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- 1980s footage of Hastings & St Leonards in Town Centre, Old Town, Ore, Silverhill, East and West Hill, Seafront, West St Leonards, Warrior Square etc.
POI to me was Fads (Wallpaper, Paints, Tiles etc), Halfords (when they moved across the rd next to Gamleys), Gamleys, Frenches (Black & White or Colour TV's and VHS video recorders for rental), the old cricket ground before Priory Meadow shopping centre was born.
Vehicles: Austin Allegro, Vauxhall Viva, the "NEW" Ford Escort MK4 with modern 5 speed gearbox and heated rear window.
Watching this recording is a very emotional experience for me. Because (a) I lived and worked in Hastings from 1969 to 1971 and (b) my father played cricket up till the Priory ground was closed - you can see him in this video bowling
I am subscriber when you get a bit of free time can we have a chat about hastings and the like please.
Those beautiful houses overlooking the the old cricket pavilion, now overlook the rear end of a multi storey car park. Well done Hastings council!
I was born in one of those houses! 15 Devonshire road! Lived in No 14! Born in 2946
1946 !!!!
I remember the bootsales before they knocked it down.
3 almost criminal acts in Hastings.
1) Pedestrianising George Street and stripping it of its character, turning it into a refuge for tattooed idiots.
2) Allowing the pier to fall into disrepair, the dodgy way it ended and the failure to rebuild it into a style suiting the surroundings and history. I'm not happy about the new plans for a super modern style, although I suppose it's better than nothing.
3) Demolishing the Cricket Ground. What were they thinking of? The last thing Hastings needed was more shops of the same type.
What does that mean, sorry?
Ruined it. At least they should have just stopped all traffic but left the road as it was. Looks horrible now, to what it was, in my opinion. Don't even get me started on what happened to the pier!!!
That what happens when you believe in the Tory lie
Hasting council has always been utterly corrupt and incompetent they have over the years destroyed that town
Thoroughly agree with you. The corrupt HBC allowed this lovely town to be butchered. Its individuality has been ripped up. I was born in Hastings before the founding of the NHS. I’ve lived in different places but have ended up back in hastings. I was in time to take photos of the diggers destroying the cricket ground…….,,,itwas soul destroying watching the carnage. Going back to the. 70’s the Albert Memorial was knocked down……..the excuse was that the two arson attacks which had in fact just cracked the the clock face. Truth was it was in way of 5he pedestrianisation of the town centre. It was one of Hastings “mystery fires” which seem to take place when HBC are involved. Latest one wa# the old Saturdays night club. HB.c had been denied permission to demolish it to incorporate it into their project adjoining it. Strangely it went up in smoke a week later!! Just think, a building that had stood empty for years self ignited one evening!!!
Sorry, I’m really on a rant but this marvellous video has made its way straight to my heart. Having destroyed our green space which was the Central County Cricket Ground, some bright spark thinks it a good idea to “green” the town, rerouting bus services etc, at tremendous cost and of course liable to flood in the same way the cricket ground did on occasion. Sorry folks, I’ll stop!!!!!
32:58 my mum in the red skirt with my dad leaning on the wall next to her ☺️
Thank you for this absolute gem of a film. I live in Hastings. A town let down by politicians and frankly incompetent planners.
Same here. Looking back And now what a mess it is very sad indeed makes me cry
The cricket pitch was owned by a lovely man who left it to Hastings Borough Council in his will provided they always kept it as the cricket pitch he loved. Obviously the will was overturned, ungreatful people. They could have at least put a nice marina in there, but no they had to build a monstrosity of a horrible shopping precinct.
WOW...WOW....!!!!! So brilliant!! My home town how I remember it as a teenager! Thanks for this!
