Air-raid sirens sound over Silverhill
Strong images and sounds of wartime Britain were evoked at St.Matthew's Church Hall when local historian, Ken Brooks, presented his one-day lecture entitled Hastings in Wartime to an enthusiastic audience on Saturday.
It took the form of a series of slides and commentary covering almost a century. The clock was turned back over 60 years as an air-raid siren was once again heard over Silverhill.
Mr Chamberlain announced that Britain was at war with Germany, Winston Churchill delivered his famous Battle of Britain speech, Vera Lynn sang, on record, The White Cliffs of Dover.
We even reminisced to the strains of Lily Marlene.
The most evocative image of the era was of a postman continuing to collect the mail from a postbox while the ruins of St. Leonards church lay all around him, showing that the people of the town carried on regardless of what catastrophe befell them.
Earlier Mr Brooks had taken us back further still as he described how the town had coped with the First World War.
At the conclusion of the lecture, a number of people gave their personal recollections of events occurring during the second conflict.
Mr Brooks will be repeating his lecture at St.Matthew's Church Hall on Saturday April 4th.
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