• Shopping

    "No banks, no hedge funds or shorting. Just some cool shopping, a decent lunch and a walk by the sea; a most civilised day away from the madness"
    ANTIQUES & ART
    The Heart of Norman Road.
    Portobello of The South Coast
    RETRO
    The Heart Bypass of Norman Road
    Recherchez les taps perdu
    PRETTY COOL
    The Pretty Face of Norman Road
    Sweet as honey
    NICHE
    The Soul of Norman Road
    "That'll do nichely"
    BUTCHER, BAKER, CANDLESTICKMAKER
    The Backbone of Norman Road.
  • Featured in:

    Norman Road has recently featured in:
    The Observer
    The Times
    The Telegraph
    Coast Magazine
    English Tourist Board website
    Essential
    Hastings Handbook
    and many other websites, blogs and aspirations...
  • Contact & Map


    Please contact via:Norman email
    Map for Norman Road HERE.
    If you have any ideas for us, or are a Norman Road shop, or a Nearly Norman and would like to be included, please email us.
  • Name calling

    In fits of enthusiasm, (hopefully) strained through humour, Norman Road has been called
    "The Portobello"
    "The Bloomsbury"
    and now
    "The Hoxton"
    of the South Coast.


    More suggestions are, (cough, ahem, grin), most welcome...
    The new face in the banner is
    Ms. Mellow Fruitfulness.
    A niece of Norman's..

Plenty hello! (& gossip)

Hello to Plenty, our new Nearly Norman provisioner of all things good in the grocery. Found on the sea front, next door to Kassa, along from Smiths, this is a great stopping place after you’ve shopped-till-you-need-a-breath-of-sea-air.
See side bar for link.

And those rumours: well, well, well. A wallpaper designer is moving on in, which is not only niche, but eclectic, and pretty damned cool too.
tomwallbenbow

The wallpaper was top tomato to Admiral Benbow

And The Admiral Benbow, which used to be a pub of questionable delights, is being done up as a showroom and residence of another designer.
(The ‘Admiral Benbow’ is the name of the pub in Treasure Island, a book by Robert Louis Stevenson, based on St Leonards and Norman Road. Allegedly.)
More as it comes! Remember: you heard it here first so it’s bound to be wrong.

Oh! Hello Observer readers. Norman Road would salute you, but Observer readers might think that a bit odd, so just Hi!

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