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Last year, after I researched the Blacklands boundary and put up my findings in the first post We Are Blacklanders, I had a message from a reader (thanks Alison!) alerting me to more recent changes.
So, in May, 2025, I wrote to Reverend Murrills of Christ Church in Laton Road, who kindly shared the latest Blacklands boundary map, which also "includes what was the parish previously served by St Andrew’s church, which used to stand where the Morrison’s petrol filling station is now."
This is it. This is the map she provided - the official current Blacklands map!
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| Map of Blacklands kindly shared by Reverend Murrills of Christ Church in Laton Road |
Added now are the roads: Waterworks Road, The Yard, (Morrisons store), Brook Street, Mann Street, Waldergrave Street, St Andrew's Square, Cornwallis Street and the short stretch of South Terrace (1-10) between Mann Street and Queen's Road. The new bit also includes the west side (Morrison's side) of Queen's Road between the bridge and South Terrace, but on the east side only goes from Stonefield Place , past Nelson Road to the bridge. This added area also includes the west side of of Stonefield Road between Stonefield Place and the bridge.
The boundary line follows a northeast path alongside Park Crescent to the top and then on up to Hillside Road at the corner of park Avenue where it travels down Hillside Road to St Helen's Road and Kite's Nest... There's a few extra roads included here too. This is a cleaner boundary than the original area I worked out from the parish church descriptions, because it was originally uncertain whether roads like Birch Way and Baird Drive were included, but now they definitely are. More of Park View is also now included and is clearer where it goes from and to. Also now included in the new area are: the remainder of Ashford Road, Ashford Way, Beneden Rise, Canterbury Rise, Hardrada Rise, Park Drive, Streamside Close , Tenterden Rise and The Gables.
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| Blacklands Historic Boundaries Oldest boundary in green Last boundary in yellow Latest boundary in red |
(new roads in bold blue, roads removed in italic yellow)
Abbotsfield CloseJane Elizabeth Strickland (1851–1932) by guest author Helena Wojtczak
To know Jane Elizabeth Strickland, one must first meet her mother, Mary Ann Slade—the indomitable "Grand Old Lady of Hastings." From a childhood meeting with abolitionists to a century of tireless service, Mary Ann was the "dangerous foe" of the establishment and a pioneer who disarmed the critics of women in public life.
But it was Jane who took the baton and sprinted. A champion of the nursery and the schoolroom, Jane’s quiet philanthropy masked a revolutionary spirit. When the Liberal Party faltered on the promise of the vote, Jane didn't just walk away—she rebelled, joining the radical Women’s Freedom League and sacrificing party loyalty for the principle of equality.
From the Sunday Schools of the Victorian era to the magistrate’s bench of the 1920s, the story of the Strickland and Slade women is a moving testament to a generation of "sterling character." It is a narrative of grit, faith, and an uncompromising devotion to the poor that left an indelible mark on the heart of Hastings.
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| Mary Ann Slade 1894 President of the Women's Liberal Association (WLA) |
In 1850, Mary Ann married the printer and bookseller William Slade, whose family lineage included the famed philanthropist Felix Slade, founder of the Slade School of Art. When the couple moved to Hastings in 1863, William’s business evolved from selling sheet music to providing the town with pianos, organs, and banjos, eventually expanding to a second branch at 22 Grand Parade. He became a fixture of the local cultural scene, managing the Royal Concert Hall and organising recitals for the era’s premier pianists.
In the streets of Hastings, Mary Ann encountered "deplorable poverty and ignorance." Convinced she was led by divine providence, she became a tireless visitor of the sick and a teacher of domestic economy to struggling mothers. Education was her crusade: she founded the Bourne Street Mission to bring literacy to fishing families and established the Priory Street Institute, where she continued to teach until she was 92. Her influence permeated the town as a governor of Waterloo Place Infants’ School and a key driver in the campaign for a hospital for the poor alongside local luminaries like William Ransom, Dr Blackwell, and Mrs Tubbs.
Described as a "gentle and charming woman" whose "whole life was devoted to helping and teaching others," she was eventually dubbed "The grand old lady of Hastings." To mark her 100th birthday, she characteristically turned her attention outward, paying for a grand tea party and entertainment for all 350 inmates of the local workhouse. The editor of the Hastings & Saint Leonard's Observer (HSLO) hailed her as the "Elizabeth Fry of the Premier Cinque Port," yet noted she was the "most determined and dangerous foe" the Conservatives faced, credited with disarming hostility toward women appearing on the public platform.[2]
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| Mary Ann Slade lived in Laton Road |
Mary Ann was a staunch suffragist who attended meetings as early as the 1880s, demanding universal suffrage at age 21. She weaponised her influence, refusing to support any male candidate who denied women the vote. In 1892, she co-founded and presided over the local branch of the Women’s Liberal Association (WLA).
