Day: 3 March 2024

After The Fire – Falaise Hall 3rd March 1979

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Sarah Harvey…..After The Fire – March 3rd 1979 – I loved this band and bought the album ‘Laser Love’ after hearing ‘One Rule For You’ .

Tony May……I actually joined their fan club! Loved the first album and 80F but they started to decline a bit after that. Did you know that I A J Twiddle also released an album? Don’t know what it was like but I remember seeing it once. I’m a bit of a ‘Wild West Hero’ now myself!

Dave Nattress…..”One Rule For You”, truly fabulous. I bought the albums 80F and Laser Love – 1979/1980 and also a 3 CD set, “The CBS Recordings”. “One Rule” is definitely a wonderful track, much of the rest a bit dissappointing.

 

Frank Carson – Hastings Sunday market 3rd March 1985

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Eric Harmer… Funny man

Phil Gill… It’s the way he tells ‘em.

Eric Harmer… he made me laugh with one. “What’s the difference between my wife and a terrorist. You can negotiate with a terrorist”

Keith Roxborough… If you think so

Chris Howard… Might have been funny but was not very pleasant. I did a gig with him once his attitude was dreadful

Gerald Jeffery… It’s a Cracker ! It’s The Way I Tell Em !

Conan Howard… it was the way he told EM

Cheshire’s 68-69 Queens Road Hastings 1981 – woodworkers supplies

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photo ©  Steve Peak

Stuart Moir… Shopped there many times

Andrew Freeman… My Dad often popped in there to get things for whatever project he was on! I remember brown warehouse type coats.

Kay Lobb… Gosh a blast from the past there! I remember going in there with my dad, years ago.

John Gale… Anybody remember what the decorators shop was called in the 60s . It was next door to Cheshires, where St Michael’s Hospice charity shop is now. I think they had an upstairs too back then. Can remember being given old wallpaper catalogues to use as scrapbooks.

Pauline Richards… John, I remember Friday Ad being there and wasn’t it a pram shop. Donkeys years ago? Gambrills?

John Gale… Pauline, Yes definitely a pram shop before Friday Ad. It would explain why i have a vague memory, aged about 5 ar the time, being given a basic Lego toy present from there, maybe they sold a few toys then. So, maybe the decorating shop was near to it then. It’s all a bit blurry after 60 years.

Alan Esdaile… John and Pauline your both right, Number 65 was Collins wallpaper and paints and number 66/67 was Gambrills pram shop.

Tony Collins… John, I took over the diy shop in the early seventies and it was called Collins Homecentre. I cannot remember the previous name though.

Angela Gardner… I loved this shop so useful for odd bits of wood.

Pauline Richards… And foam cut to any size!

Lloyd Johnson… A much Loved woodwork shop…great bits and bobs in the window…I remember buying wooden wheels to make a model and dowelling to make a buntline special in the 50s when Wyatt Earp was on telly…

Roger Simmonds… Often popped in there !

Keith Blizard… Great little shop !

Alan Esdaile… My dad loved this shop and at times he would let my dad have offcuts for nothing.

Peter Ellingworth… Great shop. My father often used to call in.

Nigel Ford… used to get thick foam for machine seats cut to size there from a man out the back in a brown coat….. do I see Fork ‘ andles in the window too?

Graham Sherrington… and plugs…….13 amp.

Jenifer Hitchman… Anyone remember the book shop on Queens Rd. Was just down from the pub. In the middle and then used to be out of date shop on corner.

Alan Esdaile… Jenifer, remember the cheap out of date shop, buying crisps and biscuits in there. Usually fine but occasionally had to spit them out as they were soft!

 

Marks & Spencer 20, Queens Road Hastings

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supplied by Leigh Kennedy

Leigh Kennedy… Marks and Spencer. The first Marks and Spencer store opened in 1920 at 20 Queens Road. In 1930 the building at 30 to 36 Queens Road (pictured) was built. M & S moved into new, purpose built premises opposite in Priory Meadow Shopping Centre in 1996.

Fiona Evans… The good ol’ days,with sturdy shop fronts & lovely window displays.

Colin Gibson… These dinosaurs blew high st presence out and destroyed the cricket ground, along with co-conspirators boots the “chemist”. Queens Rd is now a tasteless selection of cheap imported tat with few exceptions. If it’s raining you can always go into priory “meadow”, for some indoor tat.

Russell Field… Colin, I believe M&S executives said “if you don’t build the shopping centre we’re leaving the town”. Shame, we should have had a lovely marina instead.

Alan Esdaile… It was Peacocks for awhile and rumoured to be Wilko store?

Patricia Burgess… We were back in Hasting in 2003, I could not get over what a mess the Queens Road was, it looked like a poverty stricken area. Such as pity, to destroy the Cricket fields

Peter Fairless… It is. It was.

Alan Esdaile… Anyone remember the excellent fruit and veg stalls at the side of M&S?

Lloyd Johnson… My Mum was a Supervisor there for years until her retirement…,

Veran Palmer.. Why is this building still empty!

Peter Ellingworth… Top photo of M&S taken before June 1959 or just after, bottom one post that date, early sixties onwards, newer style lights attached to former tram/trolley bus wire poles. Like the old style street lights in the top photo. What’s the clue to the date of top photo anybody ?

Graham Sherrington… me mum used M&S from the 1960’s till she passed in the 2000’s. I loved their Norwegian Prawns.