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Derelict in the UK… (2020) Situated on the Archery Ground in St Leonards this large site was the main college site for Hastings & St Leonards with dedicated DT/Masonry/Decorating buildings and a beautiful row of Edwardian villas converted into their Art and Photography department. The site closed in 2010 due its new replacement opening in the much more central Station Plaza location. It was demolished in 2015 and the new houses in its place are nearly complete. The Edwardian block is luckily being converted into luxury flats and hasn’t been demolished.
Mike Gardner… I did my O’levels then three years graphic art & illustration at the college 1974-78, good times.
Chris Meachen… Had some absolutely brilliant times there, & made some lifelong friends..
Ian Johnson… That’s where I did my electrical
Pete Houghton… They were great day’s I was on the top floor doing Catering
Mike Waghorne… 68 to 72 electrical industry courses.
Tim Moose Bruce… 76 to 80. C&G mechanical engineering. Great Times.
Ken Hatch… about ‘75-‘78, 1 year full time at the EITB centre in Archery rd at the back of this building then day release from Derritron for HNC Electro-mechanical engineering. Good times
Tim Moose Bruce… Ken, Trying to remember the lecturers in the engineering department. We had Mike ” Ted” Tiltman for mechanical. And Mr Perret and Mr Creasey. Others I remember were Mr Mead and Mr Harris for welding and fabrication. And Mr Sprenger for electrical.
Ken Hatch… yep, we had Sprenger, Mead, Harris, Perret, Anderson. Mead lived down the road from us in Fairlight and used to “ tell me off” at the start of class for playing my guitar too loud again or riding my bike too fast past his house ( it was only a Honda 175 but with Megger exhausts 
). Sprenger was a great laugh
Tim Moose Bruce… Reading this reminds me of all the companies that sent their trainees to this college. A lot now gone or moved away from Hastings. Fracmo, Derritron, Stills, ITT, Buss foods, where I was, Chloride and many more.
Ken Hatch… Derritron, Stills, Lumatic, CDs, Drallim (?)…….???
Tim Moose Bruce… Forgot about Drallim. Also the Eastbourne companies. IMI Coldflow, the pump company taken over by Alpha Laval which has recently gone. Armour Pharmaceuticals, Birdseye.
Willie Wicking… I was at Chloride
Margaret Trowell…. Did so many courses from aged 18 over the years at this college and I’m still studying at the new college in my 70s… you’re never too old to learn something new
Peter Ellingworth… Not just Hastings and Eastbourne where all these companies have gone- pretty well around the UK it’s the same tale…
Ken Hatch… no wonder our economy is struggling just think of all the income tax we were all paying let alone all the products being manufactured and exported