Why not - stroll along to the Pier on March 12th 2011

...................We are organising the programme to take this forward and the first big public consultation event will be on 12^th March, aimed to be at the same time as our Party on the Prom. We are keen to get as many people involved in the consultation about the future design of the Pier. All ideas and thoughts are welcome......................

Our Party on the Prom is part of a nationwide event organised by the National Piers society (Party on the Pier) Unfortunately, because we don’t have a useable Pier we will hold ours on the Prom.

Please come along and join in the party with us and have a say in the future of the Pier. We will be posting more details of both events on our website.

Our website is www.hpwrt.co.uk

DRMM’s website is www.drmm.co.uk - appointed architects

Rye Town Walk - Tuesday 18th January 2011

This is the Land Gate

We had a beautiful day, cold but bright and sunny; we have been so lucky on our walks so far. Jill, the day's leader, had a number of guide books dating from 1950's - 1970's, which gave us really interesting information.

Note the pestle and mortar, above what used to be the Apothecary. (Well, it still is but it serves coffee now.)

The Church in the centre of Rye (don't miss the water cistern, although the photos of it were rather dull, hence not included!) Also here is the sign for Fletcher's house, Fletcher being (as no doubt you all know) one of the most successful dramatists of the early 17th century. A collaborator with Shakespeare, most famously on Henry VIII, he succeeded the Bard as house playwright for the King’s Men. Fletcher also had a long-running writing partnership with Francis Beaumont, with whom, on one account, he lived in scandalously close quarters on Bankside, with “one wench in the house between them”.

The house with the crooked chimney, Rye.

In EF Benson's tales of Lucia and Miss Mapp, Lucia lived in Lamb House, behind this house. In one of his books, there was much debate by these characters who were painting this scene, whether to paint the chimney as it is - crooked - and have people who did not know the area think one had got it wrong, or to paint it straight, in the knowledge that people from Rye would know it should be crooked.

Rye Town Walk - Tuesday 18th January 2011

No - your eyes do not deceive you.

This is a last minute amendment, for which many apologies.

We will meet on the 344 bus, (leaves Hastings Station round about 9.30 a.m. allowing people to join at their convenience.

Happy Christmas Strollers!

We had wonderful clear (if cold) weather for our Bexhill walk; thanks to the two ladies who were so helpful with directions to the 1066 route.

No walk in December, as all our calendars are full but our projected walks for 2011 are:

January - exploring the town of Rye

February - ditto Winchelsea

March - the delayed Pett Level Walk -

Wide Open: Pett Level to the Military Canal - 27 July 2010

Next Walk - Tuesday, 23rd November - Bexhill Circular Walk

Where does the time go? This walk will not be recce'd, unless someone else volunteers to do so. (Due to tempus fugit!) May need some help interpreting directions at times!

The walk is about 6 miles and includes fields and farmland, hedgerow remains of ancient woodland, and maybe rock pools - need to check the tides!

Meeting time will be 10.30 on the forecourt at Bexhill Station, bus from Hastings is the 99, which leaves Hastings in Havelock Road (or the station) every 30 minutes. I will confirm and get back to you on the minutes past the hour!

*Have done so - see below

Times

Buses: 99 Havelock Road (G) 09.55 Arrives 10.25
98 Havelock Road (G) 09.36 Arrives 10.17 (Goes all round the houses, but enjoyable on a pleasant day.)

Southern service from Ore to Brighton

10:14	Hastings [HGS]	Bexhill [BEX]	10:23	0h 09m	0			2
10:26	Hastings [HGS]	Bexhill [BEX]	10:35

East Hill Walk 26th October 2010

This is a 'not so arduous' East Hill/Country Park ramble, avoiding the up and down cliff steps. Well, once we've climbed the steps as the lift is only open at weekends from now until I think March.

Meet at the bottom of Tackleway steps at 10, trekking sticks a good idea. The 20A bus will drop you at either The Cutter or around the corner at Roebuck St. Walk up The Bourne, take Courthouse Street on your left, and cross over Tackleway to the steps (or come up Tamarisk Steps from The Front. (Avert your eyes from the mess that is currently The Stade)

Arcadia – a new installation about Hastings Pier, from Friday 5thNovember

The recent devastation of Hastings Pier will cast a poignant light on an exhibition opening in Hastings Town Centre in November. Arcadia is a long-planned installation by St. Leonard’s artist, Danny Pockets, exploring the glory and vulnerability of the pier and examines its social and physical architecture. The work is the winning submission to the new Sussex Coast College Art Prize, which is run by Sussex Coast College Hastings with support from the Jerwood Foundation. The show is under construction in the Circle Gallery at Sussex Coast College Hastings. Arcadia launches with a private viewing on 5thNovember and will be open to the public from Monday 8th November.