all photos supplied by Nick Poulton
Nick Poulton… Few pics of my father and uncle back in the early 60’s. My father was Alan Poulton known as Alan Lee, my uncle on guitar was John Grinstead both sadly no longer with us.
Day: 6 December 2020
James Bond double bill Gaiety Cinema Hastings & Guns Of Navarone The Curzon 1965
Dennis Torrance… Remember the cinema posters in the sixties. Was a family trip to cinemas every Weds night . I saw journey to the centre of the earth gaiety, looking at posters and stills outside, my earliest memory of cinemas
Patrick Turner… I was a projectionist at the Curzon when they showed that film, great stuff. Good old Gregory Peck and Anthony Quin & David Niven
Johnie Winch: Retracing his Roots by Neil Partrick
John Winch has been playing ‘roots’ music – folk, blues, country, bluegrass, Cajun and skiffle – for six decades. For the last two (as throughout the 1980s) he’s lived and performed in Germany as a blues guitarist and singer. A correspondent to this site affirms that John remains an ‘extremely talented guitar and banjo player and has a fabulous blues voice.’
Please click on this link to read the article… https://oldfolkrebels.blogspot.com
Lots of musical films being shown in Hastings in 1968 except The Orion!
and in December 1969, The Orion applied to become an uncensored film club!
Graham Sherrington… All the DOM would be outside in their Plastic Mac’s I used to cross the road to go round them. Oh Happy Days…