Blue Badge Guides and Guided Walks
Blue Badge Guides
Guided Walks
Blue Badge Guides
These Blue Badge Guides are experts in 1066 Country tours and members of the South East England Tourist Guides Association and/or the Institute of Tourist Guiding.
They are all professional tourist guides, having undertaken the South East England training course and successfully completed both written and practical examinations. Guides work as freelance, self-employed individuals and it is for the tour operator or group organiser to negotiate fees direct with the Guide.
Jane Fraser-Hay
Ginger Cottage, Old Brickyard, Rye, East Sussex TN31 7EE
Languages spoken: English
Telephone: 01797 225793
Mobile: 07866 64 00 89
E-mail: fraserhay@btinternet.com
Françoise Haslam-Dodo
21 Wilbury Crescent, Hove, East Sussex, BN3 6FL
Languages spoken: French (native language); English; German
Telephone/Fax: 01273 88 18 92
Mobile: 07899 84 73 52
E-mail: f.haslam@ntlworld.com
Wilf Jackson, 7 Callao Quay, Sovereign Harbour North, Eastbourne, East Sussex, BN23 5AA
Languages spoken: English
Telephone/Fax: 01323 47 05 01
E-mail: wilf@callao.plus.com
Guided Walks
Tours of Hastings Stade - the fishing and cultural quarter of Hastings Old Town
Organised by the Hastings Fishermen's Museum, this guided walk lasts for approximately one hour and takes you around the Stade, the fascinating fishing quarter of Hastings Old Town. Tours are free to join but donations are very welcome and run from March - October.
Group tours are available throughout the year for a maximium of 15 people (more by prior arrangement) and should be booked in advance.
For further details and to book your place, please email stadewalks@gmail.com or contact the Fishermen's Museum: Tel: 01424 461446. It's better to book but if you are visiting Hastings and haven't booked but would like to join us, do meet us at the Lifeboat House at the appointed time and we'll see if we can fit you in.
Download a map of the Stade Trail here. Have a look at our Google map of the Stade with audio recordings. An audio self guided tour is available from the Old Town Hall Museum, Tourist Information Office in the High Street.
Alternatively, download our audio tour, and wander at your leisure. Available in French and English.
Foyle's Hastings
This popular ITV detective series, starring Michael Kitchen as DCI Foyle and set in World War Two, was filmed in and around the picturesque Old Town of Hastings. The guided Foyle's War walk takes in the location sites and is led by a local Blue Badge Guide, Clive Richardson.
Price: up to 30 people - £60.00; over 30 people - additional £2.50 per head; maximum 50 in a group.