London Road - Fond memories

[tinx]

Rosehill Tavern. Best pub in town.

I used to practically live in that pub when I was a stooodent.

 

[csider]

Thanks fella

It was in response to the many glum references to the road and to hark back at halcyon days.

can put what i want..................London road is now a SHITHOLE.

you should put your comment on every post on here refering to the comments often not relating to the thread starting topic.......

 

[Porky]

It was in the Co-Op about 1939 that I bought a pair of Hockey skates for thirty bob. I thought I was King Dick at the SS Brighton at the bottom of West Street.
Sometimes I could make a circuit of the ice without falling down or crashing into the boards.

 

[Perry Milkins]

can put what i want..................London road is now a SHITHOLE.

you should put your comment on every post on here refering to the comments often not relating to the thread starting topic.......

Don't start on me mate!. Hitony was providing the initial response. which I expanded on. Go kick up a stink with him.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Rosehill Tavern. Best pub in town.

Also best free Sunday lunchtime food in town

 

[csider]

The thing is the thread was started as "FOND MEMORYS" regarding London Road, I guess he is talking about the 70s or around then, not now, everywhere changes over time, I remember London Road from the late 60s and 70s and it was a great place to go then.

It always amazes me how the many areas in and around Brighton have changed over the last 40 years.

So calling it a shithole and talking about it now, is not what this thread was started about...........Thats all.

still a shithole now though.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Still WAY too many charity shops and boarded up shop-fronts. But there's also a lot more new neon signs and decent small businesses. The SONY shop's been there for yonks, as has Richer Sounds, there's a bog-standard Subways and KFC, a third-world Woolies, the Open Market and nice cafes like Beanies and that Spanishy one with pizzas and home made stuff in the window. Oh, and the odd bold Costa Coffee type establishment.

IMHO the neglect in London Road is mainly down to the council's refusal to pedestrian it and make the private motorists piss off out of town some other way, but reckon in the medium term London Road's proximity to the New Dormitory Town Quarter can only mean gentrification will slowly ooze into the place. Probably not that far off critical mass now in fact.

 

[The Oldman]

In the late 50's went out with a girl who lived above one of the shops in London Road. Very erotic memories of her but best of all her parents had Reduifusion (?) cable TV. You could watch London ITV before Sussex had any ITV. What with that and her passion...oh lovely days. Don't tell the Missus though.

 

[andybaha]

My father in law owned Champions the pram shop in Baker Street.

 

[Freddie Goodwin.]

It was in the Co-Op about 1939 that I bought a pair of Hockey skates for thirty bob. I thought I was King Dick at the SS Brighton at the bottom of West Street.
Sometimes I could make a circuit of the ice without falling down or crashing into the boards.

Blimey Porky, are you NSC's oldest poster

As for London Road, they really should have done something with the Open market especially as fresh fruit & veg is all the rage these days. just take a look at all those trendy types at Bills Yard, those raj shops and other specialist shops.

Oh, and do away with all those betting shops and just leave W Hills in Baker Street.

 

[hopkins]

You're Crap

That exchange of views has creased me up. Must be the drink !

 

[timbha]

Cripes.

twas exactly where I bought my first thre singles

Caroline - Quo
Cum on Feel the Noiz - Slade
Monster Mash - Bobby (Boris ) Pickett and the Cryptkicker Five.

mine was Starman/Suffragette City (David Bowie) and Softly Whispering i Love You (Congregation) plus those Hits of '77, etc LPs sung by someone else (K Tel?).

I hated Potters, new school uniform with mum in early Sept, we leave shop, mum walks left, i walk right and meet up at home.

 

[Weatherman]

Some other stores from the 70's :

Tesco,corner of Baker st.
Hardy furnishers opposite the Co-op next to the corral coal shop.
Granada tv Rentals.

 

[getreal1]

Not being a local anymore I hear that London Road is a pale shadow of its former self.

So me memory takes me back to those fond old days....

The huge Co-op - where I bought my first ever stereo.

Bellmans

Fine Fare - I was there with my mum to see Ronnie Corbett open it.

The Army Surplus Store - The shifty guy inside who always tried to sell you stuff that was the wrong size.

AA Bakers - The sports shop.

The Elephant and Castle

What was the name of that record shop near the E&C?

The Open Market

That Jewellers shop - Was it EG Routley?

W G Hollis

Woolies

Peter Browns - nifty gear for the street cred laddie.

Diplomat - cards downstairs, vinyl, cassette and 8 track upstairs

 

[Bish Bosh]

There was a shoe shop-maybe Timpsons?. They claimed that evey year was their centenary and changed the sign outside the shop each new year to reflect this.

Two wallpaper shops that nobody has mentioned as well. Also a coal merchant opposite the Co-op.

 

[dougdeep]

There was a shoe shop-maybe Timpsons?. They claimed that evey year was their centenary and changed the sign outside the shop each new year to reflect this.

Two wallpaper shops that nobody has mentioned as well. Also a coal merchant opposite the Co-op.

Manfields?

 

[Weatherman]

Sankey's
The Co-op social club - above Sankey's ?
The Volvo car showroom behind the Branch Tavern.
Mitchells paint shop
The betting shop next to the toilets by the market entrance.