Queens Arcade Hastings 1983

 

photos © A Walker

William Hussey… Love that Christmas photo. Says a lot and atmospheric. On the downside, I know that that is you behind that Christmas Tree up a ladder , no helmet . Plus not spraying the block..

Pauline Sims… Is the Arcade still there?

Jay Irwin… Pauline, yes

Pauline Sims… Many thanks Jay (my last walk around Hastings town centre was in the 1980s!)

Pauline Richards… It’s certainly a lot different nowl

Steve Cooke… The good old days when it was a thriving arcade! Should have been controlled and overseen properly with sensible, affordable rents. Other towns and cities are proud of their arcades and respect their shop owners. Ours was left to be plundered and used as a cash cow by property investors.

Nicky Walker… I was told to polish that plaque from my teacher in primary school on a school outing, felt privileged

Mike Waghorne… Remember that arcade

Shona Goobie… the town is a big mess, no clothes shops, it’s dying. I’ve lived here 45 years and I’ve watched it go down hill. It’s dirty and disgusting there is no benches no toilets no town clock, shame on the council

Pauline Sims… Well done Mr Baird

Ian Quinnell… Had to read the Hastings Plaice notice several times to realise it doesn’t say £7.00 but £4.00

Sparrow Baker… If John Logie Baird had known the crap that would come out of it, maybe he would have stopped his experiment

Eric Harmer… What an opportunity missed not to promote this around the world

Nigel Randall… Had breakfast in his pub yesterday

 

 

P M Jackson Queens Arcade Hastings 1975

Louis Comfort-Wiggett… Stallion!

Dave Nattress… Well I sort of remember a Jackson in the arcade. Wondering if it was connected to Peter Jackson’s a men’s clothes shop in Bexhill on the corner of Sackville Road and Wickham Avenue . When I was a lad, the only place we knew of to get half decent gear. was Peter Jackson’s in Bexhill. Otherwise it was Wards and old men’s shops. The Trading Post in Hastings of course for hippie great-coats – ex. fire brigade I think and ex. German army para’s fatigue trousers. “Peter Jackson” in Bexhill used to sell me my Levi 501’s for £3, 2 and 6, shrink to fit style, (this was the only style), buy them a size bigger than you wanted to get a good fit when they shrunk in the wash, wore them in the bath, in the sea, washed them time and time again in the local Laundromat – see Rory Gallagher – there’s a good track , to get them to fade. This would be from about 1968. Also got Levi denim shirts and anything a little bit out there came from Peter Jackson’s.

Mark Jackson… Hi this was first my grandads business then my dads & I worked in them when a teenager – there were shops in Trinity Street, The Arcade, Bexhill & Hailsham.