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Oh no, Berts got his banjo again. We told him no after the last trip.

From the Currys web site Currys was founded by Henry Curry in 1884 as a bicycle-building business, before the company diversified into selling toys, radios and gramophones when it listed on the stock market in 1927. Noting that the shop in the picture seems to be mainly wheels and baskets I'd...

That is a very interesting picture. In the forground is Fortes, which I never knew exsisted, but is the venue for the cafe fight scene in Quadrophinia. I always believed that scene was filmed elsewhere. I'm always getting asked where this place is and now I will print this off to show people. I...

That is the most amazing fact of the day, but for WATFORD zero to then come back with the house as it is today blows my mind.

My town of birth in 1955. Main shop is Lavels, a newsagent who had two shops in the town (village as it was then). I remember buying a World Cup Willie from that shop in '66. Behind the camera is the old infants school I went to, which should have been demolished years ago.

Bernie Clifton. And if you're asking who?

I think I've mentioned this before, but back in the late 60's my Dad would take us to this spot to watch the lorries coming down Mill Road and having to turn around because they wouldn't fit under the low bridge.

Brighton & Hove Albion 1910 Charity Shield Winners on their open top bus parade? How did those things not tip over or people on the top not fall out?

Nice to see the old signs still on the wall. Would they have any kind of grade 2 listing I wonder, doubt it very much, but any lease or freehold sale should have a caveat to keep them in place.

Check out this lot of pics. Just released photos taken by the US Army Air Force in WW2 For those with nothing else to do after the football. https://historicengland.org.uk/images-books/archive/collections/photographs/usaaf-collection/

You cant just put this photo up without at least giving us a hint to the event that drew in so many people. Some kind of London to Brighton run but which one. Also that church in Queens Square. Who on earth allowed its demolition?

Or maybe not! Still a magnificent looking beast.

I want this car.

What on earth is that car on the right. It looks like the Johnny Cash 'one piece at a time' car with no two bits fitting together.

I'm looking at the pictures of Western Road before Churchill Square was built and wondering what happened to the owners of all those small shops plus the residents of the flats above. Looking at a map there were lots of small street in that area. Where did they all go?

No wonder there's congestion, they're all going the wrong way!

Hope no one minds me pasting this- https://www.mybrightonandhove.org.uk/places/placesport/goldstone_ground/goldstone-ground-2 Great pictures of the West Stand being built. I wonder if they were as proud back then as we are today?

Sorry to hijack this thread for my own personal reason, the arches history. The pdf is for the i360 project when the arches around that area were up graded. They don't go all the way back under the road. But again some history. If the Grand Hotel was built in 1864 but the arches around the i360...

This was funny. Builders removed a door and the ceiling fell down, which in turn was holding up the road. Took all summer for the insurance companies to work out who was to blame. Moving this on a bit. I have access from my shop into the arch below. All the premises along Kings Road from the Old...

JS. Where did you work? Yes those are the 'arches'.