[Brighton] where did you go to buy a christmas tree as a kid?

[kalinx]

I have great memories of going to a place by Brighton station with parents to pick our christmas tree. I remember it conjuring up such excitement in the cold air. There seem to be loads of pop-up places around town selling them now. Where did NSC go when they were kids around Brighton to pick up their trees?

 

[AmexRuislip]

As a yoof, a local farm, just west of Battle.

 

[sams dad]

The Open Market

 

[vegster]

Always had a plastic tree for years, it was a six foot tree from Woolies.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Always had a plastic tree for years, it was a six foot tree from Woolies.

I was just going to say Woolworths.

 

[vegster]

I was just going to say Woolworths.

In those days, where else? Still strange they don't exist as Woolies any more but Wilko is pretty close.

 

[Brighthelmstone]

Parents got an a ex-display one from Hanningtons one year, must be 35+ years ago, they still have it!

 

[Is it PotG?]

Couldn't afford one.

 

[BensGrandad]

We used to get ours either from the Jones ? family in Montague Place Worthing by the bike racks next to Woolworths, or Les Pearce Green grocer in Teville Rd.

 

[Gabbafella]

I never bought a tree as a kid, I felt it was my parents job.

 

[Badger]

Used to go to Windmill Nursery in Goddard's Green for the few years my parents decided we'd get real trees. I do love a Christmas tree.

 

[skipper734]

Donno! It just apeared. I can remember clipping metal candle holders to the branches, as decorations. I'am still here so thet were probably never lit.

 

[Weststander]

Would have been local greengrocers back in the day.

We heard of folk who nicked theirs from Friston Forest.

 

[WATFORD zero]

I'm guessing portslade old village, but can't remember where (Couldn't have been boundary road as too far to drag a tree home )

 

[jackanada]

Harvest forestry. Pretty much right where the train sticking out the bingo hall in Kemp town is.
It was the last business left on that strip and eventually developers bought it up after a sustained arson campaign.

 

[lawros left foot]

Lived on a farm in Ashington, my Dad used to cut a small fir tree from a neighbouring farm every year. I don't know if he had permission or it was, shall we say, donated unknowingly,but, they were always lovely trees.

I have a friend who owns a market garden in Petworh, so, I get one at cost every year now, much nicer than a fake tree.

 

[BensGrandad]

I never bought a tree as a kid, I felt it was my parents job.

I am sure the OP meant to say where did your parents buy a tree rather than the children.

 

[Bry Nylon]

Rocks Lane farm, a Christmas tree growing place between Buxted / High Hurtswood and Crowborough.

Used to go up there with my dad to choose a tree under strict instructions from mum that it should be no more than 4 foot tall but we always ended up coming home with a 7ft Norwegian spruce that we could barely get through the front door.

 

[happypig]

Bill Sladen's Greengrocers up the Fiveways.

 

[studio150]

Woolworth