By Jim Hollands
The people of the Old Town lined the streets on Thursday to say farwell
to John Napier, better known as ‘John the Cobbler’ who lost his battle
with cancer on Monday 9 April.
His world famous business, ‘Cobblers to the Old Town’ has raised many
smiles with locals and visitors alike. Just as John’s warm welcome
touched everyone who entered his shop.
With so many newsagents in Hastings having closed over the past three years we are often hearing the question Where can I buy a copy of Hastings Town?
Here is a list of the Newsagents and other outlets who sell the magazine.
Sweet Selection Robertson Street Hastings
The Paper Shop Silchester Road St Leonards
Hollington Newsagents 143 Battle Road St, Leonards
Dhruva Newsagents Ore
Newsagents Mount Road
Beneys News Hughenden Road
Londis Norman Road St Leonards
The Bourne Newsagents
Premier Stores Bexhill Road St Leonards
The Yella Shop, Kings Road St Leonards
Wishing Tree Newsagents
Conquest Hospital Shop
Premier Stores Ore
Best One Warrior Square
Tobac Shop Un-named Road (off Queens Rd / Nr. Priory Meadow)
Fairlight Stores Fairlight
Jempsons Rye
Jempsons Peasmarsh
Jempsons Northiam
For those that live out of the area or cannot get to a newsagents, there is a postal subscription Service one year at £36 (Email [email protected] for details or order direct from the ryesown.co.uk website via paypal.
Rye’s Own Number 278
Is packed with pictures from local events. The Country show at Icklesham, Rye Flower Festival, Festival of the Sea, Raft Race, Lifeboat Open Day, Mariner’s Garden Party, Rock-a-Billy Rev Up and the fantastic 2017 War & Peace Revival.
There is a preview of the Rye Arts Festival, 16 September – 1 October. Great pictures of Home Secretary, Amber Rudd MP., visiting Rye and so much more.
Details of the Tour de Rye et Romney Marsh Cycle Challenge put on by Rye & Winchelsea Rotary Club with help from Rye Wheelers. This will take place on Sunday 24 September, riders leaving from Rye Club, Market Road in groups from 9 am. to 10 am. Join the riders. Short ides for children, beginners and casual riders as well as the 100k for those looking for a bigger challenge.
Cinque Ports Number 24
Features the outstanding Cinque Ports singer Victoria Bass as the cover girl for September.
Two pages of pictures from Hythe Venetian Fete, fantastic preview of the Romney Marsh Tapestry, pictures from the Weald of Kent Steam Rally, The work of Richard Taylor-Jones the wildlife cameraman.
Plus News, Views, Art, Music, Nostalgia, Sport, Walks, something for everyone.
Hastings Town Number 116
“The September 2017 issue is the best Hastings Town ever” Direct quote from one of our voluntary contributors when he saw a proof issue.
Packed with Carnival pictures and stories and special tributes to Carnival favourite Ron “Popeye” Everett who died recently.
Hastings folk at the War & Peace Revival are also featured, including the amazing story of a vintage motor bike with a Hastings registration.
Rye’s Own, Hastings Town & Cinque Ports have been described as a shining beacon in hard copy publishing.
At a time when many newspapers and magazines are disappearing from newsagents shelves as ‘free sheets’ television round the clock news and the internet are slowly killing off purchased print and even the newsagents themselves, the three local publications featured here go on from strength to strength, thanks to our loyal readers, advertisers and surviving newsagents.
There are many villages and even towns, in our catchment areas that do not have a newsagents now. The Cinque Port of Tenterden springs to mind as a big town without a traditional newsagent. Is there a small shop on Tenterden High Street prepared to sell Cinque Ports? Or outlets in villages without a newsagent who are prepared to sell our publications. Please Tel 01303 814874 if you can help. We can supply by subscription but many readers tell us that a magazine bought over the counter is always more fun to read.
Dee Day Articles in the February Issue
Nostalgia
Sunny Hastings 1948
Apps Family Business
Carnival Queen 1936
Dee Day Files
Long Gone Hastings
U-Boat at St Leonards
Local Music Continue reading February Hastings Town
Police are appealing for witnesses following a burglary at Hastings Town Hall.
At around 6.45pm on Monday (4 July) a man broke into the building, got into several rooms and stole some £300 from a safe.
8mm. Footage of Hastings 50 years ago.
World Copyright Protected c 2016
St Leonards man has been sentenced to more than ten years imprisonment for drugs and firearms offences.
Carlton Meldrum, 23, of The Ridge, St Leonards, was sentenced to seven years for possessing heroin with intent to supply when he appeared at Snaresbrook Crown Court in London on 30 March having previously pleaded guilty. This followed his arrest on 27 September last year when he was arrested with another man in a car in Ilford, East London. Three kilos of heroin, a firearm and two rounds of Continue reading St Leonards man sentenced for drugs and firearms offences.
08 Apr, 2016 11:59 News Justice Done Continue reading Hastings Man Sentenced Over Sexual Offences Involving Children.
Three men have been arrested for a racially aggravated assault on a woman in Hastings last month.
A 25-year-old Muslim woman was walking on Bohemia Road at around 11am on March 27 when she was confronted by three men by the Hastings Museum opposite Falaise Road.
The woman crossed the road to avoid them but as she walked away one of the Continue reading Three Arrested for Racial Assault
Multi-National Supermarket chains are at last being seen for what they are – money making machines that are only interested in profit and taking more and more money off their now ‘captive’ clientèle, the general public.
This magazine and it’s sister publications have run article after article for many years supporting the small and medium sized traders, pointing out the dangers of the ever expanding multi-national chains and their dubious sales techniques, misleading packaging and pricing tricks. Continue reading Hastings Town Editorial – March 2013
