SearchCurrently displaying: 39 results. Clear the search. You can also search our Questions and Answers.You've searched for:Categories: "Streets" xArea: "Hanover" x Search term Filter by Categories Topics (2)Views of the city: images & opinions (1)Best of Brighton and Hove (1)World War II (1)Wartime Memories (1)Tours (2)Lesser heard voices tours (1)Brighton Deaf Centre (1)Personal Tours (1)Roy Grant: Local Historian (1) Sort by: RelevanceTitleOldestNewest Notes and queries: A father's friends Where to start… My father spent his early years in Brighton. When his parents split in 1940, he was moved ... Memories of a wartime visit I visited Brighton during the war. My mother, sister and I came to stay with a family in Windmill Street. ... A brush with death Shortly after my brush with death in my pram, Aunt Nell, who lived at no 26 Windmill Street, came up with the ... When the war was over When the war was finally over a street party was arranged for all the children in Windmill Street, and invites ... Early recollections and Adolf's near misses I was born in August 1940 when England was at war with Germany. I made my entry into this world ... The steepest hill in Brighton 1:5 gradient hill With a gradient of 1:5, Richmond Street was once one of the steepest roads in Brighton and was ... History of number 53 Speculation in the farmland that is now Hanover Ward began in the 1850s, although it was the mid 1860s before ... My great grandparents' shop, c1911 The couple in the photo are my great grandparents John and Georgina Wood. Kelly’s Directory has John Wood living at ... Hills Butchers, photograph c1914 This was F. Hills Family Butchers for over 40 years. The photo shows Frederick and Ada Hills outside their shop ... Infants' School Class photo c1938 These photos were recovered from the bombed out ruins of a house in Sussex Terrace after the raid in 1942. ... Photographic miscellany Did you know? - the Hollow This twitten was (is?) called ‘the hollow’. However, my father who was born and raised in Hanover Terrace always called ... The Hollow - is it a twitten or a cat creep? I’ve lived in Hanover Street for about 12 years, since the late 1980s. I live about halfway down the street, ... Newark Place The link originally on this page is no longer valid. Welcome to Hanover! Your editor for Hanover is Jack Latimer. If you’ve got any queries about this area, or can add any information, ... Particularly pleasant I think Hanover Street is particularly pleasant. The houses are only quite small, but they vary in design, and there ... The house with painted windows This intrigues me, and intrigues visitors. It’s a house that is completely painted over – even the windows. I live ... Photo Request “Any information about the school that used to be in Hanover Terrace (where the new houses have now been built)… ... Photo of the 1913 football team A street party in Islingword Street and Southampton Street in 1938. Collecting coppers The feelings among several people were such, that owing to so many children living in the two streets, they ... Colourful houses Early photo Photo of the National School, 1979 Some things have changed I moved to Brighton and Hove twenty years ago from Devon. I moved here because a lot of my friends ... Early photo Street games in the 1930s The residents of Lynton Street, where I was born and grew up, were a varied community but the majority were ... A potted history Please note that this text is an extract from a reference work written in 1990. As a result, some of ... Finsbury Road school:a window on the world For the children of 1940s Hanover, Finsbury Road School was our window on the world. The entrance was two doors ... An ex-pat remembers Born at number 73 I was born and bought up at 73 Islingword Place and I went to St Luke’s School ... Class photograph circa 1940s I have just been looking at your page on Finsbury Road, although I didn’t go to Finsbury Road School myself ... VE Day Street Party During and after the war my grandparents ran The Miller’s Arms public house on the corner of Windmill Street and ... Childhood memories My mum’s friends My Mum lived in William Street, her name was Rose Dove. Flo (Saunders) Tidey and Violet Townsend (Lamper) ... Stuka attack on the Brewery, 1940 A memorable day My grandparents told me about an event that happened in World War II; how two Stukas avoided detection ... A 1970s paper round Harry Croydon’s shop In 1970 I lived in Islingword Street with my parents Eileen & Dennis, my nan, sister and brother. ... Windmill Street party: Riley Hall in Carlton Hill This photo was taken at the Riley Hall in Carlton Hill. It was a party for Windmill Street residents. I ... Sweet coupons and fish and chips Spending the sweet coupons In the 1940s My Nan and Grandad used to give their grand-children their sweet coupons. The sweet ... Remnants of Edwardian poverty Desperate pockets of poverty Islingword Road Mission was where I spent so much of my childhood and youth. Someone once asked ... What happened to these houses? The first photograph here of the corner of Hanover Terrace was taken c1960. The caption from the James Gray photograph ... Childhood memories of the 1960s Mum worked in the café My family moved to 42 Hanover Street when I was six years old in 1962. From ...