Dull as dishwater, missing out on amazing Brighton.
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[Brighton] Elm Grove / Bear Road
- Thread starter BrickTamland
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Dull as dishwater, missing out on amazing Brighton.
Jack Straw
I look nothing like him!
A point I was about to make. A friend of mine used to live in Toronto Terrace, near the top of Albion Hill. When we went to the town centre, the walk back was always dreaded. Gradient should always be taken in to consideration, especially if you tend to walk everywhere. Coincidentally, she moved as the parking got so bad! Not her parking. She's good at that!!
I wouldn’t call living in an area of Brighton full of students amazing
Machiavelli
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If you're a resident with a car you won't have a problem parking, as it's a resident permit area (I suspect the poster that raised this isn't a resident but perhaps needs to park there at times and finds it difficult).
If you hurry, it's about 16-18 minutes from Carlyle St (half-way up Elm Grove) to the station. It takes not too much longer to get to the sea and the centre of town, and not much more than that on a bus to get to The Amex.
Portslade High Street has become extremely gentrified over the last few years, there’s loads of high end barbershops quite literally fighting for your business, amazing range of ethnic supermarkets selling oversize grapes and if your phone goes tits up then help is at hand with numerous phone repair shops that double up as vape stores
Portslade High Street has become extremely gentrified over the last few years, there’s loads of high end barbershops quite literally fighting for your business, amazing range of ethnic supermarkets selling oversize grapes and if your phone goes tits up then help is at hand with numerous phone repair shops that double up as vape stores
Back in the day, there’d only have been traditional style launderettes.
And banks, don’t forget the banks, on the left going up, Lloyds A & L/ AbbeyNat/Santander and on the right , Barclays, Natwest and Midland/ HSBC, have i forgotten any?
Edit Of course by ‘High Street’ i mean Boundary/Station Road not the Village version
We used to be the other end of Toronto Terrace, beyond Southover Street. Pub crawls were great until it was time to head home and you’d ended up at the Greys.
With no branches to deposit cash, how’s the laundering process completed?
We used to be the other end of Toronto Terrace, beyond Southover Street. Pub crawls were great until it was time to head home and you’d ended up at the Greys.
Did you like The Charles Napier?
Some of the older pubs were minute. My mum was brought up on the hill in the 40’s/50’s …. literally every corner was a shop or pub.
As someone who moved out of the centre of town to Patcham, no regrets. After looking around a lot, felt it offered great value simply because it has no cachet. Three regular bus services, a virtually flat cycle ride into town, enough shops/pubs/restaurants to feel like a community in its own right and you can afford things like an actual garden and parking. Because we walked everywhere when we lived in Hove, can still go out in town and bus it back without getting home any later. Usually 20-30 minutes or so door to door in the evenings.
Machiavelli
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Napier was lovely. Proper old school. Southover Street is still quite something for pubs
That was one of many regular haunts and my original favourite.
Not sure I ended up with a particular regular in the end, but probably got no further than the No Name most evenings.
As you say, pretty much a pub on every corner. Happy days!
I only had occasional drinks in the area, all years ago. Every pub was cute in its unpretentiousness, I don’t know how they survive as so quiet in the week … but I pray they do.
Wrong-Direction
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- Mar 10, 2013
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I live on Franklin road, enjoyed living in the area the past 10-15years. I've noticed bear road seems to have cheaper properties, can only think it's the steep hill and parking that has an impact on price?
I did a paper round in Bear Road, I’m not sure if my knees are knackered from years of plumbing or delivering The Argus
clapham_gull
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- Aug 20, 2003
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Traitor, they'll be none of us left at this point.
Wrong-Direction
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- Mar 10, 2013
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Probably a bit of both! My knee has been giving me gyp recently, only another 40 odd years to go..I did a paper round in Bear Road, I’m not sure if my knees are knackered from years of plumbing or delivering The Argus
LamieRobertson
Not awoke
Isn’t Her in doors an occupational health therapist or something like that? Cant she fix you up with some help…walking frame or something
Justice
Dangerous Idiot
My daughter ‘student’ lived in Bear road and has now moved to Dewe Rd. I’ve been there plenty of times and never had an issue. Handy for the P&R race course to. Or can just catch a bus on the main road to the Amex. Would recommend you need to some good insulation as the house in Bear Rd was cold in winter.