WOW! I remember getting fitted out for school uniform at Broadley Brothers on the corner there in the photo. How my parents ever afforded it for my sister and I on a fireman's wage I'll never know...and the blazers itched.

..and there's Stuart Norris (not sure of the spelling) on the opposite corner to Broadley Bros. It was a lovely department store that to my small child's eyes was a repository for all sorts of magical things, especially at Christmas.

I went to St. Andrew's School in George Street in the 1960's, this school has since been demolished and re-built. I absolutely loved that school.  At lunchtimes we were allowed to play in the graveyard and we attended St. Andrews church for a service every Wednesday morning. Mr. Jones was the Headmaster and my favourite teacher was Mr. Edwards. After school we used to go into the 'Wimpy' and have chips with tomato ketchup. The Wimpy used to be the Fire Station and it had pictures of the station hanging on the wall. I still return to George Street when I can, I moved away some eleven years ago.

I went to St Andrew's in the '60s and remember going in the churchyard at breaks. I used to help look after the school guinea pigs and would sit in the chuchyard with them. Billie Gregg was the school bully and the first girl I fancied was Ruth Dempster.

Does anyone remember the little record shop along the left hand side of the road? I remember it from the sixties and seventies and often spent time there looking at their budget labels. It was a funny little place and looked as if it had been there forever. Alas I cannot remember its name.

Was the record shop Wickham, Kimber and Oakley? Or is my memory getting mixed up?

I remember a record shop on George Street. I never bought any records there but I used to spend time in there listening to the latest pops, and I always bought my Melody Maker there as it used to have the words to the latest songs.

Wickham, Kimber and Oakley it is! As I recall, they also had an electrical store (same name) on the opposite side of the road - it must have been near the fish and chip shop - Shippams, I think.

Wickham, Kimber and Oakley certainly had a fairly large record shop, which also sold sheet music and musical instruments in Carlton Terrace, Portslade. I'm not sure if they also had a shop in George Street though.

Yes, the record shop WK&O was about two-thirds down on left hand side. I am 65 and live in Wales but have many memories. Does anyone recall my favourite bookshop in Blatchington Road, Hove - "Lane's"? Really nice man - always remember him in a tweed coat and pipe. Nostalgia.

I went to St Andrew's School in George Street in the early 60s and stayed until we left for secondary school. The headmaster, Mr G. Holder-Jones, was lovely and his wife was the secretary. The music shop across the road was where my Mum bought my recorder. I remember making a flag for when the Queen came to open George Street. Great school and lots of good memories.

I bought a book from 'Lane's' in the late eighties I should think. I lived in Sackville Road, on the corner of Blatchington. 'Lane's' became a '7-11'then something else (also of the convenience-store type), and I believe it then reverted to '7-11'. But I could be wrong.

There used to be a wet fish shop in George Street; I think it was called Blackmans. I remember seeing the fishmongers gutting the fish in full view of the public and also boxes of live shellfish which used to be cooked on the premises; this was in the fifties and wouldn't be allowed today.

I don't remember Blackmans - but I definitely remember Coe's. It was on the east side, about midway down the street (maybe slightly closer to Church Road?) It was a fishmonger/butcher, and I distinctly remember the layout; it was double fronted, with fish being sold at the north end, and meat/poultry at the south. You chose your fish/meat, and took it to the cashier in the central raised "bubble", and paid there. Coe's merged with Gibsons (a butcher?) at the northern end of George Street, and traded as "Gibson and Coe" - butcher. I've moved away from Hove, so I don't know whether they are still going.

Gibson and Coe's has now ceased trading, they didn't merge it was still the same family that ran Coe's. What happened was Alan Gibson is the son in-law of one of the Coe brothers and he ran Coe's with his wife. When the shop ceased trading, they brought a new shop just up the road and kept the Coe's name running as it was so well known in the area.

