Hastings Old Town Carnival Week 2008

Hastings Old Town Carnival Week 2008

Message from Old Hastings Preservation Society

2008 is our 56th year of celebrating Hastings Old Town as a great place to live and to visit. You will find a warm welcome from the Society at Hastings History House and the Fishermen's Museum during the week.

We are delighted that Hastings Area Archaeological Research Group, Hastings Local History Group, Hastings & District Geological Society and Hastings & Rother Family History Society will be putting on talks and displays at the History House during the week. Since last year we have made great improvements to the space and facilities at 21 Courthouse Street and hope at some time during the week you will all find time to visit.

I know you will be generous with your donations into the buckets and collecting boxes at all the events during the week, and we thank you for supporting Old Town Carnival Week 2008. Have a wonderful time and we hope to see you again in 2009.

Anne Scott MBE

Chair OHPS

Message from the Old Town Carnival Week Organiser

Another Old Town Carnival Week and another programme packed full of events with something to suit everyone from Belly Dancers to Dinosaurs!! Not only is this a week of fun, but also a week of fundraising, where many events are organised to raise funds for local charities and good causes. Although the week is co-ordinated by Old Hastings Preservation Society and is the main source of income for the Society, many different groups of volunteers organise events to raise funds for their own groups or charities or join in the week just for the sheer fun of it!

We are reverting to tradition this year and reviving the Crowning of the Carnival Queen. In earlier years, the Queen had an official crowning ceremony on Winkle Island and we thought it would be fun to crown this years Carnival Queen, Gemmaine Baughurst, during the opening ceremony on Saturday 2nd August. With that and the hundreds of other activities in the programme it will be a good week once again.

Ian Porter

Old Town Carnival Week Organiser