Lived here and left in 1980. Was in a children’s home Guestling house amongst others. Great times. Thanks for the video
Love Hastings but growing up in 1984 Hastings was way better than working in 2022 Hastings🤣
Wow, I had no idea anybody had commented on this video until now. So glad you like it as much as me. I lived in Hastings (Perth Road, Silverhill) from 1979/1980 to 2001 at 23, when i moved to scotland. Im really pleased it's not just me that is affected by Hastings and now lack of Hastings-ness for homesick me. It's so heartening to see posts on 1066 forums from people round the world saying they miss Hastings... take a look, google 1066 hastings guestbook
It makes me proud. :cry:
Very strange watching this, like looking through a screen into the past as if it still happens somewhere. At 0:04:51 the sign I painted over St Andrews Market. At 0:27:57 my dad beeps to the camera in a Cortina I think he had borrowed. I have my arm out of the window. At 0:29:52 John Woolloff, wearing a yellow t-shirt pushes someone away from him. Someone, possibly Nick Stott, sits down next to him. At 0:29:13, the late John Leskew speaks and the camera pans round to him a few seconds later.
Thanks for posting this. It was definately filmed in 1988/9, that's when Hellbound : Hellraiser came out at the cinemas. My Great Aunty lived at St Leonards, I wish I could remember on which road! Very happy memories! I just posted on youtube our 8mm cinefilm of one of our day trips to visit Aunty, the Sun Lounge Marine Cafe which was our yearly haunt. We would spend the day with a picnic in the sheltered benches on the seafront right nearby. Salmon and cucumber sandwiches, almond slices and later, a strawberry mivvi. Aunty would dance in the sun lounge regularly. I remember the organ in there, it was awesome! I wanted to have a go hahaha. Love Hastings!
There's a shot at the end of Queen's road zooming in on an some posters advertising Hastings Beer Festival 1989 ... That's usually held at the end of June so I'm guessing it's a sunny June day. 23C and all the 'Astings people are out in their vests and shorts. Love it!
Sacrilege the Hastings council allowing the destruction of the fantastic building in Albert Street, (36 mins 16 secs ) can never be replaced , also the Memorial , the focal point of Hastings , not to mention the famous cricket ground and the grandeur hotel that was pulled down and replaced by Tesco's and superseded by the indoor market ,
True, that was an impressive building, but you've got to admit that the post-war brutalism was an obscenity.
Thanks for sharing this video as its fascinating as i lived in Hastings in the 80s theres a lot of long lost landmarks+ shops* that sadly no longer exist + many i had totally forgotten abt until i watched this video.I was living there from 1978 right through the 80s + into the 90s and beyond... and there seems to be a lot more traffic around than there is now.I dont particularly like the shopping centre but i cant name any shopping centre i do like but i have seen worse.
What was criminal + stupid on the part of the town planners was the demolition of the tall victorian building opposite the town hall opposite the cinema.A landmark building + 2 more commercial properties just to widen a short stretch of road.What you have now is a dismal dead lifeless space with 2 sad looking kiosks.Pure stupidity + all about cars and traffic.Also removing the walls around the individual traffic/road islands at the memorial area so now its not somewhere to sit on the walls and watch everything go by and meet up with friends which i always used to do in the 80s so its another non-space.Stupid council
*Shops like that weird old fashioned record shop on queens Road on the corner that always had that weird smell + also Huckells clothes shop where all the casuals in the 80s went+Stylus Records+Huffeys Newsagents by the station that i never went into although in hindsight i wish i had.
Everything was much simpler back in them days
Thank god for on-line shopping. The noise! But nice footage. Thumbs up and hitting that red button. Come visit when you have a chance. And thanks for this.
Heartbreaking....look what they done to our town,ma.
They've demolished the tacky post-war brutalist eyesores. Well done to them!
This is lovely, I was born in ST Leonard’s hospital, in 1965,
My Mum and Dad lived with my Nan and Grandad, Nellie and Eric who ran the Lansdowne hotel on the seafront for a few years
Hilda and Harold (I think that was their names ran the hotel beside that!), loved the green in front of the hotels there! Plus the stone lion outside!
Visited Hastings historical society about six years ago now and spoke to a gentleman behind a desk, he was very nice and said that he remembered the Lansdowne hotel having a good reputation, was a lovely visit, (the hotel let me and my Mum and Dad in to have a Quick Look around! So lovely and thoughtful of them! Thankyou for the memory of it! Hoping that you do well😘)
hastings town centre is really booming in this video compared to how it is now makes it look like a ghost town now!
