Punch & Judy at Reindeer Day in the Old Town

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmAxOIk9vPg

Thanks to all who helped out, took part, and those who enjoyed the four shows throughout the day.

Christmas Day in the Workhouse – with Dorothy and Judith Kinnison Bourke

TOMORROW!

5.30PM

Tickets £3 includes mulled wine and mince pie

Hastings History House
21 Courthouse Street

Christmas Day in the Workhouse – with Dorothy and Judith Kinnison Bourke

Hastings workhouse Christmas party, date unknown.
http://www.workhouses.org.uk/Hastings/

Saturday 7th December 2013 – 5.30PM

Tickets £3 includes mulled wine and mince pie

Hastings History House
21 Courthouse Street

Looking good!

New OHPS address

Please note - for all email correspondence to OHPS use anneohps@gmail.com

Incoming email will display as from OHPS

OHPS Volunteers’ Meeting

History House, Friday 6th December, 4PM

"Generations. Hastings Fishing Families. Photographs by John Cole"

 
(Not part of the exhibition – just used to illustrate the post)

Exhibition: "Generations. Hastings Fishing Families. Photographs by John Cole" will be at Stade Hall. until 14th November, 11-4 daily.

All proceeds from sales of photographs goes to Hastings Fishermen's Protection Society.

New Book available at the History House - £14.99

   Signed by the author.

Current Exhibitions at Hastings History House

• The Herring Fair – history and background
• West Hill of Hastings
• The Castle

Friends of Hastings Country Park Talk

Colin Page on "Wildlife on the Seashore":

Date: Friday 15th November @ 7pm

Venue: History House, Courthouse Street, Old Town, Hastings

Free to Friends of HCPNR

The Rock-a-Nore Story with Ken Brooks

Saturday 9th November 2013 – 5.30PM

Tickets - £2.50

Hastings History House

21 Courthouse Street

Stade Walks in November

 

More Information on Stade Winter Photography Competition

Down load an information sheet and entry form from the website.
http://stadephotographycompetition.wordpress.com/

Open Photography Competition

Upcoming Talks at Hastings History House

The Rock-a-Nore Story with Ken Brooks
Saturday 9th November 2013 – 5.30 PM
£2.50

Christmas Day in the Workhouse with Dorothy & Judith Kinnison Bourke
Saturday 7th December 2013 – 5.30PM
£3

Twenty-Five Years as a Local Tour Operator with Clive Richardson
Saturday 11th January 2014, 5.30PM
£3

Specific reminders will be posted a week or so before each event.

Artscape: Muriel Matters!

Muriel Matters was a South Australian actress who moved to London in 1905 and became a pivotal figure in the suffragette movement. Matters made a remarkable contribution to the fight for women's right to vote but her story is surprisingly little-known by most Australians. Through archive footage, interviews and dramatic reconstruction Muriel Matters! explores how this extraordinary woman got lost from history, and reveals what her story tells us about the links between art, politics and women's rights in England and Australia…………

Good precis, worth a read, but am denied access to the video.

http://www.abc.net.au/arts/stories/s3864731.htm

Sunday 13th October 11 am Tree walk in Hastings Cemetery

Just to remind you or let you know that Sunday 13th October at 11 am Dr Owen Johnson will lead a tree walk in Hastings Cemetery.  We meet by the car park.

Owen is the author of the Sussex Tree Book and is our local expert on all things aboricultural.

http://friendsofhastingscemetery.org.uk/

Saturday 12th October 5.30PM - Sidney Little – A Man with a Vision, More than a Concrete King

Sat 12th October 5.30
OHPS Illustrated talk by Andre Palfrey-Martin
21 Courthouse Street
Hastings
014240424744
Tickets £2

Sidney Little – A Man with a Vision, More than a Concrete King

Sat 12th October 5.30
OHPS Illustrated talk by Andre Palfrey-Martin
21 Courthouse Street
Hastings
014240424744
Tickets £2

Books Wanted for Book Sale! Saturday 19th / Sunday 20th October

Donations of good quality second hand books much appreciated.

And do come and buy when the time comes!

 

Heritage Open Day at the Cemetery

Anne will be at the cemetery on Sunday 15th; part of the Museum Exhibition will be on display, and Trail leaflets for exploring part of the cemetery available.

