sixties
Who remembers make your own record in 3 minutes booths?
image from Waterloo Station, photographer: unknown
Alan Esdaile… I seem to remember messing around in one on Brighton Pier.
Sandra Cunningham… I did one, can’t remember where. Thought I was Mary Hopkins back in the day, those were the days my friends
Dennis Torrance… Great laugh always ended up could not move for body’s and choice language lol never get released
Sue Strong… Yes is that the one on Hastings pier, if so I done Stones song on one, was about -3 at the time
Alan Esdaile… I think the photo is from Waterloo Station, Sue.
Brigitte Lee… I still have the records
Leigh Mitchell… I remember them, but never used one!
Steve Fox… I have one of me and my sister Di Veness, can’t remember what we sang but it was cute!
Alan Pepper… I made one in the late sixties at Battersea Funfair . Wish I’d kept it though ! Hilarious experience.
Marilyn Spence… Yes did one once. Would not have a clue what happened to it. Would have done it in Hastings and have no clue what I sang
Paul Gray… My sister and I recorded Grocer Jack in one at London Zoo in 1967. Wish I still had that record.
Garry Wonfor… Oh yes, …..I recorded “Penny Lane” on Great Yarmouth seafront!!!……I couldn’t understand why I wasn’t a teenage heart-throb when I left that booth, complete with my freshly pressed acetate ….I swaggered back to Mrs. Gregory’s B+B, in Nelson Road South, chewing imaginary gum, but not one girl asked me for my autograph!!!!……absolutely gutted!!…..fame can be fickle sometimes!!!
Carmen… Marilyn, Myself and my friend made one around 1968-1969 in the Waverley Station Edinburgh l lived in Fleshmarket Close then we sang “Cookaburra Sits in the old gumtree “ which is very strange as l now live in Australia. I do not know what happened to that record .
Chasers and The Scheme – The Cobweb 7th Dec 1968
supplied by Sarah Harvey
Sarah Harvey… Another one of those obscure bands I know nothing about.
Robert Searle… The Chasers from Chase Cross Romford Essex.
Alan Esdaile… I don’t remember them Sarah but thanks to the nudge from Robert I found this… http://www.allmusic.com/artist/the-chasers-mn0000764218
Robert Searle… Len Tuckey became Suzi Quatros lead guitarist in her backing band.
Pete Fisher… and they married in 1976
Rebecca… My dad Alan Couch was one of The Chasers, known at the time as Algy.
Canterbury Tales plus The Suspect – Hastings Pier 4th January 1969
source & info: Kent MusicBiz
Mark Dean Ellen, Bernie Hagley, Nigel Gilchrist and John Wheels. Trevor Horn(Buggles/Yes) joined Canterbury Tales later when Bernie left.
John Warner… I see my old mate Dave Sutch up there at number 3. We became friendly in the late 60’s when he lived at Pinner. Sad loss when he died.
Sarah Russell… My dad is John Wheels (Wheals) and i am so pleased to see this. Thank you
Lord Caesar Sutch and The Roman Empire – Hastings Pier 24th December 1966
photo source: http://storyofsavages.blogspot.com/2010/10/lord-caesar-sutch-roman-empire-december.html
Ben Gallop… Is that richie blackmore 3rd one in i know he played with lord sutch if so did he play the hastings pier does anyone know
Alan Esdaile… Looks like him
Lloyd Johnson… Richie Blackmore was in The Savages when we saw them on the Pier in the 60s. Melvyn Grant, Lynn Grant and Kenny Comfort would remember for sure…
John Washington… Christmas Eve 1966, Hastings Pier Ballroom, Lord Caesar Sutch and the Roman Empire – Ritchie Blackmore on guitar. Opening band was The Manor at the last minute because the Adam Lee Set was not available
Hammonds Toy Shop – Marina Court St Leonards who remembers the window train set?
shop & photo source unknown but Hammonds was similar
Colin Bell asks Who remembers Hammonds Toy Shop, where you put a penny in the window slot to make the train go round?
Alan Esdaile… Remember it well. Anyone got a photo?
Martin Richter… anyone got a penny? i think the coin-slots were still there the last time i was there?
Yvonne Cleland… My mum ALWAYS had a penny to spare for this when we lived at Marina. Magic xxx
Peter Fairless… Yes, used to be an add on to the regular Christmas trip to see Kings Road lights. A walk down to the front to see the train and then walk back up to Kings Road and some sweets from Woolworths!
Steve Cooke… Loved it. Great shop and always a grand window.
Bernard Goffredo… Loved that when I was a kid
Steve Fox… Oh yes.
Judie Struys… I do indeed. My bus stop was just outside x
Andy Clarke… I also remember the toy shop at Silverhill had one that took 2p to get it going.
