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Hellwood Archive

Cult cinema, true crime, strange history and cultural oddities.

Stories from the darker corners of film, television, music, literature, crime, history and the unexplained.

foyle's war

A deserted Hastings seafront in 1940, with barbed-wire defences, blackout curtains and distant military activity evoking the wartime setting of Foyle's War.

Why Was Foyle's War Set in Hastings? The Real Wartime History Behind the Television Detective

Foyle's War turned the Sussex seaside town of Hastings into a landscape of murder, espionage and wartime suspicion, but the...

09 Oct 2026 • Archive Note