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Pump House

Photos: then and now

45-46 Market Street

The Pump House

Image reproduced with permission from Brighton History Centre

The Pump House, 2004

Photo by Mike Snewin

Added to the site on 16-12-04

This page was added on 22/03/2006.

Comments:

I worked at this pub for the spectacular duration of a fortnight. I had unceremoniously left Wheelers Restaurant as a cocktail barmaid at the Sheridan Hotel at the bottom of West Street and, too proud to go home, sat on my suitcase in West Street and trawled the pubs for alternative employment. It was during the Beaujolais Nouveau launch of 1986 - great fun.

By Julie Phelan (21/12/2004)

I lived around the corner in Nile Street and in the 1960s I would be given a couple of pennies to buy a Forfars custard tart as a special treat ( more expensive than other bakers but worth it ). When I was old enough to be taken to pubs The Pump House was similarly a place for a special event.

Its good to see these two long established businesses in lovely Georgian buildings surviving amidst a flood of "bistros" and "theme bars" but what happened to Forfars swinging sign and when did The Pump House acquire the Dickensian coaching inn lantern?

By Adrian Baron (05/02/2007)