1940 to 1949

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Images of Hastings dated between 1940 and 1949[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.
1946-2
1946-3
1946
1947-2
1947.-1
1948-1
1949 Town Centre Flooding
A-crowded-West-Marina-Shed-1948
Adelaide-Road-after-the-March-11-1943-attack-1
Albany-Hotel-1
Albany-Hotel
Albert-Memorial-1946.-Part-of-the-Borough-Engineers-Collection.
Albert-Memorial-in-glorious-colour.-1945.
Alexandra-Park-boating-lake.-1947.
All Saints Street c1940
All Saints Street c1940s
Amherst-Road.-1944.
Anti-Aircraft-Gun-Hastings-1940
APWestStLeonardsSchools c1940
Aug. 1945 Henry King & Feaist Ltd. Advert
Battle Road Arches c1930
Battle-Rd-2
Battle-Rd-3
BedfordArmsBombing
Bensly-Co-Timber-merchants-at-Brook-Street-saw-mills.-1948
Biddy-the-Tub-Man c1946.
Boating-lake-1938.
Boating-Lake.-1948.
Bohemia-Rd
Bomb Damage 03
Bomb Damage 06
Bomb Damage Combermere Road
Bomb damage in Old London Road
Bomb Damage Mount Pleasant Conregational Church
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 Wellington Road 1942
Bomb-damage-after-the-devastating-raid-on-24th-September-Warrior-Square.-1942
Bomb-damage-at-White-Rock
Bomb-damage-Wellington-Road.
BopeepJunction
Breeds-Place.-1947.
Bryant & Sons 45 Queen's Road Hastings. circa 1900
Cambridge-Road-with-Priory-Street-just-ahead-of-the-car.-1946.
Caple-Ne-Ferne-home-1948
Carlisle-Parade.-c1947.
Carnival-Floats-at-Eversfield-Place.-June-1949.
Caroline-Place-Hastings-1947
Children carrying out gas mask drill in St Clements Caves 1941
Cleared site of St Columba's Church
Clyde-Road-1941.
Corner of Queens Road and Cornwallis Street circa 1949 01
Corner of Queens Road and Cornwallis Street circa 1949 02
Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II Party Hughenden Road
Cranbrook Road VE Day Party
Croft-Road
Dealer Dead At Lonely Cottage Hastings and St Leonards Observer Saturday 09 March 1946
Denmark Place c1930
East Hill Lift & Net Shops, Hastings
EastCliffHouse1942
Elite Cinema Fire 23 Jun 1947
Elite Cinema Fire
Emmanuel Church 1942
Emmanuel-Road-1942.
End-of-Hastings-pier.-1948
Entrance-to-Rock-a-Nore-Road.-c1948.
ESCC Broderick St Leonards Church 1905
Eversfield Place. c1910
Eversfield-place.-1947
GrandParade1949
Guy-single-decker-trolley-bus-at-Wellington-Place-and-York-Buildings.-1946-7.
Halton-School-September-23rd-1940.
Harold-Place-1949
Harold-Place-showing-a-bomb-site-to-where-a-Restaurant-once-stood.-1947.
Harold-Place-showing-the-bomb-sites-c1947
Harold-Place.-1948.
Harrow Lane 1947
Hart 55 High Street in about 1901
Hastings Police motor cycle inspection at Cinque Ports Way. May 1936
Hastings-Pier-1946-Showing-the-parts-front-and-centre-that-were-removed-during-WW2.
HastingsPier1947
Havelock-Road-c1947
Havelock-Road.-The-trees-and-lamp-standards-are-still-painted-white-bands-for-the-blackouts.-1946.
Henderson-House-Downs-Road.-1945.
High Street 1945
Holmhurst-St-Mary-in-the-late-1940s.
Invasion Planning Meeting Hastings and St Leonards Observer Saturday 09 May 1942 British Newspaper Archive
King-Edward-Ave
Lewcock's Bomb site
Linton-Gardens-2.
