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Editorial One-way traffic? Our local residents’ association, the BAA, has finally given up its valiant attempts to galvanise local enthusiasm for a one-way traffic system which might have provided desperately needed parking for shoppers. At an open meeting on 8th March the Bohemia Area Association decided to abandon its efforts to get local opinion behind it. Peter Holland, chair of the BAA, said, ‘We just can’t do it.’ A vote showed an almost unanimous feeling by committee members. The only abstention was from Voice editor, John Humphries. Later, John said, ‘I hope that the Voice will pick up the challenge. Our first task is to find out what shopkeepers and residents actually think about the one-way system. Do they understand what it is? Do they want it? Would it help revive the retail trade? Is it feasible? The scheme is an imaginative one and seems to have the potential of providing a real solution to some of
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In this issue ...
Bohemia’s problems. We don’t want any more shops closing for lack of parking– like Bohemian Scrapsody (for story, please see page 5)’
New Voice In last month’s issue, we reported various changes to the Bohemia Village Voice as well as the forthcoming publication of the Village Directory. Regular readers will no doubt have noticed that the newsletter has changed again, downsizing its format from A4 to a handy A5 and upgrading to full colour throughout. The new format also includes the entire Village Directory every month, which we hope will prove useful for local residents and businesses who want to spend their money in Bohemia. We have also increased our local circulation from 3,000 to 5,000 – most of this delivered to people’s homes – on the assumption that it’s not just Bohemians who might be interested in what goes on here. The editor
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Alice Daly joins GL Sanctuary team – page 12
Clive Gross helps local entrepreneurs – page 9
Top Gun and Olympic Shooting Team – page 4
Scrapsody closes after 8 years – page 5
I was married in a Bohemian Castle – page 10
Travellers’ site given thumbs down – page 11
Nowhere to play football? Youths speak out – page 7
Bohemia Area Association March meeting – page 6
Matthew Welch: profile on local artist – page 13
On other pages ... Andy Hubbard ..............6
Letters ........................16
Bohemia Bygones ...... 14
New Take-away .......... 11
Café 67 .................... 12
‘Nice old boy’ suicide .. 9
Capital Costing ..........14
Planning reports ........ 15
Delight Express ........ 17
Puzzle Corner ............ 15
Grapevine .................. 10
Toddler found ............ 15
In Short .................... 17
Vie de Bohème ........ 14
Kendal House ............13
Village Directory ........ 18
Bohemia Village Voice Published and edited by John Humphries at 79, Bohemia Road, Bohemia Village, Sussex, TN37 6RJ. Tel: 01424 430460. Email: john@johnhumphries.f2s.com Assistant editor: Julian Beecroft. Proof-reader: John E Humphries. First published May 2006. © John Humphries. Circulation: 5,000 (unaudited). To receive a free email version of this newsletter, simply send your email address to us.
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Ron’s jackets used by British Olympic Shooting Team A local specialist clothing company has contributed to recent British success at the Olympic Festival of Youth. Top Gun Clothing, which recently moved into a building in Shornden Passage (a twitten running between Upper Park Road and Upper South Road), manufacture vests and jackets for sports shooters. They were asked to supply garments to the Under-20 British Olympic Shooting Team, who were competing in the festival in Australia in January 2007. The team’s seven shooters managed a medal haul of two golds and two silvers between them, and with the Beijing Olympics less than eighteen months away, there’s the promise of more to come. SPACE
Top Gun moved to their new home last year, and, says owner Ron Salt, they’re still settling in. Previously, the warehouse was on a site at Rye Harbour, while the company offices were in Filsham Road. The new building affords them the space to bring the two operations together on one site. TEXTILE
The company was started in 2000 by Ron and his brother Brian, who between them had run a textile consultancy for more than a decade. Ron says of the move into manufacturing, ‘My hobbies are sailing and shooting. We opted for
Ron Salt shows off one of his shooting jackets – as used by a British Olympic Shooting Team
shooting because the what is a niche market, market for sailing gear is according to Ron. ‘It’s almost a bespoke manuwell covered already.’ facturing system,’ he CARTRIDGES Ron designs Top Gun’s says. ‘The big companies get involved clothing range himself. don’t He says that being a because the numbers shooter means he knows are too small for them from personal experi- and customers’ needs ence what a shooting are very individual. For jacket or vest should example, we had an offer. ‘There’s nothing order from Strathclyde fancy about a shooting Police to supply vests to garment. It’s basically a some of their taller offibody warmer with added cers – we’re talking 6ft features to turn it into a 10” with 66-inch chests. shooting garment – pock- We can do that, just as ets for cartridges and we can meet the individloops or clips for ear ual needs of shooters.’ GARMENTS defenders and safety The Olympic connection glasses on the back.’ came about through POLICE The company has a Kevin Gill, a former growing reputation in British Olympic shooter
and the junior British Olympic coach. He helps the company by critiquing the garments prior to manufacture. BEIJING
As well as the Under-20 British team, Top Gun has also supplied clothing to the England team and the Irish national team, and they hope to get the contract for the senior British team for the Beijing Olympics. Ron says it’s difficult to measure the benefit these associations bring, but they certainly help in raising the company’s profile to sit alongside those of more established names like Browning and Beretta.
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Marilyn closes much-loved shop after eight years The Village Voice is sad to have to announce the closure of one of the best-loved businesses in the area. Bohemian Scrapsody closed at the beginning of March after almost three years trading under that name. Shop owner Marilyn Bridger told us, ‘I’ve had to close it down for the sake of my health. It’s sad – I’ve made some nice friends doing this – but my family were all saying that it’s time to stop now.’ HAIRTEK
Marilyn and her husband used to live above the property at 89–91 Bohemia Road, and ran a hair salon, Hairtek, from the shop downstairs. Then the salon moved to Queen’s Road, and Marilyn had an empty double-fronted shop to fill. ‘We still lived above, so I decided to clear out the loft,’ she says. ‘So I moved it down here to see what I wanted to keep. The things I decided to get rid of became stock for the shop. At first I called it Shabby Chic, but people didn’t understand the name, so I changed it to Bohemian Rhapsody. The stock changed from furniture to gifts and flowers and then eventually to scrapbooking, which was my hobby anyway.’ PARKING
Two and a half years ago the Queen’s Road business was sold, and Marilyn’s husband
moved to Tonbridge to work. Since then he has commuted every day to Bohemia Road. She says the stress started to get to her last year after a woman who helped her in the shop had to give up work to care for a sick relative. This problem was compounded by the difficulty of trying to keep a business like hers going on Bohemia Road. ‘Customers complain about the lack of parking,’ she says. ‘The Council doesn’t support us. Even being able to park here on a single yellow line on a Saturday would’ve made a tremendous difference.’
Marilyn Bridger puts on a brave smile as her shop closes
capable of being creative,’ she says. ‘But they come to the classes and they make friends they didn’t expect to SCRAPSODY have, and discover hidThe shop has been den talent in themcalled Bohemian selves.’ Scrapsody since May VICTORIAN 2004, but even in such a Scrapbooking is origishort time Marilyn has nally a Victorian pastime seen the popularity of that the Americans have this niche sector grow re-invented to cater for enormously. ‘When I first modern trends and started, I was the only preservation of material. one doing scrapbooking It is a hobby that in the area. Now all the involves telling a story supermarkets and the by using personal photointernet are places graphs and journaling where people can get set against a backthings cheaper than I ground of decorative can sell them.’ papers and embellishCREATIVE ments. ‘Scrapbooking is Marilyn has also run very therapeutic. classes from the shop, INSPIRATION which have proved a Marilyn admits to being great success and sad to leave the busiattracted people from all ness behind. ‘I’ve had over the region. ‘People some really lovely who take up this hobby emails from customers are often lacking in con- saying how much they’ll fidence, and often they miss the shop and how don’t think they are much inspiration it has
given them as an outlet for their creative talents. I’ll try and keep in touch with everybody by email. I can recommend names of other local crops [gatherings] they can go to. But I’ll have a couple of months off and then start looking around. In any case, I’ll be coming back to Hollington once a week to see my mother-in-law, so I won’t be leaving the area behind. I couldn’t do that. I really love it round here.’
FOR SALE If anyone is interested in taking over the business as an established craft/gift shop, please contact Marilyn Bridger. Included are remaining fittings, website and goodwill, etc. A new lease and low rent make it a desirable proposition. Offers around £5,000 please.
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Street bobby Andy: ‘Do you know where your child is?’
Street bobby Andy
You may remember a story we ran in the Village Voice last month about a group of youths attacking a local taxi driver in Lidl’s car park. We are pleased to note that our street bobby Andy Hubbard not only acted quickly on that report, but he has since posted this message to the commu-
‘As this is now becomnity via the local Neighbour-hood Watch ing a more frequent problem and warnings are not email service: ‘It has been noticed that being taken seriously, a number of youths are any further incidents will using the car parks of the now result not only in the Lidl store and the Shell youths being barred from garage to meet and then the above premises but to partake in acts of anti- also any further comsocial behaviour. These plaints received will be have ranged from playing investigated and individfootball in the car parks uals dealt with.’ to being drunk and disorderly. I would like to ask any member of the community that may know any of the youths to contact myself or PC Hearn through the police website. I would also like to take this opportunity to ask all parents, “Do you know where your child is?”
ABSTAIN
Andy Hubbard has also conveyed to the Voice that this appeal is part of a wider initiative by Hastings Police to target underage drinking and the anti-social behaviour it gives rise to. Operation Abstain, as this crackdown is known, has been running since the middle
of January, and has so far led to a number of arrests. But Andy insists that there is more and more evidence of teenagers drinking and smoking drugs. He says that the youth problem at Lidl is led by a group of older boys who egg on the younger ones. ‘I’ve spoken to the parents about keeping an eye on their children, and I got a good response. We can support parents, but they need to take responsibility for their own children.’ n Anyone with something to report can contact street bobby Hubbard on 0845 60 70 999, ext. 21185.
