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Robert Tressell celebrated

Robert Tressell

Robert Tressell

The annual Robert Tressell Festival will take place in Concordia Hall on Church Road over the weekend of Saturday 30th June and Sunday 1st July.  A range of lectures and talks, as well as a quiz and a guided walk, will all follow the official opening at 10.30am on Saturday 30th by local MP Michael Foster, Peter Skinner MEP and Jeremy Birch, Leader of the Labour Group on Hastings Borough Council. Admiss-ion is free, and  a light lunch and refreshments will be served to those attending. [Robert Tressell, real name Robert Noonan,  achieved fame through The Ragged-trousered Philanthropists,  which he wrote at 241 London Road, Bohemia.]

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