Hastings Town Centre 1974

Nick Webb… I remember those days!

Matt Thomas… Proper shops

Gill Harrod… The Disc Jockey!

Pauline Richards… And Wards the best cheese scones in town. Used to sit in the cafe which overlooked Queens Arcade

Wendy Weaver… Pauline, So did I. Really missed it when it went

Paul Foster… Loved them days

Rosana Maria… omg it looks so old fashioned !!!

Leigh Mitchell… …that was probably me in my Morris Minor!

Andrew Freeman… Those were the days, proper town centre! See how busy it looks

Peter Houghton… Those were the day’s

Chris Bristow… Oh jeez. My childhood right there, literally there !

Helena Kingshott… Wasn’t Hastings a great place to live way back then ?

Lynda Whatley… I remember those days!

Jessica Storr-Hoggins… It was a busy town. Loved Chelsea Girl.

Andy Clarke… I’d been living in Queens Rd for 4 years by then.

Sandra Thompsett… Back when the Town Centre actually had character !

Mick O’Dowd… A real record shop there!

Chris Fitzgerald… So many people out and about shopping

Jacquie Hinves… Wards on the corner! We used to get our St Richards school uniform from there. As a student nurse I would catch the bus up to St Helens Hospital via Ore. Divitios for a frothy coffee and occasionally an ice cream.

Stuart Moir… Burtons was the opposite side of the road

Enda W. Caldwell… Iceland,or Hastings OR OR…. THIS PLACE!

Neil Duncan… Just as I remember it and those cars of the era.

Pauline Sims… I remember those days!

Dawn… This makes me smile and cry at the same time – so glad I grew up back then, great times. I wish I could go back to then all the time

Barry French… I think they should change the name from Queens Road to either The Street of 100 Barbers or Junk shop Avenue.

Pauline Richards… I call it Queens road car park after 3o/c

 

Bodega Bar & Orion Cinema Hastings

supplied by Leigh Kennedy

Nadia Compagnone… Can anybody date this? Thanks.

Alan Esdaile… I would think early 60s?

Graham Sherrington… 1860’s it’s OLD

Leigh Kennedy… Nadia, late 1950s , possibly early 1960s. By the mid 60s it was renamed Fortes Wine Bar, and later the York Bar..

Mick O’Dowd… The traffic is still coming down Cambridge Road

Lloyd Johnson… This is how I remember it in the early 60s….

Dennis Torrance… My mum worked part time in the Orion 60s tried blowing up the film posters to find out roughly year but still quite blurred.

Margaret Trowell… My dad worked in the Bodega bars 1965/67 ish

Tracy Birrell… Oh yes…..

Jacquie Hinves… That’s brought back memories! We as a class travelled from St. Richards school to watch The Prime of Miss Jean Brody” What a flea pit. Happy days!