http://www.hastingsforum.net Home Page en SimpleForum Pro 4.6.1 Hastings Forum - Powered by SimpleForum Pro 4.6.1 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Thu, 17 May 2012 13:55:11 GMT I couldn't agree more.....Some folk want a return to "victorian values", presumably so they can shyte all over the lower "classes" yet again.....rant over As for who would know about the carpenters arms, perhaps Mephams the butchers might know. They've been trading in Winchelsea road for yonks, still there I believe......I may pop up for some sausages :) Thu, 17 May 2012 12:54:59 GMT Yes I've seen that one. There was a similar case in the old town as well. Also many cases of infanticide, usually involving terrified teenage girls concealing their pregnancy and throttling the child at birth. Many people seem to have a chocolate box view of that era. The reality was very different. They were hard times: grinding, desperate poverty, young girls forced into prostitution, young men forced into crime, disabled people imprisoned for begging etc. Nothing peculiar to Hastings, things ... Wed, 16 May 2012 17:09:31 GMT [quoted] [b]Terry again wrote:[/b] Was it definitely a pub or beer house? [/quoted] I couldn't say for sure Terry, I do remember the lights being on, a swinging sign outside and using the offy once or twice. A small cubicle type room with a counter, you couldn't see the rest of the interior from the offy counter..........I do know someone who may know though (a Cornelius), I shall endeavour to find out. By the time I went to Sandown (1966, I walked through the village on the way there, ... Wed, 16 May 2012 16:46:58 GMT Yes that's the site GK. Was it definitely a pub or beer house? I remember thinking it looked like it may have been one at some time and it is named as the Carpenter's Arms and listed in Pike's as a pub (beer houses often were), but nobody seems to remember it being anything more than an off licence. It seems unusual to have an off licence with a name, but there may have been another called the Forester's Arms at Pinders which was only a short lived beer house that carried on trading under tha ... Wed, 16 May 2012 08:53:53 GMT [quoted] [b]Terry again wrote:[/b] The website still exists in some sort of form, but it appears to be broken. The text is still readable and there is an identical version available in the public library. The name Knocker Noakes and Quinnell also appears. Apparently one family made funeral wreaths. The off licence at the Clifton Road end is the last remaining building and technically in Clifton Road. It's now part of a care home, but was listed in trade directories and the London Gazette as th ... Tue, 15 May 2012 19:32:39 GMT The planning application is to demolish the buildings and build a considerable number of houses (about 66) on the site. The planning application can be seen here... http://www.ukplanning.com/ukp/showCaseFile.do;jsessionid=D94C24B9B2CE583F994C3764402B4687.wam2?action=show&appType=planning%20folder&appNumber=HS/FA/09/00485 Tue, 15 May 2012 19:17:32 GMT I have absolutely no idea if this guy is the Knocker Noakes mentioned above, but it might possibly explain the origin of that name. The address is St Leonards, but he may have moved. The passage is from an August 1937 edition of The Hastings & St Leonards Observer. (Image Attached) Tue, 15 May 2012 14:12:07 GMT ...I took a wrong turn on the way to the bathroom and found myself in a beautifully proportioned room I had never seen before, containing a really rather magnificent collection of chamberpots. When I went back to investigate more closely, I discovered that the room had vanished. But I must keep an eye out for it. Possibly it is only accessible at five thirty in the morning. Or it may only appear at the quarter moon - or when the seeker has an exceptionally full bladder. 8| Tue, 15 May 2012 14:08:51 GMT I always use vouchers for Pizza Express they usually have a buy one pizza get one free deal on weekdays. Money Saving Expert is where I usually get them. Here's a link. http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/deals/cheap-restaurant-deals Tue, 15 May 2012 08:55:21 GMT does anyone know if the building is to be turned into flats or to be demolished? i was a pupil there from 1963 to 1973 and loved it.