Fireworks Alexandra Park Hastings 1968

Kay Lobb… Best night of the week in the summer

Graham Sherrington… those nights were brilliant such civilized times!!!!

Douglas Palmer… At that time I worked in the Borough Treasurers Dept and we would man the various entrances to the Park on the firework evenings. The displays were very good and drew large crowds but not as spectacular as displays today.

 

Ticket office bus Queens Road Hastings 1970’s

shared from © Patrick Batty https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100013947426535 

A bus being used as a Ticket Office for coach trips at the cricket ground in the seventies.

Mick O’Dowd… Seem to remember it doubled as a waiting room too!

Kevin Haffenden… Stagecoach did a similar thing for the driver recently. A drivers rest room at the station.!

 

 

 

Bay City Rollers – Aquarius 6th November 1971

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cuttings supplied by Sarah Harvey

Sarah Harvey…..I know we were all fans

Tim Phillips… Eric Faulkner lived a few doors down from me in Cooden Drive in the early 90s.

Mark Gilham… We used to go (sea) fishing together. Great bloke.:)

Peter Millington… SPYKE – Chris Sayer, Peter Millington, Ian Williams and Terry Chedzoy – still trying to be under 21 except Chris RIP

Alan Esdaile… Bay City Rollers with Les McKeown are at The White Rock Theatre on the 3rd Dec 2015 and The Rubettes are booked for 6th Oct 2016.

Phil Thornton… not the real thing without Eric ……

Tony Court-holmes… thank god i missed that

Peter Fairless… Was it a S-A-T-U-R-D-A-Y night?

Robert Searle… The original lineup

 

Hastings Railway Station entrance – late 70’s???

 photo ©  Tony Tondo

Darren Jeetun… Not with an Austin Maestro in the picture. It has to be at least 1982 onwards

Wildstylefree StyleRadio… I remember this part of the station. was still up in 1989 late 2000s

Steve Hamilton… Late 90’s surely? With the yellow Connex signs?

Darren Jeetsun… Steve, definitely at least post 96

Kelly Watson… Where my grandad was a guard

Matt Henshaw… Late 90’s that white car is a Vauxhall Vectra that came out around then..

Steve Moore… The white and red Vectra B’s in the background put this picture 1995 onwards.

Tony Edwards… I think it was taken yesterday

Ian McClavin… Tony, (Wishful thinking!!) Do you remember the fancy murals on the walls inside? I wonder what happened to them?

Robert Mitchell… It’s Got The Yellow Connex Signage. Why Was It Replaced . Numerous Other Southern Railway Stations Of This Style In Good State Of Repair ?

Graham Preston… Far better looking than what’s there now.

Jennifer Oxbury… It’s got the signage after British rail was privatised and sold off and the phone boxes are the 80/90s ones the glass metal ones

Bradley Taplin… Connex sign means it’s 1995 or after

Christopher Watson… Station could have been kept modernised etc

David Fellows… The great Connex operator!

Daniel Elliott… Middle cars are a late 90s Ford fiesta and 2000s Ford escort

A Bodiam Stationmaster… There was a lovely mosaic around the roof of the entrance hall showing, I think, a Bulleid Pacific and a 6 Pan/PUL electric unit. What was done to all that was almost criminal, just to let it rot. There was an echo in that hall that gave the station an atmosphere, and the gents was a monument to convenience engineering.

Liam Leffe Armstrong… A Bodiam Stationmaster I remember at the time when they demolished the station, I was surprised they were allowed to do it. I’m not sure if the bricks were saved either because I remember seeing them all just knocked into a pile of rubble. I should have taken photos at the time. But I was a kid on my way to school

A Bodiam Stationmaster… Liam, f the rest of the building couldn’t be saved, I do wonder it the mosaic could have been moved elsewhere, but I think a lot of the individual pieces had fallen off and were lost by then.  Such a shame.

Ben Ja Min… Nissan blue bird on the end. Thats defo in the 90s

Janet Gardiner… Weird the things you remenber. Born in Hastings in 1940 down the left side of this building one of those houses had an apple tree near the back fence and we used to go “scrumping” their apples.

Liam Leffe Armstrong… As other people have stated the white Vectra was a new model around 1995 / 1996 so if it was a taxi at the time, and the Vectra was less than 3 years old, then this pic would have been taken between 1995 – 1999 which is how I see it because without that Vectra there, I would have guessed early 90s

Bruce Lawrence… When they took the sign down above the large window, the original green glass illuminated British Railways lettering was still there, I asked the jcb demolition operator if they could be saved. No, its all coming down in an hour was his reply.

Mike Trigg… Bruce, Managed to get the Gentleman and Ladies room glass signs out before it came down – they had been covered for years

George Davson… What a disgrace that the privatised railway demolished that Art Deco masterpiece. Hastings deco.

 

Bexhill Museum ‘Blues Unlimited Magazine’ blue plague 2025

image shared from: https://www.facebook.com/talesfromthewoodsofficial 

Information shared from: Karen Smith Bexhill Museum… The unveiling of the Blue Plaque dedicated to the founding of Blues Unlimited Magazine took place on October 29th 2025 at 38a Sackville Road, Bexhill On Sea, TN39 3JR. For more information please contact: Karen Smith at topsyturvey@icloud.com 
The Bexhill Museum,  has a small exhibition dedicated to Blues Unlimited.

 

Masons Music – est 3rd April 1978, closed 4th November 2016

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Hastings Pier, 187 Queens Road, 190 Queens Road, Grove Road Ore, Ponswood Ind Estate St Leonards.

Alan Esdaile… Now time for me to get a proper job.

Matt Thomas… I drove past earlier – something drew me to the place today.Sorry it’s come to this. End of an era as Masons Music closes it doors for the last time today, up until last year I had spent nearly 30 years at the place so very sad for me to hear today.

Chris Coleman… That must be a record

Jim Breeds… Really? Gosh. Best wishes for the next venture!

Colin Norton… Sorry to hear this, Alan! Hope that everything works out for you!

Tony May… Oh what a year this has been for you and for me. So sorry to hear this but not surprised in the current climate. If you can please pass on my condolences to all who have lost their jobs today. I may have left a long while ago but part of me shall always belong to Masons Music and the legacy that its existence played in what we all used to recognise as the music industry. Best wishes to you Alan – I will be in touch soon.

Jo Turner… Sorry to hear that

Virginia Davis… Good luck in your next venture

Diane Barton… Have the best memories 🙂 Fun times xxx

Ian Mantel… Every week on pay day in early 80’s I bought records.

Simon Payne… Masons Music played an important part in many of our Hastings lives. Sad to hear of it closing it’s doors today. Sad news Alan, I wasn’t with you long but still remember it fondly. Good luck for the future.

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