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Dimarco Bros cafe Hastings – for sale 1984

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Paul Cullen… Best steak and kidney pie, chips and beans ever

Edward Adams… the good old days

Mark Harris… Proper choice of hot drinks, tea, tea or tea!!

Angela Frances Gardner… Knickerbocker glories

Julie Findlay-jones… Angela, ditto, that’s immediately what came to mind when I saw that photo.

Angela Frances Gardner… I can see them on the shelf behind the counter.

Jacky Mattelaer… oh yes, such a special treat

Angela Frances Gardner… Jacky, I spent many an afternoon sat in there eating beans on toast and drinking many cups of tea!!

Alan Wood… A great day out with my Gran, all the way from the country on the no 5 bus, knickerbockers mmmmm

Patricia Burgess… Loved that place in the 60’s great owner, food really good

Clive Garrard… I loved it, very nice people running it

Melissa Homewood… Best milkshakes ever xx

Tracy Howell… Melissa, next to the shop that did the best pick and mix ever was huge xx

Melissa Homewood… Tracy, I used too work in woolies….Christmas isn’t the same without it xxx

Roger Collier… It’s McDonald’s now. So much classier!

Roland Clarke… Now a Mickey “D’s”

John Maplesden… Best Welsh rabbit

Pauline Richards… The ice cream! I remember they did a 99 in a wafer. Lovely!

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Collins and Hayes – who remembers Peter and Nicholas Hayes?

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Anthony ‘Nan’ Morland… Did you work at Collins and Hayes on Ponswood in the 1970’s, 1980’s, 1990’s? Do you remember Peter and Nicholas Hayes, who owned the company?

Merv Kennard… I started working with C&H in August 1968 when Norman Hayes (ex battle of Britain pilot) brought the company down from London.

Paul Marshall… My mum worked in the staff canteen. Old fabric swatches & ice buns on a Friday are a memory for me in the 70’s

Pete Prescott… two guys from Collins and Hayes at my Flat in 1981

Helen Haddock (nee Balls)… I do, I worked at Collins and Hayes in the early 70’s. Great furniture and good bosses as far as I could see. I remember Peter and Nicholas Hayes as I worked for them in Accounts Dept., in early 70’s before leaving to have my lst son James in 1974. If I am correct I am in the photo, to the left hand side, in half profile within the Furniture Showroom on Ponswood Estate. They probably wouldn’t remember me.  But I remember them and Peter was quite ill before that. I loved my Collins and Hayes Suite I bought with my husband Mike, and it lasted well into the late 80’s.  It was called Cygnet.

Martin Hollands… Worked there from 1983 to 2012, used to work with ‘Nan’ too

David Martin… we used to make the chrome plated Cygnet brackets at Winstone Engineering.

Pete Prescott… Remember them so well. I can’t put the best stories on this. David Backler is the bearded guy in the background. Great guy.

Richie Weeks… I worked there, from leaving school at 16 in 1978 until joining Royal Mail in 1987…

Andy Knight… my neighbour was Alan Pledge, the designer back in the 80’s and 90’s, I bought a pair of salmon settees from C&H

Phil Foley… I like that brown velvet whistle

Alan Esdaile… When I had Masons Music building next door, a number of Collins & Hayes staff would walk over our land and constantly ruin our fences. It probably only saved them a minute or two. I did keep getting them repaired but realised it was a losing battle and better to leave it as their new walkway!

 

 

Malcolm Mitchell, High Street, Hastings closed photo by Anthony ‘Nan’ Morland

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Phil Gill… Class outfitters

Martin Richter… all the army boots you could eat

Glenn Piper… veritable Aladdins cave of curiosity’s and lots of boots & great coats

Lucy Pappas… Bought my very wide leg sailor trousers from there! Loved Malcolm Mitchell x

Phil Gill… Lucy, You could have washed them before you turned up at the youth club wearing them though.

Lucy Pappas… Phil, I apologise for the fishy smell. Thinking about it, that would have been when we first become friends, 50+ years ago….

Phil Gill… I didn’t mind fishy, it was the beer stains from some Norwegian sailor’s night out.

Bruce Zebedee… Great shop

Colin Wells… Malcs bootique!!

Pete Blomfield… Datsun 100a or 120y?

Jeff McCall… Great shop, bought a purple parker from there, it had a bullet hole in it!

Gerry Fortsch… I remember that they sold every thing so one day I asked for a torpedo and they came up with one.

