[Brighton] Random Brighton History Question

[WATFORD zero]

The earlier Savannah bar under the Queens Hotel?

No the later club upstairs on the left, at the bottom of the Steine

 

[Weststander]

From memory:

Martial arts shop was called Battle Orders.

Can't immediately remember the computer games shop's name.

Colts was a clothing store in the same vicinity.

Well done, Colts was that mens clothing shop just up from Boots in the mid-80’s, on Queens Road.

 

[Weststander]

No the later one upstairs on the left, at the bottom of the Steine

I boozed and in both. The earlier one was much smaller.

 

[WATFORD zero]

I boozed and in both. The earlier one was much smaller.

And I agree the shop was Colts (although my memory for these things isn't normally great)

 

[timbha]

Well done, Colts was that mens clothing shop just up from Boots in the mid-80’s, on Queens Road.

Surely Colts was a shop for kids. You sure you didn’t get your clobber from Ivy’s?

 

[Weststander]

And I agree the shop was Colts (although my memory for these things isn't normally great)

I kind of remembered the shop only because of the OP, I bought a waffle sweater there in about 1983. It wasn’t upmarket, it’s gear was Top Man esque. Then @AK47 nailed it with Colts.

 

[AK74]

I *think* the computer games shop was Soft Centre.

 

[The Birdman]

The cut through lane from Queens to Western road had a shop selling Ben Sherman shirts 3 for £10 in the 70s

 

[Albion my Albion]

Stop getting 1980s Brighton wrong

No, that was 1990s Brighton where "Stop getting 1980s Brighton wrong" was up the steps on Churchill Square.

 

[Nigella's Cream Pie]

The cut through lane from Queens to Western road had a shop selling Ben Sherman shirts 3 for £10 in the 70s

Air Street? Must have been the same shop I bought a green denim jacket from, to go with my flared trousers, in mid-70s.

 

[Saladpack Seagull]

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Oh yeah! In colours like brown and purple

I went for the purple and teamed them up with a raspberry roll-neck sweater. I was a walking fashion disaster back then - not much better now, says Mrs Saladpack!

 

[timbha]

I went for the purple and teamed them up with a raspberry roll-neck sweater. I was a walking fashion disaster back then - not much better now, says Mrs Saladpack!

I went with brown flares, brown shirt, brown jumper and black platform shoes. Quite a look ........... so I thought. I didn’t meet Mrs Right (or anyone) until a few years later!

 

[Saladpack Seagull]

I went with brown flares, brown shirt, brown jumper and black platform shoes. Quite a look ........... so I thought. I didn’t meet Mrs Right (or anyone) until a few years later!

No surprise there!

 

[marlowe]

I seem to remember a menswear shop called Frogget in late 70s/early 80s but I think it was in North Street

 

[BN9 BHA]

I seem to remember a menswear shop called Frogget in late 70s/early 80s but I think it was in North Street

Definitely North Street and I'm sure it was still there in the 90s.

 

[marlowe]

May I ask the cognoscenti a question? What ever happened to Blues Jim?

He was regular support for punk bands at the Alhambra (oh, alright, the Piranhas) in the late 70s. I next saw him busking on George Street around 96 when me and beardy brother were on our way from the pub to the Goldstone. Polly Put the Kettle On. Classic.

Is he still around?

He's still cycling around. I last saw him about three weeks ago along Church Road.

The last few times I've seen him on his bike he hasn't had his guitar strapped to his back which he was never without so not sure if he's stopped playing. But apart from that he doesnt really look any different. I think he's one of those people whose age caught up with his looks as I think he used to look older than he actually was but then didn't age much afterwards.

I remember he went through a phase of regularly turning up at my house on a Sunday on the pretence of playing boogie woogie piano. The real reason I think was because he knew my mum would have cooked an apple or some other fruit pie. He was quite good at feigning surprise when she offered him some.

I've got him on an old cassette recording I did of him playing piano singing Billie Holliday's Careless Love and also some Leadbelly on guitar from one of those Sunday afternoon sessions

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

He's still cycling around. I last saw him about three weeks ago along Church Road.

The last few times I've seen him on his bike he hasn't had his guitar strapped to his back which he was never without so not sure if he's stopped playing. But apart from that he doesnt really look any different. I think he's one of those people whose age caught up with his looks as I think he used to look older than he actually was but then didn't age much afterwards.

I remember he went through a phase of regularly turning up at my house on a Sunday on the pretence of playing boogie woogie piano. The real reason I think was because he knew my mum would have cooked an apple or some other fruit pie. He was quite good at feigning surprise when she offered him some.

Brilliant! Good to hear.

(apart from the possibility he's stopped playing, obvs)

 

[marlowe]

Brilliant! Good to hear.

(apart from the possibility he's stopped playing, obvs)

I haven't spoken to him in years cos i'm usually driving when I see him cycling but he's looking well and fit.

 

[pearl]

The cut through lane from Queens to Western road had a shop selling Ben Sherman shirts 3 for £10 in the 70s

I remember buying some decent jeans there, think it was called something like CJs and there was another in Boundary Road

 

[Weststander]

I seem to remember a menswear shop called Frogget in late 70s/early 80s but I think it was in North Street

Wasn’t Frogget’s in Duke Street?

Quite upmarket. Fiorucci jeans.