Hastings Musical Festival 1964 supplied by David Bastable

 

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Alan Esdaile… Thank you to David for going to all the trouble of sending this. I’m sure a number of local people will find they are listed and very surprised to see I am listed on duet piano!

Teresa Briffitt… Fascinating, lots of names I knew but also saw mine . But what I liked seeing most was all the marks written down, my mum would do this and always kept the programmes year after year. Great memories, thank you x

 

Ozric Tentacles, Mandragora, Felo-De-Se – Hastings Pier 20th October 1990

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Phil Thornton… this was a good one ! I was on the synths with Mandragora !! all the bands and the audience had a great night ! all sorts going on – lots of stalls, jugglers etc. – can’t remember what year it was though. I didn’t play with Mandragora till around 1990 and the last live gig was around 2005 ( I think ! )

Mark Richards… I was at this.. its 89 or 90

Mick O’Dowd… October 20th 1990.

Martin Richter… Felo-de-Se!!

Remember Mrs Yarringtons – Budgie – Battle Memorial Hall 2005

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supplied by Andy Baldock.

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supplied by Eric Cawthraw

Andy Baldock….came across this earlier today.Not as old as most of the stuff that appears on here,but its the best I can do

Andy Gunton….I was there too & wrote a review of the gig for the Hastings Observer.

Michael Mepham….I was there yayyyy! Burke Shelley broke 2 bass strings but didn’t have a spare. Fun though wasn’t it!  Great live band.

Bernard Jeffery….it was bloody loud lol

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Andy Qunta….Great to hear Budgie kept on rockin’!

Eric Cawthraw… Having just posted the Budgie ticket reminds me of what John Lydon is reputed to have said about their gig on the Pier with Budgie, it went something like: ” Budgie were crap and we were even worse!” That is damn clever in its way. Still, respect to Mr. L, like me he is a fan of Third World War, as is Pete Townsend.

 

Hastings Beach Whitsun 1964

Supplied by Dave Bastable

Dave Bastable… Behind the baths on the beach was always the meeting place through out the summer. There was Biddy the tub man in the sea and someone who walked along the beach selling ice creams. By the pier you could hire a twin hull float and paddle for an hour. Whitsun 1964 was particularly hot if I remember.

Alan Esdaile… Our favourite place on the beach was the alcoves under the prom, by the pier but if too busy, we would also go here by the White Rock baths.

Lloyd Johnson… Liz Hayter Shaw, that looks like you Liz bottom right with the blonde hair..I recognise the girl with you, can you remember her name?

Jon Hayter… id say that’s definitely Liz. Don’t know the other girl though. Good spot!!

Liz Hayter Shaw… wow , yes looks like me, but not sure who the girl is. Looks like Tim’s girlfriend / later wife Gloria

Pauline Richards… We used to walk along the prom to try and find a space!

Josie O’Rourke… Pauline, now we do the same but to find a bar ! X

Lloyd Johnson… That was my stretch in the early 60s when I was a deckchair attendant …

Chris Baker… Given that we lived near St. Clements Church a few hundred yards from the sea, I hardly ever went on the beach. Familiarity breeds contempt?

Jon Hayter… All quiet today

Dave Bastable… I am in it. Lying on my stomach with a striped costume on. in the middle of the photo. The girl with her tongue out I think was Tina. Dick Lingham in the bottom left corner. Others I am unsure

Lloyd Johnson… Dave, Tina rings a lot of bells…..

Colin Bell… Our favourite spot was by the Sun Lounge (as it was then) but you had to be careful in the sea there, it shelved steeply into deep water and the current was often strong

Katy Howard was Parsons… And no one is glued to a mobile phone! How lovely x

Graham Sherrington… The’er Lovely The’er nice Plain or Choc!!! The old matey selling ice creams.

Alan Esdaile… I can still hear his voice in my head, Graham!

Lloyd Johnson… Liz Hayter bottom right with blonde hair next to the girl poking her tongue out…

Jon Hayter… Caroline says that girl sticking her tongue out looks like Carol a friend of Lizzie’s with Cindy and Lexley

 

Who else was born at Fernbank Old London Road Hastings?

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Ian Cramp… My kids were born at The Buchanan

Steve Cooke… Oh yes, I was. Photo explains a lot about me I feel. Very Hammer House!

Steve Mann… Me

Paul Crimin… Why does a book by Charles Dickens leap to mind when I look at the picture of this building?

John David Martin… And me

Terry Corder… No me, I was born in St. Helen’s Hospital, but I used to pass Fern Bank twice a day going to and from school.

Samantha Blake… I was in 1967 x

Andrew Blake… I was in 1969 and so was my other half in 1973

Alan Esdaile… apparently the nurse dropped the scissors with me, when the chord was being cut.

Pauline Richards… Am not admitting to the year!

Ann Graves… My daughter was born there in 1969

Chris Meachen… My birthplace in 1955… Dad was a bus conductor, & would get his driver to stop in old london road, then run up to give mum flowers or chocs..

