Month: February 2022

Who remembers Images the pub? – Hastings Feb 1985

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DJ’s John Dean, Simon Quinn, Terry James and Simon Veness

Steve Mann… Won the music quiz one year. Plus Thursday night normally had a bottled beer promotion

John Gale… Simon Veness was a great dj

Alan Wood… Still is on Hastings Rock

Jamie… Used to know Quinny. Was a good bloke.

Coleen Wickens… Oh my god yes lol

Peggy Harrison and Freddie? The Carlisle Hastings 1960’s

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supplied by Graham Harrison

Graham Harrison… photo of my mum singing in the Carlisle pub Hastings around the 1960`s when i was a teenager and went to see her singing.

Ricky Long… Janine, was that Freddie Scowen on pianist. Xx

Janine Hemsley… Ricky, I believe it is too xx

Ricky Long… Did a lot of gigs with Fred great piano player.xx

Andy Qunta… What a great photo to have!

Anna Karen R.I.P.

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photo: unknown

more information… https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-60490252

Paul Cullen… So sad

Harry Norcliffe-hic… Such a shame x

Tracy Howell… Liked her r.i.p xx

Linda O’leary… Very sad

Jill Green… Rip

Margaret Trowell… How very horrifying and sad. RIP Anna

Carole Prescott… Terrible circumstances. RIP Olive.

Robert Searle… Thats horrible news RIP Anna

Barry Upton… That’s sad

Malcolm Robinson… Terribly sad

Leigh Mitchell… Oh how awful, I was only talking about her yesterday!

Carol Cooksey… So sad

Andy Guainiere… Such a sad end……….

Andy Warren… RIP. Funny lady.

Julie Findlay-jones… Oh how aweful, sleep well funny lady, you were a delight to watch.

Janine Hemsley… That is tragic

Josie Syer… Poor lady,such a horrific death.R.I.P

Alice K Blakemore…Omg such a funny lady. Be missed

Wendy McGee… So sad

Phil Scott… That is terrible news, So sad to hear this

Colin Bell… so sad

Monica Bane… So very sad

Pete Prescott… Very sad

Jacquie Hinves… Oh goodness. That’s is so terrible sad. She was a true star . I loved “on the buses”RIP.

Lyn Farkley Appleyard… This is so sad…Rip Anna. You will be missed x

Andy Qunta… Very sad!

Hayley OBrien… I ate you butler is my reminder from that comedy

Sainsbury’s Cambridge Road Hastings August 1974

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James Read… Got a lot of memories from working there over a four year period 80 – 84.

Jonathan Rudd… Ben, too

Sheila Maile… Used it all the time when we lived in town till it closed

John Gale… Started shopping there regularly in 1987 and still shop with them regularly now… Home delivery once a week, very reliable

Andy Coleman… I remember the old one, I think Nationwide is there now, used to go with my Gran to help her with the shopping. Individual counters where you asked for what you wanted and given it in bags.

Nadia Compagnone… I remember all the staff being dressed in very clean white overalls and everything being behind glass counters. No helping yourself off shelves.

Angela Frances Gardner… This makes me feel sad as I went to meet my mother there on December 7th 1983 not knowing that she had died the evening before , I found out an hour after I had gone to meet her.

Gill Harrod… Look at those opening hours – closed Sunday AND Mondays! And special late night shopping to 8pm Thursday and Friday! When people who worked in retail could have a life!

Ian Johnson… Should bring back the opening hours for the staff

Cris Kennard… I worked in Sainsbury’s Cambridge Rd prior to its opening in the 70’s to the public we had a tour of the building and basement areas. After opening we could buy any out of date food for a pittance as long as some cash went through the tills at end of shift.

Lorna Brazier… I used to work there back in 82.

Dawn… My mum used to be a Tesco fan but when Sainsburys opened she was drawn there instead, especially as the bus stop was right outside!

The Great Storm of 1987

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photos by Michael Martin and Jimmy Burke. Hastings Observer.

Wendy Weaver… Lost almost all of our roof in the 87 storm.

Gill Harrod… Todays storm certainly similar!

Matt Thomas… Gill, I don’t think nowhere near in comparison

Tara Reddy… Many roofing businesses started up that year!!

Lorna Brazier… And that’s just a small fraction of the damage across Hastings & St Leonards in 87.

Christopher Parry… I was at sea during that storm,I’m just saying. I remember those days!

Monica Bane… Great pics, Still have the newspaper from that year!

