supplied by Leigh Kennedy
Leigh Kennedy… Marks and Spencer. The first Marks and Spencer store opened in 1920 at 20 Queens Road. In 1930 the building at 30 to 36 Queens Road (pictured) was built. M & S moved into new, purpose built premises opposite in Priory Meadow Shopping Centre in 1996.
Fiona Evans… The good ol’ days,with sturdy shop fronts & lovely window displays.
Colin Gibson… These dinosaurs blew high st presence out and destroyed the cricket ground, along with co-conspirators boots the “chemist”. Queens Rd is now a tasteless selection of cheap imported tat with few exceptions. If it’s raining you can always go into priory “meadow”, for some indoor tat.
Russell Field… Colin, I believe M&S executives said “if you don’t build the shopping centre we’re leaving the town”. Shame, we should have had a lovely marina instead.
Alan Esdaile… It was Peacocks for awhile and rumoured to be Wilko store?
Patricia Burgess… We were back in Hasting in 2003, I could not get over what a mess the Queens Road was, it looked like a poverty stricken area. Such as pity, to destroy the Cricket fields
Peter Fairless… It is. It was.
Alan Esdaile… Anyone remember the excellent fruit and veg stalls at the side of M&S?
Lloyd Johnson… My Mum was a Supervisor there for years until her retirement…,
Veran Palmer.. Why is this building still empty!
Peter Ellingworth… Top photo of M&S taken before June 1959 or just after, bottom one post that date, early sixties onwards, newer style lights attached to former tram/trolley bus wire poles. Like the old style street lights in the top photo. What’s the clue to the date of top photo anybody ?
Graham Sherrington… me mum used M&S from the 1960’s till she passed in the 2000’s. I loved their Norwegian Prawns.