Wednesday 27 April 2016

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Tuesday 26 April 2016

Opening Wednesday 27th April 2016. Hastings Pier Charity is proud to present a new, unique pier for the 21st Century.

VINTAGE FUNFAIR

Presented by: Funtime Rides

Wednesday April 27th - Thursday July 28th

from 10:00am

© Eva Andrews-Clifford

Come and experience all the fun of the fair on Hastings Pier! Funtime Rides' Vintage Funfair will offer lots of fun and games for adults and children alike. The centrepiece to this event is the beautiful Traditional Carousel.

Saturday 23 April 2016

Sea Shanty Evening with the RX Shantymen

Date/Time
Date(s) - 21/05/2016
6 PM

Location
Hastings Fishermen's Museum

- See more at: http://www.ohps.org.uk/events/sea-shanty-evening-with-the-rx-shantymen/#sthash.HnFc1Nbl.dpuf

The Hastings Fishermen's Museum celebrates 60 years as a museum on 17th May and we would love for you to come and help us celebrate with an evening of shanties, beer and fish rolls! 

Food will be available from 6pm and the singing will start at 7pm. Tickets are available from the museum for £8 which includes entry, one

drink (local beer, wine or squash) and a Tush & Pat Fisherman's Roll.

- See more at: http://www.ohps.org.uk/events/sea-shanty-evening-with-the-rx-shantymen/#sthash.HnFc1Nbl.dpuf

Sea Shanty Evening with the RX Shantymen

Date/Time
Date(s) - 21/05/2016
6 PM

Location
Hastings Fishermen's Museum

- See more at: http://www.ohps.org.uk/events/sea-shanty-evening-with-the-rx-shantymen/#sthash.HnFc1Nbl.dpuf

The Hastings Fishermen's Museum celebrates 60 years as a museum on 17th May and we would love for you to come and help us celebrate with an evening of shanties, beer and fish rolls! 

Food will be available from 6pm and the singing will start at 7pm. Tickets are available from the museum for £8 which includes entry, one

drink (local beer, wine or squash) and a Tush & Pat Fisherman's Roll.

- See more at: http://www.ohps.org.uk/events/sea-shanty-evening-with-the-rx-shantymen/#sthash.HnFc1Nbl.dpuf

Thursday 21 April 2016

Public memorial for Robert Tressell

A St Leonards-based master stone carver and a seafront retailer have brought together their passion for Robert Tressell to launch a project to create a permanent  to the author in the town.

The Tribute to Tressell project was conceived after an event in 2014 to mark the centenary of the first version of The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists being published.

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With the block of deep bed Portland stone that will become the bust now delivered and marked up, the project is launching its crowdfunding campaign to complete the commission and then look to tour the piece to other places with a connection with Tressell, such as Liverpool and Dublin, where he was born in 1870,– before finding a permanent public home for it in St Leonards

More information about the project, links to their videos and to the funding campaign can be found at www.tribute2tressell.org.uk from where you can also follow it on Facebook and Twitter.

Read more: http://www.hastingsobserver.co.uk/news/local/st-leonards-project-for-memorial-to-robert-tressell-1-7334447#ixzz46HeJSz4W

Wednesday 20 April 2016

IMPORTANT - Rocklands Caravan Park

The Planning Inspector will be holding a public hearing relating to the unauthorised building at Rocklands Caravan Park this coming Thursday 21st April at 10am in the Sussex Hall, White Rock Theatre.

All are welcome to attend and the more who do so the more the Inspector will be able to see the level of public concern about this case.

The hearing may continue on Friday 22nd if the Inspector deems it necessary. Members of the public, including representatives of the Friends, may be asked to speak at the Inspector’s discretion.

Norman long boat on the beach

Plans to erect a six metre-tall sculpture of a  to mark the 950th anniversary of the Battle of Hastings have been submitted to the council

An artist's impression of the Norman long boat sculpture on the beach to mark the 950th anniversary of the Battle of Hastings

Leigh Dyer is building the sculpture for the Root 1066 Festival later this year and planning permission is now being sought from Hastings Borough Council.

Mr Dyer hopes to place the boat on the shingle opposite Denmark Place.

All the comments are supportive of the ‘beautiful thing with great resonance’, as Val Hunnisett described it.

The project is being done in collaboration with British Artist Blacksmith Association but Leigh is also relying on crowdfunding to make it happen.

To donate and find out more, visit: www.youcaring.com/residents-of-and-visitors-to-hastings-england-54493.

Read more: http://www.hastingsobserver.co.uk/news/local/norman-long-boat-sculpture-to-mark-1066-anniversary-1-7337256#ixzz46HdW0vtJ

Tuesday 19 April 2016

Friday 15 April 2016

Saturday 9 April 2016

Friday 8 April 2016

Humbug & Gifts - Pelham Arcade

The facade has been taken back to the original, and looks wonderful - but if you want to see it, you need to get along there quickly as apparently the Council / English Heritage (and apologies if these are not the bodies responsible) want it to match the St Mary in the Castle new facade.

Inside the shop the false ceiling has been removed and the original arched ceiling of the Arcade can be seen, and you can look up through the skylight.