As Full of Spirit as the Month of May…
With Jack in the Green and myriad summer celebrations approaching, Hastings also prepares to crown its 85th May Queen. Barry Jones reports. One of the oldest traditions in the country, the crowning and associated festivities help us to celebrate the start…
Make a Foliage Crown
The 2016 May Queen, Bethan Jones, will be lending her crown for display at Hastings Museum on Saturday 5th May for a workshop on how to make a headdress for the celebrations. You can wear your own headdress for the…
Dancing at Dawn
On Tuesday 1st May, morris dancers will assemble on Ladies Parlour, West Hill, to inaugurate a new season. Dancers and spectators will be able to use the reopened funicular railway to assist access to the event as Kevin Boorman, the…
Jack-in-the-Green Programme
FRIDAY Folk music and singing The Stag, High St, from SATURDAY Morris Dancers Wall of Death, from Dancing on Winkle Island Rattlebag (female harmony group perform folk songs) The Stag, High St, FILM The Ballad of Shirley Collins Electric Palace, High…
Party Party
Bikers and Morris Dancers get it together for holiday weekend The Hastings Mayday Run, which celebrates its 40th annual happening this weekend, is ‘one of the biggest free-to-attend motorcycle events in Europe’ according to Bike 1066, organisers of trade and…
Heritage Assets – Can’t pay, Won’t Pay
Hugh Sullivan argues that Council plans to look after Hastings’ heritage rely on others being persuaded to provide the funding In 2016 Hastings Borough council commissioned a report by ‘historic environment’ consultants Drury McPherson on management of ‘heritage assets’ in the…
HAVE Launch
On Saturday 10th February, Hastings Access to Venues and Events launched their first quarterly newsletter. It grew out of their informal Facebook group and other longstanding efforts to publicise the essential value of disabled access to Hastings’ varied townscape. The…
Festivals
You can’t throw a pebble in Hastings and St Leonards without hitting a festival – in fact most articles in this supplement contain details on at least one. Here is a quick round up of those which don’t fit neatly…