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Good Companions

Photos:then and now

Photograph of the Good Companions

Image reproduced with permission from Brighton History Centre

Photograph of the Good Companions

Photo by Mike Snewin

Added to the site on 21-12-04

This page was added on 22/03/2006.

Comments:

Can you tell me what year the first picture was taken? I live near this pub and I'd be interested to hear how long it has stood on that site.

By Michaela Lucking (16/03/2006)

The name and architecture imply the late 20s / early 30s. Good Companions is the title of the biggest selling novel of that period (by JB Priestley).

By Lolly (24/03/2006)

This pub opened on 3 September 1939, the day Britain declared war on Germany.

By Steve Gee (23/01/2008)

My friend Peter Ford's grandparents ran the Good Companions, not sure exactly when, around the 1940s till the early sixties. Peter's father is Malcolm Ford, they now live in Cambridgeshire. Malcolm used to have a caravan site behind his house I think. I knew peter when his family lived in Hurstpierpoint, in the 1950s

By Helen Aldridge (nee Lewry) (07/06/2008)

My Dad had the Dials Vegetable Market in Prestonville Road, (later owned by Harry Barton). He knew Harry Ford, the landlord of the Good Companions. Harry Ford was on Brighton Council and was famous for improving the lot of policemen. All policemen wore uncomfortable jackets that buttoned up to the neck. Harry proposed that Brighton Police should wear open collared jackets and this was adopted first in Brighton and then copied all over the country.

By Tony Hill (22/10/2008)