Fludes carpets, Queens Road, Hastings

 

Mick O’Dowd…. Now Santander Bank!

Tony Court-holmes… and before that the Bedford Arms pub

Peter Ellingworth… My father worked on this building when it was reconstucted from a former bomb site ? around 1960. I remember seeing him putting the original windows in. My grandmother (father’s side) lodged at the top of Castle Passage in the flats between there and Wellington Square.

Nigel Livermore… I worked there after finishing school in the early sixties, and before returning to studies later on. Bob Fermor was the manager. £3 and 3 shillings a week. Branches in other Sussex towns. Cheese rolls from Nick’s Grill, a few doors up on the other side.

Paul Dove… When I passed my Driving test at 17 worked here as a driver and that’s where I got the carpet fitting bug, and I’m still fitting at 73

Mick O’Dowd… Paul, It’s surely about time you stopped and went home

Pauline Carol Alland wife of the 60s ‘Rebels’ group (lead singer)… Nigel rightly mentioned there were other Fludes branches and I worked at the one in Lewes during the 60s which was also on a corner opposite the old library – when it closed it became Boots.

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  1. My father worked on this building when it was reconstucted from a former bomb site ? around 1960. I remember seeing him putting the original windows in.
    My grandmother (father’s side) lodged at the top of Castle Passage in the flats between there and Wellington Square.

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  2. I worked there after finishing school in the early sixties, and before returning to studies later on. Bob Fermor was the manager. £3 and 3 shilings a week. Branches in other Sussex towns. Cheese rolls from Nick’s Grill, a few doors up on the other side.

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  3. Nigliv rightly mentioned there were other Fludes branches and I worked at the one in Lewes during the 60s which was also on a corner opposite the old library – when it closed it became Boots.

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