HOD has produced some videos to publicise events.  We feel this one is particularly relevant.  Enjoy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehLWG-MMlB0

Current Exhibitions at the Hastings History House

Old Town Carnival Week

A superb exhibition of the history and nature of Hasting Country Park, including interesting information of local fossils and dinosaurs.

And a perpetual source of interest – Some Old Town Twittens

Cemetery Exhibition – some of the information from Friends of Hastings Cemetery research – for more see http://friendsofhastingscemetery.org.uk/

Does anyone remember……

the skinny-dipping suffragette from Pelham Crescent.

Two members of the Muriel Matters Society, headquarters in Adelaide, have been here recently and would love some more memories, they are intrigued that her later life in Hastings seems to have disappeared from the collective memory.

She stood as a Labour MP for Hastings in 1924 (but was defeated) and came here to live in the later 1940’s, early 1950’s, living here until she died in 1969.

She is known variously as Muriel Matters, (Mrs) Muriel Porter, and Muriel Matters-Porter.

Any information at all, please email to marijsak@gmail.com and/or Frances.Bedford@parliament.sa.gov.au

Many Thanks

25th Jimmy Read Memorial Bike Race Poster

Available from Hastings History House, 21 Courthouse Street, (and other places)

Also available from Hastings History House:

Ron Veness: Bakers and Bakeries in the Old Town of Hastings

 

A Bit of a Do - at The Fishermen's, and other Stade Venues - Dunday July 14th Noon - 4PM

A not-to-be missed afternoon of free music from bluegrass to shanties, and choral singing to acoustic rock, will take place on and around The Stade, Hastings, this Sunday (July 14).

From noon to 4pm, musicians and choirs from Hastings and beyond will be performing as part of Our Big Gig, a nationwide community celebration of music that will see 300 events hosted between July 11 and 14.

As well as live performances there will also be workshops and the afternoon will culminate in a mass sing, where audience participation is actively encouraged.

At the Fishermen’s Museum, Jerwood Gallery, Lifeboat Station, and East Hastings Sea Angling Association, performers will be taking to boats and balconies for acoustic sets of between 15 and 30 minutes, from noon to 3pm.

Those taking part include Soundwaves Choir, Nicky Mitchell, Cushty, Rizen, The Harmonious Duo, Now & Then, Enid Brighton, Kim Thomsett, George Stevens, Sounds Good, Rattlebag and The Shanty Singers, R Brooks, Danni Mansfield, Adam Lightspeed, Fiddlesparks, Bexhill Harmony Choir, Dende Samba, Kyle of Minogue, Harry Osborne, Las Passionaras, Sacred Heart Primary School Choir, Helenswood String Ensemble, Eclipse Choir, The Class, Nana Tsiboe, and Vocal Explosion choir and band.

Update on SMIC from HOT

Hail St Mary’s!

St Mary-in-the-Castle has succeeded in completing the formalities for establishing its new management structure as a charitable trust and company limited by guarantee under the supervision of an  independent board of trustees. The trustees designate have been meeting for the last six months to plan how they will run the venue. Last week Charity Commission approval was obtained, writes Chris Cormack.

This confirmation of status will enable St Mary’s to start applying for various grants and get itself recognised on the arts touring circuit following a long-term plan instead of managing from day to day.

http://hastingsonlinetimes.co.uk/arts-culture/music-sound/hail-st-mary

New book – Silverhill; from Waterfall to Windmill

New Book
Silverhill; from Waterfall to Windmill

Slide show and talk by the author Alan Buckle
Saturday 6th July – 7.30 PM
St Luke’s Church, Silverhill

John Logie Baird's house featured tonight on Britain's Secret Homes programme.

Presenter Michael Buerk visits the house at 21 Linton Crescent in Hastings, where Baird carried out his early TV experiments.

The episode will be shown on ITV at 9pm tonight Friday July 5.

“I went for a walk over the cliffs to Fairlight Glen, and my mind went back to my early work on television.  Might there not be something in it now?”

He worked it out in his mind and with his friend constructed a ‘means of seeing wireless’ from a  lot of odds and ends.

Old Town Carnival Week – Tickets for Talks& Walks

Tickets now available from the Hastings History House, 21 courthouse Street
email ohps@ohps.org.uk
Tel: 01424 424744

Tickets limited to 20 for a walk, and 40 for a talk.

