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New Bridge Inn at Newhaven From 1905 the owner of the New Bridge Inn ELIZA FANNY RICHARDSON at Newhaven (now a sports shop) ... | April Clark | 18 June 2022 7:07 PM by george sibun |
Duke Street Music Shop In continuing some research into my days at Brighton as a semi-pro musician I have found a piece of paper ... | Michael Steer | 18 June 2022 7:07 PM by George John Henry Walker (please use my first names only) |
family history can anyone tell me about Elsie Phyllis Lillian Cole aka Hamilton and Hamilton-Cole. She died in Brighton in 2003 ... | janet martin | 18 June 2022 7:05 PM by Jamie cole Cole |
59 Lansdowne Place, Hove Also known as “Somerset House” and once part of Wick Farm. This address is of great interest to me because ... | Leveson, Richard | 18 June 2022 7:05 PM by Robert Pringle |
The Brighton Basketmaker I collect old stereoviews of Brighton and have several labelled as “The Brighton Basket Maker”, showing the interior of what ... | Honor Wimlett | 18 June 2022 7:03 PM by L P |
Molly ,dance teacher does any one remember mollys dancing school in Brighton in the sixties Ship street I think an old piano and ... | Trina Strowman | 18 June 2022 7:03 PM by Nathalie Moore |
warwick street brighton would anybody here have any old maps with the location listed above.i beleive it was near chesham road?? | mark harland | 18 June 2022 7:03 PM by Irene Mace |
Rock Street Does anyone know the origin of the name of this street? | Richard Parker | 16 June 2022 3:27 PM by Tim Sargeant |
Winnie Hilder I look after a gentleman of 94 who knew Winnie Hilder, does anyone have any infomation about her. He still ... | Sue Eburn | 16 June 2022 3:27 PM by Ila Hudson |
Brighton station old left luggage office Whereabouts in the current Brighton train station was the left luggage office? Thinking of the Trunk Murders. | Sassy Sal | 16 June 2022 3:26 PM by Peter Groves |
Brighton bus office I worked for a short while in the Brighton bus office in Lewis Road around 1950. I remember that it ... | Dave Blackford | 16 June 2022 3:25 PM by Dave Blackford |
lancing carriage works history i am trying to find any information available for the above particularly any records held for the staff who were ... | mark harland | 16 June 2022 3:23 PM by John Snelling |
Madame Tussauds Does anyone remember the waxwork museum? My childhood memories are that it was linked to Madame Tussauds, but in ... | Adam Johnson-Short | 16 June 2022 3:22 PM by Fenella Rook Smith |
Salisbury Road, Hove I am trying to find out more about the history of Salisbury Road in Hove. I can find lots of information ... | Kellee | 16 June 2022 3:22 PM by Karen Vincent-Jones |
Harman Family Tree This is a long shot but……not long into my family tree and my aunt told me of a story about ... | Gail Oldfield | 16 June 2022 3:22 PM by HUGO RUNE |
Brighton River? I’m Brighton born and bred but in Africa for 50 years. Brighton must have had a river, judging by the ... | Leon Bradley | 16 June 2022 3:16 PM by Leon Bradley |
Saturday morning pictures for us kids We sang the National Anthen with adapted words, as the song ,as we were minors of the ABC, can anyone ... | Joyce Blackman | 15 June 2022 3:24 PM by Allan Fowler |
Dolls Hospitals There are two places i remember as mending dolls.Known as the dolls hospital.This might be just a phrase used ... | jennifer tonks nee smith | 15 June 2022 3:24 PM by jan simms |
Box's Commercial College I went to Box’s Commercial College in 1954. This was a private secretarial college situated on Gloucester Place. Does ... | Trish Summers (nee Wells) | 15 June 2022 3:23 PM by Sue McShane |
Cab Drivers I’m told that George Wheatland was the last cabbie in Brighton and I would like to confirm that. ... | Ken G | 15 June 2022 3:23 PM by Kelly Deadman |
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 | 15 June 2022 3:20 PM by AMANDA SOUTTER |
Burials Seeking information on George & Florence Gouraud who may be buried in St. Wolfran’s Church Cemetery in Ovingdean. Wish ... | Ray Johnston | 15 June 2022 3:19 PM by Michael Hammerson |
H A Waller & Sons Ltd Does anyone have any knowledge of what happened to HA Waller & Sons Ltd, Sheet Metal Workers of Whitecross Street ... | George Waller | 15 June 2022 3:18 PM by Colin Wares |
Shoreham Workhouse I seem to remember a message which mentioned the newer workhouse in Shoreham, Steyning Union, which later became Southlands Hospital. ... | Helen Shipley | 15 June 2022 3:17 PM by Michael Hollylee |