Last Saturday saw the triumphant return of the St Leonards Festival to the weekend, after last year’s midweek rescheduling to allow our proud gold-suited local ambassadors to serenade the Olympic flame in the immediate run-up to that ultimate feel-good summer. Another 7 Streets blog from Chris Connelley.
Rather than trying to describe what a wonderful day this was, we are letting the pictures do the talking. Photographer JJ Waller has been photographing regularly in St Leonards on Sea since the summer of 2008 (but see also Chris Connelley’s first-timer thoughts).
Wednesday 9 August was the launch of Hastings Rental Health’s crowdfunder. Timely news on the day that Creditfix revealed that Hastings is in the top five worst towns and cities for single parents to live! The newly formed housing cooperative has set its heart on buying Gensing Manor – the former Embassy language school at the junction of Dane Road and Charles Road. Erica Smith looks at the state of housing in Hastings and encourages you to support a group of people who are reminding us that housing should be a human right, not a commodity.
It has been a great year for musician, Debbie Warren, culminating in a brilliant performance of Benjamin Britten and John Rutter Carols at Christmas and her appointment as Soundwaves Community Choir’s first resident Music Director. HOT’s Chris Cormack looks at Debbie’s achievements in 2015 and carol concerts this Christmas. If you’ve missed the concerts in the last few weeks you can still get in the mood for Christmas this Saturday at St Mary in the Castle with the Hastings Philharmonic Choir.
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