Hastings Fishermen. Fishing Nets. Rock O Nore. Sea Shanty Music.

Hastings Fishermen. Fishing Nets. Rock O Nore. Sea Shanty Music. Boats in film are RX60 NN200 RX427 RX89 RX389 RX445.
MUSIC FROM BAWDY SEA SHANTIES. Good Ship Venus / You're a liar / A Clean Song / Bell Bottom Trousers
Home to the largest beach-launched fishing fleet in Britain, the stretch of the beach known as the Strade in Hastings has been used as a fishing port for centuries. The Stade is a shingle beach in Hastings Old Town. It has been used for beaching boats for more than a thousand years. It is now home to Europe's largest fleet of beach-launched fishing boats.

The word stade is a Saxon term meaning landing place.

The beach was originally a small landing area; hence the small footprint of the net shops. The building of the 1887 groyne at Rock-A-Nore and the 1896 harbour, however, stopped the eastward longshore transport of shingle along the coast, which is the function of groynes. As a result, the Stade steadily grew seaward, providing new room for the fishing fleet and necessary amenities