Bohemia Area Association Report on March Open Meeting by chairperson Peter Holland
At the special Open Meeting the decision was finally taken to drop the proposed gyratory traffic system from the BAA’s programme. Despite the system’s virtues of increased parking space – to the benefit of residents and retailers in particular – and improved safety, approval of the system had not spread beyond the Committee. The retail community has been leafletted twice about the proposal, but the BAA only received
responses from a small number of businesses. It was decided that market forces be allowed to follow their course in Bohemia. The BAA Committee alone did not have the resources to pursue the establishment of a gyratory system. Chairperson Peter Holland, the originator of the scheme, proposed withdrawing the scheme from the Committee’s programme, which was agreed by acclamation. Earlier, the Chairperson had mentioned the closure of two businesses on Bohemia Road, Bohemian Scrapsody and Furniture Corner.
Indeed, one committee member had counted the number of shop sites no longer trading along Bohemia Road between the Wheatsheaf and North Road at an alarming twenty-seven. The influence of the proposed ASDA store on Bohemia retailing was also considered. Several months ago the BAA newsletter ran the ‘Don’t be a moaner, be a phoner’ campaign. Our PCSO, Andy Hubbard, and street wardens Robert Sear and Mamoj Babu outlined the way statistics are used by their services and the need for the public to
keep them informed of all untoward occurences. The telephone is the easiest way to relay this information. We will develop ‘Don’t be a moaner, be a phoner’ in the next BAA newsletter. County Councillor Trevor Webb is following up issues regarding litter in Clarence Road and the nearby streets, as well as the Upper Park Road loading bay, alleyway maintenance and the Knight Frank report on retailing. The Bohemia Bygones project is progressing. The AGM will be on 12 April 2007 at the YMCA in St Paul’s Road.
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Nowhere to play football? Youths speak out The incident we reported in last month’s Village Voice involving local lads attacking a taxi driver’s vehicle has been followed by further reports to the police of trouble at both the Lidl store and the Shell Garage. The Voice went out to interview these lads at the beginning of March, and we soon came across a group of five teenage boys hanging around outside the Pizza Hut on Bohemia Road at about five o’clock in the afternoon. BENCH
We asked them what life was like for them living around Bohemia. Immediately the answer came back, ‘There’s nothing for us to do. If we sit down on a bench, the police ask us to move,’ said one boy. Another chipped in, ‘Everyone always blames us for everything that goes on around here just ‘cos we’re the kids. But what’s the point of f*cking up your own area?’ SCHOOL
Two of the five admitted to being currently excluded from school, while another two said they were at college. ‘It’s a shitty area,’ added a third. ‘We want to play football, but there’s nowhere to play. Horntye Park used to let us play football on the astroturf until about a year ago, but then they stopped it,’ he claimed.
A playground or, in newspeak a ‘multi-use games area’ at White Rock Gardens
in the direction of Church Road, bouncing the football. We asked Horntye Park Sports Complex about the boys’ claims. Kevin Miller, the general manager, told us that the astroturf is available for anyone who can pay, and that if these kids had been using the facility without paying then it was without permission from the centre. He said that Horntye had experienced a range of problem behaviours from local lads, which included verbal abuse of the centre’s customers and general ‘loutish behaviour’. PAY
We put it to Mr Miller that these lads couldn’t afford to pay to use a facility like Horntye. He conceded the point, but at the same time, he said, while Horntye is run as a charity, it is also obliged to HORNTYE The group then drifted off maintain its building and services. He said that
there are other resources available to local kids, which they could access at little or no cost, and he referred to us to the Active Hastings programme run by Cath Smee of Hastings Borough Council. EXPENSIVE
The programme runs a range of sports and leisure activities for all age groups throughout the borough. Cath told us that the programme hires facilities all over the town. Horntye was too expensive, she said, so in this part of town the programme is based at the multi-use games area (see picture, this page) next to the skateboard park at White Rock Gardens. There are currently two evening sessions at this facility that cater for teenagers. The first is a football-in-thecommunity programme for 10–19-year-olds that
runs every Monday from 6.30 to 8pm. The second is a structured coaching session for 10–16-yearolds every Wednesday between 4.30 and 6pm (the day and time we found the boys outside Pizza Hut). This can be football or basketball or whatever the kids want to play on any given afternoon. These programmes are free. Anyone can turn up and use the multi-use games area for free any day until 9pm, providing the facility hasn’t been previously booked. Or you can book it for £15 an hour by phoning Ali Spriggs on 451334. n Active Hastings 01424 451122. Email: www.activeinhastings.org.uk Or drop in to the offices of the Village Voice to pick up a free leaflet.
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Clive gives local entrepreneurs effervescent help Help is available for local entrepreneurs who need advice in getting their businesses off the ground. Clive Gross (pictured) is a business coach for the Hastings area working under the auspices of Bizfizz, a government-funded project set up to provide a national network of business coaches wherever they are needed. Clive is based at Summerfields Business Centre but works on an outreach basis in order to serve the kind of people of who don’t normally attend the workshops and seminars run by the centre itself. ROCK BANDS
Six years ago he moved to Eastbourne, where he opened a coffee shop and gallery. Clive began a two-year tenure as a Bizfizz coach just before Christmas last year and already has 25 clients drawing on his wide experience. He is keen to point out that the service he provides is free, and there is no limit on the amount of time he can spend with any one client. ‘As long as the need is there, I’m available to help,’ he says. ‘The idea is to use people’s energy and creativiClive Gross – putting fizz into local businesses. ty to help regenerate the area from the ground up.’ underwear shop, a paper South-east, but there are and document restorer, plans to increase the netUNDERWEAR Clive’s main areas are and a woman starting a work if the project sucOre Valley and Central St daytime nightclub for ceeds. n Anyone interested in Leonards, but he is avail- adults with children. free business advice and able to anyone in the FIRST Hastings area. Among The Bizfizz project has support can contact him the range of clients Clive been running since 2002, on 205509 or 07771 has been working with and there are now 15 645263 (mobile) or by locally are a woman with coaches nationwide. emailing:
Clive has a varied business background that includes a spell doing marketing and PR for local leisure trusts. Originally from south London, he has also managed rock bands and run a small record label. plans to open a retail Clive is the first in the clive.gross@bizfizz.org.uk
‘Nice old boy’ shoots his Trixie and then himself We have now obtained more information about the circumstances surrounding the death of a local man in a maisonette above the Bet Bet Bet 24/7 shop back in January. Street bobby Andy Hubbard was the third officer on the scene that day, and he believes that the dead man was a Mr John Reynolds, described as being in his mid to late fifties.
around 5pm on Thursday 18th January. Family members who live in the area have confirmed that a note found at the scene was in his own hand, and a gun was also found that matched the wounds to the head sustained by both the dog and Mr Reynolds, leading the police to believe that Mr Reynolds took his own life.
NOTE
Terry Foord at Munday’s told us that he used to see Mr Reynolds walking his dog in the park. Terry thought that the dog had been well looked after.
Mr Reynolds’s body and that of his dog, a Jack Russell terrier called Trixsie, were found lying in a bed at the property at
PARK
Adam Prior, who manages the betting shop, said that Mr Reynolds was a nice guy who used to come into their shop to read his electricity meter, while Alan Derosa, the manager of Alldays, told us that Mr Reynolds was a regular customer. Dave Scarth, the landlord at the North Star pub, said that Mr Reynolds used to come into the pub three or four nights a week. ‘He was a bit of a character, and he always came in with his dog. He loved his dog.’
cribed Mr Reynolds as a ‘nice old boy’ who’d lived in the area for something like ten years. ‘He used to come in the shop and have a chinwag and a smoke,’ Mr Brown told us. ‘He always brought the dog in. He worshipped that dog. That was his life. It was all he had.’
n If you have been affected by a suicide, or have entertained suicidal thoughts yourself, you can call Hastings & Rother Samaritans anonymously on 01424 436666, or the John Brown, the owner of national Samaritans Furniture Corner, des- helpline on 08457 909090.
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Grapevine SALISBURY YARD A new business has moved into the garage at Salisbury Yard on Salisbury Road. Cassidy’s Car Mechanics are open from Monday to Saturday and offer a full range of services, including MOTs.
sites (bohemiavillagevoice.com and bohemiavillagevoice.co. uk) and is hoping to do a deal. No harm in that of course. But the Voice already owns ‘bohemiavillage.com’ which it will be developing as soon as possible. So, thank you, your Lordship, but FURNITURE CORNER Furniture Corner has no thanks. vacated the premises at HORNTYE PARK 76 Bohemia Road, on Rumours are rife that the corner of Tower Horntye Park Sports Road, and moved across Complex is so short of the A21 to no. 69. The funds that it’s considerVoice spoke to owner ing selling part of its site John Brown in early in Bohemia (a strip of March, shortly after the land along Bohemia move. He said he Road) for development planned to re-open ‘in a as retirement flats. When couple of weeks’, with a the Voice asked centre new stock including mir- manager Kevin Miller if rors, glitzy furniture and the stories were accuother showy stuff. rate, he said ‘No, it’s not strictly true. We’re not a LORD’S OFFER A local Lord has offered rich place. I can’t really the Voice two websites – comment. Let’s say I’m in exchange for £4,000 not in a position to comof advertising. He ment. If I’ve got someexplained that his broth- thing to say, I’ll let you er, an IT expert, owns the know.’
