Hastings Heritage Trail is an interactive walking tour featuring ten central Hastings locations that have stayed largely unchanged for at least 25 years. The trail has been created by photographer Maxine Beuret.
Each place has been chosen for its fascinating history with a focus on design. The trail is supported by 10 signs, a leaflet with a children’s brass rubbing and social media.
CARLISLE PARADE
UNDERGROUND CAR PARK
Designed by council engineer Sidney Little in 1931, it’s the first underground car park in the UK! It holds up to 150 cars with colour coding every tenth pillar to help people remember where they parked.
Watch the other seven videos here
F. CHAMBERS JEWELLERS
Established as a jewellers in 1925, the original shopfront still exists with a distinctive curved glass entrance and tiled floor. Specialists in second-hand diamond rings.
HASTINGS CRAZY GOLF COURSE
The course was built by the Arnold Palmer Putting Group in 1974 and the World Crazy Golf Championships take place here every June. Listen to the insults from Woody the Tree at the last hole.
Ten Trail Locations
- F. Chambers Jewellers, 51 Robertson Street
- Claremont Hair Studio, 7 Claremont
- Carlisle Parade/Robertson Terrace Seaview Shelters
- Carlisle Parade Underground Car Park
- Pelham Place Roundabout Fountain
- Hastings Crazy Golf Course
- The Albion Pub, George Street Bar
- The West Hill Lift
- The Net Shop & Jellied Eel Bar, 7a Rock-a-Nore Road
- Tamarisk Steps, Rock-a-Nore Road
About the Trail
Please feel free to take your own photographs and videos at each location and share them with us via the website, social media using the tag #hastingsheritagetrail, or email info@hastingstrail.co.uk
Your pictures will be available to view on the website and each month a selection will be chosen and displayed on the signs.
At each trail location In Situ design collective has designed a unique cube display point featuring photographs & text – to create an engaging depiction of each place in its own special atmosphere.
Hastings Borough Council strongly supports the trail that links with the Destination America Ground and White Rock Hastings.
A great source of local historical knowledge and encouragement has come from the Old Hastings Preservation Society.
Contact & Interact
If you have questions, suggestions or comments about the Hastings Heritage Art Trail, or would like to find out more, please feel free to contact us.
(+44) 07970 104299
info@hastingstrail.co.uk
