If you’re looking for something to do with the family on Friday the Funhouse Festival might be just what you’ve been searching for. For just £12 per child, families can take part in relaxed drop-in sessions making bespoke Fun House memorabilia to take home with them. Smaller-scale workshops can also be booked at no extra […]
A packed Kino-Teatr in St Leonards was the venue last month for a fitting finale to an incredible five days of walking as this year’s Refugee Tales concluded with an evening of story-telling, laughter and occasionally tears. Almost 70 miles was covered from Brighton to Hastings and more than 150 people joined each day in […]
The story of Hastings’ own university campus is a short one spanning just 14 years from its opening in a former telephone exchange in Havelock Road to its closure this summer. There were great hopes for a homegrown university in the town and overwhelming sadness when it was announced in 2016 that the University of […]
We write this article as participants on the National Citizen Service (NCS) programme, designed for 15 to 17 year olds to develop their communication and teamwork skills, as well as involvement in key issues in their local area. We are: Tom Langley, Greta Beecroft, Grace Tagg, Lorraine Davenport, Dom Nicholas, Will Beard, Pearl Ukairo Morris, […]
Relaunched this month as Hastings Contemporary, the former Jerwood Gallery opened its doors with an exciting programme featuring two major exhibitions of work by the international contemporary artist Tal R and British painter Roy Oxlade. One of the first visitors was local MP Amber Rudd who was shown around the gallery by its director Liz […]
In the late 1990s Richard Street chaired Hastings Borough Council’s John Logie Baird working party. It was tasked with looking at the creation of a John Logie Baird/TV museum in the town. Sadly those plans came to nothing but there was a small festival to celebrate the 75th anniversary of Baird’s first patent and the ‘Birthplace […]
We’re all familiar with the signs on the outskirts of town that tell us Hastings was the ‘birthplace of television’ and any self-respecting general knowledge quiz will ask who invented television and where was he when he did it. Inventor John Logie Baird lived in Linton Crescent and built the first television from items such as scissors, […]
There’s an online petition demanding a national day of recognition to commemorate the often overlooked VJ day (Victory in Japan) on August 15th 1945, which marked the real end of the Second World War. Former Hastings Borough Councillor Richard Street has a special reason to feel passionately about the issue and below he explains why. […]
Hastings and St Leonards was buzzing today. There was a huge focus around Warrior Square where the St Leonards festival had it’s base and the promenade opposite the square and stretching along towards the pier was full of colourful characters, dancers and performers. Proving that special events aren’t needed to make our town a fun […]
