madinthehead
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My first school Holmbush in Shoreham is now an M & S...
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I think it should be renamed the Gaiety Gyratory because it is such a cheerful place.
Do you mean Yellowave Beach Sports Venue?
Tom Hark Preston Park
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The Sea Life centre was the Dolphinarium
Five Ways has never been anything to do with Hollingdean. It was and always will be calle Five Ways (unless they close one of the roads leading to it!).
Hollingdean starts at the sharp bend in Upper Hollingdean Road that leads down to the Dip.
Hollingdean starts at the sharp bend in Upper Hollingdean Road that leads down to the Dip.
Northstandite
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Sainsbury's and an ugly bp garage, was the vogue cinema.
Family assurance office block was the old Odeon.
Boots and some bland queens road shops/offices, were the Regent
Coffee and charity shops, used to be real department stores with a labyrinth of rooms to explore - Hanningtons, Vokins, Wades, Hills of Hove, Owen and Owen
Family assurance office block was the old Odeon.
Boots and some bland queens road shops/offices, were the Regent
Coffee and charity shops, used to be real department stores with a labyrinth of rooms to explore - Hanningtons, Vokins, Wades, Hills of Hove, Owen and Owen
Poyetry In Motion
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* Adopts Yorkshire accent *
Eee, I remember when t' railway bridge crossed t' Lewes Road before they built t' petril stayshun
Box of Frogs
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Snickers used to be called Marathon, and you could still buy Spangles, Rhubard & Custard and Balckjack penny chews.
Patcham Fawcett was a school not a housing estate called whatever the feck it is. And Brighton High School was Margaret Hardy Girls School.
Patcham Fawcett was a school not a housing estate called whatever the feck it is. And Brighton High School was Margaret Hardy Girls School.
and before that "The Aquarium"
seagullsovergrimsby
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I remember when Blackjacks and Fruit Salads were 8 for a penny (1d)
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Seagull on the wing
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Wild park was closed to the public. Coldean was just a few bungalows near the Hikers rest. Preston Barracks was full of the Army. The Hollingdean estate were allotments. Sainsburys opposite Bear Rd was the Gaiety Cinema (saw my first films there,Dianna Durbin in Three little ladies in Blue and Hopalong Cassidy in the Marked Bullet and the cartoon was Mickey Mouse who made massive jam tarts to let the German tanks get stuck in the Jam. The road to Lewes was just a two way small road..(part can still be seen in the lay by on the left hand side) Our road had a bomb fall in it,the mayor came up next day and fell in the crater.
Town centre had the Astoria cinema and on that corner was the telephone exchange. The pub the King and Queen...was a major venue...built in 1937...my father and grandad both worked on the construction. There were no motorways...although they did try on the A23 to modernise and put down a stretch of road made of rubber...lovely and quiet when Dad rode over it....but it was scrapped as they realised that it was dangerous in wet weather.....further up the road near Pycombe they built a nuclear control centre underground with a lift shaft down to it,the lift was disguised by a bungalow...I always wondered what happened to it.
The beaches were closed to the public and the piers had sections taken out. Newhaven was full of ships,barges,and small boats.
There were trams...later trolley buses. Lorries with AAguns going round the streets. The sky filled with aircraft trails. Wardens walking round the strreets at night,could often hear "Put that light out!"
Dad never took me to football after the war,never had pocket money,but did take me to the wrestling and Brighton Tigers....and then I joined the navy in 1954 at the age of 15 recruiting office in Queens Rd....somewhere about where BBC have their office. Finally got to see the Albion when Iwas 19 in 1958....halfway through the season sent out to the Far East for two years.
The birth of Rock & Roll,Teddy boys....many memories...some sad,some great.
Town centre had the Astoria cinema and on that corner was the telephone exchange. The pub the King and Queen...was a major venue...built in 1937...my father and grandad both worked on the construction. There were no motorways...although they did try on the A23 to modernise and put down a stretch of road made of rubber...lovely and quiet when Dad rode over it....but it was scrapped as they realised that it was dangerous in wet weather.....further up the road near Pycombe they built a nuclear control centre underground with a lift shaft down to it,the lift was disguised by a bungalow...I always wondered what happened to it.
The beaches were closed to the public and the piers had sections taken out. Newhaven was full of ships,barges,and small boats.
There were trams...later trolley buses. Lorries with AAguns going round the streets. The sky filled with aircraft trails. Wardens walking round the strreets at night,could often hear "Put that light out!"
Dad never took me to football after the war,never had pocket money,but did take me to the wrestling and Brighton Tigers....and then I joined the navy in 1954 at the age of 15 recruiting office in Queens Rd....somewhere about where BBC have their office. Finally got to see the Albion when Iwas 19 in 1958....halfway through the season sent out to the Far East for two years.
The birth of Rock & Roll,Teddy boys....many memories...some sad,some great.
No its not - School is still there and still the same name
Seagull on the wing
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Hi 1.99,Yes so many...but there will be more changes after I've gone....we are just time cogs in one big wheel....Just hope to saee Albion in the Prem before my exit.
skipper734
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And then the University was built.............
Box of Frogs
Zamoras Left Boot
The viaduct along Lewes Road, Coxs pill factory by Upper Lewes Road, The Gladstone Arms and the pub opposite (The Alex?)
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When I was a teenager in the 1980's, I attended Falmer school. Just a few hundred yards to the north was a place affectionately known as the bombhole and a few yards beyond that, an empty field next to the poly - I used to bunk off lessons and hang around both areas. The bombhole's still there.....I wonder what happened to the field