The Bull Inn - Remember When

THE footprints of an iguanadon - a 30 ft long dinosaur that lived millions of years ago when Hastings was part of the Wealden marshes - have been found in a sandstone slab at the foot of Fairlight Glen. Similar footprints were revealed in 1925 after a cliff fall near THE BULL INN at Bulverhythe, but these were washed away within a few weeks by the tide.

I have been down to the beach and to the cliff edges and have found fossils and also an outline of the old tunnelface from which the smugglers used from THE BULL INN in the days of smuggling.

Also all along the beaches from Bexhill to Hastings fossils are still being found which can be seen in the Bexhill Museum.

If anyone wishes for me to send to them history of the Amsterdam which sunk off Hastings and St Leonards-on-sea just Email me and I will send it, you will read about the Amsterdam on my web pages under local history and history about the The Bull Inn.

We are, next year going to open up the old tunnels under the pub which leads from the lower store room by removing a wall which had been built by a past Landlord which had the walls built because his Daughter used to play in the old Smugglers Tunnels and found that the roofs of the tunnels
were in fact dangerous. I the old days it was said that the monks from the old St Mary's Bulverhythe (the ruins still stand at the rear of The Bull Inn) used to use the tunnels so that they could have a tickle now and again (a drink) since we have moved into the Bull Inn on the 9th September 2003 we have discovered lots of history regarding the tunnels.

We will be adding to this in the near future.