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?
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[Brighton] where did you go to buy a christmas tree as a kid?
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AmexRuislip
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As a yoof, a local farm, just west of Battle.
sams dad
I hate Palarse
The Open Market
Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
I was just going to say Woolworths.
vegster
Sanity Clause
- May 5, 2008
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In those days, where else? Still strange they don't exist as Woolies any more but Wilko is pretty close.
Brighthelmstone
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Parents got an a ex-display one from Hanningtons one year, must be 35+ years ago, they still have it!
Is it PotG?
Thrifty non-licker
Couldn't afford one.
BensGrandad
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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
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- Aug 22, 2012
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I never bought a tree as a kid, I felt it was my parents job.
skipper734
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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.
Would have been local greengrocers back in the day.
We heard of folk who nicked theirs from Friston Forest.
We heard of folk who nicked theirs from Friston Forest.
- Jul 10, 2003
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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 )
lawros left foot
Glory hunting since 1969
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.
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
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I am sure the OP meant to say where did your parents buy a tree rather than the children.
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.
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
Staring at the rude boys
Bill Sladen's Greengrocers up the Fiveways.
studio150
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Woolworth