The report found Hastings to be in the top one per cent for industrial heritage and parks and open spaces, as well as the top five per cent for landscape and natural heritage and for ‘cultures and memories’.
“The heritage of the town is marked and celebrated through some of the largest number of Heritage Open Days and blue plaques in the country,” the RSA report says.
Hastings ranks in the top nine per cent for museums, archives and artefacts and for ‘historic built environment’, the town is in the top 12 per cent.
Hastings has been named in the top five English ‘heritage assets’ – above Oxford and other historic locations.
The Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) released a report into the country’s heritage on Wednesday (September 23).
The RSA define heritage as, “anything inherited from the past that helps us, collectively or individually, to understand the present, and create a better future.”
www.thersa.org/discover/publications-and-articles/reports/seven-themes-from-the-heritage-index.
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Come along to play Bruce Nichol’s famous game – with new (still Hastings related) subjects. Prizes! There is a charge to play.
It is great fun, and more fun if there are more people.
Available form Hastings History House
21 Courthouse Street
The University of Brighton is working with Hastings Borough Council to develop a major bid to the Heritage Lottery Fund.
At the centre will be improvements to the interpretation of Hastings Castle, but the bid will be for much more than that, the council said.
we have commissioned the University of Brighton to help us develop a new approach to the history and legacy of 1066, and how it relates to our town. And we also want to tell the bigger story that explains our rich heritage, and traces its impact through to the present day.
“This will help us develop a new bid to the Heritage Lottery Fund for the resources to tell our story, including the development of Hastings Castle as a modern visitor attraction.
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The old Observer building is being redeveloped by Flint Development Group: a new force in the real estate world that puts people first. Revitalised and repurposed, it will provide student housing and much more:
“We are rescuing one of Hastings’ most loved buildings, re-animating the America Ground and bringing students from all over the country and the world to Hastings.
To coincide with the Hastings Literary Connections display in Hastings History House (from Saturday) a list has been compiled of the writers so far identified who are buried in the cemetery.
Many of the works are non-fiction, travel, scientific, religious, medical and autobiographies. There are also poets and playwrights.
