OHPS

We still have a number of these still in stock reduced to £5 – worth it for the amazing photographs alone! We have also taken the photos out and these are on sale for just 75p each! 

We are very pleased to announce a collaboration with Kieron Pelling of compellingphotography.co.uk this year for our calendar.

For more information please contact hastingsfishermensmuseum@googlemail.com

Reduced to £5!!

Now Available!!!!

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This booklet gives a brief introduction to the history of the town and will the aid of a map and many illustrations suggests a route for exploring the ancient town and port of Hastings.
With a wealth of historic buildings and many artistic and literary connections, Hastings Old Town is well worth a visit and this makes an ideal guide. Published in 2014. Price £3.50, 34 pages and a map.

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Perspectives on the lives of women of the Hastings fishing community; this is memories and views from voices not usually heard.
Published in 2004 it is based on interviews collected by Beatrice in 1994.
Price £4.00, 33 pages.

A4 booklet with 12 pages of information about the Net shops and includes make your own model.

The America Ground: 8 1/2 acres of Hastings town centre that in the early nineteenth century was an open section of beach, apparently beyond boundary and with no obvious owner…until they were all evicted by the government in 1835. This is the well researched story of that beach, which almost became ‘independent’ of the ancient town, but ultimately played a crucial role in expanding the old fishing port into a modern seaside resort.
Supported by Historic England and Trinity Triangle Hastings

Published by the History Press 2021 159 pages Size A5

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This booklet is the account of Charlotte Couchman’s actual diary she kept in 1879.

The following is a reader’s response after reading the diary which gives a flavour of the stories that lie within these pages::

“A very interesting and moving diary. What a journey emigration to New Zealand and Australia was in those days, however much you were favoured and however much you’d paid, as Charlotte herself remarks of those aboard who had paid the full sum.  People today who think of travel endurance to the Antipodes as 28 hours on a plane, with interim breaks, have no idea what endurance really meant.  ‘Another Sabbath on the sea, and I begin to feel quite weary of the Journey.’  This account is particularly interesting as that of a woman who didn’t really want to emigrate, but went for her family’s sake, yet a family – at least, Charlie and his wife – who seem to have paid her little regard or taken her for granted, leaving her sustained only by the duty she felt towards her grandchildren, a duty she carried out in spite of her aversion to ‘nursing and all that dragging about’ when her daughter-in-law was ill. 

Did you notice how odd are certain things Charlotte doesn’t think to mention till well into the voyage, like the number of Catholics aboard, the number of Scotch, Irish and so on, not the sort you’d choose to mix with, I think she writes, but we (Christians) must all get on.  Strange going-on too.  The Dead Horse, with the sailors riding it round the deck, then hoisting it up to the yard arm and setting it on fire.  Charlotte seems curiously unperturbed by this boisterous, not to say dangerous, stunt.  Or was the dead horse no such thing, but some customary antic with a dummy that simply bore the name?  When the young woman with consumption dies and is presumably ‘thrown overboard’, as Charlotte writes of the fate of the dead twin babies, she

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This is the story of the Rye Harbour Lifeboat Tragedy 15th November 1928 where 17 crew tragically lost their lives.

This edition is published posthumously with kind permission from Geoff Hutchinson’s daughter, Kim Davies January 2025.

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These tote bags are roomy and strong made for us by Judge Sampson Limited

The dimensions are: Height 41cm x Width 37cm and a side expansion of 10.5cm!