Hastings Memorial 1950’s from a different angle!

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Jeff Evans… had to reduce the file size of another glass plate photograph: Hastings Town: early 1950’s

Lloyd Johnson… The Council should put back as it was!…

Alan Esdaile… Great photo. Trying to work out what building this was taken from. Thinking Lyons but probably further down?

Leigh Kennedy… first floor of what is now Lloyd’s Bank..

Colin Bell… Didn’t it look so much better then with a central focus point

Roger Simmonds… Wish it was still like it now!

John Wilde… Fantastic.

Toker Tokin… The feeling of the place then ,was a feeling of content, with the majority of people.

Peter Ellingworth… Pre 1957 for sure, t-bus still in Hastings Tramways and not M&D livery.

Barry French… The town centre lost its soul and identity the day the Memorial was demolished.

Steve Glover… I concur with all sentiments. It wasn’t a lot different in the early sixties, the town centre had all you would need in the way of shops, how things have sadly changed, not a shadow of its former self. I had heard the Albert Memorial still exists, dismantled and in storage somewhere in the borough???

Peter Fairless… Steve, In a former Councillor’s garden, allegedly,

Peter Fairless… I liked the mid ’70s layout with a lot of walls for moody teenagers to sit on!