UNESCO World Heritage Status for a site in Hastings and St Leonards: A Summary of the Issues This document is in preparation for the discussion of a proposal to have an area in Hastings and St Leonards declared a UNESCO World Heritage site. The discussion will be hosted by the Hastings and St Leonards Society [...]
HASTINGS & ST. LEONARDS SOCIETY Promoting Our Heritage and Civic Pride Website: www.hastingsandstleonardssociety.org.uk Secretary’s e-mail: hstlsoc@gmail.com Newsletter: Issue 7 (23 rd August 2018) Heritage Open Days events Heritage Open Days (HODs) take place over two periods in September this year: Thursday 6–Sunday 9; Thursday 13–Sunday 16. Hastings & St. Leonards Society has arranged the following [...]
Newsletter: Issue 6 (16th July 2018) New Booklet: ‘A Bellow of Criers’ Thank you to those who attended the talk by Hastings’ Town Crier, Jon Bartholomew, at the Museum on Sunday 8 July. As expected, Jon’s talk was very entertaining. The event was put on to raise funds for supporting the National Town Criers Championship, [...]
Meeting chaired by Dr. Deborah Madden (Chair, H & St. L Society) Item 1. Welcome from the Chair. Apologies for absence noted. Item 2. Julia Hilton on the proposed application for UNESCO World Heritage Site Status for Hastings and St. Leonards. Julia stressed that although this proposal has come from the Green Party, [...]
Newsletter: Issue 5 (18th May 2018) General Data Protection Regulation Due to the changes in the General Data Protection Laws, for which the enforcement date is 25 May 2018, Hastings & St. Leonards Society has had to contact all persons for whom we hold an e-mail address and any other personal details (such as address [...]
Please see this concept paper from Chris Saunders of the Green Party.
Hastings & St. Leonards Society Open Meeting Thursday 19 April 2018, 6.30 p.m. start Room 402, Priory Square Building, University Campus Meeting chaired by Dr. Deborah Madden (Chair, H & St. L Society) Attended by: Hastings & St. L Society committee; representatives from Hastings Urban Design Group, Burtons’ St. Leonards Society, Hastings Local History Group, [...]
Please note an interview at the Hastings Online Times where Chris Lewcock from the Hastings Urban Design Group gives his views on the proposal to develop the east end of Rock-A-Nore as Hastings harbour.
Newsletter: Issue 4 (20th March 2018) Chair’s Annual Report (Extract from AGM) Hastings & St. Leonards Society became active when the constitution was adopted at the steering committee meeting on 13 February 2017. The Society operates as an ‘umbrella’ organization for the various organizations in the borough concerned with conservation, heritage and development, in [...]
