Completely RANDOM things about Brighton & Hove...
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skipper734
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Thursday night was record night. Discothèques had not been invented then. Top of the pops, then of down the Regent. 
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Pips Ices in Oxford Street
Publius Ovidius
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Radio Brighton on the Corner opposite the entrance to the Dome.
The number 19 bus that went from Churchill Square to Patcham.
The number 19 bus that went from Churchill Square to Patcham.
severnside gull
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Miniature Southdown coaches on Peter Pan's Playground (my grandad owned them)
Zetlands Bakery
Tamplins brewery in Paston Place
Killie's grocers on the corner of St Paul's Place & the coal merchant next door
The Milk Festival
King Alfred swimming baths
Southdown Buses in Pool Meadow and the cream open top No17
when I was a child of about 7 my mother would put me on the Brighton Belle and tip the steward in the pullman car to keep an eye on me and put me on the trolley bus - the fare to my nan's in Lewes Road was three farthings (look it up!!!)
Zetlands Bakery
Tamplins brewery in Paston Place
Killie's grocers on the corner of St Paul's Place & the coal merchant next door
The Milk Festival
King Alfred swimming baths
Southdown Buses in Pool Meadow and the cream open top No17
when I was a child of about 7 my mother would put me on the Brighton Belle and tip the steward in the pullman car to keep an eye on me and put me on the trolley bus - the fare to my nan's in Lewes Road was three farthings (look it up!!!)
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Lush
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Publius Ovidius
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Great call.
The concrete 'sculpture' in Churchill Square ...
anyone mentioned the glass animal man in Queens Road
The Large One
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Deleted User X18H
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Yep me!!!
Lewes Road Viaduct
One of my earliest memories is of locking myself in that Ladies toilet: I was 2 years old and we lived on Gladstone Place at the time. I ran out of the house, down the street and for some reason locked myself in the loo - who knows what goes through a child's mind.
I still call that bus stop the Arches, even though it went nearly 30 years ago.
Who remember's Cox's factory on the other side of Lewes Road? And the factory chimney at Allen West further along the road, where Mithras House is now?
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Cox's Pill Factory, you say...?
Herne Hill Seagull
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I only have the vaguest image of Mr Phillby himself, Stoichkov, but I remember that display cabinet (right near the entrance, wasn't it?) with absolute clarity.
Garage_Doors
Originally the Swankers
Good old Allen West, My mum met my day working there, and i served my apprenticeship there, what a place , I remember joining and being wow, this company has it own fire station ! ok , it was closed when i got there but it still had one., proper manufacturing. no just assembled together, Raw metal went in and was cut filled shaped drilled, tapped and then plated or painted all on site.
Even had it own football team, who on Monday morning all went to see the nurse (yep had its own surgery) after the game at the weekend so they did not have to work
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Had many a motorcycle restored in that paint shop as well
Even had it own football team, who on Monday morning all went to see the nurse (yep had its own surgery) after the game at the weekend so they did not have to work
.Had many a motorcycle restored in that paint shop as well
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Barry Izbak
U.T.A.
Used to be salt water. Hated it at the time. Would love it now.
fire&skill
Killer-Diller
Is that green car turning into Upper Lewes Rd
Indeed it is, but the driver'd fail their driving test the way they're cutting the corner!
Good old Allen West, My mum met my day working there, and i served my apprenticeship there, what a place , I remember joining and being wow, this company has it own fire station ! ok , it was closed when i got there but it still had one., proper manufacturing. no just assembled together, Raw metal went in and was cut filled shaped drilled, tapped and then plated or painted all on site.
Even had it own football team, who on Monday morning all went to see the nurse (yep had its own surgery) after the game at the weekend so they did not have to work
Had many a motorcycle restored in that paint shop as well
My dad worked there too. I remember the kids' parties they had every Christmas - they were massive.
AW was a massive company: not only did they have Lewes Rd but the Moulsecoomb Way plant as well. It's sad to see it dwindle away to nothing.
Bevendean Hillbilly
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"SMASH THE H BLOCKS" grafittied on the railway bridge just up from the Gyratory,
As a child I had no idea what it meant.
As a child I had no idea what it meant.
muswellgull
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Anyone remember the Starlight Rooms at the bottom of Montpelier Road, in the late 60s?
Tiny stage to your right as you went in, with a 3 or 4 piece band playing Atlantic/ Stax covers.
Aaaarrrggghh...I`m getting old!
Tiny stage to your right as you went in, with a 3 or 4 piece band playing Atlantic/ Stax covers.
Aaaarrrggghh...I`m getting old!