A Sense of Plaice – The Stade, Hastings

A Sense of Plaice – The Stade, Hastings

A Sense of Plaice – The Stade, Hastings Hastings, one of the ancient original Cinq Port towns along the Sussex-Kent coast, has one of the last, and the largest of the old-fashioned shore-based fishing fleets left in Britain. For more than a thousand years the...
Silvery Dawn – Low Tide at Hastings Pier

Silvery Dawn – Low Tide at Hastings Pier

Silvery Dawn – Low Tide at Hastings Pier A combination of clear cold winter light and low tide drew me down to the seafront this morning, and to the broad stretch of shimmering tidal sands just east of the old pier at Hastings. It was just before sunrise when...
Streamline Moderne – St Leonard-on-Sea

Streamline Moderne – St Leonard-on-Sea

Streamline Moderne – St Leonard-on-Sea I love Art Deco and here on the seafront in St Leonards we have a lovely example of it – or rather, its first cousin, Streamline Moderne – in the form of the Marine Court Building, which was, when it opened in...