Photos courtesy of Darren McCann, Mark Dockerill and Sid Saunders Have you taken some great pictures of the Hastings and St Leonards or events that are going on…? Just email them to tellmeyourstory@hastingsinfocus.co.uk and we’ll share them with the town. Have you taken some great pictures of the Hastings and St Leonards or events that are going […]
When the Richard and Caroline Colton arrived in Hastings on Saturday local people turned out in force to welcome the town’s brand new Shannon class lifeboat. It’s been three decades since Hastings has had a new lifeboat. When the Mersey Class Sealink Endeavour came to Hastings 30 years ago who would have guessed then that it would go on […]
No need for words, just enjoy a few photographs from yesterday’s bonfire night and fireworks display.
Our recent feature on the ‘old bathing pool’ certainly stirred up a lot of happy memories and it has gone on to be the story that has attracted the biggest audience of any on Hastings In Focus. One reader pointed out:”People still say ‘meet you at the bathing pool’ even today, you can tell their […]
Sidney Little 1885 – 1961 ‘A paradise of concrete and chrome’ is how one commentator of the time described what Borough Engineer, Sidney Little had created in Hastings and St Leonards. Folklore says that the 41-year-old Cumbrian was one of 47 men who had applied for the job of Borough Engineer when it was advertised […]
Photographer Sid Saunders is well known for his great photographs of the town and he has recently published a series of shots he has taken in Old Roar Gill and Coronation Wood, part of Alexandra Park. Sid says: “Little Roar Gill waterfall was my destination situated in the Old Roar Gill part of Coronation Wood […]
