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Roundhill Crescent

View of Roundhill Crescent

Beautiful symmetry

By Tony Deane, taxi driver

If you go to the top of Brighton Race Hill and look to the west there is an extremely good panoramic view of the town, particulary of Roundhill Crescent. Again you wonder about the planners planning to make this beautiful symmetry of houses which, when you go down to ground level, look rather un-prepossessing but from the top of the Race Hill it is a wonderful architectural structure.

Image and text from the 'My Brighton' museum exhibit

This page was added on 22/03/2006.

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I lived at No.6 from1930 to1968. As children, a favourite place to play was the Cat's Creep.

By Dennis Andrews (18/06/2004)

I lived at 74 Roundhill Cresent between 1967 to 1985 and as a child it was a great place to grow up. We would play out all day with no worries and we too used to play in cat's creep which is a stairway which cuts through between the beginning of two terraced houses and connects Upper Lewes Road to the top of Richmond Road. When we arrived there, the old lady who lived next door, Mrs Belis, who was extremley old but in very good form for her age, had lived there all her life. We delighted in her stories about the Cresent and who had lived there (mostly well-to-do middle class people: doctors, lawyers, etc) and the descriptions of the hansome cabs and traders who passed each day. As the Ccresent had not changed very much in its long history it was easy to imagine. When I lived there we still had the rag'n'bone man, and the coal men all covered in black dust who would appear at the basement door at 7 in the morning (quite frightening for an 8 year old!). I now live in France, but each time I go home to Brighton I always pay a visit to Roundhill.

By Eddy Duncliffe (09/08/2004)

I lived in Roundhill Crescent at the age of 3-4 years (about 1933-4). My father was a chef at the Metropole Hotel. Would like to know if my surname is on record or remembered by anyone?

By James Bew (21/08/2004)

Like my brother Eddy, I too have very happy memories of Roundhill Crescent. I still live in the area and often think back to those days. At one stage in the early 1970s, that great big house had an incredible 16 people living under one roof! Myself, my brother, my 3 sisters, Mum, Dad, 6 cousins, 2 aunts and 1 uncle (plus 1 cat and 1 dog)! I wish I could live there with my own family and relive those days.

By Jim Duncliffe (23/09/2004)

My father, Clement Percival Button, was born at 43 Roundhill Crescent, Brighton, on 18th July 1904. He died in March 2004, just missing his 100th birthday.

By Pat Rocks (02/02/2005)

My wife Barbara and I lived at the top of 75 Roundhill Crescent when we married in 1949. I worked from the trolley bus dept in Lewes Road as a conductor until I found work in my electrical trade at Alan West in Moulscomb. Left Brighton in 1952 for Australian National Airways in Melbourne. P.S. The 'Digger ' is a family nickname from around 1926 - I even had connections with Brighton then!

By Arthur 'Digger' Arculus (02/03/2005)

My grandparents, Maud and Fred Bowman, used to live in Roundhill Crescent in the 1960s. I remember visiting them and my grandmother picking some flowers from her garden saying that they were called Mother's Pride. She passed away in the 1990s at the age of 96.

By Denise Crittenden (07/04/2005)

I was born at no 26 in 1954. It was common pratice to have the second child born at home. Lived there till I was 14. I too remember the 'cats creep'.

By John Bath (16/04/2005)

I once lived in Roundhill Crescent with the Duncliffe family and it was a very joyful, happy time of my life. Wonderful area.

By Brian Breheny (22/10/2005)

When I first married I moved to Roundhill Cresent back in 1962, where I worked for the Mayo Laundry owned by the Winter family. Is there anyone who would remember me?

By Fred Humphrey (05/02/2006)

I was born at 27 Roundhill Crescent in 1953. I remember the cats creep and Mrs Back who lived at the bottom. I also went to Fairlight School with John Bath.

By John Mercer (17/04/2006)

To�Fred Humphrey. I�also worked for the Mayo Laundry from 1962 - 1970. Are you the Fred that drove one of the vans? If so, I remember you -�I worked in the wash house with Derek Bryant. I seem to remember being outside your house one day and we were trying to start your car with some very flimsy jump leads. I�often wonder what happened to Don and Sheila Winter. Perhaps you would be kind enough to let me know any information on them that you might have.

By Pete Lane (23/10/2006)

My grandmother, Dorothy Lily Violet Smith, was born at 23 Roundhill Crescent in 1903. Her parents were William John Smith (b. 1879) and Lily Smith (nee Moore). I have found out quite a lot about the Moores for my family tree. Researching family with the name Smith is not easy, and needless to say, I am having problems in finding out anything about William, and I don't know whether he was from Brighton. To make matters worse, his father was also called William John Smith. I think my grandmother had younger brothers (Wally? Walter? Jack? William?) but as there is so little to cross reference, it is difficult to ascertain this. Any Smiths out there who have info?

By Jan Sinkfield (15/08/2008)