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Photographs from 1930-1954

Photo:This photographic print was made by the Borough Surveyor's department in about 1930. It shows Dockerills Ironmongers on the northern side of Edward Street, Brighton. The Salvation Army Citadel is visible on the left of the photograph.

This photographic print was made by the Borough Surveyor's department in about 1930. It shows Dockerills Ironmongers on the northern side of Edward Street, Brighton. The Salvation Army Citadel is visible on the left of the photograph.

Reproduced courtesy of Royal Pavilion, Libraries & Museums, Brighton & Hove

Photo:This photographic print was made by the Borough Surveyor's department in June 1951. It shows Edward Street, Brighton, looking east toward Dorset Gardens.

This photographic print was made by the Borough Surveyor's department in June 1951. It shows Edward Street, Brighton, looking east toward Dorset Gardens.

Reproduced courtesy of Royal Pavilion, Libraries & Museums, Brighton & Hove

Photo:This photographic print was made by the Borough Surveyor's department in October 1954. It shows the corner of Edward Street and John Street, Brighton. Three buses canbe seen in a car park on the left of the photograph. In 1965 the police station opened on this site. The building was designed by Percy Billington, the Borough Surveyor.

This photographic print was made by the Borough Surveyor's department in October 1954. It shows the corner of Edward Street and John Street, Brighton. Three buses canbe seen in a car park on the left of the photograph. In 1965 the police station opened on this site. The building was designed by Percy Billington, the Borough Surveyor.

Reproduced courtesy of Royal Pavilion, Libraries & Museums, Brighton & Hove

This page was added on 16/11/2006.

Comments about this page

When the Police Station was designed, Percy Billington was the Chief Architect. The Borough Surveyor was Dennis Howe.

By Ron Burtenshaw (28/02/2007)

My grand parents' and parent's secondhand furniture shops were formerly on the cleared site in the 1930s.
The addresses were of the two shops were 15 & 16 Edward Street. Grandfather was Frances Clifton Hay and died in 1935 soon after the compulsory purchase order. I am told that long after the two shops were demolished, builders rediscovered one of the cellars containing a load of WW1 equipment that grandfather bought as a job lot.

Wish I had a picture showing the shops when they were there.

By Roy Grant (28/02/2008)

My dad, George Sullivan (born in Brighton 1918), worked for the scrap metal firm Freemans just off Edward Street when I was young in the 1950s. He used to be a lorry driver, and came from the Queen's Park area. His mother was Mary Sullivan, born in Brighton in 1895. I am looking for more information about the Sullivans in Brighton.

By Jan Sinkfield (13/08/2008)

I was a member Brighton Boys Club way back in the early 1950s. Had some great times there with my cousin Peter Lewery and a mutual friend John Markwick. But I think the best times were with the cricket team playing various schools and colleges around Sussex. I can only recall a few names from the team. John Barnard (spin bowler); Dapper Thwaites (wicket keeper) and Dennis Crump is there anyone else out there who remembers?

By David (18/12/2010)

Just adding to my letter of 18/12/10.I was a few years awry with my memory. I think it was mid to late forties. I also think that John Barnard went on to play for Sussex.

By David Sutton (21/12/2010)

This site is brilliant, it has bought back a lot of memoirs of when I was growing up and hopefully will have contact with old friends and neighbours. Kathy Catt [nee Cornford]

By kathleen catt (30/01/2011)

I was born in William Street, number ten (Newman family), just to the left of Freeman's scrap metal. In John Street there used to be a waste paper company, us kids would collect old paper and cardboard and sell it to the man in the yard for pennies. The place was full of rats which the man used to catch in traps and drown them in a big tub.

By duffy watkins (21/02/2011)