Stephanie Blackledge… My sister Nicky Dann

Nicola Dobson… I was born there in 1952

Tony Davis… I was

Margaret Trowell… Husband was born there in 1945.

David Edwards… Yep!

Sam Rosewell… My brother was born there in 1972 and I remember being taken there to see him and my mum! I think my dad may also have been born there in 1949

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The Disc Jockey’s Hastings Carnival float , 1959

supplied by Leigh Kennedy – Historical Hastings facebook group.

Alan Esdaile… Any idea who the group is playing?

Roy Penfold… From the HH group – ‘Possibly the Dolphin Jazz Band’ : Aviva Treger comments… My Dad played the trumpet in the Dolphin Jazz Band – their poster is on the front of the truck. I think they might even be in the main photo, facing away from the camera on the float itself. The person standing has a double bass, the person to the far right a trombone. So, by the strangest coincidence, my Dad is probably in this photo.

Dave Nattress… Would never have thought the Disc Jockey was a sold as to do 1959! Is this George Street? Was thinking just the other day, way before it was pedestianised we used to drive along there and I think, emphasise think, it was wide enough for car-parking one side – south, and for vehicles to pass but is this faded memory wrong?

Roy Penfold…It was certainly wide enough. I remember driving along there until at least about 1980 or so.

Leigh Kennedy… it was pedestrianised in 1988.

Michael (Mike) Cole… yes i was parked outside the Anchor and an Angears sweets lorry travelling along George Street, linked their lorry door handle to that on my car … an old Rover 75 and dragged my car into the car parked in front. I parked it in East Street after that and before the mods were chased down the street and threw pebbles breaking the window of the Sombero coffee bar, owned by the great landlord of the Anchor , Don Stewart . I worked in the Anchor with June. Margaret, Gloria and of course Ray Davis who was the best man at my wedding . Those were great days !

 

The Bouncing Dentists – 1980

Peter Fairless… Hey ho, let’s dentist!

Andy Dinsdale… Peter, Shot by both dentists!

Martyn Baker… Melita. She moved from Hastings to Brighton, the same year as myself.

Virginia Davis… Melita Dennett. On the right.

Alan Esdaile…  She does a great show on Radio Sussex

Martin Richter… very Stark

Phil Thorton… Excellent combo !

John Wilde… Bring back The Dentists!

Chris Meachen… Still have my bouncing dentists badge!

Kev Towner… Chris, jealous

 

Bob Marley’s first gig in the UK 1972 was at De La Warr Pavilion Bexhill by Mike Curtis.

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live in concert in Dalymount Park on 6 July 1980. source: Eddie Mallin

cutting Bexhill Observer 8th July 1972 source: Bexhill Museum https://twitter.com/bexhillmuseum/status/601049135161171968

Mike Curtis… A bit of local music history.
1. Bob Marley and the Wailers’ first ever UK gig was at the De La Warr Pavilion.
2. Paul Simon played DLWP 30/8/1965, with Shirley Collins.
3. Paul also played at The New Inn in Sidley at around the same time.
4. Paul Robeson played at DLWP, pronouncing it to be be the best venue, acoustically, he had ever played.

Anyone lucky enough to go to any of these gigs?

Yvonne Cleland… I thought Bob Marley and the Wailers’ first ever UK gig was in Nottingham. When are you claiming they played the DLWP? Do you have any documentary or pictorial evidence please? Oh no, hang on, he toured as support for Johnny Nash first, with Wailers as backing band. Spring-Summer 1972. However, did 2 shows at Bexhill and Bexleyheath without Johnny Nash (I think). All info gratefully received plus any documentary evidence. This needs to be in Bexhill Museum archives!

Yvonne Cleland… The first ever Bob Marley gig in the UK – at the DLWP: Found out more from an old newspaper at Bexhill Museum. On the bill were:- Bob Marley and the Wailers, The Equals and Johnny Nash. It was a charity event.

John Gale… I had no idea about this, 2 Legends there.

Pete Shoesmith… I went to the concert at Bexhill, I was 16.

Kevin White… Never knew that

Andy Gunton… I’d heard about that gig many times, but that’s the first time I’ve seen that press cutting. Great stuff.

Yvonne Cleland… Andy, the museum has the cutting.

Graham Belchamber… Fabulous.

Pete Houghton… I remember going to See Bob Marley along with Johnny Nash I was 18 had a great time Got their Autographs but I have lost them over the year’s with regret

Ian Johnson… Wow I didn’t know that

Gary Lancaster… So I am from Rye and I went to school with a chap called Jamie Tiltman. Jamie, now lives in Bexhill. As it happens, the very white Tiltman family are directly related to Bob Marley. So probably without realising it, he played in his own county. He’s got Sussex roots…. And I’m not joking, you can look this up.

Leigh Wieland-Boys… I went to that concert to see Johnny Nash, didn’t know who Bob Marley was at the time, I was 16

Alan Esdaile… They did show a programme on Bob Marley a while ago, on his first visit. It showed that he played a school in London with Johnny Nash but still looks like the first proper gig here was Bexhill?

