known vessel called the " Pelican " was about the last survivor. Besides the sea-borne business, there were four-horse waggons which plied regularly between Hastings and London, also to and from Brighton and Maidstone with goods and mails. They were called Fly Vans.
On the sign board of the Cutter Inn, which is one of the oldest, is the name of " James Bell," whose name is in Powell's Guide of 1819.
There are views of the Fishmarket of a hundred years ago, when all the business was done on the beach, with a row of temporary stalls. The old sailor near the Inn is wearing a pig-tail. This part
(From a block found in Ransom's Printing Office.
of Hastings was then called "Beach Houses," and consisted of a straggling lot of small houses dotted here and there, most of them let as lodgings to visitors.
