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North Street

First shop opened on 25 July 1808

Reproduced with permission from the Encyclopaedia of Brighton by Tim Carder, 1990

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Photo:North Street and Queen's Road, 28 January 1974: This photograph shows an early Virgin Records shop at the western end of North Street. Nearby the Regent Cinema is closed awaiting demolition. Both of these buildings were demolished in 1974 and the site is now occupied by Boots the Chemists. A blue police box can be seen above the now filled-in public toilets under the clock tower

North Street and Queen's Road, 28 January 1974: This photograph shows an early Virgin Records shop at the western end of North Street. Nearby the Regent Cinema is closed awaiting demolition. Both of these buildings were demolished in 1974 and the site is now occupied by Boots the Chemists. A blue police box can be seen above the now filled-in public toilets under the clock tower

Image reproduced with kind permission from Brighton and Hove in Pictures by Brighton and Hove City Council

This page was added on 24/07/2007.

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If you look up Queen's Road you will see between the Virgin record store and the portico entrance to the Regent Cinema a pub facade with a Bass red triangle lamp outside - it's immediately above the head of the be-flared young man crossing the road. This was the "White Lion", a rudimentary drinker of a kind no longer found. Its facilities did not include ladies' or gents' toilets - if you had a call of nature you had to go outside, cross the road and use the Clock Tower lavatories, which are now, of course, bricked over. If you wanted better, then the Galleon Bar in the Regent Cinema basement was a fine place to have a drink and just up the road on the other side of the cinema entrance.

By Chris Taylor (13/04/2008)