robertson street
Exchange Travel shop 22 Robertson Street Hastings 1976
Alan Esdaile.. It was Vickers in 1968…
Photo: Ian Shiner https://historymap.info/Foster_Bros
Pauline Richards… Was that owned by Roger then moved to Queens arcade?
White Rock and Robertson Street Hastings – photos
photos © Hastings Public Library
Bernard Goffredro… What a good idea electric buses I remember them
Carrie Downing-Waite Sawatzky… Busy town in those days
Peter Ellingworth… The then young woman somewhat bemused it seems, looking up at the photographer in the bottom picture looks the split image of my dear late mother.
Alan Esdaile… I was thinking the guy pointing in the first photo, looked like the pier manager Bob Knights?
Peter Ellingworth… The electric trolleybus in the lower photo – taken I would think in the early fifties and before 1956- 57, as that was when the roofs on the buses were painted cream/white, 782 was number 7 in the Hastings fleet. One of twenty AEC double deckers with Weyman bodywork, it entered service with Hastings Tramways in June 1940, lasting until closure under Maidstone and District in 1959. The later batch delivered in 1946-47 were on closure of the much liked Hastings system, sold to other operators such as Maidstone, Walsall and Bradford lasting until 1970.
Peter Houghton… What great photos of the Sea Front The good old day’s
Stuart Moir… photo 2. That’s a really clear image, all brilliantly in focus.
Fishers House Furnishers, 32-33 Robertson Street. 26 January 1967.
photo © Hastings Museum & Art Gallery . https://www.facebook.com/hastingsmuseum
Leigh Mitchell… Did this become Condons?
Alan Esdaile… I think the main shop was nearer the town in Robertson Street but they may have had this one as well? They also have a shop in Cambridge Road at one stage and possibly South Terrace???
Carol Acott… Got our first furniture from there in 1968…wasn’t Condons in Norman Road?
Chris Baker… I worked there for a few months. They were a little further up the road when the shop caught fire! I had been putting up some lighting around the shop but eventually even the police agreed it wasn’t my fault!
Steve Larrabee at Jepsons Robertson Street Hastings in the 1950’s
photo © Jeremy Keen shared from https://www.facebook.com/HAPP1066
Jeremy Keen… “Is anyone still alive who remembers when Steve Larrabee came to Hastings 70 years ago in 1954. This is me with him aged just 7!”.
supplied by: Jeremy Keen
All supplied by Lloyd Johnson
Lloyd Johnson… Steve Larrabee visiting Jepsons in Robertson Street ,Hastings in the 1950s…here are some of the toys etc he was promoting…I remember it as being a very exciting day …..we all got a free Lasso…
Graham Sherrington… WOOOW
Foster Brothers Robertson Street Hastings 1968
Photo: Ian Shiner https://historymap.info/Foster_Bros
Richard Porter… Any pictures of Coopers Greengrocers?
Martin Richter… lol a friend (a WWII re-enactor) was in the pizza place over the road when a young lad tried to kick Fosters window in. my friend went to his car, got his (blank-firing) Colt 1911, called the cops and went over the road. after firing a few blanks at the kid – who had wet themself and was sobbing – he went home
Pauline Richards… Martin, was that when Joe Divito had the pizza place!
David Edwards… I thought Foster Brothers was on the seafront opposite the baths?
Chris Baker… I worked in Fishers for a year or two and it caught fire, one night, while I was playing with The Town Council, (a band). Someone came up and told me the shop was on fire and we had to move anything salvageable down the road to this old shop which you can see on the right hand side of this pic! Memories eh?
Pauline Richards… Had my ears pierced at Dobells in 1970 !
Anyone remember Callow For Radio Hastings?
Martin Richter… 6 watts ? my ears are bleeding
Peter Fairless… Pa Jennings would have turned it up to at least four, Martin.
Stuart Moir… I had one of those no power but a great sound .
Patrick Jeffrey… R H Callow, they had at least one Morris Minor van adorned with directional speakers for public address. They were employed by Guinness Hop Farms to entertain the hop pickers at Bodiam in the 1950’s
Gifford Boyd camera centre, Robertson Street, Hastings. photo by Anthony ‘Nan’ Morland
photo © Anthony ‘Nan’ Morland
Oliver Leonard… That red Peugeot 309 has long been scrapped
Angela Gardner… I bought my camera in the many years ago.
