Local History Resources
Backstage Brighton: Theatre-going in Brighton and Hove
The Starlit Room, Hotel Metropole
Menus and photographs from 1960s and early 1970s
A Girl Guide's diary
Diary of Florence Guile, 1924-5
Home town thoughts from Hove
Memoir of Bill Thurley, 1930-1950
The prisoner's concealed pencil
Memoir of Arthur Sanders, 1914-1918
I am very pleased with Beryl
School reports for Beryl Moppett, 1937-1939
A most generous parcel
Letters from Arthur Jolly, 1948
Cricketing correspondence
Letters to Harry Osborne, 1927-1997
The last time I went to the beach
Memoir of Patricia Tongue (1936-1949)
20 Pelham Square
Conveyancing document, 6th Nov 1916
In the Land of Buckshee
A memoir by Ralph Watts covering 1919-1939
A talk on the Gnamula Tribe, 1921
Letters and photos relating to Emile Clement (1844-1928)
Love letter from a dug-out
Letters of Jack Leech, 1915-1918
Sprouting at all different heights
Travel journal of Sharon Forsdyke, 1991
After the Great Storm
Diary of Trevor Povey, Oct 1987
A diary of clothes!
Diary extract from Elaine Evans, 1971
My Victory Book
Schoolbooks of Margaret Hutchings, 1945-1947
Landslip at Black Rock
Postcard from Annie Ross, 1917
Men take the boulders from Black Rock
A complaint to the town commissioners, 1844
My love from Nigeria
Letter from Jack Bethell, 1915
Skating through the Home Guard
Papers and photos of Reginald Moores, 1940s
A colourful life in verse
A soliloquy by Martin Van Buren Bligh, 1904
Convalescing in the Royal Pavilion
A postcard from William Griffiths, 1915
A beautiful girl with a glass eye
Letters from Robert Gregory, 1942-1945
Please come for me, Mother
Letter from a homesick child, 1887
A soldier missing, then found!
Letter relating to Frederick Langridge, 1942
A Baha'i funeral
Papers relating to the funeral of Habibollah Mohebati, 1991
Watching from another planet
Diary of a Hove Mayoress, 1988
In memory of these glorious days
A postcard from the Boer War, 1900
A girl of excellent character
Letter of reference for Eileen Odom, nee Pickett, 1942
A life in Brighton
Reminiscences of Ronald Arthur Kessler, 1904-1993
Thanks from J. Lyons
Letter to Millie Lander, 1944
A Victorian schoolgirl writes to her parents
Letters from St Mary's Hall school, 1838-1840
Straight down to the beach
Diaries of Ross Reeves, 2004
Origin of the name 'Brighton'
Letter from John George Bishop, 1907
Entertaining a lady friend
A landlord writes to Michael Crane, 1968
When I am gone
Letter to Sarah Sinden, 1886
Too ill to sail with HMS Hood
Charles Mitchell's release from the Navy, 1946
Prisoner of War post
Letter to Albert Stanford, 1945
Writing in the style of Dylan Thomas
Schoolgirl essays by Beryl Payne, 1961
Free access to Bletchley Park
Correspondence of a radio enthusiast and spy, 1938-2001
Applying for vacancy as advertised
Letter from Thomas Fairchild, 1928
A Brighton girl grows up
Memoir of Margaret Ann Rich, 1936-54
I expect you want a wedding cake
Letters of childhood sweethearts, 1933
This is my life
Extracts from the memoir of Arthur Henry Collins, 1896-99
Three generations of a Hove family
Papers and photos of the Elliott family, 1910-23
Found under the floorboards
Papers from 82 Preston Drove, Brighton, 1906-15
Duties of a Special Constable, 1914
Papers related to the Smart family (1917-90)
Record Shop Tour
The ones I can't remember!
Record Shop Tour
Megawatz, 55 Preston Street
Record Shop Tour
Two Way Books, 54 Gardner Street
Record Shop Tour
Brighton Rock, 11 Sydney Street
Record Shop Tour
Recordland, 40 Trafalgar Street
Record Shop Tour
Fine Records, 19 Brighton Square
Record Shop Tour
Street Sounds, 40 Sydney Street
Record Shop Tour
Miles Ahead, 61 Queens Road
Record Shop Tour
Vinyl Demand, 92a Trafalgar Street
Record Shop Tour
Tilbury Gig, 123 St James's Street
Record Shop Tour
L&H Cloake, Churchill Square
Record Shop Tour
B. Cooke, 6 The Broadway
Record Shop Tour
Sounds Unlimited, 149 North Street
Record Shop Tour
The Leisure Shop, 36 North Road
Record Shop Tour
The Record Album, 34 North Road
Record Shop Tour
The Record Box, 24a Gloucester Road
Record Shop Tour
Brunswick Exchange, 41 Brunswick Street East
Record Shop Tour
The Diskery, 86 Western Road
Record Shop Tour
The Cottage, 111 Church Street
Record Shop Tour
An Introduction
Hove 'prom'
Promenade and the Lawns
Pelham Square
A detailed history
BHASVIC Sixth Form College
Past and Present Association
Buses
Memories from a 1960s BH&D conductor: Part 3
Buses
Memories from a 1960s BH&D conductor: Part 2
Buses
Memories from a 1960s BH&D conductor: Part 1
Brighton Tigers
Team photos: 1950-1955
Brighton Tigers
Team photos: 1935-1950
News and updates
Website volunteer wins Silver Surfer award
St Anne's Well Gardens
Postcards from a bygone age