Debenhams Robertson Street Hastings advert 1975

John Gale… I remember buying punk singles from their ground-floor record store. Some as cheap as 10p each. Oh for a time machine. Some of those singles are worth well over 100 quid each now. Original Sex Pistols releases for instance…I’m talking pre Virgin releases. Happy days…

Chris Boorman… John,  I think so, but can’t remember what, except for a Motown box set and I think I got a French Anarchy single there as well. Had a safety pin on the sleeve.

Lynda Whatley… Was a great store back in the day !

Anita Medhurst… I miss it so much used to buy loads of stuff in there including my wedding dress

Marilyn Spence… Loved Debenhams, was still a school girl and with my sister was so excited to get our first pair of high heels there. They were black and I recall them being 25 shillings

Jane Dorsett… I was a window dresser at Debenhams in the late 70s.

Caz Simpson… I worked there for a short while in 1964/65 when it was Plummers. It’s so sad it had to close.

Neal Hunter… Worked there when it was Plummers and Debenhams met some great people even got engaged to one. I used to run the Debenhams football team which played other stores on Sundays. Good Times

Anchor Inn George Street Hastings

Rick Baldwin… What a fabulous pub!!

Bookham Ally…

Tony Court-holmes… worked there when i was 18 for Don Stewart with my mum June and then in the 80s for Norman and Jan, I could tell you a few tales. Used to have three bars and gents only did number 1s a 2 was done in The Pump House

Dave Nattress… The Anchor was on the list – pub-crawl list I suppose, when the Bexhill lads had a Friday/Saturday night out in Hastings. Most weekends if not at a pier gig, (plenty of those too). Well what was there to compete in Bexhill! God knows how many pubs we could visit in the Old Town going back to about 1970 when my youthful drinking started – a little underage, but that was part of the deal. Drinking, fortunately which long ago now as good as finished! Pump House was always on, Anchor across the road, Jenny Lind, Cutter, Royal Standard, then of course the Nelson. I forget. And more up and down the High Street. I’d say the Anchor was a touch on the basic side, but we didn’t go for the decor. Taffy’s chip shop on the way home or another in Western Road, St Leonards to get a Beanoburger or whatever it was.

Tracy Birrell… Amazing photo.

Unit 4 Plus 2 – Hastings Pier 20th August 1967 – Pink Floyd cancelled.

Alan Esdaile… Did you find out anymore about this Pete Fairless? Here’s the 1967 tour list with Hastings cancelled.

http://www.brain-damage.co.uk/…/1967-tour-dates…

Pete Fairless… Pink Floyd didn’t play, they were having a ‘holiday’. The date was rearranged for the following January, Syd’s last gig, famously