The first newsletter from the resident led partnership looking to make north east Hastings a better place to live has been published. In 2012 an organisation called Local Trust received £220 million from the Big Lottery Fund. With that money 150 ‘Big Local’ areas were created in the country and each one was given £1 […]
For the first time in my life I’ve just slept rough, outdoors, in the open and in a cardboard box writes Stuart Baillie. Unlike those who find themselves forced to sleep on the streets I was not alone, I was one of more than 100 people taking part in The Big Sleep on the Stade […]
People in Hastings are being to help in the battle against dementia by signing up for a local Alzheimer’s Society’s Memory Walk this Saturday(September 29th). Local woman Jay Kramer saw her life transformed by her mother’s dementia and it’s this that has motivated her to try to make a positive difference. Jay is asking the […]
Damian Etherington (right) is the new museum and cultural development manager at Hastings Museum and Art Gallery His appointment follows the recent retirement of curator Cathy Walling. Damian’s career began in 2005 working on a project with the National Museums of Scotland, since then he has worked on a range of projects with partners including English […]
Hastings Museum and Art Gallery is marking the centenary of the end of the First World War with two new exhibitions How the First World War Shaped the World We Know Today runs from October 13th until January 27th next year. The World had seen nothing like it before with fighting going on in Europe, […]
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 […]
Do you know there are big plans afoot for our town centre and the White Rock area? The council is consulting on something called the Area Action Plan which sets out aspirations for the area from St Mary’s Convent in the west, and across the town centre as far as Pelham Place. People have until […]
A ‘people’s vote’ was launched on Monday but not the kind you hear being discussed daily on the national news, no this people’s vote is out to find out the best parks and green spaces in the country. In July Alexandra Park, the Country Park, and St Leonards gardens were given a prestigious Green Flag […]
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 […]