However, the WLA’s role was controversial. Emmeline Pankhurst later argued that the WLA was a strategic diversion created by Gladstone to keep women subservient to men's parties:
"The promise of the Federation was that by allying themselves with men in party politics, women would soon earn the right to vote. The avidity with which the women swallowed this promise... and threw themselves into the men's work was amazing."[3]
Pankhurst noted that while women provided "faithful work at elections," the men "never offered any kind of payment." [4] Despite this political friction, Mary Ann remained a pillar of the community, though she possessed a sharp, puritanical edge. She famously expressed "disgust" at the "filthy and obscene" sight of men and women wearing clothes of the opposite sex during an 1894 Guy Fawkes parade and campaigned for pubs to close as early as shops.
When Mary Ann died in 1926—just ten weeks shy of her 103rd birthday—she left behind five children. None would take up the baton more passionately than her eldest daughter, Jane.
Jane was 12 when the family settled into the maisonette above their shop at 7 Wellington Place.[5] For fifteen years, she mirrored her mother’s devotion, teaching Sunday School and playing the harmonium for workhouse inmates. In a departure from the norms of the day, she waited until age 26 to marry, choosing Francis Strickland—a corn merchant who shared her deep Robertson Street Congregationalist faith.
While Mary Ann had to build schools from the ground up, Jane operated within the new state system established in 1870. She became a beloved figure on the School Board and Education Committee; pupils regarded her as their "great friend." Her advocacy spanned the NSPCC and the Workers' Educational Association, and she co-founded the St Leonards School for Delicate Children.
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| Jane Elizabeth Strickland on the cover of THE VOTE, publication of the Women's Freedom League (WFL) |
Jane’s involvement in the Women’s Liberal Federation (WLF) eventually led to a breaking point. By 1912, after twenty years of unpaid labour for a party that refused to grant her the vote, she had reached the end of her tether. She declared:
"As far as women were concerned the present Government had no right to call itself Liberal... I am prepared for the moment to sacrifice even party for the principle of equal representation."[6]
True to her word, she defected. She joined a 500-woman deputation to the Prime Minister and, while she admired the courage of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), she disagreed with its violent methods. Instead, she joined the breakaway Women’s Freedom League (WFL), serving as local president until the end of her life. Seeing the Labour Party as the only sincere ally of the suffrage movement, she threw her weight behind their candidate, Frederick Pethick Lawrence, eventually becoming vice-chair of the local branch.
In her twilight years, Jane’s "sterling character" remained legendary. In 1929—the year her husband died—she was appointed a magistrate. It was a role that proved her heart was perhaps too big for the bench. Unable to bear the sight of impoverished offenders being penalised, she frequently ignored the protests of her fellow Justices of Peace and paid the fines of the defendants herself. Her colleagues held her in great esteem, but it was clear she was "far too kind-hearted... to be an effective magistrate."
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| Memorial Window for Jane Elizabeth Strickland (1851-1932) at Clive Vale Congregation Church |
Jane Strickland died at 83 during a holiday in Weston-super-Mare. Her passing marked the end of an era of "magnificent" conviction. As the HSLO eulogised:
"High moral courage and unflinching straightness, combined with a warm yet unsentimental heart... a quick, intelligent and keen detection of humbug, sham, or any sort falsity, made this strong combination of mother, wife, friend and public servant."[7]
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| Eulogy for Jane Elizabeth Strickland 1932 |
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[1] This seems unlikely; Mrs Stowe did not visit England until 1853. [2] HSLO, 27th January 1900; 6th February 1926. [3] Pankhurst, E. (1914) My Own Story, p15. [4] Pankhurst, E. (1914) My Own Story, p16. [5] Long since demolished, the site is now covered by Sports Direct. [6] HSLO, 9th November 1912. [7] HSLO, 17th September 1932.
Herself having broken ground in a male-dominated world, we are lucky to have the above taster of acclaimed guest author Helena Wojtczak's upcoming book about Jane Elizabeth Strickland for Blacklands and Beyond (we will also try and keep you updated here on the book's publication at B&B.)
