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wow, that was really quite something.

so was there a sunken garden there?

yes, it’s the apocalypse style rendering finish.

just to the left of the lock up garage there used to be a little gap in the bushes that led up to the side of railway track. There was quite a large dip in the ground which my mates and I called ‘the bomb hole’. Was a great little den where we smoked many a pack of cigarettes and got my first...

always was

Have PM’d you

no, but I got a right kicking behind it one evening

doesn’t add up …

Am I right (not often according to Mrs amex) in remembering that The Pumphouse was once owned by the sadly gone Forfars Bakery?

totally agree with you. Cheap plastic shopfronts, that never ever get cleaned, replacing individual classic. Makes for crappy run down shit holes everywhere. Why oh why have planning authorities ever allowed this to happen. More amazing is that the shop keepers have such little regard for their...

I’m not 100% certain, but I’m fairly sure I can remember a supermarket type shop there around early 1960’s (well before what was the Finefare building) I’ve a strange recollection of it may have being called Charalls. If that’s right then obviously pub would have been demolished probably before...

what though if people rail against you and get you hemmed in?

I remember the showroom, have a vague recollection that it was Jaguar at one point

think in the late 60’s early 70’s it became the Dodo Jay(?) dance school

thank you

Oh wow, thanks for posting the Preston Road picture. I, and both my sisters are 99% certain that The little old lady looking in shop window is my old Grandma and the upright lady other side of the postbox is my Mum walking to meet her.

wow, how nice was that then, not like the sh1te hole it is now

I think you may right, but at the lagoon Hove? I seem to remember that it was divided into two parts, one for model boats and the other for some wooden motor boats. Again as you, I may be wrong.

what a friggin mess … lord I’m getting old and exceptionally grouchy

who paid for that ?.