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1. NETHERWOOD, HASTINGS
This was used as a guest house for years to take holiday makers. It had a
pavilion, large garden, and loads of bedrooms.
Food was served through a hatch.
In the guest house’s pavilion stood a piano, a bar where drinks were
served, plus entertainment every night.
The huge garden had facilities for a game of croquet and deck chairs.
The house backed onto St. Helen’s Wood and was owned by a few owners
including the KAYS and the BENNETTS.
I went to this place when I was five years old and had the Measles, which
swallowed up half of the holiday- half a holiday wasted all because of a
disease. The illness lasted a week, and in the second half of the holiday I
had to have my meals in the lounge, separate from the other holiday
makers, in the dining room next door.
My second holiday here at, NETHERWOOD was in 1958 at the age of 8
years, marred at first by a loose milk tooth which came out after four days,
just as I was about to go down to breakfast.
Like the first holiday it lasted a fortnight.
The next holiday was a year later and the last one in 1964, at the age of 14
years.
NETHERWOOD Guest house closed down in the late 60s, probably 1968.
Today NETHERWOOD is no more. In its place is a housing estate, with a
new street called NETHERWOOD Close.