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| Author Helena Wojtczak at book-signing in Hastings 3rd January 2026 |
One of Helena's areas of interest and expertise is the history women of history:
She has also written:
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| Elphinstone Road |
This last year, I didn't get going on the blog and broadsheet as I had wanted (I won't go into the reasons just now...) but I feel unwavering enthusiasm about researching and discovering Blacklands history (You honestly couldn't guess how many posts I've got going at once, I'm so excited to record everything I find out about everything ha ha), It's been on my mind all this last year, even though I haven't been writing it all down.
I've had a necessary break, but now I'm back. And, as I said, I have a lot of research on the go, so I should have a regular post or two out, and hope to get another broadsheet out too.
This time, though, I'm probably going to have to do it through a printers, since my old printer kept failing for the first one, and at least a third of the copies went into recycling (lucky I used recycled paper in the first place, so I didn't feel as bad as I otherwise might have done).
Unfortunately, this meant I didn't get a copy of the first broadsheet to everyone in the area as planned. I aim to start with those I didn't reach last time first for the next issue... just in case)
Anyway, good Blacklander folk, I wish you all a very Happy New Year, and hope you can join me discovering more about Blacklands history in 2026!
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| Merry Christmas Blacklands! (View of Blacklands from St Mary's Terrace 24th December 2025) |
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| No. 5 Hughenden Road used to be No. 3 before buildings were erected on the opposite side of the road. |
Originally, houses were only built on the north side of Hughenden Road, so they were numbered 1,2,3 on the same side. But, when houses were later built on the opposite side, they were renumbered odd numbers on the north side and even numbers on the south side. And what was once number 3 Hughenden Road is now No. 5, next door to Hughenden Garage.
Back in 1882, when Hughenden Road was still only developed on the north side, the private building of no. 3 Hughenden Road (now no. 5) was used by local men as a social club.
From the moment Alfred Hodges [coming later to Blacklands & Beyond)] took over the local church in Laton Road in 1878, before he even became the official vicar, he demonstrated to the parishioners what a caring, considerate man he was. He worked tirelessly (and without pay for many years) to connect to all the people in the area he cared for.
To start with, when there were only a few households, Hodges visited them every day. Later, he made every effort to continue regular visits. He got to know the people in the area very well, and cared about their well-being. An advocate for all levels of society, no matter whether a poorer tradesman or a person of substance, he got to know and understand every local man and family, and one of his concerns became the problems and issues of alcohol and its use by his parishioners, in particular the role of the many local public houses.
Hodges decided his parishioners needed an alternative to alcohol and an alternative to public houses.
Soon after No 3 (now 5) Hughenden Road was subscribed for, then opened in the winter of 1881-82. Later, in November 1882, Hodges established The Christ Church (Blacklands) Working Men's Institute as that alternative. The Institute gave men space where they could meet up, play games, read newspapers and socialise when they returned from work, from six o'clock to ten o'clock every evening.
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| No. 5 Hughenden Road The original Parochial Rooms |
Originally, there were forty-six men paying the one penny subscription per week. They were also obliged to attend Sunday service as part of the cost of using the club. In 1883, one of the members of the Working Men's Institute, George Austin, became the builder of the new school building beside the church. Back then, he had his workshops behind the Institute, and prefabricated much of the new school building in them.
Later, In 1893, Hodges founded a parochial club for boys and young men, called the Junior Institute, or Lad's Club. The club was open to boys of age fourteen to twenty-one years, one of the first 'youth clubs'. Like the Men's Intitute, the rooms were open every evening for the youths to read and play games. Their payment was a small subscription fee and two Bible classes a week.
Hodges wanted to expand the busy parochial clubs already in use to also having a permanent site for a Sunday School for the boys, but there wasn't enough room in the small private building. This was discussed at the Easter Vestry in 1894, after which the sum of £225 was offered toward a plot in Hughenden Road. However, the cost of building had been estimated as £1500. They had, by then, the donations, or promise of donations, of £700. They decided that a mortgage of the other £800 at 4% a year would cost them no more than the £25 they then paid for the current Parochial Rooms in rent.
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| 28B Hughenden Road, Church House, built 1896 |
The land was purchased from a Dr Goodwin in 1895. Then came a long legal battle before they could start building the new property, they planned to call Church House. It cost £172 in legal fees to relocate an ancient footpath which passed through the site.
