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Nigel Ford… What’s the big property just down left of the chimney on horizon central? Still standing?
Peter Fairless… Nigel, Hastings Grammar School, long since gone.
Andy Davies… Peter, I knew that, being an old Hastonian but What was the chimney? Was it a power station as there was one in a similar place in the 60s?
Peter Fairless… Could be, Andy. Would need to check an old map to see if anything obvious stands out.
Roy Penfold… The chimney was indeed the power station, albeit a smaller one than that which caught fire a number of years ago.
Peter Houghton… That’s a great photo of the old Cricket Pitch
Peter Ellingworth… I believe the tall chimney seen in the distance behined HGS was the original Hastings Tramways power station in Parker Road, built around 1900-3. The chimney itself was 53.3 metres high (175 ft. for those of us who remember proper money), erected by Babcock & Wilcox Ltd. and obviously as coal was the prime source then for power stations, it was situated close to and with a spur off to the Ashford-Hastings rail line at Ore. This is covered by the way with extensive detail in Robert J. Harley’s excellent book “Trams & Trolleybuses in Hastings, St. Leonard’s & Bexhill 1905-1959”. Hope this helps.
What’s the big property just down left of the chimney on horizon central? Still standing?
I believe the tall chimney seen in the distance behined HGS was the original Hastings Tramways power station in Parker Road, built around 1900-3.
The chimney itself was 53.3 metres high (175 ft. for those of us who remember proper money), erected by Babcock & Wilcox Ltd. and obviously as coal was the prime source then for power stations, it was situated close to and with a spur off to the Ashford-Hastings rail line at Ore.
This is covered by the way with extensive detail in Robert J. Harley’s excellent book “Trams & Trolleybuses in Hastings, St. Leonard’s & Bexhill 1905-1959”.
Hope this helps.