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Hastings Photo Archive - Church in the Wood Interior
I remember the wooden ceiling to the chancel, as a choir boy, in 1950's, then as an apprentice carpenter for Hepple & Sweatman, who removed all the boarding due to rot and woodworm, replacing with...
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Hastings Photo Archive - Bombed Bedford Arms
We left Hastings in 1954 and visit often Bert & Joan Card
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Hastings Photo Archive - Barrance & Ford Shop
Robert White Ford was my great grandfather via his eldest daughter E. M. Mayes (nee Ford).
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Hastings Photo Archive - Warrior Square Gardens
It was lovely to see this photo. When I was little in the 1940,s I used to stay there as my Grandparents had a home in Warrior Square. It has brought back such lovely memories. Thanks
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Hastings Photo Archive - The Briars Nursing Home
Me ( 1952) my sister (1954) and brother ( 1956) were born in the Briars. Our parents are both still alive and I am working on them spending a few days @ The Royal Victoria Hotel in St Leonards.
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Hastings Photo Archive - Wellington Square
The gardens were subscription for private use. In the late 1800s perhaps around the time of this photo my great 4X grandfather was employed as the gardener. He was elderly at the time in the days...
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Hastings Photo Archive - Waterloo Place
Looking at eh length of the woman's coat (half way up on the right) and bare legs around the shins I estimate that this would have been taken around the 1920s.
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Hastings Photo Archive - Dimarco Bros Cafe
The left side was as it says, for snacks and was as such a coffee bar where as the right hand was for sit down meals. As I remember it there was a connecting door for staff between the two counters...
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Hastings Photo Archive - Old Town & Harbour
So much of the harbour disappeared during thr the 20th C.. Why did the Council let it happen?
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Hastings Photo Archive - Public Hall Cinema
By the 1960s the Public Hall had gone down in the world and was fondly known as the Flea Pit. That was the place to go if you wanted to see riske films and then next door to the Bodega for a decent...
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Hastings Photo Archive - Hovercraft at Hastings Beach
This photo brings back memories - i think one was based here most of one summer, offered trips. A great invention, not fully utilised. Some were used by US forces in Vietnam.
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Hastings Photo Archive - NCH Malmesbury House
Myself Amanda Pratt and my sister Tina Pratt also went to Sisterlouies funeral we stayed in touch with Sisterlouie through out the years and where very lucky to have her in our life's a mother that we...
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Hastings Photo Archive - Hastings Parade Aerial
This card was postmarked August 1922; The sender lamented that the beach 'is all stones, no sand at all'
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Hastings Photo Archive - West Hill
West Hill circa 1905-1910. Summer stroll on the Ladies’ Parlour, note the sun parasols carried by some. The photo was taken facing towards Plynlimmon House and West Hill House that are the two joined...
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Hastings Photo Archive - West Hill
West Hill postmarked 1917. Note the two men with the long telescope looking out to sea next to the lift entrance. On the top of the entrance it has a sign that shows the fare to be one penny. The...
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Hastings Photo Archive - Albert Memorial
The sender wrote, ‘We are having such a lovely time. The place is exquisitely…….how does that sound. Hattie has told you all the news…..’
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Hastings Photo Archive - Albert Memorial
Undated but detailed card circa 1905-1915 showing Plummer Roddis the old Post Office and a circular route tram.
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Hastings Photo Archive - Bathing Pool
Europe's finest pool sank into oblivion post war and then suffered from the decline in holiday makers especially when cheap packages become available
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Hastings Photo Archive - Albert Memorial
Unusually named ‘The Clock Tower’ and not the Memorial. Posted 1907. The sender wrote ‘I shall be home on Saturday so am sending box on to you as usual’ (This would have been a travelling trunk with...
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