Having illustrated and described the Old Town in the Bourne Valley, we will now take the reader along the Sea Front and show the gradual development from East to West, starting from the East Cliff.
Peter Malaperte Thuillier Powell, founder of Powell's Library and Musical Lounge (now a Restaurant), the "New Warm Baths " (opposite the Russian Gun was the site of Thwaites and Winter's Ship Yard, where the Yacht " Queen Victoria," and the " Pelican," the last of the old trading vessels, were built) was once a well-known resident, who exerted himself largely in the promotion of entertainment for the few visitors to the town in
(Now a Restaurant, East Parade. West Street on the left.)
his time. His father was a Grandee of Spain, his mother an English lady. Mr. Powell was a man of great energy and enterprise, and published several editions of a Hastings Guide, illustrated with coloured views. In 1831, he, with his wife and family, emigrated to the United States, where he died, in 1850, aged 79, and his -
