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Day: 23 October 2022
Who remembers playing Bar Billiards?
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Alan Esdaile… remember playing this in The Provincial Hotel Havelock Road.
Colin Fox… Many times in the Crown Eastbourne
Martin Richter… what a game ! sadly missed
Reg Wood… At the Langham
Joe Knight… Use to be one in the Wheatsheath pub in Bohemia Rd
Jan Warren… Also remember “shove ha’penny” in the pub too!
Jim Breeds… Very popular in the Jenny Lind in the 1970s. Then the landlord (Ron French) swapped it for a pool table. Not the same fun!
Mike Mitchell… Used to play in The Oddfellows Arms..
Maz Marriott… My husband still plays in the league for the Jenny
Michael Wilson… The Fountain St Leonards.
David Edwards… Used to love bar billiards tho’ very few pubs have them now. But I believe the Jenny has one.
Sandy Max… Still play in the Nags Head! I think they got their table from the Fox when it closed. Much more skilful than the ubiquitous American Pool played in most pubs. I believe there may still be a Bar Billiards league?
Pete Prescott… Used to play this a lot ! Great game !
Pauline Richards… Yes. My grandparents used to own the Langham pub and my grandfather used to let me play for free.
Ian Mantel…I used to play at The Princes, now Pissarro’s. The table was in the corner where they now put the drummer on a Friday/Saturday night
Samuel Freeman… Played there good table
Who remembers playing a game of shove ha’penny?
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Alan Esdaile… I think the first time I played it was at The Angel pub on the West Hill.
Judy Atkinson… I’ve got a board but no pennies or ha’pennies. Great pub game. My dad said they used to make the boards from the old wooden toilet seat covers
Reg Wood… We still play at home.
Kim Thompsett… Used to have shove and darts night at the Sussex. There was a league, it was serious stuff!
Carol Paffett… Still play
Jane Hartley… We had a board at home, still got the pennies somewhere. Played a lot in the Langham too.
Kathy Wood… We got our board out a few weeks ago, had forgotten about it for years
Nathan Honey… Loved playing this with grandad! Good memories
Leigh Wieland-Boys… My parents still have one!
Tony Bowles… Leigh, so do I but don’t have any pennies
Karen Sweatman… Still play this with in laws at Christmas
Mike Waghorne… 50 years ago !
Martin Stoggell… I’ve got one of them. But no one to play with.
Dawn Leaney… There is still a shovepenny league between pubs in Hastings that play on a thursday eve .. not so many teams as there used to be , unfortunately not many younger people are playing so few and few each year. Xx
Tony Court-holmes… used play it all the time all the pubs in the old town used to have a table. The Nelson was the best. Tony Shipley taught me how to play
Val Shoesmith… We have one.
Stephen Moran… I have very fond memories of playing shovepenny in the Nelson during the late seventies!
Pete Houghton… I used to play it when i used to go in my local pub
John Warner… had one in my pub!
Colin Bell… Used to play it with my dad at The Fountain St. Leonards, long before it was a music venue and still a traditional pub, good memories
Melody Maker Rock Contest Hastings Pier featuring Stallion, Daisy, Bracken 27th April 1974
cutting supplied by Andy Knight
Stallion photo by Chris Meachen. Not sure this was from the same gig but would be around this time.
Phil Thornton… I was there ! I joined Stallion after seeing their performance !
Yvonne Cleland… I was there. I was doing Daisy’s sound at the time…
Steve Kinch… Great times!
Daisy photo supplied by Yvonne Cleland (August 1974)
Yvonne Cleland… .. featuring Will Thomson, Kevin Hoad (Moff) and Tony Barraclough. Terry Corder was there but not in this shot.
Kevin Sherwood… Daisy were very good that night.
Yvonne Cleland… Daisy were exceptionally good that night.
Jo Turner… Oh I loved these competitions and have great memories of jumping in the back of someone’s van frequently in later years to follow local bands doing the competition rounds. Was it Michael Mepham who had the van?
Wesley Magoogan… I remember that well, there were lots of shenanigans between us and Stallion lol.