Hastings Forum

Hiya, yes i attempted to go round with the wheel in the X position once, but failed. If my memory serves me right i think my dad then came in after us, did the X brace and did the full circle!! How strange about the people gathering in the store room! My brother was always on those Space Invaders, a...

Hi Terry, how funny! im laughing at the way you got so fed up of it! It was a dream for us as kids, and obviously we only got to go in it a couple of times for one week in a year. But I can imagine you as a young teenager (?) working on it how it could become very annoying!! We must have played in i...

Hi thanks for the replies! Terry you were so lucky working on that thing! It was like a fantasy spaceship ride for us at the time! Cant beleive that woman stripteased across the walkway, what blasphemy hahaa!! Although i cant really remember the walkway? I remember the big wheel thing that you had t...

Hi! Does anyone remember The Laughing Machine? It was in an arcade around 1980-1984. As a family we used to come to Hastings from Birmingham for our holidays every year, and my sisters and brother and me used to sooo love playing in the Laughing Machine. I have been told by a lady at Hastings Counci...