Fred Marsh… I wonder what some of our dfls would have made of it

Lloyd Johnson… Fred, Hastings is my home town.I moved to London in 1966 I went Ore youth Club with Patrick Mitchell who’s uncle owned MM .I opened my own shop/stall in 1967 in Kensington market a year later.In 1973 I was buying similar items that we’re sold in Malcolm Mitchell’s the High st,Baldocks and Winters shoe shop in George st.,Cyril Savages in Kings Road and Apps shoe shop in Silverhill by that time the stock I remembered from the early 60s was considered vintage clothing. I remember. buying an amazing W11 leather dispatch riders jacket from MM which I wore during my Art school days at The Brassey Institute above the Library in 1961/62…I guess you could say in some ways all those shops including MM were a great inspiration for me during my time. in the clothing business as was the whole teenage experience of growing up in Hastings with The Pamdor, Fiesta ,the trad jazz at the caves and the groups on The Pier. I think it is nice to see some new small innovative businesses bring some style to the town. The DFLs’ as you seem to call the creatives from London that have chosen Hastings to make their home. Several friends from London have moved to Hastings and St.Leonard’s and I think they contribute extra style and entertainment to the Town…..

Mark Syrett… Top shop

Mike Waghorne… Top clothe’s shop in the late 60’s Malcom’s boutique we used to call it !

John Mcewen… Best work boots ever!

Dave Nattress… Even us Bexhill boys knew Malcolm’s Boutique, always on the tourist may with the Trading Post

Jim Breeds… April 2021 view (Google Streetview)

Alan Esdaile… Jim, hasn’t got the same smell as the original photo!

Adam Faith – Battle Of Hastings Mods & Rockers Exhibition – Hastings Museum 2002

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Anthony ‘Nan’ Morland… I remember asking Adam Faith to sign the cd, which I purchased from Old Town Music in George Street. He said he had never seen the cd before but still was happy to sign it.

Monica Bane…Thanks Alan, For sharing the memories Monica!

Monica is in the white jacket in the photo.

Matt Thomas… My mum would have been so jealous of Jenny

Margaret Trowell… I’ve just recently read Adam’s autobiography …loved it, fascinating stuff

Patricia Burgess… Was so in love with Adam and bought all his records to Canada with me, met him in Montreal in 64. So sad to learn of his death

Phil Scott… I was there as Mayor at the time and I said to Adam, Did you ever believe that when you were making records you would eventually become part of a Museum Exhibition, He turned and smiled at me and said “Never” He said he should used that in his speech that he made ahead of opening the event.

Andy Gunton… I remember it well. I compiled the music that was used during the exhibition & on the day

Phil Scott… Andy, I thought the exhibition was excellent, Bit of a Coup as well getting Adam to ‘Open’ The Exhibition, Quite a draw he was.

Andy Gunton… Phil, It was very good. Adam was certainly a big hit with the ladies & seemed like a nice guy.

Phil Scott… Yes he was on both counts. I don’t remember seeing many pics of the event, I had one taken with Adam and another guy who was showing a motorbike off. I’ll dig it out and post it. A guy who worked for the Council took a few and sent me a couple of the outside if the Museum with Bikers etc milling around.

Jean Brett… I remember at the museum I took a lot of photos of him my first pin up singer

Mark Randall… I nearly ran our Adam over when he was crossing the road from Hoopers to RTW station

Stewart Rockett… I recall taking my grandson to the museum on a whim when the exhibition was on. He was fascinated by a red Vespa scooter in a display case, as he couldn’t work why someone would want to park a vehicle in a glass garage.

Mick O’Dowd… I remember going as I was a 60’s Mod. Afraid i’m classed as a skinhead now!

Kate Recknell-Page… Used to love his music – happy days x

Sally Evans… very happy days

 

Priory Road fire station Hastings – by Anthony ‘Nan’ Morland

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Paul Phillips… Moved to The Ridge and Seaside Rd moved to Bohemia Rd

Chris Pook… I remember the siren going off when I was at Priory Rd school.

Lloyd Johnson… Right next to the Priory Road school grounds

Carol Acott… I remember the sirens going off when lived in St Georges Road in the 50s….mum always said that’s the gorse on fire again on the East Hill. Usually was too.

Chris Meachen… There was a telephone on the outside wall covered by a glass door. As a kid my curiosity got the better of me and I opened it….. Alarms sounded, firemen came whizzing down the pole & they opened the doors asking ‘where’s the fire?’ – it frightened the life out of me…

Alan Esdaile… Oh that was you Chris. I got a vague memory of this, as used to live over the road.

Lucy Pappas… I’d forgotten the fire station! xx

Nick Rowland… I remember the fire station.

