penny farthing coffee shop by mick 23 March 2010think at the bottom of north rd,back in the late fifties.??11 replies Re: penny farthing coffee shop by Kathy Nichols 23 March 2010It was in East Street, near Bredon’s Bookshop and the Savoy cinema.Many happy hours were spent there in my youth! Re: penny farthing coffee shop by Roy Grant 23 March 2010Yes East Street, right next to the famous (or infamous) ‘dog legged’ twitten to Batholemews, that featured in the sex scene in Quadraphinia. (How did I know that?) Re: penny farthing coffee shop by Geoffrey Mead 24 March 2010Is there a name for that twitten? I have never encountered one. Similarly what about the recessed ‘square’ outside the The Sussex pub further north in East St. The numbering of the properties is currently for East St.My former solicitors was in the twitten leading off the open area and was 37a East St. I have heard/seen it referred to on one occasion as South Sq but on what veracity I do not know. Re: penny farthing coffee shop by Roy Grant 24 March 2010Geoff: The 1958 dirctory shows it as the Penny Farthing ‘Snackery,’ but gives no name to the twitten. Looking at a plan c1863, the twitten only gave access to the backs of properties fronting East Street and Bartholemews, so perhaps no one ever considered it important enough to name. As for the Square with the ‘Sussex’ in it, there are two twittens and the East Street numbering continues down both. [a] The twitten by English’s is East Street until it becomes Market Street, and picks up on the rear entrance to the Sussex, also still East Street. [b] The Twitten past the Martha Gunn Restaurant (in its horribly reversed colour scheme) again returns to the square again and the East Street numbering down it is sequential. I do however believe that that twitten also once connected to Market Street, coming out at some steps beside that funny narrow corbled (not cobbled!) building that was wider at the top than at the bottom. (note; Corbling is where the end brick in each upper row is laid so that it extends beyond the brick it is cemented to, making an inverted staircase. Hence the overall width of a building at the top becomes greater than the foundation it was built on.) Re: penny farthing coffee shop by duffy 24 March 2010the same way as me???? Re: penny farthing coffee shop by Geoffrey Mead 25 March 2010The twitten that runs north past Martha Gunns and the little House restaurant does a tortuous turn at the end into a yard overflowing with cooking oil drums and rubbish. It is a hidden backwater of Brighton, private of course, but found by me posing as a ‘lost tourist’,slate hung buildings and the general air of dereliction so beloved of us non-trendy Brightonians. Re: penny farthing coffee shop by Faynia Williams, nee Jeffery 19 May 2020 7:52 AMI worked at the Penny Farthing in East Street. I remember a Hungarian refugee turned up there in 1956. Re: penny farthing coffee shop by Matthew Trott 28 January 2021 7:39 AM zoomPicture from a new book on bicycles. February 1961. Re: penny farthing coffee shop by Colin Pratt 12 July 2021 11:37 AMI was lucky enough to marry one of the waitresses in 1968, so wonder who is left alive………….. (wife still is). Re: penny farthing coffee shop by John Mortby 10 June 2022 9:18 AMI married one of the washer up girls there around the same time. …..(wife still alive) Re: penny farthing coffee shop by Alan Hobden 10 June 2022 9:20 AMThe twitten mentioned by Roy Grant on 23 March 2010 is now officially named “Quadrophenia Alley”. From East Street, it runs west between Barbour and Bone Clothing towards Little East Street . Add your replyHiddenAdd your title Add your wordsWould you like to add some images (optional)? If so, how many images would you like to add? 1 2 3 4 5 6Your image files will be uploaded when you submit this form. They should be .jpg or .png files. 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