Steve Thorpe… Remember Hammonds, I put £1 per week from my paper round on account and eventually paid for a train set!
Alan Esdaile… one penny! and how exciting and happy we were to watch it go round.
Martin Richter… bus fare to my nan’s and her *magic cupboard* was a ha’penny
Stephanie Blackledge… Oh yes! Happy days
Tim Moose Bruce… Toy shop called Arbours (later called Wonderful Wilsons) in Western Rd Bexhill had a coin operated train set in its window.
Angela Frances Gardner… It was 4 old pence when I was a child in the mid 60s.
Josie Lawson… Is that the toy shop I think my parents took me in just before Christmas one year. I think it was the only toy shop there . I loved it.
Nicola Dobson… Loved it put a penny in the slot
Jon McCallion… Yes remember it wel
Cris Kennard… Gosh that brings back memories mum always had spare 1d.
Tony Court-holmes… yes very well
Hi Fi Discotheque High Street Hastings – 23rd December 1967
John Gale… Hard to believe that existed when you see the size of the gap left there after the fire
Alan Esdaile… used to be packed in like sardines!
John Gale… so I hear, just a bit before my time
Jon McCallion… It’s where it all started Alan as you would remember, I remember Fiona she invited me for the band.
Linda McGregor… It was nothing like a discotheque when I used to go ’76-’79
Who remembers Graham Kerr The Galloping Gourmet?
Nick Prince… Yes, he ended up in very poor health from eating far too many of his own recipes…. didn’t he cook everything in butter or brandy? Lol
Chris Jolly… Floyd as well! Let’s have a little splash of wine, haha…
Nick Prince… Floyd just died of drink. It made great television though.
Jan Warren… He liked a drink!!
Heidi Snape… Oh wow! That has just taken me right back to my childhood! Loved watching it! X
Andre Martin… I was told that he served with the British Army at one time in The Army Catering Corps [ACC] and then later he moved to Canada. Those were the days when you did not wall to wall cooking programmes in the schedule and he was always a very flambount character.
Andy James Long… ‘a quick slurp’ was his catch phrase as I recall!
Will Cornell… He pronounced his name “Care”, right? Deborah pronounced it “Car”, and everyone else I know with the name, it’s “Cur”. Go figure.
Chris van Rock… Yes …. he promoted vegetarian health back when it was virtually unheard of , turning his back on his style of cooking on his tv program full of fats and creams and dairy…his beliefs were laughed at even by his producer wife who suffered from ill health in later life …. he was groundbreaking in healthy eating and veganism
Jonathan Mendenhall… I remember him on TV very well…I was only very young even then thought he was a bit too smarmy..use to grab someone out of the audience and he almost “oiled” every time he took a taste of his completed dish…one of those 1970 TV “gems..”
Carol Ann Bolton… He was SO annoying.
Gerry Fortsch… He liked a drink so he can’t have been all bad.
Tara Reddy… I used to watch this with my grandma and wish I was in the audience and that I would get picked to taste the food!! X
Kev Carleonis… Yep. I was a kid then.
Nick Webb… I have one of his books lol
Jenny Morgan… I remember him drinking a glass of wine and picking a woman from the audience to share his meal- what a flirt!! Great though..
Robin Gibb in train crash, back from Hastings November 1967
Eric Harmer… Didn’t he live in Icklesham for a while ?
Barry Newton… Married to an Icklesham girl, Molly, Eric. l knew her sister. We used to get donations from the Bee Gees for raffle prizes, signed LP album etc
Paul Phillips… I use to work with her brother Pete Hullis at Hollingsworths
David Edwards… He went out with the daughter of a bricklayer from there
Mick O’Dowd… Molly actually lived in Icklesham when I lived there. A few years later there was a charity auction at the Village Hall and one of the lots was one of Robin’s satin tour jackets. It didn’t sell and I was offered it but declined as it wouldn’t fit me.
Eric Harmer… Tragedy
Julie Davies… My sister was married to Molly’s nextdoor neighbor in Icklesham they were selling some of the stage clothes and my mum bought one of Barry Gibbs jackets from them. This was around 1977.
Andy Qunta… Round about 1973, I think, I had a job picking blackberries. A lady on the other side of the bush was talking about her son-in-law, Robin from The Bee Gees. I mentioned I was in a band called Factory. She said if I gave her a tape she would pass it along. Eventually we got a letter from their record company, thanking us for it, but explaining we weren’t quite what they were looking for. Very nice of Molly’s mum, and Robin Gibb, for trying to help out some guy in a blackberry field!
Julian Deeprose… Blackberry Fields Forever
Sandra Prior (was Spencer) … My cousin Richard Spencer was killed in the Hither Green train crash, aged 21, very sad.
Julie Davies… Paul Phillips did you have a brother called Bertie?