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Yay…. Dockerills , an absolute go - to place for almost anything when I lived in North Laine. They don’t make shops like that anymore.

The quaintly named Obed Arms on Albion Hill. Seems to be a pub outing . I love the mix of people and clothing , and the old girl at the top window . I bet they had a good time… Hard to pinpoint today because the buildings are long gone . To the best I can judg it was here at what is now the...

I have similar memories PotG, you could have left me their all day…..

Looking up Richmond Street in times gone by, before they altered it and the flats dominated the skyline As it is

This is York Place. Seems to a publicity thing for Curry’s . Undated but I’d guess 1950s… You would never get me up on one of those! Today it is hard to pinpoint exactly but it is along this run of shops

The Unicorn Inn near the top of North Street above Windsor Street. This c mid 19th century. It was later rebuilt then demolished .We may remember it as the rear exit of the Regent Cinema. Nowadays it is this

A typical 30s style house …… but in North Street Brighton? Yes . When Braybons built the estate at Withdene they put a show house there on the corner of Princes Place . An excellent shop window. Later it was carefully painted dismantled and rebuilt on the estate . I believe they sold for about...

An old pic of the King and Queen, before it was rebuilt in the thirties As we know it today

A Victorian Seven Dials This was in the 1930s . I read that a Copper stood in the middle to operate the stop/go signs Trying to get the same angle the trees blocked the view so this seemed the best shot. The Dials sure looks different to when I used to hang out around there in the 70s…

Bevendean Hospital.. I was in there for about a week sometime in the eighties. As I recall it was a funny old place with one or twe funny old nurses.! Today in Bevendean Road , all that’s left are the gate posts and gate house

Indeed, all the pictures were of Nevill Road Hove. The first one did have St Joseph’s in the far distance . Around 1900- 1910 the road was just an unmade track out to the country.

Guess where this is ( without looking) taken around the turn of the century Here’s another view a little further on,with a recognisable building behind Nevill Road Hove by the Engineerium Here’s a view a little further on

Sydney Street corner of Trafalgar Street early 20th Century. A modern pic

This stood on Old Shoreham Road in the ‘20s, near the Goldstone Ground, but top of Sackville Road . The poster is unclear here but I am told it read “ No Soviet Petrol Sold Here” .. Times haven’t changed much, then… Nowadays it is Furniture Now.

That Starlight Rooms ad takes me back… Admission half a crown on a Friday night ! Can’t be bad…

The Odeon, Kemp Town.. St George’s Road … it suffered a bombing in WW2 and 52 people were killed one afternoon. I read that the bomber was being pursued and just ditched his load in a bid to escape. Sad story…. Today it is the site of the block of flats , Cavendish Court.

I love these old shop displays…. I wouldn’t fancy the meat though. This is 102 - 104 Church Road Hove. Today it still sells food

The Mechanic’s Arms that once stood at the corner of London Road and Oxford Street. I don’t know when it ceased but that has always been shops in my memory. today……

Somebody might remember this, Th3 Cottage used record shop in Church Road . I regret that I did not know it but by accounts it was an institution in its day . Nowadays it is an eatery.

King Street Brighton , off Church Street, the Sportsman’s Call another lost pub… closed decades ago Now King Street is just this