Hastings Battleaxe has moved!

Sorry, blog readers but we just moved into our new ‘forever’ house earlier this week.      The builders were still working half an hour before we arrived – they still have not quite finished, but…

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Battleaxe visits Ballgowns Exhibition at V & A

Just had to take a break from those builders…. we went to London for the day.  The crowds and the queues were terrible at the V and A – of course, it was still the…

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Battle of Hastings Builders….

I feel guilty…. Blogging has not been my highest priority over the past couple of weeks.  I have already mentioned about our new house?  Well, it has been full of builders since we got possession…

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Hastings Battleaxe’s Brummie heritage comes to Hastings

This device is a fly-press for punching and stamping metal, made in around 1910 by a company called Hazelwood and Dent in Branston Street, Birmingham.  It is standing outside Leigh Dyer’s West Street Incurva studio,…

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Secret Hastings – the Garlic wood

The first year we came to Hastings, the Philosopher and I stumbled on an amazing sight – the hidden wild garlic wood in Alexandra Park at the top of Shornden Reservoir. We have visited every…

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