Judo helps Sigourney feel safe
Sigourney Temple, 7, of Bohemia Road has won a bronze medal in a club championship. She belongs to the Kano Judo
Club which meets Saturdays at Claverham College in Battle. ‘I didn’t want to feel scared if I was walking through a forest and someone tried to hurt me. My mummy suggested I try judo,’ said ‘white belt’ Sigourney, (pictured). Apparently she’s not the youngest member – there’s ‘tiny tots’ there from about 4 years old. Her Grandmother said ‘We used to use Horntye Park – until they put up their room fees.’
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I was married in a Bohemian Castle Part 3 (of 8) Behind the Iron Curtain – by Richard Slater
Richard Slater
St Peter’s Road resident and technical author Richard Slater recounts his days in Bohemia. [Bohemia is the southern province of the Czech Republic; the northern one is Moravia]. In this third part, Richard describes his first trip behind the Iron Curtain. The year 1965 was an interesting one. First I took a [computer] system to the 800th Leipzig Fair – my first trip into Eastern Europe and the only time I crossed the border by road. It was quite depressing at the checkpoint; the real Iron Curtain stretched away across the countryside as
far as the eye could see on both sides of the road – the barbed-wire fences, minefield, track for the attack dogs, ploughed strip, searchlights and watchtowers. You realised that this barrier, in one form or another, ran all the way from the Baltic coast to the Yugoslav border. My second installation that year took me even further east – to Moscow. Gosplan was the central economic planning agency of the Russian Federal Republic (each of the 15 republics of the Soviet Union did its own planning). The computer had been in a warehouse all winter, and it took me five weeks to get the customer to accept it. It seemed like a very long time, but at least I did get to watch both the Bolshoi Ballet and the May Day parade in Red Square. And to meet the KGB! [To be continued ...]
Karlstejn Castle in Bohemia where Richard was married
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Summerfields Travellers’ site given thumbs down Anyone reading this article will probably already know of Hastings Borough Council’s decision to reject a proposal for a Gypsy/Traveller transit site on the green space between Summerfields Leisure Centre and the ambulance station. This decision, taken at the Council meeting on 5th March, was always likely after the publication of a cross-party report that unanimously deemed both the Summerfields site and the one at Sandrock unsuitable for development for this purpose, and by a majority took the same view of the Bexhill Road site. COVENANT
Readers may be interested to note that, according to the report on the Council cabinet meeting held at the Grove School on 5th March, ‘The Summerfields site has a restrictive covenant that makes the development of this site very difficult.’ The nature of this covenant is explained in the full report of the Council’s Travellers’ Site Members’ Working Group, which was set up to consider the viability of each of the three sites. With regard to the Summerfields site, the
The Ambulance Station in Bohemia Road, which adjoins the rejected Travellers’ site
report indicates that when the Council sold to the Health Authority the plot of land that includes the ambulance station and the green space between the station and the leisure centre, they were allowed to retain the green space on condition that ‘the Council would not use any part of the property for any purpose which may be or become a nuisance ... or an annoyance or [be] obnoxious to the Health Services or its [sic] successors in title including its
tenants and occupiers.’
itself from a legal arrangement so recently concludThe report goes on, ed would be a complicat‘Furthermore the restriction ed, costly and possibly also includes carrying out unsuccessful process. any use which tends to PETITIONS diminish or lessen the One further point of intervalue to the property of any est emerges from the building erected on any report. The council part of it. Clearly a transit received numerous petisite would fall into this cat- tions from residents of the egory. A further difficulty three areas under considpresents itself in that the eration, but by far the lowcovenant was only agreed est level of objections to in 1996, just over 10 came from the area suryears ago. According to rounding the Summerfields the report, any attempt by site. the Council to disentangle DIMINISH
New takeaway gets over planning hurdle – just Planning permission has been narrowly approved for a new takeaway at 69 Bohemia Road, the site of the old post office. The permission is subject to a stringent set of conditions relating to adequate ventilation and a proper regime for the removal of rubbish. In support of its
decision, Hastings Borough Council’s planning board report states, ‘The ground floor retail area has been vacant for approximately a year. The application proposes to bring the premises back into commercial use. It is considered that the proposal will have a
positive impact on the vitality and viability of the Bohemia Road Core Shopping Area’. The board’s decision was not unanimous, however, as local councillor Vivienne Bond explained to the Voice. ‘Four members of the board voted against this proposal,
including me. It’s potentially dangerous for a start. I’m worried that people using the takeaway will try to park right by the crossing. In any case, we don’t need a takeaway. we need retail shops open in the daytime. I’d rather it was empty.’
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Alice joins beauty team at GL Sanctuary A new face is greeting customers at GL Sanctuary on Bohemia Road. Alice Daly has joined proprietor Georgina Little, filling the vacancy left by Louise Sadler, who recently quit the business.
but she still has plans to see the world. She is currently applying for a job on the Steiner cruise ships, to start next year, that could see her travelling the globe – though she insists she’ll be returning to GL Sanctuary when she’s done with all that. Anyone wanting to see Alice can have a 10% discount on the first treatment.
SWEDISH Alice is an NVQ level 2qualified beautician who can offer a wide range of treatments, from manicures and pedicures to Swedish body massage, reflexology and Indian head massage. She started working one day a week at the Sanctuary back in September, and now works all day Thursday and Saturday, as well as evenings. Alice has lived in St Leonards all her life,
n Georgina would also
like regular customers of Louise Sadler to know that her former business partner took her equipment with her when she left the business, so the Sanctuary can no longer offer a facial electrical lifting service.
Alice Daly at GL Sanctuary
Café 67 gets new shopfront A local café was given a makeover in the first week of March. The old shopfront of Café 67 was replaced on Wednesday 7th March by a new all-white PVC front which will make the venue a more comfortable place to stop and eat. Sue Norton, the owner, told the Voice, ‘The other one was old and needed updating. The door used to swing open in the wind and there was also a draught that came through it. The new front will make the cafe warm and dry and draught-free for our customers.’ Bohemia Road’s Café 67 shows its fine new livery
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Local artist Matthew shows true Bohemian spirit or at Brighton University. After that, Matthew says he may go on to study for an MA at Brighton.
Matthew Welch
The variety of local talent never ceases to amaze us at the Voice. We were recently paid a visit by Matthew Welch, a young artist currently studying for his foundation degree in fine art at Hastings College. Matthew, who is 20 years old, has lived in St Leonards all his life, and now resides on London Road. DRAWING
He started drawing at primary school and went on to win an award at William Parker School for the best year 11 GCSE work. He then studied for a national diploma at Hastings College before moving on to the foundation course. He is now in his 2nd year and will do his final year either at Hastings College
Matthew says he paints mostly in oils, but has recently begun experimenting with charcoal. His work is mostly close-up portraits of friends, in sizes that vary from small to quite large scale. He says of his work, ‘I want to express how close I feel to the people I paint. They are mostly people I’m close to – a lot of portraits of girlfriends.’ When asked about his influences, he cited the young British portrait painter Jenny Saville, whose work was featured at the infamous Sensation exhibition of New British Art in the 1990s, as well as contemporary master Lucian Freud and printmaker Derek Hess. STABLES
Matthew has exhibited widely across Hastings and St Leonards, including shows at the Stables Theatre Gallery and Claremont Studios. He was also recently selected, along with three other 2nd-year students at Hastings College, to exhibit in a show including pieces by the worldrenowned Chapman brothers, Jake and Dinos, who grew up in Hastings.
Portrait by Matthew Welch
He also has an exhibition planned for the summer at the White Rock Gallery, and a possible second show at Claremont Studios. The next step after that would be to try and get a show in London, he says.
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Anyone wanting to know more or even to buy one of Matthew’s pictures can contact him on 443894 or by email at mattwanted@yahoo.co.uk Front cover: portrait of friend by Matthew Welch.
New flats approved for Kendal House site The development of 36 flats on the site of former Kendal House in Chapel Park Road has been granted planning permission by Hastings Council’s planning board. The proposal, which had
received a number of objections as reported in the February issue of the Village Voice, includes parking space for 27 cars and stands for 36 bicycles immediately beneath the building. The
applicant, Orbit Housing Association, has agreed to put money into developing St John’s Play Park, on the corner of Chapel Park Road and St John’s Road. Two members of the board voted
against the proposal, including local councillor Vivienne Bond. According to Councillor Bond, ‘’The previous proposal was for 23 flats. It was a nicer development than the new one.’
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Vie de Bohème – How the Bohemian Club was formed PART 21 (OF 24) The story so far ... homeless artist and musician Alexandre Schaunard has been traipsing the streets of Paris, searching for anyone from whom he can borrow a few francs. He meets a philosopher, Gustave Colline, and later two gentlemen, M. Mouton and M. Rodolphe. Schaunard, forgetting he is homeless, invites everyone back to his lodgings, only to discover Marcel, the new tenant, in occupation. The misunderstanding is eventually cleared up and a meal – with wine – is suggested. Now read on ...
he four young men proceeded to attack a piece of cold veal that Colline and Rodolphe had cajoled from the wineshop.
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‘Dreams and deceit, of ‘You are in your own home,’ Marcel said politely. such is life,’ said the Marcel But it was very difficult philosopher. indeed to make Schaunard laughed. An hour later, all understand what had hap- four were asleep. They pened. The situation was awoke next day at noon, further complicated by a and at first seemed astoncomical incident. Whilst ished to find themselves Schaunard, looking for something in a together. cupboard, Schaunard found Colline and Rodolphe the change of the five-hun- behaved like strangers, calldred-franc note that Marcel ing each other ‘sir’. Marcel had given M. Bernard in the had to remind them that they had arrived together morning. during the night. Old ‘Ah, I knew that Fortune Durand came into the room. would not forsake me!’ he ‘Today, sir,’ he said to exclaimed. ‘I remember now – I went out this morn- Marcel, ‘is April the ninth, ing in search of her. Of 184–, there is mud in the course, because of the rent streets, and His Majesty business, she must have Louis Philippe is still King come while I was out. We of France and Navarre... missed each other, that’s all. Why, there’s M. Schaunard! How right I was to leave the How did you get in?’
