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| Topic | Started by | Replies | Last post |
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| Upper Wellington Road Sorry your post has been deleted because it was not appropriate for this section. Please read the posting guide lines ... | Valerie Worton | 1 | 16 September 2016 by David Blackford |
| J. C. Mencke/Brighton Hi, Does anyone have any information on J. C. Mencke who apparently ran a music shop in Brighton in about ... | Robin King | 1 | 31 August 2016 by Andy Grant |
| Eastern Rd post office Does anyone know if there was once a post office in Eastern Road, certainly as far back as 1918? | Dick Chase | 7 | 29 August 2016 by Tim Sargeant |
| Furze Croft - Advise wanted Please read posting guidelines – your post not appropriate for this section. | Liddy Lashes | 1 | 7 August 2016 by David Blackford |
| William Thomas of 26 Richmond buildings Please read the posting guidelines – 1911 is our cutoff date for enquiries RE individuals. | Maureen Persiva | 0 | 7 August 2016 by Maureen Persiva |
| Hove Cemetery (South) Hello I’m wondering if there is any chance that someone would be willing to do me a huge favour. I ... | Rachel B | 8 | 1 August 2016 by Rachel B |
| shorehm houseboats memories 50's.60's70's Sorry Ian – you clearly did not read the posting guidelines indicated above. This section is not for trips down ... | Ian Meriwoode | 1 | 28 July 2016 by Geoffrey Mead |
| Tracing Tammadge family Sorry Jane but clearly you did not read the information on posting which is shown on the page. We do ... | Jane Smith | 1 | 27 July 2016 by Geoffrey Mead |
| Brighton retailers in 1950's Can anyone point me to a source of information, such as Yellow Pages (for 1950), where I can glean this ... | Ian Tollady | 2 | 25 July 2016 by Jeanette Eason |
| Possible ancestry link? Hi I have come across an early 1900’s picture on your website which has a photograph of a student who looks ... | Narelle Thoms | 1 | 30 June 2016 by Andy Grant |
| Kevin Fossey Local historians will be sad to hear that Kevin Fossey has died aged 65. Kevin was head teacher at a ... | Geoffrey Mead | 0 | 29 June 2016 by Geoffrey Mead |
| Tribe and Pilbeam families circa 1900 Please please is there anyone out there in Brighton who can recall anything to do with my family. ... | Vivienne Richardson | 14 | 22 June 2016 by Roy Grant |
| Any information or posters of 1976 I am a trustee of the Hanover Centre and on 3rd July we are celebrating our 40 years of being ... | Susie Courtault | 1 | 9 June 2016 by Geoffrey Mead |
| Hove Engineerium sundial? I drove up Woodland Drive the other day and I noticed a plynth base outside the gates of the Water ... | Phil Drayton-Morris | 2 | 8 June 2016 by Phil Drayton-Morris |
| List of domestic servants at Stanmer I am trying to ascertain whether or not my great grandmother Jane Olliver worked at Stanmer House around 1840. She ... | Narena Olliver | 2 | 8 June 2016 by Roy Grant |
| Lloyd Road Hove Can anyone tell me when the first house was built in Lloyd Road please and why it is called Lloyd ... | Nikki Green | 2 | 2 June 2016 by Nikki Green |
| Sophia Duleep Singh 1875 – 1948 I am reading “Sophia, Princess, Suffragette, Revolutionary” by Anita Anand pub. Bloomsbury Publishing 2015…there is a reference to ... | Val Brown | 2 | 29 May 2016 by Val Brown |
| Lost oppurtunities... I am sure that I am not alone amongst the small dedicated band of ‘repliers’ to requests who are frustrated ... | Geoffrey Mead | 3 | 23 May 2016 by Andy Grant |
| Thread deleted Sorry Steve – but your message has been deleted. This section is for local history questions – not reminiscences. Please ... | Steve Teasdale | 0 | 17 May 2016 by Steve Teasdale |
| Local History Hello all I am currently doing a project on the changing social structure and physical growth of Brighton post WW2 – ... | Chris Sutton | 3 | 11 May 2016 by Roy Grant |
| Nottingham Street on 1851 census my 3rd Gt Grandfather is shown as a teacher at Nottingham Street School Brighton. Can you tell me ... | David Eldridge | 2 | 10 May 2016 by Jackie Hobbs |
| query re Jenny Mighell I am trying to find out about Jenny Mighell, a resident of Brighton, who brought a breach of promise action ... | Judy Balcombe | 2 | 6 May 2016 by Andy Grant |
| Saucy postcards I remember the late, lamented humourist Keith Waterhouse used to occasionally mention in articles that Brighton had once banned McGill ... | Geoff Robbins | 3 | 6 May 2016 by Andy Grant |
| Gayton House, The Droveway, Hove Eric Hamilton-Cole lived at Gayton, The Droveway in the 1930’s and 40’s. I have looked on the internet and can’t ... | Elizabeth Cole | 2 | 6 May 2016 by Elizabeth Cole |