There’s no doubt that one of the biggest stories in town this year has been the battle for ownership of Hastings Pier. In November 2017, in the same week that the pier was awarded the nation’s top architecture award, the RIBA Stirling prize, it was also announced that the Hastings Pier Charity, which ran the […]
In two weeks time we’ll have bid farewell to 2018 and we’ll be welcoming in the new year, so we thought it was time to start looking back to some of your favourite stories and features from Hastings In Focus’ first year. Over the next two weeks we’ll be taking a look back at the items […]
With the weather forecast looking bleak for the remainder of the weekend we’re recommending hibernating in front of a roaring fire with a mug – or a glass – of your favourite tipple and settling down to a selection of videos all with Hastings at their centre. If the weather stays the way it is, […]
From the video vault With padlocks firmly securing the gates of Hastings Pier this week after a fire at the weekend we found this film on YouTube which looks at the aftermath of the 2010 fire and community efforts to bring the pier back to life. Re: A Pier is the work of film maker […]
Round the world travel in the 19th century was something only a handful of people could do. One of those who did was Annie Brassey and there’s a major project underway to look again at her works as a photographer, a writer and a prolific collector. Hastings Museum and Art Gallery is partnering with the […]
Hastings remembers The town is set to remember the 100th anniversary of the end of hostilities in the First World War with a series of events being held over this weekend. The official opening of Hastings Remembers at Hastings Museum is at 2.30pm on Saturday. This exhibition runs until January27th next year and looks at the […]
A total of 440 ‘creepy’ visitors raised an amazing £1,400 for St Michaels Hospice when they took part in a Pumpkin Trail around the Hospice grounds last week. It’s always a popular event in the Hospice’s annual fundraising calendar and this year the visitors enjoying the trail around the Hospice garden, craft activities, wicked competitions […]
Local Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) groups are opening up their meetings as part of Alcohol Concern’s Alcohol Awareness week which runs between November 19th-25th. To mark the event AA in Hastings, St Leonards, Battle, Bexhill, Rye and Ticehurst is opening up meetings that are normally only for those who are trying to stop drinking or need support […]
Kate Tym and John Knowles of It’s Not Us Theatre Company are back for a third year with their sell-out Christmas show, A Penny Pincher’s Christmas Carol. “Every year we get requests from our audiences to put it on again,” says Kate, “they tell us it wouldn’t be Christmas without it and we are more […]
