New Year Message from the Chair Here we are at the start of another year, and I hope 2020 will be a happy and healthy one for you all. Last year was a busy and exciting time for the Society, particularly with our West Hill (Hastings) Local heritage and Community Festival project, which is running [...]
Newsletter: Issue 16 (25th October 2019) West Hill Community Festival Success Our West Hill Community Festival was a great success. Held over the weekend of Friday 20 to Sunday 22 September, the events were well attended and the overall response most agreeable. All 200 tickets for the concert by Benyounes String Quartet at Emmanuel Church [...]
Thursday 17 October 2019, 6 p.m. start. Held at White Rock Hotel Meeting chaired by Dr. Chris Joyce (Vice-chair, H & St. L Society) 1. Main topic: Proposals for the Observer Building (guest speaker, Jess Steele, Heart of Hastings Community Land Trust) Jess commenced with a short history of the ‘Observer Building’, which was designed [...]
(Photo by Kevin Boorman) Press Report – Lord Boyce talk at Hastings Museum on Sunday 13 October There was a large and captivated audience at the talk by Lord Boyce, Warden of the Cinque Ports and Admiral of the Fleet, on Sunday 13 October. Organised by Hastings & St. Leonards Society for ‘Hastings Week’, the [...]
In this newsletter: BID participation in weekly intelligence sharing meetings with police and council to tackle ASB in the town. A reminder to sign up to BusinessWatch Street art - new mural on Queens Road, painted phone junction boxes in Havelock Road and Trinity Street, and a fresh look for Priory Square How the BID is [...]
Organised by Hastings & St. Leonards Society, as part of our ‘West Hill (Hastings) Local Heritage Project’, the West Hill Community Festival took place over the weekend of Friday 20 to Sunday 22 September. All events were free, as the project has been funded by a ‘Sharing Heritage in the Community’ grant from the National [...]
The next Hastings & St. Leonards Society open meeting is on Thursday 17th October, 6 pm start, at the White Rock Hotel. At this meeting, Jess Steele of Heart of Hastings Community Land Trust, will talk about the proposals for the Observer Building in Hastings Town Centre. There will also be updates on the situations [...]
West Hill Community Festival Update To correspond with Heritage Open Days and to celebrate the substantial local heritage of the West Hill area of Hastings, we have organised a Community Festival for the weekend of 20 – 22 September. All events are free and we open with a concert at Emmanuel Church on the Friday [...]
Group Visit to Rye, Tuesday 15 October Hastings & St. Leonards Society is organising a group visit to Rye Heritage Centre for Tuesday 15 October. Included in the visit to the Heritage Centre is a showing of the ‘The Story of Rye’ in a 25 minutes model-show format with sound and light effects. Upstairs there [...]
