photos © Hastings Public Library
Bernard Goffredro… What a good idea electric buses
I remember them
Carrie Downing-Waite Sawatzky… Busy town in those days
Peter Ellingworth… The then young woman somewhat bemused it seems, looking up at the photographer in the bottom picture looks the split image of my dear late mother.
Alan Esdaile… I was thinking the guy pointing in the first photo, looked like the pier manager Bob Knights?
Peter Ellingworth… The electric trolleybus in the lower photo – taken I would think in the early fifties and before 1956- 57, as that was when the roofs on the buses were painted cream/white, 782 was number 7 in the Hastings fleet. One of twenty AEC double deckers with Weyman bodywork, it entered service with Hastings Tramways in June 1940, lasting until closure under Maidstone and District in 1959. The later batch delivered in 1946-47 were on closure of the much liked Hastings system, sold to other operators such as Maidstone, Walsall and Bradford lasting until 1970.
Peter Houghton… What great photos of the Sea Front The good old day’s
Stuart Moir… photo 2. That’s a really clear image, all brilliantly in focus.
The then young woman somewhat bemused it seems, looking up at the photographer in the bottom picture looks the split image of my dear late mother.