Later that year, the foundation stone was laid by Reverend Hodges wife, Lucy, on 25th September 1895. The sun was shining and all of Hughenden Road was decorated with flags in celebation. The street was filled with residents coming out to cheer on 'Mrs Lucy', who they adored. The building of the Boys Schoolroom and Club Rooms had begun.
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| Church House, The Parochial Rooms of Blacklands home of the Boys Sunday School and the Mens Club |
A Mr W. E. Warman's tender for the Hall was accepted, and the first Trustees were: the Vicar (Hodges), Wardens, Mr. Dobell and Mr. Forrest.
The deeds stated that the
'Church House was to be used in perpetuity for Church of England purposes in connection with the Church and Parish of Christ Church, Blacklands'.
So, knowing that it is now residential, at some point a change-of-use must have occurred.
On 24th March 1896, Church House was dedicated by Dr Ernest Wilberforce, the recently consecrated Bishop of Chichester and friend of Reverend Alfred Hodges.
When Church House opened, membership was initially limited to men over the age of 18yrs and who lived in the Parish or who attended the Blacklands Church in Laton Road. There were similar rules to the old parochial rooms, in that there should be no alcohol nor gambling (or any games for money). Thirty-four men became members on opening night. Soon afterwards, there were seventy members, each paying a subscription and attending a Sunday afternoon Bible Class, which the members were obliged to go to.
The front no longer says "Christ Church Blacklands Church House", but now simply says "Blacklands" - it was one of the first things that interested me in the Blacklands area.
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| 28 Hughenden Road now called "Blacklands" |
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P.S. I'm not sure what happened to the Lads Club at that point, if membership was only for over 18s, but in 1908, the Lads Club, or Lads Brigade, as it was then known, moved to Sutton Memorial Hall.
Christ Church, Blacklands (The Centenary History of a Late Victorian Church); Ralph, Richard; Hastings 1981
History of the Church and Parish of Christ Chrch, Blacklands, Hastings 1878-1928; Morgan, Rev. James, D.D.; Budd A. Gillatt, St Leonards on Sea 1928
Blacklands History, 1066 Online
In the last few years, following the recognition of how important the species is for regulating the waterways and their benefit to land management, there has been an exciting come-back of beavers in the UK, mainly through efforts of conservationists (as well as some illegal releases). Not only are beavers of great benefit to us and the environment, more benefit comes from beavers having been pronounced a protected native species.
Why am I talking about beavers instead of Blacklands? Well, it's because we had our very own famous beaver conservationist born here in Blacklands: a man you may or may not have heard of. It's a man called Grey Owl. A man who first claimed fame in Canada, where he was a fur trapper and a guide, but later claimed worldwide fame through his books about the beaver and its importance in the wilderness.
Grey Owl did indeed become world-famous, but he is equally famous for the revelation after his death, that he wasn't actually who he had said he was. The man everyone knew as the native American 'half-breed' [a term he used to describe himself, not meant as derogatory], it turned out 'Grey Owl' was actually born Archibald Stansfield Belaney (18th September 1888) at 32 St James's Road, on the edge of the original Blacklands Estate, a house now marked with a plaque and a statue of an owl on the roof over the lower window. I love passing it and thinking of its history:
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| 32 St James Road, where Archie was born |
The mystery was why he took on the name he was known by. Partly, it was a means of escapism from his early childhood. He didn't have much of a role model in his parents...
Archibald's father, George Furmage Belaney, was the son of a wealthy widow of independent means, and had a reputation as a waster. As a young man, looking for a new life, his father had travelled to America and met the woman he wanted to marry. Unfortunately, she died young, so he married her younger sister, Kathleen Verona Vox, or Kitty, who was but a child, half his age and only 16 when she gave birth to her second son. Her first son, Archibald's brother, Hugh Cockburn Belaney, was born a year earlier in Deal, Kent.
Luckily, Archibald (or Archie, as he was called) had family keeping an eye out for him. When he was but an infant, he was whisked away from his drunken father and very young mother by his London-born Grandmother, Julianna, now widowed, and his two aunts, both born in Devon: Julia Ada Belaney (Aunt Ada) and Janey Carrie Belaney (Aunt Carrie). Between the three of them, they took him under their wings.But they didn't take him far. By the time of the 1891 census, when Archie was only two, he had already been removed by his grandmother and aunts to 52 St Helen's Road. For some reason, his twenty-nine-year-old Aunt Carrie - named Janet on the form - was mistakenly recorded as his mother. Meanwhile, his parents were actually back in Deal, Kent, with Archibald's three-and-a-half-year-old brother.
