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The Vintage Trail
Sussex, England
Hastings
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LOVERS SEAT, FAIRLIGHT, HASTINGS, SUSSEX

Hastings
Fairlight
Path to Lovers Seat

postcard undated
Anderson Collection

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Hastings
Fairlight
Path to Lovers Seat

postcard dated 1956
Anderson Collection

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Hastings
Fairlight
Lovers Seat
c.1840

engraving
Anderson Collection

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Hastings
Fairlight
Lovers Seat
Aug.1860

engraving, Vignette views book
published c.1861 by F.Mann
scanned copy in house

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Hastings
Fairlight
Lovers Seat
1867

scan of mounted print
with thanks to Mrs Geraldine Price

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Hastings
Fairlight
Lovers Seat
c.1895-97

postcard dated 1897

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Hastings
Fairlight
Lovers Seat
c.1905-09

postcard dated 1909
in house

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Hastings
Fairlight
Lovers Seat
c.1905-07

postcard dated 1907
in house

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Lovers Seat

The seat appears to date back to at least 1780.

1786
There is a rather romantic account of this seat which was published on postcards.
see here
A more factual account can be found here

1910
A land slip took away a large section of cliff including the large reclining rock shown in many images. After this the edge was mostly fenced off.

18 December 1960
A landslip carried away the terrace on which the Lovers Seat stood.
The actual seat survived until early February 1961 when finally it also slipped over the edge.

The landmark itself seems to have disappeared in a cliff collapse in 1979.

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