A flashback fifty years to the time of the First World War, and the Tilling’s bus waiting at Patcham Fountain for a summer trip into Brighton, makes interesting comparison with the view in the 1960s. Tilling’s later became the Brighton Hove and District Omnibus Company.
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My mother was born in one of the cottages on Church Hill . It was the family home.
Above is a picture of an ancient omnibus adjacent to the ancient Horse-trough now in front of the new Black Lion Pub (the original was just a few yards South in the Old London Road). When I lived in Patcham the BH & District bus that terminated there was the No 15B. The No15 turned off the London Road into Carden Avenue then Winfield Avenue into Mackie Avenue at the end of which it terminated opposite a small parade of shops.
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