IMPORTANT
If you believe a person has stopped breathing, immediately clear their airway, tilt their head back, and begin CPR (chest compressions). If you are alone, call for help and ask the next responder to ring 999 or 112.
CPR should be your FIRST course of action, contacting the emergency services/professional paramedics your SECOND.
Note, prices vary but each unit costs in the region of £1,200. In addition, the cabinet they are stored in need to be mains connected to keep them above 5 degrees C –costing perhaps £30 a year. Due to the threat of theft and vandalism, some are in locked boxes or require an access code.
Many thanks to Darren Barzee, Andy Lee, Martin Turner and Nick Webb for their contributions.
LOCATIONS IN HASTINGS/ST LEONARDS
The Jenny Lind, High Street – outside on wall to right (pic)
Hastings Railway Station – inside to left of ticket barrier, approaching from town side (2 pics)
Remember… ALL Railway Stations in area should have one, too!
Fire Station, The Ridge – outside, to the right of the big red garage doors (2 pics)
Azur, lower prom next to Lifeguards (2 pics)
Telephone kiosk at the seaward end of Boscobel Road/West Hill Road junction (2 pics)
On Pelham Place-facing side of one of the two blue wooden bicycle hire huts on beach next to path beside crazy golf, close to Lifeguards (2 pics)
Horntye Sports Centre – a yellow/green box on the outside wall facing cricket pitch, shaded by balcony of the Cornwallis Suite/Club Room octagon that overlooks the artificial football pitches… That is: to the right of the double-doors where runners congregate before runs on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings. (Addition to original list)
Christ Church, Ore – on the A259/Old London Road (main road) mounted on the gable end of the church facing the Co-op store, the junction with Saxon Road.
Christ Church, Blacklands & St Andrew – defibrillator in yellow and green casing, on the outside of the church facing the Laton Road side of the corner with St Helen’s Park Road.
And though not strictly public access, there is one at:
Bannantynes Health Spa on Battle Road, Hastings TN38 8EZ – inside
BEYOND HASTINGS/ST LEONARDS
Halfway up Telham Hill, next to the pavement, on patch of grass adjacent to No 77 and opposite No 68 Hastings Road (A2100) in
Telham – the Hastings-Battle road outside the Post Office/shop on Main Road (A28), Westfield TN35 4QE
Battle Sports Center.
The database at https://www.nddb.uk/ (enter postcode) indicates there is one at Crowhurst… Telephone box on Chapel Hill (near The Plough pub) just north of where it becomes Sandrock Hill (near Crowhurst Recreation Ground), Crowhurst TN33 9AW
IN BEXHILL
B&Q, Ravenside Retail Park, Hastings Road (A259) TN40 2JS
Beulah Baptist Church TN40 1QA
Co-operative Store TN40 1DX
MISSING/INACTION
The following locations no longer have one:
Public Toilets in Harold Place (closed and hidden behind hoardings) – but perhaps this could be reinstated when this site is redeveloped?
Hastings Police Station, Bohemia Road – if in vicinity, the ambulance station further down Bohemia Road would be more useful
Hastings Pier – just an empty box, now.
FURTHER INFORMATION
ref: https://www.neas.nhs.uk/our-services/community defibrillators.aspx
database at https://www.nddb.uk/ (enter postcode)
Although the 1066 Country Community First Responders website suggest there are five Public Access Defibrillator (PAD) sites in Hastings (installed and maintained by themselves) this information is now out of date.
by Neil Jeffries, January 2022