Lifeboat House

The late 19th C. lifeboat house stood near where the Marine Parade Boating Lake now stands. Prior to this it was located on Rock-a-Nore Road. Opening with a grand parade (which also coincided with the launching of the lifeboat 'The Charles Arkcoll') from the Queens Hotel, through the Old Town, back along the seafront to Warrior Square then returning to the lifeboat house on the 2nd of July 1882. The lifeboat was pulled throughout the entire route of the parade, missing out High Street and All Saints Street ^[1]. This building which featured a 'steeple' was demolished circa 1959 when the main road was widened^[2], although planning for the 'new' lifeboat house and construction of the same occurred some years earlier^[3]

Images

Images
George Woods circa 1890
George Woods circa 1890
In front of the Lifeboat House c1890. A sign for St Clements Caves may be seen and a carriage passes the Rising Sun
George Woods circa 1890
George Woods circa 1890
George Woods circa 1890
George Woods circa 1890
George Woods circa 1890
Looking-at-the-old-town-in-1891.
1892 Full Page tourism advertisement
Original-Lifeboat-House-when-the-sea-came-almost-up-to-the-door.-1894.
Lifeboat-Station-1894.
Stormy-weather-at-the-Old-Lifeboat-House-East.-1895.
Glass-plate-of-the-stade-area.-1891.
The-Fishmarket-and-the-Stade.-1900
Lifeboat-House-c1900
The-old-lifeboat-House-at-the-stade-in-1902.
Stade-1903
Lifeboat House c1903
Old-Lifeboat-House-1903.
FishingBeach1903
Lifeboat-1904-3
Old-Town-Seafront.-1904.
Storm-at-the-Lifeboat-House-East-Parade.-1905.
The-old-lifeboat-house-and-beach.-1912.
Postcard - Hastings Fish Market - 1912 - Flickr - drew anywhere
Parade-lifeboat-station.-1915.
Hastings from East Hill (Donald Maxwell) 1924
Lifeboat House 1921
The-Life-Boat-House-at-East-Parade.-1933.
Marine-Boating-Lake.-1934.
Boating-lake-1938.
New Lifeboat House Plan 1948
1948-1
Boating-Lake-1952.
The-Boating-Lake-East-Parade.-1952.
Hastings Miniature Railway c1955
Hastings Miniature Railway Firefly
Marine Parade Boating Lake c2007
Harbour Arm