Marcel explained what had occurred that morning between himself and the landlord. key on the chest-of-draw‘In that case,’ said ers!’
‘By telegraph.’
‘Come, come, so you’re Rodolphe, ‘the gentleman is ‘Sweet self-deception!’ still up to your tricks, eh?’ quite right; we are in his Rodolphe murmured, as ‘Durand,’ said Marcel, ‘I home.’ Schaunard arranged the do not wish the staff to join money in equal piles.
in my conversation. You will go to the restaurant near by, and have them send up luncheon for four. Here is the bill-of-fare.’ He handed Durand a scrap of paper on which he had written the names of dishes. ‘You may go.’ ‘And now, gentlemen,’ Marcel continued, ‘you invited me to supper yesterday evening. Permit me today to invite you to luncheon, not in my apartment, but in our apartment.’ He held out his hand to Schaunard. [To be continued] Vie de Bohème by Henry Mürger, a vivid portrait of the ‘Bohemian’ life of the artistic quarter of Paris in the nineteenth century was originally published (by Michel Lévy) in 1851. The extract above is taken from a translation by Norman Cameron, published by Hamish Hamilton. The illustration is by Dodi Masterman.
Capital Costing on the move
Bohemia Bygones exhibition
Local financial business Capital Costing Services and its sister company Capital Legal Services will soon be moving from their offices on the corner of London Road and Tower Road West to new premises at Silverhill above the Co-op on Sedlescombe Road North. Managing director Geoff Day would like existing and future
An exhibition on Bohemia’s past will be held at Park Road Church over the weekend of 13th–15th April. The exhibition is being staged by the Bohemia Area Association, and will feature numerous old photographs and maps of Bohemia, including photos from the extensive collection of lifelong Bohemia resident Vic Chalcraft. There will also be a range of written information on the history of the area. The organisers are pleased to have secured the
clients to know that the phone number for the two businesses will remain the same (see the directory section for these details). The move is due to happen at the end of March. The Voice is also given to understand that the firm’s stupendous climbing plant, known to the staff as Jethro, will be going with them.
services of prominent local historians Edward Preston and Ken Brooks. Edward will give a slide show and talk beginning at 7.30pm on Friday 13th, and Ken will give a talk on the afternoon of Saturday 14th. The exhibition will also be open on Sunday afternoon. Admission is free, though a bowl will be available for any donations towards the cost of staging the three-day event. The exhibition is linked with St Leonards history weekend.
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Missing toddler reunited with Mum Sometimes a tragedy is averted by the quick thinking of good people. This was the case on Tuesday 27th February in St Peter’s Road, when a missing toddler was reunited with his mother. The two-year-old boy was spotted around lunchtime walking down St Peter’s Road in the direction of Tower Road. According to street bobby Andy Hubbard, who was quickly on the scene, it was only the alertness of members of the public that prevented the boy from wandering out into busier roads.
‘We nearly died when we realised he’d got out’ ‘A local lady stopped him from walking any further, and then a driving instructor who had stopped gave the boy his jacket to wear,’ says street bobby Hubbard. ‘It was a very wet afternoon and the child was barefoot too. Apparently, as we found out later, the mother had gone down to the shops at Silverhill, leaving the child at home with his grandmother. It seems that the boy had slipped the latch when his granny’s back was
??? Puzzle Corner ??? Puzzle 46
This month’s puzzle is once again in two parts. Firstly, where in Bohemia would you find these three mosaic letters? Secondly, they actually form part of a larger word, but what does that word refer to? Closing date for entries is Tuesday 10th April. Answer to puzzle 45 The answer to our last puzzle wasn’t as straightforward as we thought. The two entrants both agreed that Christ Church School moved to its present site in 1989, the correct answer, but there were differing views as to the name of the institution that occu-
pied the site beforehand, though both agreed that the former occupant was a school. For many years Tower Road School was indeed the name of the local school on this site. In fact, an article on the school appeared in issue 43 of this newsletter (2nd Dec 2006), featuring a picture dating from the mid-1980s that we captioned as Tower Road School. But, after exhaustive research, we can say that the old school building, demolished in 1987, was in its last incarnation home to the Woodlands Lower School to the Grove. The winning entrant is Richard Adams of Salisbury Road. He has been sent a £10 token from Empress Art of Tower Road. Well done!
turned. When I got to the scene I gave the boy my fluorescent jacket, so at least he was warm. But all he would say was “Mummy gone, Daddy gone”. MOTHER
‘While we were standing there trying to work out where he had come from, his mother came up the road from the Silverhill direction. It turned out that we were only a few doors away from his house, so we got the boy and his mother inside
where they could get warm and dry before we could work out what had happened.’ The Voice has also spoken to Christine Hollins, the grandmother of the child in question, at the family’s address in St Peter’s Road. She told us, ‘We’d just moved in a couple of weeks before this happened. I was cooking and the boy just slipped the latch. We nearly died when we realised he’d got out.’
Plans in the pipeline ... Heron House Planning permission has been approved for the installation of two airconditioning units at Heron House on London Road. The permission is subject to various noiseabatement conditions.
canopy by one metre to avoid further high-vehicle damage.
199 London Road The conversion of a fourbed flat into three onebed flats is being proposed for 199 London Road. The applicant is S. Slade of London Road.
Cloudesley Road into a residential home. The applicant is UCB Home Loans Corporation Ltd, based in Sutton, Surrey.
Shell Garage The Shell Service Station on Bohemia Road is seeking planning permission to raise its forecourt
Reach 5,000 homes in the Bohemia area with a paid ad. Colour or black and white No artwork charges. John or Julian
School gates Local school St Mary Star of the Sea, of Magdalen Road, has applied for permission to widen its existing goods-entrance Markwick Terrace gates and rebuild the Planning permission is piers. The current woodbeing sought to replace a en gates would also be timber fire escape at replaced by steel ones. Markwick Terrace with a Cloudesley Road mild-steel stairway. The Planning permission is applicant is Mr J. Walker being sought to convert of Markwick Terrace. an old people’s home in
An ad this size costs £5
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Bohemia Village?
Dear Sir, Making a further point on this use of ‘village’ for Bohemia. As I’ve said all along, it’s a myth created by one man. Bohemia was named after the house and farm, and there is no record of it as a village. But a name that I referred to in earlier correspondence is mentioned in records of the late 1700s, and that is ‘Bohemey’, and it was known as such then. Vic Chalcraft, Aldborough Road Dear Sir, With reference to the continuing debate about Bohemia’s status – village or otherwise – in 1876, according to the deeds of 93–7 Bohemia Road (formerly 61/2 Bohemia Place) the property was bought by one William Barden, carpenter, of Hope Cottage, Bohemia near Hastings. Clearly, Bohemia was not yet a part of greater Hastings, and St Leonards is not even mentioned, in spite of being a pretty substantial conurbation by this time. Keith Sellens, Bohemia Road
Gypsy site Dear Sir, This is a copy of the letter I sent to Hastings Borough Council, but I had a reply from them to say I was far too late for them to consider my opinions: ‘In response to your leaflet put through my
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letterbox regarding the above [Gypsy/Traveller site proposals], I would strongly object to the Summerfields site being the chosen location. It would only be about 300 yards from residential housing areas in Hastings (Holmesdale Gardens, Redmayne Drive, Ellis Close, Oliver Close, Linton Road, Linton Crescent, Hillyglen Crescent, Magdalen Road, Blomfield Road, De Cham Road, etc.), apart from which it would have to be accessed through the leisure centre entrance.
