Hastings Forum

The "Historical Hastings" Facebook group might be a good place to search/ask.

No, I don't think so - they are too far from the outermost parts of the shops to be within any curtilage. I didn't count the frequency of the studs yesterday (one stud per x number of paving slabs), but I would think that they are regularly spaced.

In Queen's Road, outside Priory Meadow Shopping Centre, the paving slabs are inset at intervals with what appears to be circular brass studs, about one inch in diameter. Does anyone know their purpose?

Isn't it about time the BBC pulled its financial support from this execrable event? This isn't a knee-jerk reaction because the UK finished in bottom place last night, it's simply a plea for the BBC to spend OUR money on something more worthwhile?

Oddly enough, I'm currently re-reading "1984" for the umpteenth time and had to laugh when I read your post, cbe. I think that Orwell, writing in 1948 had a good sense of the way in which certain things might move, such as re-writing the language and erasing all historic references to topi...

Agreed! Just listened to it. A little piece of heaven in an insane world. Now, if only I had persisted with piano lessons when I was a boy.

This is it looking towards Silverhill Junction (and yes, they are eagles).

It remained as a surgery until at least the mid 1950s. After that, I don't know.

I think you'll find that it's the building that stands opposite the bus stop at Silverhill (the bus stop by the butcher's shop). Years ago, it was a surgery (St. Rhode's Surgery) and I was a patient there as a very young boy. The eagles (I think they were eagles) on the gateposts scared me witless!

I have resided in the town for all of my life and have never know the pier to close off-season. Indeed, it couldn't be easily closed before the gates and fences were installed. It sounds like a penny-pinching exercise to me, after all zero-hours contract staff are easy to hire and fire at will aren'...