by James Balston | Oct 28, 2013 | Antiques, Art, Blog, Restaurants, Seaside, Shops
Rather like Brighton & Hove, or even Ant & Dec, Hastings & St. Leonards are inseperable. I would say indistinguishable, but unlike the northern celebrities, the Sussex towns have plenty that sets them apart from each other. While St. Leonards was... 
by James Balston | Oct 12, 2013 | Blog, Seaside, Shops
The plan had been to go to Berlin for my birthday last month, but for reasons I can’t quite recall, we ended up in Hastings and St. Leonards. Why there? You might well ask. Well actually I was born there and spent my first ten or so years in the town, and now... 
by James Balston | Sep 13, 2010 | Architecture, Seaside
Growing up in Hastings & St. Leonards, I developed an early interest in architecture, and in particular the distinctive styles of the seafront. At one end, literally and metaphorically, stood the black weatherboarded fishermen’s huts, slightly menacing, to a...