Day: 14 October 2024
Pink elephant, Guinness and Rising Sun – Old Town Hastings mid 60’s
supplied by Leigh Kennedy – Historical Hastings facebook page
Jim Peckham… I remember that
Jeff McCall… Yeh, it was there in the ’50’s as well.
Dawn Leaney… I have a photo sitting on that elephant.. would of been in the 60s. 
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Linda Russell… Dawn, me too !
Graham Sherrington… LIFEBOAT chip shop used to be the best!!! in the left background
Stuart Moir… Brilliant photo
Ray Barry… Yep I remember the Elephant
Carol Acott… Used to drink in the Rising Sun when Bert and Elsie had it
Dr Feelgood – Hastings Pier 14th October 1978
ad supplied by Sarah Harvey
Sarah Harvey… in 1978….Hastings Day celebrations (October 14th in case you didn’t know) with Dr.Feelgood, with Siouxsie and The Banshees and Dead Dogs Don’t Lie following soon after. Spizzoil…..anyone remember them?
Alan Esdaile… I remember ‘Where’s Captain Kirk’.
Redstar Richter… Phil Jupitus was wearing a Spizz badge (where`s captain kirk?” on telly last Friday 🙂 I`m friends with spizz on facebook – nrw single – city of eyes – out now! 🙂
Robert Wren… Where’s Captain Kirk….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvvHVbLt0J8&feature=youtu.be&list=FLNILbWU3M1nsdd2hiVGAL1w
John Storer… This was the Feelgoods after Wilko and, however good John “Gypie” Mayo was as a replacement, a bit like fish without chips! How many of us saw them in Eastbourne in October 1975 when they were in their pomp? Ably supported that night by GT Moore & The Reggae Guitars, Wilko tore the place apart with some of the best guitar playing I’d ever seen.
Mick O’Dowd… Quite a week. I was involved with Siouxie and Dead Dogs was one of my promotions.
Sheila Maile… My brother got tickets he told our mum”I am going to see Dr feel good”she said no way your not going there.he had to explain that this was a group not a drug dealer
Tim Moose Bruce… Went to this one. Support were Squeeze.
Dave Nattress… Delighted to say Wilko is still ripping that Telecaster into shreds. Saw him a few weeks back at the De La Warr of all places. Anyone else there?
Pete Fairless… This gig was after Wilko had left.
Tony Court-holmes… saw them at reading back in the 70s with Yes
Barry French… Yes I also was at the De La Warr to see Wilko, absolutely awesome gig. How he can hit the strings so hard without a pick is beyond me. In an interview he was once asked “Why the red pick guard” Wilko answered “To hide the blood”
Neil Partrick… Does anyone remember seeing Nico (who was supporting Siouxie & The Banshees along with Spizzoil, according to the bill poster)?
Alan Esdaile…Nico didn’t appear Neil, replaced by Gang Of Four.
Battle of Hastings – 14th October 1066 – stamps first day cover 1966
who’s still got a first day cover?
Dave Nattress… I have actually Alan – exactly like this one and many more first day covers of the era and for some time after. For some reason stamp collecting was something many of us did when not train-spotting Ha Ha!!. Sticking stamps in to albums with those little tiny transparent things called stamp hinges – which I later learned ruined the value of the unused or mint stamps!! Still got a load somewhere possibly worth a few quid. Thankfully girls and music took over and became bigger hobbies!
Roland Clarke… I’ve got a few, my Aunt used to design some of them and she would send them to us.
Pauline Richards… Have mine to the museum
Val Shoesmith… Me
Kathy Wood… I have a pile of them. Have used them as gifts to philatelists across the world
Josie Lawson… I had all of those first day issues Alan. When I had my first fall, someone threw out all my stamps plus first day issues. Maybe if ever someone finds them, a lot would have my name on the envelopes, some may have my other name on them, I would be very grateful for their return. But they may just have been thrown in the rubbish. What are treasures to some, may just be rubbish to others
Jim Breeds… I was always proud of my handwriting.
Leigh Wieland-Boys… I have two albums full of First Day Covers dating back to the mid-sixties
Nick Webb… Yep me too most not worth the value of the stamps now
Tony Court-holmes… but we lost
Mick O’Dowd… Who remembers where they were and what they were doing at the time?
Jenny Power… Me
Alan Esdaile… I remember Priory Road School were selling lots mail order.
Colin Norton… I seem to remember a cancellation stamp that said “Hastings – Popular with visitors since 1066′ or did I imagine that?
Coco Pops…now I will have to find mine
Neil Partrick… I’ve got a lot of the stamps….and there are a lot. Beautiful designs. Obviously stamps get a lot less use in the UK these days but why do they often have to look like sh**? The Xmas ones have been nothing but crummy sticky tokens for yonks
Coco Pops… Yonks Sir yonks I cannot be arsed to look it up!
Andy Wright… My 12th birthday! My dad got me the stamps and the battlefield mark, but sadly only on a manilla envelope. Of course l still have I.
Jenny Power… I have!
Nigel Ford… Colin, yes, I remember that. Still got lots, even one from the special Battlefield kiosk set up specially on the day. Our Maths master at Bexhill Grammar, Mr (Snowy….) Winter, ran the stamp club on Thursday lunchtimes and encouraged us to buy the new phosphur banded definitive (non-commemorative) items and keep all in stock books to avoid using hinges. Shame the house was damp in later years, so they are all fully stuck in!!