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Clarendon Road/Goldstone Road, Hove

Muggeridge's General Store

By Gordon Muggeridge

The General Store in the photo was located in Clarendon Road/Goldstone Road, Hove and run by my Grandparents, Harvey and Marion Muggeridge (nee Hammond ) They lived at number 16 Goldstone Road which was adjacent.

The exact dates are unknown but I estimate the photo was taken around 1904. The 1901 Census records the fact they lived on the premises. Those in the photo include (L to R) Sons, Harold and William,( my Father) together with their Father, Harvey. The young man with the milk float has not been identified.

Marion's�brother, Harry E. Hammond, ran the Aldrington Hotel around the same time; both the Hammonds were born in Brighton. Harvey Muggeridge died in 1915 whilst his Sons were in France during WW1; the business was then sold. Previous ventures included farming on the family farm with his Father at Ifield and as a Miller & Corndealer trading as Muggeridge & Killick at New Shoreham

Muggeridge's General Store

From the private collection of the Muggeridge Family

This page was added on 17/03/2008.

Comments:

Shouldn't this be Goldstone Street, not Road?

By Vic Stevens (20/03/2008)

My grandfather Harry Frost had a fruit and greengrocer shop on the other corner (north) from Muggeridge's shop before� world war 11. They lived at 13 Clarendon Road.
They used to advertise on the screen at the Odeon cinema, Hove. I would like to contact anyone with any photos of the shop or anyone who remembers the Frost family.

By alan frost (30/03/2008)

Yes Vic, you're absolutely right. The two east-west roads Clarendon Road and Goldstone Road, Hove run parallel to each other, with Livingstone Road and Shirley Street in between, so they never meet. Goldstone Street, though, runs north-south and has junctions with all of them.

By Alan Hobden (03/08/2008)