ADDING THAT EXTRA POLISH

摘要

The NEW jerwood gallery is starting to emerge, shimmering slightly, from its scaffolding cocoon below Hastings'East Cliff. This is no showy butterfly though. The black tiles with their oily iridescence will gleam like a wet pebble with reflections of the shingle beach and old town. Its preciousness attracts unwelcome attention: overnight scrawls appear on the impregnable, yet somehow vulnerable, cladding. But then this is a high visibility attempt at arts regeneration, not marooned in old industrial docks but set in the heart of a much loved seaside town. Despite its poverty (it is Britain's second most deprived coastal town, only recently having lost its first place crown) opposition to the development of this bus and coach park along the Stade, as this bit of beach is called, had a history. There were 500 years