Friends of the Pier: “We’ll be here when the time comes”
Friends of Hastings Pier (FoHP), the community group whose bid to buy the pier in June was unsuccessful, remain buoyant despite the withdrawal from frontline action of two leading activists, Jess Steele and Adam Wide. PICTURE: Susan McFie At a…
What Lies Beneath: Keeping Hastings Pier Safe
By Emma Harwood It won the RIBA Stirling Prize for its sophisticated, contemporary design last year. Yet almost half of the £14 million Heritage Lottery and other public funding spent on its reconstruction went towards restoring the unseen, yet most…
The Sheikh of Eastbourne
Abid Gulzar arrived in Britain from northern India in 1965 aged 19. In a profile of him on the (national) Independent website in November 2015 at the time of his purchase of Eastbourne pier he told his interviewer that the…
TIDE US OVER!
Let us manage the pier until the end of December, say FoHP. Emma Harwood reports. As the clock ticks for the Friends of Hastings Pier (FoHP) to persuade administrators to hand ownership back to the Hastings and St Leonards community,…
