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early photo of Plymlimmon Road Hastings

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shared from: Darren Griffin https://www.facebook.com/darren.griffin.5648

Darren Griffin… Plymlimmon Road, so many shops, looks like a high street.

Alan Esdaile… Remember doing a paper round for’ Frank’s’

David Martin… I find that hard to believe, when was Plynlimmon Road ever that long & straight?

Matt Thomas… I remember all the small independent shops around Hughenden Rd as well

Pauline Richards… I did Beneys!

Liz Dianto… Looks too wide to be Plynlimmon Road

Jeremy Harrison… I lived at No.35 in the 1980’s. It had a large window and was allegedly a former haberdashery shop. Next door was a former bakery with ovens intact. However, the street in the photo doesn’t look like Plynlimmon Road to me!

Bernard Goffredo… Definitely Plynlimmon Road the steps on the right just between the shops going down to St Mary’s terrace and I remember shops being there when I was young also further along on the corner of Alpine Road was a green grocers. The corner of Gordon street was a sweet shop and if you turned into that street there were shops and a barbers.Going back the other way was a hardware shop and on the slope down to vicarage road was a cobblers, It is wide when you don’t have cars parked either side

Tanya Eldridge… Yes It’s the top of Plymlimon Road, looking south from the top of the alleyway. Modern day view in the website link.

Mick Knights… That’s what a pavement looks like before a fibre optic company wrecks it!!

Ralph Town… I used to live there. We lived in a house that was once a bakery. It was broken up into a shop and our house was the only one in the road with a garage. My dad let it out to a family down the road for him to put his Austin 1100 in. It’s been broken up again since and is now 2 small houses with no garage.

Prince McBride and his Smuggler’s Band – St Clements Caves.1960

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supplied by Jim Breeds. Source: 1960 Hastings Corporation There Is A Cavern In The Town

Jim Breeds… Prince McBride and his Smugglers’ Band. Seen performing in St. Clements Caves, this photo is scanned from my 1960 Hastings Corporation booklet “There Is A Cavern In The Town”. The book says “The sound of music in the caves is a particularly happy addition, and Prince McBride’s Smugglers’ Band provides melody that fits very pleasingly and naturally into its environment. The large main cavern is now a dance floor, lit by lanterns and with sitting-out places all around. With its surrounding caverns and alcoves, this part of the caves lends itself readily to its new purpose, and thousands of visitors have enjoyed the novelty of subterranean dancing there.”  “subterranean dancing”. Is that where Dylan got the ideas for Subterranean Homesick Blues?

Janine Anne Hemsley… This is great stuff. Worked with his son Alan. Alan played drums for the Ted Crouch Band .

Matt Thomas… Is this the same Prince McBride who would in the late 80’s/early 90’s would be entertaining upstairs in White Rock Theatre cafe on the organ?

Janine Anne Hemsley… It is Matt. Also the ‘Sunlounge’ , now Azur. Sunlounge would have been late 60s early to mid 70s.

Kim Abbott-Farrant…. Sun lounge was also with Gordon Rider. My grandmother Marjorie Chantler played the piano for them for years there.

Alan Esdaile… Janine & Kim, here’s Prince McBride and Gordon Rider in an advert for the Sun Lounge Easter 1972.

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Chrissie Daniels… Hi everyone. I am the manager at Smugglers Adventure and am asking anyone with any pictures they are happy to send me and have displayed at the Caves to drop me an email on chrissied@bluereefaquarium.co.uk. Hoping to collate them all and make some signage with some Caves history. Any tales, information etc anyone has would be greatly received. Thanks for your help!

Chris Baker… My Mum Brenda Baker was an occasional singer with Prince McBride.

Angel pub – St Mary’s Terrace Hastings 1974

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Madeline Reade… They ran the Pump House before moving to The Angel. Lovely couple.

Angela Frances Gardner… This was a brilliant local pub. Many happy memories.

Simon Fraser… Red barrel ugh!

Linda O’leary… Awesome!!

Allan Mitchell… Good times!

Ian Johnson… Used to drink there way back

Kevin Carlyon… My group and I were banned from there for being Witches! Needless to say the landlord went bust and the pub closed down%! Happy Full Moon.

Malcolm Robinson… love it. I would have backed you up Kevin.

 

 

Jeff Hull & Frank Jasper -The Angel St Marys Terrace, Hastings 1985

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Alan Esdaile… Any reason why Skinflint didn’t turn up?

Phil Gill… They were too tight to pay for the petrol.

Stuart Moir… Great venue for playing with your shoulders touching on the stage area

Tony Court-holmes… yet another good old pub on the west hill not one open up there now and think how many there were

Hastings memories from Paul Black.

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all photos supplied by Paul Black

Paul Black… 1955. The picture postcard of the West Hill, Hastings was sent by a cousin and she wanted me to remember where I was christened – All Saints Church. The next pictures are from a trip my brother and I, and our wives took in 2005. The 4 people on Hastings Beach are my sister-in-law and my brother from Texas and my wife and I.

Paul Black… In the beach picture, I am finishing up my cup of cockles. I remember them vividly as a child as well as Hastings Rock, and of course, the little train ride. Thanks Alan for posting these. I hope people enjoy them. I loved our trip “back home”.