WW2

Summary[edit]

Photography, particularly of seaside areas was prohibited during WW2, although a number of images, both official and unofficial were taken.

Local Establishments[edit]

Canadian troops were known to be billetted in the town, at the Albany Hotel in particular. There are scant records of other establishments locally, although a map produced by English Heritage would appear to imply there was some form of establishment near Hollington.

Prisoners of War[edit]

There is record of a German 'Working Party Camp' in the vicinity of Normanhurst, but no trace remains, nor is the exact location known^[1]. A number of verbal histories have also described Italian servicemen working in the area, although again no documentary evidence exists. An un-listed camp, most likely a transit-site was set up at The Grove (House) for POWs, but again the exact role of this is unknown at present.

Images[edit]

1-Pelham-Street.-c1940.
3.7 inch AA Gun West Hill 1944
9.2 Inch gun zeroed in on Hastings Pier 1940
23-High-Street.-Nov-1942
23-Springfield-Road.-1945.
70-73a-All-Saints-Street.-1942-survey
123-145-Bohemia-Road.-1973.-Built-in-around-1880.
1940-August-14th.-Bexhill-Road-a-lone-German-raider-came-in-from-the-sea-and-dropped-bombs-here.
1940-Baptists-Mission-Hall-on-Priory-Road-demolished-by-bombing.
1942
1944.-Anti-aircraft-guns-at-Grosvenor-Gardens-St-Leonards.
Adelaide-Road-after-the-March-11-1943-attack-1
Albany-Hotel-1
Albany-Hotel
Albert-Memorial-in-glorious-colour.-1945.
Amherst-Road.-1944.
Anti-Aircraft-Gun-Hastings-1940
APWestStLeonardsSchools c1940
Battle Road Arches 1940
Battle-Rd-2
Battle-Rd-3
BedfordArmsBombing
Bohemia-Rd
Bomb Damage 03
Bomb Damage 06
Bomb Damage Combermere Road
Bomb damage in Old London Road
Bomb Damage Marine Court
Bomb Damage Queens Road
Bomb Damage Royal East Sussex Hospital
Bomb Damage St Helens Road (Spa Hill)
Bomb Damage to London Road-Norman Road Junction 1943
Bomb-damage-after-the-devastating-raid-on-24th-September-Warrior-Square.-1942
Bryant & Sons 45 Queen's Road Hastings. circa 1900
Building a sandbag partition in one of the underground car parks 1939
Children carrying out gas mask drill in St Clements Caves 1941
Clyde-Road-1941.
Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II Party Hughenden Road
Cranbrook Road VE Day Party
Denmark Place c1930
EastCliffHouse1942
Emmanuel Church 1942
Emmanuel-Road-1942.
ESCC Broderick St Leonards Church 1905
Eversfield Place. c1910
George-Street-building-prior-to-the-Pump-House-being-built-these-premisses-were-Stokes-And-Carey-shoe-shop.-Picture-dates-as-from-1944.
Halton-School-September-23rd-1940.
Hart 55 High Street in about 1901
Hastings Police motor cycle inspection at Cinque Ports Way. May 1936
Henderson-House-Downs-Road.-1945.
High Street 1945
Invasion Planning Meeting Hastings and St Leonards Observer Saturday 09 May 1942 British Newspaper Archive
King-Edward-Ave
Looking-down-Robertson-street-from-White-Rock-1939
Maidstone and District 1940 Advertisement
Memorial-from-Plummer-Roddiss-balcony 1945
Mural on Altar Arch of Convent of the Holy Child Jesus c1943
Muttons Advert 1939
Planting White Rock Gardens Floral Clock 1940
Plummer-Roddis-in-Cambridge-Road-from-an-HSLO-advert-of-1941.
Priory-Road.
Queens Road 1940
Reconstruction of Hastings Pier c1945
Reeves-corner-High-Street.
Robertson Street c1940
RockaNore Drill Hall
Ruin of St Columbas Oct 1943
Russell & Bromley 27 Norman Road 1929
Rye-Bus-in-Wellington-Square-c1940
Searchlight at Warrior Square WW2
Shops-destroyed-by-bombing-in-March-1943-their-replacements-are-the-Co-op-Martins-etc.
St Helens Road Bomb Damage 11 March 1943
St-Georges-Road-Bomb-Damage-1940
St-Helens-Road-Bottom-of-Spar-Hill.-March-11th.-1943.
St. Leonards Pier Pavilion post 1944 fire
St.Leonards Pier (2)
Street-Party-in-Clarence-Road-VE-Day
Sunken Gardens at Carlisle Parade, Hastings
The Bathing Pool
The Briars 1939
The-Jenny-Lind-in-the-High-Street-showing-bomb-damage-in-1942.
The-ruins-of-the-Swan-Hotel-High-Street
Timothy Whites & Taylors advertisement 1944
Upper-Broomgrove-Rd-on-VE-day.-1945.
V.-Godard-Shoe-Repairs-Corner-of-Emmanuel-Road-and-Whitefriars-Road-.-c1918.
VE-day-celebrations-in-Oakfield-Road-Ore.-1945.
VEDayPartyValleySideRoadMay1945
White-Rock-30-06-1944
White-Rock
WW2 Sea Mine at the Bathing Pool Nov. 1945