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| Topic | Started by | Replies | Last post |
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| 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 | 3 | 16 September 2019 12:07 PM by Rob Body |
| The Winsor family Hi,I am researching my ex nans family,her surname was Winsor and she was born in Bute st kemp town 1908.I ... | Phillip Baker | 2 | 15 September 2019 11:55 AM by Diane |
| George Ernest Bryant lived in Brighton Hi, I was adopted shortly after my birth and have in the last year or so found many ancestors. ... | Kathryn Bryant | 6 | 15 September 2019 11:54 AM by dom smith |
| A question about Coleman Street, Brighton Bit of a long shot but when I was 6 (now 69!) years old my parents Chris and Lois Lade ... | Nick Lade | 0 | 15 September 2019 11:52 AM by Nick Lade |
| Fish and Chip Restaurant in the North Laine 1990's. Does anyone know of a Fish and Chip Restaurant in the North Laine? I was taken there in the 1990’s ... | Ria Ship | 0 | 13 September 2019 4:00 PM by |
| Bombings in Brighton Does anyone know any information on bombs in Caledonian rd Brighton 1940 September the 20 that where dropped, or have ... | vikkysmile | 8 | 6 September 2019 5:04 PM by Allan Warner-Clarkson |
| Miss Margaret Hardy I am researching Brighton’s first female Mayor, Miss Margaret Hardy. Local Studies are sending me a brief history of her ... | Colin Cartwright | 2 | 3 September 2019 11:26 AM by David Packham |
| Looking for Reginald Footitt/Footit Hello, I’d like to re-unite my Dad with his old Navy colleague called Reginald Footitt (or Footit). All we know is he ... | Steph Joynson | 4 | 30 August 2019 3:31 PM by Steph Joynson |
| Wigney's Bank Does anyone know anything about the Wigney family who came to Brighton at the end of the 18th Century? Brighton’s ... | Heather King | 12 | 22 August 2019 5:54 PM by Ivor Williams |
| the weaver family Hi i wonder if anyone can help me i am a member of the weaver family and trying to find ... | wayne | 6 | 22 August 2019 9:19 AM by Shady Pooh |
| Warren Farm I wonder if anyone can tell me please if I can access any lists of people who stayed at Warren ... | Denise | 12 | 6 August 2019 8:10 AM by Geoffrey Mead |
| First Scout Camp Baden Powell’s first ever scout camp took place in 1908. Amongst those first thirty scouts who attended the camp was ... | Peter Whitcomb | 7 | 2 August 2019 1:06 PM by Mary Norris |
| Mormon church Can anyone tell me if there is a Mormon church in Brighton or Hove, and if so whereabouts please | John | 13 | 31 July 2019 1:15 PM by Geoffrey Mead |
| 14th Hove Scouts Hello. Hope anyone can out there can help?! I am helping my local scout group to celebrate its 100 years ... | Naomi Darling | 1 | 20 July 2019 5:19 PM by Michael Endean |
| Eaton Mews???? Hi everyone, Can anyone inform me as to where Eaton Mews is/was in Brighton/Hove as I am researching my family history ... | Terry Jacobs | 13 | 17 July 2019 6:45 AM by Kevin Wilson |
| A question about the bas relief at 59 North Street Brighton On the front of 59 North Street, between the windows on the first and second floors, is a bas relief ... | Lawrence Suss | 0 | 17 July 2019 6:43 AM by Lawrence Suss |
| Remembrance Train in Brighton sheds My grandfather Albert Bartlett had his photo taken with a few ( about 5 ) of the other men who ... | Mavis Strong | 0 | 14 July 2019 5:02 PM by Mavis Strong |
| Baroda Pigeon House at Brooker Hall (Hove Museum). Does anyone know what happened to the Baroda Pigeon House? It stood in front of Brooker Hall in New Church ... | Alan Hobden | 1 | 13 July 2019 9:50 AM by Geoffrey Mead |
| Johanna Hutton Snook - concert pianist Do you have any record of this lady playing the piano to Edward V11 in the late 1800s. Or ... | Alison Layton | 3 | 8 July 2019 7:56 AM by Tim Sargeant |
| Roy Charles Whipps How do I go about finding any information about this man – my father — who was born and lived ... | Alison JOhnson | 6 | 30 June 2019 6:17 PM by Peter Whipps |
| Watts, Hampson, Diplock, Carron Hi, I’m trying to find my ancestors from the brighton and hove areas and wondering if anyone can help. My ... | Denise | 13 | 24 June 2019 4:59 PM by Kirsty Carron |
| Holland Road Repository Can someone spread some light and history on the Holland road repository as was? I can’t seem to find anything ... | Liam | 5 | 21 June 2019 9:16 AM by Alan Hobden |
| Brighton Institution for the Blind & Dumb 1901ish Does anyone have any old photographs of this building on 136 Eastern Road, Brighton from about 1901, as I have ... | Samantha Bye | 4 | 13 June 2019 6:09 PM by Geoffrey Eagling |
| Quebec Street Does anyone know when Quebec Street was built and who built the houses (postcode BN2 7NB)? | Indira Becha | 1 | 9 June 2019 8:16 AM by Andy Grant |