Good picture showing changes from when I went to school in Hanover Terrace, 1952-55, and we used to walk through this street most lunch times going to and from The Level where on the path between the trees we kicked a tennis ball about for half an hour. No cars or yellow lines then. Do I recall a laundry on the downhill corner with Southover Street?

I seem to remember you John (John Hancock 8/11/2006) at the Brighton Secondary Technical School in Hanover Terrace in the 1950's. I used to catch the Horsham Flyer steam train from Portslade to Brighton, then walk to the Hanover Terrace school.  The stink from the old Phoenix Brewery nearby was a regular experience on the journey. I still remember most of the teachers' names. We had no playing fields there and had to bus all the way to East Brighton Park for football and cricket. You mention the Level where we went for the lunch time breaks, but I and my mates were always wary there and on the look out as the lads from nearby (Pelham, was it?) school would seek out us Technical School boys for a fight.

I lived at number 41 Hanover Street in the late 60's early 70's. I remember "Bob Grover" from the band The Pirahnas playing his guitar outside his house on Hanover Street, I was very small at the time and Bob was in his teens then before the band. I remember the Co-op as well.
I also remember a family story that there was a terrible smell in the house and the floorboards were ripped up to discover rats. I think we moved out not long after that. Not sure if our house was the only one affected or not.

I have only just returned to this site Roger - how time flies! I regret I have not a single photo of the school and only a few of our prefects Industrial Tour Parfitt took us on around Bristol which was brilliant. Steel works, docks, Vespa factory, Frys, Bath to look at rolled lead roofing etc. Yes I too recall the Phoenix (KempTown?) Brewery smell as well as all the teachers by name. A certain aging (then young) Colewell (maths) still lives nearby to me in Patcham. The Headmaster was 'Goofy' (he certainly wasn't - and he knew every boy by name) Downing ; the massive framed tippy toeing Ben Chappel (Tech drawing & owner of a Black belt!); 'Popeye' Pope,(History and French); 'Barrel' Walsh (English); Joe Huddart (Geography and divinity); McKinley(Art); (do you recall the full-sized 'stained glass' window made by his combined art classes for a festival at the dome - Matthew was miss pelt with one 't'?) Alec Hargreaves (brickwork building and Brighton Boys soccer); 'Garse' (he came from Bristol) Parfitt (Plumbing); (under his skills I took and obtained the first (AEB) GCE introduced for that particular trade); 'Tin Tummy' Mitchell (Painting and Decorating); Spud Taylor (woodwork); Beyar (French); Bullock (Science); Hobden (Maths & Football) Weedle (ex Navy I think) PTI and Rugby - it was certainly a great little school. I walked by the site recently and it seemed to me a surreal experience, the school having disappeared without trace - morphing into a row of houses that whilst admittedly looking more recently constructed than the rest of the street upon close inspection, would to the casual observer appear to be originals. Appropriate workmanship really! I converse from time to time with my close pal of those days 'Split' Waterman, (he is now in Essex,) and I discover he too recalls all the staff and many of the student names. Clearly it may have been a back street location but it made a lasting contribution and impact on many boys of its era. And yes, fights did occur at the Level but I never got involved - too busy chasing a ball! Yet we can have little doubt 'They started it Mr!' I did also box for the school (albeit not particularly successfully) and would regularly suffer a sore nose when matched with a certain Johnny Swaysland as I boxed in tournaments at such as Queens Park and Stanmer Schools! However boxing allowed a certain confidence in walking over the hill to EastBrightonPark for Games through the Whitehawk estate of that era! I do recall many pupils travelled in by train from outlying districts - Wilcox, Phillips, Mepham, Osbourne, amongst them. The school Captain in my final year was a Rob (I think) Walker. Great memories and I seem to recall you too.

I lived at number 35 Hanover Street from 1947 to 1968 when I got married. I would like to hear from anyone who remembers me. I now live in Kent.

