Margaret Sullivan The Black Flower Seller

Hastings Library 

1st Floor

Exhibition

'Revealing the Identity of the Black Flower Seller’ was part of the 'African Caribbean Seaside Memories' exhibition at Hastings Museum & Art Gallery, curated by Lorna Hamilton-Brown RCA MBE of WE OUT HERE. 

Claudine Eccleston, an independent researcher and founder of Playing the Race Card, is responsible for naming and uncovering the story of the Black Flower Seller who traded in St Leonards in the 1900s, bringing to light a significant but largely forgotten part of local history.