aged 85, at Portslade.
April 4 Cllr A Loader dies, aged 56, at 5 Richmond Terrace.
April 18 Brigadier-General Richards dies, aged 64, at 9 Palmeira Avenue.
April 22 General William Booth of the Salvation Army, conducts a meeting at the Dome.
April 25 H Kent is elected People’s Warden to replace Cllr A Loader.
May 3 Public meeting about acquisition of more recreation grounds.
May 4 C J Galliers is elected to the Board of Guardians to replace Cllr A Loader.
May 7 Opening ceremony and luncheon at the new offices of the Board of Guardians.
May 22 Soirée Photographique at Sussex County Club.
June 1 Electric tramway’s pier opens at Rottingdean.
June 6 Brighton town council votes to alter and improve the town hall at a cost £30,000.
June 6 Local Government Board enquiry about borrowing £17,500 for the new technical school.
June 8 Brighton mayor Alderman W Botting opens the watercolour exhibition at the art gallery.
June 8 Members of the Sewer Board visit the outfall at Portobello.
July 6 Shahzada Nazrullah Khan, second son of the emir of Afghanistan, travelling with an entourage of 90 to represent his indisposed father, visits Brighton as a guest of Sir Albert Sassoon.
July 9 Conservative demonstration at the Dome.
July 10 Railway delegates visit Brighton.
July 11 Liberal demonstration at the Dome.
July 12 Nominations are made for the general election.
July 12 Erica May Kuhn-Stroh gives a piano recital at the Royal Pavilion.
July 16 General election: Loder and Wentworth are elected.
July 17 Petition presented by Hove for a Charter of Incorporation.
July 24 Annual outing of Vallance Catt employees to Crystal Palace.
July 25 Cycling race meeting at Preston Park. The 10-mile championship is won by local cyclist H H Frowd.
August 5 A firework explosion at the Foresters’ fete in Preston Park kills a lad called Carpenter.
August 14 Lord John Sanger’s circus appears in Hove.
August 30 Meeting of the Electric Tramway Company.
September 2-7 Southern Counties’ Lawn Tennis Tournament at the County Ground.
September 27 Theatrical cricket match and sports at the county ground on behalf of the Throat and Ear Hospital.
September 28 St Michael and All Angels’ Church re-opens after enlargement.
October 2 Foundation stone of the Brighton Technical Institute is laid by the mayor, Alderman W Botting.
October 8 The racecourse is presented to the town at a dinner given by the Race Stand Trustees.
October 9 Clifford Harrison recital at the Royal Pavilion. He performs again on the following six Wednesdays.
October 10 Hove District Council votes to lay wooden paving opposite the town hall as a cost of £1,000.
October 18 Demonstration by the Edinburgh Medical Mission at Hove Town Hall.
October 19 Concert by Dr Hans Richter’s orchestra and Edward Lloyd at the Dome.
October 31 Public meeting is held about enlargement of the Sussex County Hospital.
November 1 Polling for the municipal elections.
November 7 A special Brighton town council meeting decides to purchase Shoreham Waterworks for £56,700.
November 9 At the Brighton town council meeting, Alderman J G Blaker is elected mayor.
November 14 Hove District Council passes the scheme to rearrange the wards and to make new bylaws.
December 20 The Brighton poor box is distributed.
December 23 The Hove poor box is distributed.
• The number of council wards in Hove is increased from six to nine; St John’s and Ventnor are removed, Goldstone, Rutland, St Leonards, Town Hall and Wish are introduced.
March 25 The first UK film show outside London is given at the Pandora Gallery, 132 King’s Road.
May 29 Last edition of the Brighton Examiner, after 43 years.
July 20 Brighton Corporation Water Act, authorising the acquisition of the Shoreham and District Waterworks Company. receives Royal Assent.
August 7 Royal Assent is given to the Brighton Marine Palace and Pier Act and the Brighton Corporation Act.
October 9 The Chain Pier is closed as unsafe.
November 13 Hove Gazette is founded.
November 14 The Emancipation Run is held by 30 motorised vehicles driving from London to Brighton to celebrate the passing of the Locomotives on Highways Act.
November 28 Opening ceremony for Magnus Volk’s Sea-going Car (‘Daddy Longlegs’) running from Madeira Drive to Rottingdean. It goes into regular service two days later.
December 4 A storm completely destroys the Chain Pier.
January 1 The Argus is renamed the Evening Argus.
March 16 G Albert Smith first includes ‘animated photographs’ (films) in his optical lantern show at the Aquarium.
March A cycle and motor car exhibition is held at the Aquarium. Among exhibitors are local firms Girling Cycle and Motor-Car Company (185 Western Road) and A & E Kessler & Co (27 Trafalgar Street). Brighton Cycle and Motor Company displays a motor tricycle, a motor tandem and a Daimler motor carriage.
April 14 Brighton Borough Council’s armorial bearings are issued by the College of Heralds. The two dolphins in the shield had been in the seal of the Brighton Commissioners, the six martlets represent the county of Sussex.
April 24 Hove Echo newspaper is launched.
September 2 Southern Publishing Company launches the Morning Argus.
October 16 The Real Ice Skating Rink opens in Middle Street; it becomes the Hippodrome in 1901.
• Ginnett’s Royal Circus in Park Crescent Place becomes the Gaiety Theatre.
