Day: 3 August 2024

Wimpy Bar – Pelham Place Hastings

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Janette Marshall… Used to love a wimpy you couldn’t beat the knickerbocker glory

Gerry Fortsch… I remember the chocolate sundae.

Daryl Perkins… Coke float!!

Pauline Richards… Used to go there after work on a Saturday for burger. Their French mustard too. It was the best. Never enjoyed a burger since.

Lloyd Johnson… In 1963/64 I worked in this one so does that qualify me as a Chef?

Perri Anne Haste… I went here a few times, I used to love their burgers & brown Derby dessert of doughnut with ice cream, chocolate sauce & chopped nut sprinkles

Lynne Smith… Went here on the way to the Aquarius every Thursday night

John Beeching… Worked there when I was 15

Stephen Moran… I had very happy time working there from 1969-71 while I was still at school. Nelson and Napoleon De Souza were great to work for and always treated me well.

Nicola Dobson… I had a friend who worked there Kim..do you remember her had aubyn hair?

Stephen Moran… hi Nicola I remember Paula who worked there but I’m not sure I recall Kim. I think because we worked different shifts we didn’t always get to meet each other.

Pete Houghton… Great photo!!

Mark Randall… I had an office to the right of St Mary’s, top floor

Ian Johnson… Egg n chips

Judith Monk… I worked there during my college years! The days of Brown Bettys..

Jacquie Hinves… Went there when I was a student nurse!

Tracy Birrell… Brown Derby…..

Paul Slidel… Wimpy Special Grill with a choc milk shake – kids heaven!

Min – Hastings Beach Concert with John Martyn 1991

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photos © Eddie Hazell Estate . .

Andy Qunta….Worth repeating myself I think – a unique character & great musician. Great photo!

Mick Knights….I remember one hot summer’s day, when he walked into the back bar of the Nellie wearing only a very small pair of swimming trunks and that tatty shoulder bag, the fishermen soon removed said trunks and thru them into the middle of the Bourne, where the shoulder bag proved useful in retrieving them!!!!

John Wilde…. was in a sauna with Min, he stunk of garlic and sweat and cider, he brought a potato with him to cook on the furnace, naturaly he upset a few patrons. Bless him.

Mick O’Dowd….Wot a great character he was!

Pete Fairless….Very nice guy, always had time to chat with (what must have been) a bunch of annoying teenagers. He made such beautiful sounds come out of that convoluted piece of tubing, too!

Alan Esdaile….I can remember a time on Hastings Pier, when someone came running up and said Min’s cut himself and bleeding badly. Myself and Paul Casson went searching for him by following the trail of blood! Eventually found him in a deck chair outside the ballroom laughing and oblivious to all the fuss. We got an ambulance down and he was taken into casualty. I saw him a few days later and he couldn’t remember anything about it.

Mick Knights….Another thing was the number of badges he wore around the late seventies, I remember one particulary small one which you had to get really close to to read said, you are cordially invited to go screw yourself, which gave him a lot of pleasure when ever he caught some one with it.

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John Martyn with Phil Little & Joe Rytlewski. Day after the Beach Concert 1991.

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Tony Court-holmes….i was there well missed

Jim Breeds….I love that man.

Yvonne Cleland… That looks a bit like Monkey on the bongos.

Chris Baker… Was never a big fan. He lived just up the road from me in Cobourg Place. However, Bev Martin was an angel. An amazing voice that never got the limelight it deserved. I played with her a couple of times and she was one of the sexiest jazz / blues singers I’ve ever known. I always swore he copied my Watkins Copycat techniques!

John Wilde… John was a brilliant guitarist with a unique technique. In life he was a violent angry man capable of a heartfelt sensitivity when he performed. I worked for him for two years touring europe. Rock on John. Beverley is super talented and still playing. She is a beautiful woman whose career was cut short by pregnancy and Johns refusal to allow her to work. She lives in Hove. She has a website which you can subscribe to. A wise lady.

Alan Esdaile… Always got on well with John Martyn but your right about Beverley being talented, should have been a lot bigger in her own right.

Lauren Gower… Was just listening to John Martyn…spooky.

Gerry Fortsch… Nice guy, so sad.

Global Village Trucking Company – Hastings Pier 3rd August 1974

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Sarah Harvey…..Here is a really good video about the group some of which was filmed in 1973. It tells the story of the band and a reunion in 2007 which was produced as a documentary for the BBC

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3K9BEo8UVs

Alan Esdaile….I used to see Pete Kirtley from Global Village play with Liane Carroll at the Filo. Flying Gnome disco was Chris Cornford. Anyone in contact with him?

Mick Mepham…..Another load of bands I missed, doooooohhhh!!!!

Clive Richardson…Global Village were excellent. I always believed that the above photo was taken in Hastings old town. Anyone confirm or deny?

Mick O’Dowd…..Found these pics of Global Village….

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Kev Towner…  Well apparently Seagull Coaches were based in Blackpool, although that scene in the background is rather reminiscent of that farm on The Ridge just before the Harrow Junction.

Alan Esdaile… Thanks Kev, I know where you mean. Could be in the coach broke down on the way to the pier?

Ric Hool… In 1996 Peter Kirtley ex of Global Village was working with a poet pal of mine, Tom Pickard. Peter stayed at my house one time when he was in Wales with Tom. Peter was, I believe, living in Southwold at that time and had just released his excellent Bush Telegraph CD Liane Carroll (keyboards), Steve Lamb (bass), Gregg Leppard (drums)

Jon Owen… Watch out for release of album… soon..

Colin Gibson… Def NOT Hastings. I recognise that courtyard!