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| 2-yr-old Archie's home 52 St Helen's Road, Hastings |
Ten years later, in the 1901 census, Archie was recorded as being with his grandmother and aunts in Highbury Villa, St James's Road, a house overlooking the house where he was born (the house next to the twitten, or path (Braycastle Reach), between Quarry Road and St Mary's Road).
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| Highbury Villa, where young Archie lived |
(According to some sources, he also spent some time 36 St Mary's Terrace, but I can't find out when.)
Brought up by these well-meaning relatives (while his father took off back to America) Archie was a bit of a loner who connected better with animals and nature, and had yearnings to live as a native American indian. A childhood friend later revealed he had often played at being one one.
Archie was good at writing and languages, but not so good at other school subjects, so he left school at 15 to work as a clerk in a lumberyard near St Helen's Wood (one of his favourite places to play growing up). After two years of this, the desire to follow his heart to North America was so great, he persuaded his family to allow him to go.
And so, like his father, he jumped on a boat and left England behind.
This was one of the turning points of his life.
But it wasn't to America he went. He took the ship, the SS Canada, from Portsmouth to Nova Scotia, where he learned how to be a good hunter, trapper and guide. His ability for languages also came in handy in learning to speak to the local native people, and he was quickly accepted by them.
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| Angele Egwuna (standing 2nd from left) and her family, Bear Island |
The chief called Archie 'Little Owl' because of the way he would sit quietly, and watch, and listen. Perhaps because of his closeness to the Chief's family, he fell for the Chief's daughter, Angele Egwuna, and married her in 1910. She became mother to two of his four children: Agnes (1911) and Flora (1926).
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| Angele Egwuna 1913 (married Grey Owl 1910) |
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| Archibald Belaney,13th Montreal Battalion, Canadian Army (1915) |
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| Canadian Hospital, Frederick Road, Hastings |
The 1917 marriage certificate gives the following particulars:— " Bridegroom — Archibald Stansfield Belaney, full age, bachelor, soldier, of Hollington. Father—George Belaney. deceased, architect." "Bride—Florence Ivy Mary Holmes, full age, spinster, of Hollington Father—Robert John Holmes, deceased, doctor."
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| Archie's Second Wife, Ivy Holmes |
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| Archie injured in WW1 |
It appears Archie had returned to his first wife, Angele, once more. For a while, at least. But not for long. He, again, got itchy feet. And, again, off he went hunting and trapping, leaving his wife with their second child. Basically, until this point, he had had at least three partners, deserted three children, and had a reputation for being 'in the thick of a brawl'. Like his father, his heavy drinking often got him into trouble.
But this changed when he met his next wife, Gertrude Bernard (20), who he called Anahareo (and who wrote books under that name). Their relationship was blessed in a ceremony conducted by Chief Nias Papate at Lac Simon in 1926, and they remained together as companions for ten years.
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| Anahareo (aka Gertrude Bernard) |
In the same way as the gold rush had drawn so many to make their fortune further south, the fur trade in the north drew many a man to make his fortune from slaying animals for their skins. Archie, or Grey Owl, was so enamoured by Anahareo that, rather than leaving her behind as he would normally do, he took her on the next hunting trip with him.
On this particular trip, Archie had good hunting, as he normally did, but he became very aware of the depletion of animals. The populations of some animals had almost disappeared in places. This affected him, but what affected him more was something that changed the rest of his life. It was a day when he had killed a particular beaver for its fur...
As he and Anahareo were leaving in the canoe after he had killed the beaver, they heard the crying of beaver kittens. Archie's first thought was to 'put them out of their misery', so they didn't have the slow death of starvation without their mother, but his wife persuaded him to take the babies home with them. The adoption of those two little beaver kittens was what changed his whole way of thinking about wildlife. That and how Anahareo talked Archie into writing about the wilderness for articles and books.
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| Anahareo (Gertrude Bernard) on, the left and Archie, by their cabin |
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| Flyer for Grey Owl at White Rock, Hastings |
There are many old black and white videos of Grey Owl, some of which can be found on YouTube, showing him at his home by the lake with the beavers (see a list of 'Some Grey Owl Videos' below) He became well known as a speaker, an advocate for the beavers and other wild creatures, so much so that there would often be long queues to hear him, and many would be disappointed because there was no room for them to get in. He had caught the world's attention.
