Everyone has a book inside them or so they say… have you?
Have a listen to The Frustrated Authors as they discuss their favourite books and the things that get in the way of ther own writing…
Have a listen to The Frustrated Authors as they discuss their favourite books and the things that get in the way of ther own writing…
Once again courtesy of Derelict In The UK we bring you photographs of iconic and deserted buildings, this time St Leonards Parish Church. Standing grand on the St Leonards seafront, this beautiful building was completed in 1961 to replace its predecessor destroyed by a direct hit from V-1 ‘doodlebug’. It originally had structural building problems […]
Was Hastings cursed by the occultist Aleister Crowley? Much has been written about Aleister Crowley, the famous dabbler in ‘sex magick’. He reached the end of his days in a boarding house on The Ridge in 1947 – he’d run out of money and he’d run out of friends. The Victorian house known as Netherwood […]
Stuart Baillie finds out about the history of a building that has always intrigued him… I was standing on top of the East Hill at the weekend showing some friends who were visiting the town some of the landmarks of the area. They pointed west and asked, ‘what’s that?’ What they were asking about was of course Marine […]
Even today more than 30 years after it closed people still fondly remember ‘the old bathing pool’. It’s a place where memories were made. If this feature evokes some memories in you we’d love you to share them with us, or if you have old photographs we’d love to see them email us at tellmeyourstory@hastingsinfocus.co.uk […]
Once again we’re dipping in to the work of ‘Modernity Mark’ with a selection of photographs from the former Palace Hotel on Hastings seafront taken in 2014. Mark is also able to provide some detailed history of the hotel and explains the architectural and design features that make the building stand out as a architectural […]
Nottingham woman Sue Church is spearheading a campaign to have a blue plaque erected in Hastings in memory of the legendary Biddy The Tubman. This Pathe newsreel footage of Biddy in action probably better explains his ‘act’ than words ever could. Sue says: “As Hastings Borough Council no longer funds these Blue Plaques, it looks […]