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Station Road Portslade

Milwards Shoe Shop

By Ken Barrington

My Dad was manager of the shop in the picture, Milwards Shoes at 15 Station Road Portslade from 1960 until about 1973.

Previous site of Portslade council offices
We lived in the flat above until the shop was modernized around 1963-4. When we moved in there in 1960 the old Portslade council office building was still standing next door but was soon demolished and a new building erected to house Fine Fare and a TV rental company. Behind the old council building there was an orchard.

15 Station Road Portslade

From the private collection of Ken Barrington

This page was added on 31/12/2009.

Comments about this page

Just next door was that great hardware store Retallicks. There was always a funny but nice smell to that shop. Further up towards the station there was another shoe shop, Freeman Hardy & Willis.

By Chris McBrien (01/01/2010)

Hello Chris McBrien. Yes I remember Milwards shoe shop. My sister and I always brought my dad's slippers there for Christmas as it was the only shop that keep the one's he wore, but that would have been in 1955, long before your dad had the shop. Also remember Freeman, Hardy & Willis shoe shop which was at the top of Station Road. I used to work opposite Milwards in the hardware store called Mence Smith for a number of years. We did have a young boy who came to work with us and he used to live over the top of one of those shops but can't remember which one. It was good to see the photo; I have told my sister who still lives in Brighton as I have lived in Australia for many years now. By Pat Finneran (nee Morley) 28.3.2010

By Pat Finneran (28/03/2010)