Milo’s Restaurant George Street Hastings – Gas explosion 1963

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!

Peter Ellingworth… My father was working nearby on building renovation I believe, and escaped about fifteen minutes before the explosion.

Graham Sherrington… do not remember this at all.

2 thoughts on “Milo’s Restaurant George Street Hastings – Gas explosion 1963”

  1. 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!

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  2. My father was working nearby on building renovation I believe, and escaped about fifteen minutes before the explosion.

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