Yes, I remember your auntie Mrs Foss.  She had two girls and one boy, and they lived in the first house in the street.  I can't remember the name of the pub. We lived in East Street until we were all relocated to Valley Road Mile Oak.

My name is Beryl and I lived in East Street with my sister Pat, who is the one who went to Australia. I remember your Auntie Foss. I can't remember the name of the pub, but I remember going into the jug and bottle part. to get a jug filled for my grandmother.  Her name was Parsons.  I used to go to St Peter's school, then Benfield, and last the girls' school in Mile Oak.

The name of the pub at the bottom of East Street Portslade was the Clarendon Arms. I was looking in a book on Portslade and found it. Pat - what was the name of your grandparents who lived in East Street Place?

Hello Pat.  My grandparents' name was Goacher, they lived in East Street Place until about 1950. I believe your sister Beryl knew my late sister Peggy Turrell. I remember Peggy mentioning the name. My Foss cousins are Jean, Sheila and Gerald. Thanks for the name of the pub, I've been trying to remember it for ages.

Hi Pat, thank you for answering my message and I have told my sister Beryl to take a look. Do you mind me asking, is Burtenshaw your married or maiden name, also where do you live now? I live in Australia, Beryl still lives in England and we talk nearly ever day to each other on the net. Thank you for telling me your cousins' names, we could not remember them. I think your grandparents lived in the third or fourth house in East Street Place. There were the Lanes, Pauls and George families also living there.

Hi Pat, my maiden name was Turrell, my gran lived next door to a family called Owen. There were two houses at the top of the road facing down and she lived in the left hand one. We have lived in north Somerset for 10 years and before that we lived in London for 28 years. But we still go to Sussex on occasions as we still have family there.

My son has just brought this discussion to my notice. I have an interest in the history of my family (the Andrews), who lived in Portslade and Hove for more than 50 years, finishing around 1950. They ran a newsagent's and tobacconist's shop with a lending library. They were in North Street but moved to 81 Boundary Road (near the rail crossing) before 1920. I stayed with them a bit as a child. My Grandfather was Eli but I never met him. Then a son, my uncle Tom, with Aunt Amy, ran the shop. They sold it around 1950 but it still had the name "Andrews" outside into the 1990's. It has now changed use. My father Philip was the youngest son and a sportsman. He was wounded in World War One. Another uncle, David was killed in Flanders and is remembered on the Portslade war memorial at Easthill Park. I have more information if anyone is interested, or if anyone has anything to help our quest for "Andrews" family data.

I came upon this site by accident and was interested to see the Foss Family mentioned. Jean, Sheila and Gerald are also my cousins, through my mother - Winifred Attree (Martin). We lived at 26 Wolseley Road until her death in 1968. Does anyone remember Charlie, Irene and Barry Newman who lived in Camden Street, until they were moved to Drove Crescent?  Also, Mrs Baker and her son John, who also lived in Camden Street, next to the Alex.

Hi Mike Attree.  I remember going to your house as a child, we lived in Crown Rd. I remember your Mum as Winnie Martin, and I think I'm right in saying that you had two sisters, Pauline and Margaret. Does anybody remember many years ago (at least 60) a house in Stanley Rd owned by a Mrs Bowden, who ran a shop in her front room? I remember going up the rough piece of land we called 'the bumps', between Crown Rd and Wolsely Rd, to get the shopping.

Pat - I definitely remember Mrs Bowden. She used to ride a bicycle with a basket, in which her Pekinese, Tansy, used to ride. There was also a shop on the corner of Jubilee Road, run by a Mr Fossleithner (?) ...and what about 'Ada's' in Gardner St.- possibly the oddest shop ever?! You're correct about my sisters but there was also George, Irene and Eileen. However, they may have left home by then.

I was actually born in St Leonards Road not far away. But can anyone tell me the name of the pub that was on the corner of North Street and Middle Street where the Bathroom Shop now is? Also are there any pictures of it?

Does anyone remember the baker's shop on the corner of North Street and Campden Street, owned by my grandad, Ernest Mason?

Does anyone remember the Bakers shop on the corner of North Street and Campden Street, owned by my grandad, Ernest Mason?

Pat: Yep - that was my Dad. He used to drive the Number 6 bus from Brighton station to Fishersgate. At the rear of Buckler Street was a saw mill owned by Len Ratcliff. We used to play in the alley there. Looking at it now, it seems so small.

The 'ice Cream' shop towards the south end of Station/Boundary Road in Portslade - does anyone know the receipe of the fantastic homemade vanilla flavour that the man used to make? He was bald and I remember quite frail but was always happy and whispered when he spoke. I believe he passed away in the early 1990s I think? The shop was then reopened by different owners and was never quite the same. It shut about one year later. Would love to try to recreate this ice cream at home - mmmm!

