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Tidy Street

Giant family snapshots glow after dark, 2006
By Jack Latimer
Photo:Family snapshot from public exhibition in Tidy Street
Photo:Family snapshot from public exhibition in Tidy Street
Photo:Family snapshot from public exhibition in Tidy Street

In October 2006, artist Lisa Creagh persuaded residents of Tidy Street to display enlarged versions of their family photos in their windows as part of the Brighton Photo Fringe. The exhibition lasted three weeks, during which the images glowed after dark at night, making an public gallery. Lisa Creagh commented that: "The most extraordinary stories seem to exist on this one street and probably on every street."

This page was added on 22/10/2006.

Comments:

My grandad Charles William Gravett was born in 15 Tidy Street in the mid 1800's. I am writing about my family's past in the Gravett family history, a bit at a time as featured in the 'People' section on this site. It's slow going as there are bits of diaries and scraps of paper everywhere, but it will get done, as I think it would be a shame to lose all this glance into the past.

By Patrick Collins(Catswhiskas) (22/10/2006)

My Great Grandmother, Mercy Mary Avis Haffenden, was born in 39 Tidy Street in February 1861 to a single Mother, also called Mercy Haffenden. 39 Tidy Street was the home of Mercy's sister, Martha and her husband Felix Guy. In July 1909 Mercy's niece, Beatrice Maud Kent, daughter of her sister Ellen, was married from this house.

By Linda Penn (25/06/2008)

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