Hastings Greenway Group will be walking again this weekend, on Sunday 28th, heading through the Ore Valley. The walk starts at 2.30pm at Ore Station. The walk will then follow the route designated in the Local Plan up to Speckled Wood via Hurrell Road, and returning via Broomgrove back to the station. There will be a […]
Thirty years after it first premiered in London, Hastings’ Stables theatre presents Shadowlands next month, a powerful and compelling play about C.S. Lewis and his wife, American poet, Joy Davidman. Lewis is perhaps most well known for his successful series of Narnia books he wrote for children, but he was also a member of The […]
When Miriam Margolyes came to Hastings to make a film with Coffin Club’s Kate Tym and Kate Dyer she only planned to visit once but she enjoyed the experience so much she’s been back not just once, but twice and has even become the charity’s Patron “Miriam and her film crew came along to our […]
The weather over Easter weekend just highlighted what a stunning location we live in and here, courtesy of Peter Norman we bring you some fantastic shots of the town in celebration of our environment. If you have any photographs you’d like to share with Hastings In Focus readers email them to tellmeyourstory@hastingsinfocus.co.uk or send them via […]
Hastings means so many things to so many people. This series of articles began with one young man explaining his hopes and fears for his hometown and here Irmina Corder explains why she has come ‘home’ to Hastings, after 50 years, having been one of the town’s ‘hysterical, backcombed, swirling-petticoated teenagers’ in the 1960s. This […]
Yesterday in Hastings town centre, local school children again joined thousands across the country to strike for the climate. Local people who grumble that they could do their bit by litter picking need to realise that while that is an honourable pursuit, we need much more radical action if we are to have any chance […]
For more than a year Ian Jarman has been on a one man crusade to win recognition for an anonymous white marble statue in West Marina Gardens. The statue depicts the moment that Edith Swanneck – or Edith the Fair – the common law wife of King Harold, finds his body, where he died, on […]
Women in Hastings are being encouraged to ‘find their voices’ as part of a summer long campaign that was launched last month on International Women’s Day. Run by Women’s Voice funding for the Finding Our Voices programme came from the Tampon Tax Community Fund, via the Sussex Community Foundation, and aims to establish a women’s […]
Nineteen-year-old Tom McCann is Hastings born and bred, as were his father and grandfather before him, but as a young man trying to make his way in life he has a love/hate relationship with the town he calls home – here he explains why. A few weeks ago I was asked to write about a […]
