The OFFICIAL Hastings Old Town Carnival Pages 1999

     
Pictures from the Hastings Old Town Carnival, 13th August 1999

To add to the pictures that we posted on the night, we've added some more! - tell us what you think - Discontinued

Hastings Old Town Carnival Queen, Miss Hastings, and princesses

Reinforcing the Old Town's Fishing Heritage - the Carnival Queen's Float was once a Hastings Fishing Boat, RX181, Margaret

Best in Show, in the assemby area under Hastings' majestic East Cliffs, The Britannia Centre's neolithic entry

The Stag Carnival Club's entry waiting to enter the procession. More about them click here

Hastings Bonfire Boys leave the assembly area in front of Hastings' unique net shops

Popular Hastings Mayor, Godfrey Daniel and some of the girls from Studio 17

Winners of one of the pedestrian classes, "The Addams Family"

and a pirate ship from the real Adams family (a Hastings Old Town fishing family going back hundreds of years)

The local radio station, Arrow FM not only entered this float but broadcast the carnival live to the Hastings area on 107.8 fm

I've lost my notes about this magnificent entry

Perched on the Cliffs to the west of the Old Town, Hastings Castle looks down benignly on the carnival

No carnival is complete without a carnival band - Sambalanco - see their site www.totalweb.co.uk/brett/sambalanco

The Royal Standard Pub's winning entry in the Pram race, with the Royal Standard Pub in the background

The tower of St.Clements Church is seen above the houses and the Hastings Corps of Drums

Hastings Winkle Club, a long established Old Town Institution. (one of  the buildings in the background used to be the Fisherman's Arms where the club was founded). Winston Churchill was a member.

Dusk is falling as the Carnival winds its way through the ancient, narrow High Street past the Old Town Hall (now the Old Town Museum). The Clock stopped a while ago, but it doesn't matter, occasiionally time stands still too in this part of Hastings

Another dusk view, outside the Jenny Lind in High Street

and for something completely different, Sara (right) and Lou are subjects of a hair raid to raise funds for the Linny Appeal part of the Macmillan Cancer Appeal

It'll only take a few years to grow again. Best wishes for the fundraising

Remember, we showed 'em first!!

xxxxx yyyyyy          All photographs are (c) Ion Castro 1999. No reproduction in any form without prior consent in writing