Originally moved to Hastings when I was 12 from Surrey. Just been speaking to an old friend from the 80's and now we both live in other places in our late 50's. This is where I started my music career that is still going today. Great times at the Crypt and Saturdays, many of my mates ended up driving those little busses and there where plenty of them. Great memories of some great times, thanks for posting this (bit late I know)
So apart from Sketchley dry cleaners, were there any any shops that hadn't moved or were open ?
Just reminds you , that you never appreciate what you've got until it's gone
That is so true. I lived in Hastings from 18 months old (1980 - 2001), before moving to Scotland and really miss it.
We have a tendency to remember a former marraige by just the honeymoon night. Dont forget you had to split for good reason.
sunumra good point.
Mark, I think I know you mate. What schools did you attend in Hastings?
sunumra I was at St Paul's from about 1981 to 1987??, then Grove school. I lived in Silverhill.
The original Top Shop building to make way for a road was a beautiful building. What a shameless act all in the name of progress. Top Shop were vacant from the town for a while then returning and then closing in 2019. Now gone altogether.
Great to sit here in Perth, Western Australia, and watch places that as a kid were very important to me (albeit in the 60s) Was hoping to see The Disc Jockey Plus One - home of Big Al, but that was earlier I guess. Thanks for uploading. Mike (Tingle)
I'm the same Mike, brought up in Hastings and moved to Perth, oddly enough - except the Perth I now live in is the one in Scotland. :)
Just been reading an article an article on Big Al and DJ+1 , unfortunately a sad ending .
@@nicnak4475 I may have read the same article unfortunately. He just couldn't function without DJ sadly. So sad.
As an early 2000s kid and living in Hastings since birth I can sure say I wish I was an 80s kid. Also trying to recognise the roads.
Wow Mark and that's before the online retail boom. What's it like now? Being Coastal it no doubt had some golden years. I suspect going further back than the 70's. There are some impressive old buildings and pavilions mind you. All in all a very interesting place with much older history to boot. Good footage.All the best. Mark
Hi Mark. I now live in Scotland, but when I visited Hastings last year, It looked much cleaner than it used to. Like many other towns though, the number of smaller retailers seem to be in decline. I love the internet, but not for it having a negative impact on our town centres the way it has, sadly.
I agree Mark. I try and still use the high street. I mean I've just purchased some new straps for my hammock and insoles off Amazon. I had to go cheap. I can't afford high street prices a lot of time. It's so sad the economic model we have. Still, I will always use the high street for the odd thing. Good insight. Take care....
Thanks for the chat Mark. All the best. I'll keep an eye on your videos from now.
That's very OK Mark. I like the dialogue on youtube. If you upload I'll do the same.
My parents had the Clarence pub, from 1982 to 1985
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Thanks.
Vintage and very cool. I loved the 80s. Fellow creator here stopping by to watch, like & subscribe to show support of your channel.
You should see if you can digitally enhance this. So glad that someone back then took the time to do this. It's how i remember it. .. born in 1983 there
When shops made profits wuth little effort compared to now a days
Love this video, I have lived in and out of the area, but still work here for nearly 40 years, in the days before we had the parking enforcement!!! And you could park within reason without fear of a ticket back then!
I remember them days. It seems like another world back then. You would very rarely ever see traffic wardens, now they are everywhere.
Kimmy
@@MM0SDK St Thomas' Rd Hastings is shown in a Crime Watch vid I have just seen from 1983 - it seems better then than now, but unchanged amazingly !!!!
Wow very interesting to see how was it in 1980s and compare with how was it in Soviet Union at that time :)
I was born in a flat above the currys shop in Queens Street
Great Video .. Never been to this place but watched it all still, i like looking back in time .. btw the year is July 1989 .. saw it on a poster 31:50
britishwhizkid Thanks. Glad you liked it. What I would do to be able to go back 100 years for the day, out shopping. It's seeing the shops that do it for me. :)
Guessing this to be around 1988, from what another commenter wrote on here. £16.98 per month to rent your TV and video from Granada is about £47 today. Value! Even though Hastings isn't teeming with people in this video, it's certainly a lot busier than nowadays. Probably down to to there being no such thing as the Internet and online shopping back in the day.