AUGUST 2013

Monday 5th

2PM Dandies and Dragoons – a Walk – Meet at Hastings History House (this walk is repeated on Wednesday)
Refreshments available
Tickets - £3.50

4.30PM – “Knickers for Dusters” – the true story of an austerity household in 1947.
A Talk by Victoria Seymour
Refreshments available
Tickets - £3

Tuesday 6th

10.30AM – a Walk with John Shirlaw - “Exploring the Architecture of All Saints Street”
Starts with an introduction at the History House
Tickets - £3.50

4.30PM – Illustrated talk “A History of Ore” with Christine Hayward
Refreshments available
Tickets - £3

Wednesday 7th

11AM – 1PM Coffee Morning at the History House
Browse the exhibitions and some of our archive material

2PM Dandies and Dragoons – a Walk – Meet at Hastings History House
Refreshments available
Tickets - £3.50

Thursday 8th
10AM Outside the Wall – a walk exploring the “suburbs”
Meet at Hastings History House.  Discover traces of Old Town Wall and the life outside it.
Tickets - £3.50

Friday 9th

12 Noon – 2.30PM – Cheese and Wine Lunch at Hastings History House
Local cheeses from Penbuckles. Organised by OHPS.  Raffle tickets available.
Tickets - £5

4.30PM – Exploring the Lost Roads of the Old Town – Walk
Meet at Hastings History House.
Lost roads, twittens and rows – traces that can be seen today
£3.50

Saturday 10th
4PM
Grand Raffle winning ticket will be drawn.  Tickets are on sale to raise money towards the installation of a lift.  Tickets £1 each, First Prize £50, second prize – tickets for the London Eye.

Friends of Hastings Cemetery Update

"the grave's a fine and private place…"

  exploring Hastings Cemetery

• The next Cemetery Walk is on Sunday 16th June at 11 am.  Meet at the main gate.
• Exhibition - Hastings Museum & Art Gallery, 27 April - 23 June.

New Stories & Features

• Charles Alderton J.P.  Hastings ironmonger, Alderton & Shrewsbury

• Edward Thomas Booth– Founder of Booth Museum of Natural History (Brighton)

• Ore Cemetery (aka Ore Burial Ground)

So much on in Hastings!

OHPS AGM 7th June 2013

History House
21 Courthouse Street

7 for 7.30pm

The meeting will be followed by a talk on Churches of Hastings & St Leonards presented by Joy Collins.

Fishermen’s Museum

Sea Shanties – Saturday 8th June (£10 including Fish supper and drink)

And while you are there have a look at a special exhibition in the Fishermen’s Museum, on the 30th anniversary of the return of the Edward and Mary RX74 to Hastings.

Friends of Hastings Cemetery

• The next Cemetery Walk is on Sunday 16th June at 11 am.  Meet at the main gate.
• Exhibition - Hastings Museum & Art Gallery, 27 April - 23 June.

Updated:

• Prelooker, Jaakoff - Russian emigre, founder of ‘New Israel’, prolific writer, lecturer and emancipist.
• Tolhurst, Tilden - Publican. Thief
• Various other pages updated with photos, memorials, etc.

New Stories & Features

• Diplock, William - Father (buried in All Saints) & son -librarians, and lots more besides
• Goodsell, Rowland & William - local, both drowned, 12 years apart
• Boulnois, Charles & Family - legal, India, explorers, Sudan, authors, artists……..

OHPS AGM 7th June 2013

History House
21 Courthouse Street

7 for 7.30pm

The meeting will be followed by a talk on Churches of Hastings & St Leonards presented by Joy Collins.

Fri 7th June 7.30 OHPS AGM

Roll up!  Roll up!  More details later, this is just so you can put it in your diary.

Cemetery Walk

The Next Cemetery Walk will be on Sunday 12th May at 2PM – Meet at the Main Gate.

Website update

• Exhibition - Hastings Museum & Art Gallery, 27 April - 23 June.

The next Cemetery Walk is on Sunday May 12th at 2pm.  Meet at the main gate.

New Stories & Features

• Sergiusz Piasecki -  a Polish writer, convicted armed robber and smuggler, a brave resistance fighter, a member of Intelligence forces, an executioner……..
• Gallery (in Beta) - use F11 to go to Full screen

Announcing Jack in the Green 2013

Hastings – where else?