• The toll house for the Newhaven Turnpike at Roedean Road is closed due to coastal erosion.
• Construction begins of the first council housing in Brighton at St Helen’s Road on land donated by Henry Abbey and Daniel Friend.
• A drinking fountain is installed at the southern end of Church Hill, Patcham.
January 1 Brighton children’s New Year’s dinner at the Dome; Hove children’s dinner and entertainment at Hove Town Hall.
January 2 RAOB dinner for the poor at the Corn Exchange.
January 4 New Year’s dinner for Hove poor at Hove Town Hall.
January 6 Brighton town council decides to charge for removal of trade waste.
January 6 Side chapel opened at St Peter’s Church.
January 8 Duchess of Fife opens Brighton Municipal Technical School.
January 10 Yuletide ball at the Royal Pavilion.
January 18 Lecture at the Aquarium by Florence Marryatt, author of The Blood of the Vampire. She gives further lectures on spiritualism and her father over the coming weeks.
February 25 Public meeting at the Royal Pavilion about the Muzzling of Dogs Order, newly introduced to check the spread of rabies.
March 3 County council election in Hove.
April 4 Brighton Guardians’ election.
April 18 Brighton Quarter Sessions.
April 21 Brighton town council passes bylaws against street noises.
April 25 By-election for Preston ward.
April 26 Gas stove exhibition in the Concert Hall, West Street.
April 28 Meeting in Hampton Place in support of the new bylaws.
April The Local Government Board approves Hove UDC plan to borrow £6,500 for street improvements, to be done in three stages .
May 9 Hawkers demonstrate against the new bylaws.
May 10 Gas stove exhibition at Hove Town Hall.
June 5 Memorial service for W E Gladstone at the Dome.
June 6 Brighton summer races.
June 14-15 Local government enquiry in Hove.
June 29 Warren Farm children’s trip to Crystal Palace.
August 8 Brighton Regatta and Carnival.
August 12 Exhibition of watercolour paintings, Public Art Gallery.
August 25 Fifty Miles’ Cycle Race for the Glover Shield in Preston Park.
August 26-27 Visit of Barnum and Bailey’s Great Show at Hove Meadow.
September 4 Booth’s Museum opens to the public in Sundays.
September A Local Government Board inquiry is held into Brighton Corporation’s application to borrow £56,300 for electric lighting and £1,750 for street improvement .
October 26 Clifford Harrison recital at the Royal Pavilion. He again performs on the following eight Wednesdays.
November 9 Alderman G B Woodruff is elected the first mayor of Hove. Alderman A J Hawkes is elected mayor of Brighton.
November 10 Exhibition of oil paintings at the Art Gallery.
November 17 Hove Camera Club’s annual exhibition at Hoe Town Hall included moving pictures, arranged by James Williamson.
November 19 Freedom of Brighton is presented to Lord Wolseley, commander-in-chief.
November 22 Clarkson Wallis is elected for Pavilion ward to replace Cllr Daniel.
November 24 Hove municipal by-election.
November 29 Throat and Ear Hospital in Church Street is opened by the Duke of Norfolk.
November 29 Special meeting of Hove town council at Hove Town Hall.
December 3 Pianoforte recital by Ignacy Jan Paderewski at the Dome.
December 21 Distribution of the Hove Police Court poor box.
May 20 Brighton Amrine Palace and Pier (Palace Pier) opens.
July 7 Local Government Board inquiry [into corporation baths?]
July 13 Barnum and Bailey’s circus comes to Hove.
July 18 Local Government Board inquiry into borrowing £18,000 for sea defences.
September 4-9 Brighton Lawn Tennis Tournament at Hove.
September 21 Brighton Town Council accepts the tramways and Electric Light Extension reports.
September 29 Inauguration of the new organ at Christ Church.
October 13 Transvaal crisis meeting at The Dome.
October 14 Pablo de Sarasate recital at The Dome.
October 16 J G Bishop’s portrait is presented to the town.
October 19 Brighton Town Hall re-opens after extension and rearrangement.
October 20 Inauguration of the new organ at St Mark’s Church.
October 21 Lt William Maitland Julius Hannah, son of the Vicar of Brighton, is killed in action at Dundee, Natal.
October 30 Hove Council buys 20 acres of land at Goldstone Bottom for £1,000 to create a municipal park, which opens in 1906.
November 1 Municipal elections in Brighton and Hove.
November 6 Public opening of the St Peter’s Church enclosure by the mayor.
November 7 Visit of HRH Princess Christian.
November 22 New infirmaries at the workhouse are opened.
November 24 Adelina Patti concert at The Dome.
December 6 Albert Chevalier recital at The Dome.
December 23 Collision between the Brighton Pullman Express and the Newhaven boat train at Wivelsfield results in six dead (one from Brighton) and 20 injured (four from Brighton).
December 28-29 Local Government Board inquiry at Hove Town Hall into incorporation of Preston Rural into Hove.
• Hove Borough Council’s armorial bearings are issued by the College of Heralds.
• Queen Victoria donates (returns?) fixtures to the Pavilion.
• The Brighton (Housing of Working Classes) Order and the Portslade and Southwick Outfall Sewerage Order are confirmed.
• Council wards in Hove are re-organised: Rutland, St Leonards and Town Hall are removed, Goldsmid, Morris, Portland and Vallance introduced.
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