I decided to have an early wander this morning, just before the sun rose, to find out what all the fuss was about with the new lighting in Bottle Alley (see video on earlier blog), and I was quite impressed, it certainly brightens up the place
Bottle Alley was built in the early 1930s, the 'Concrete King' Sidney Little being the designer, and forms the lower deck of the half-mile long promenade between award-winning Hastings Pier and Warrior Square Gardens, and very useful if raining heavily! The name comes from the use of recycled bottles of varying colours used within the concrete along the wall; for more information see the 1066 website.
Indeed, Bottle Alley was one of the Hastings locations for the film Byzantium (YouTube, about vampires, so it is a little gory - thus, warning). It was half filmed in Hastings (remember Pelham car park was packed with large motor caravans and trucks at the time, 2011 I seem to remember) and half in Cork. Always fun to see places you know on film, eg one of the stars, Saoirse Ronan in Bottle Alley above, pre-new lighting!
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