Linton-Gardens
Lloyds-Bank-Wellington-Place-with-Lyons-next-door-to-the-left-c1947
Looking-down-onto-Pelham-Place-from-the-West-Hill-in-1947.
Lower-St-Leonards-taken-from-an-aeroplane.-1947.
Maidstone and District 1940 Advertisement
Marine-Court-after-the-clear-up-when-a-V1-flying-bomb-took-off-the-top-sections-and-demolished-the-buidings-opposite-as-seen-by-the-rubble-in-the-road.-1946.
Memorial-from-Plummer-Roddiss-balcony 1945
Middle Street 17 July 1947
Middle Street flooding 1949
Milward Road 1947
Motor Torpedo Boats WW2
Mural on Altar Arch of Convent of the Holy Child Jesus c1943
New Lifeboat House Plan 1948
Newspaper report of first tenant into Rock Lane housing estate
Old-Hastings-House-at-the-top-of-High-Street.-1948.-None-of-the-windows-have-been-blanked-out-yet-as-for-the-window-tax.
Passengers-disembarking-the-Glengowe-Paddle-Steamer-at-Hastings-Pier-Head-May-1947.-One-of-the-first-trips-after-the-end-of-WW2.
Planting White Rock Gardens Floral Clock 1940
Plummer-Roddis-in-Cambridge-Road-from-an-HSLO-advert-of-1941.
Postcard - East Hill Hastings - 1948 Sep 2nd (Includes message) - Flickr - drew anywhere
Press Clipping showing damage caused by Flying Bomb
Priory-Road.
Queens Road 1940
Queens-Hotel-1948-
Reconstruction of Hastings Pier c1945
Reeves-corner-High-Street.
Removing-the-anti-tank-traps-at-Rock-a-Nore-1946
Robertson Street c1940
Rock-a-Nore-in-1946.
RockaNore Drill Hall
Royal-Victoria-Hotel-1947
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.
Single-decker-Trolley-Bus-at-the-Memorial.-1947.
St Helens Road Bomb Damage 11 March 1943
St Leonards Pier and Marina
St-Georges-Road-Bomb-Damage-1940
St-Helens-Road-Bottom-of-Spar-Hill.-March-11th.-1943.
St-Leonards-school.-1947.
St. Leonards Pier Pavilion post 1944 fire
St.Leonards Pier (2)
StLeonardsPier1949
Stokes and Carey c1941
Street-Party-in-Clarence-Road-VE-Day
Sunken Gardens at Carlisle Parade, Hastings
Tank Traps on The Stade 1946
The Bathing Pool
The-Choice
The-Grand-Hotel-as-it-looked-in-1947.
The-Jenny-Lind-in-the-High-Street-showing-bomb-damage-in-1942.
The-Lifeboat-Tea-Rooms-East-Parade.-1948.
The-ruins-of-the-Swan-Hotel-High-Street
The-Silverhill-Tavern.-1949.
Timothy Whites & Taylors advertisement 1944
Top-left-hand-corner-of-Warrior-Square-1948
Town-Centre-1949
Upper-Broomgrove-Rd-on-VE-day.-1945.
V.-Godard-Shoe-Repairs-Corner-of-Emmanuel-Road-and-Whitefriars-Road-.-c1918.
Valleyside Road VE day Party
VE Day Party in Duke Street
VE-day-celebrations-in-Oakfield-Road-Ore.-1945.
VEDayPartyValleySideRoadMay1945
View-over-Hastings-from-Braybrooke-Road-Late-1940s.
Warrior-Square-and-the-anti-landing-defences-all-along-the-parade.-1946.
Wesleyan Chapel (The Bourne)
West-Marina-Station-and-a-line-up-of-steam-locomotives.-1948.
White-Rock-30-06-1944
White-Rock
WhiteRock-1947
Wreckage of the Pioneer being brought ashore
WW2 Sea Mine at the Bathing Pool Nov. 1945