The Dip

[cliveh27]

With my mum earlier we were trying to remember the shops that were in the Dip (Hollingdean) in the 1960s. There was Blakes the newsagent in the middle of the terrace, followed by a drapers shop and a butcher (what was his name?). Opposite was a chemist, a fish & chip shop run by a Cypriot called John (I think his family still run it) and another butcher.
Can anyone remember the names of the butchers, and the other shops?

 

[clippedgull]

Curl up and Dye (Hairdressers) right across the road from the Undertakers.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

There was a pet shop there in the 80's. Great for neon tetras and black mollys

 

[timbha]

(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

 

[timbha]

........................plus a red telephone box on one side and a cigarette machine (Players number 6) and Post Box on the other!!

 

[cliveh27]

Thank you Tim - brings back a few memories!
You're not one of the Tims that was in the 2nd Brighton Scouts by any chance?

 

[clippedgull]

Who remembers the milk machines that used to dispense milkshakes in cartons?

 

[Seagull on the wing]

Cant remember the shops,there was a Butchers Greengrocer but I'm going back to the war years.....(Second before some smarty pants comes up with the Boer war) We lived at 42,Dudley Road.Behind us where Hollingdean is now where allotments...I think the rest is down to memory loss,well I thought it was but cannot remember if it was!

 

[timbha]

definitely not!! It's stirred up a few memories for me as well.

It's amazing how a relatively small community could support two butchers, two grocers and two newsagents in the same parade of shops (and two bakers - there was another bakers at the top of Roedale that became Beaney's Bookies).

 

[timbha]

Who remembers the milk machines that used to dispense milkshakes in cartons?

there was one at Fiveways outside Fox & Sons

 

[Goldstone Rapper]

Hollingdean is a lovely community. Everyone know everyone there. I lived there for a year and a half and worked at the Dip office plus all the local schools. Splendid times.

 

[cliveh27]

We used to do our weekly shop at Wavyline - before that it was called "Evestans" (owned by a couple called Eve and Stan). We would give them our shopping list in the morning, then they would pack it all into a box and we would collect it in the afternoon. On one occasion, probably in winter of 1967, Mr Church couldn't get up Roedale Road to deliver the coal, so my dad and I took the sledge down the hill and hauled a hundredweight of coal up the hill - we lived at the bottom of Hertford Road.

 

[timbha]

We used to do our weekly shop at Wavyline - before that it was called "Evestans" (owned by a couple called Eve and Stan). We would give them our shopping list in the morning, then they would pack it all into a box and we would collect it in the afternoon. On one occasion, probably in winter of 1967, Mr Church couldn't get up Roedale Road to deliver the coal, so my dad and I took the sledge down the hill and hauled a hundredweight of coal up the hill - we lived at the bottom of Hertford Road.

that would be Mr Church who ran the scalectrix (sp?) club in his garage. There were also two or three grocers in Roedale Road.

 

[Stoichkov]

2nd Brighton Scouts by any chance?

I left the 2nd Brighton to join the 7th Brighton because they played more FOOTA rather than trying to get an armful of mostly pointless badges.

Thinking about it, the 2nd Brighton's scarf thing was Palace colours. The 7th was like Bradford City.

 

[Shizuoka Dolphin]

that would be Mr Church who ran the scalectrix (sp?) club in his garage.

Damn, why was there never any Scalextric club at the end of my road? JEALOUS.

 

[Safeway]

The chinky, Kums, is/was ACE.

 

[matt]

Charalambous were the family you ran the Fish and Chip shop - one of their daughters (Fodoula?) was in my class at Hertford Middle.

There was a chemist too but I think this changed to the pet shop?

 

[Norman Potting]

Who remembers the milk machines that used to dispense milkshakes in cartons?

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??

 

[Alan P]

Nortons corner was the other newsagents there in the 70's my brother got the sack from his paperound by the miserable b*st*rd for delivering his newspapers to the wrong street.
We got our own back tho!

 

[Brovion]

With my mum earlier we were trying to remember the shops that were in the Dip (Hollingdean) in the 1960s. There was Blakes the newsagent in the middle of the terrace, followed by a drapers shop and a butcher (what was his name?). Opposite was a chemist, a fish & chip shop run by a Cypriot called John (I think his family still run it) and another butcher.
Can anyone remember the names of the butchers, and the other shops?

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]