Brighton, East Sussex

Day out shopping.

As a child during the 1970s I used to live in Burgess Hill (10 miles away) with my parents and younger brother David. I remember being very small and my mother taking us to Brighton on the stagecoach bus with our next door neighbours. Both women loved to shop and us four children had to go along for the ride.
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growing up in World War II

I was born to Jewish parents whom had a ladies clothes shop in Kensington Gardens (The Lanes) my Father died in 1941, My Mother now a very young widow decided she wanted us all to live above the shop because of bombs etc, it had 2 rooms upstairs which we used as bedrooms, a small... [more]

Crescent Road

We moved to Brighton in 1959 and my parents Pat and Jim Webb bought a house here after spending their honeymoon here (lived in Dulwich).   I remember when there were very few cars parked in the road and we could always play safely out on the street.  Nowadays cars are parked top to tail in both directions!   We lived at no... [more]

Family tree information

My grandfather's family lived in Brighton/Hove near Seven Dials and attended Belgrave Road Congregational Church.  Their surname was WOOD and his forenames were WALTER EDWARD.  He had a brother PERCY and sisters ADA, POLLY and AGNES.  His father (my great grandfather) was reputed to have been very tall and also to have held the position of Head Postmaster in Brighton/Hove.  This... [more]

Teacher Training College

The building in the corner was Brighton Teacher Training College. The building at right angles in the distance was a hotel.

My mother Florence Starkey was studying in the Teacher Training College top floor and looked out of the window across the angle into the side window of the curved bay hotel window to see a woman hovering strangely in... [more]

Brighton Teacher Training College.

The house on the far right of the terrace was no 9 which together with no 8 formed the premises of Brighton Teacher Training College, which I attended in 1956-58. The road on the left hand side of the picture (just visible) is Paston Place. This eastern area of Brighton is known as Kemp Town.

Sussex Photographic Memories

Richard Jefferies described Brighton's special quality of sun, wind and light in the 1880s: 'The wind coming up the cliff seems to bring with it whole armfuls of sunshine, and to throw the warmth and light against you as you linger ... light and wind spring upwards from the pavement ... the sky is richly blue against the parapets overhead.'

East Sussex Photographic Memories

St Andrew's Church c1960 St Andrew's is the old parish church of Hove. It dates from Norman times, but became ruinous during the 18th century and was entirely rebuilt in 1836. Today, the church is dwarfed by the town gasometer.

Sussex Photographic Memories

Once a fishing village, Brighton was rescued by the late 18th-century fashion for sea air and sea bathing. Only five hours from London, and endorsed by the Prince Regent, the town spread along the coast in stucco waves. This astonishing building started life as a farmhouse, then became a classical villa with a rotunda, before Nash transformed it into this domed... [more]