" The following is ' An Address delivered to the People in All Saints Street, Hastings, at the Coronation of their Queen.' "
Great is the pleasure now we feel With you our friends to meet,
On such a day as this to crown, The Star of All Saints' Street.
Unto your "youthful" Queen now give
All honours that are due
And we are sure she'll in return, Her favours shower on .you.
How well, how nobly, she'll perform
The table honours now ;
And for this grand occasion, we With laurels grace her brow
To those kind friends who lent their aid,
This holiday to gain,
We wish them health and every good,
Nor shall we wish in vain.
Permit us now, most noble Queen, Your blessings to entreat,
Which given, we all will raise the cry, Hail, Queen of All Saints' Street !
All Saints' Street is intersected on either side by many "Passages," those on the west side led to the Bourne Stream, and those on the east side to the East Hill.
A photograph of one of these is here presented. The street was in old times paved with boulders, now changed to modern tar macadam. In the earlier guide books it is mentioned as 'Fish Street," " Fisher Street," and " Back Street," but there appears no ground for saying that it was ever legally or officially recognised by these names. Nearly two hundred old deeds of property have been inspected by the writer dating back for two-and-a-half centuries, and in no case is any one of these names recorded. It is, however, worthy of mention here that in the description of property on the east side of All Saints' Street, the East Hill is severally called "All Holland Hill," date 1796. "St. George's Hill, ' 1786. ' George's Hill, ' 1766, and 'Mount Idle. ' Yet in a deed relating to 49, All Saints' Street, dated 1792, this house was conveyed by one William Robinson, to William Lucas-Shadwell, and William Bishop, and then described as "East Hill."
Coming back to All Saints' Street and its old houses, still in existence, Mrs. Shovell's house, Nos. 125-6 is dealt with in a special article on Sir Cloudesley Shovell and his mother. Another fair specimen remaining is No. 58-9, which artists are still fond of painting. There are several of the old inns remaining, although they have been modernised. The Stag Inn and the Chequers (now the Cinque Ports Arms) both 18th century inns. One of the principal was the " Crown Inn," which is frequently mentioned in Barry's, Powell's, and Ross's Guides. The present house is but a shadow of -
