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Reflections of Hastings Pier - 29th August - 26th September 2015

Pier Hub
An exhibition of unique decorative mirrors created by Alison Purdy, using wood and metal salvaged from Hastings Pier.  Each mirror features designs and imagery inspired by elements of the Pier's architecture and its colourful history.
All mirrors are for sale, with a percentage being donated to Hastings Pier Charity.
Open Studio Weekends - 6th & 7th and 12th & 13th September - 11am - 4pm
Meet the Artist - Saturday 29th August 2pm - 4pm - All welcome

Working on the Pier trusses in 1998

HPC Newsletter August 2015

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Construction update:

The construction of the Visitor Centre is progressing well.

The operation to cast the concrete slab went exactly to plan.The promenade was closed, and 165 tonnes of ready mixed concrete was pumped from the lay-by 200 metres out to the Visitor Centre.

After seven days the concrete was tested to check that it had reached strength so that it could take the weight of the crane.The timber panels for the new building have been delivered and are now being erected. Because of the size of the panels, we are very dependent on the weather as we can’t erect when it is too windy.

The Bandstand Pavilion shell is now complete ready for fitting out as the restaurant. The cast iron balustrade has been repaired and will now be re-instated. At the Pier Head we are continuing with the replacement of the trusses, deck beams and bracing as we progress towards the end of the Pier.

Reflections of Hastings Pier
29th August - 26th September 2015
Pier Hub

An exhibition of unique decorative mirrors created by Alison Purdy, using wood and metal salvaged from Hastings Pier.  Each mirror features designs and imagery inspired by elements of the Pier's architecture and its colourful history.

All mirrors are for sale, with a percentage being donated to Hastings Pier Charity.

Open Studio Weekends - 6th & 7th and 12th & 13th September - 11am - 4pm
Meet the Artist - Saturday 29th August 2pm - 4pm - All welcome                                                                              

Do you have any holiday snaps including Hastings Pier? We would love to see them! Send them to archive@hpcharity.co.uk

July’s edition of Museum Association featured an article by Jo McLaughlan, our Education and Volunteer Coordinator, about our Apprenticeship scheme:
http://www.museumsassociation.org/museum-practice/apprentices-and-trainees/16072015-hastings-pier

Watch this Space - Sand Jars

Come and join us down in the Pier Hub to make some Sand Jars just like our intern Dominique made when she used to go on the pier!

Thursday 20th and 27th August from 11am - 3pm.

This is a free event.
The PIER HUB is usually open
Wed & Thurs, 1pm to 4pm
Fri and Sat, 11am to 4pm

N.B We are not open everyday as was stated in the Summer Flyer

Adopt a Plank

Following on from the July Newsletter we are pleased to announce we have now finished compiling the Adopt a Plank Register. The Register holds all the information we received from HPWRT who originally ran the scheme and which closed in 2013.

If you are an adopter then you can now search the register and check the inscription you put forward for your plank. You can access the Register through the main HPC website here: http://www.hpcharity.co.uk/our-organisation/adopt-a-plank-register/

"Under the Pier" by David Armer
Hands on Heritage
Photographing Hastings Pier

On Friday 24th July 14 adults and 6 young people joined Hastings Pier Charity’s Learning and Education team for a special day of photography.
We started at the Jerwood with talks by photographers Simon Roberts and John Cole.
From 2010 to 2013 Simon documented every surviving pier around the British coast to produce a book and body of work called Pierdom. His photo of Hastings Pier is currently on display at the Jerwood.
John Cole has been capturing the workers re constructing Hastings Pier, ‘Unsung Heroes’. We are working towards an exhibition of John’s work.

Photographer Grace Lau led a debate around what makes an interesting photograph and then after a health and safety talk from our Construction Project Manager, David Spooner, the group took their own photographs of the pier. We will present a digital exhibition of their photos later in the year.

“Exceptionally good and enjoyable day - very well organised - thank you!”
“It made me think about what I was looking at, and evaluate before taking photos”
“The staff and volunteers were all so friendly and informative”
                                                                                                             Participant quotes

8 Beautiful Piers to Promenade

http://heritagecalling.com/2015/07/22/8-piers-to-promenade/

The seaside pier is perhaps the most iconic symbol of the British holiday resort and for many of us it is the epitome of excursions to the seaside. Despite the massive losses in the 20th century – through fire, the power of the sea and neglect – we still have more seaside piers around our coast than any other country in the world.

And, amazingly under the circumstances, we made No. 6

“There is only limited access [?] to Hastings Pier but you can watch the builders busily restoring it after the disastrous fire of October 2010. It was the first true pleasure pier, sporting a 2,000 seat oriental style pavilion when it opened in August 1872.”

What I learnt to do at the Pier Hub!

Engineering beauty

"Octopus's Garden" at the Pier Hub

I'd like to be under the sea
In an octopus's garden in the shade
He'd let us in, knows where we've been
In his octopus's garden in the shade
I'd ask my friends to come and see
An octopus's garden with me
I'd like to be under the sea
In an octopus's garden in the shade

Day by day it grows…….

Up, up and away! Chinook lending a hand –

 

So much can happen in a year

. . . . and looking good!

 

(Thanks to the woman behind the camera!)

This is the ‘house’ that Jack built . . . . . .

Breaking news–nothing new under the sun!

Visitor Centre Cross Laminated Timber delivery had 24 hour delay in Calais then………..

Helicopter search as people seen leaving lorry in Icklesham

Four people, including a lorry driver, were arrested in Icklesham today (Monday, August 3).
Police were called to the A259 at around 3.40pm following witness reports of a number of people getting out of the back of a lorry parked in a layby.

The police helicopter was deployed as part of the investigation.

A Sussex Police spokesman said four men, including the lorry driver, have so far been arrested.

Police told the Observer the incident is ongoing and no further details are currently available.

Trying to extract driver and the load from Police pound.

Hastings and St Leonards Observer - Saturday 15 January 1870
The Pier -  People are wondering and rumour has been busy at work as to the cause of the cessation of labour at the pier.  The reason is very simple and satisfactory.  The contractors, Messrs. Laidlaw, are awaiting the manufacture of some iron work which is being proceeded with at Glasgow.

A thing of beauty…..