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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)

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