Traditional Jack-in-the-Green: 03 - 06 May

http://www.hastingsjack.co.uk/

 

The Stade Guided Walks 2013

Stade Guided Walks have already begun but here are future dates.
Meet at the Lifeboat Station. StadeWalks@gmail.com
MaySunday 5th 11am
Saturday 25th 2pm
Sunday 26th 2pm
Monday 27th 2pm
June – all at 2pmSunday 2nd,  16th, 30th
July – all at 2 pmSunday 14th, 20th, 28th
August – November dates in a later post!

“The grave’s a fine and private place…”

27th April to 23rd June
At Hastings Museum &  Art Gallery

This display shows the work of a project to record extant memorials in the older sections of Hastings Cemetery and then to research some of the people and topics found. Whistler's mother, Queen Victoria's pastry chef, two Naval officers who were present at the siege of Sebastopol, are just a few fascinating stories the project’s uncovered.

There are mysteries you may be able to solve!

A new look for the seafront? Public Consultation

 

Stade Hall

Friday, April 26th – 4 – 6 PM

 

Old Town Walks 2013

http://ohps.org.uk/hastings_old_town_guided_walks.php
Old Town Walks start again on Tuesday 7th May
Meet at 2:30 pm at the top of the West Hill Lift.
These walks will run every Tuesday until the end of July.
Then in August,as well as the Tuesday walks,  there will be walks on Thursdays 8th, 15th, 22nd and the 29th; the first two Saturdays, and on Friday 9th.
In September the dates are Tuesday 3rd, 10th and Friday, and in October Saturday 12th, Sunday 13th and Monday 14th.
walks@ohps.org.uk

Friends of Hastings Cemetery Update

Updated

• George Devey- Architect & unacknowledged Father of the Arts & Crafts Movement
• Gambier, Dr. Thomas
• Useful Links

New Stories:

• The Borrow Family, Local schoolteachers, artist,
• William Montagu Glenister, “Father of the Hastings Police Force”; Founder of the Volunteer Fire Brigade, Inventor - Glenister-Merryweather Fire-fighting Tricycle
• Dr Arthur Henry Headley Huckle Local Dentist, Doctor, Lawyer and much more

• Alice Headley Neave, nee Huckle  Local Artist

What has this to do with it?  Click on photo to find out!

Brooke and Badham - Observing Hastings

20th April to 7th July

At Hastings Museum & Art Gallery
This exhibition is a pictorial history of Hastings as seen through the eyes of the two artists W.H. Brooke (1772-1860) and E.Leslie Badham (1873-1945). In 1922 Badham was invited to study Hastings Museum's collection of sketches of the town between 1820 and 1840 which had been drawn by Brooke, and to compile a contemporary record of Hastings. This exhibition will bring the two collections together.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/artists/William-Henry-Brooke

The Ridge - A Short History of a Long Road.”

Weds 17th April 11am

History House, 21 Courthouse Street Coffee morning and talk by local author Victoria Seymour £2

Friends of Hastings Cemetery Updated

http://friendsofhastingscemetery.org.uk/

●    Frederick Chamier - Gravestone & Inscription
●    Charles Vigant Monterossi de Falbe- Gravestone & Inscription
●    Gambier, Dr. Thomas
●    Lieut.Col the Hon Gilbert Elliot  & Katherine Ann Childers - Inscriptions & grave stones
●    Ionides Family
●    John McClelland and Sophie Swaine
New Stories:
●    George Devey - Architect & unacknowledged Father of the Arts & Crafts Movement
●    Ransom, Charlotte – Servant

Useful Links added

New group set up with aim to save town's heritage

Save Our Heritage
In Hastings & St. Leonards
Working to preserve and promote the Borough’s historic environment
OPEN
PUBLIC
MEETING
WEDNESDAY 10th APRIL 2013
VENUE
WHITE ROCK HOTEL
HASTINGS
6.30pm for 7.00pm
Inaugural Meeting Chair: STEPHEN GRAY
Your opportunity to show your concerns
about the protection of the boroughs
heritage

(Associated with OHPS)

Visit to Highgate and Abney Park Cemeteries

Tuesday 11th June

Please let Anne Scott know ASAP if you would like to come.  The cost will be £14 each for the Highgate Tour unless you are one of the project researchers and there may be a small donation sought for the minibus.  So would you let me know ASAP if you would like a place.

We have to be at Highgate at 11 and I will try and book Abney Park for 2.15.  If you are making your own way to London but need transport between the 2 Anne needs to know that as well please.

