Day: 21 February 2024

The West Hill Lift Hastings

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photos shared from Hastings Museum & Art Gallery https://www.facebook.com/hastingsmuseum/

Hastings Museum & Art Gallery… The West Hill lift reopened a couple of weeks ago after some maintenance work. We’ve found a few photos showing the upper station and café. How many of your remember when they looked like this?

Alan Esdaile… remember it just like that. Mind you I haven’t been on it for years, so perhaps its pretty much the same??

Jim Breeds… Yep, it’s still in black & white!

Barry Upton… Wonder who the little young lady is who is now on face book over 60 years ago

Andy Hemsley… I remember when the lift attendants wore boiler suits – proper!

Peter Ellingworth… Remember it well….and the pedestal mounted telescope centre picture centre left. Sixpence/shilling a go was it ?

Ken Hatch… Looking for great things from HBC now they’ve taken on the cafe again, this quintessential Hastings

 

Public Bar Prices – 1971

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source: Seventies Time-Machine https://www.facebook.com/sixties.timemachine/

Kevin Sherwood… Started drinking on the pier 1973 ish no wonder i was so happy then!

Paul Crimin… Inflation? What inflation?

Dennis Torrance… Amazing prices lol

Leigh Wieland-Boys… I’ll have a double G&T please!

Nicola Dobson… What a difference

Andy Qunta… You’d think we’d have been drunk all the time at that price! What’s that you say? We were?

Geoff Peckham… Yep, Andy. Those were the days!

Alan King… well i was drunk most of the time -wish i could remember those days better

Barry Hilton… What was the price of a semi-detached house then roughly?

Alan King… ours was about £1,700 in Middlesbrough, an ex-showhouse, would have been £2,100 otherwise, think they’re still the same price these days in some parts of Middlesbrough though but..

Andy Maby… 5p a pint!! 😯 Time/life/progress!

David Edwards… I brought a bungalow for £4300 in ’71 paying £32 a month mortgage and earning £30 a week wages say 600 pints a week. Average wage now £600 a week, a pint say a fiver equals 120 pints, think me maths are right.

Barry Hilton… just goes to show, someone is making some major profit somewhere! Ah, that will probably be the duty on the Beer!

Alan King… Guinness was 14p a pint when I started drinking – 52p – 5p bus fare there, 5 p bus fare back – 3 pints of Guinness – 52p – a night out – if you wanted to get rat-arsed a bottle of Harveys Bristol Creme was 50p and you could drink that on the bus on the way in

Jane Hartley… Couple of pints of Guinness please!

Alan Parker… In those days you could buy a house for the same as a couple pints today

Graham Sherrington… This must be from ‘Up North Like’ Magnet Ale by John Smith’s use to drink that in Yorkshire in the Old 70’s

West Hill Cafe

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photo: Hastings Museum & Art Gallery https://www.facebook.com/hastingsmuseum

Chris Baker… When I was in The Town Council (Pop Band), we practiced in the toilets there because it had great accoustics!

Coral Pasqua… I use to live across the road from there.

Janey Jane… I remember the cafe like that back in the day, such a lovely spot

John Anthony Jones… There’s a joke somewhere, Chris

Michael Linskey… Shame how it’s been allowed to get rundown, hopefully someone takes on to bring it back to life again , as such a focal point with great views

Trevor Mepham… Exactly how I remember it, seems so long ago now

Tony Court-holmes… is it still open?

Alan Esdaile… I think it’s still closed Tony and has been for awhile. Unless anyone knows otherwise. I know Hastings Borough Council is looking for someone to run it and also a interpretation centre for telling the story of Hastings Castle.

Peter Ellingworth… Remember the telescope in the mid left of the photo? Sixpence a go if I remember.

Mick Knights… If I’m not mistaken the tall pipe in the foreground was the exhaust for the engine

Hastings 1962 Sunblest Bread

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Thanks to Martyn Baker for finding this.

Robertson Street at around 9.10 and Fine Fare Queens Road Hastings about 9.50

Martyn Baker… Shot in Hastings in 1962. Spot the locations!

Martin Curcher… Nice to see kids playing outdoors in those days!

Peter Houghton… So many locations that I can remember

Graham Sherrington… good lord its Fine Fare we lived at 31 Russell Street by then maybe?? overlooking Queens Road.

Stuart Moir… That will be £1-7s-6p please ha ha ha . Little smarty pants .