‘It would be far too close to the conserved woodland areas and the public footpath (Briscoe’s Walk) through the lovely lake/waterfall setting between the woodland and the walkway. I imagine that many people would feel intimidated in taking this walk if there was a Gypsy/Travellers site adjacent to the area. I cannot understand how the introduction of Gypsy/Travellers sites will aid and assist with the regeneration plans. ‘I once lived in the county town of Bedford. I and my family experienced an horrific burglary at home, our shop was broken into and stock stolen, my wife’s car was stolen, my car had its wheels stolen, and my business was broken into and computers stolen. The police put
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the crimes in every case down to the local ‘Gypsy/Traveller’ inhabitants. Two Gypsies were arrested and charged with our house burglary. The other crimes remained unresolved. ‘I would like to point out that the map produced by TK Associates for the Summerfields site is fairly inaccurate, and construes to give out a mixed message of where the site actually would be in relation to the area. The road shown as ‘London Road’ is in fact ‘Magdalen Road’, The police station is also wrongly stated – it is in fact the Travelodge site. It is a pity that with all the money being paid to TK Associates, they could not even get the location map right.’ Barrie Holland, Magdalen Road [Letter has abridged – ed]
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Dear Sir, With reference to your coverage of the Gypsy campsite issue, were you aware that the Romanies who settled in France in past centuries had travelled through the kingdom of Bohemia to get there? Thus the French referred to them as ‘Bohèmiens’, as in, for example, the poem ‘Bohèmiens en voyage’ by Charles Baudelaire. From there it was only a short step to apply the word to artistic types living in romantic poverty, such as the young people in your serial, Vie de Bohème. Incidentally, I
have greatly enjoyed the regular instalments of this old story during my recent convalescence from a serious illness. I do hope you pick it up again soon. David Vane Chapel Park Road
Street Wardens Dear Sir, I was particularly interested in the article relating to the taxi driver who experienced problems at Lidl’s. I have been witnessing an increase in anti-social behaviour in the Church Road area, which is clearly involving underage drinking and all of its associated problems. I have been in communication with the police on this matter, and they are as concerned as I am. A closer link between my service, the police and the community will help us immensely in controlling this problem – and any others. On a personal note (re: the letters page) I can remember starting my school days at what is now called the Old Penny School in Magdalen Road prior to going ‘up’ to the big school in St Paul’s Road (where the YMCA now stands). I can even remember a trolley bus blowing up at the cricket ground as I sat behind the driver (I used to drive it with him). Rod Bridger, Senior Warden, HBCWarden Service, 100 Menzies Road, St Leonars. (cont. page 17)
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photo and Barbara is no. 71. She would have been Dear Sir, I remember very interested to see it. very well the street party Brian Hughes you covered in Village Aldborough Road Voice [no. 43, 2nd Dec 2006]. My late wife Dear Sir, I can identify Barbara and I had moved two of the people in your into our house on 2nd street party photo [issue April 1986, then the fol- 43, 2nd Dec 2006]. No. lowing August there was 65 is me, Catherine this street party. It was Cattaway, and number organised by Dee Jones, 66 is my friend Lucy (no. 56 in the photo). Hicks. My dad, John People with flags brought Cattaway, used to own them along, though the the chemist’s in Bohemia occasion was not a royal Road. wedding or anything like Catherine Cattaway, that. I think it was just a Buchanan Gardens street party for its own sake. I’m no. 39 in the (Letters – from page 16)
Street Party
Turkish wine and beer? The takeaway kebab shop Delight Express at 87 Bohemia Rd is reopening this month under new management. The owner, Ali, told the Voice that the takeaway will be open seven days a week from 4pm until 1am. Home delivery is available on all orders
over £7. Ali says he hopes to be selling Turkish wine and beer and has applied for a licence to do so. When the Voice called, the entire shop was undergoing a thorough cleaning and refurbishment with new equipment being installed.
Delight Express – under new management
Those readers eager to learn who has won our ultra-short story competition will have to wait another month. The editor has decided that the judges need longer to consider their verdict, so
the results will be announced in our next issue. A total of 23 stories were received, and each judge has been given a complete set for their due consideration.
St Peter’s Church Quiz Nite Teams of up to six people are invited to register for the quiz night to be held on Saturday 21st April at St Peter’s Church Hall. Doors open at 7pm for a 7.30 start. Entry costs £2.50 per contestant, and it’s bring-yourown drinks (including alcoholic ones) and nib-
bles. There’s an intermission raffle, plus prizes for the winning team, and, of course, the ‘woodenspooners’ will go home with something interesting. n To register your team,
please call Stewart Buchan on 435922.
Street bobby’s drop-in Bohemia street bobby Andy Hubbard will be holding a drop-in session for members of the public from 10am to 1pm on Wednesday 28th March at the YMCA in St Paul’s Road. One of our local street wardens will also
be present, as well as a member of the ASBO unit and representatives of other agencies. Whatever your worry – be it dog mess or antisocial behaviour – there should be someone there you can talk to.
Karina’s Wool Shop Shoplifters have taken scarves from the Wool Shop. A gang recently walked off with a couple of scarves from Karina’s Wool Shop in Bohemia Road. Two women and a man came into the shop on Friday 23rd February, and the man flashed a £50 note as if he intended to buy something. Shop owner Brenda Garnett told the Voice, ‘I thought it was a bit funny that he was waving a fifty. It didn’t seem quite right. The women were looking at the wool over by the door. Then the
man started messing up the fashion scarves I’ve got arranged on the counter. I was a bit put out by that, but when they left I realised a couple of the scarves were missing. I reported it to the police, but they say there’s not much they can do.’ Brenda says that she is more upset by the fact that it happened than by any financial loss. If you see this gang at work in the area, contact our local street bobby Andy Hubbard on 0845 60 70 999, ext. 21185.
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Bohemia Village Directory A free listing for all businesses, organisations and individuals in Bohemia. Please note: unless otherwise stated, all telephone numbers have the Hastings (01424) area code and all addresses are in Bohemia Village. If you would like your business to be listed here, or to make changes to your entry, please send details to Bohemia Village Voice, 79, Bohemia Road, Bohemia Village, Sussex, TN37 6RJ. Tel: 430460. For extra lineage and small box ads, please see advertising rates on page 2.
Residents’ and traders’ association for Bohemia. Peter Holland, chairman. Tel: 445086. 21 Bohemia Road, TN37 6RA. j-holland-2001@yahoo.com
4.30pm. Estab. 1837. Tel: 721722. Hastings & Rother Register Office, Horntye Park, Bohemia Road, TN34 1EX. hastings.registrar@eastsussex.g ov.uk
ESCC
Wilhams Insulation
Hastings: 0845 274 1066. General: 01273 747 154. Street lighting: 0845 60 80 193. Trading standards: 01323 418200. Social care (adults): 0845 60 80 191. Social care (children and families): 01424 775599. Education: 01273 481000.
Suppliers of acoustic and fireprotection products to the UK and Far East countries and to their own factories in Malaysia and Taiwan. Wilhams International Ltd also trades from the same address. Mon to Fri: 9am to 6pm. Estab. 1976. Don Hammeck. Tel: 717171. Fax: 201000. Wilhams Insulation Group, 117 Bohemia Road, TN37 6RL. sales@wilhamsinsulation.co.uk www.wilhams.co.uk
Bohemia Area Association
ESCC Children’s Services Children’s Services includes Hastings area bases for the education welfare service, the educational psychology service and the early years service. Antoinette Freeman or Reece Buckley. Tel: 720702. Fax: 428277. East Sussex County Council Children’s Services, Tower Building, Lower South Rd, TN37 6RH.
Hastings Badger Protection Badger protection society with small dedicated park in Church Road next to Lidl. Tel: 439168; 431188. Don Wise, 304, Bexhill Road, St Leonards, TN38 8AL. [See Voice 38]
HBC Estates Estates office. Tel: 451641. Hastings Borough Council Estates Division, Horntye Park, Bohemia Road, TN34 1UT.
Outdoorsman Outdoor kit for the outdoors man or woman. Nature watching, work, trekking, military, security, shooting, hunting, survival, camping. 9am to 5.30pm. Alan. Tel: 429343. 122 Bohemia Road. sales@outdoorsman.co.uk www.outdoorsman.co.uk
Preston, Edward Edward is a writer on local history; he is also a minister of religion and a lecturer. Tel: 435849. Edward Preston, 63 Bohemia Road, TN37 6RG.
Red Cross Medical loan office. Tel: 425342. 38 Newgate Road. [See box ad]
Register Office Register Office for births, deaths, marriages, civil partnerships and celebratory services. 9am to
ACCOUNTS & FINANCE Capital Costing Services Tel: 444461. 9, Sedlescombe Road North, Silverhill.
Bryan Coyle Accountant. Tel: 438191. 14 Barnfield Close, Hastings.
Sellens French Accountants. 446488. 93–7 Bohemia Road, TN37 6RJ.
AMBULANCE St John Ambulance First-aid cover at public events. Youth organisation. Patient transfers. Tel: 421105. Ambulance Station, Bohemia Road.
Sussex Ambulance Service
Empress Art Undertake all types of picture framing, including mounting, drymounting and conservation framing. They also sell prints and greetings cards, as well as vintage photographs of Hastings and original watercolours by local artists. Mon–Fri, 9am to 5pm, Sat 9am to 4pm. Mr Colin Green. Tel: 442000. Empress Art, 3–4 Tower Road, TN37 6JE.
Tyrell, Allena Artist. Tel: 718727. Allena Tyrell, Bohemia Studios, 9 Horntye Road, TN37 6RT.
Welch, Matthew Artist. 194 London Rd. 443804.
Wide range of bread and confectionery. Trading under the present ownership since 2006, the baker’s shop is open Mon–Fri: 7.15am to 4.30pm, Sat: 7.15am to 4pm. Mr Andy Berry and Mrs Vivienne Berry. Tel: 420872. The Cake Box, 49 Bohemia Road, TN37 6RE.
Little Mill Bakery
FOR ALL YOUR BAKING NEEDS Bakers. Michael and Claire Hitchings. Tel: 421474. 265 London Road, TN37 6NB.
ARTS & ARTISTS
BANKS
Bartlett Arts
Bohemian Scrapsody Closed March 2007. Scrapbooking classes for beginners. Mrs Marilyn Bridger. Tel: 427354. Bohemian Scrapsody, 89–91 Bohemia Road, TN37 6RJ.
Buchan, Stewart Illustrator. Born 1948. Tel: 435922. Mr Stewart Buchan, 77 Amherst Road, TN34 1TX.
Has been a second-hand bookshop for 50 years, including 27 years under the current owner. The shop stocks all kinds of books, and members of the public are welcome to bring in any they want to sell. Mon, Tue, Thu, Fri: 10am to 1pm and 2 to 5pm. It is also open Wed, Sat: 10am to 1pm. Mr Clive Linklater. Tel: 421413. Bookman’s Halt, 127 Bohemia Road, TN37 6RL.
BUILDING Barco Brickwork Domestic & commercial work. 0800 169 6995. 26 Salisbury Rd.
BAKERS Cake Box
Sussex Ambulance Service, Ambulance Station, Bohemia Road, TN34 1ET.
Contemporary paintings and prints on canvas, including portraits of people, pets, etc. Tel: 721566. 45–7 Bohemia Road.
BOOKS Bookman’s Halt
Natwest Bank Silverhill branch of Natwest Bank. Tel: 0845 610 1234. Natwest Bank plc, 142 London Road.
