Hastings' rival to Bayeux Tapestry to be given away for free

By The Newsroom
Published 8th Mar 2018, 16:35 BST
Updated 8th Jun 2018, 00:27 BST
Sections of the Hastings embroidery. Picture: Hastings Borough CouncilSections of the Hastings embroidery. Picture: Hastings Borough Council
Sections of the Hastings embroidery. Picture: Hastings Borough Council
A 243ft embroidery which depicts the Battle of Hastings is going to be given away...for free.

The Hastings Embroidery – created in 1965 by the Royal School of Needlework ahead of the 900th anniversary of the Battle of Hastings – had been kept in storage, in London, for more than two decades as Hastings Borough Council said there was ‘no place to put it’.

A spokesman for the council said: “We have already offered it to an organisation, whom we thought could house it, but they were unable to proceed with their plans.

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