• 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..

Creatives

Surrounded by creativity, both on and around Norman Road, below is a small selection to inform and guide. Please enjoy.

ARTISTS

Alex Leadbeater (A Nearly Norman)
Paintings of seascapes, still life, available as original art, limited edition print and cards.

Danny Mooney
Paintings currently strongly influenced by Aboriginal art.

WRITERS & PUBLISHERS

The Hastings Press
Our local publisher, and prolific author.

See Also: FONs, (Friends of Norman).

Anna Keiller:
Ceramic Sculpture.

Other.

ST LEONARDS GARDENS

A refurbished Victorian garden which has to be one of the best in the country. Gentle yet semi formal curves of grass and path swirl past the large pond down the hill towards the sea.

Map for Norman Road HERE.
Just scroll to the west, (left…) a bit and the gardens are between Maze Hill and Quarry Hill.

  • Plenty. Our new Provisioner

    tom New on the Seafront Plenty is our new Nearly Norman, a provisioner of fab breads, great groceries and delightful deli stuff. PLENTY
    Norman Road is changing and refining eclectically, and we are going to welcome some Norman Neighbours: people who are nearby but don't fit in any category known to Norman. Artists, Book publishers and karmic creatives will all be here.
    The Bloomsbury of the south coast, thats what we are now. Allegedly.

  • Nearly Normans

    There are a few "Nearly Normans" here: places so cool, and so close that they just had to be included.

  • Creative Normans

    Creative Norms abound, altho', being creative, are a little backward in coming forward. We have logged a couple, painter and publisher, and know of more... Please watch this space: CREATIVES

  • Friends of Norman

    Friends of Norman, (FONs), are too numerous to be left alone any more. Artists, musicians, shop owners, ...anyone with a connection and a Norman friend can be found here, enriching the Norman Experience far, far beyond the bounds of 1066. And all that.
    Fun FONs here

  • Shops’ area

    Private: Shop's area
  • History