The Dip

[Boroseagull]

I can remember the milk machines, they dispensed distinctive pyramid shaped cartons. Funny how you remember things but I am sure that there is a scene in "Quadrophenia" where one of the characters using one to get some milk - don't think that it was an essential part of the plot though. Any Quadrophenia anoraks out there care to confirm??

Life savers! There was one outside the shop on corner of Sackville Rd & Old Shoreham Road. Had to stop to buy a carton on way home from our wedding reception back in 1967. Big blue dispenser & a cost of 6d [old money]. Wasn't for that night but the morning after!

 

[Curious Orange]

Blimey, one of the few areas of Brighton that I'm vaguely familiar with, my Mum and her sisters having grown up on Payne Terrace. My Aunt used to work in one the newsagents in the Dip in the 70s/80s so there were always copies of the Beano/Dandy/2000AD to read whenever to went round to her house for tea on a Saturday afternoon while Dad was at the Goldstone.

 

[burstead]

i can remember a myna bird used to sit in a cage outside the newsagents (not blakes', the other one) in the 70's.

There used to be one of those flavoured milk machines still working in the early 80's on Ditchling rd between the level and fiveways.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Moving up, or possibly down, the road a bit, how on earth has 'Formula One' at the bottom of Hollingbury Road managed to hang on in there all these years? Never ever seen a soul go in there or come out of there. Is it a front for organised crime? The UK HQ of U.N.C.L.E? Why's it not gone bust quarter of a century ago and reopened as a shitty estate agents touting the dubious delights of Fiveways 'Village'? Very odd.

 

[cliveh27]

Moving up, or possibly down, the road a bit, how on earth has 'Formula One' at the bottom of Hollingbury Road managed to hang on in there all these years? Never ever seen a soul go in there or come out of there. Is it a front for organised crime? The UK HQ of U.N.C.L.E? Why's it not gone bust quarter of a century ago and reopened as a shitty estate agents touting the dubious delights of Fiveways 'Village'? Very odd.

I think that was also a fish & chip shop at some stage.

 

[ligiahag7902]

(Roedale Road - Hollingdean Terrace):

Knights newsagents, chemists, hairdressers (his and hers), greengrocers, chip shop (Bardsleys), Burgess butchers, and Ward's grocers.

on the other side (Hertford Road - Hollingdean Terrace):

grocers (wavyline), wool shop, butchers, Blake's newsagents, bakery, hardware shop, off licence.

this is how I remember it in the late 60's

I also think so.

 

[cliveh27]

was the butchers on the hertford road side called Thornes?

 

[Iggle Piggle]

I used to do a Paper round for Norton's Corner and I walked for MILES.

I started off on Brentwood Road, down Hollingdean Terrace to pick up the papers at the shop in the Dip.

I then walked up that massive hill where Beaney the Bookies was, down Stephenson Road and then Mountfields. I then had to go right to the end of Uplands Road (The LAST house in the Street) then down to a house in Wolverstone drive before walking back home to Brentwood.

All for a £1 a day before going to school.

 

[Iggle Piggle]

I think that was also a fish & chip shop at some stage.

Wasn't the chip shop on the next Road up? (Roedale Road)

The chips were rank bad in there. Worse then Jenny ''chuck'' at the bottom of Balfour.

 

[SuperMario]

Remember the bookies on the corner my uncle used to chalk the odds on the board their.The milk machines used to sell strawberry milk-shake and orange cartons to any one remember the parrafin machines selling Esso Blue etc.

 

[My Name Is Gully]

Can someone confirm a memory regarding a VG Store or SPAR type shop up the hill a small distance towards The Crestway - was it part of a house? Checked Google maps and drawn a blank!

I also remember a shop selling tropical fish at The Dip.

 

[burstead]

Can someone confirm a memory regarding a VG Store or SPAR type shop up the hill a small distance towards The Crestway - was it part of a house? Checked Google maps and drawn a blank!

I also remember a shop selling tropical fish at The Dip.

there was one on the other side of the dip towards fiveways, was on the corner of hollingbury rd and hollingbury pk av

 

[cliveh27]

there was one on the other side of the dip towards fiveways, was on the corner of hollingbury rd and hollingbury pk av

Yes I remember that. I think they had an advert on the side of their shop that read something like "we can get you anything, even an elephant"

 

[cliveh27]

Can someone confirm a memory regarding a VG Store or SPAR type shop up the hill a small distance towards The Crestway - was it part of a house? Checked Google maps and drawn a blank!

I think it was at the corner of Barnett Road and Hollingbury Place.

 

[Peter Grummit]

Memories! I spent the first 7 years of my life living in Stanmer Villas (63-70) and went to Hertford Rd Infants. Abiding memory was nicking sweets from the Dip shops and getting caught in Blake's - they let me off with a 'clip round the ear' but it meant I couldn't go back there when running errands for my Mum. Used to walk to school on my own age 6 and then walk up to 5ways to meet my Mum off the bus - unheard of today. I remember the milk machine on that corner at 5ways.

Abiding early footie memory is losing to West Germany in the '70 World Cup, watching on our B+W telly in Stanmer Villas.

PG

 

[Seagull on the wing]

Memories! I spent the first 7 years of my life living in Stanmer Villas (63-70) and went to Hertford Rd Infants. Abiding memory was nicking sweets from the Dip shops and getting caught in Blake's - they let me off with a 'clip round the ear' but it meant I couldn't go back there when running errands for my Mum. Used to walk to school on my own age 6 and then walk up to 5ways to meet my Mum off the bus - unheard of today. I remember the milk machine on that corner at 5ways.

Abiding early footie memory is losing to West Germany in the '70 World Cup, watching on our B+W telly in Stanmer Villas.

PG

I went to that school,my time we had different house names,Normans,Saxons,Danes and one other I can't remember,used to walk there from Dudley Rd seems a lifetime away...oh!It was!!

 

[My Name Is Gully]

I think it was at the corner of Barnett Road and Hollingbury Place.

Many thanks, I did`nt think I was remembering the one on the other side of the dip as others have mentioned - I particularly remember at random a ham slicer and buying sugar mice sweets on the way home from Hertford Road School.

 

[cliveh27]

Many thanks, I did`nt think I was remembering the one on the other side of the dip as others have mentioned - I particularly remember at random a ham slicer and buying sugar mice sweets on the way home from Hertford Road School.

And blackjacks at 8 for an old penny?

 

[Smithy24]

The fish and chip shop is now run by a Chinese* family, and very good it is too. Previously it was run by some big fat greasy bloke who supported Everton - and it was shit.


[*They may not actually be 'Chinese' as such, but if you say 'Asian' it's assumed you mean people from the Indian sub-continent]

I think they are because they also run the Chinese takeaway next door which would suggest they are Chinese.