Retro posters on sale to help Hastings Pier be returned to former glory

Iconic images advertising Hastings in years gone by are being revived to try and return a once thriving attraction to its former glories.

By The Newsroom

Published 30th Apr 2010, 11:46 BST

Updated 7th Jun 2018, 23:19 BST

Hastings Pier has been closed since July 2006 after parts of the structure fell into the sea.

Since then it has effectively been abandoned by its owners, with local group the Hastings Pier and White Rock Trust trying to wrestle control from them.

And as part of its fundraising efforts, the trust has been given permission to start selling prints reproduced from posters from the 1920s and 30s.

The British Museum agreed to relax the copyright on the posters, which were put up in and around London train stations to attract day trippers to the south coast.

The trust has seven different images, which will soon be put on sale priced from 25 to 100 from its Arthur Green shop based on White Rock