Wick in 1983

(14.8.1983)

Back to Wick by Littlehampton again. I've got a huge store of images from the 80s of both Wick and Littlehampton. I'm glad I got these - they are all dated in some way and many show buildings that have since been demolished. Facebook groups go mad for these as I don't think anyone else had the foresight to take random everyday shots like these back in the days when you had to be careful how much film you used!

This shot of Wick Street (I used to live at number 29) is pretty much the same today although the cars will have changed! Wick is locally called 'HMP Wick' as it has a rough reputation but it's not too bad!

wick 1981

This was the view out of our upstairs window - and still is as my nan still lives in this house! She's been there since the 1930s. The cars date this picture well, the shop names have changed but not much else. This used to be an excellent place for shooting people with the air gun as they came out of Wick Trades and Labour Club, to the far right in this picture.

We also used to superglue fake wage packets to the pavement outside the house and watch the mugs from here. Once we attached a fox stole to a string and pulled it off our front wall through the letterbox. People were terrified. We grew out of this when we hit 40, sadly.

wick floods 9.9.1984

I lived in Wick by Littlehampton back in 1984. Not a lot happened there in the daytime but on 9 September 1984 we had a bit of a rainstorm in the afternoon. This is the scene outside the True Blue pub, now a characterless block of flats. This was my grandad's local and was a hive of activity once with regular fights. I think the chip shop is still there!