Hastings Emerging Futures Project: Online Community Events The Heart of Hastings Community Land Trust are very excited to be bringing three new online events to you in January and February! They’re aiming to create a space for town wide, interactive, discussions all held over zoom webinar. To register for a free ticket please follow the [...]
Promoting our Heritage and Civic Pride Hastings & St. Leonards Society is a not-for-profit organisation. Funds raised through annual subscriptions, donations and profits from sale of publications are spent on projects for the benefit of the Town and its heritage groups who support our aims to join the Society. The subscription fees for Society Year [...]
The Convent of the Holy Child St Leonards on Sea Thoughts about its future - 2017 with update 2020 Summary This circa 10 acre site occupies a very valuable elevated position with commanding views of the English Channel on the border of St Leonards with Hastings. It lies within the Magdalen Road Conservation Area [...]
Hastings & St. Leonards Society 3rd Annual General Meeting Conducted by e-mail instigated on 27 August 2020, closure date 11 September 2020 Agenda and comments 1. Note from the Chair: The AGM (postponed from 17 March 2020) was conducted by e-mail circulation to all paid-up members of the Society, due to difficulty in rearranging the [...]
West Hill (Hastings) Local Heritage and Community Festival Project The one-year long project to research and celebrate the heritage and social history of the West Hill area of Hastings was completed at the end of May 2020. Hastings & St. Leonards Society received a grant from the National Lottery Heritage Fund for the project, which [...]
E-bulletin (27th July 2020) Call for participants Project: ‘Memories of Cinema-going in Hastings and St Leonards’ Hello! My name is Tonya, and I am a film and memory researcher. I am currently working on a project about cinemas in Hastings and St Leonards and looking at the role that cinemas play in everyday lives. I [...]
Newsletter: Issue 19 (20th July 2020) Keeping In Touch in Troubled Times The Society has been forced into a spell of inactivity in recent months, so this newsletter is mainly to say “hello” to all members (and anyone else who is reading this Hastings & St. Leonards Society newsletter on our website), and give notice [...]
Hastings & St. Leonards Society’s one-year long project to research the history and heritage of the West Hill area of Hastings is coming to an end, and a 72-page illustrated booklet is about to be published. A limited number of copies of the booklet will be available free of charge to the Society’s members and [...]