My grandfather, Jesse Stevenson, was a lodger at 51 Hanover Street in 1901. He was a general labourer, aged 20. He lived with the Pattenden family. Gertrude Tester, aged 19, was a boarder.

Michael Wray, I somewhat remember you, more so your Mum and Dad. I lived just a very few houses down from your house. I say somewhat remember, as I do believe you would be some few years my junior. I now live in Australia, and have been for 36 yrs now

About 'boring' Bob Grover from the band 'The Piranhas' playing his guitar outside his house in Hanover Street. The pub round the corner, The Greys, was owned/run from around 1985 until last year by Mike Lance also from 'The Piranhas'. He was the drummer/percussionist and Mr Grover was often seen playing in The Greys with either Mike Roberts or a band called 'Girls Behind Bars'. 'The Piranhas' wrote the (now) popular football chant inspiring tune Tom Hark. I believe Bob Grovers ghost is till seen to haunt these parts!

I was in the same class as Bob Grover from Piranhas and he was weird, very quiet and spooky, not a bit interested in girls only his music.  I lived at 37 Hanover Terrace from 1956 till 1972. Opal electric was on the corner with very sloping wall which we all used to sit on at night. Just round corner was a grocery shop - it had rats!  The lady was a kind old soul and would sell one egg! We used to play in the hollow and use the steps for our games. As we got older we would innocently kiss and cuddle there before we had to go in.

I have been researching my ancestry and have discovered that my maternal grandfather's family, the Collins family, lived at 62 Hanover Street. On digging a bit deeper I discovered that the house was shared with a division of the Molton family, who were relatives on his grandmother's side of the family. It was really lovely to see the picture of Hanover Street on this website and I hope to personally get to Brighton again to take a few pics of my own to store with the family tree. A great pity that Carlyle Street is not listed as well. My grandmother's family, the Maynards, lived at No 5 Carlyle. Is anyone out there related to the families Collins, Molton and Maynard?
Kind regards from Cape Town, South Africa.

What a find. Thank you so much for posting this pic. My paternal grandmother was born at 40 Hanover Street in 1892. So it is so good to see the location.

My Gt Gt Grandmother Eliza Robinson lived at 64 Hanover Street with four of her children and also lodgers according to the 1891 & 1901 census. She was working as a launderess and shown as head of the house, not as a widow. Where could spouse Edward be? - in with the soap suds???

My mother Peggy Reed (nee Funnell) lived at no 48 from 1928 to 1941. My father William Reed lived at no 49 from the early 1930s and it was the family home until his fathers death in the mid-sixties. Does anyone remember them or my grand-parents Ivy Carter (nee Funnell), Reg Carter, William and Agnes Reed?

My grandparents Fred and Dolly Weeden lived in Hanover Street from 1932 -1962. My mother was born there in 1937. My Great Grandmother on my father's side was also born there in 1884 and I supsect other Brighton Relatives lived there. I myself lived there as a small child in the late 50's, early 60s and later as an adult lived in Southover Street in the 80's/90's

Angi: In 1889 a Florence Frances Stunell was born at 40 Hanover Steet. So she may well have lived in the same house at the same time as your grandmother. Florence is related to me. In the 1881 census my great great great grandfather Richard George Jefferies was living at 39 Hanover Street. He was 88 and died aged 90 in April / May / June 1883 possibly at this address. He was from Swanage, Dorset.

Roger Bateman mentions the boys from the "nearby school" possibly looking for a lunchtime punch up at the Level with the boys from the Secondary Tech in Hanover Terrace. Since senior schools never (in those days anyway  would consider it fair to pick on "little kiddies" the likely opponent would have been another secondary school, probably the Fawcett school before they moved from near London Road and became Patcham Fawcett. Any former pugilists from the Secondary Tech care to comment?

Philip Wood: I went to school with your mother Maureen. She also worked at CVA where she met you father John. I lived in Hanover Terrace in the 50's. Now I live in Ontario Canada but return to Brighton twice a year. Say 'hi' to her for me.