Disc Jockey advert 1966
Neil Steadman… Wow!!
sixties
Food Hall – Plummers (then Debenhams) Hastings 21st October 1965
who remembers the food hall in Plummers? Remember it well and the first taste of yogurt, which tasted disgusting!
Brigitte Lee… I remember it. In my mind it was under the stairs?
Alan Esdaile… Pretty sure it was in a step down at the back of the entrance floor.
Richard J Porter… My wife would go there with her mother. It was opposite her Father’s Greengrocers, Coopers.
Steve Martin… Worked there early 70’s. It was Debenhams by then. Bonita’s on a Friday night after being paid my wages for the week. £4.50 tops. Good times with the football team on a Sunday. Alan, Simon etc.
Coco Pops… Remember the Wine Shop???
Stonefield Mob Hastings early sixties – more photo’s
supplied by Lloyd Johnson
Lloyd Johnson… The Stonefield Mob’ Hastings early 60s..’The Stonefield Mob’ were local Hastings Ton-Up Boys…we all went to the same schools and they hung out in The PamDor the popular Hastings Coffee Bar above Hepworth the Tailors as we did…There was never any trouble between us…The only problem was they would keep putting Jim Reeves and Don Gibson on the Jukebox and we’d nudge the jukebox to reject those records in favor of Stax,Motown,Chess or the chart records…The PamDor had three rooms,A room where they hung out a room where we hung out and a games room with pinball machines….great times!…
James Johnson… Something very strange about Hastings that supposedly poler groups of youths would hang around together with no problems
Lloyd Johnson… The media stirs the trouble in most cases James…okay you got micky taking but normally it never went any further until the press focused on various groups…
SMART coffee meet No 75 – Friday 18th October 2024
Chris Wood… I’m not being funny but…. Coffee….. not very rock n roll
Mick O’Dowd… Chris, Give it a try you will be amazed!
John Busbridge… You can always get a beer!
Mick O’Dowd… Be there or be square!
Cris and Merv Kennard… We will be there
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!
Hastings night 1960’s
photo © Teresa Arnold. (Hastings photographers) https://www.facebook.com/teresa.arnold1959
Teresa Arnold… Hastings of my childhood at night. 1960s
Eric Harmer… What have they done to our country
Steve Cooke… Eric, Fracked it up, sadly!
Steve Hamilton… I miss those streetlight decorations and the 14p underground swimming baths!
Michael Linskey… Stunning then 
now dull and dingy and looking totally rundown as a seaside town or tourist attraction clearly not everything improves for or better in the future
Patricia Burgess… How I remember it
David Martin… They should have kept the old lights up
Tracy Birrell… How I remember it. Beautiful!
Peter Brazier… Loved it back then our seafront is now a joke!
Graham Sherrington… yep those lights were FAB!!!!!!!
Richard Burks… Ahh the sixties
Huffey’s newsagent, Station Approach, Hastings – 1960
Paul Cullen… Didn’t there used to be a letting agency above there?
Mark Rodrigues… Paul, to the left! I remember seeing the ads in the window. I think you’re right though, it was upstairs.
David Hazleton… an ever such a nice chap used to own/run the shop when i joined the railway in the 1980’s i seem to remember things didn’t go well for him i think he wore a flat cap and always had time for everyone, i was sorry for what happened
Mick Boss… 5 Park Drive and evening Argos please
Matt Thomas…
Shaun Pont… I believe that it was raided by the Obscene Publications Squad in the 70’s.
Patricia Sheridan… Remember this shop used to get sweets and cigarettes from there
Mark Rodrigues…I used to go in there regularly too and would spend time speaking to him and a teacher who used to teach me at St Richards, Mrs Price. Doesn’t reflect what the building looked like, though I wanted to tip my hat to,it as I imagined it was this shop with him as the man in the paper shop in my song, which I later did drawings for…
Bernard Morphew… I worked for the Evening Argus in 1969-72 and went into Huffey’s sometimes twice a day
Ju-ju Davies… I remember the little stair case and going up there with my sister to a letting agency
Jan Warren… Used to go in there a lot when I lived in Middle Street in the early 70s!
Graham Mccallion… I remember those days!
Alan Esdaile… anyone remember, there used to be shops on the left hand side, as you walked to the station?