BETTING Bet Bet Bet 24/7 Independent bookmaker. Robert & Adam Prior, Dan Holmes, Miss Emily Halfacre, cashier. Tel: 444044. 43 Bohemia Road.
Barco Full range of building services for domestic and commercial clients, including construction, painting & decorating, plumbing, brickwork, roofing, bathrooms, disabled adaptations, wet rooms. Mon–Fri: 8am to 6pm. Established 2001. Peter Price, director. Ian Paton, general manager. 0800 169 6995. Barco Brickwork & Roofing Co. Ltd, 26 Salisbury Road, TN37 6RX. barco@brickwork.org.uk www.brickwork.org.uk
Bracey & Brown Decorators, general building, maintenance. Mon–Fri: 8am to 5pm. Tel: 713434. Mob: 07790 983491. 3 Cornfield Terrace.
George Stone Main building contractor, specialising in refurbishment, alteration, renovation and extension. Tel: 436166. Fax: 420603. George Stone Limited, 10 Tower Road West, TN38 0RG.
Parsons, Bob Builders. Brickwork, roofing, plastering, painting & decorating. Tel: 200135. Mob: 07979 502842. Bob Parsons Building, 14, Bohemia Road, TN37 6RB.
Travis Perkins Builder’s merchants, timber merchants Tel: 424300. Travis Perkins Ltd, Springfield Valley Road, TN38 0RP. www.travisperkins.co.uk
April 2007 BUSINESS SERVICES 1066 Enterprise Business advice, support, training, Tel: 205500. Summerfields Business Centre, Horntye Park, Bohemia Road.
Bizfizz Government-funded business counselling service for new businesses. Clive Gross, Tel: 205509. Mob: 07771 645263.
CAFES & RESAURANTS See also ‘Takeaway Food’
A21 Café Cafe for lunch or breakfast. Tel: 433375. 96, Bohemia Road.
Bohemia Village Voice Church Tel: 443030. Mike Ward (retired minister), tel: 460727. The church was established in 1886. Park Road Methodist Church, Upper Park Road.
St Matthews Church London Road, Silverhill.
St Peter’s Church Revd Alex Brown. Tel: 445606 and 446606. Mob: 07759 311375. Address (church): St Peter’s Church, St Peter’s Road. Address (vicarage): St Peter’s Vicarage, 10 Blomfield Road. apeter-aidan@lineone.net
Apex Southern
A21 Café
Café 67 Café. Tel: 423291. 67, Bohemia Road.
Café 67 Wide range of eat-in and takeaway meals. Specials every day, including goulash, curry and chilli con carne, and traditional English dishes. Full English breakfast available all day. Mon–Fri: 7.30am to 2.30pm, Sat: 8.00am to 2.30pm. Sue & Loraine. Tel: 423291. 67 Bohemia Road Talay Thai Thai restaurant. Open seven days a week, 6pm to 11pm. Mrs Noppamas Barnes, chef and proprietor. Tel: 721852. 249 London Road. charles@talay-thai.co.uk www.talay-thai.co.uk
CHURCHES Park Road Church
Apex Southern
Dentists Drs Badrbeigi & Katterman. Tel: 433666. Emergencies: 850792. NHS Direct: 0845 4647. 56 Chapel Park Road.
Fancy dress for adults and children, face paints, wigs, accessories. Emily. Tel: 720733. 77 Bohemia Road, . www.masqueradefancydress.com
DISABLED EQUIPMENT Breckland Mobility Mechanical aids for the elderly and disabled. Tel: 438300 and 0800 783 8205. Mob: 07780 995413. 35 Tower Road.
Fed up with dog mess in your street? Contact the Community Information Centre. See entry under ‘Info Centres’.
ELECTRICAL
Clothes cleaning. Tel: 465006. 62 Bohemia Road, TN37 6RQ.
New & used washing machines, fridges, etc. Tel: 424282. 74 Bohemia Road. [See advert]
Tower Launderette
Battle Electronic Services
Launderette. Tel: 447889. Tower Launderette, 140 London Road.
Specialist commercial microwave engineers. Tel: 447799. Fax: 447070. 52 Bohemia Road, TN37 6RQ.
COMPUTERS KC Computers
Bohemia Lighting
Computers and accessories, sales and service. Visa, Delta, Mastercard, Switch. Kim Callow. Tel: 203799, 714713 and 08717 500202. 261 London Road, TN37 6NB. sales@kccomputers.co.uk www.kccomputers.co.uk
Lamps and bulbs, including specialist items. The premises also house Security First. Maurice or Annette Dunford. Tel: 427550. 71 Bohemia Road.
COURTS County Court The court deals with civil cases for debt, damages, repossession and bankruptcy. The family-section work involves divorce, Children’s Act cases and familylaw injunctions, e.g. domestic violence. Tel: 435128; listing section: 445115; bailiffs’ office (9–10am): 461966. Hastings County Court, the Law Courts, Horntye Park, Bohemia Road, TN34 1QX. www.hmcourts-service.gov.uk
Magistrates’ Court Magistrates’ court. Tel: 437644. Hastings Magistrates’ Court, The Law Courts, Bohemia Road.
CYCLES Hastings Cycles
Methodist Church. Church services: Sunday at 10.15am and 6.30pm. Minister: the Rev’d Marion Proud, tel: 422350.
Masquerade
Appliance Master Newman’s Cleaners
Retail and repair of cycles for the whole family. Tel: 446886. Hastings Cycles Ltd, 75 Bohemia Road, TN37 6RG. sales@hastingscycles.co.uk www.hastingscycles.co.uk
FANCY DRESS
The Dental Surgery
DOG MESS CLEANING 48 Bohemia Road, Tel. 457770.
Eat-in or takeaway 7 days a week Lunch or Breakfast Specials every day Tel: 433375 96 Bohemia Road
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Sound & Vision TV/Video/Audio Repairs Free estimates if equipment brought into shop 321 Old London Road Ore Village, Hastings Ian Harrison 01424 435462 ENTERTAINMENT South East Entertainment Entertainment for any occasion, from small birthday parties, to stag and hen nights, weddings and concerts. Mr S. Wood. Tel: 446691. 2B Tower Road West. djsw@hotmail.co.uk www.seents.co.uk
FIRE Fire Brigades Union Administration office. Tel: 447700. Fire Brigades Union, Fire Station, Bohemia Road, TN34 1EX.
Fire Station Fire station. Open 24/7, 365 days a year. Mr Mark Webb, station officer. Tel: 01323 462166. Bohemia Community Fire Station, Bohemia Road, TN34 1EX.
Ultra Safe Fire Solutions Fire extinguishers. Design and installation of fire-sprinkler systems. Tel: 719563. Ultra Safe Fire Solutions, 263 London Road, TN37 6NB.
FISHING S.H. Tackle Angling supplies. Live bait. Tel: 431583. S.H. Tackle Angling Supplies, 58 Bohemia Road, TN37 6RQ.
FLOWERS Flower Shop Fresh flowers, bouquets, wreaths, artificial flowers. Sue. Tel: 423377 and 429464. The Flower Shop, 46 Bohemia Road, TN37 6RQ.
FUNERALS Co-operative Funeralcare Provides support, care and reassurance to families 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Tel: 444325. 233 London Road, TN37 6LU.
FURNITURE Gordon Busbridge Family-owned company, selling quality bedding, carpets, curtains and fitted furniture. Tel: 420368. 289–97 London Road. sales@busbridges.co.uk www.busbridges.co.uk
GIFTS Eversfield Food & Gifts Gift shop. Tel: 437961. Eversfield Food & Gifts, 257 London Road.
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A&M Glaziers Traditional glass and glazing merchants. Domestic and commercial breakages. Tel. 717161. 235 London Road.
Scott James Windows, doors and conservatories. Tel: 431422 and 435229. Scott James Home Improvements Ltd, 64 Bohemia Road, TN37 6RQ. jim@scottjameswindows.co.uk
GREETINGS CARDS Roseanna & Brian’s Gifts and bespoke greetings cards. Tel: 715392. 130 London Road.
GROCERS Alldays Supermarket, owned by the Coop. Wines and spirits, cigarettes, newspapers, groceries and lottery tickets. There is also a Paypoint, where TV licences and bills for electricity, gas and water can be paid for, and phonecards, bus and train tickets can be purchased. Mr Alan Derosa. Tel: 423875. Alldays Supermarket, 45–7 Bohemia Road, TN37 6RE.
Bohemia Foodmarket Supermarket. Due to be opened 2007. Mr Masood Iqbal. Tel: 07814 866473. Bohemia Foodmarket, 68–70 Bohemia Road.
Lidl Supermarket Mon–Sat: 8am to 10pm, Sun: 11am to 5pm. Nick, manager. Tel: 0870 444 1234. Lidl GmbH, Bohemia Road.
HAIRDRESSING Dominic’s Barber Shoppe Gents’ hairdressers. Contact: Dominic. Tel: 712252. Dominic’s Barber Shoppe, 119 Bohemia Road, TN37 6RL.
Flickers Local hair salon offering all aspects of ladies’ and gents’ hairdressing. Peter Feist. Tel: 439621. Flickers, 16 Tower Road.
Waves Ladies’ and gents’ hairdressers. Tue, Thu, Fri: 8.30am to 5pm, Wed: 8.30am to 4pm, Sat: 8.30am to 1pm, closed Mondays. Estab. 1981. Mrs Val Easton, proprietor, and Mrs Chris Harvey. Tel: 426872. Waves Hairdressers, 73 Bohemia Road, TN37 6RG.
