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Coffin Ancestry
My great-grandmother was Ellen Amanda Coffin, she was a direct descendent of Richard Coffin who was granted the parish of Alwington and the surrounding area by William the Conqueror for his services during the Norman Conquest ...Read more
A memory of Alwington in 2011 by
Re The Buffs
The Royal order of Buffalos..... Next door but one to the nurses home (as was), now a nursing home. I was born in Highfield hospital, Mill Lane, lived in Wallasey until I was 62 and now live in the north of Scotland. When I was a ...Read more
A memory of Wallasey in 1993 by
Pendlebury 1983
Hi chaps...my dad and all his family came from Salford...up until the day he died in 1989 he still used the second person singular ie thee and thou... is this unique in the English language? Bob Pendlebury, Brighton
A memory of Collyhurst in 1983 by
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 ...Read more
A memory of Brighton in 1977 by
Summer In The Village
I remember summers in Wallasey Village being absolutely glorious as a kid. I used to live in Green Lane, and during the summer holidays,Ii and my friends worked on the market gardens, from early in the morning until mid ...Read more
A memory of Wallasey in 1975 by
The Bike Shop The Sweet Shop Leighton Court And The Last Neston Family To Catch Shrimps
On The High Street, Neston as you look towards Liverpool Road with The Cross just behind you you may still be able to see two alleyways. One used to end in a shed ...Read more
A memory of Neston in 1975 by
Weekend Visits From School
I was a partially deaf pupil at Ovingdean during the 1970s and as my home was a long way from there, I was one of the very few pupils that resided at the school during the weekends. I do remember two very profound memories ...Read more
A memory of Newhaven in 1974
Streatham Hill Theatre
In 1973 I became the general manager of Streatham Hill Theatre, managing the Mecca Social/Bingo club. It was the flagship club of the company and was every manager's dream to run it. Previous managers were Robin Pritchard, ...Read more
A memory of Streatham in 1973 by
Living In Hiscott Circa 1970s
My name is Jeremy Silwood and I stayed in Hiscott farm in the early 1970s with the family of Mr and Mrs Adair. I met Dianne Adair at a club one evening with my then friend Alistair Symons of Crawley in West Sussex and ...Read more
A memory of Hiscott in 1972 by
Shops And Shopkeepers In East Street ....St Marys Hall..
I remember the pram/toy shop on the corner, there was also a fabric shop - I think it was where Famished sandwich bar was (can't remember what it is called now..) I could buy a piece of ...Read more
A memory of Shoreham-By-Sea in 1968 by
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In 1901 they expanded operations to the south coast when they bought the Brighton, Worthing & South Coast Steamboat Co.
Burgh Heath is very suburban, and its east side is blighted by the roaring traffic of the dual carriageway A217 Reigate road, which merges with the A23 Brighton road at Horley, south of Redhill
Between the wars, Brighton boomed: by the mid-1930s it was packed at weekends.
In the middle distance the London Brighton and South Coast Railway lines cut across Brighton Road on a level crossing.
Although Brighton and Hove have now been amalgamated into a city, in the past Hove was a much quieter and more conservative town than its neighbour.
As in Bognor, the name of The Steyne was copied from Brighton where the Steine was the lively focus of a successful seaside resort, but Worthing never proved as lively as Brighton.
Brighton is the biggest and most lively and cosmopolitan of the Sussex resorts.
There were two swimming pools in New Brighton.
We are looking along Egremont's Promenade towards New Brighton from Tobin Street.
Hove, a small fishing village west of Brighton, developed slowly from the mid 19th century onwards.
Rottingdean, the valley of Rota's people, is cut off from its vast neighbour, Brighton, by steep chalk downs and sea cliffs.
Henfield is a main road village midway between Horsham and Brighton.
The centrepiece of Brighton was and remains the extraordinary Pavilion or seaside palace.
A train on the Smitham railway bridge adds interest to this photograph of the northern end of Brighton Road shopping area.
The leading two are Wallasey ferries, one probably heading for New Brighton and packed with day trippers for the once-popular resort.
Henfield is a main road village midway between Horsham and Brighton.
According to local legend this was created at the order of the Prince Regent, who used the London to Brighton road to travel to his Pavilion by the sea at Brighton.
If we look closely at our top photograph, we will see that the turrets and tower of the New Brighton Tower building are missing.
Horley was a series of hamlets on the London to Brighton Road which only began to expand when the London to Brighton railway arrived in 1841.
It is thought that he named this new town to rival Brighton on the south coast, but his home in North Everton was next to Brighton le-Sands, a part of Liverpool, so maybe that is where the name came from
Artists such as Millais and Leighton sought inspiration in local scenes, and a host of Victorian and Edwardian amateurs followed their example.
Like Brighton Chain Pier, Margate Jetty once had a camera obscura.
It was for many years an important staging post on the Hastings to Brighton turnpike road.
This exotic architectural confection reminds us of the Pavilion at Brighton, with its oriental domes and minarets.
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