Bernard Morphew… On the right used to be the Evening News with the Evening Standard at the top of Middle Street.
Steve Thorpe… Dear old Ray Huffey!
Dot Mountford… Steve, he was such a lovely man pity it was demolished for a modern station approach, to a station that looks like a green house, the old victorian station was so much nicer…
Antony ‘Nan’ Morland… A later photo.
photo © Anthony ‘Nan’ Morland
Huffeys Advert…
Eileen MacNaughtan… I would of been 9 years old arriving by train from London and my dad would get a newspaper and something for me.
Round Table Youth Centre Priory Road Hastings with Chris Gentry Discotheque – 30th September 1969
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
Miriam Karlin, St John’s Wood, Chris Gentry – Hastings & St Leonards Charities Association – Hurst Court 27th September 1969
photo © BBC
Remember Miriam Karlin in The Rag Trade…
Pauline Richards… Yes. Blowing a whistle shouting…..everybody out!!
Andre Martin… This Chris Gentry bloke get about – when I think of all the events that we were involved in at some point, and now the organisations just have gone. The town is that much poorer and the young people missing out on so much. Just look at the admission price 2/- wow.
Mick O’Dowd… Hurst Court has gone as well Andre/Chris/Marshall etc.etc.etc
Tim Moose Bruce… Read somewhere that Hurst Court was dismantled and shipped to the States to be put back up. They took down the outer shell and roof and left the rest behind.
The Beatles on Hastings Pier in 1966? It didn’t happen. Fake!
supplied by Chris Thomas
Chris Thomas… Came across this poster while working as a bouncer on the pier in the sixties
Alan Esdaile… Anyone know anything about this poster. We know that The Beatles did not play but did the rest of the bill happen and what took place on the 3rd December?
Archie Lauchlan… Mysterious! And very intriguing
Jim Breeds… Doesn’t the story go that Epstein pulled them from the pier gig because they were asked to be on a TV show?
Stuart Huggett… Doesn’t look entirely convincing to me, slightly doctored? Here you go https://www.beatlesbible.com/…/live-another-beatles…/
Jim Breeds… December 3rd fell on a Saturday in 1960 (too early?) and 1966 (too late?).
Andrew Bantock… Fakey fakey fake fake!
Peter Fairless… Yawn! We’ve had this before. It’s a fake. The poster was for a Christmas show, somewhere, I forget. Someone added the Pier – for a joke, or as a fraud, who knows, or cares? The Beatles were booked for the pier, they got famous, Epstein didn’t honour the booking but sent other acts in their place. Have a nice Beatles Day!
Jim Breeds… They didn’t show because of a rift in the space/time continuum that doomed them to forever search for a Saturday 3rd December in 1966 in a parallel universe. It inspired their song “I’m Cross Across The Universe”.
Gavin Martin… Probably this was a gig promoted by Jeffrey Archer, just before he discovered Joe Cocker.
Mick O’Dowd… What a show line-up if it had happened!
Peter Fairless… It did, Mick, just not here – and not in 1966!
https://beatlesdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Another-Beatles-christmasShow.-2jpg-1.jpeg
Mick O’Dowd… Didn’t we get Billy J Kramer and the Dakotas as a consolation prize?
Alan Esdaile… Did anyone see The Beatles?
Tickets supplied by Jenny Power
Jenny Power… The line up for the pier is exactly the same as the beatles christmas show that i saw at hammersmith Jan 16th 1965 (can be verified by googling..although i always thought i saw the Tornados and not the Yardbirds but everyone else is the same)so i reckon the pier poster was for dec 1964
Robert Searle… I saw this show at the Hammersmith Odeon. Great show, great lineup.
Yardbirds with Eric on his red Telecaster they were brilliant
Mike Raxworthy… Those were the days – lots of top acts on one night – now we get one big star and a support that plays to half the audience while the other half wait in the bar!
Alex Fedorec… Mick O’Dowd, No Hastings got Gene Vincent instead
https://www.sussexexpress.co.uk/whats-on/arts-and-entertainment/beatles-came-close-to-playing-on-a-sussex-pier-79238
Bob Searle… I saw this show at the Hammersmith Odeon
Richard Burks… Hopefully the Sounds incorporated didn’t occur?