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Eric Harmer… You must have been off your rocker Sue
Lloyd Johnson… I worked in Dons ice Cream in 1964…
Alan Esdaile… Depending on how many pennies we could find in the Olympia, we would always get a great ice cream in Doms.
Lloyd Johnson… They also had a Candy Floss machine
photo © John Gale. Supplied by Tony Snelling
Tony Snelling… L/r Steve Welfare, Steve Usher, Andy Wilson, Steve Gaffney, Tony Snelling, Dave Browning and Barry Simmons. Photographer possibly John Gale.
John Gale… Yeah, I took it. Taken in town before we all left for Great Yarmouth. What a great weekend…well nearly, apart from Tony Snelling having a serious accident on the way home. Barry Simmons, what a great laugh he was all weekend. Good bunch of lads .
Peter Fairless… Is Barry still about, do you know, John? Used to bump into him every few years and we’d both be surprised that we recognised and remembered each other!
John Gale… Pete, I’m not sure . Last I heard he was living in Eastbourne
Michele Crew… John, isn’t that Steve Molyneux behind Barry ?
John Gale… I’ve never noticed that person b4, no idea. I don’t think so. Can’t remember him being there
Tony Snelling… John, It’s Wendy before the pink hair
Lloyd Johnson… Is that behind ‘The Pamdor’?…
John Gale… Yes Lloyd
Graham Sherrington… That Sign Lease For Disposal must have been there of years. And the Fish and Chips from the chippy were divine
Willie Wicking… Mods Today Brighton (10/04/23)
Donna Torrance… Blimey wasn’t that area a mess then. Xxx
Rob Endersby… Donna, Better than it is now, that street is a depressing half empty shopping centre
Ann Murphy… Wow that brings back memories.. Park Motors was Dads showroom taken over by. Frank Bettes.. the grey building next to it was my old office, Davenport Jones & Glenisters.. but these photos were even after Tommy & Mikes scooter days in the 70’s !!!! Your Dad was a biker in the 60’s. Nicknamed Mods & Rockers, the Scooters & Bikers had a big rumble on the Hastings sea front one bank holiday in 70s police came from everywhere, had big television coverage. Such fun !!!! I don’t know if my brothers were involved !!! Daddy would have boxed their ears !!!
Derrick Wareham… Ann Murphy I was there in the 50/60 was not mod or a rocker but had good times
Mick O’Dowd… That’s where we parked our scooters to frequent The Pam-Dor.
Alan Esdaile… That empty shop, I was negotiating to rent it, for over a year but the price was too high. I’m sure eventually they did agree on a price, only for someone else to gazump me. Then I started the shop further up Queens Road.
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Dennis Torrance… Never seen these photos before brilliant Alan brought back some memories
Alan Esdaile… Likewise Dennis. Loads of mod Hastings photos on the net but have not seen these before. Happy memories of all the buildings. Mind you looks like no chance of getting a nice cup of tea in Dimarco’s on this day.
Jim Breeds… They were there on a Welsh Rarebit sampling day out.
Harry Randall… Dimarco’s stood where McDonald’s now stands!
Dennis Torrance… True Alan right also about all the buildings there . Dimarcos to happy memories to great food and ice cream and milkshakes. Thanks again Alan
Pete Fisher… Does anyone know what year this was? 1964?
Alan Esdaile… Yes I think it is 1964
Darren Holmes… Love the two kids fighting behind the man on the ground!!! Which one is the mod and which is the rocker???
Sid Saunders… I remember that photo showing an old man that was knocked to the ground. I was away at a motorcycle race meeting that weekend.
Malcolm Sharp… Was working in the resturant by the fountain that day, iorio and demarcos, was funny and scary 14 at the time
photo © John Gale
John Gale… Photo taken by my dad Tony early May 1979
Stuart Moir… Great times in music
Marilyn Spence… Great photo
supplied by Dai Jones photo source: unknown
Dai Jones asks… : “Could you tell me where this is in Hastings? I somehow recognise it – but where is it?”
Phil Gill… Havelock Road. There was also an entrance to the Bodega Bars on Cambridge Road.
Lloyd Johnson… Frank Brooks third from the right in the light coloured trousers next to the car
Mick Knights… I thought that as well but wasn’t sure
Roger Simmonds… Havelock road happy times!
Helena Kingshott… Am thinking it’s top of Robertson Street?
Lloyd Johnson… Hi! Helena…xx..The bar sign is the ‘Bodega Bar’ and the first floor pillars you can see in the photo are those of ‘The Orion’ Cinema which were above W.H.Smiths Newsagent. My Mum worked a few doors down from there in ‘The Golden Fleece’ wool shop before she moved to
Mark Rodrigues… I think it’s Havelock Road by the shape of the buildings. Though that no entry sign is obviously not there now.
Lloyd Johnson… Frank Brooks on the run from the Police! 1964 ..Frank 3 from right next to the car…I was in The Pamdor around the corner
Marcus J Lamb-Bentley…. Why are they running?
Lloyd Johnson… 1964 bank holiday weekend/ Mods&Rockers!..the town was rammed with kids having fun!…they flew Police in to Lydd Airport because they thought things were going to get out of hand. All a total over reaction by the authorities. I got fed up with being herded around the town so slipped away and spent the day in The Pamdor Coffee Bar above Hepworth’s the Tailors in Queens road.
Sheila Maile… Bodega, bars. Cambridge Road
Darren Holmes… Is that photo not taken from Robertson Street looking towards Cambridge Road?
Helena Kingshott… Or Havelock Road ? It’s been a long time
Mike Cramp…Ha ha. Some great wrong answers. Are we now all agreed. The photographer is standing on the memorial. We’re looking at the bottom of Havelock Road which was ‘no entry’ from the southern end even back then. The word BARS in the original photo is on the blank wall where the metal fire escape is now in the modern photo above. The Crypt was known as the Bodega Bars for many years and had/has entrances on Havelock and Cambridge Road. And as for all you grown up Mods on here, i hope you’re all extremely ashamed of yourselves !