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| Grey Owl outside his cabin by the lake |
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| Anahereo and Grey Owl stopping to eat |
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| Yvonne Perrier, Grey Owl's third wife, [taken from a rare, fuzzy picture of Grey Owl with Yvonne] |
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| Grey Owl signs off |
*Archie Belaney's life is play by Pierce Brosnon in Richard Attenburghs film "Grey Owl" (1999)*A plaque has been erected in Hastings Country Park.*A twitten next to the road where he was born (Going across the top of St James' Road, from Quarry Road to Saint Mary's Road, called Grey Owls Reach.
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| Grey Owl Plaque in Hastings Country Park |
Grey Owl (Wikipedia)
Grey Owl, Hastings Museum and Art Gallery
Correspondence relating to the publication of Adventures of Sajo and her beaver people by Grey Owl (National Archives)
Grey Owl and his life in Temagami, Mackey, Doug
From the Land of the Shadows: the making of 'Grey Owl', Smith, Donald B.
Dictionary of Canadian Biography: Benaney, Archibald Stansfield; 2013–2024 University of Toronto/Université Laval
Bulletin No. 28,; The Grey Owl Society, Hastings; 2009 [Edited Betty Taylor]
Florence Ivy Mary Holmes: Early Life, Wikipedia
Divorce Court File: 4930. Appellant: Florence Ivy Mary Belaney otherwise Florence Ivy Mary Holmes. Respondent: Archibald Stansfield Belaney. Type: Wife's petition for/of nullity; [1921]; National Archives, Kew,
Archie McNeil's Will Prince Albert Daily Herald, By Fred Payton -July 28, 2022
The 1930s eco-warrior who inspired David Attenborough and The Queen, only to be unmasked as a hoaxer and 'pretendian' — but his message still rings true, Martin Fone, Country File, 3rd August 2024
(Portraits of Archibald Belaney)Canada: Saskatchewan - Grey Owl and the Beavers of Prince Albert National Park;by Anne Martin
The Story of Grey Owl - Saving the Beaver From Extinction by The Woodland Escape
Canadian Cameo, Grey Owl's Little Brother (1932) by Library and Archives Canada
Grey Owl`s srange quest 1936 documentary stromgull
The Trail: Men Against the Snow - Silent [Reconstructed] 1937 Canadianfilm
The Trail: Men Against the River - Silent [Reconstructed] 1937 Canadianfilm
Grey Owl's Neighbours 1933 Canadianfilm
Strange Doings in Beaverland 1932 Canadianfilm
The Path of Grey Owl (Destination Ontario)
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| Summary Family Tree of Grey Owl (Archibald Belaney) |
52 St Helen's Road
Juliana Belaney widow 53 b London Putney
Julia C Belaney (daughter) 31 b Devon Crossmead
Janey A Belaney (daughter) 29 b Devon Crossmead
Archibald S Belaney (Grandson) 2 b Sussex Hastings
Highbury Villa, St James Road
Juliana Belaney widow 75, Living own means, b London Putney
Julia C Belaney (daughter), Living own means, 38 b Devonshire
Janey A Belaney (daughter), Living own means, 36 b Devonshire
Archibald S Belaney (Grandson) 12 b Sussex Hastings
[Around 1900, Florence became friends with the aunts of her future husband, Archibald Belaney, in Hastings, due to a shared interest in purebred Collie dogs.[4] (Belaney was raised by his two aunts and grandmother, his father and mother having been deemed unfit for parenthood by the family.[1]: 12 ) Florence and Ivy began visiting the Belaney family during school holidays at their home, Highbury Villa on St. James' Road. "Archie liked Ivy and tried to impress her. Thinking she would be interested, he showed her how he fed frogs to his snakes."[1]: 22 She recalled playing at being Indians with Archie: "I was his squaw 'Dancing Moonbeam', he was 'Big Chief Thunderbinder'".[5]
Belaney would stay with the Holmes family at their home in Hammersmith while exploring the city. He and his aunt Ada also stayed with them on the way to Liverpool, where, on 29 March 1906, he boarded the SS Canada for Halifax, Nova Scotia. That was the last Ivy saw of him till after the war.[1]:
Date:1922
Divorce Court File: 4930. Appellant: Florence Ivy Mary Belaney otherwise Florence Ivy Mary Holmes. Respondent: Archibald Stansfield Belaney. Type: Wife's petition for/of nullity [wn].
3RD FEBRUARY 2026 COME TO THE PUBLIC MEETING! Sandrock Bends still in danger. New Planning Update ACTION NEEDED NOW! St Helen's Wood is ...
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