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| LGBT pubs and clubs in the 1960s / early 1970s Sorry Kate but this board is not the place to ask for memories. Please post your request on an appropriate ... | Kate Wildblood | 0 | 18 April 2017 by Kate Wildblood |
| westbourne swimming lido Hove Hi there Ive just started a William Boyd novel and he mentions Westbourne swimming lido in Hove. Sounds like the location ... | Shelley Attrell | 1 | 9 April 2017 by Nickie Preston |
| Clapsons Stores Old London Road Patcham (I’m also going to post this on the Brighton Past group on Facebook but thought I’d ask on here as ... | Jeanette C | 0 | 3 April 2017 by Jeanette C |
| Looking for hidden history in the HANOVER area I will be performing on the Brighton Fringe 2017 at VILLAGE CAFE (formally the Horse and Groom pub). I’m a ... | Cathianne Hall | 1 | 1 April 2017 by David Blackford |
| Quebec Street Hi, I am looking up some history on Quebec Street. I have been told by a neighbour that one of ... | Sue Johnson | 7 | 28 March 2017 by Geoffrey Mead |
| Quebec Street I live at 20 Quebec Street. Does anyone have any photos of the garden from the 1940’s up to 1960? ... | Sue Johnson | 1 | 28 March 2017 by Geoffrey Mead |
| Girls' School. Montpelier Road. 1850s ? Has anyone any knowledge of a girls’ school in Montpelier Road during the 1850s period. If so what was it ... | Tim Sargeant | 9 | 25 March 2017 by Bob Catt |
| Church Hill and Spring Street I’m trying to pin point the house where my mother was born (in 1929), On her birth certificate it says ... | Jeanette C | 5 | 22 March 2017 by Jeanette Collinson |
| Mrs Fitzherbert and Brighton Hello members Have just joined and am asking if anybody has any information on the historic sites related to Mrs Fitzherbert ... | Derrick Bradfield | 2 | 12 March 2017 by Derrick Bradfield |
| Prestonville School, Hove I went to Prestonville School (nr the Seven Dials) from 1962 until 1968. Anyone out there a former pupil and ... | Steve Sherwood | 6 | 10 March 2017 by Chris Thompson |
| WW11 Reading local history of WW11 mentions a crash site of Jeffries Point Portslade. Anyone know this place? | Chris Chandler | 1 | 7 March 2017 by David Shelton |
| Brighton Free Home for Destitute and Orphan Boys - aka Bryn aka 3 Upper Lewes Road. The 1891 census shows my great uncle as being a resident (or inmate) at No 3 Upper Lewes Road (a ... | Geoff Robbins | 5 | 18 February 2017 by Geoff Robbins |
| High Class Confectioners and Coffee Shop Im trying to find information, about a business my great grandfather had in hove in 1930s and hopefully a address ... | Heather Tritton | 4 | 18 February 2017 by Geoffrey Mead |
| George and Edith Petty High Class Confectioners and Coffee Shop My Great Grandparents owned the High Class Confectioners and Coffee Shop in Hove.George died in 1941 so we are talking ... | Heather Tritton | 3 | 16 February 2017 by Heather Tritton |
| School Does anyone know of a small private school that my mother attended in the early 1920’s named Bagshot House. It ... | Gwen Healy | 3 | 9 February 2017 by Geoffrey Mead |
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| Brighton and hove Girls Grammar School There is very little about the Brighton and Hove Girls Grammar School. I went there after passing the 11 ... | Ann Eatwell | 2 | 1 February 2017 by Alan Hobden |
| "Beaconsfield", Furze Hill, Hove My parents first met at a New Year party in January 1940. It was held in “Beaconsfield”, the home of ... | Alan Hobden | 4 | 27 January 2017 by Alan Hobden |
| The Yellow Fish I am interested in any information about a woman bather, called the Yellow Fish because of the colour of her ... | Martha Musgrove | 0 | 27 January 2017 by Martha Musgrove |
| Danuta Simmonds-post deleted Your posting has been deleted as it was inappropriate for this section. Please read the posting guidelines before you attempt ... | Owen Uglow | 0 | 17 January 2017 by Owen Uglow |
| Murder at 110 Upper North Street My aunt Miriam Griffiths died in 1965. Her death certificate says that she was murdered by stabbing at her ... | Stephen Welch | 2 | 16 January 2017 by Tim Sargeant |
| Brighton public art gallery Has anyone anyone any original photographs, 1932 news articles, scetches or information of the following exhibition that was held at ... | Billbo Badger | 0 | 14 January 2017 by Billbo Badger |