Regal Cinema St Leonards-on-Sea Mid 60’s

shared  by Chris Perrior. Photo: Nick Prince

Chris Perrior… this image comes courtesy of Nick Prince and cinema treasures web site,it shows the Regal cinema mid 1960’s a decade after it closed ,demolition began 1973 and the office block that replaced it was known as Gundolphus house and then ocean house, in the foreground is the tin building that was the sorting office for Royal mail, with a glimpse of the station forecourt

David Fussell… I remember the empty cinema in the seventies before it was knocked down.

Roger Simmonds… Me too such happy memories!

Mick Knights… I have no idea why but I remember my parents taking me there to see Eddie Calvert. (aka the man with the golden trumpet)

Mick O’Dowd… The building bottom left was the GPO sorting office that my Dad was based at.

John Busbridge… I remember going there!

David Kent… We lived just up the road from here. There was a poster on the front of the cinema that said “Tonight, Syncopating Sandy will attempt to play the piano” – or something very much like it.

Patrick Turner… The Flea Pit in my day

Nigliv… Went there often in the 50s: remember seeing the marvellous ‘Forbidden Planet’ (1956) there. At that time, we also had the Curzon, Roxy Continental, Gaiety, Orion, Ritz, De Luxe.

Kev Perry… I started my job as a postie in that old tin hut,great memories

Charterhouse Hotel 24 Warrior Square St Leonards-On-Sea

 

photos © Rachel Langford-Evans https://www.facebook.com/groups/hastingstlenspicsandvids

Rachel Langford-Evans… My Mum’s family had a hotel in Warrior Square gardens in the early 1970s it was called The Charterhouse hotel and club

Jacqueline Hillier… My Mum and Dad were Regulars and They Had Their Silver Wedding Anniversary Party there in 1967 I myself was only 12 Years Old then but did go to the Party … Very Happy Memories for me as we used to go there quite often seeing the phone number brings back memories aswell we were Hastings 6141 … Honestly Such Happy Memories Im 68 Now but remember it like it was yesturday x

Peter Ellingworth… Photo after Feb 15th. 1971 when the decimal currency was introduced, and no later than 1974 when the local phone system was automated with four digit numbers having 42 added as a prefix.

 

Tramps Disco Club Warrior Square. 1976/1977

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Pete Fairless…..I’m in shock! These belong in the museum, anyway. What a great bit of social history. Not one over eighteen, I’ll bet!

Joe Knight…..looking good Alan!!!!

Eve Neuke….How many nights did I spend there as a foreign 16-year-old student!

Jim Breeds….Whatever happened to Go-Go girls? 🙁 Gosh, Tramps. I didn’t go there very often but that’s another memory bank nudged.

Mick O’Dowd….They went! Always remember you playing Van McCoy’s The Hustle and I have never heard it sound better than at Tramps!

Jeanette Jones……Great memories:)

Peter Pursglove…..That was my last Venue with Paul Casson RIP , we used to pack them in there

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Andre Palfrey-martin collection

Andre Martin…..Just look what you could get for 40p – great value eh Alan ! from Hastings Observer Autumn 1977

Dawn Leaney… Loved Tramps! The 2 girls nearest the camera in the photo in the middle are Karen and Lynn and they were in my class at school at the time this was taken! We were about 15/ 16 ! 🙂 good times!

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The promenade and Warrior Square St Leonards-on-Sea

photo: Phil Sellens https://www.flickr.com/photos/phil_sellens/

Mace Sinden… Yellow was popular that year

John Wilde… Mace, I think the colourist was colour blind.

Kev Towner… John, Kodachrome

Pauline Richards… What year roughly?

Peter O’Donnell… I wish it looked like that

Stuart Moir… Not a sign of p**s h***s

Clive Garrard… 1960 Pauline, that is my guess

Pauline Richards… If its 1960 then the green covered item next to phone box is my granddad s sit on weighing scales!

Christine Swain… Pauline, how lovely I was going to say late 50s early 60s By the clothes xxx

Averil Mangan… Great memories of wonderful holidays with family and friends.

Cilla Ball… Going by the cars I’d say late 50’s early 60’s. It looks lovely

Trina Ransom… Does anyone remember the fish you could ride on to bottle alley, I think it was a dolphin?

David Wallis… Trina, Jim the Jolly Fish

Trina Ransom… David, I remember my nan letting me go on it

Becky Ozdamar… Before street sign clutter!

Jayne Elizabeth… Those were the days

Julie Findlay-jones… Jayne, yes it was so much nicer

Robert Brand… Look how good the roads are then!

Reece Burton… If only it was like the picture now

Ken Robinson… Looks lot cleaner

Ellis Waghorne… Looked nice then. Now it’s a dump

Mike Higson… Remember it so well

Matt Freeborn… When it was nice

Sara Stevens… Oh wow a very very old photo of hastings seafront

Carole Watson… Shame its not like that now.

Dean Stretton… It looks better then than it does now.