Thank you for the video lived in Hastings all my life I found it’s so upsetting Hasting has aways been a bit rundown but aways love it so sad Hastings Council has a lot to answer
Was this filmed in one go or over a period of time? It strange that there are so many people I know in one film.
Hi Mark- I'm a news producer for 5 News... have you an email address I can contact you on? I'd love to use some of this video for a piece I'm working on? Thanks
This must be 1989 as that poster with Big Daddy states Friday 23rd June. 1989 was the only 80's year where this date fell on a Friday.
If nothing else this shows the "planning" efforts of the council around this time were criminal. Those responsible for Priory Meadow, the destruction of the cricket pitch and pedestrianisation of the town centre aka suck the life out of it and fill it with wankers should be hung out to dry. Communities everywhere are realizing the only way to cleanse these carbuncles is tear it all down and get it back to how it was!
Agreed! The only good thing to come of it was getting Marks & Spencers moved. I detested that place as a kid. It was always scorching hot inside, all year round. If you had to go upstairs into the clothes bit, by the time you left the shop, the clothes would be too big for ya! Great weight loss routine...lol.
i have notice Panda Hire is now the turret grill , From Vans To Beefburgers XD
FYI: I couldn't stay to watch it all but I did watch 46 mins and 55 seconds.
Thank you.
I had forgotten how destitute things had gotten. Practically every store had a going out of business sign- even Top Shop. You cant blame the gypos for the caravan culture, they were the only ones left to sell the used caravans to.
1989...
Thanks for the video. I was in Hastings in 1989 and this video brought back good memories.
When I first came to Hastings as a young boy in the 1960s, the town had real character. This excellent footage is taken some time into the start of the "decline". I missed much of this period of the town's evolution. "Losing" the cricket ground (the Memorial, etc.) was very sad.
The loss of the cricket ground was regrettable; I thought that it would have been best if they'd put the shopping centre where Safeway is and incorporated Safeway into it. The pedestrianisation of the town centre was a very good thing; I was a bus driver in Hastings in the 1980s and struggled through those motor vehicle cluttered streets with the blue and yellow mini-buses and Bristol VRs. Lots of my favourite shops have gone especially Olio Books in Robertson Street and many others too.
I would probably have been on your bus once, as used them quite a bit as a kid back then.
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Thank you for the upload , must have been filmed in the summer of 1988, Hastings has changed so much since then and not just for the better ,Town centre now just mostly Barbers , vape shops and nail bars real dump now .
Great video. I moved from London to St.Leonards in 1988. Brings back some memories! I'd forgotten what Hastings and St. Leonards looked like back then. Do you have any vids of the seafront at all?
I don't really know St Leonard's, but I am very nostalgic for FADS.
Supported you! Found you on i am a creator playlist. :)
Huckells was a very good mens clothes shop. Nothing like it now. Some empty shops making way for new road layouts. One thing though, everywhere is bustling.
I didn't see any of St. Leonards in this video - despite promises of Warrior Square, and West St. Leonards. Also, much of the footage was duplicated.
i was barely a teenager, wandering those streets. The cricket ground I remember well, and there was a playground round the corner from there and they had mint choc chip Cornetto's for sale that my pop used to buy me.
Huffy's newsagents?
great video so many memories, there was a really good chippy up the back road by the cricket ground on the way to get the train, the trading post was my second home at that time. one for electronics and the other army surplus shop,
That was probably the chippie in Middle Street. There were houses there and a little shop and Elgars the plumbers. I lived in Devonshire Road. Born there in 1946.
@@janewalker3921 Yes I think you are right i had to look on goggle maps, i used to cut through the bus station by the cricket ground and up towards the station in was half way up ish and a step up to get in there great chips that was for sure.
Used to go in there coming back from watching football, it was very cheap in there but the fish and chips were great.
