Is it PotG?
Thrifty non-licker
Ship Street Post Office?
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[Brighton] Old Brighton Postcard
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Is it PotG?
Thrifty non-licker
Lewes Road/Elm Grove?
Cool garage, Remember gigs in the Race Hill mid 90's too.
I too remember him, but he never moved. He died in about 1990 and was still in the same place. After he died a hand-written notice was put in the window asking people not to stop and discuss him as it was upsetting his widow!
Is it PotG?
Thrifty non-licker
Legal & General?
Jack Straw
I look nothing like him!
If my memory serves me correctly, next to Clark's the bakers was Bradshaw's toy shop. Then a chemists, then a post office, then a grocers shop (number 7 Lewes Road), where my Dad worked from the age of 14 to about 50, when he got the sack (unjustifiably), and then worked at Canada Dry at the back of Bevendean until he retired.
dejavuatbtn
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What a waste of a really cool 1930s Art Deco building.
Weststander
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Now a private hospital.
dejavuatbtn
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Spent most of my working life in there from when we moved there in ‘74 until moving to Hove Park. Nice offices to work in.
Worried Man Blues
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Thanks guys for posting, love spotting the cars of MY era, Hillman Imp in top photo etc. Went to Cornwall in a Hillman Sirrocco? Sloping back window....just a flash Imp! Still have a bad back!
Worried Man Blues
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Thanks .... yes that must be it, came back in a Mini van as the Sunbeam blew up! All from Lewes Tech, great holiday.
Super Steve Earle
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See the baskets on the back of the cart - I'm descended from Brighton basketmakers (among other Brightonians). Apparently basket making took place behind what is now the car park behind Brighton Town Hall as pictured.
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Designed by the same Brighton-based architects - Clayton & Black - whose body of work includes the Duke of York's cinema, the King & Queen pub, Gwydyr Mansions near Palmeira Square, Imperial Arcade...
...and our house.
Super Steve Earle
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I know it's taken a couple of years to reply, but I'm confined to one room with Covid by Mrs Earle, so have time for NSC rabbit holes. The car in the picture is a 50's Ford Zephyr. My dad had a Consul which is the first car of his that I remember. It was a gorgeous ivory white with a blue bench seat in the front - I sat in the middle - an umbrella handbrake, a gearstick on the steering wheel column and to me aged 4 or 5 it was wonderful. My dad let me steer it off road down the track through the park to the cottages off Ditchling Road opposite what was Varndean Girls School. The next model up from the Consul was the Zephyr which I think is the one pictured. Top of the range was the Zodiac, a much rarer beast at the time.
Worried Man Blues
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Ha, Thanks can't remember asking!! What was the date? Started looking but have given up. Shame the originally posted doesn't have a date ! I remember Zephyrs very well I should really have known.
I have been lucky enough (?) to have had several stays in that hospital!
Super Steve Earle
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The car was in the photo in #99 and you replied in post #103.
Weststander
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Where were L&G based prior to Montefiore/Davigdor?
dejavuatbtn
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175 Preston Road (now an NHS premises), opposite Preston Park for lunchtime footie and the Crown and Anchor for very long Friday lunchtimes. The departments there moved down from London around 1970 I think.