The Hastings Chronicle

The town centre in the late 1930s

Welcome to the Hastings Chronicle. If you want to find out more about the history of the town that gave its name to one of the world’s most famous battles, then this is the starting point ... and here you could also help rewrite history by sending us emails – just as King Harold is above!

Featured - an updated version of the Tressell and Mugsborough section, now in three parts - click here

Search tips If you are looking for something specific tied in with the history of Hastings and St Leonards – the origins of part of the town, a family name, the date of a disaster – you can use the search box on the right to find out more. The search results will open in a new page (or pages) in order of relevance, a bit like Google. Then, you can use the 'Find’ service within your browser to locate things more precisely on that page.

Read all about it! If you click this link you can read, in its entirety, Steve Peak's book 'The Hastings Papers' as a PDF file! If you enjoy it, why not purchase a copy from the Buy Books page to add to your library?

The Hastings Chronicle is a primary database, a source of original information, much of which has not been available to the public before. It is being constantly updated and improved by the editor (Steve Peak), the website manager (Andrew 'Giddykipper' Walker) and you, the reader. If you know of some important events that have been left out, then you can send them to us – and change the course of history! As Oscar Wilde said, “The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it”.

The site (which you are using free of charge) is the result of much unpaid labour, and if you find it helpful it would be good if you could make a donation towards its running costs

The Hastings Stade coach park, about 1951 To visit the coach park's photographic history, click here