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Hanover Terrace

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The house with painted windows
By Jack Latimer

This intrigues me, and intrigues visitors. It's a house that is completely painted over - even the windows. I live nearby and my visitors are horrified: 'How do they see!'. I think it was painted during a Brighton Festival in the early 90s, but I'm not sure. I never thought it would last so many years.

This page was added on 22/03/2006.

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According to my partner Zosia, who's lived here longer than me, "It was done by an artist called Pierpaolo Inga known as Pop. He owned the house with his girlfriend Maryjane Stevens. In the summer of 1995, he was at the end of his first year at Brighton University/Art College studying sculpture. He and his fellow students searched in vain for a venue for their end of year show, then decided to use the house, 88 Hanover Terrace. It was emptied of nearly everything domestic, and the students installed their pieces of work. It was a fab exhibition - appropriately called Housey Housey - and of course the face ("Pretty Little Angel Eyes") attracted a lot of local and tourist attention for years and most of his neightbours were amused or intrigued by it too. It's gone now, painted over in 2006 by the new owners of the house."

By Paul Williams (11/01/2007)

I lived at no 37 from 1956, opposite the alley in the middle. Can name many a neighbour if anyone is interested. I rememebr the Hanover School at the end of the road. There was a sweet shop in the middle and Ambrose general shop at the end. They had everything lined up in old jars. A shop around corner had open sacks of food. Oh those mice!

By Val Harber (nee Hall) (02/09/2007)

My father, Charles Bodle, lived at 58 Hanover Terrace from his birth in 1912. His parents were Charles and Emily. His father worked as a brewers' cooper at Phoenix Brewery (later Tamplings) and they later moved to Newark Place.

By Charles Bodle (05/11/2007)

Well, I have lived there all my life since 1990. I lived in London for four years prior to that but I don't remember much! Hanover Terrace is arguably the hub of the artistic movement and always new students! I live at number 73.

By Gregory Weaver (17/05/2008)

Shame on the new owners - this is what makes Brighton a great place to live!

By Pizza Pete (18/10/2009)

I lived at number 27 with my brother Kevin. I loved my days as a child there and remember Val at number 37 and loads of other friends too. The little shops and the school too.

By Christine Caplin (nee Brown) (10/12/2009)

If you would like to get in touch, Val and Jen would love to hear from you.

By Val Harber (nee Hall) (30/07/2010)

Val and Jen. I sure would. I've only just found your message. If you see this try in get in touch, are you on facebook ? I am, I will check each week from now on.

By Christine Caplin (Brown) (20/02/2011)

I lived at number 11 Hanover Terrace and on the corner of our house was the Simpsons who had a tv/radio shop. Across the road was Mr and Mrs Ambrose's sweet shop and around the corner in Southover Street was the fruit and veg shop Gaypins. The Landlady of the pub on the corner of Newhaven St and Southover St was my sister's Godmother. My mother used to get her hair done at Jean's Hairdressers. I can remember some families' names from those days: Marshall, Thorp, Mathews, Curry, Willie, Sebage, and one from Hanover St: Summerford. I wonder if any of the families still live in the Terrace. Our old house number 11 had a very big celler and used to have three bakers ovens in the wall, at some point before my family moved in, it used to be a bakers, and the coal was dropped through a coal hole in the pavement just left of the front door. Oh happy days.

By Donald Waller (09/06/2011)

I was looking on the Google street maps yesterday 28/06/11 and noticed that where I used to live is now number 11 Southover Street. I was wondering if anyone can tell me how this can be, because it used to be number 11 Hanover Terrace, the Simpson TV/radio shop attached to our house used to be 11 Southover Street.

By Donald Waller (29/06/2011)

Well I'm blowed, Donald Waller - you were my teenage crush. Didn't you go off to be a sailor? I remember your cellar and Tony Sanders and being locked in there till we screamed the place down. Old Mr Ambrose. Wasn't it dirty, but we loved it all the same. I remember when he was closing and dad sent me up there to buy all the erinmore tobacco which he promptly flogged at Allen West. It was definetely 11 Hanover Terrace but also 11 Southover Street - very confusing. Do you remember the Bradburys? I heard before xmas old Mrs Bradbury died recently, but Christine is still fine. My sister Jen has bumped into her in Brighton sometimes Val Harber (hall from no 37).

By Valerie Harber (08/01/2012)

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