The 1066 Wine & Food Festival has brought wine, food and music to 1066 Country through a series of events in restaurants, bars, shops and vineyards and three key events – the opening at Battle Abbey with Jilly Goolden and last week’s Food & Drink Fair at De La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill. Erica Smith samples the fare…
The Blockheads are coming to town! Yes the same Blockheads that used to back Ian Dury and who, since the great man’s death in 2000, have been touring regularly with most of the original line-up, performing both an awesome back catalogue and their own new material.
The Royal Voluntary Service want their wartime records from Hastings and around the country to go online – and they’ve organised a Kickstarter campaign to make the information accessible to everyone for the first time. The project will reveal almost 30,000 pages of never-before-seen diaries from female volunteers – nicknamed ‘the army that Hitler forgot’. By 1943, there were 2,075 Women’s Voluntary Services volunteers in Hastings and in the RVS archive, there are 70 narrative reports for Hastings covering 1938-1945. Sinead Paton writes on behalf of the RVS.
Natural Capital, a sculpture created in paper mache and decoupage by St Leonards-based international artists Maslen & Mehra, is now installed in the Durbar Hall at the Hastings Museum. It will be on view until the 10 July. Kay Davis writes.
Interested in maintaining Hastings campus? In the mood for demonstrating your position by taking part in a demonstration this Saturday (14 May)? Meet at Priory Square at noon and march with all the other supporters – local and from further afield – who care about maintaining the town’s campus.
Hilda Kean, Chair of Hastings Palestine Solidarity Campaign, writes about freedom of speech and censorship and invites HOT readers to attend a meeting next Thursday with Kiri Tunks (Palestine Solidarity Campaign), and Cllr Peter Chowney, Leader of Hastings Borough Council.
Hire a bike at Pelham Beach and explore the area by pedal power. Good news for Hastings and St Leonards, which already has a thriving – and very creatively inspired – biking community. The 7km beachside traffic free cycle route is the perfect way to discover Hastings’ seafront and further afield.
A recently published poll reveals that Hastings comes sixth in Britain as the town or city most likely to attract visitors this summer. Toby Sargent looks at the findings and discovers some surprising winners and losers among the runners and riders.
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