Category: <span>Hastings People</span>

Tribute to Juanita Homan

Patrick Glass pays tribute to a woman who will be missed by the local community as well as by her family and many friends.

Posted 17:36 Wednesday, Jun 9, 2021 In: Hastings People

With our lives completely upended due to the pandemic, I wanted to take a closer look at the varying experiences within our town of Hastings. This is intended only to be a snapshot, into the lives of the people who were willing to share their unique perspective and experience during all three lockdowns. You will read about people who work in the NHS, who have gotten married, have families, or run a charity. It is important to remember that we are in fact living through an historical moment and it’s our lived experiences that shape what this period in time means. Written by HOT’s Vanessa Alves.

Posted 20:10 Monday, Mar 22, 2021 In: Hastings People Tags: Antoinette Holligan Carla and Graham Howard community Dom's Food Mission experience Hastings Jen and Jethro Atherall Jess Peters and Adam Chappel life in lockdown lockdown

Why the sea’s embrace is so alluring

Winter swimmers don’t need science to tell them the benefits of plunging into cold water, they live them. Sarah Corrie spoke to five Hastings and St Leonards swimmers to find out how going in the sea is improving their mental, physical and spiritual wellbeing.

Posted 12:32 Tuesday, Feb 2, 2021 In: Hastings People Tags: arthritis cold water immersion fibromyalgia health and wellbeing Kai Gerber osteoarthritis Richard Matthews Sally Underwood Sally Vennard Wendy Goodsell Wim Hof winter sea swimming

New Year’s Day swim raises almost £2,000 for Hastings RNLI

The New Year’s Day swim to raise money for Hastings RNLI – Royal National Lifeboat Institution – has been taking place for around 20 years. This year, despite not being able to hold an organised event, the Old Town swimmers raised nearly £2,000. Sarah Corrie remembers her first New Year’s Day dip and interviews organisers Ann Novotny (87) and Craig Sams (76) to find out what the sea means to them.

Posted 16:39 Sunday, Jan 17, 2021 In: Hastings People Tags:

Hands up for HEART!

We all came to expect the unexpected last year. From discovering the reemergence of birdsong to the less savoury COVID impacts many of us have had to face. It can certainly be called a ‘strange time’. Rowland Jobson was an early victim of Covid-19 and wanted to share his experience – and his appreciation of his Hastings Emergency Action Resilience Team (HEART) volunteer.

Posted 14:42 Thursday, Jan 14, 2021 In: Hastings People Tags: Rowland Jobson

A Town Explores A Boxall

Young illustrator Erin Brookes-Doolan meets established illustrator Ed Boxall and talks to him about his work.

Posted 19:40 Thursday, Jan 7, 2021 In: Hastings People Tags: Erin Brookes-Doolan

Kim Stallwood Archive at British Library

Starting this autumn, The Kim Stallwood Archive of research material documenting the history of the animal rights movement will become part of the British Library’s permanent holdings. The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom and provides information services to academic, business, research and scientific communities.

Posted 15:04 Monday, Oct 19, 2020 In: Hastings People Tags: animal activism animal advocacy animal rights Growl Kim Stallwood

What Marianne North learned from Edward Lear

In the autumn of 1852, Edward Lear, while painting a fig tree in the overgrown garden of the Hastings MP Frederick North, made a lifelong friendship with the MP’s daughters, which affects lives to this day. Artist and writer Maureen Connett tells us more about the lesser known artistic and musical talents of the writer, Edward Lear, best known for his limericks and nonsense poetry.

Posted 22:06 Friday, Aug 14, 2020 In: Hastings People Tags: Edward Lear Frederick North Lord North Marianne North Maureen Connett Sir David Attenborough