Shopping
"Antiques, Objets, fine food, fun and a drink or two. Brussels just sprout. Norman Road goes pro. "When the Pro go shopping the Pro go to Norman Road" (Fact)
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.
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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
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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.

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Archive for the ‘Norman Road’ Category

Gyn Horn. Illustrator.

Norman is tip top toe to welcome Gyn Horn to Norman Road, at number 66. Gyn’s studio, Studio 10, (geddit? 10…66, keep up at the back..) will bring a nice touch of anti serious, (altho’ she is a proper artist), with some delighting wit, all to be seen on her website. More details soon.

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Norman says Yay!
Norman also says He is a She, not Norman, Gyn is a woman person. Glad that’s cleared up then.

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Where to Eat by the Beach

The Times, a newspaper of many supplements, recently had a article about places to eat by the Beach.

And very odd choices they had too. Something from somewhere called Camber. (Did you know they have seals in Camber? Lets hope they don’t do anything ghastly and Canadian to them and them offer them up with chips.)

But really good food in and around Hastings and St Leonards? Pah! They had none, not even the one with a Michelin award. St Clements at the top of Norman Road, an absolutely fabbo eaterie. Nor was Pasta Pasta displayed, with some of the finest pizzas in Sussex, (and the ghost of the first British ice cream maker in the basement). Nor the ever popular Smiths where Richard cooks up the a la mode du jour in finer fashion than most. Kassa remains unfound, Aaardvaark unknown, The Little Larder lamentably unmentioned.

Now, sure, this is Norman warbling, but to only mention a sandwich shop in the Old Town, Rudges or summit, makes me think the Times journalist must of had a gastric bypass. Not a good thing in a foodie.

So, for our gastrically challenged scribe, Norm recommends alternative pleasure..

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Norman Road challenges L’Europe

Now that Christmas is done and dusted Norman Road is awake and trading again. And to show our International Cred, our commitment to BritShop and all sorts of other stuff we have a picture of a ‘geezer in a beret‘  but wearing seasonal sprouts, none of those foreign onion things.

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Norman Road. Leading into the Next Decade of Shopping fun. For You!
Yay!

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One!

Welcome to One, 1 London Road*, our newest Nearly Norman, who has an array of wonderful food to take away, an array of wonderful art to see while you stay, and whose lovely, bright, colourful premises have brought a ray of sunshine to Norman’s early autumn.

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*Very Wellingtonian, who, after retirement, lived at Number 1, London.

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A change. No expenses were claimed in this change.

Please be patient! We’ve moved from WordPress.com to WordPress.org. Doesn’t sound like much huh? But to some of us it is a step on the road to being the sine qua non of South Coast blog sites, and is really exciting, ya know.

Soon all the info will be back, the Normans, the Nearly Norms, Friends of Norm, Arty Norms, Hearty Norms, they’ll all be back; dancin’ yay Dancin’ in the streets.

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Get the Felting

sign135NunoValenki: Wonderful felt necklaces, brooches and scarves, to be seen, and felt, to be believed. shake2
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.
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Nearly Normans
There are a few "Nearly Normans" here: places so cool, and so close that they just had to be included.
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Creative Norms
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
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Friends of Norm
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
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