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| Topic | Started by | Replies | Last post |
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| Annual visitor numbers for Brighton pre WW1 Can anyone help me please with the location of any statistics for annual numbers of visitors to Brighton? I am ... | Les Waters | 0 | 28 August by Les Waters |
| Patcham Duck Fayre How did the Patcham Duck Fayre get its name ? I’m given to understand that the original site was The Old ... | Bee Oliver | 0 | 28 August by Bee Oliver |
| Running Horse Pub King Street My great grandfather was the publican from 1910 to 1931 – he was John Jackson the man who set up ... | Bob | 3 | 15 August by Denise Borer |
| Madame Tussauds Does anyone remember the waxwork museum? My childhood memories are that it was linked to Madame Tussauds, but in ... | Adam Johnson-Short | 10 | 28 July by Peter Groves |
| Panzer Mansions hi, I’m trying to find out if anyone can remember or has info on Panzer Mansions that used to be ... | rod harrison | 43 | 28 July by Clive Gravett |
| Stanley Greenhow Sorry i forgot to ask if anyone could give me any tips on how i can go about finding information ... | Trudy | 6 | 28 July by Ingrid Greenhow |
| kemptown area Hi, Most of my family lived in the kemptown area between 1841 and 1901. I was just wondering if you had ... | Katie Hogbin | 8 | 22 July by William Jeal |
| penny farthing coffee shop think at the bottom of north rd,back in the late fifties.?? | mick | 9 | 12 July by Colin Pratt |
| Cumberland Place and Hawker's permits George Thomas Smith was born at 9 Cumberland Place in February 1892, his mother Frances Smith’s occupation was Fruit Hawker. ... | Fenella Rook Smith | 2 | 7 July by Fenella Rook Smith |
| Gas Lighting Just wondered when gas ceased to be used for street lighting in Brighton? Often see many beautiful former ... | Roy Grant | 7 | 7 July by Lesley Brett |
| Saturday morning pictures for us kids We sang the National Anthen with adapted words, as the song ,as we were minors of the ABC, can anyone ... | Joyce Blackman | 1 | 28 June by Peter Perkins |
| Wiston School, junctions of Old Shoreham Road/ Dyke Road /Chatsworth Road Brighton? A private school, later to become a private medical center. The site is no up for sale | Joan Oliver | 0 | 28 June by Joan Oliver |
| Brighton station old left luggage office Whereabouts in the current Brighton train station was the left luggage office? Thinking of the Trunk Murders. | Sassy Sal | 1 | 25 June by Geoffrey Mead |
| Bedford Brewery I was looking on an old map recently and came across a Bedford Brewery on the corner of Bedford Place ... | Debbie Waldon | 1 | 25 June by Dr Geoffrey Mead |
| Rock Street Does anyone know the origin of the name of this street? | Richard Parker | 2 | 25 June by Dr Geoffrey Mead |
| Gilbert Harding Has anyone any memories of the veteren broadcaster Gilbert Harding.I lived near him as a child and have vague memories ... | Edward | 16 | 12 June by Jacqueline Sonnessa |
| Brighton Tattoo History Hi folks, I’m looking to see if anyone has any accounts of tattooists working in Brighton between 1960s to late 80’s. You ... | John Parkinson | 1 | 19 May by Peter Groves |
| Peacehaven Hotel Does anyone remember the Peacehaven Hotel. It ws built in the 1920s. I’d like to know what it was used for in ... | Jules Davis | 3 | 19 May by Henry Johnson |
| Aryeh House School Anybody knows about it? | Janine Silberman | 8 | 19 May by Drake Stephen |
| Painting of Brighton beach from Hove: any info about the artist? I bought this painting in Boston, Massachusetts. I can’t make out the name of the artist, though I have been ... | Miranda Swift | 1 | 11 May by MICHAEL INNES |
| Nightingale House, Marine Parade Hello, I’m interested in Nightingale House, Marine Parade. It was opened on Saturday 27th April 1929 as a Christian Spiritualist ... | Monty Dart | 1 | 10 May by Geoffrey Mead |
| A question about Western Road. Could anyone please help with details of a photographer who was in business at 79 Western Road, Hove, in the ... | Mark Dickens | 2 | 10 May by Geoff Robbins |
| THE DOWNS SCHOOL IN 1932 During my family history research I’ve found a relative who was an engineer working in India in the period between ... | Richard Corden | 1 | 10 May by Geoffrey Mead |
| Sherrie's dance hall My family history shows that my Grandfather was working at Sherrie’s dance hall in 1927. I new Sherries in the ... | Richard Weal | 3 | 1 May by Rodney Standing |