HOTELS & Guest Houses
Summerfields House Guest house. Luxury en-suite rooms, family suite, disabled suite, open all year. Estab. 2001. Mrs E. O’Rourke or Alfredo. Tel: 718142. Summerfields House, Bohemia Road, TN34 1EX. liz.summerfields@btinternet.com www.summerfieldshouse.co.uk
Tower House Hotel Hotel. Tower House Hotel, Tower Road West. www.towerhousehotel.com
Travelodge Hotel Room rates: £10, £15, £26, £49 per room per night. Prices are per room, not per person. The £10, £15, and £26 rates are only available via the internet. Open 24/7, 365 days per year. Estab. Dec 2005. Mr Adam Griffiths. Tel. (central reservations): 0870 085 0950, (hotel – direct number): 0870 191 1810. Travelodge Hotel, Bohemia Road, TN34 1ET. www.travelodge.co.uk
INFORMATION CENTRE Community Info Centre Run by Gensing and Central St Leonards Community Forum. The forum consults with the community on issues that affect their quality of life, and reports those views to the service providers. It holds meetings at various venues around the area. All incidents of dog fouling, noise nuisance, dumped cars, litter and rubbish dumping, etc. in Gensing and Central St Leonards can be reported to the Information Centre. Sylvia Bennett. Tel: 438291. 16 Silchester Road, St Leonards.
INSURANCE WBM Insurance All types of business insurance, plus home, private, car and travel, etc. Mon–Fri: 9am to 5pm, Sat: 9am to 12 noon. Estab. 1970. George Ware and Steve Mann. Tel: 434675. Fax: 716420. WBM Insurance Services, Bohemia House, 78 Bohemia Road, TN37 6RN. waremann@aol.com www.wbminsurance.co.uk
KEYS LOCKS SECURITY Hastings Locksmiths Locksmiths and key-cutting service. Safes. Door furniture. Ian Burt. Tel: 432882. 59 Bohemia Road, TN37 6RE.
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Mick’s
GL Sanctuary
Key-cutting, dry cleaning, handbags, watch batteries, watch straps, shoe repairs. Mick Triggs. Tel: 201775. 253 London Road.
Health & beauty salon. Pamper parties for groups, plus bridal, teen and other packages. Tel: 721890 and 07791 899904. GL Sanctuary, 72 Bohemia Road.
Mick’s for keys & shoe repairs Security First Supplies intruder alarm systems, servicing, and CCTV. Locks, safes, fire alarms, key-cutting. Tels: 427550. 07973 322697. 71 Bohemia Road, TN37 6RG.
KITCHENS Country Kitchens Hand-built kitchen unit manufacturer. Tel: 438148. Country Kitchens, 35B Tower Road.
HKS Kitchens
James Caspian Hypnotherapy. Tel: 714647. 21, St Paul’s Road.
Slimming World Meets at Park Road Methodist Church Hall, Wednesdays 5:30 and 7:00pm. Denise: 440293.
MOTORS Autopoint Hastings Wide range of services for all makes of cars. Tel: 718700. 221–9 London Road.
Autotec Car repairs, servicing, MOT and repairs. Car sales. Dennis. Tel: 07802 648374. Autotec, 30B St Peter’s Road.
Bohemia Motors Kitchens, bedrooms, bathrooms, studies. Gemma Richardson. Tel: 443464. Fax: 719966. HKS Kitchens, 138 London Road, hastings@hks-uk.com
LITTER & RUBBISH Litter or dumping of rubbish in your street or area? Contact the Community Information Centre see under ‘Info Centres’.
MANUFACTURERS
Car repairs and servicing of all makes and models. Mon–Fri: 8.30am to 5.30pm. Tel: 421205. Upper South Road.
Cassidy’s Car Mechanics Car & van repairs. 8.30-6.00pm Mon-Sat. Tel. 221133. Unit 1, Salisbury Yard, Salisbury Road.
Destination Mx Major makes of new and used moto-cross bikes. Tel: 439767. Destination Mx, 18B Tower Road, www.destmx@aol.com
Top Gun Clothing
Garage on the Green
Specialist clothing manufacturers for the sportswear market. Suppliers of shooting, sailing and fishing gear. Mr Ron Salt. Tel: 719734 and 719707. Top Gun Clothing Ltd, 2 Shornden Passage, Upper Park Road, TN37 6SG. ron@topgunclothing.co.uk www.topgunclothing.co.uk
Retail car sales. 718080. The Green, St Leonards, East Sussex. www.garageonthegreen.com
Garage on the Green Vehicle repairs and servicing, all makes catered for. Tel: 425599. 12 Tower Road West, TN38 0RG.
MIND BODY SPIRIT Air Tan & Nails Manicurists. Tel: 461200. Air Tan & Nails, 241 London Road, TN37 6LU.
Bohemia Counselling Offers humanistic, person-centred counselling and psychology. Tel: 722923. 133A Bohemia Road.
Eden Crystal Healing Crystal healing, reflexology, readings and advice. Evenings. Emma Langley. 07756 434960. Flat 2, 42 Church Road,
Keep your car in the pink ... phone the Green: 425599 M Hall Motor Services Vehicle repairs. Malcolm Hall. Tel: 07773 216363. M. Hall Motor Services, Shornden Works, Upper Clarence Road.
April 2007 Imperial Motor Company
Imperial Motor Company Car sales. Tel: 442200. 209–19 London Road, TN37 6LU. www.imperialmotorcompany.com
Resto Classics Air-cooled specialists. Original Ersatzteile. Upper Clarence Rd.
Bohemia Village Voice High Spirits
Foster, Michael
Newsagents, confectioners, tobacconists & off-licence. Mr Thivakaran. Tel: 460996. High Spirits, 255 London Road.
MP’s office for Michael Foster, Member of Parliament for Hastings and Rye. Tel: 460070. Fax: 460072. Michael Foster, DL, MP, 84 Bohemia Road, TN37 6RN. mp@1066.net www.michaelfoster.labour.co.uk
PETS Hassan Pet Supplies Pet foods and supplies. Mr & Mrs Terry and Anne Adams. Tel: 421358. Hassan Pet Supplies, 105 Bohemia Road.
Shell Service Station Petrol & diesel supplies, logs, coal, newspapers, off-licence, grocery. Tel: 728950 or 0800 731 8888. Bohemia Road.
T&D Auto Repairs MOT repairs, welding, servicing. Tel: 07885 719769. Studio Workshop, Upper Clarence Rd.
TW Car Sales Car sales. Low-mileage, lowownership cars. Tel: 719888. TW Car Sales Ltd, 17 Tower Road, TN37 6JE. www.twcarsales.com
MUSEUMS Hastings Museum Museum and art gallery. Closed for refurbishment, re-opening summer 2007. 0845 2741052. St John’s Place, Bohemia Road.
MUSIC & DANCE Opera South-East
PHARMACIES Bloom’s Pharmacy Pharmacy service to the community, including home delivery. Healthcare products, homeopathic products, various toiletries, incontinence preparations for the elderly and disabled, and a broad selection of baby products. Mr Stan Steadman, pharmacist. Dispensary tel: 421072; Shop tel: 200255. 55–7 Bohemia Road, TN37 6RE.
PHOTOGRAPHY Fairytale Photos Tel: 420588. 68-70, Sedlescombe Road South, St Leonards, TN38 0TJ.
Constituency offices for the Hastings & Rye Labour Party. Voluntary organisation. Estab. at Bohemia Road in 1994. Tel: 424125. Hastings & Rye Labour Party, 84 Bohemia Road, TN37 6RN.
Poulter, Daniel Conservative councillor for Gensing ward. Tel: 713696. Work: 431876. Mob: 07947 427125. Daniel Poulter, 28 The Alexandra, TN37 6QP. drdanielpoulter@doctors.net.uk
Stevens, Richard Lib-Dem leader on Hastings Borough Council. Ward representative for Old Hastings and Clive Vale and parliamentary spokesperson for the Lib-Dems. Tel: 781026. Address (for correspondence): Richard Stevens, The Town Hall, Queen’s Road, Hastings. Home: 11 Bayeux Court, TN37 6RZ.
PLUMBING Leeves, Simon
POLICE Hastings Police Station
Local pro-am opera company who perform two operas each year. 443316. 111 Bohemia Road
NEWSAGENTS Munday’s Newsagents Newsagents, confectioners, tobacconists, greetings cards, newspaper delivery. Credit Union meets here on Mondays, 910am. Shop open Mon–Sat: 5am to 6pm, Sun: 6.30am to 1pm. Terry Foord. 437233. 54 Bohemia Rd.
Labour Party
Plumbing & heating engineer. Corgi-registered. Tel: 444362. Mob: 07940 791116. Fax: 426731. Simon Leeves, 11 Aldborough Road, TN37 6SE.
This is run by Sussex Police. The police station itself is open seven days a week from 8am to midnight. Tel: dial 999 in an emergency, or for non-urgent calls dial 0845 60 70 999. To give information anonymously call 0800 555 111. Hastings Police Station, Bohemia Road, TN34 1JJ. www.sussex.police.uk
Andy Hubbard
Woods
Newsagents Tel: 443340. 86–88 Bohemia Road
Bohemia Post Office closed in 2004. The nearest post offices are located at Silverhill and in Springfield Road.
Hercules PO Post office counter, groceries and lottery. Tel: 712272. 45 Springfield Road.
Hercules (Premier) Post Office Groceries - Lottery Off-licence Tel: 712272 45, Springfield Road Silverhill PO Post office. Sedlescombe Road North, Silverhill.
