The Hastings castle

Today we visited the Hastings castle. The castle was on top of the hill at Hastings. It was built in the 11th century by William the conqueror. This castle was built after the 1066 war. The French invaded England and killed Harold the king.
As the years went by the hill got worn away and the castle fell to ruin. There was a huge storm which made half the castle fall into the sea.
King Henry the 8th made a law so that the church had to be ripped down. Now all that is left is this...

its still cool

The Amsterdam ship wreck

Today we were in Hastings and we went to a museum. The museum had alot about the Amsterdam Ship but was slso about lots of other ships right back to the first century.

I liked the stuff on the Amsterdam because it wrecked here. The Amsterdam was a East India trading boat. It was on voyage full of wine and gold when it all went wrong. The storm carried it to a beach then it sunk meters away from the island and then got sweaped away by the sea and taken to Hastings by the time it wrecked at Hastings most of the crew were ill or dead. The ill ones walked to the beach.

In the 1960s  a company that had to put a pipe in and they spotted the wreck and they went to find out what it was. Today there is still a tech there and in the summer you can see it at low tide.

Mum said we can come back in Summer and look at it.

The net shops

If you look close you may see the writing on the poster.

These tall black buildings are in Hastings and are interesting.