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Peter Francesca pier rats

Pier rats, engineers at work

Engineers at work on Hastings Pier, doing maintenance checks. This photograph is featured on the Hastings Pier Charity website. Taking commissions for engineering and industrial workplace shoots. Get in touch   Engineering and Environmental Update – June 2017

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Royal Sovereign Lighthouse Charity Swim

This is an unusual post as it is not a photo, but about someone I have photographed. HASTINGS AND ST LEONARDS FRIENDS! William the Cone-queror, the well-known ice cream man in his straw boater hat is going to HEROICALLY SWIM from the Royal Sovereign Lighthouse back to shore. This is a distance of TEN MILES, […]

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hastings old town butcher bike race

Village Bicycle, Baby

Crown Lane is a rather declivitous, or perhaps inclivitous passage in Hastings Old Town. Each year they have a bicycle race on it. A butcher’s bicycle. It is an old boneshaker of the kind Arkwright had in Open All Hours. The thing weighs twice as much as the Forth Bridge. The rules are simple: Get up […]

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