I remember Boundary Road.  I used to work at Smith's the hardware store, where the manager was Mr Richard Hudson.  Other people who worked there were Douglas Fry, Joan, and Robert. Other shops were Clark's cake shop, there was also a tobacco shop, a baby shop, and a bank on the corner. Hope there is someone else who will remembers these stores. I now live in Australia.

About halfway down on the right side was a J Sainsbury shop. I started work there as a grocery boy in 1956 age 15. I lived in Patcham and cycled there and back every day, all weathers, an 11 mile round trip! My nickname was Buzz! Does anyone remember? I worked there untill I was 18 and then became a butcher and moved to 66 Weston Rd branch. I worked for J S for 12 years. In those days the food was fresh and full of flavour not like todays massed produced offerings.

Hello Ralph, Yes I remember Sainsbury's shop with its very high counters and how they used to use the wooden butter pats to shape the butter. Joan, who I work with at mence smith, her husband was the manager there but I can't remember their last name. Bellmans used to be on the same side and Fords fish shop. I live in Australia but have been back, boundary road ha changed to what it used to be. It was good to here from someone who used to work in Portslade.

I went to work in the chemist called Georges when I first left school. I worked with a girl called Anita who I believe went on to work at a later date for Miss Pecks' chemist up at Hangleton. I got married in 1963 and moved away but have recently moved back into the area. Of course the shop is now longer there but I would be interested if anyone remembers it.

I remember Georges the chemist. It was actually on the Station Road side initially but later moved further up towards the station on the Boundary Road side, close to where Woolworths is. In its original location however, it was close to Fords fish and chips shop (now the Athina B) and may actually have been next door or next door but one to it. Slightly further up on the same side of the road was J Sainsbury's, a car spares / cycle shop (from where my very first pair of jeans came), Bellmans the wool & clothing shop and Vine & Lee's garage / filling station, where Tesco's now stands. I also remember taking camera films to Georges and having to wait around a week for the developed photos to come back.

I remember Boundary Road and Mence Smith's ironmongers. I used to go shopping with mum, go to Sainsbury's, and the greengrocers get vinegar in as bottle.
Then I remember Tescos opening, and yes Bellmans, mum used to get her wool there.
Berry Willett the jewellers. My friend worked in the chemist, her name was Marion Cosham? I remember Miss Peck too, we always went there.
The shoe shop Millwards? Great days.

My Dad was manager of the Millwards shoe shop for the years 1960 to about 1971/2 and we lived over the shop. I can remember the old council offices being pulled down and Fine Fare being built.  I also remeber when they installed the zebra crossing. From 1966 when I left school, I started work at Vine and Lees garage as an apprentice mechanic, I stayed there untill 1971. Sometimes we would have to do petrol pump duty and spend time serving petrol from the pumps over the pavement. Other times we would be polishing cars in the showroom. We would usually buy our our lunch from bakers shop across the road from Vine and Lees.

I remember the old Co-op shop in Boundary Road during the 1950s / early 1960s, where the Post Office was later located, below the Church Road junction. However, I have been told that a second Co-op shop was later situated between Portland Road and the old Woolworth's store until some time in the 1970s. Can anyone confirm this?

Hi Alan, I can confirm the Co-op was between Portland Road and Woolworths. My brother, Will Thompson worked there in that period of the 1970s and I also did a short stint in the same shop. When we were young we both worked part time at Powells the butchers on a Saturday, many moons ago, on the corner of Portland Road making pasties and cleaning etc.

Does anyone know what used to be in place of Woolies/Iceland? Any help would be great thanks.

Woolworths was in that location ever since I can remember in the early to mid 1950s.