Peter Ellingworth… Taken early to late fifties latest I would think- note the then newish black coloured Ford on the Warrior Square lawn side, amongst the older cars, were these not first introduced in 1952-3 ? …I’ve seen this photo somewhere before, has this one been tinted/colourised ? One giveaway would be to able to more clearly identify the buses in the background : pre-June 1st. 1959 and it would most likely be the trolleybuses. Of the three shown, the middle one has the small rounded corners of the rear platform window which they had. The traction standards that carried the overhead wiring are still in place (mainly opposite the lamp -posts and in the distance by Marine Court) – but these were not all removed until well into 1960, ( three still remain: two in the Silverhill Beaufort Rd. depot and one at the top of the High St.), although I think the sea front was made first priority of removal for asthetic reasons, so it could still be sometime post June 1959 but not, I would think, into 1960.

Wendy Lovell… Great memories, I was living in Warrior Square in the early 60’s.

Peter Ellingworth… Another clue is that all the bus roofs are light coloured – until around 1956 the trolleybuses were still in Hastings Tramways livery with dark green roofs, whereas the M&D motorbuses were light cream, so I would say post 1956 but pre1960. The statue of Queen Victoria, almost out of sight on the Warrior Square side of the road, still sports a hole made by cannon fire from a low flying Nazi plane on one of their infamous hit-and-run raids in WW2. Is this a colourised version of one of Judge`s postcards?

Jim Breeds… This postcard is a colourised version. The artist colouring it would have had no idea what the real colours were, so the colour of the buses is irrelevant to dating. Look how many dresses, shirts, cars, even a boat, are all the same shade of mustard yellow! The same shade of pink also appears on cars, telephone box, coats, a roof, etc

Peter Fairless… They got the sky, sea, grass and pavement right, though, Jim.  Lucky guess?

Jim Breeds… I think it was originally a colour photo but they chose to tart it up before printing it. I’ve seen that on some cards in my collection.

The Marlborough Hotel Warrior Square St Leonards-On-Sea 1972

Angela Frances Gardner… I worked there very briefly in 1977 when it catered for people from hospitals

Ian Johnson… Played my sound there

Roy Winchester… Ian, good days Hastings is crap today

Peter Fairless… What was the disco in the basement?

Judy Atkinson… Pete, I remember going to that once – 1st time I drank a pint in one! Would have been around 1974

Peter Fairless… Can you remember the name,

Mick O’Dowd… Wasn’t it Tramps?  Alan played there.

Peter Fairless… Should have known that, went there often enough! Now, it’s a Doctors…

Nicola Dobson… My mum and aunt worked there years and years ago

Pat Burgess… was it the Edinburgh then

Pete Brazier… Worked there as a night porter

Georgie Fewell… I used to work there

Stuart Moir… Played there for a private function with CP

Tony Hughes… I remember this place so well

James Johnson… My first job, waiter 1980

Bob Searle… Played there with Easy Street

Pat Burgess… Worked in the Warrior reception in mid 60’s till it closed

Jacqui Murphy… I had an evening job as receptionist late ‘74 early ‘75

Linda O’leary… I had a Saturday job there when I was teen

Mick Barrow… Used to hold the RNLI agms there

Hastings CC Archive… Was in the scouts and a group of us around this date went to push a group of old people along the prom in their wheelchairs. It was FACup final day so everyone else watched the match. I hated football but ended up spending a great afternoon making up a bridge four with three of the old ladies. I loved Bridge and Whist – I was obviously an odd child

Mick Boss… Used to hold the towns dart comps there.

Trevor Beeching… Remember the darts there

The Warrior Hotel, Warrior Square, St Leonards – advert 1972

Richard Moore… Resident band from late 70’s to March 83 when it went ito liquidation. Many happy memories there and wonderful functions.

Virginia Davis… Went to a couple of firms Christmas parties there in late 70s.

Merv Kennard… Did a few student discos there in the mid 70s.

Keith Blizard… Had our wedding reception there half the guests had food poisoning

Perri Ann Haste… I can remember working here one summer in the late 70’s

Mandy Taylor… I worked there .. chamber maid in the 80′ .. hard work but loved it ..

Ian Johnson… Played the sound there

Mick Barrow… Used to have the Lifeboat AGM there early 70s

Pat Burgess… Memories I worked in reception from 1965 till it closed in 67. Are you sure the date is correct, as I think Viceroy closed it on 67.

Alan Esdaile… Hi Pat, the publication that this ad came from was 1972 but I suppose its possible that they reused the ad from an earlier publication?

Paul Coleman… I had my marriage reception there – a long long time ago.

Gary Benton… It certainly didn’t close until the 70s as I remember going with my parents several times to eat in the restaurant called the Warrior Tent. If it had closed in 67 I would have only been 6 and too young to remember it.

Heather Wilson… Went there for dinner dance on our wedding day in 1980 .so it was open then x

 

FM Disco & Pirate Disco with Mervin K (Merv Kennard) 1974 – 1976

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supplied by Merv Kennard

(1) & (5) FM Disco – British Rail Club Warrior Square 1974, (2) Pirate Disco – The Kings Head Old Town 1976, (3) The Carlisle 1975, (4) Beckley Village Hall 1976.

Merv Kennard… White art work was done by a artist friend called Steve and cost me £5. Yellow signage I did myself.