eighties

Wout Steenhuis – Deluxe Hastings 7th March 1981

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Gerry Fortsch… That takes you back, not heard of Wout in many a year, its probable because I couldn’t spell his name so I never looked him up on YouTube but I might now.

Chris Baker… I remember him being introduced on EasyBeat as Woot Steen-Who-Is? I think it was Brian Matthew.

Robert Searle… Its pronounced Vowt

Chris Baker… I knew him well, he wrote tunes to my Mum’s lyrics. Great bloke and a brilliant guitarist. He arranged for the band (Town Council) to record their first (and last) single in Broadstairs with Les Wake, his sound engineer.

The Architects – The Cutter Hastings 28th February 1985

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Keith Jenner, Alan Phillips, Nick Monaghan and Rick Cooper

Cule Tulo… Don’t make me feel old. I’ve been in bands with some of these guys when I was a teenager

Martin Curcher… Rick took over bass after I left, good old days

Steve May… I joined later that year on guitar after Keith left! Hello Martin, how’s tricks?

Courtneys Discotheque, Wellington Square, Hastings. 80’s

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poster supplied  by Richard Samuels

Julie Davies… Does anyone remember Eric the chef at Googleberry’s or what happened to him?

Andy Grant… I was a dj there with Mike Allen, good times

Catherine Melinda Courtney… Incredible, the funny times, Good times.

Lord Mark Martin Fullick… Hi Andy, do you have any photos of that time, my best mate met his now wife there and I am trying to put something cool together for his wife as husband has recently passed away, I was their best man at the wedding. Thanks Andy.

 

 

 

Hastings memorial Christmas 1983 with busker

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photo © East Sussex Library and information service https://www.facebook.com/eastsussexlibraries

Alan Esdaile… I wondering who the busker is?

Colin Bell… I’m wondering if it might have possibly been Don Partridge of ‘Rosie’ fame, in the 80’s he used to visit a mutual friend of mine quite often in T Wells who he used to perform with, he still busked & had a place in Sussex, just a thought…

Alan Esdaile… Colin, good idea but doesn’t look like a drum on his back, if he always had one? I remember Keith Tooke said Don Partridge wrote his big hit ‘Rosie’ in Swan Terrace Hastings.

Colin Bell… ‘d certainly trust dear old Keith’s knowledge, as we both know he knew everything about everybody! Bless him

Claire Lonsdale… Colin, he used to go to / run Seaford folk club. He lived around there

 

Inside Woolworth Hastings- Christmas 1983

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photos © A Walker

Leigh Mitchell… Miss Woolies

Wendy Henry Wilson…When I was a Saturday girl there, in 1966, there was a till on every counter and having moved away from Hastings in 1975, these pictures in 1983 sadly, don’t look at all like to the shop that I knew. I enjoyed my time working there and am always happy to say “I worked at Woolworths in Hastings”. Who remembers the buttered crispy rolls in the staff Cafeteria which we put smokey bacon crisps in, on our break?

Janette Marshall… I loved Woolworths, it was the shop equivalent of Ebay. You could get anything there lol

Stuart Moir… A sad loss to the town

Sue Adey… Wow. That was a great shop

Shona Goobie… Big loss. No decent shops here now

Phil Szomszor… Remember that store through my youth, from buying pic n mix and toys as a young child and then browsing all the LPs and cassettes every lunchtime on my Sainsbury’s Saturday job. Fond memories, love pics like this.

Sandie Carlyon… My first Saturday job there.

Jane Collins… mine as well Sandie! Half a day on Saturdays

Micky Erends… I remember buying fishing tackle in Woolworths, wonderful place