PROPERTY Arko Property Property-management company. Tel: 439786. Mob: 07974 444112. 123 Bohemia Road. arkoproperty@aol.com
Arko Property Management Property-management company managing blocks of flats for freeholders and lessees who want to take over the maintenance of their building by setting up ‘right-to-manage’ companies. Tel: 439786. Mob: 07974 444112. 123 Bohemia Road TN37 6RL arkoproperty@aol.com
Residential lettings and property development. Mon–Fri: 8.30am to 5.30pm. Estab. 1988. R.B. Beswick, managing director. Residential letting enquiries: 0870 752 2540. New homes: 08707 522542. The Park Lane Group, 141–5 Bohemia Road, TN37 6RL. mail@parklanegroup.net www.parklanegroup.net
POLITICIANS Bond, Vivienne Lib-Dem councillor for Gensing ward since 2004. She is a member of the Planning and Traffic Management Committees, and the Youth Forum. She is also on the boards of the YMCA, Horntye Park Sports Complex and the Hastings Community Housing Association. Vivienne is also on the Gensing & Central St Leonards Community Forum. Her term lasts until 2008. Tel: 720096 and 781035. 13 Aldborough Road, TN37 6SE. cllr.vivienne.bond@hastings.gov.uk
POST OFFICES Bohemia PO
The Park Lane Group
Wood’s Newsagents Newspaper deliveries, tobacco, confectionery, greengrocer’s. Open seven days a week from 5am to 6pm. Dorothy Wood and Keith A. Wood. Tel: 443340. Wood’s Newsagents, 86–8 Bohemia Road, TN37 6RN.
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To contact our local street bobby direct, call 0845 60 70 999 and dial extension 21185. This takes you straight through to Andy. If he’s busy, he’ll ring you back as soon as he’s free.
PUBS & CLUBS Conservative Club Billiards, darts, shove ha’penny, cribbage. Open Mon, Tue and Sat from 6.30pm. Vic Chalcraft. Tel: 439827. Upper South Road.
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Dripping Spring A CAMRA-award-winning public house. Terry, manager. Tel: 434055. The Dripping Spring, Tower Road.
North Star Inn Public house. Food served. Tel: 436576. North Star Inn, Clarence Road, TN37 6SD.
Tower Hotel Public house. The Tower Hotel, Tower Road.
Wheatsheaf Public house. Duncan, manager. The Wheatsheaf, 172 Bohemia Road.
RESIDENTIAL HOMES
SOLICITORS Body, Richard Solicitors who take on criminal defence cases funded by legal aid. Estab. 1999. Mon–Fri: 9am to 5pm. Richard Body. Tel: 201301. 66 Bohemia Road.
SPORTS CENTRES Horntye Park Sports Centre Sports centre, banqueting, conferences, meeting rooms, wedding receptions, parties. seven days a week, from 8.30am to 11.00pm. Tel (reception): 716666. Bohemia Road. kevinmiller@horntyepark.org www.horntyepark.org
Streatfield House
Summerfields Sports Centre
Residential home for adults with learning difficulties or disabilities. Incorporating the Evelyn Juden Day Care Centre. Estab. 1982. Mr & Mrs T. Mahoney, owners, and Mrs G. Clusker, manager. Tel: 439103. Streatfield House, Cornfield Terrace, TN37 6JD. gillclusker@hotmail.com
Swimming. Squash. Badminton. Mr Stuart Crawford. Tel: 781777. Summerfields Sports Centre, Bohemia Road, TN34 1ET.
SCHOOLS
Sports centre & youth club. Roller skating, badminton court, afterschool clubs, activity clubs, chess club, senior-citizens’ sports, judo, warhammer club, skate-hockey club, after-school football, roller disco. Karen Manning, Dennis Richards. Tel: 429677. St Paul’s Road.
Christchurch School Church of England primary school. Mrs Anne Hannay, headteacher. Tel: 422953. Christchurch C of E School, 34 Woodland Vale Road, TN37 6JJ.
St Mary’s School
St Paul’s School Church of England primary school. Office hours: Mon–Fri: 8.30am to 4pm. Children’s school hours: 9am to 3pm. Estab. 1870. Mrs Pat Lock. Tel: 424530. Fax: 717350. St Paul’s Church of England Primary School, Horntye Road, TN37 6RT. office@st-paulscofe-pri.e-sussex.sch.uk
SECONDHAND Anthony’s Furniture Second-hand furniture. Anthony. Tel: 200650. Anthony’s Furniture Shop, 269 London Road.
Autrefois Objets d’art, antiques, bric-abrac. Tel: 422070. Autrefois, 247, London Road.
Bric-a-Brac Shop 104
TAKE AWAY FOOD See also Cafés & Restaurants
Base Pizza Pizzas, pastas and tortilla wraps, salads, side orders and desserts to take away. There are also special offers on Mondays and Tuesdays. Open: 3pm to 11.30pm, seven days a week. Free delivery after 5pm. Martin. Tel: 201120. Base Pizza, 99 Bohemia Road, Sussex.
China Kitchen
STREET WARDENS
Healthy Chinese food to take away. Free delivery on local orders over £13.50. Open 7 days per week: 5pm to 11pm. Fri & Sat: also open 11.30am to 2pm. Tel: 435279. China Kitchen, 30 Tower Road. Takeaway curry food. Tel: 200451. The Curry Hut, 51 Bohemia Road, TN37 6RE. Fast-food takeaway opening in March 2007. Tel: 435328. Contact: Ali. 87 Bohemia Road.
Frydays Traditional fish & chips. Tel: 461391. 53 Bohemia Road, TN37 6RE. [See advertisement]
Pizza Hut
Amanda
Silver River
To contact Amanda, the street warden co-ordinator, ring 783242 during office hours or 0845 274 1099 after 5pm.
Family-run Chinese takeaway food business. Tue–Thu: 5.30pm to 10.30pm, Fri, Sat: 5.30pm to 11pm, Sun: 5.30pm to 10.30pm. Tel: 433439. 56 Bohemia Road.
To report antisocial behaviour ring 0800 854 5000.
Typesetting service. Paul Baker. Tel: 441390. 11 Cloudesley Rd. shepherdmaster@aol.com
UPHOLSTERY Gooch Upholstery Re-covering antique and modern furniture. Mr A.M. Gooch. Tel: Workshop: 200301. Home: 717129. Mob: 07803 899682. 35C, Tower Road.
Delight Express
To contact our local street wardens ring lead warden Sue Dedman on 07883 038 378.
Antisocial Behaviour
Ceramic wall and floor tiles and suspended-ceiling specialists. Free measuring and estimating service, plus a tiling fixing service by professional tilers. The showroom is open Mon–Fri: 9am to 5pm, Sat: 9am to 3.30pm. Estab. 1982. Mr Barrie Pitman. Tel: 446613. Mob: 07973 176554. Tile Design, 2 Upper Park Road, TN37 6SJ. tiledesign.contracts@virgin.net www.tiledesigncontracts.co.uk
TYPESETTING
Pizza delivery and takeaway in the Hastings & St Leonards area. Tel: 728866. Fax: 422806. Pizza Hut, 172A Bohemia Rd. www.pizzahut.co.uk
Sue Dedman
TILES Tile Design
1066 Typesetting
Curry Hut
hastingsymca@hastingsymca.plus.com
Roman Catholic primary school. Mrs Jane Smith, headteacher. Tel: 427801. St Mary Star of the Sea Roman Catholic Primary School, Magdalen Road, TN37 6EU.
Opens occasionally, Bohemia Road.
YMCA Sports Centre
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TAXIS
VIDEO & DVD Visual Magic DVD and game rental and sales. Open seven days a week from 2pm to 10pm. Estab. 1981. Mr Matt Carter. Tel: 445578. Visual Magic, 81–3 Bohemia Road, TN37 6RJ. visual-magic@hotmail.co.uk www.visual-magic.biz
WOOL Karina’s Wool Shop Tel: 712226. 131, Bohemia Road.
Karina’s Wool Shop Stockist of Sirdar & Stylecraft wools, as well as cottons, needles and knitted baby clothes. Mon, Tue, Thur, Fri: 9am to 5pm, Wed, Sat: 9am to 1pm. Tel: 712226. 131 Bohemia Road
Crown Taxis SWIMMING POOLS The only local public swimming pool is at Summerfields Sports Centre. See under ‘Sports Centres’, above.
Chris Thayre Swimming pools. Tel. 439831. Shornden Passage, Upper Park Road.
Local firm. 855855. 07900 333 829.
Crown Taxis Small local family firm offering a good honest personal service. Sun–Wed: 8am to 12 midnight, Thu–Sat: 8am to 3am. 4-seater saloon cars. Any journey within a 200-mile range, incl all London airports. Tel: 855855. Mob: 07900 333829
YOUTH CLUBS YMCA See ‘YMCA’ Centres’.
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Car Repairs & Servicing 01424 421205 07956 308213
Tel: 01424 435328 4.00pm to 1.00am UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT
Seven days a week Home delivery: min order £7 Ali Baba says: “It’s the best kebab in town” Delight Express 87, Bohemia Road, St Leonards-on-Sea, TN37 8RJ 46
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New Systems, Upgrades, Components, Inks and CD Media www.kccomputers.co.uk 261 London Road St Leonards on Sea East Sussex TN37 6NB
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Gooch Upholstery Specialists in re-covering antique and modern furniture A.M. Gooch Upholstery 35C Tower Road, Bohemia Village Tel: Workshop: 200301. Home: 717129. Mobile: 07803 899682.
HYPNO-PSYCHOTHERAPY
Wednesdays 5.30pm and 7pm Park Road Methodist Church Hall Telephone: Denise 440293
Make positive changes and achieve your goals in life: fears and phobias stop smoking and other unwanted habits - relieve pain, stress, anxiety weight issues - improve sport/exam performance & many other areas
James Caspian BA (Hons), NRHP (Assoc) 01424 714647. Mobile: 07939 542632 Member of the National Register of Hypnotherapists and Psychotherapists www.nrhp.co.uk
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