Hastings Jack in the Green 2026

Jack in the Green attendees sitting on Hastings West Hill. Photograph by the author. Yesterday was the Hastings Jack in the Green festival , an annual event marked by strange costumes, drinking, and a lot of the colour green. I wrote about last year’s event , and posted a lot of photographs of the 2023 event . Jack was duly slain after 4pm and and his leaves distributed by the Bogies to the crowd…