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Myke Beckhurst is retiring from the Glass Studio on Eastbourne pier in East Sussex
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07/10/2024
The Glass Studio was established in 1968.
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Well, we've been on the pier for 56 years. We came on in 1968 and we've stayed ever since.
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It's been quite a joy for us and quite an experience really over the years. We've met
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a lot of people and we've had a lot of fun and we've had a lot of interest and we're
00:23
very grateful that people appreciate what we do. Overall, we've been very successful
00:32
and it's rather sad that there's nobody to take over and we have to make a decision to
00:39
draw a line eventually. None of us are getting any younger, I'm afraid.
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Well, one of the highlights when the old Duke of Edinburgh came on to open the Sovereign
00:52
Lightship in the 70s and the then pier manager said, oh, we'll make you something when you
01:00
come back and we made him a polo player on horseback and he was very grateful. He said,
01:06
I hope you have a good season and one of his equestrians took it away. So we don't know
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what happened to that but we've also seen lots of celebrities over the years, Danny
01:19
LaRue and we made a mini piano for Danny LaRue and we've seen lots and lots of different
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people over the years. Tennis stars who used to come on when it was a Pilkington's festival
01:31
for the tennis and Arthur Lowe and Tommy Steele, Norman Wisdom.
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Well during the last fire we had, of course, we couldn't allow them to come on the pier
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so they set up a little pop-up shop for us on the front but of course we couldn't make
01:52
but we could actually sell our models so we ran out that year because we couldn't actually
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make them off the pier but we could sell and that went on for about six months, I think.
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It was quite a long period that time, that fire. And the other fire we had was when the
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Blue Room, the theatre went up on fire which was set on deliberately, we understand, but
02:18
that was the end of the pier show, as we know, it was Sandy Powell and the end of the pier
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show which was, end of pier shows are very famous. What am I going to do? I get asked
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that a lot and I don't really, I've got a lot of jobs obviously, jobs that need doing
02:37
at home that haven't been done over the years but as long as I've got a good book and a good
02:42
bottle of wine I think I'll be all right. And don't forget that glass blowers never retire,
02:48
they just melt away.
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