I went to school with Paul Barnes' brother Michael and remember the school very well. I only lived round the corner in Hove Villas and actually went out with Ruth's sister Belinda for a while. Had my first bike accident one Sunday riding into the window of Stuart Norris. Does anyone remember the old coffee shop with the tumbler for roasting the beans on the counter? I was there until '71 I think, and have tried to get hold of some of my old mates, but I now live in Dorset and am soon to be moving to France so I doubt it will happen now.

Hi Paul.  The fish shop I remember was a wet fish shop only. This was around 1951/2 so the memory is a bit cloudy. But it was interesting to see the amount of attention it raised.

I attended St Andrews school in George Street and left in 1963 to move to Australia. Mr Jones was the headmaster and I still have my autograph book that he wrote in. I was a very good student and he encouraged my enthusiasm for learning. I remember the toy shop and all its wonders and the record shop where I ordered my records 45s and LPs in those days not like our CDs today. I queued many times on a Friday night with my Dad to get Fish and Chips at the fish shop and also went for fourpence worth of chips and a pickle onion after brownies on a weeknight. I have lost contact with all my English schoolfriends from then but my cousin Jean Lines still lives in Hove and we are in contact by email.

Lanes - that shop (and the lovely man who ran it!) have a lot to answer for!  I have many fond memories of Saturday mornings spent in Lanes clutching my pocket money. I own lots of books still with '10p' written in his neat handwriting. I am now an author myself, and my lifelong obsession with books started out in Lanes on Blatchington Road.

I remember the bookshop 'Lanes'. I used to go in there with my mum. I bought all my Famous Five books in there, some I still have. We lived in Connaught Terrace and did most of our shopping in George Street. I remember Michael Barnes, he was in my class at St. Andrews along with Belinda Dempster. I visited George Street in March this year and saw that Broadley Brothers is now Coffee Republic. (The coffee was awful by the way).

It's great to hear all your comments about the shops in George Street. I work at St Andrews School and we will be celebrating the 150 anniversary of the school in September. I would love to hear from pupils who attended the old school. Maybe you have some interesting stories or old photos we could use in an exhibition we are putting on.

My wife, maiden name Joan Leggett remembers putting the bottles of milk in front of the fire to warm them up in the winter at St Andrews school in the mid 1930s. She later worked in Kent's Biscuit Shop in George Street 1950-53.

Hove Town Centre was a wonderful place to me as a child. My Grandmother would take me shopping down George Street every Saturday. And we would go into the Wimpey Bar for my Saturday treat of Burger and Chips topped off with either a Strawberry Sundae or Knickerbocker Glory. Bliss - served by a lovely lady called Barbara / Babs. I still get a warm glow of happiness from the memory. This street was an Aladdin's cave of unusual shops full of wonderful things - the hub of the town. The record shop I remember selling it's 48s and Stuart Norris a real old fashioned department store - entered with awe and delight as a child. My grandmother knew so many people that often our outings took longer than normal as she would stop and chat to people she knew. How wonderful it is to step back into one's childhood and remember it as place of simple pleasures.

I went to St Andrews School in George St and have very fond memories of the teachers - Mr Edwards was my favorite. I also remember Mrs Newbury, Mrs Golding, Mrs Mitchel, Mr Chambers and of course Mr Jones who gave me the cane a couple of times! Can anyone remember any more teachers from the mid 60s to mid 70s? The school bully back then was Paul Batchelor, I wonder what happened to him! I once bumped into a former pupil and remembered his name, he could not believe it as he had not been in Sussex for over thirty years (his name was Carlos). I had a friend called Pierre Black. Does anybody remember him?

Does anyone remember losing the class guinea pig down under a gravestone? I was at St Andrews School until 1970, the headteacher, Mr Jones, changed my life. Mrs Johnson was a dream of a teacher. And does anyone remeber the broken biscuit shop in George Street?

Pleased to have the comments and memories re Lane's bookshop. Does anyone know when Mr Lane died?

