Wednesday 29 April 2015
Tuesday 28 April 2015
Sunday 26 April 2015
Some of the virtual visitors to this site from across the World!
Monday 20 April 2015
The Genesis of Storm in a Teacup
Eugenius Birch’s iconic 12-inch diameter cast iron screw piles are a testament to Victorian engineering ingenuity. Nearly all of the original piles, over 200 of them, still stand fully functional today.
I visited Hastings Pier at sunrise on the morning of 31st March 2014 – the time of a particularly low spring tide – to inspect the piles at close proximity. As I stood beneath the tip of the pier, waste deep in my waders, I could feel the crushing pressure of the English Sea around my ankles. I found it impossible to resist the power of even the smallest wave to sway my body. ………..
But as the sea waves flowed steadily past me towards the Hastings shoreline, I didn’t experience the steady force I had expected. My body swayed and undulated like seaweed on the ocean floor. I realised I would need to know more about the complex hidden hydrodynamics of the sea before I could begin to understand its physical impact on the pier. – Brendan Walker, Artist & Engineer
http://www.storminateacup.info/
Sunday 19 April 2015
Storm in a teacup
A sensor on Hastings Pier is monitoring waves and transmitting live data over the World Wide Web. Teacups in The Hub connected to this data are exhibiting some rather unusual behaviour in response. Hastings has experienced twelve major storms over the past twelve months, and another could soon be on its way...
Read about wave watching at Hastings
Watch waves live on the World Wide Web
Create your own project using wave data
Visit teacups at The Hub on April 22 / 23 / 24 / 25 / 29 / 30 and May 1 / 2 / 4. Meet the artist and technologists behind the project on 24th April.
Storm in a teacup is a project by Brendan Walker with Horizon Digital Economy Research Institute, University of Nottingham, for Hastings Pier Charity, supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund. Sensor produced in association with Middlesex University.
Thursday 16 April 2015
Pier Opens 21st March 2016 – 950th Anniversary of Battle of Hastings
http://www.hastingsobserver.co.uk/news/local/hastings-pier-to-open-in-march-2016-1-6692437
Hastings Pier will not be opening this year as planned, it was announced this morning (Thursday).
Simon Opie, chief executive officer (CEO) of the Hastings Pier Charity, said the attraction will open for business on March 21, 2016.
“Almost all the work will be finished this year but not completed in time to open the pier during any of the traditional seaside trading months.”
The charity has ruled out opening the pier in the winter.
Completion is expected around October this year.
Thursday 9 April 2015
Tuesday 7 April 2015
Free Fun Felt making Workshop –Thursday 9th April and Thursday 28th May
Come and take part!
During this workshop you will be guided through basic felt making techniques and introduced to the process required to make a piece of flat felt using the shapes, textures and patterns found around the Pier as inspiration.
This workshop is open to all whether you are a total beginner or have some experience of felt making. All materials will be provided on the day.
Bookable (10 places per session).
Sessions start at 11am, 12.30pm and 2pm.
If you would like to book a place learning@hpcharity.co.uk or phone us 01424 435587.
Children should be accompanied by an adult. Suitable for Age 6+.
Students’ dance piece on construction of the pier
Students from Helenswood Academy have been donning steel-toed boots and hard-hats to create a construction-themed dance piece on Hastings Pier.
The day was part of the Hastings Pier Educational project. It was filmed by Jake Bowers, education research coordinator, for the In Living Memory project which Helenswood students are taking part in. Once the film has been edited it will appear on the Helenswood website and will be shown at the Pier Hub.
http://www.hastingsobserver.co.uk/news/local/students-dance-piece-on-construction-of-the-pier-1-6671734
Saturday 4 April 2015
March came in like a lamb, and out like the proverbial lion, even so………
Progress in the past month has been good, helped by the spell of clement weather.
The six new piles for the Visitor Centre have been installed and trimmed to the required level. Each pile is a 23 metres long, 610mm diameter steel tube filled with steel reinforcement and concrete. Between them, they will support the load of the 600 tonne building.
The steelwork structure on the piles which will complete the foundation is now being put in place. Two cranes are being. The larger (7.5 tonne) will lift the steel sections whilst the smaller will lift a ‘man rider’ which will carry the steel erectors out so the steelwork can be fixed into place.
The steelwork is high grade, galvanised with fully bolted connections to form the trusses. These trusses are then linked together and braced to form a rigid structure. A concrete slab will be cast at deck level to form the base for the new “cross laminated timber” panelled building.
Elsewhere on the Pier work has continued with the replacement of trusses and deck beams and laying the Ekki timber decking. This has been completed to the end of the central section of the Pier and work is now progressing on the Pier Head.
When the restoration work is finished approximately 350 trusses and 820 deck beams will have been replaced, this is around 3,000 tonnes of new steel.
Work on the old Pavilion continues. The walls are being built and the windows and sliding doors installed.
Underneath the Pier there will be a suspended walkway which will provide access not only to install the services and but also for the future maintenance, and the first section has now been built.
Friday 3 April 2015
Wednesday 1 April 2015
Everybody but the Beatles!
"New display of archive materials celebrating Hastings Pier's musical heritage in The Pier Hub. The Hub is open Wednesdays & Thursdays 1-4pm, and Fridays and Saturdays 11 - 4pm. Thank you to the volunteers who helped to create this display, especially Camilla Eames."
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