Hastings local history goes online

History buffs will be buoyed to read that reports of Hastings court cases from the Victorian era are being released online along with other items of local historical interest. Their publication is part of the 125th year celebrations of Sussex law firm Gaby Hardwicke Solicitors, which was founded in 1889, the year in which the hit BBC One TV series Ripper Street is set.

Only a year after the infamous ‘Jack the Ripper’ killings, Britain was a very different place in 1889, and this is reflected in the often bizarre nature of local court cases. Alongside the familiar occurrence of burglaries and assaults, quirky cases involving speeding ponies, drunken horsemen, unlicensed hawkers, rogue railway porters and animal theft were regularly heard in the Hastings courts.

The archive also sheds light on the serious issue of social deprivation at a time when poverty was widespread and Hastings had its own workhouse. Sadder cases include a woman charged with keeping her child from school because she couldn’t afford to buy him boots, and a girl charged with begging alongside her mother, who was charged with causing the child to beg.

Elsewhere in the new ‘125th year’ section of Gaby Hardwicke’s website are extracts from wartime letters about local bombing (including the 1940 bombing of Gaby Hardwicke’s Hastings office), reminiscences from solicitors and employees from days gone by and profiles of the firm’s key former partners, among them some well-known local figures.     

David Young, Senior Partner at Gaby Hardwicke, said: “History and a sense of place are important to all of us. Over the years, Gaby Hardwicke has been an important reference point and resource for the whole community and I am delighted with the positive feedback we have received from those with whom various episodes and personalities in the firm’s colourful and rich history have resonated so loudly. We are immensely proud of our unique heritage.”

The material is available online at http://www.gabyhardwicke.co.uk/history.asp

For further information, please contact:

Alex Daley

01424 735083

atd@gabyhardwicke.co.uk  

A DAY SCHOOL : TWO MAJOR NEW REPORTS ON THE OLD ST HELEN’S CHURCH

SUSSEX HERITAGE TRUST

A DAY SCHOOL :
TO PRESENT TWO MAJOR NEW REPORTS
ON THE OLD ST HELEN’S CHURCH, ORE

To be held at :
The Lecture Theatre, Havelock Road, Hastings, TN34 1BE
(University of Brighton)

Wednesday 10 April 2013

COST FOR THE MORNING - £15
To book your place for the morning please copy and paste into Wordor other WP programme and complete the following.

WWW.OLDSTHELENSCHURCH.ORG.UK

SUSSEX HERITAGE TRUST

BOOKING FORM

A DAY SCHOOL :
TO PRESENT TWO MAJOR NEW REPORTS
ON THE OLD ST HELEN’S CHURCH, ORE

Wednesday 10 April 2013, 9.30am

Please reserve …… place/s at the day school at £15 per person

I enclose a cheque for £……….

Please make cheques payable to ‘Sussex Heritage Trust’

Name

1
2
3
4

Please note:
Places are limited.
Please reply by Friday 22 March.

Please send this booking form with your cheque to:

Day School Booking,
Sussex Heritage Trust,
The Granary,
Cornfords Yard
High Street
Uckfield
TN22 1RJ

Public exhibition of New Archery Ground proposals to be aired

Gladedale is preparing new plans for the development of the Archery Ground site in St Leonards. In the next few days there will be an exhibition of its proposals and a chance for stakeholders to give their responses.

Assembly Rooms, East Ascent, St Leonards-on-Sea.

Friday 15 March, 4-7pm, Saturday 16 March, 10am-1pm.

Pre-Application Forum:

Hastings Town Hall, Monday 18 March, 6pm.

Talk Friday, 15th March (ides of)

Talk by Lyn and Kevin Cornwell (of HAARG) on The Archaeology and History of the Country Park.

Organised by the Friends of Hastings Country Park; £2 for non-members.

7.00 at the History House

21 Courthouse Street.

“An Old Town Boy Made Good”

• Saturday March 16th at 5.30 PM

We are delighted to welcome The High Sheriff for East Sussex, David Allam, to tell us the story of a boy’s rise in the world from All Saints Street in the 19th Century. Tickets £2.00

Spirit of Plaice

Fishing for a sense of place: major new survey
http://hastingsonlinetimes.co.uk/hastings-life/hastings-people/fishing-survey-under-control-nt

A survey has been launched to find out how the fishing fleet influences the way people feel about Hastings.  Working with the Hastings Fisheries Local Action Group (FLAG), the University of Greenwich’s School of Science is conducting a major new survey, called Sensing Fishing Places, to find out how marine fishing contributes to a sense of place in Hastings.