Angela Gardner… Castledown schools car park is now where this was situated.

Samantha Blake… We used to play up there when it was abandoned.

Raelia French… I used to walk past there a lot when I was a little girl and I always wanted to slide down their pole.

Jenny Bolt… Father- in – law Tom, was stationed there and hubby, Rick, has many stories of what he and his mates use to get up to there.

Mike King… I remember it well. I used to pass it at least twice a day when attending Priory Road School next door. A school mate and myself often discussed creeping in there and taking a sneeky peek around but we got around to it.

Sharon Holland… My dad was a fireman there in the 60’s

Eric Harmer… I lived op that. Such a shame that now a working man can’t afford a house

Jane Freund… Very familiar!

 

Ken Apps cycle repairs and Clive Vale Hotel Ore Hastings photo by Anthony ‘Nan’ Morland

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Phil Gill… Pop into the pub for a quick one whilst he mends you puncture.

Nick Prince… I remember it well

Jim Breeds… Looking decidedly grotty now! 🙁 (Image from Streetview). Clive Vale Hotel also seen on the right in Nan’s photo.

Alan Esdaile… Remember it. Went in the Hare & Hounds further up the road and nearly got run over a few times, as the door went straight out into the road.

Stuart Moir… One less pint may have made a difference Alan

Harry Randall… Remember Ken Apps when he had his shop on the corner of Menzies rd as a boy often went for spares and learnt a lot sad when he moved to Ore

Pauline Richards… And Pat Halliwell had a cafe along there

Merv Kennard… Did a few gigs in the Clive Vale Hotel.

Alan Esdaile… I remember coming to a couple Merv

Lloyd Johnson… I remember building a track bike out of found bike bits from a bombsite/ disused ground with stuff dumped on it. Ken Apps made me a pair of steer horn shaped handle bars out of gas pipe and I painted the whole bike different coloured patterns with humbrol paints.We use to ride them through a track in Coghurst Woods in the 1950s…

Mike Mitchell… Lloyd, I used to ride that track through Coghurst Woods late sixties. A great ride down the hill with minimal brakes – as long as we didn’t meet anyone coming up the track!

Andy Clarke… If I remember right Wayne Spears worked there and took it over after Ken.

Roger Simmonds… I remember it too !

David Edwards… Although the sign said Ken Apps every one ran the name into one and called it Kenapps’s shop

Chris Meachen… I  remember being fascinated watching him build wire bike wheels from the basic parts.. A proper craftsman.

Edward Adams… remember it well ken apps used to live in the same block of flats as me in chiltern drive

Mark Harris… Opposite my Nan and Grandad’s VG store, C & M Harris!

Tony Court-holmes… when Ore had pubs

Roger Simmonds… All the good old shops and craftmanship mostly gone now!

Mick O’Dowd… Spent many visits to Ken Apps shop as he was so knowledgeable about bike probs!

Robert Wren… Spent many hours peering through the window and dreaming of all bits I would love to buy. He was always very helpful and didn’t always charge but I did buy various bits over the years. I also remember his Hillman Super Minx he would drive to work and park across the road on the rough track. I think the colour of the car was a sort of copper or gold.

Roger Carey… Great shop- many interesting businesses in Ore over the years..Ken Apps was the place to go to keep your bicycle on the road! Seem to recall he discouraged unnecessary modifications….

Paul Huggins… Fond memories from back in the day…when Electric Ray had the Clive Vale

Alan Esdaile… Can remember cycling down Malvern Way with my brother, on our bikes, when the new roads were being built!

Pauline Richards… And Charltons sweet shop

Andy Clarke… Loved the pet shop across the road too.

Katherine Apps… I’m delighted to read these comments. I’m proud that I had the absolute honour that my Grandfather was the one and only Ken Apps. Of Ken Apps Cycles, Hastings. I’m so pleased his devotion, hard work and memory lives on.

Pauline Richards… And Halliwels cafe nr by!

Andy Caine… Ken was a legend!

Neil McGuigan… Ken was the man

Jeff McCall… He mended my bike often enough, always helpful. Across the road on the corner of Sandown Hill was Holtons the greengrocer ran buy my pal Bernard Holtons dad who used to be a blacksmith. Happy days.

David Edwards… Always pronounced KenApps never a break between Ken and Apps.He was always good to kids who were struggling to keep an old bike on the road.