@@alanwhite6730 yep good food for sure.
that's Hastings as I remember it. Haven't been there in almost 30 years
Forgotten how run down Hastings was, much more appealing now the old buildings have gone.
Brings back so many good memories I really miss the 80s life was so much better
Shame. Too much focus on shop fronts and fuck all on st- leonards. No warrior square for example, or the marina building.
My goodness! This really brought back some memories. My Dad used to drive those old Hastings and District minibuses. I remember FADS and M&S on Queens Road 😁
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Amazing how nearly all women wore dresses or skirts then....today most wear trousers/leggings etc.
I'm not from Hastings but visited there many, many times and loved it there with the family. Still love it, but since the pier and cricket ground have gone and George Street has been pedestrianised, the heart has been ripped out.
Wow! The amount of traffic in the town seems crazy compared to now😮
I actually think I’m that regulars, it’s better now. With the rate at which car ownership increased, this kind of layout would have been gridlock by now. The craziest thing to me is that in an alternative timeline, sovereign Harbour was planned to be built in Hastings. Imagine that. Hastings built around a Harbour resort. It would have been amazing.
Sir, thank you for this very interesting record of how things used to be in Hastings & District! although I had left the area by 1989, it revived a lot of memories!
Full of Wino's and Smackheads.
20:47 is now www.google.co.uk/maps/@50.8572022,0.5779359,3a,75y,312.8h,90.82t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sSV-Umewuj84zQihtcOYSxA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
I may not live in Hastings but I'm a Londoner, good times.
Your on,y video to date on TH-cam, Mark. Add another 1400 and you could catch up with mine mostly created in Hastings & St Leonards but more wordy. The poignancy of everything that changes comes out in just 5 minutes of watching this; when I'll get to watching it all remains to be seen. Thank you.
Bloody hell mark... ha this is cool ... good find :)
Why would they get rid of the roads in town centre looked much better 29:41
I live in Havelock North suburb of Hastings & this video clip is not Hastings looks more like Wellington . Hastings is completely flat .
I live in St Leonards, to the west of Hastings, and this is definitely Hastings. It is not completely flat, it is quite hilly. There is a Havelock Road in the town centre but IDK a suburb called Havelock North. There is a Wellington Square in Hastings, also in the town centre, but no nearby place called Wellington. I know of two towns of that name, one in Somerset and the other in Shropshire, both very distant from Hastings, which is in Sussex and is 62miles/99km from London.
Public toilets...crabs are free!
First Visited Hastings on Friday 3 August 1984 with my parents & friends on a day out from Tunbridge Wells where they were living at the time (I was from Alsager in Cheshire ,staying with them on a week's holiday) and I remember buying an ice cream and dropped it onto my new decent shirt while walking along the seafront before stopping en route for a dinner on the drive back to Tunbridge Wells.
I visited again in October 84 and went in a Go-Kart ride but managed to bump into a wall and my sunglasses flew off for miles but lucily was not seriously injured.
Great footage. I spent from 1987-1990 propping up the bar in the Town Crier, so brings back memories - Some good, some not so good!
Friday 23 June translates to 1989.
My late mother worked in Marks and Spencers from about 1979 to 1992. The current M&S is opposite. The old M&S building still exists but is disused. It was occupied by another clothing retailers for some time, Peacocks, but that closed in 2020.
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any earlier stuff? Any more Silverhill? Would love to see.....
I would love to see Silverhill, sorry I can't see it in this video. If I find one of Silverhill, I will upload without a doubt. I was brought up in Perth Rd (Silverdale School). Sad it's all gone really. (Watkins & Pearson / Stricklands / Vale Hardware / Gateway & Co-Op with a small newsagent sandwiched between, I could go on.
yeah.. I was brought up in Vale Road...
Would like to see footage of all the shops I remember from the late 70's and early 80's... they were pretty much unchanged from the 40's/ 50's at this point, quite a few of them!!
giseerouchon Hiya. I'm hoping to find a photo or video of the sweet shop I would always go to as a kid. IIRC, I think the shop was called "One Penny Two Penny", but I might be wronon that. It was between the old police station (at the bottom of Perth Rd) and Sweeny Todds the hairdresser which is still open to this day. There was also a sweet factory on the same side that you couldn't see from the pavement but would always smell it. The sweet factory, confectioner & police station was all on the same side of Battle Rd - opposite Rising Sun pub.
