The Tressell Pandorama - Hastings and St Leonards
Composite of places associated with Robert Tressell - author of 'The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists' - in Hastings. 'Muggsborough Tour', October 2012, IBMT AGM
Our "Pandorama" of Tressell places - best seen by going to maximum size and then scrolling along from left to right. There are notes to help identify the images which you can see if you run your cursor over the photograph.
Tressell arrived in England from South Africa in 1910 and stayed with his sister in Hastings. He moved to 1 Plynlimmon Road where he lived between 1901-02. He moved to 115 Millward Road living the top flat between 1902 and 1906.
The site of 'Burton' - undertakers and general painting and decorating, 88 Stonefield Road - shop today - Tressell joined 'Burton and Co' after he left 'Bruce and Co'. it was while he worked for Burton that Tressell did the work on St Andrews church .
West Dean in the expensive area of St Leonards is one of several large houses where Tressell worked and which provided ideas for the 'The Cave' - the big house in the 'Ragged Trousered Philanthropists' described in detail at the beginning of the novel.
241 London Road where he lived again in the top flat from 1906 until he left Hastings on the ill-fated trip to Liverpool hoping to emigrate to Canada. He died in Liverpool and was buried in a pauper's grave.
The plaque at 241 London Road.
Robert Tressell - a photograph taken late in his life.
Men outside the Waterworks Road soup kitchen February 1909 which is today is a pub ...
The Labour Party HQ in Bohemia Road today; this building was the Prince of Wales pub in Tressell's time and is just round the corner from London Road where he lived above a cycle repair shop.
The Robert Tressell banner.
The Tressell Pandorama - Hastings and St Leonards
Composite of places associated with Robert Tressell - author of 'The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists' - in Hastings. 'Muggsborough Tour', October 2012, IBMT AGM
Our "Pandorama" of Tressell places - best seen by going to maximum size and then scrolling along from left to right. There are notes to help identify the images which you can see if you run your cursor over the photograph.
Tressell arrived in England from South Africa in 1910 and stayed with his sister in Hastings. He moved to 1 Plynlimmon Road where he lived between 1901-02. He moved to 115 Millward Road living the top flat between 1902 and 1906.
The site of 'Burton' - undertakers and general painting and decorating, 88 Stonefield Road - shop today - Tressell joined 'Burton and Co' after he left 'Bruce and Co'. it was while he worked for Burton that Tressell did the work on St Andrews church .
West Dean in the expensive area of St Leonards is one of several large houses where Tressell worked and which provided ideas for the 'The Cave' - the big house in the 'Ragged Trousered Philanthropists' described in detail at the beginning of the novel.
241 London Road where he lived again in the top flat from 1906 until he left Hastings on the ill-fated trip to Liverpool hoping to emigrate to Canada. He died in Liverpool and was buried in a pauper's grave.
The plaque at 241 London Road.
Robert Tressell - a photograph taken late in his life.
Men outside the Waterworks Road soup kitchen February 1909 which is today is a pub ...
The Labour Party HQ in Bohemia Road today; this building was the Prince of Wales pub in Tressell's time and is just round the corner from London Road where he lived above a cycle repair shop.
The Robert Tressell banner.