The Creamery Shop
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The Creamery Shop
Image from the Geoff Wolfe Collection, copyright 1066online
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on 11 Mar 2013 Geoff Wolfe said The first shop to open at No.23 was owned by John Reeves, a shoemaker.
By 1867 it had become an ironmongers run by William Keen. Keen expanded his business throughout Hastings but remained at No.23 until the mid 1890s.
By 1899, No. 23 was in the hands of John Horniman who had tuned it into a refreshment room. Horniman was succeeded in 1914 by Alfred George Ginner, a retired auctioneer.
Ginner's ownership was short-lived and by 1918 it was in the hands of a Mr F J Harris.
Sometime later it became The Creamery (Hastings) Ltd and appears as such in the 1938 Kelly's Directory. The company was eventually wound up in 1973.
It is now the Waterfall Restaurant and gift shop at TN34 1HL, and also trading as Rye Bay Coffee. -
on 31 May 2013 David Fairbrother said In the years immediately before & during WW2, my mother May FAIRBROTHER (nee BALDI) worked here, together with her cousin Elsie COOPER (nee MORTON) Nellie WELLS (nee HODD) Linda GOLDSMITH (nee ROLFE) the Manageress & I believe, the mother of former Hastings MP Michael FOSTER. My father for a time also worked in Robertson Street at a greengrocer & fruiter by the name of (I think) COOPERS, before moving on to work at SPUN CONCRETE of Rye Harbour, before being 'called up" for military service -
on 18 Jan 2014 Merv Evans said remember this business well from growing up in the town.
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on 19 Oct 2014 Richard Porter said My wife's Father owned Coopers Fruiterers and Greengocers from the late 40s until late 60s. Thomas Mears also was Mayor of Hastings, had a warehouse in Winding Street, now Trade Paints.
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on 14 Mar 2015 Jackie Lewis said Ernest Hawkins used to own the Creamery until he died in the late 1950s. He was married to Elsie who died about 6 years earlier. They lived in Bexhill. Arscotts the Bakers were involved. who late had a chain of bakers in the area. One of them worked in the shop. Jethro Arscott became a solicitor diversifying from the family business. Ernest Hawkins also owned 3 groceries in East Sussex. He had a son, Peter Hawkins who wrote for the Evening Argos after the war then The Sunday Pictorial, The News of the World and the People. He wrote several books, one based on a girl from Bexhill called the Daffodil Girls.
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on 13 May 2015 Paula Radice said Hi Geoff - I am doing research on the Quakers in Hastings. John Horniman, who you correctly identify as owning this site, was a Quaker, prominent in Hastings Meeting. Would it be possible to discuss with you the possibility of using this photo in a publication I'm preparing for the Quakers?
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on 24 Jul 2018 Deborah Wilde said My grandmother was manageress of the Creamery - Winifred Skinner she married Tom Mears ( second wife) of the above mentioned Coopers Fruiterers and Greengrocers
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on 22 May 2020 Pat edwardes said My mother worked at the creamery and told us that when the bombs were falling during ww2 she saved the till her name was Ada aka kath
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on 23 Aug 2021 Christine Wright said To Deborah, Tom Mears was my grandfather who owned Coopers Fruiterers and Greengrocers. I was fond of your grandmother after Winifred and Tom married. My family are soon to visit Hastings, I will look out the photo of him in his mayoral robes.
Richard Porter, I suspect your wife is my aunt, Jacqueline. Tom had four children, Thomas, my father Charles, Monty and Jacqueline. -
on 01 Mar 2022 Jessie Pearce nee McKay said I moved to Hastings in 1959 and went to Claverham school in Battle. My first job after leaving school in 1963 my first job was at the Creamery. I believe Elsie was the Manageress. I have a photograph standing with Elsie at the front of the shop. I worked in the cash kiosk for about a year. The washerupper was "old Tom" who introduced me toasted teacakes!
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on 01 Mar 2022 Jessie Pearce nee McKay said I moved to Hastings in 1959 and went to Claverham school in Battle. My first job after leaving school in 1963 my first job was at the Creamery. I believe Elsie was the Manageress. I have a photograph standing with Elsie at the front of the shop. I worked in the cash kiosk for about a year. The washerupper was "old Tom" who introduced me toasted teacakes!
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on 22 Aug 2024 Martyn Simmons said John Reeves, a shoemaker, the first owner of No. 23 was my 2nd Great Grandfather.
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