Delving into hastingsdotconnected
Part two of an exploration of Hastings online communities that have one foot securely planted in actual geography, unscientifically chosen by Ben Bruges (HIP Features Editor) and members of the HIP family. We have had a look at the sharks,…
The Genius Who Lit Up Hastings
By David E P Dennis It took the Briton Francis Crick and American James Watson 880 words to define DNA for their joint Nobel prize and yet, in just 80 words, the genius scientist Michael Faraday ‘invented’ the entire world…
Delving into hastingsdotconnected
Part one of an exploration of Hastings online communities that have one foot securely planted in actual geography, unscientifically chosen by Ben Bruges (HIP Features Editor) and members of the HIP ; There’s a whispering and a cursing between those…
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…