Anciently known as 'Mockbeggars's Croft'

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s) REGENT ARCADE: The Regent Arcade opened in 1961 on the site of Warden’s Buildings, a group of warehouses named after Francis Warden who bought land in the area in the late eighteenth century. The site was anciently known as the Mockbeggar’s Croft, a field probably connected with St Bartholomew’s Priory. The entrances to this select arcade in East Street , Market Street and Bartholomews have been well designed to blend in with the adjacent buildings. {3,123}

Any numerical cross-references in the text above refer to resources in the Sources and Bibliography section of the Encyclopaedia of Brighton by Tim Carder.

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  • In the 1950s and 60s, at the west entrance to the Regent Arcade, in Market Street, stood the Nanking Chinese Restaurant. In about 1958 or 59 this was the place where I first tasted Chinese food. Then in the late 1960s, when I was a student at Brighton Technical College, we used to go there for the set three course business lunch for 7s-6d (37 1/2p). At that time there were just two Chinese restaurants in Brighton, the Nanking and Choys. Neither of them did take-away food until the late 1960s / early 1970s.

    By Alan Phillips (29/10/2007)

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