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Update 2010.
Our eighteenth annual show was held on
the Oval as usual. - click here for map
 Hastings Week - Happy Harold gives free rides along Hastings seafront |
 Hastings Week - Town Criers enjoy a ride on Happy Harold before the National Town Criers Competition |
 Hastings Week - Happy Harold and open-top AEC Regal HKL819 touring Hastings with Town Criers on board |
 Hastings Week - after the ride Town Criers head for the competition |
 Hastings Week - Happy harold and AEC Regal wait in front of the Hastings Town Hall |
 Hastings Week - Sprat & Winkle Run - Happy Harold poses with Miss Hastings - Tamara Gates and AEC Regal and East Kent Dennis JG8720 |
 Hastings Week - Miss Hastings -Tamara Gates is given a tour of Hastings in Happy Harold's cab |
 Hastings Week - Happy Harold sets off for a drive round Hastings |
 Hastings Week - Miss Hastings Tamara Gates poses with Happy Harold's Conductor Derek Masters |
 Hastings Week - after taking part in the closing ceremony these Brownies were given a ride on Happy Harold. |
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 "View from the Top" - this is what the Seafood & Wine festival looked like from Happy Harold's upper deck |
 September 11 Happy Harold participated in Hastings' contribution to Heritage Open Days - taking folk from the Fishermen's Museum, past Trinity Triangle and on to Marine Court, St.Leonards Gardens and the Assembly Rooms / Masonic Hall. |
September 11 Happy Harold outside the Assembly Rooms / Masonic Hall |
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 September 11 Waiting outside the Marine Court exhibition at Marine Court |
 August 30 Bexill 100 annual show at Bexhill's Polegrove. James Braxton of television's Antiques Roadshow having officially opened the proceedings, now poses wth HTRG Chair Ion Castro |
August 30 Bexill 100 annual show at Bexhill's Polegrove. At the end of an avenue of classic Jaguars - Happy Harold. |
 July 24 Happy Harold didn't participate in Bexhill Carnival but he did head the cavalcade of antique and classic bicycles to the Cooden Turning circle, the most westerly reach of Hastings Tramway's Empire. |
 July 23 Happy Harold hosts a fish and chip supper for the society and friends, seen here outside Hastings' finest 'chippy' - the Life Boat Restaurant next to the Cutter Inn - Hastings Old Town. |
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 July 12 The Anthony Gormley exhibition on the roof terrace of Bexhill's iconic De La Warr Pavilion in the distance - Happy Harold |
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 July 10 Happy Harold outside Bexhill's iconic De la Warr Pavilion. he could have been seen in exactly the same spot 74 years ago when the Pavilion was being built! |
 June 30th Happy Harold took a party from Bexhill High School to their prom at the Powdermills Hotel in Battle |
 June 30th Happy Harold took a party from Bexhill High School to their prom at the Powdermills Hotel in Battle. Having dropped the kids off he prepares to return home. |
 June 5 Happy Harold at Brede Village Fair |
 June 5 Happy Harold at Brede Village Fair |
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 27th March, Paused in Hastings Town Centre, the Muskrat Ramblers entertain the crowds. |
 27th March, paused in Hastings Town Centre with cavalcade of classic cars behind - just visible is the Wolseley from 'Foyles War' |
 27th March, at the foot of Hastings' East Hill Lift, the 'up' car has just passed the down car. The cars are joined together so that the weight of the down car helps to raise the up car. |
 27th March, view from the lower lift station with 'Happy Harold', the Hastings Fishermen's Museum - housed in the former fishermen's church and some of the Museum's display of boats. |
 21st March The snapper snapped, Webmaster and Trolleybus Group Chair Ion Castro is caught by Steve Peak using the 'bus as a vantage point to get photos of the Hastings Half Marathon. |
 21st March, Hastings Half Marathon Day. Race Director Eric Hardwick is interviewed by Meridian News |
 21st March, we try the route for the re-opening of the country's steepest funicular railway, Hastings' East Hill Lift. |
| In 2009 as a result of an incident with an unmarked low bridge in Belgium 'Happy Harold' sustained damage to the gantries holding the trolley poles, these have now been replaced. We took advantage of the lack of poles to get the vehicle its class 5 MoT last October (we had to take the poles off to get it into the testing bay the previous year) on the way to the MoT the short prop between the two back axles failed and a new one was commissioned from Bailey Morris. All this delayed any outings until Hastings Half Marathon on 21st March. |  Spring 2010 Outside Bewick Engineering awaiting the refitting of the gantries. |
 Spring 2010 On the back step, prior to fitting,The prop shaft that joins the twin axles (both rear axles are powered) |
 Spring 2010 Back in the depot, the second trolley boom is hoisted up to the roof, the 'bus will then be driven underneath and the trolley bases secured. |
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