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| 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 |
| 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 |
| Ashburnham I lived at Patcham in a very large yellow brick house called Ashburnham from about 1946-49. Its main entrance came ... | John Lewis | 2 | 11 January 2017 by Geoffrey Mead |
| Silver Lady troop canteen WW2 Brighton My mum worked here during the second World War. She spoke of it with nostalgia and regrets for all the ... | Shez Wells | 0 | 9 January 2017 by Shez Wells |
| Kings Mews Hotel St George / St James Street Hello. An ancestor sent a letter in 1880 from (If I am reading it correctly) the Kings Mews Hotel St ... | Suz 4225 | 0 | 2 January 2017 by Suz 4225 |
| Gillett Family Wanting information on Gillett family census shows George Gillett and family living in Lime Street, his son Benjamin immigrated to ... | Leonie Gillett | 5 | 29 December 2016 by Andy Grant |
| swimming medals My Aunt, Ethel Mockford born in 1907, swam for the County. Any ideas as to where her medals may be,or ... | Susan Stone | 2 | 15 December 2016 by Susan Stone |
| WW11 When I lived at 11 Regent Hill (long since demolished & replaced by council offices) during the war years, I ... | Alan Possee | 1 | 25 November 2016 by David Blackford |