Secret Hastings & St Leonards
Brown, Tina2018
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Today Hastings and its neighbouring St Leonards On Sea are a busy seaside town, popular with holiday makers and day trippers wanting to soak up its coastal heritage and historical charm. Known to many for the famous battle of 1066, which was not actually fought at Hastings, the town has so much more to offer and in this book author Tina Brown reveals many little known stories about Hastings, from the fact that Hastings was the birthplace of television invented by John Logie Baird to the unique Piece of Cheese House in the old quarter built as a bet in 1871, as well as exploring its secret places, The Mortuary House with its cold chamber and coffin hatches, the tunnels still lying under much of the town today connected with the smuggling past, and the Stag Inn which was frequented by the smugglers.
Main title:
Secret Hastings & St Leonards / Tina Brown.
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Imprint:
Stroud : Amberley Publishing, 2018.Stroud : Amberley Publishing, 2018.
Collation:
96 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9781445679877 (pbk)
Dewey class:
942.259
Language:
English
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BRN:
2060011