Hastings Old Town Museum - re-opened 15th October 1999
"HASTINGS OLD TOWN HALL" The Museum re-opened in 1999 after a lottery-funded refurbishment - the illustrations are early digital photos, hence the quality. |
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Museum Director, Victoria Williams (now retired) with Brion Purdey, President of the Hastings & St.Leonards Museum Association at the reopening of the museum on 15th October 1999. |
Model of Hastings in Elizabethan times (there are models of Hastings at other times as well) |
Senior Staff Member, (now curator) Cathy Walling shows how to do brass rubbings of the Hastings Seal |
Crown Lane |
E.Lesley Badham painted these now - gone corner of the Old Town in the '20s. He
was Principal of the Hastings Art School until his untimely death in an air raid
in 1944. |
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Ephemora from Breeds' Brewery that was in the High Street, it stopped brewing around 1928 |
The Museum is open daily.
www.1066.net - Hastings' favourite web site is sponsored by XL(2000)Ltd
Photos copyright (c) Ion Castro 2010
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