Chris Cozens… Keyboard wiz Nick Magnus on the left. (The Enid, Johnny Mars and Steve Hackett to name but three).
Pete Prescott… Nick also played on the first Forcefield album
Images the pub /JR’s the club Hastings – staff photo 1985
Lisa Shaw… I remember the guy at the end very handsome.
Wendy Weaver… No Hoss?
Michael Hayes… Jo and Eileen ran a fantastic pub and club when I went there around 1982-1985 great memories
Charity Disco Dancing competition – Saturdays Discotheque George Street Hastings 3rd May 1979
Martin Richter… Goodhew’s days ? the guy on the right looks familiar ?
Jim Breeds… I doubt I was there. I’d started working in London the previous January and stayed in my flat most nights drinking cocoa.
Matt Thomas… I would have loved to have been old enough to go clubbing around this time
Julie Findlay-jones… I was probably there with your sister.x
Julie Morris… Happy times!
Patricia Wapshott… I was there ! The best of times
Julie Morris… Dawn, apologies if I’m wrong but is that by any chance you in the background?! I’m pretty sure my old school friend Sue is next to you – or I may just be getting old!
Dawn Leaney… Well it could be Julie? Although I think my hair was longer around that time and I don’t recall that dress? If it is I’m sure o would of had a few dubonnet and lemonades!
Kev Perry… I was in that
Perri Ann Haste… I was there – Great evening, think I was drinking Martini & lemonade then! – those were the days!
Martin Richter… taking a punt (and I could be *very* wrong) – I think the guy is Martyn Wong ?
Paul Bryant… I think you could be right Martin,he was a fantastic
Matt Thomas… Ron & Joyce my old dance teachers from above FADS in Queens Rd
Leigh Wieland-Boys… oh my that brought back a memory, my friend & I had Saturday
Night Fever dance lessons with Ron & Joyce above FADS!!!
Annika Banfield… Ooh, I was dancing in that competition. Sweet memories
Adlehied Hoohaa Welsh… I would love to know who these two are.? Anyone?
Alan Esdaile… In the write up it says the winners are Lorraine Burkes and Simon Ginsberg but a couple of people think it could be Martyn Wong?
Sara Mcdonald Kingham… I was going to say i think its Martyn Wong
Yelton Hotel Hastings – front view photo
photo: Ray Nickson https://www.facebook.com/groups/hastingstlenspicsandvids
Pauline Richards… Love the balcony on a summers day!!
Stuart Moir… Great place to play when the music scene in Hastings was fantastic, so many venues having live music .
Paul Phillips… Stuart, wasnt it just Friday and Saturday night live bands in The Yelton
Stuart Moir… I think you’re right Paul, Centre Page enjoyed the gigs we played there with full capacity every time .
Paul Huggett… Stuart, certainly was, did 24 gigs there with No Limit in one year, early 90s. Ernie was a strict manager there, but if you got a deal from him, it stuck. No mucking around or “double booking ” nonsense.
Stuart Moir… Paul, They were the best venues in the town, as you so rightly say Paul no problems ever, Ernie was one of the best, we never had to search the country for bookings, the venues and agents phoned us prior to the start of every year, two and three bookings every weekend, played hell with relationships
Mick O’Dowd… The Spiritual home of SMART! Loved going there to see great bands but there was such an diverse mix of punters from the flash to the loony( sorry can I say that?).
Paul Coleman… Worked in the kitchen for a weekend when I was a kid. Left quick when the very volatile foreign chef threw a cooks knife across the kitchen. Missed me by inches! Do your own washin up!
Nigel Ford… Perhaps I’ve said before, owned by Michael NOTLEY (name in reverse) who had a farm in Magham Down near Hailsham that I ploughed at once in the East Sussex ploughing match mid ’70’s.
Bob Searle… Played there lots of times
ITT Consumer Products (UK) Ltd, Theaklen Drive, St Leonards – Job Ad 1974 & 1978
Matt Thomas… My mum worked here
Alan Esdaile… notice the wages
Pauline Richards… And the part time hours ‘for women’
Cliff Wootton… I worked there from 1974 to 1978. Started on the factory floor and worked my way up to draughtsman, illustrator and tech pubs specialist. Happy days
Paul Morfey… Both me and my wife ( janette) worked at ITT in Hastings in the 70ts. That is where we met. We just celebrated our 39th wedding anniversary!
Pete Prescott… I worked there as a temp in 78. I was in the buying dept with Keith Garnsey.
Dave Nattress… Wages – and if I read it right, unequal rates for males/females doing the same job? Certainly though a major player ITT. I had several friends who worked there in different roles or who took different rolls to work, (ham, cheese and pickle and salmon and cucumber being well popular). Of the illustrations on the advert I’m sure many of us had their products. I actually had the radio, cassette player/recorder, (2 of them, used for band rehearsals), and my parents had , the music centre at one time albeit not the best HiFi. Another local name and employer long gone.
Peter Millington… My father Bob Millington worked there managing the Stores Dept. between about 1966 to about 1978. He also organised all the dances at the White Rock and the Queens Hotel, a busy chap!
Paul Bryant… My mother worked there for a short time,remember the Christmas party they used to throw for employees children
Ralph Town… See how repressed women were back then. Different wage rates for men and women. Terrible.
Jan Warren… I worked for British Radio Corporation, Beeching Road, Bexhill in 1971/72 they were soon taken over by ITT!! – I enjoyed working for BRC, lots of my schoolfriends were there, it was fun, nice atmosphere, happy days!!
