Day: 7 September 2023

Milo’s Restaurant George Street Hastings – Gas explosion 1963

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photo ©  Monica Bane

Gary Benton… that’s a great video

Chris Meachen… I remember the bang when that happened, it rattled our windows in Halton…

Stella Huggett… I remember it well. My grandparents in Italy so a photo of it and thought a bomb had gone off.

Harry Randall… Remember it well! They said they would never build on the site! Yeah?

Iain Cobby… My parents and I lived above the Burger Bar at the other end of George St by the Hastings Arms. Fortunately we were on holiday in Cornwall and came back to the pandemonium a week later!

String Driven Thing and Stallion – Hastings Pier 7th September 1974

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7TH SEPT 1974 STRING DRIVEN THING.

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STRING DRIVE THING. DRESSING ROOM SEPT 1974

STRING DRIVEN THING SEPT 1974.

poster supplied by Mick Mepham. pier photos Chris Meachen.

Tich from Stallion at the pier gig supplied by Roger Carey

Here’s a great recording of ‘Circus’ venue unknown.

Wesley Magoogan…. Those Observer adverts were the center of some of our lives then.Whomever was on the advert for the pier were that week’s big deal !

Phil Gill… I was there, it was a brilliant gig.