First In and Last Out (Filo) and buses High Street, Old Town, Hastings.
Photo: Peter John Morris. British Roadscene https://www.facebook.com/groups/496289463761461
Peter John Morris… Hastings in Trolleybus days
Chris Meachen… I remember buses coming the other way having to mount the pavement. Almost hard to believe that this was a 2 way street, & the main road through the old town..
Tony Court-holmes… used to live at 103a
Linda Gowans… An elderly fisherman told me (in about 1960) that you should have seen the traffic jams with horse-drawn waggons in the High Street!
Steve Hamilton… 52a here! Vague recollection of buses and arguments on the road. Arguments still around today no doubt!
Mick O’Dowd… Its hard to think High Street was two-way. I know there were a lot of close calls but nothing too serious I recall!
Claire Lonsdale… And there’s my old house on the right. Lived there for 17 years.
Combe Haven Caravan Park swimming pool 1973
Shared from Jeff Pitcher
Jeff Pitcher… Posted 50 years ago, July 1973. Combe Haven Caravan Park. ”Weather has been smashing so far, going to do a spot of shopping.”
Dave Weeks… We used to sneak in the pool at night ( when we were slim enough to squeeze through the turnstile).
Stuart Moir… Changed a lot since then .
Kevin Burchett… I was lifeguard on that pool for 1 season around that time but cant see myself in that picture
Leigh Mitchell… I worked in the bars at Coombe Haven during the summer seasons 1974, 1975 & 1976! Hard work but great workmates!
Patricia Burgess… My parent had 3 caravans there and I met my husband, one of the Talismen , when staying there in 1963. Where did they put the pool ?
Jo Turner… Worked one summer thee mid 70s
Peter Houghton… I worked there around that time in the Main Club House, worked in the morning then went home in the afternoon and started about 6pm till it closed around midnight and was brought home
Andy Wright… I used to go up to their TV room and watch TOTP because I wasn’t allowed to watch it at home in ‘69.
Alvin Stardust – Hastings Pier 19th April 1974
autographed poster from the gig supplied by Peter Houghton
ad supplied by Sarah Harvey. photo 1: Alvin Stardust in AVRO’s TopPop (Dutch television show) in 1974 source AVRO, http://www.beeldengeluidwiki.nl/index.php/Gallery:_Toppop_%281974%29 photo 2: Jennie with Alvin on the pier supplied by Jennie Tocock
supplied by David McLean DJ Gremlin’s Rockin Stompers https://www.facebook.com/groups/1485750291699467/
Sarah Harvey…..I didn’t see Alvin Stardust on the Pier because I wasn’t into pop but was dragged to see him by my daughter when he appeared during one of our stays at Butlins in Bognor…. I have to say that he was excellent and he rocked! Just shows how pre-conceptions can be misguided.
Alan Esdaile…..Remember this gig, as I did the disco. It was really packed and he was late coming on. For the first 5mins all you could see was a spotlight on his massive ring covering his leather glove.
Peter Fairless… Coo, coo….
Yvonne Cleland… He only did about three numbers, didn’t he?
Cindy Goodhand-Knight… I saw him at the Rat Trap in Maidstone when he was Shane Fenton and the Fentones !
Barry Arnold… I think I was at that one.
Jennie Tocock…. Alvin on the Pier, 1974, being interviewed by a certain young news reporter!!
Jill Lawrence… I was there lol!!
David Medcalf… My wife was at the gig on Hastings Pier 19th April 1974, she still sings the songs HaHa
Jacky Mattelaer… I remember going to this!
Mick O’Dowd… Didn’t he appear at The Beer Festival on The Oval once as well?
Ian Price… I did a karaoke of my coo ca choo,but the way I wore my black glove, holding the microphone and moving ,went down better than me singing!
Pete Houghton… I was there and Alvin and the Band signed my poster for me afterwards
Gerry Fortsch… He always put on a good show.
Neil Curtis… Better as Shane Fenton , lol
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.
Rediffusion London Road St Leonards advert 1954
shared from: https://www.facebook.com/transdiffusion
Transdiffusion… (Hastings and St Leonards Observer, Saturday 16 October 1954)
Mike Waghorne… Remember them running cables from house to house in the late 50’s early 60’s. .
Time Moose Bruce… I remember TV programs interrupted by ” This is a Rediffusion announcement.” Usually an apology for poor TV reception. Sometimes an announcement my local police searching for missing person or child.
Jim Hobbs… Cable TV before we knew that was a thing.
Linda Gowans… Brown Bakelite sets with a switch for Home Service, Light Programme or the Third Programme.
Nigel Ford… is all that cable still in the ground? Very valuable copper, I expect. The inspection covers are still up Harold Road.
Ray Alan with Lord Charles – White Rock Pavilion Hastings 18th April 1976
poster: Van Buren
Matt Thomas… He was one of the many now missing signed photos in frames that were once displayed in the Stage Door Bar when I worked there.
Alan King… I was gonna get a vent doll made of Pete Docherty and go around saying Got any Gear ?
Nigel Ford… I didn’t know he died 10 years ago… but I see it was during May so wouldn’t have heard any news that month with Hastings Rock being on air.
Late Night Love- Battle Memorial Hall and Pandora’s Box Hastings Pier Restaurant 18th April 1969
Nigel Ford… Reckon I must have been ill that night as I don’t remember “Late Night Love” band at all. No recollection of the name whatsoever.
Candy Choir and Mood Reaction – June 1969
Mick O’Dowd… It’s that Candy Choir mob again. Keep popping up all over the place. I must say I liked them. They are billed as a “Rye Recording Artists” did they come from there?
The Searchers and The Paramounts – Hastings Pier 17th April 1965
photo cutting supplied by Andre Martin. Photo:The Searchers in Holland 1965 by Jac. de Nijs / Anefo. Source Nationaal Archief
Lawrence Ralph… The same Paramounts as Gary Brookers pre – Procol Harum band ?, sounds like a great evenings entertainment.
Clockwork Balloon – Hastings Pier 17th April 1971
Mick O’Dowd… Don’t recall them. Any info anyone?
Rhod Shaw… Clockwork Balloon were a 4 piece band local to the Newhaven/Seaford area. The original line-up was Paul Larkin (vocals), Tim Robinson (guitar), Derek Wait (bass) & Hugh Cox (drums). Around 1969 or 1970, Hugh was replaced by a chap called Ro who lived in Hassocks.