Richard Johnstone… I worked there from 73 to 78 in production planning. We had 3 categories of production workers – high skilled males, low skilled males and females! Doing different jobs – women on the component assembly lines, men (skilled) on testing and fault correction and men (low skilled) on jobs known as ‘hauling and mauling’. No overlap between the sexes
Peter Ulyatt… I worked there from 1963ish to 1979 when my wife, 3 kids and I emigrated to Australia. When I started it was known as KB (Kolster Brands). I started checking radios as they came off the assembly line. If they worked, I calibrated them ready for dispatch. If they didn’t work they got put on one side for a technician to fix it. A couple of years later I became one of those technicians. When ITT took it over, can’t remember when, I started working on TVs as a technician and worked up to being a Test Diagnostician. Then came the start of colour TV. A screen about 12 ” across In a massive cabinet full of valves. You needed an asbestos suit to work on them. Good days and a good company to work for.
Pete Prescott… I worked in the purchasing department for a month (temping) in early 78 with Keith Garnsey. amazing guy.
Terry Corder… My first job was there in 1968!
Harry Randall… Did you make it?
Samantha Fox – Saturdays Night Club around 1986
photo Keith Tooke
Peter Pursglove… I remember that
Tony Qunta… What hand?!
Pete Shaw… Can’t see either hand…still focusing….ayah…no..that’s not a hand…let me check again….well….I’ll try again later…mmm
Alan Esdaile… She does not look very happy.
Sarah Harvey… Knowing how big Sam Fox was in those days, whoever’s hand that is must have the biggest hands ever!
Monica Bane… Remember her eyeing up my son in Earls Court, he was doing the advert for Lee Cooper Jeans !
Tony Court-holmes… what a fine looking young lady
Jez… My Friends Dane and Dave and I went to Sam’s place back in the middle 80’s (Maybe even ’86). Went there by Cab from ‘Sarf’ London and I don’t think we even went in the club once we realised that we wouldn’t get to see Sam. Cost us a small fortune!
Malcolm McDonald… I took one that night, for this girl. She asked me to get her photo, so stood on side of the booth, said,Sam, she turned round, smiled and got one…
Stuart Moir… Travelled to London “Val Bonn Studios” with Ray Fenwick to do backing vocals for one of her records, Colin Fox was chatting her up and said she wouldn’t have to change her name if she married him 
Colin Fox… Stu, I didn’t chat her up, Ray wanted me to make her laugh as she was nervous.
ITT TV radio stereo cassette recorders 1970’s brochure. Supplied by Haydn Betchley
Some of the images from the brochure. Supplied by Haydn Betchley
Jez… I really love these old brochures and catalogues on 70’s, Hi-Fi and TV, Radios, tape recorders n’ all. I used to have some from the early days of video recorders when the machines were pretty huge. I’m going back to the early 80-‘s here. I also had some TV catalogues where you can’t look but for Wood Panelling! Love it all.
Freddie Starr White Rock Pavilion Hastings 1st May 1983
Barry Newton… I seem to remember going to this, great laugh
Dawn Leaney… I went to this , l was only 22 and had front row tickets. I spent the whole show hoping that he wouldnt pick me out for ridicule
Colin Bell… One of the funniest guys i ever worked with, it was impossible, he made me crack up multiple times every time i went to speak!
Jacquie Hinves… What a super nice man Freddie was. X
Peter Thomson… Saw him just a year or so earlier at Kings. One of the funniest shows ever.
Nick Tutt… I was at this one. Amazing bloke. Kept my head down when he looked my way. Current gf wore a bright pink leopard spot dress… he seemed to miss it thankfully lol
Matt Thomas… I remember working the bar at his performance at White Rock 89/90? He did two shows in one evening (both sell outs), both bars open and even the rarely opened spot bar that was situated inside the auditorium. A big performer who knew how to entertain.
Them – Witch Doctor 30th April 1965
Ad Andre Palfrey-martin collection. photo London Records Ad 1965
John Storer…Does this get votes as one of the most influential singles ever? both tracks are now standards and both sound as brilliant today as they did back then. “Gloria” was the b-side to “Baby Please Don’t Go” when it was released in the UK but the tracks were reversed when the single was released in the States. Yet it was “BPDG” as a b-side that caught the imagination of many American bands and it was a cover of that song by The Amboy Dukes in 1967 that brought a certain Mr Ted Nugent to prominence.
Andy Qunta…..Funnily enough, Gloria was the B-side to Baby Please Don’t Go, although it is perhaps the better-known one now. I like both, but I still prefer the A-side! By the way, they say that if you drop a guitar down the stairs, sooner or later it will play Gloria!
Len……Saw ‘Them’ in the club upstairs above the Fiesta Coffee Bar, on the day they played the Witch Doctor.
Alan Esdaile….Anyone remember seeing Van Morrison at The White Rock Theatre in 1991?
Mick O’Dowd…..Yes I was there. Fantastic show from The Master and if I remember Mike Cotton Sound were a more than adequate band.
David Edwards… Well I never knew that Them had played the Witchdoctor.
John Warner… Mike Cotton, came across him again on a cruise, great trumpeter. Them – Van Morrison. Lonely Ones – Noel Redding. Great times!
Nutz – Hastings Pier 30th April 1977
all cuttings supplied by Sarah Harvey
Ticket supplied by Peter Houghton
Bizarre billing for the original support!
Sarah Harvey……Nutz first appearance on 30th April 1977 plus Stephen Turner’s preview of the gig. Also a quick return 3 months later on July 16th. Note the forthcoming gig with Head On and Steppin’ Out on the following Thursday.
Alan Esdaile… The lead singer Dave Lloyd was the voice of .. only the crumbliest flakiest chocolate ad.
Pete Prescott… Although I still lived in north Kent I visited Hastings that weekend and went to this gig.
Dave Weeks… Nutz. Yes I was one of the very few there. Good night though and good fun band.