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Hornes

The uniform generations
By Peter

If you stand with your back to the Clock Tower, looking towards the sea, there is a shop on the left hand corner opposite. For many years this was Hornes (or was it Horne & Co?). Anyway, that was where generations of schoolboys were taken to get their uniform for the next term. They had agreements to be sole suppliers of uniform to many schools. Don't think they did girls' stuff. Later it became Cito Citerio, and I believe it still sells clothes today, but I doubt if school blazers are among them.

This page was added on 26/06/2006.

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The firm was called Horne Brothers Ltd and was a Brighton institution. It provided a school uniform service to many private schools. I was taken there for my preparatory school uniform whose colour was brown and yellow. My school, Taunton House School, was at 2 & 4 Stanford Avenue. The principal was the Revd. L. T .Comber, B.A, B.D.
By Peter Bailey (30/03/2006)

I got my school uniform from Potters in the London Road. I went to Patcham Fawcett and the reason I got my uniform from there was the green grass on the school badge was greener there than the sickly effort produced by Horns.

By Patrick Kite (02/07/2007)

I went to Fitzherbert School in Woodingdean and our blazers were bought from Hornes.

By Maggie Williams (15/01/2008)

Who remembers Horne Brothers' system of vacuum pipes that sent the money off to the cashiers and then the cylinders thudded back with the change and receipt?

An alternative system, using cradles on overhead wires fired by spring loaded catapults was used in Belmans of London Road.

By Roy Grant (28/02/2008)

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