Sat 12 Sep 26
Sat 12 Sep:12.00-15.00; Free Entry.
Net Shop U3, Rock-a-Nore Road, Hastings TN34 3DW
Heritage Open Day: This unique museum is a tall, old wooden building standing on a tiny piece of Hastings beach. Talk to the owner and come inside (if you fit!). The Hastings Net Shops are unique, so this is the only Net Shops in the world! It was built about 1835 and was used for storing all kinds of fishing gear until 1989, when the family that owned it gave up fishing. The building and its contents were then given to Steve Peak, who added many old fishing items he had been collecting, and called it the Net Shops Museum. Steve has maintained it ever since, keeping it as it was in the 1980s.
Many of the items inside are very old, going back well before the Second World War...
