Is it PotG?
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West Street, in Brighton
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Is it PotG?
Thrifty non-licker
North Street?
Is it PotG?
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43 - 47 Gardner St ?
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- Jul 7, 2003
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The Tesco shop there is interesting. I assume they must have bought up the neighbouring shops to build the old supermarket which is now the Komedia.
I don’t really remember the supermarket but used go there in the 80s when there were some great second hand record places in the building.
I don’t really remember the supermarket but used go there in the 80s when there were some great second hand record places in the building.
Is it PotG?
Thrifty non-licker
Is it PotG?
Thrifty non-licker
Preston Road?
Perfidious Albion
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Gardner Street now Komedia
At one time it was an indoor market with different traders in there . There was a second hand record store called , I think Red Rat Records , run by a guy named Izzy .. I used to hang out there a lot and made my collection from there …
Weststander
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Yep. Late 70’s and 80’s.
A bit like the one in Duke Street (with the Scientologists).
BrightonCottager
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I used to live on Coleman St near the church and my daughter went to the nursery. The shape of the roof is different to the photo - it has 3 gable ends facing south west. There were quite a few other churches and schools in the area, some now demolished. I'm going to draw lines on a map to see if I can work it out.
By the way, the Golden Goose became The Geese have gone over the Water', now the Geese. It used to be (technically) my local.
I did note the roof but thought as the photo isn’t really clear in the distance it may look different if the nursery was slightly side on.
BrightonCottager
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I might be wrong, but I think the building is the church (now flats) on the corner of Southover and Belgrave Streets.
The Constant Service pub on Islingword Road is so named because it's near the reservoir which provided a constant service of water to the relatively new area of Hanover. I don't think the site was ever built on. The old slipper baths are opposite the Constant Service - now also flats.
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I didn’t know that’s how the Constant Service got it’s name, I’m sure it had a sign with pipes in a loop at one time.
Do you mean the reservoir mentioned on the previous page?
Edit - just found an old photo with the pub sign.
Perfidious Albion
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Over at Portslade ,( it has aBN postcode) The old Rothbury cinema, Franklyn Rd. Personal memories of being taken as a small boy , then a bit later the Saturday morning kids shows where the man walked the aisle and shone his torch on you if you misbehaved.
Today it is just offices .
Today it is just offices .
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dolphins
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Was Southern Sound radio station for quite a while...used to live just around the corner in Norway Street and amusingly reception of the radio station wasn't fantastic, despite being so close. Clearly didn't transmit from there.
Dun Lurkin
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- Feb 20, 2023
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That brings back memories. First cinema I took my girlfriend to (long since my wife) back in 1962. The film on was 'The Young Ones' with Cliff Richard (although I don't remember how much we saw in the back row!
Is it PotG?
Thrifty non-licker
Buckingham Rd / West Hill Place ?
Complete with an early Streamline cab
Complete with an early Streamline cab
Back when taxis were a proper colour!
My dad worked on Brighton Streamline from the late 1950s until his retirement in the 1990s. From the front grill it looks like a Morris Oxford which was a popular model for cabs back then. My dad had a couple. The Streamline office is still in Clifton Hill and part of the building was a taxi only garage where "Uncle" Bernard used to work.
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Western Rd / Churchill Sq ?
BrightonCottager
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Yes, that's the reservoir I was referring to.
Edit: I was trying to find out more about this and came across this on My Brighton and Hove: https://www.mybrightonandhove.org.uk/topics/public-services/water-supply/water-supply-2
Bizarrely (for me), it also mentions the old Pumping Station at Saunders Park. The architect for the conversion of that to flats and the old Tesco in Gardner St to a cabaret venue was the same man - James someone or other - and I dealt with both planning applications.
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