If you live or work in Hastings and would like to take part in this survey, please go to the following link to complete the survey online.  Or, for a paper copy of the survey, please contact Dr Julie Urquhart at GIFS@greenwich.ac.uk, telephone 0208 331 8227/9751 or pick one up at the University of Brighton in Hastings campus reception in Priory Square.  The survey will run until 19 April 2013. Join others in shaping the voice of what marine fishing means for our coastal communities today.

Help!

The OHPS is in desperate need of a Treasurer and possibly someone willing to help with financial routines at The fishermen’s Museum.

Our current treasurer has given sterling service for many years and over a year ago announced her intention to resign,.but she has soldiered on in the interim while we look for a replacement.

If you can help please contact Carol Porter on 812662, or Anne Scott at the History House. 424744 or email.

Getting excited about a roundabout…

Maquettes of the two sculptures shortlisted from seven internationally known artists’ works for Pelham Roundabout have been unveiled.
http://hastingsonlinetimes.co.uk/arts-culture/arts-news/pelham-roundabout-sculpture

A mobile exhibition van will be set up to view the shortlisted prize-entries as follows:
Friday 8 March 2013  -  at Pelham carpark on the seafront   10-4pm
Saturday 9 March 2013 – Robertson Street outside Debenhams  10-4pm   Sunday 10 March 2013 –  Stade Open Space                   10-4pm

Friends of Hastings Cemetery–updates

Updated

• Richard Nelson Jones
• Charles Vigant Monterossi de Falbe [Carl]

New Stories:

• Sir William Laird Clowes - author, poet, Naval writer
• William Spence Percival - Civil Servant in China, adventurer, author
• Emma Jane Ewbank / Rev. Charles Augustus Ewbank- Church, Adelaide, South Australia

Friends of Hastings Cemetery Update

George Monger V.C. has been updated - see page 2

New Stories:

Lieut.Col the Hon Gilbert Elliot Rifle Brigade

Katherine Ann Childers, wife of above

Alfred Thomas Saville 1839- 1915 Missionary

Frederick Chamier (1796–1870) Novelist, Naval Captain

Charles Vigant Monterossi de Falbe Captain, Royal Danish Navy

Edward Preston - Talk on Marianne North

Monday 18^th February

Please Note

This is at 10:30

At

Parish Community Club

Crypt of St Mary Star of the Sea

(Bourne Entrance)

February Newsletter

This is now available online at http://ohps.org.uk/OHPS_Newsletters/OHPS_Newsletter_Feb_2013.pdf

"The grave's a fine and private place...."

• Saturday 16th February at 5.30 PM

Exploring history in Hastings Cemetery – Anne Scott and members of the project Please book, tickets free!

Hastings in the Days of Sail – Fishing Vessels

Friday 15th February – 7PM
Hastings History House
21 Courthouse Street
01424424744

Steve Peak explains the varying fishing vessels

Country Park members free

otherwise £2 admission

Lost Streets Exhibition

 

Hollington  -  St Leonards  –  Silverhill  -  Ore   –  Halton  -  Old Town

Hastings History House Award

 

Anne accepting Certificate of Merit from Mayor & Hastings Week Chair Nigel Hogben for History House's contribution to Hastings Week. (Thanks to Ion Castro)

Nick Austin – The Real Site of the Battle of Hastings

Please note that the talk due to take place this weekend has been cancelled, or postponed.

“Some Pubs, Inns and Beer Houses of Hastings” an illustrated talk by John Hodges

• Saturday 12th January at 5.30 PM

A repeat performance by popular demand Tickets - £2.00 Tel:424744

Winter Programme

• Saturday 12th January at 5.30 PM

A repeat performance by popular demand
“Some Pubs, Inns and Beer Houses of Hastings” an illustrated talk by John Hodges
Tickets - £2.00 Tel:424744

• Saturday 16th February at 5.30 PM

‘The grave’s a fine and private place….’ Exploring history in Hastings Cemetery – Anne Scott and members of the project
Please book, tickets free! Tel:424744

• Saturday March 16th at 5.30 PM

“An Old Town Boy Made Good” – We are delighted to welcome The High Sheriff for East Sussex, David Allam, to tell us the story of a boy’s rise in the world from All Saints Street in the 19th Century.
Tickets - £2.00 Tel:424744