Fishing For A New Future
Gareth Stevens investigates the state of the Hastings & Rye fishing fleet Once you set aside the obvious historical battle that is at the heart of our town’s outward identity, I am sure like me you think of the fishing…
Progress Report:
Country Park’s Visitor Centre The Visitor Centre is emerging from its forced hibernation. Work ended on the day after lockdown, and now Mary Rawlinson (Project Manager, chair of the UK Straw Bale Building Association) and Phil Christopher (Huff and Puff…
JMW Turner Paints Hastings
Millions of people love Turner’s romantic and remarkably atmospheric paintings. He needed money to live, so who were his sponsors? What is his connection to Hastings? How did he develop such an affinity to raging seas, bulwarked by dangerous coasts? …
Edith Swan-neck’s 2020 Vision
In Community (HIP Issue 154) we learned that there’s a new group on the block, called the ‘Friends of Edith’ and they are determined that this should be Edith’s year – a year in which she finally gets the recognition…
Born Black in Hastings
The Black Lives Matter protests have triggered a massive political movement in the USA, but have also found echoes right around the world. What has it got to do with Hastings? Some white people object? To them we say, why…
Together We Stand
Photographs by Fizzel Castro Over 1,000 people attended the Hastings Rally Against Racism in Alexandra Park on the 7th June. The organisers held the socially distant event for the people of Hastings to “stand together to show our solidarity, consider…
When Women Racers Came to Hastings
In March 1933 large crowds braved wet weather in Hastings to watch the finish of the RAC Rally – only the second such event. Cars, 351, or 327, accounts vary, starting from nine towns around the country (some as far…
Kitty May Brunell
Born in 1911, Kitty had car racing in the blood. Her father, Bill Brunell, was a well-known motorsports photographer and pictures taken by him in 1926 show Kitty, then 15, as a mechanic. Her first recorded race, when just 17,…
Politikal Pokes By Lobbytroll
CARELESS TALK COSTS LIVES That Dominic Cummings’ in-competent self-serving ad-ministration is in ideological turmoil is now clear. Behind the thin veneer of sobriety, they and their financiers were too busy guzzling the utopian champagne of a no-deal Brexit to notice…
‘Home Schooling’? Don’t Worry About It!
Dr Paula Radice, Director of Enjoycation – which provides group-learning and tutoring in Hastings for home-educated children from Reception to GCSEs in a fully-resourced learning room in Hastings town centre – addresses some concerns parents may have about their children’s…