Hastings Battleaxe visits All Souls Church, Clive Vale, Hastings

Near us there is this impressive church, All Souls, in Athlestan Road. It is now redundant and empty. It was deconsecrated in 2008 and has been deserted ever since.  This morning we were lucky enough…

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Clive Vale Temperance Tea Garden again – corrections. Crazy Golf and lots more…

Guess what? Battleaxe got the location of that wretched Temperance Tea Garden wrong – thanks to local historian Brian Lawes for going to so much trouble to find the information for me. This is all…

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Clive Vale Temperance Tea Gardens – update

The last post, about our walk to the Country Park, proved to be extraordinarily popular – in less than one week it has rocketed to be one of the most viewed Battleaxe posts ever.  I…

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A walk to Hastings Country Park

From our house, we can walk up to, and through, the Hastings Country Park. You can see that it was a perfect walking morning, so we went for a five mile circuit, planning to break…

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