Jeremy Harrison… Very reasonable prices at the time. They sold Russian and East German cameras before the wall came down.
John Mcewen… I got my zenith E in there in the mid 70s. Still got it!
Jeremy Harrison… John, they introduced so many people to serious photography. Doing mail order and advertising in the big magazines I thought GB would last forever.
Chris Meachen… I used to be in there on an almost daily basis, so much so that they would allow me to borrow gear to try out. I still have the cameras & lenses I bought there in the 70’s..
Jim Breeds… Chris, I still have a camera that I was bought from there when I was 8 (1962).
Stephen Moran… me too Jim, I bought a Zenit E and later traded it in for a Pentax ME Super!
Peter Fairless… Stephen, I did exactly the same!
Stephen Moran… Brilliant Peter! I still use my 35mm camera!
Tim Wilcocks… I worked at Gifford Boyd between 1984 and 1986. Can anyone remember which building was the darkroom centre in Claremont, was it No 12?
who remembers Jepsons Robertson Street Hastings?
Alan Esdaile… Who remembers Jepsons? I remember very posh staff, that would give you a dirty look and shout don’t run, WALK, as you teared up the wooden stairs to get to the wonderland of the toy floor at the top.
Pete Fairless… Didn’t you have to go to a cashier with a ticket, pay, then go back to collect your item? Bit like the butchers!
Pauline Richards… Pete, remember that in Mastins
Alan Esdaile… yes I’m sure your right Pete. The person serving you (or should I say the person watching you in case you pinched anything) they wouldn’t take the money but told you to take it to another counter.
Pauline Richards… Yes remember it. It had the most wonderful wooden staircase
Pete Fairless… Which is still there – it’s an ice cream parlour, now Pauline
Marcus J Lamb-Bentley… I still have trains and track. I set it up now and then to clear motors
Ralph Town… I actually bought a 1/72 Spitfire kit by Revell in there.It was moulded in pale blue plastic and was a mk9, I think.
Colin Bell… Have very fond memories of my Nan taking me in there to choose a toy for Christmas. Remember the staircase well.
Fiona Evans…. Wonderful shop
Glenn Piper… Oh yes, loved Jepsons
Roger Carey… I remember Jepsons now you have put it up! The great toy floor via the elevator or stairs, think it had bicycles and scooters as well? Oh yes , stairs, not elevator- just seen that others remember the stairs as well!
Chris Meachen… One of my favourite shops as a child, absolutely loved the place.. Came to appreciate the stationery department downstairs when I got older & interested in art & graphics too..
Nigel Ford… Yes, the staircase, went off both ways (?) but toys to the right(?). I think I got my BAYKO building extra parts there in the early 60’s that weren’t in the standard sets. Never got to get the parts I really wanted though, like MECCANO! Incidentally I recently acquired a catalogue showing that Bayko was made by the Meccano group, which I had not known until then.
Peter Fairless… Wow! I inherited BAYKO from my brothers. It was metal rods and plastic bricks. Not sure where it went, charity shop, probably, like the train set!
Cris Kennard… Father Christmas’s grotto at top of staircase. Me on right with 2 of my sisters.
Dawn Leaney…Oh what a wonderful toy department it had. Up all that grand wooden staircase.. and there it was!! all the dollies, farm and zoo animals of every kind lined up in cabinets. Teddy bears of every size. It seemed magical as a child. I was bought one of the very early Barbies from there in the late 60s,she had long dark hair and clicky knees that could bend. Such lovely memories
Pauline Sims… I remember my Christmas visits there too in the 50s, happy days
Dawn Campbell… Absolutely loved this shop – always brought my Nan a brooch from downstairs every Christmas, with my pocket money – she must have really been fed up with the same thing each year but never showed it, Bless her! As you say the staircase was lovely and I can still remember the smell, loved going in there just to look. Especially upstairs where they also displayed swings and slides. I was always wishing I could have them but sadly lived in a flat.