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Clifton Hill shops

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Clifton Hill shops

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Clifton Hill shops

Buy anything - anytime
By Anthea and Steve Myall, Clifton residents

You can buy anything, anytime
These are the local shops and Post Office, actually opposite our house, just up from The Crescent pub on the right-hand side, where you can purchase any thing at any time.

There have always been shops here
The shops are on the rounded corner that leads round from Clifton Hill into Powis Road and these have always been shops.

Shopkeepers of the 1850s
In the street directories in the early 1850s, at the very beginning of Clifton Hill's development, there was Fred Wright's chemist shop, a book-seller, a wool shop and a green-grocer, together with Mrs Russell who was a laundress.

Image and text from the 1994 My Brighton museum exhibit
This page was added on 22/03/2006.

Comments:

Whilst you can still buy almost anything at any time, sadly the Post Office no longer remains.
By Roland (21/07/2004)

Round about 1950 (when I was fiveĀ  and living in Powis Square) there was a grocer's shop run by a Mr. Tethewey (spelling ?), a newsagents and a glass-cutting shop. It was always a windy place, with the tall buildings funneling the wind that blew in from the sea, up the hills. I saw TV for the first time, nearby (about 1954/5). There was an "Esso" garage further up the hill on the left and I can remember getting my inflamed tonsils checked, at the red-brick childrens' hospital (Princess Alexandra ?) right at the top of the hill (ca. 1951)

By Stuart Leggett (08/11/2006)

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