I do have some more videos I have found that you might like. They're from British Pathe who uploaded 85,000 vids on the history of Britains towns / cities. Many of then are from Hastings.
Here's one: th-cam.com/video/YxOzTDRLO9I/w-d-xo.html
giseerouchon I was brought up on Vale Road too :) 1976-1986
An Austin Allegro, Ford Escorts, a Cortina and a Bedford van - Yep, definetly the 80s !
Fantastic film, This was 1989 according to the beer festival poster, I was 25 and attended the festival on the Thursday and the Saturday that year, I'm not sure if it has been edited but there is no, Old Town, Ore, Silverhill, East and West Hill, Seafront, West St Leonards, Warrior Square as it says in the description, just the town center, Hastings council are vandals for the destruction they have inflicted on us the people of Hastings and St Leonards and not just the sacrificing our jewel in the crown of a cricket ground for a car park and shops but the destruction they have wrought throughout the town.
I hate to ask but is some parts of this video repeated again?
This is awesome I was born in 86 so I remember parts of this you should do a video of now and then to see the difference
I have never been to this place, but I found the footage very interesting. Some areas look a bit economically depressed, while other scenes look more vibrant. How is it today?
+Jeffrey Ornstein It's fantastic,. I am moving there in 3 weeks,!!!!
I'm not sure if it was a sign of the times or not, but It looks quite different now, but not the Hastings I grew up in.
+Lataya Taylor Wow, where did you move from if you don't mind me asking.
***** Hahahaha,.. well I moved fom Newquay, Cornwall but I am in Brighton now,.
I changed my mind,...
Brighton's fine. :)
This is incredible! I lived in Hastings 2008 to 2016. So much has changed, but the gulls sound the same :-D Also good to see a couple of my watering holes; The Carlisle and The Clarence :-)
Used to love coming here as a kid on holiday every year during the 70s and early 80s. Such a shame to see it turned into another soulless and generic town.
29:25 dj
Maybe a FADS memorial ad !
i was born in 1996 in Hastings but to be able to look back at what was is for me such a good feeling also emotional at the same time i watch this video and think of how much better it looked than today's town i wish i had seen this amazing sight with my own eye's than what i see today... Thank you
Peter Leach Hi Peter, i know that feeling all too well. It's a strange one eh. Glad you enjoyed the video.
just seeing it like that was amazing a time machine is needed haha
Peter Leach if only.
Peter Leach If you ever come across a time machine, save a seat for me...lol. Bring yer camera. ;)
A great upload. I love to see 1980's Britain - especially videos containing plenty of ECW bodied Bristol VRs in their heyday. Why I like Bristol VRs with ECW coachwork is still a little unclear? This could possibly have something to do with being born in 1980 and travelling on them as a child with mum. This will also explain a lot of other fascinations I have as an adult, some of which I wouldn't discuss necessarily on a platform like TH-cam.
Notice how no one is freaking out about someone with a video camera like they do these days. They’ve done such a number on people.
Thank you for posting this with the info of where it is 111need support too
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Crikey real blast from the past, remember Huckells a bit further back in time in the mid 70’s it was *the* place to buy trendy clothes
Fads!!! Before b&q took over the world!
WHAT THE HELL IS CRICKET, ? AND WHY ARE YOU PEOPLE DRIVING ON THE WRONG SIDE OF THE ROAD???
1. Cricket is a game where you take your life into your hands watching it. 2. We drive on the wrong side of the road just to annoy Americans.
Great vid and thanks a lot for sharing this with us. I saw this video of yours and another one by the Harbour Arm on the Hastingschronicle website. Oh how i miss those days back then.
Trashing the cricket ground to turn it into a shopping mall was unforgiveable cultural vandalism
Brings back memories,I was at elphinstone junior school when this video was shot