Mike (Attree): I remember Mrs Baker and John her son with whom I went to school. (See photos in the school section of this site for St Peter's School Portslade, Benfield & Portslade County School for Boys). Mrs Baker and John later moved to Valley Road in Mile Oak. He and I used to go back to his house there sometimes for our lunch when we were at Portslade County School. I bumped into John one Sunday lunchtime about 15 years ago in the Castle Hotel in Bramber. The next Sunday he brought his Mum to see mine (Kitty Phillips, nee Smith), as the two had known each other quite well before and after the War. I seem to remember that John was in the swimming pool business at the time but I haven't seen him since.

Alan (Phillips): John Baker has been living in Spain for some years now. When I last had any contact with him, he was doing general maintenance for the ex-pat community.

Hi Jork Andrews. I have only just read your message re the Andrews Family. Although I have nothing specific about the the family I was wondering if you have any photos of your "sporty" relation. My grandfather was also wounded in WW1 and played football for Hove Seaside Villas. I have put a photo on the "Local People" section of this site of the team and was wondering if he may also have played for that team. A bit of a long shot I know but.... Dave

Hi Mike Attree. With reference to your message of 27 January 2007, I used to live at number 39 Drove Crescent and the family in the flat below were Newman and their son was Barry. That would probably have been sometime in the 1950's, would that be the same family ? Dave

Iam looking for any information on a John Henry Morley and his wife Eleanor, also known as Cissie, they were my mother and farther. We lived in East Street until we moved to Valley Road. I have 2 sisters Joan and Pat . Pat joined the Salvation Army and moved to Australia where she is now living . if anyone knows of my family I would be interested. Beryl

Dave (Phillips): That would be the same family, although they lived at no. 51 - so you would have been in the upstairs flat at no. 49. They always kept Alsatians.

I am looking for any information on a Frances Charlotte Morley. She lived in Woburn Place and had a son called John Henry Morley who is my father. If anyone knows of this family, I would be interested.

Hi Mike, with reference the Newmans. I definitely lived at 39 Drove Crescent and these Newmans were definitely in the flat below so I guess that they must have been a different family. I do not remember any Alsations either. Ahh well!

Jork Andrews: I think most of us that went to Benfield School would remember Andrews shop. We would go there after school to buy penny drinks from old Mr. Andrews who was a lovely, kind gentleman who knew most of us by name. After he passed away his son did take over the shop. I remember how alike they looked. The shop is still there, but no longer a sweet shop.

I am looking for anyone with any information on a John Henry Morley. He lived in Ellen Street with his mother, Frances. He married my mother, Eleanor Morley, who lived in East Street in the 1930s. I would be grateful if anyone knows any of these people.

I too was an Andrews customer. Four chews for a penny on the way home from Benfield - through the cattle arch and on to St Andrews Road..... Oh what memories.   Jim Stocks and I were arrested on the Hove seafront scooting our bikes. The policeman walked us from the Lagoon to St Andrews Road Police Station where we were lectured and then he walked us home and our fathers were also lectured about our total lack of respect for the law.  We both got a good telling off for that one.  We were 11 years old. I think we also had to go and sit in the police station on that Saturday morning to see the Senior Seargent.  Don't times change!

My Grandmother lived at 44 North Street until her death in 1965. I think she moved there in the 1950s. I visited with my parents occasionally and spend summer holidays there in the late 1950s and early 1960s. My memories are scant but I recall that 44 was an upstairs maisonette. I have a photograph of her unlocking the door and there seems to be a shop window next door as there is a Bachelors Peas sign running along the bottom of the window. I do not recall the shop but remember a café on the same side a few doors up. Thanks for the posting. Spent a nostalgic day in Brighton this week including a visit to North Street Portslade and your information, plus the photograph, are of great interest in my family history work.

Does anyone remember Marions Wool Shop in the Old Village, it was run for a time by my parents Reg & Nan Monington? I also have a photograph of the football team from St Andrews School with a large trophy dated 1924 has anyone any recollections of this school.

With regard to Barry Newman, he did live in a flat in Drove Road and his family kept white Alsatians. He lived in South Street in the OldVillage with his wife Rita and 2 Alsatians for around 30years. He past away around 8 - 10 yrs ago.

My brother David and I lived in Lincoln Road from 1943 to 1966 and went to St Peters, Benfied and Portslade boys. I remember the Albion cinema at the bottom of North Street, a real flea pit! I moved to Romsey Hampshire in 1969 and still live here.

I do remember the wool shop in the old village. I used to knit my childrens' clothes and bought a lot of wool there. In the 60s it was owned by a Mr Button who was an inspector on the buses, I believe his wife ran the shop. Marion, I think you were in the same class as me at Mile Oak Girls School, my name was Pat Turrell.

Marion, my husband has suggested that buttons was a nickname because the shop sold these, so perhaps it was your father that owned the shop at that time.

Hi, has anybody got any information about St Aubyns Road/Norway Street? Apparently no 35 St Aubyns Road, Portslade, used to be called 48 Norway Street, and what is now 48 Norway Street, used to be a private dance school.

I am looking for any information of all my school mates that lived in Wolseley and Stanley Road: Peter Scott, Stella and Harold Loew, David (Friday) Lyles,  Andy Mallet and the Oakles. And in Stanley Road: John and Billy Cockings. I also remember Mrs Bowden behind the air raid shelter.