{"id":19269,"date":"2019-12-12T10:00:08","date_gmt":"2019-12-12T10:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=19269"},"modified":"2021-06-01T00:12:38","modified_gmt":"2021-05-31T23:12:38","slug":"sixty-photos-of-hastings-old-town-beach-boats-shops-and-historic-architecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/sixty-photos-of-hastings-old-town-beach-boats-shops-and-historic-architecture\/","title":{"rendered":"Sixty photos of Hastings: Old Town, beach, boats, shops and historic architecture"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Boasting a natty funicular railway, a knackered castle, a bustling fishing fleet, shedloads of boozers and some stunning historic architecture, Hastings is well worth a look around.<\/p>\n

Here’s a set of 60 photos taken during my recent visit:<\/p>\n

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Fishing boat on a roundabout near the railway station.<\/p>\n

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Grey, damp, late November skies.<\/p>\n

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Old newspaper office.<\/p>\n

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Looking out to sea in a gale, 2am.<\/p>\n

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The storm blew itself out overnight and left me with a cracking day to go exploring around the town.<\/p>\n

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Ghost sign.<\/p>\n

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Hastings Castle.<\/p>\n

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There’s not a lot left of Hastings Castle. I liked the pirate flag though.<\/p>\n

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Looking for customers.<\/p>\n

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No ice creams today.<\/p>\n

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Walking around the Old Town.<\/p>\n

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A very narrow terrace.<\/p>\n

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View from near the castle.<\/p>\n

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Hastings Pier<\/a> in the distance.<\/p>\n

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I loved this: “Happiest Was She-By The Sea<\/em>.”<\/p>\n

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Georgian architecture.<\/p>\n

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All Saints Street hosts some of the oldest surviving houses in Hastings, dating from 1450.<\/p>\n

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Mossy roof.<\/p>\n

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Fresh fish stall.<\/p>\n

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Back in 2003, I took two trips on the funicular railways of Hastings: the East Hill (above) and West Hill Cliff Railways<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Down by the beach.<\/p>\n

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Hastings Miniature Railway<\/a> runs on a tiny 10 1\u20444 in (260 mm) gauge track. First opened in 1948, it runs along Hastings Old Town seafront between Rock-a-nore and Marine Parade.<\/p>\n

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Railway turntable<\/p>\n

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Pebbles scattered over the walkway after the previous night’s storm.<\/p>\n

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Fishing boats on the beach.<\/p>\n

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More photos:<\/h2>\n

The windswept vista of Hastings Pier, Autumn 2019<\/a>
\nHastings Pier, 2005 \u2013 Archive pier photos taken before the fire.<\/a>
\nHastings Pier \u2013 A splendid Victorian pier fighting for its life<\/a> [2012]
\nHastings fishing port in photos<\/a>.
\nMore Hastings photo features.<\/a><\/p>\n

Join in with the chat about Hastings<\/h2>\n

Hastings Pier on the urban75 forums<\/a>
\nHastings! Where to eat, drink and be merry<\/a>
\nHastings declared “the Shoreditch of Sussex and the UK\u2019s New Art Hotspot”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Boasting a natty funicular railway, a knackered castle, a bustling fishing fleet, shedloads of boozers and some stunning historic architecture, Hastings is well worth a look around. Here’s a set … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19270,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1765,456,17,193],"tags":[199,485,624,442,1195,53,30,32,217,1733,204],"class_list":["post-19269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art","category-news","category-photos","category-places","tag-architecture","tag-east-sussex","tag-england","tag-hastings","tag-photos","tag-pier","tag-sea","tag-seaside","tag-sussex","tag-tourism","tag-victorian"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/hastings-old-town-boats-castle-02.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-50N","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19269"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19274,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19269\/revisions\/19274"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}