There is a pub on the corner of Sussex and Windmill Streets now called The Setting Sun which was originally called The Millers Arms (and built as such in the mid 19th Century). If any one has any information about the Millers Arms I would be grateful or even if there used to be a separate pub called the Setting Sun

This does not look like Sussex Street. I'm only 46 and on the right hand side of this street has always been a park

It is indeed Sussex Street. The photograph was taken in 1932 by James S Gray a well known recorder and collector of Brighton photographs. The side roads, which ran through to Carlton Hill, are Woburn Place and Nelson Row with the Mission Hall on the corner. They were demolished in 1936. Part of this site is now occupied by Kingswood Flats built in 1938 and named after Sir Kingsley Wood, Minister of Health in the Chamberlain Government

On Sussex Street above what was then Sussex Terrace (now part of John Street) going up the hill on the right hand side was a small park with swings and what looked like the turret of an old fort, probably part of some old building where all us kids used to play. A few years after the war there was an old railway engine put there for the kids to play on and it was there for quite a while. Against the wall that backed on to Sussex Street there was an old fig tree and the fruit on it was really nice to eat. Also there were a few trees but just before one Guy Fawkes night me, Roy, and Ginger Hubbard, and most of the other kids in Sussex Terrace went up there and chopped about three of them down. We built the biggest bonfire seen in Brighton since the Blitz, so people said, on the waste ground at the end of Sussex Terrace. The park was called The Creech I think thats how it was spelled? Also there was a building opposite the end of Sussex Terrace that was used as a college I think. When it was being built I fell through the scaffolding when playing on it and fell about 30 ft but only got bruises, so I was lucky not to have been killed. I wonder if its still there? I would love to know.

At the bottom of Windmill Street, at its junction with Sussex Street, there was the Millers Arms. On the opposite side of the street was the flank wall to a row of terraced houses. Continuing on from these houses in Sussex Street was a greengrocer, a sweet shop (I think), then the bookmaker on the corner of Stanley Street. The bookmaker was Eric Jaffe, who I don't think was very successful. Unfortunately, Eric Jaffe was known locally as the only bookmaker to walk everywhere, although he did use a bike sometimes. Sorry, no photos.

The only public house near to the Millers Arms was the London Arms on the opposite side of Sussex Street, almost opposite Stanley Street, demolished in the mid 50s. A pub called the Rising Sun was on the corner of Grosvenor Street, according to an old map of the area published on this web site.

Does anyone remember Sussex Street Nursery? I was born in 1956 so would have been about 3 or 4 years old, they put us down for a nap in the afternoon on wooden fold out beds, and mums would sit on the wall opposite and wait for us to come out. I well remember the Creche too, with the old derelict bus to play on.

My great grandmother, Marion Bushby, was born at No. 17 Sussex Street on 7th April 1875. Her father was Francis Bushby - one of the fishermen in the photo of Brighton seamen, 1864. Francis had three wives and a total of nine children by them. They then moved to 46 Cambridge Street - were those houses any bigger?

Does anyone have any pictures or know of any history of Elmore Road, Brighton? Thank you.

On the 1841 Census, my Great Great Grandfather's first wife Catherine Goddard aged 13 was living with her parents in Woburn Place. Her father Philip Goddard, Bricklayer, was a widower and bringing up three children on his own. William and John were shoe apprentices. In 1849, Catherine married my Great Great Grandfather and her father Philip is a witness to the marriage.
Does anyone else have any family history connected with Woburn Place?

My grandmother, Mary Sullivan, was born in Woburn Place in 1895. Her parents were William and Jane Sullivan. William was a fish hawker and Jane was a washerwoman. From there I understand Mary went on to live at Park Place (also demolished later as slum clearance) where my dad, George Sullivan, Mary's son, was born in 1918.

The Creech that you speak of is still there but has changed a lot. I'm 41 now but spent the first nine years of my life playing in that park. I think it's actually called the creche now but I could be wrong. I just thought it was called the Creech because nobody could pronounce creche. I lived at No 20 Elmore Road from 1966 to 1975.

Hiya Lynette. Us kids always knew it as T'he Creech' as we were never posh enough to know words like creche. I lived at 24 Sussex Terrace after being bombed out next door to the garage that used to be on the Sussex St corner so the bombsite and 'The Creech' was our local play area ideal for cowboys and indians etc as we had a ready made fort . Is the Blue House Pub still on Sussex St? I think I will have to come and have a dekko as I expect it's all changed around there now?

This picture could not have been taken in 1931. My house was built in 1931. I have a picture of it near to the time as well.

Does anyone know of a pub called "Live and let live", in this area?