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Blackman Street

Photographed in January 1959

Blackman Street was acquired by the Council under a Compulsory Purchase Order in 1959. The street survived, but these houses were demolished in 1962.

Photograph of Blackman Street, early 1960s

Donated by Tony Tree

This page was added on 22/03/2006.

Comments:

This photograph was published in 'Backstreet Brighton'and was dated 1960/62. The houses were demolished shortly after though the street remains, overshadowed by Theobald House. The present commercial units which occupy the site of the houses were erected about 20 years later. Hudson's Furniture Depository in nearby Station Street remained until approximately 1980; I can remember the first Comet store opening there in the late seventies. Hudson's used the railway to move furniture in pantechnicons which were loaded on to flat trucks and then horse drawn to their destination.

By John Blackwell (27/02/2005)

I'm sure the building in the background was still standing in 1986 when I first started working in the area.

By Simon Carey (03/03/2005)

I was very interested to find this picture. My great great grandparents, William and Eliza Colebrooke lived and died in Blackman Street between 1840 and 1853, at nos. 35 and 36. Eliza died at noumber 27 in 1853. Is it possible to tell which numbers are shown on this photo?

By Graham Camfield (20/01/2006)

I lived in No.35 Blackman Street for all of my childhood. The family name was Dyson. The numbers shown are from 8 to middle 20s. No 35 was opposite the vehicle shown in this picture.

By Glenys Roberts (14/02/2006)

My great great great grandparents, Edwin and Charlotte Elliott, lived for over 20 years at No 29 which must be just past the truck in the picture. They were living there when they heard that a third son had been killed in WW1.

By Julie Wade (07/06/2006)

My school friend Tony Harris lived in this street in 1953. We both went to Fawcett school.

By Bernard Hill (21/01/2008)

My great great grandparents lived at 29 Blackman Street, Edwin & Charlotte Elliott. Hi Julie, we must be relatives? I am descended from their second eldest son, Arthur Victor Thomas Elliott, born 1876. He lived at No 5 Blackman Street when he married Maud Duke (my great grandmother) she is also from a Brighton family. Yes, Julie is correct, Edwin and Charlotte tragically lost 3 sons in 1917 (Len, Sidney and Douglas) in the Belgium trenches in WWI. I love this website...have learnt so much about old Brighton, such a pity so much of our heritage was pulled down in the 1960's.

By Beverly Daniels (26/05/2008)

My Father Tony Barnard and all his family also lived in Blackman Street and I still have the letters with refrence to the council purchasing the property.

By Mark Barnard (15/06/2008)

My grandmother (Ivy Brown, later Ivy Hammond) lived in Blackman Street. She later lived in Theobold house and I remember in the late 1960s looking out from her 3rd floor flat over to what was left of the tiny houses in Blackman Street. Some of them were still there but were derelict and rather spooky to me then. I miss those houses (and my Nan of course).

By Sean cHapman (26/11/2008)