Paul Collins… Looks like a piano landed on the roof of The Cricketers

Steve Beerling… I was working on the building as a labourer in the 87 storm and remember going up ladders the next morning repairing roofs and it was still pretty blowy up on them. Pretty daunting.

Alan Frost… I had just painted the cooling towers at Gatwick when the storm hit, my manager and myself were on top of the cooling towers tieing down a sheet to stop the rain washing our paintwork off

Ian Johnson… I remember that storm I put my Grandads roof back on the next day in the rain with Ivan

Amanda Hilton… I’d been at work as a control Operator for East Sussex Fire Brigade for 6 weeks it was a massive learning curve. Nothings fazed me after that. I retired after 34 years service .

Nicola Dobson… Worst night of my life

Broadoak Studios… I slept through that one!

Neil Cartwright… Our fence picked up and flew like a frisbee into our conservatory.

Dawn… Slept through it and total shock when I woke up. My dad however, worked through the night at Beauport Caravan Site to keep everyone safe. Lots of trees down – Scary stuff!

Fritz The Cat film – The Penguin Cinema Hastings 1975

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Who remembers seeing Fritz The Cat film? I saw it in 1972 at the Classic Cinema. Don’t think they would get away with showing it now!

Keith Veness… Yes who are you going to please with that Me

Andy Davies… What a pre pc pussycat!

Ian Quinnell… Great film. Don’t think it would get an airing today though

Leigh Mitchell… I went to see it – I was very shocked & embarrassed at the time

Procol Harum Gary Brooker R.I.P.

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more details… https://procolharum.com/gary-brooker-obituary.htm

David Miller… Farewell Gary Brooker. Much love and thanks to you.

Dennis Torrance… For me feel gutted saw Procol Harum on Hastings pier 70s and at Eastbourne to. Such a brilliant singer musician and whiter shade of pale to his albums single and with Procol Harum . I particularly loved his album no fear of flying Gary sitting Carmly while rest of passengers on plane panicking. On album his cover of say it ain’t so joe brilliant. My deepest condolences to family friends and his fans to RIP Gary thank you for your music

Jill Lawrence… Dennis, I loved them also saw them in Hastings and Eastbourne in the 70’s, fab musician x

Jo Turner… Several wonderful Procol Harum gigs. How sad

Patrick Lewis… That’s so sad. A truly great musician. Loved Procol Harum

Yvonne Cleland… That’s a shame. Saw them on the pier once! xxx

John Wilde… Thank you Gary, now skip the light fandango.

Alan Esdaile… What a brilliant voice and musician. A Whiter Shade of Pale will live on forever but many many other great tracks like A Salty Dog. Very very sad news.

Peter Thomson… Such sad news. I remember their pier gig well.

Andy Hemsley… Actually saw him guesting with Fairport Convention at a Cropredy Festival, at the piano playing Whiter Shade – really impressive. Love those early Harum albums.

Peter Fairless… They played Hastings Pier in August 1975 – by which time, of course, they were universally know for ‘that’ song from eight years earlier. A shame, because they were so much more…

Pete Prescott… Very sad. That voice.

Judy Atkinson… Saw them twice on the pier within a few months, probably 1975. The first gig was packed, the second not so much

Allan Mitchell… R.I.P Gary A Great Lyrisis And A True Legend Youve Left Us With Some Truely Amazing Back Catalogue. Will Be Sorely Missed. A Fan.

Chris Meachen… Damned shame, a fine musician….

 

 

Who remembers ‘Swift Half’ band asks Clive Bendon-Hill

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I was the bass player and harmony singer with Swift Half in 80’s and 90’s with Paul Burton on guitar and harmonies, Chris Sayer lead guitar, singer and leader of the band. We also had a brilliant electric banjo player whose name I think was Paul and he came from Bexhill but I cannot remember the drummer’s name. I have a video of Swift Half at the Tower Pub where we played one night but cannot remember the date! I believe there is an album of Swift Half which I found a track from on YouTube today. Any info you can give me on this please and on the Hastings Swift Half band in their day when all the afore-mentioned were together? If anyone else remembers the band in its day, can they get in touch? By the way, apart from the VHS video I have I also have copies of all the lyrics that Chris hand wrote for all the songs we did together! Please do come back with any info, photos or recordings – just to bring back memories and the fun we had! Thank you so much! Clive

Paul Dengate… Could have been Paul Bishop on banjo

Alex Knight… Paul, was about to say this!! I think he lives in France now!! Paul Bishop was this you?? Maybe Gary on drums??