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| Topic | Started by | Replies | Last post |
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| Relatives Im looking for info about George Thompson a fisherman, Hannah Ann (Marchant) his wife. The 1881 census has them in ... | Tony Souter | 0 | 2 May 2017 by Tony Souter |
| Ellen Doggett I’m researching an Ellen Doggett she worked as a cook at a school in Upper Brunswick head mistress Sarah Kemp ... | Ian Dilley | 1 | 1 May 2017 by Andy Grant |
| brighton permit 1943 can anybody tell me plse,what is a brighton permit 1943. thanks | Joseph Demascio | 1 | 29 April 2017 by Tim Sargeant |
| Tram shelters Was the shelter at the bottom of Elm Grove turned into a police box ? | Maggie Holder | 0 | 25 April 2017 by Maggie Holder |
| Cousin Your message has been deleted as it is not appropriate for this board. Please read the posting guidelines above before ... | Val Aspinall | 0 | 25 April 2017 by Val Aspinall |
| John Thomas Bennet John Thomas Bennett was a hairdresser who lived at 7 Market Street, Brighton for some years prior to the 1871 ... | Pamela Richardson | 1 | 23 April 2017 by Andy Grant |
| D'avigdor Schooldays Lorraine – your post is not appropriate as it is not regarding local history. Please reading the guidelines above before posting ... | Lorraine West | 0 | 18 April 2017 by Lorraine West |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |