List of newsagents where Hastings Town is available 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 … Continue reading Where can I get Hastings Town?
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Rye’s Own approaches Hastings Town as a living magazine subject, bringing together news, personalities, photographs and stories from across the archive. Articles including “Draper’s Mill”, “One from Lon Castro’s Archive”, “Setting History In Stone-Hastings And Rye (Australia) Worlds Apart”, and “Where can I get Hastings Town?” give a flavour of the people, places and moments collected here. It is designed for browsing: one familiar name or remembered incident often opens the door to another.
Setting History In Stone-Hastings And Rye (Australia) Worlds Apart
Richard Holdsworth finds a similarity between history preserved in Australia’s tapestry and Hastings’ own Millennium Chronicles… Successive generations will be indebted to the good souls who record our history so that it is never forgotten and I am fortunate that I have come across two such people even though they are twelve-thousand miles apart, one … Continue reading Setting History In Stone-Hastings And Rye (Australia) Worlds Apart
Ray Levett making up for 45 lost years!
This interesting story and picture first appeared in one of our first issues of “Hastings Town”. We have not been able to get in touch with Ray up to the time of printing but hope he and his good lady are fit and well and have a great Christmas. (Editor) By Ray Levett I wondered … Continue reading Ray Levett making up for 45 lost years!
One from Lon Castro’s Archive
One from Ion Castro’s Archive Whilst looking for something else I came across this leaflet advertising Hastings – how times have changed – seagull smoking a pipe!!! So politically incorrect on so many levels, and, on the reverse “Every day’s a gay day” – nothing wrong with that but was that what they wanted to … Continue reading One from Lon Castro’s Archive
Hastings Week
Pictures & Words By Ion Castro Hastings Week has come and gone, this weeklong celebration of what is probably the most famous date in European history October 14th 1066, the date of the famous Battle of Hastings. Ion Castro, Publicity Officer for both the Hastings Week Committee and Hastings Old Town Carnival Association was there … Continue reading Hastings Week
The Stag
ALL SAINTS STREET By John Hodges There is little doubt that All Saints Street now takes its name from the ancient parish church located at its northern end. Previous to this it had been described in old deeds as “The King’s Highwaye leading from the Pulpitt Gate to the Minness”. For a period between these … Continue reading The Stag
Looking Back
by Vivien Delaharpe I came home recently, to the land of my birth, to visit my son and his family. And I looked back, to the time when I was a schoolgirl in Hastings.
Draper’s Mill
Draper’s Mill, also known as Tivoli Mill and Silverhill Mill took its name from the Draper family who ran it for several decades. Draper’s was a smock windmill standing on the site of a previous mill which burned down in 1867. (Some reports suggest 1865) This new larger mill was rebuilt by Agricultural Engineers from … Continue reading Draper’s Mill
Futher Childhood Memories
By Vic Chalcraft Thinking back to school I days has awaken many more memories of childhood. The earliest, must be taken up to Riverhill Sevenoaks on a warm summers evening, we lived at Chevening in those days, to watch the traffic returning from a day on the coast, the deep bark of motor bike, the … Continue reading Futher Childhood Memories