In pictures: Remembering the Queen's visit to Hastings on what would have been her 100th birthday week

It would have been the Queen’s 100th birthday on Tuesday April 21 and here is a reminder of the Queen’s last visit to Hastings in 1997 when she opened the Priory Meadow shopping centre.

People lined the streets to greet her majesty who, after opening the shopping centre, visited the Hastings Museum and the local RNLI lifeboat team.

She was also presented with a silver winkle by Hastings Winkle Club.

The Queen also visited St Leonards Primary School and took off from the school field in a helicopter.

Observer photographer Justin Lycett was there to take these pictures.

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