Publications
Hastings: A Living History, by David William Thornton, published 1 April 1987 (351 pp + 3 pp. of plates, Hastings: Hastings Publishing Co., ISBN-10: 0951220101 & ISBN-13: 9780951220108) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 13461] & British Library & East Sussex Libraries
written and published during his term of office as Mayor of Hastings in the 1980s