White Rock Gardens

White Rock Gardens came became public land owned by the Borough of Hastings on the 8th of April as per a conveyance between Francis Arbuthnot, Sir William Alexander Baillie Hamilton and the Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses of Hastings on that date. The conveyance contained a covenant that only permitted leisure-related development of no more than one storey buildings on the land and mentioned a proposed use of the area as being for the construction of a Winter Garden^[1].

In addition to the sports and leisure facilities offered in White Rock Gardens, there was a Hastings Model Village

Images

Images
Grand-Hotel-as-seen-from-Hastings-Pier.-c-1897
White-Rock-Gardens-Hastings-c1905
Beau Site Convalescent Home 1906
White Rock Gardens c1909
Royal-East-Sussex-Hospital.-1920.-3
H.-Message-Construction-London-Road-St-Leonards-and-Ashburnham-Road-At-Entrance-to-White-Rock-Gardens-Cambridge-Road.-c1920.
Suffolk-House-White-Rock-Gardens-1920
Bandstand-White-Rock-Gardens.-1925.
White Rock Gardens c1925
The-Rustic-Shelter-White-Rock-Gardens-Hastings-1926
Bowling-greens-1929
White-Rock-pleasure-gardens-1929.
Hastings-Pier-and-Falaise-Gardens.-c1930.
Entrance-to-White-Rock-Gardens.-1930.
The-pier-and-White-Rock-Pavilion-1931.
Aerial View Hastings Pier 1933
Resh-and-bowling-greens-in-1934
Royal-East-Sussex-Hospital.-1934.-2
Royal-East-Sussex-Hospital-1934.
The-new-bowls-pavilion-at-White-Rock-Gardens.-1934.
Cambridge Road and Royal East Sussex Hospital
The-Grand-Hotel.-1935.
Shelter-and-Bowling-Greens-White-Rock-Gardens.-1935.
An-aerial-view-of-St-Leonards-and-White-Rock-1935
Warrior-Square-1935.
The-Floral-Clock-White-Rock-Gardens.-1936
White-Rock-bowling-greens.-1936.
White Rock Gardens c1937
Planting White Rock Gardens Floral Clock 1940
White Rock Gardens c1952
Magicians International Floral Clock-White Rock Gardens 1952
Floral Clock County Cricket at Hastings - White Rock Gardens 1962
Here and There 1954 BFI Player(3)
Dignitries-being-shown-the-Floral-Clock-at-White-Rock-Gardens-c1956
White Rock Gardens Play Castle
Model-village-1963.
Children's castle at White Rock Gardens