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 - working camp number 145[1], but no physical trace remains, nor is the exact location known[2]. 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. Some twelve German prisons from The Grove were utilised in quarrying stone to aid in the rebuilding of St Leonards Church which had been destroyed by a V1[3].
3.7 inch AA Gun West Hill 1944
9.2 Inch gun zeroed in on Hastings Pier 1940
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.
1944.-Anti-aircraft-guns-at-Grosvenor-Gardens-St-Leonards.
Adelaide-Road-after-the-March-11-1943-attack-1
Albert-Memorial-in-glorious-colour.-1945.
Anti-Aircraft-Gun-Hastings-1940
APWestStLeonardsSchools c1940
Bomb Damage Combermere Road
Bomb damage in Old London 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
Bomb-damage-Wellington-Road.
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
Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II Party Hughenden Road
Cranbrook Road VE Day Party
ESCC Broderick St Leonards Church 1905
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.
Invasion Planning Meeting Hastings and St Leonards Observer Saturday 09 May 1942 British Newspaper Archive
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
Planting White Rock Gardens Floral Clock 1940
Plummer-Roddis-in-Cambridge-Road-from-an-HSLO-advert-of-1941.
Reconstruction of Hastings Pier c1945
Reeves-corner-High-Street.
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
Street-Party-in-Clarence-Road-VE-Day
Sunken Gardens at Carlisle Parade, Hastings
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
W. Freeman, 120 Bohemia Road c1940
WW2 Sea Mine at the Bathing Pool Nov. 1945
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