Town & Country Walk–Hastings

Our strollers walk this month was a country/town blue plaque walk, ending up at Pelham Crescent which has three plaques, George Devey, Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon and Muriel Matters. We had lovely weather, went up in the lift up East Hill, walked across and down High Wickham which is where the artists and writers lived and gathered in past days, and still very desirable, down along the side of the hill through the woods and bluebells, then down Tackleway (where, amongst others, George MacDonald lived) up All Saints Street (few blue plaques because it was Fisher Street, where the fishermen lived but now has ‘desirable’ Tudor residences) down the High Street (Rosetti, Elizabeth Siddall, Wellingon, Nelson, George Borrow, but not a lot of people know that – he was only two! Sir John Moore, etc.) then up where Foyle of Foyle’s War lives – in the television series, past Elizabeth Blackwell and Catherine Cookson and up West Hill, down the other side, past Lewis Carroll’s aunts and round to Pelham Crescent.