My late grandad Mr Keith Swift used to be the window dresser and outfitter at Broadley Brothers on the corner for years. They were the best windows I've ever seen (maybe I am biased?). Everyone knew him and I was so proud he was my beloved grandad. Happy and cherished memories. How I miss him.

My mum used to work in Stuart Norris and recalls serving Leo Sayer who bought a linen basket from her in the early 1970's. I remember buying scoops of ice cream dipped in chocolate hundreds and thousands from a little shop close to Stuart Norris. Mum and dad also used to take me to a cafe called the Penny Farthing which was about half way up George Street on the other side of the road. In the 70's I seem to recall there being a very early branch of Sainsbury's on George Street too which had sawdust on the floor and a deli counter-service.

Does anyone know anything about Hove Wednesday Swifts football club (1914)? My granddad played for them, i have 2 photos but want to know more about the team, was it a school team?

My dad, Ken Lewis, used to own Hayes fishmongers in George St in the early 1970s, opposite what used to be the Wimpy Bar. We used to smoke our own fish and we used to have fresh game and live eels for sale. We had many a well known personality 'pop' in for their fish. But I remember Leo Sayer was a regular, as was Jack Warner, (Dixon of Dock Green), who never got a parking ticket for being on the wrong side of the road It was a wonderful old shop and it is a shame those days are long gone.

To Adrian. I remember all those people and I can't work out whether you were there before or after I was. I left to go to Nevill in '71, so I definitely remember all those teachers. Mrs Golding was famous in those days for the yardstick thing on the blackboard, shouting "Wake up, England" and Mrs Mitchell took us for country dancing - oh the embarrassment! Mr Edwards was definitely the best. His real name was Edward Jones so, to avoid confusion, he became Mr Edwards. I too received the cane once or twice from Mr Jones and remember them banning British Bulldog as a game in the playground. My fondest memories of the school have to be the churchyard. It was wonderful to sit out there during break times and watch some of the girls trying to contact the dead using a plastic beaker and a piece of foolscap with letters and numbers written on it. Those were the days...

I remember every Saturday morning catching the bus from the Southern Cross in Portslade to go shopping with my mum. We always spent the whole day there either checking out the jumble sale stuff or sitting in De Marco's. What memories.

I attended there for my grade 1 year, 73/74. I remember Mr Jones and Ms/Mrs Powell. Playing in the graveyard amongst the headstones is a strange memory nowadays. I lived on Westbourne Gardens, not far away I think. Many years have passed and the memories are hard to distinguish from simple imagination. I remember being so heartbroken when my new rubber ball was lost down a drain at the school. A fence kept me from catching it. I could only smear the tears as I watched it disappear into the nothingness of that hole forever. Wow, stirring to sit here and reminisce about the fading memories of a young boy. Glad I found this site. I may have some photos to contribute from the 73/74 year. If anyone has old photos of the original school, please add them! It would sure bring a sort of sense of wholeness to my mind, anyhow. Thanks.

How lovely to see so many nice comments about my dad, Ken Lane from Lanes bookshop in Blatchington Road. I grew up living above the shop so worked in there from time to time. I also was fortunate to be able to 'borrow' whatever books I fancied reading so the choice was always huge! My parents left the shop back in 1985 when they retired and moved to Portslade. Sadly my dad passed away nearly 2 years ago now but he would have been absolutely delighted to have known that so many people had good memories of the shop and of Mr Lane, the man with the pipe!

George Street in Hove always a place to go when I was a kid, when I was young with a family, even now I sometimes go armed with my bus pass. Sainsbury's had a counter for every different need and when you finished they used to put your bill and money in a pulley and send it through the air to a lady behind a glass window who then would send your change by the same way back to the sales man. Also remember the Balerina coffee bar just below Woolies. I used to get records at WK&O as well and listen to them in a little booth in the shop. Oh good old George Street I say.