Mick O’Dowd… This Chris Gentry person seems to be popping up everywhere!
Colin Bell… Part timer only doing a 2hr45mins show would’nt have played any of that ‘regeae’?!myself were typesetters always pissed in those days?!
Mick O’Dowd… never remember Chris Gentry fellow playing reggie!!!
Tony Court-holmes… he always did
write up: John Hodges
Jim Breeds… Yep. I was too young to be a customer but it’s where I got on the 133 bus to go home to Ore after school at Priory Road.
Lloyd Johnson… On Priory Road….on my route home from school to Ore as well…
Alan Esdaile… Remember it well but likewise too young to be a customer. However, did get some free beer mats from the owner. When I walked passed it to go to the Round Table Youth Club it always appeared empty.
Chris Harman… My nan and grandad Kit and Brian were the landlords there until it closed. After that they when to the Queen Adelaide until they retired and my mum and dad Doreen and Bill took over from them.
Ann Graves… I used to go passed it, when I went on bus to Ore Secondary School, now known as Hastings Academy.
Chris Baker… Brian Williams, who lived at the end of Priory Road, next to the sweet factory with his Dad Harry and Mum Vera. Brian spent time at the FoW usually downing up to 13 pints!
Merv Kennard… remember it well, we lived in West View. Bus drivers and ticket collectors used the outside toilets.
Carol Paffett… Remember it well
Iain Cobby… Who’s bright idea was it to knock it down and replace it with a Speed Camera?
Colin Jefferys… Before my time ….. but does anybody remember the Pied Piper pub
Marilyn Spence… Interesting read regarding the pub, I was still at school but I bet my dad certainly remembered it
Cindy… I remember the Fortune of War pub , l lived in Lennox Street, I remember my dad going there to meet his fancy bit.
Mick O’Dowd… Straight out the pub onto the road. Not the best position for a pub!
Jenny Power… Nothing was ever rebuilt where it stood.
Chris Baker… Our drummer in The Town Council band, Brian (Bear) Williams, lived at the end of Priory Road, where it joins Mount Pleasant Road. He used to drink there
Steve Cooke… I was too young to drink there but remember it well. I used to go to a course run at Red Lake Girl’s School each Easter in the 60s. It was very snowy one year and I was on the 133 bus travelling home in the afternoon. As we came towards the Fortune of War the bus started to slide. I cannot recall if it was stopping at the pub bus stop or not but anyway, we only just managed to come to a halt before plummeting down the bank (Farley Bank). A wee bit worrying to say the least.
all photos © Dave Trodd
Stephen Ritchfield (vocals and writer), Martin Luckhurst (guitar), Robin Heggie (Bass) and Andy Knight (drums)
Andy Knight… Looked in my diary, the date was Saturday the 18th August 1979 and the PA blew on the first number but obviously was fixed. It looks like one of the first Missing Persons gigs, in fact the first week, we played Six Bells Chiddingly on the Thursday, the Carlisle on Friday supporting Die Laughing and the Ore Centre on the Saturday.
Tim Moose Bruce… Great band. I remember them supporting Die Laughing.
Romaine Fulton-hart… Memories
David Blundell… Uppers On The South Downs!
Dave Nattress…Great band, saw a couple of times and was amazed to see Steve Richfield on vocals. Knocked around with his two sisters – Susan and Clare I think, in a bunch of friends in Bexhill where they all lived – all good clean innocent times and I remember a little blonde haired lad – a few years later he’d grown up and was leading Missing Persons. A long, long time ago. Later doing it myself about the same time we had Robin in The Prisoners and we used to rehearse at Andy’s studio in Fairlight Road. He was local rock royalty even back then.
photos: © Dave Trodd
Barry French, Dave Shirley (hidden), Den Wootton and Roger Carey.
Lucy Pappas… Aw, look at you all! I haven’t seen Den in maybe 50 years! x
Jane Hartley… Reading one of Dave Gemmell’s books at the moment!
Judith Monk… He was great. For a while he wrote the Women’s page in the local Observer.
Stewart Rockett… Trivia notes: David Gemmell was a member of the Hastings Writer’s Group, the UK’s longest existing writing group. He was also their patron until his death. Catherine Cookson was a founder member of the group.
Judith Monk… Stewart, my mother in law Mary Monk was also a member of the group.