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[Brighton] Old Brighton Postcard



Is it PotG?

Is it PotG?

Thrifty non-licker
Feb 20, 2017
26,411
Sussex by the Sea
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PeterT

PeterT

Well-known member
Apr 21, 2017
2,492
Hove
Couldn't Be Hyypia said:
The bridge had gone by the time I started at the junior school in 1974. And the buildings had gone too. Was there a fire? By the mid 70s, it was just a cleared site.

To cross the road, we had to walk up to the hospital to use the zebra crossing (or risk a beating by crossing the road)
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I was at the junior school for 1 year only, left in 74. Not my favourite year at school, hated doing classes on a Saturday morning. I managed to get a detention for running across that road to catch the bus.
 


































Official Old Man

Official Old Man

Uckfield Seagull
Aug 27, 2011
9,475
Brighton
dejavuatbtn said:
I remember delivering Brighton rock to the “Farmers” shop on the corner in the early 70s. It had a trap door behind the counter and the cellar was full to the brim with manky old sweets.
shame we lost the nice old buildings in the early 60s when Kingswest was built.
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Who did you work for? My guess is Lewingtons.
I got into a cellar in my shop, about 200 yards from there, that was unknown to me. It had bags of Humbugs that must have been 40+ years old.
 


dejavuatbtn

dejavuatbtn

Well-known member
Aug 4, 2010
7,795
Henfield
Official Old Man said:
Who did you work for? My guess is Lewingtons.
I got into a cellar in my shop, about 200 yards from there, that was unknown to me. It had bags of Humbugs that must have been 40+ years old.
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A mate of mine had connections with a family who had several Sussex rock shops and set up a factory in Lewes. We used to deliver to Brighton, Eastbourne and Worthing. The cellars of all those properties from West Street to the Steyne are bonkers and all extend under the road. What with the arches on the seafront, how more of that section of road hasn’t given way I don’t know. It must be 150 years old at least and any supporting iron and brickwork must be pretty dodgy.
 


Official Old Man

Official Old Man

Uckfield Seagull
Aug 27, 2011
9,475
Brighton
dejavuatbtn said:
A mate of mine had connections with a family who had several Sussex rock shops and set up a factory in Lewes. We used to deliver to Brighton, Eastbourne and Worthing. The cellars of all those properties from West Street to the Steyne are bonkers and all extend under the road. What with the arches on the seafront, how more of that section of road hasn’t given way I don’t know. It must be 150 years old at least and any supporting iron and brickwork must be pretty dodgy.
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Tell me. I have 41 Kings Road which is 250+ years old. The basement goes under the shop to what looks like an original front door which is directly under the current front door of the block of flats.
Beyond the lower door it goes down another level and becomes the arches. My basement goes out about halfway across Kings Road and is bricked up. There was a door there which we once opened and ended up in the stock room of (The Honey Club) in the Arches. This would have been around 1983.
It's dry down there but the ceiling is brick forming the arch. Over the years only one company have dug a hole in the road and come through the roof.
We sold the building a few years back but I still have the shop and half the basement.
I've searched for years for details of what was built first, the buildings at 41 Kings Road stretching to the pier and including the Old Ship Hotel, or the arches.
 








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