I recall in the late 40s early 50s going shopping with my mum and brother and probably sister to Boundary Road, by a 15B bus from Mile Oak. We walked over the railway line to the laundry, which I think was next to a hardware shop, then down to the corner of Vale Road, a library. I think we visited Bellmans, the name rings a bell, and also between Vale Road and the laundry, an icecream shop, with a long counter, a dim memory now. Also wasn't there a shoe store close by. The bus stop for Mile Oak was opposite a couple of small shops, and pub on corner. When we came from Mile Oak the bus stop was opposite a row of shops, and in front of one that later became John's Cameras (John Coleman, with brother Paul) and Watch Repairs (Richard Bragg, my brother in law). It is amazing how ones mind can now picture so much of the "old days". I know Woolworths was on Station Road side, I worked there, for a short time, in the late 50s.

I think I got Boundary Road and Station Road mixed up in my previous comment, re the laundry etc. When a child I never could get it straight, seems I have reverted to being mixed up again...sorry I believe the little cafe towards the bottom of Station Road was once called The Chocolate Box?

I remember Boundary Road so well - remember walking there from my home in New Church Road, and turning right, then right again to visit the dear old Rothbury Cinema with its unique smells. There was a funny little alleyway where there was a jewellers (I think it was called Mussels) and on the other side of the road a haberdashers (was it called Stace's?). My parents bought their first car at Vine & Lees and looking at the Googled photos it does bring back memories. They actually were "good old days".

I worked at the Co-op in the early 80's as a trainee under the guidance of Mr Liston and a German lady Elsa Beadle. I met my wife Anne Hardy who worked at George's chemist. Does anyone remember the Co-op names I mentioned? I am after the name of a Joan who worked in the electrical department. Does anyone remember her? Also there was a Sue in the shoe department - she was about my age then 17/18. Any help would be appreciated as I am making a history of my work.

Tony Keene, if you walked from New Church Road you would have simply crossed straight over Boundary and Station Roads and into Franklin Road, where the Rothbury Cinema used to be situated (more recently the site was the studios of Southern FM radio station). There would have been no reason to turn even once, left or right, let alone twice.

Does anyone remember Dells cafe at the bottom of Boundary Road? A crowd of us used to go there. Saturday nights was always the Rothbury Cinema ( whatever was on) The youth club we attended was " The tin hut" on Fishersgate Green and we always went to the fair at Southwick. The other cafe we went to was the " Anchor" down the lagoon. They were great days I would love to hear from anyone who was part of that crowd.

Hi Sandy, I don't know if you were in the same crowd as me. There was a group of us who used to go to the same cafes as you. There was Maureen Lane, Douglas Fry, Stan Thompson who I married and quiet a few others. It would be nice if it was the same  group you are talking about

Hi Beryl, thanks for replying. I don't recognise any of the names you mentioned but the cafe was so small we must have run into each other. The names I remember from my crowd were: Brenda Cooper, Angie Hole, Bruce Townsend, Steve Borer. There were many more but I can't bring all the names to mind. This would have been at the beginning of the sixties. I now live in Somerset. Best Wishes

Hi Sandy thank you for your reply it would have been in the late 50s we went there. I married in 61- I don't seem to recognise the names you give. I used to live in East Street, Portslade just round the corner from the cafe. All the best

I used to live around the corner in Portland Road. I worked as a paperboy at 'Andrews' the newsagents at the top of Boundary Road from 1964 until about 1968. The shop manager was Mr Gale a lovely chap who was always hyper active even at 6.30am. I went to school (Aldrington Cof E in Portland Rd) with Ken Barrington (earlier comment) whose dad was the manager at Milwards shoe shop in Station Road. I used to get bits of wood and screws from a little DIY merchant at the side, and behind Woolworths. Ken and I built 'Soapboxes' and plagued the life out of the pedestrians in the street. Was it Taylors Stores on the corner of Boundary Road and Portland Road? They sold all sorts of grocery stuffs if I remember correctly. I bought my first new car from Vine & Lee and can remember the petrol pumps which had tubes in a swinging frame so that the pedestrians could walk underneath while they were being used. Great memories, shame it's not the same street any more.

Does anyone remember the pie shop near Vogel's bakery? Beanie pies out of this world!