APART FROM OTHER PICTURES,
WE ARE GOING TO START WITH
A SERIES OF PICTURES DEPICTING
‘HASTINGS CARNIVAL FLOATS’
AS ENTERED BY ‘SEEB’ (South Eastern Electricity Board)
DONATED BY A FAMILY MEMBER
OF PEOPLE INVOLVED DURING
THE PERIOD BETWEEN 1951 – 1956.
There are a few which you will spot aren’t floats
but static displays in Alexandra Park
but still in the same period;
might have been an early version of
The ‘Town & Country Fair’!
Do you recognise anyone?

r (when they say 3rd prize most attractive, do they mean the float or the girls, my marks are 10 out of 10 for the girls)!

Hastings proclamation of king George v. May 9th 1910. Very apt by the statue of Queen Victoria at Warrior Square.

The first train across the wooden jetty/harbour with passengers and not goods on its first day in 1875. But this jetty was severely damaged in a storm and fell into major financial disrepair, a few piles can still be seen at low tide if your lucky, but today shingle is covering most of them all up!
1906 Late Oct – The Grand Hotel, at Verulam Place opposite Hastings Pier, closed because of financial problems. This was followed in November by an extensive sale of all the furniture. This was bought in one lot for £2,000 by Mr John J Butler, of Butler’s Emporium in George Street, paying the £2,000 in cash to the auctioneer! He claimed he went to the auction with no hard plans to buy it, and happened to have the money in his pocket. By the end of the following day he had disposed of his suspicious bargain to a Mr Cavie, of Milward Crescent, an old acquaintance. Butler said he bumped into Cavie in the street soon after the auction, told him about it and sold it almost on the spot.

In better repair than the view before 1928. Apart from a few hanging tiles missing up by the chimney!

All Saints Street in 1921. Notice the shop and all the adverts on the walls, and the delivery by horse and cart. The H.C.I.S. plaque on the wall indicates that the building is now owned by the ‘Hastings Cottage Improvement Society’.
The next few pictures are of the inside of a German U Boat, but not necessarily pictures of either of the 2 beached here at Hastings.
The pictures are very confusing in respect of too many valves and controls, but someone will understand what they all do!
There are no captions to these pictures just a number.
NOW! Lets get back to more pleasant surroundings!
We will return with some more pictures,
But now on ‘Pictures 8’.
Thanks again for looking, and remember!
We are always looking for new pictures.
If you loan us your old pictures
we will look after them
and return them to you,
you would be credited for them
and you get to keep your originals.
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