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| Topic | Started by | Replies | Last post |
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| 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 |
| coleridge stree roman catholic school I am trying to find the closing date of this school. On the web ESCC seem to say 1945 but ... | David Daniels | 0 | 6 May 2016 by David Daniels |
| Name plates in walls Could someone remind me what the initials HCS, written on metal signs, relate to when seen embedded into walls on ... | Jasper Stevens | 9 | 3 May 2016 by Roy Grant |
| Registration of Stillbirths Wondering if stillbirths were registered(birth or death) in Brighton in the 1890s? Family story is that my husband’s g/grandparents,Thomas and ... | Margaret Jackson | 1 | 3 May 2016 by Roy Grant |
| family history can anyone tell me about Elsie Phyllis Lillian Cole aka Hamilton and Hamilton-Cole. She died in Brighton in 2003 ... | janet martin | 1 | 2 May 2016 by Elizabeth Cole |
| The Weston gunmakers of 7, New Road I’m researching the history of the Westons who were game-shooting gunmakers, starting with William Weston in 1825 and carried on ... | Robert Hodges | 1 | 2 May 2016 by Andy Grant |
| 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 | 4 | 1 May 2016 by Judy Balcombe |
| Adelaide Crescent, Hove In the 1891 Census I have found a distant relative who was a Lady’s Maid at number 15 Adelaide Crescent ... | Angela Brook | 1 | 1 May 2016 by Andy Grant |
| Warren Farm The brother of an ancestor, in 1817, occupied 2 plots of land, as a tenant, at Porto Bello, a small ... | Suzie S | 0 | 28 April 2016 by Suzie S |