Completely RANDOM things about Brighton & Hove...

[Jamon Jamon]

Also remember the night the grand got bombed .....

did we play Oxford away the next day?


Also anyone remember in the 70's the silver mobile shop that used to go thru Moulsecoomb every morning? in the evening we used to get a bakers van called 'Day-Jan' and in the summer we had an ice cream man called Joey


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[Mackenzie]

Also remember the night the grand got bombed heard a dull thud thought nothing of it went to work in shoreham via kingsway early in the morning absolute chaos.As an after thought anyone remember the gas works at portslade always stank of rotten eggs along the bottom of boundary road.

It rattled our windows in Upper Rock Gardens, a mile away!

 

[Hove Lagoonery]

My Mrs's Nan was the landlady of the Golden Cannon in Kemptown for many years, The Constant Service and a few others around Kemp Town back in the 50's.

So, is it Kemptown or Kemp Town? Don't sit on the fence!

 

[Gary Leeds]

The colour one was taken in about 1978. The mono one was probably taken sometime after 1971, but before 1976.

The street in the foreground is Melbourne Street. In the mono picture, on the left you can see the entrance to the timber merchants. For years, it was called Covers. I think it's changed hands now. In the space on the right (boarded up in the colour one, waste ground in the mono) is where the mobile phone shop was - it's something else now.

The building to the right of it as we look is still there, and is on the corner of the junction. The bridge there is where the junction itself it now.

Looking at the B&W picture I would say that was taken when the viaduct was removed over Lewes Road, which at a guess I would put it later than 1975 as I can just about remember it being complete and I was born in 1971. The colour one was taken in 1982

edit:- Just found when the viaduct was demolished over Lewes Road and it seems it was May 1976 so would say the B&W photo is from then

 

[Gary Leeds]

Good call!

And there was another shop at the back at the bottom of churchil square as well that sold Spectrum/Amstrad/Commodore games.

The old dixons which had binoculars outside on the stands.

Didnt the one in Churchill Square have another exciting name like SuperGames or something like that? WAs on the left just after you came off the escalators

And who else remembers Beejams, the 70s version of Iceland, at the back of Churchill Square?

And what about when London Road used to have decent shops (or even any shops )? Or downstairs at Woolworths before they had the fire and shut it off?

 

[Southover Street Seagull]

Also remember the night the grand got bombed heard a dull thud thought nothing of it went to work in shoreham via kingsway early in the morning absolute chaos.As an after thought anyone remember the gas works at portslade always stank of rotten eggs along the bottom of boundary road.

Was on a school trip to London that day and it took ages to get across Brighton to Hove station to catch the train up to London.
Remember walking along the seafront a few days after with my old man and brother to look at the devastation.

 

[Southover Street Seagull]

The pub under New England Bridge was knocked down to make access for cars heading north into Old Shoreham Road previousley you had a single file road and waited for the lights to go up into Old Shoreham Road imagine the congestion now. Name that pub

Which bridge was it under out of interest? The small brick one or the big steel one?

 

[Southover Street Seagull]

Hove Town Hall fire, 1966

(It was a big fire)

Dodgy fire too I heard, because developers couldn't get permission to knock down the old town hall.

 

[Southover Street Seagull]

Marks and Spencer and WH Smith on London Road.

 

[Taybha]

 

[skipper734]

Looking at the B&W picture I would say that was taken when the viaduct was removed over Lewes Road, which at a guess I would put it later than 1975 as I can just about remember it being complete and I was born in 1971. The colour one was taken in 1982

edit:- Just found when the viaduct was demolished over Lewes Road and it seems it was May 1976 so would say the B&W photo is from then

1978 is the correct answer for the colour picture.
Fans of Cox's Pill Factory will be pleased to note that some of it still exists. There are three office chairs and two desks in Brighton, in a mates office and I am sitting in another chair and a desk as I type in Curdridge. My ex has another Desk and chair in Chandlers Ford. Their old office furniture travels around. All brought at the auction when they moved out to Barnstable.
There is also the pair of oak front doors to the factory, fitted to a house above the Theatre of Trees in Withdean.
We did recycling in the 70's.

 

[SuperMario]

Which bridge was it under out of interest? The small brick one or the big steel one?

The big steel one i think it may have been called the Bridge Inn but not 100%

 

[Stoichkov]

How about the Lewes Rd area being some sort of petrol station metropolis. There was the esso at the bottom of Coombe Rd, The BP (where it is now), a Shell opposite where until very recently Budget Car Rental has been and the two Esso stations (Lewes Rd & Hollingdean Rd) that have also gone in more recent years.

Now with more cars than ever, they spill out of the BP forecourt back onto the road.

 

[KNC]

I love these threads.

What was the pubs name in New England Hill? It couldn't have got much light!!

I can remember MacFisheries in Churchill Sq & the butchers opposite what is now the Western Front. There were always rabbits & other 'exotic' meats hanging outside.

The pub at Black Rock, always had a DJ playing, even midweek lunchtimes. I was working on the Marina (building it) at the time. Every lunch we were in there.

The record shop on North St. King Jerry worked downstairs. Upstairs were the first examples of video players, enormous, cost about £500.

 

[SuperMario]

Any one remember the chimney sweep used to ride around on a motorbike with his brooms in the sidecar .And the rag and bone man up southover area had a horse and cart used to park it outside The Royal Exchange pub the landlord would give the horse a pint of beer.

 

[Jamon Jamon]

I can remember MacFisheries in Churchill Sq & the butchers opposite what is now the Western Front. There were always rabbits & other 'exotic' meats hanging outside.

I think an old boy called 'Bullock' (funny enough) owned that butchers.
he also owned the one by the labour club that was always being vandalised by the animal libbers, he always turned the graffiti into a joke. There was also BVH and a bake n take nearby, oh yeah and i remember a nasty accedent involving a fire engine outside that BVH (about '77 at a guess)

 

[Gary Leeds]

1978 is the correct answer for the colour picture.
Fans of Cox's Pill Factory will be pleased to note that some of it still exists. There are three office chairs and two desks in Brighton, in a mates office and I am sitting in another chair and a desk as I type in Curdridge. My ex has another Desk and chair in Chandlers Ford. Their old office furniture travels around. All brought at the auction when they moved out to Barnstable.
There is also the pair of oak front doors to the factory, fitted to a house above the Theatre of Trees in Withdean.
We did recycling in the 70's.

Not according to here http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/stations/k/kemp_town/index19.shtml

What makes you think its 1978?

That must be some heavy duty chair to still be going after all these years

 

[KNC]

Yes, Bullocks. It was.

 

[skipper734]

Not according to here http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/stations/k/kemp_town/index19.shtml

What makes you think its 1978?

That must be some heavy duty chair to still be going after all these years

That's the photographers date, so must be right. I was just going on what I was working on at the time and what we moved the stuff with.
My mate's chair and mine are still going strong, maybe a little frayed round the edges.
I sold them most of the stuff originally after 72 - 75ish, so yes it's getting on a bit like me.

 

[Southover Street Seagull]

Any one remember the chimney sweep used to ride around on a motorbike with his brooms in the sidecar .And the rag and bone man up southover area had a horse and cart used to park it outside The Royal Exchange pub the landlord would give the horse a pint of beer.

I was just about to mention the rag and bone man who used to travel up and down Southover Street! He disappeared in the mid-eighties I think.