Michael Wilson… I remember watching a Paul Simon’s documentary on tv. And there was a folk concert at the De La warr in the early 1960s .He was bottom of the bill on the poster.

Jane Dorsett… Leigh, we went together, I was 15.lol.xx

Stephen Brown… Although it was his first UK appearance it wasn’t as Bob Marley and the Wailers but simply as the Wailers. I was 15 at the time and had never heard of them I went because I wanted to see Johnny Nash. The opening act was Sons of the Jungle

 

Samantha’s Club – New Burlington Street. What clubs and venues do you remember in London? Tiffanys Club and Gullivers People chat.

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All images supplied by Colin Bell

Colin Bell… I was looking for something in my archives (I must organise them one day!) and came across this. I was struck by the artwork and how creative it was then. Samantha’s was in a basement off Regent Street and I was introduced to it on a night out with Clem (from the Foundations) and Jimmy James, from memory  it was around late 1969 early 1970. A great place with soul bands appearing and the D.J. ‘booth’ was the body of an E Type Jag (very swinging sixties). Drinks 2/6d! You could get well pissed for a coupla quid! I was lucky enough at that time to have the use of a mate’s flat in Berwick Street Soho, ideally placed to go to all the great clubs. Many hours spent at the Marquee, Whisky-a-go-go, the Flamingo, Middle Earth and Hatchetts in Piccadilly, a great club over 3 floors with a chill out bar level, a restaurant with a glass wall overlooking the ‘disco’ floor. I’d be interested to hear any memories of this period from other Smart members? Great times and great memories…………..

Alan Esdaile… Happy days in Wardour Street at The Marquee. Also the Speakeasy. Also remember auditioning bands at Tiffanys nightclub in Shaftesbury Avenue and a club in Piccadilly with the disco on the top floor, mirrored lift and the club had records stuck to the wall. 100 club, Roxy, Ronnie Scotts etc.

Peter Fairless… Went to some dodgy, some good clubs in London. Some were very dodgy but very good! Can’t remember all the names but most of those listed above.

Steve Gage… My mate Ray was a bouncer at Samanthas where are you now mate??? 🙂

Mick O’Dowd… Went to The Q Club in Paddington after seeing James Brown at The Rainbow in the 70’s I think. JB turned up after we got there and jammed with the band. Awesome!

Wendy Weaver… I went to Samantha’s in the 70s, loved the E Type jockeys booth. I worked in offices above La Valbonne in Regent Street for a few years. It had a large glass tank where people went for a dip – sometimes with their clothes on !

Eugene Hughes… I went to the Valbonne Wen. And Skindles in Maidenhead. Louis Brown has them both. Kingley St was la Valbonne.

Lena Jansson… Tiffany´s in Shaftesbury avenue was my favourite disco in 1977-1979, I remember the live band Gullivers people and the two DJ:s Ken Norton and the other one I can´t remember the name of, Dave? David? Would be great to hear from someone else who used to dance the nights away at Tiffany´s!!

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Gullivers People. photo source: http://paulrobinsondrummeronline.com/bio/

Lena Jansson… I only remember the female singer of  Gullivers People, I think her name was Kim or something like that, a name that both women and men use. She was quite tall with dark curly hair and a very strong voice. Their best cover was Alright now, a great song by Free.

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Denmark Place car park Hastings 1980

Andrew Freeman… Used it every day when I worked at Hastings & East Sussex Building Society early 70’s.

Colin Ash… When we had the Queens hotel and toilets

Janet Gilham… This used to be my favourite parking space in Hastings, I didn’t realise that many years later I’d live in the house built on it.

Mick O’Dowd… The view from the Carlisle!

Colin Mould… We used to tip out the Lido, roar down the seafront into The Carlisle, the landlord put the glasses on the bar. It was one of three privately owned pubs, The Hole in the Wall was another. The car park was a bomb site.

Steve Hamilton… I’m sure I can see myself in the distance on the pier in the halfpenny arcade!

Jasper Bitter… Ah, all those pot-holed car parks – this one, the one opposite the pier (sheltered housing as well), the old station car park and middle street. Good times back then!

Danny Brittain… Harp – you can still get a pint of Harp in Ireland. It’s not bad

Alan Esdaile… Does anyone remember when there was an amusement arcade, ice cream kiosk and more, on the front here?

Ian Corbin… Alan, yes I’m that old

Alan Esdaile… Thanks Ian, I knew I haven’t imagined it.

Chris Morton… back when i used the town Centre, don’t now. Parking is just getting robbed, not worth the bother and f.a. there now

Tim Barton… Chris, oh i dunno, my bookshop’s quite good so’s Printed Matter / Pressing Matters, and Wow & Flutter!

Angela Mascord… My sister-in-law’s dad used to be the car park attendant

Chris Fitzgerald… I can remember the subway being constructed between the car park and Queens Hotel. And the original Police station between the end of Robertson and the Yelton.

Tim Kerrell… easy to park then

Malcolm McDonald… I worked on the ground work putting the soddin flats on top of that…