© Harold Dilworth Crewdson
Graham Sherrington… plain simple photos aint they great what is there now?
Keith Veness… Graham, I think it was a petrol station and then a car sales Now a block of flats opposite Morrisons
Graham Sherrington… wow that far down from the memorial we did not move to Queens Road till 63/4 from the High Street. thanks
Peter Ellingworth… I believe this is 158 Queens Rd., which along with Nelson, Milward Rds. and St. Mary’s Terrace were the victims of a Nazi three fighter-bombers raid on 26th Sept.1940 in which fourty high explosive bombs were dropped, the targets being the nearby gas holders and rail lines.
Three people were killed and a number injured. (Source- ‘Hastings at War’ and ‘Historical Hastings’.) I remember the site as a kid well- note how the overhead wiring for the former trolleybuses is still intact after they finished in May-June 1959. Didn’t it become a garage shortly afterwards lasting until well into the 1970’s?
Richard J Porter… Flats now, I think.
David Edwards… It was Little Joe’s car lot for years.
Nigel Sinden… David, It was when I first moved into Stonefield Road.
Peter Ellingworth… Further to my previous post: With further examination on Google, I believe 158 Queens Rd. is actually on the opposite side of the road to the photo, and during the raid of Thursday 26th Sept 1940 158 Queens Rd. and the property opposite ( the one in the photo), was destroyed along with others in the town as mentioned. I have just found my original copy that the Observer published of ‘Hastings at War’ which if anybody interested I will bring along when I get down, all being well to the next coffee meet. There are two photos of the damage on both sides of Queens Rd.
I believe this booklet was reproduced some years ago, can anybody enlighten me on that? It’s interesting to reflect on re -reading in this booklet how relatively defenceless Hastings was left until well into the war, as with the shortage of Ack-Ack guns these were mainly deployed in cities and industrial areas elsewhere. Also that Hastings’s post raids assistance programme set up by HBC was used as a yardstick for other towns.
John Butcher… l think the Germans got the best in their restoration as we were told there was a limit to repairs by Hastings council unlike many years after for princess anne.
Graham Sherrington… I have a copy of Hastings at War will see when it was printed. Thanks for the info on the photo.
I believe this is 158 Queens Rd., which along with Nelson, Milward Rds. and St. Mary’s Terrace were the victims of a Nazi three fighter-bombers raid on 26th Sept.1940 in which fourty high explosive bombs were dropped, the targets being the nearby gas holders and rail lines.
Three people were killed and a number injured.
(Source- ‘Hastings at War’ and ‘Historical Hastings’.)
I remember the site as a kid well- note how the overhead wiring for the former trolleybuses is still intact after they finished in May-June 1959.
Didn’t it become a garage shortly afterwards lasting until well into the 1970’s?
Further to my previous post:
With further examination on Google, I believe 158 Queens Rd. is actually on the opposite side of the road to the photo, and during the raid of Thursday 26th Sept 1940 158 Queens Rd. and the property opposite ( the one in the photo), was destroyed along with others in the town as mentioned.
I have just found my original copy that the Observer published of ‘Hastings at War’ which if anybody interested I will bring along when I get down all being well to the next coffee meet. There are two photos of the damage on both sides of Queens Rd.
I believe this booklet was reproduced some years ago, can anybody enlighten me on that?
It’s interesting to reflect on re -reading in this booklet how relatively defenceless Hastings was left until well into the war, as with the shortage of Ack-Ack guns these were mainly deployed in cities and industrial areas elsewhere.
Also that Hastings’s post raids assistance programme set up by HBC was used as a yardstick for other towns.