Many thanks to you all for keeping an interest
in Old Hastings & St Leonards.
We here intend to keep the flame going
for as long as we can,
so please keep looking and make
contact with us to let us know
if you either like what we are doing
or just think it’s a waste of time!
Please don’t forget…………..If you have old pictures
of either Hastings or St Leonards
we would love to share these on our web pages
for the enjoyment of others and to reminisce the past.
Please also remember,
these pictures will always be your’s,
and if loaned will be returned to you quickly.

Love the Family Bathing machines, who goes first, the lady or the gent or both, the mind boggles! 1920.

Lots of holiday makers eating candy floss and taking in the sun, mind you it looks rather chilly as nearly everyone have got their coats on! Must be an English summer!! The date states this is 1955.

Down for the day and taking in the fresh sea air and a good swim in the water. (after the picture of course!) 1920.

Hastings Pier on fire on 15th July 1917. This was a photo not a postcard taken from White Rock Road.

Hastings Pier entrance with the Infirmary hospital opposite in 1903. Love the hay cart and the man on a very shallow ladder cleaning the street light. All passed by the Health & Safety Inspector!! (Probably his day off)!

High Street 1904. Notice the one piece ladder against the Town Hall, and the bottom part painted white so that any traffic would hopefully see it and not knock it down!

The Church of St Nicholas at Rock-a-Nore Road in 1920. Now converted into the Fishermen’s Museum. This Church was built in 1854 at a cost of £529.00, it closed on the inset of war in 1939 and never reopened as a Church after hostilities ceased. It was converted into a dedicated Fishermen’s Museum and reopened in 1956 and has remained so ever since.

Although the caption states that these were cricket pitches, they were actually football pitches and games areas, you don’t have goal posts on a cricket pitch!! mind you taken from an aeroplane you can describe the area as whatever and get away with it! 1909. This area was part of White Rock Gardens.

Thought you might like to see the happy faces of the holiday makers caught out on camera by the beach photographer A.M.Breach taken in 1921.

Boarding Establishment 1913. (Possibly Marina!) Can’t all be staff! more than likely guests as well. (Unfortunately, there’s no indication as to what Boarding Establishment this is!)

Who’s side you supposed to be on! 1925. (Presumably, the car has just come out of Robertsons Street whilst the Trolley Bus in making for Cambridge Road, but mind the motor cyclists!!) He certainly want’s people to know his number plates!

The bridge at Bulverhythe Road linking Bexhill Road, notice the hill behind all of which is not there today! 1910.
More pictures will be added as soon as they become available to us.
We will be starting Pictures 11 shortly
with a collection of pre 1900 images.