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Martha Gunn

Images: then and now

Formerly 'Martha Gunns', this pub stands at 100 Upper Lewes Road.

Martha Gunns then

Image reproduced with permission from Brighton History Centre

Martha Gunn now

Photo by Mike Snewin

Added to the site on 08-12-04

This page was added on 22/03/2006.

Comments about this page

Great family pub at lunch times on a Saturday. Nice food and a pint. Never went in on an evening. Some bikers used to live locally and go in too. Good friendly place. (1990's)

By N/A (01/01/1900)

It was always said that there was a family connection with Martha Gunn as Edwin and Elizabeth Winchester lived in Brighton with Sarah Ann Gunn, a widow aged 66, in the 1881 census. The link has yet to be found.

By Linda Attrell (05/01/2005)

Interesting to see that the last comment was by a Linda Attrell. My partner's grandmother, Margaret Mary Attrell, nee Pont, used to have her daily tipple in the Martha and go on the Charabanc trips from there, in the 1950s and 1960s, but I feel sure that when I lived just across the road it was named the New Inn. The last publican I knew there was a Jim Smith who, like me, had been a Royal Marine previously.

By Roger Copelin (26/02/2005)

I am 12 yrs old and I am the great, great, great grandaughter of Martha Gunn. I don't know much about her life but I do know she was famous for bathing.

By Olivia Killick (18/02/2006)

Does anyone know anything about a ship/boat called Martha Gunn that sailed off the English south coast in the 1950s?

By Malcolm Taylor (20/03/2006)

Isn't the pub named after Martha Gunn (1776 - 1815) whose grave can be seen at St. Nicholas' Church?

By Steve (16/07/2006)

Iv'e learnt a little bit about Martha Gunn, and I know her great, great, great grandaugther Olivia.

By Alfie Cheesman (23/02/2007)

I am doing some studying on old England and came across this website. It's very interesting.

By Olli (06/04/2008)

This pub was originally called the New Inn. In the sixties it was very much a pub for local families. The landlord who ran it when I first used it left to take over the newly built Newmarket pub and restaurant just north of Falmer. It was then run by Benny who had worked on the Pullman cars previously.

By Graham Robinson (14/03/2009)

Very interesting! Nice pub!

By Lou (31/10/2009)

My parents and brother ran the New Inn in the 60s - Rose and Peter Pescod with my brother Philip. They moved on to open The Newmarket on the Brighton / Lewes Road. It is so interesting to look at the photo of the now Martha Gunn - the exterior photo takes me right back. When my parents held the licence there were three main bars (public bar, saloon bar and a games room, plus an off licence) The cellars were fantastic under the pub and the living accommodation very spacious.

By Susan Currie (06/09/2010)

My great great grandmother's parents ran this pub (New Inn) in 1871, They were William and Ellen Penfold.

By Joanne (06/03/2011)

Re the question from Malcolm Taylor about the Martha Gunn being a ship/boat. It was a clinker-built fishing boat I recall in the late 40's early 50's that gave pleasure trips in the summer by the Palace Pier. I was a lad at the time living in Holland Street.

By Vic Bath (08/04/2012)