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Martha Gunn

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

Photo:Martha Gunns then

Martha Gunns then

Image reproduced with permission from Brighton History Centre

Photo:Martha Gunn now

Martha Gunn now

Photo by Mike Snewin

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Added to the site on 08-12-04 
This page was added on 22/03/2006.

Comments:

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)

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