Derek Alan Richardson… Great character. Was a total gentleman. Always kept our bikes going however much we beat them up through the 70s. Spent some time with Wayne Spears in Bexhill today reminiscing. Wayne went on to buying the shop after Ken retired. Great memories

Peter Ellingworth… Great shop, great guy, one of a regretfully disappearing or disappeared breed. I remember staying at the now sadly closed YHA (Guestling Hall) off Rye Road while on a long weekend visit back in the ’80’s, and was speaking in the common room (normally followed by us all visiting the nearby pub up the hill) to a German youngster of around 19 whose bike he mentioned needed some frame repairs and TLC.
The following morning I took him (and dismantled bike) in the VW Polo I had then to the Ore shop, and he repaired the lad’s bike including some brazing work if I remember right there and then, and at minimal cost. The youngster was over the moon, as it meant he could instead of cutting his tour short continue pedalling on towards Southampton to stay with friends/relatives (can’t remember which). I thought very little of this until some time later his father wrote to thank us both. A nice gesture. Back to the Guestling Hall YHA: this closed when the YHA decided to rationalise and due to financial issues sold off a lot of their property. Guestling Hall was a great place to stay especially when Melanie Baker, her Dutch boyfriend and their predecessor Barry who had a large collection of hats on show from Liverpool were the wardens. I wrote to the local Hastings MP at the time voicing my concerns of its closure and its benefit as both an ex-Hastings resident and visitor, only to have a terse reply that as I was no longer one of his constituents he could not help……..yet I also contacted Grant Shapps my now local MP, and although not on his patch he could not have been more helpful ! Remember also Lappy’s bike shop at the top ‘country’ end of Queens Rd – always smelt of paraffin when you went in.

 

Gifford Boyd camera centre, Robertson Street, Hastings. photo by Anthony ‘Nan’ Morland

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Oliver Leonard… That red Peugeot 309 has long been scrapped

Angela Gardner… I bought my camera in the many years ago.

Jeremy Harrison… Very reasonable prices at the time. They sold Russian and East German cameras before the wall came down.

John Mcewen… I got my zenith E in there in the mid 70s. Still got it!

Jeremy Harrison… John, they introduced so many people to serious photography. Doing mail order and advertising in the big magazines I thought GB would last forever.

Chris Meachen… I  used to be in there on an almost daily basis, so much so that they would allow me to borrow gear to try out. I still have the cameras & lenses I bought there in the 70’s..

Jim Breeds… Chris, I still have a camera that I was bought from there when I was 8 (1962).

Stephen Moran… me too Jim, I bought a Zenit E and later traded it in for a Pentax ME Super!

Peter Fairless… Stephen, I did exactly the same!

Stephen Moran… Brilliant Peter! I still use my 35mm camera!

Tim Wilcocks… I worked at Gifford Boyd between 1984 and 1986. Can anyone remember which building was the darkroom centre in Claremont, was it No 12?

Hurst Court The Ridge Hastings – closed photos by Anthony ‘Nan’ Morland

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Tracy Birrell… Such a shame that it was knocked down……

Jo Turner… Worked there for a while in my teens.

Jilly Jones… Stayed there, for a night , it was an amazing inside.xx

Ian Johnson… Rewired it when I was an apprentice

Claire Triance… Before Hastings lost its character all big old houses gone or burnt down

Ju-ju Davies… My mum used to work here.

Gaz Linch… Did a couple of music courses here over Easter . Must be close to 50 years ago . Even swam in the very cold pool

Lance Collins… Did discos there

Pauline Sims… I remember those days!

Christine Giles… you could stay there weekends

Matt Thomas… Was this another victim of one of the towns mysterious fires?

Tim Moose Bruce… Matt, There was a care home next door that mysteriously caught fire..

Keith Veness… Painted some of the rooms when it was a youth centre

Neil Chalcraft… One my judo pals went to school there in its last days as a pre school

Katy Howard was Parsons… Had our wedding reception here. Was a great venue. Such a shame

Tim Moose Bruce… I read somewhere that it was taken down and shipped to America to be rebuilt.

Ian Quinnell… I seem to remember going there, after it had closed as a school, with a number of other pupils from Priory Road to help clear and tidy the grounds. Would have been around 1970. Anyone else from Priory Road remember this?

Wendy Weaver… We went to a wedding reception here. It seemed a lovely venue.

Chris Meachen…. Mum used to help raise funds for it, & I can remember going to various ‘fun activity’ events. Unlike the usual fires, this one was left with some windows open so the weather & pigeons could make it uninhabitable. Damned shame to have watched it decay over the years…

Mike Waghorne… I remember Westridge building contractors putting the blue hoarding up

Steve Mann… Had my wedding reception here – great venue