Fishermen's Museum
Rock-a-Nore Road, HASTINGS, East Sussex, TN34 3DW
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The museum is housed in a former church (dedicated to St Nicholas) which was built on the beach in 1854 to serve the local fishing community. It operated as a church until 1930 but was turned into a museum in 1956 by the Old Hastings Preservation Society.
It looks after one of the famous net huts next to the building where you can also find the Edward and Mary which, in 1919, became the first locally-built fishing boat to be installed with an engine, and The Valiant, which was built in Newhaven in 1953 and worked from Hastings until 1999. On the beach in front of the boats is an anchor dating from Napoleonic times.
Exhibits in the museum include model ships and boats, fishing gear, historic paintings and photographs illustrating the Hastings fishing industry.
Free but donations welcome; prebooking required for groups - 40 maximum group size.
| Fishermen's Museum (1 Jan 2021 - 31 Dec 2021) | ||
|---|---|---|
| Day | Times | |
| Monday - Sunday | 11:00 | - 17:00 |
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