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Love this thread. The Bush sign on the right denotes the shop where I bought my first real stereo system. A Bush Arena HiFi with Garrard SP25 Mk2 turntable and Bush branded speakers that were actually Wharfedales. Loved that set up and wish I still had it. Although I had an LP collection at the...

By the zoo...

Fun fact. Unusually for these pictures, the main building featured was a bank then and now with the current owners descended by mergers and acquisitions from the original.

How would she know?

Oh, I get it now. Kings Road + West Street = Kings West.

It's RBS, not BoS. I go one better and remember it as the Green Shield Stamp shop where you could trade your stamps for exciting goods for home and garden.

Loved a trolley bus. My uncle and aunt used to live in a cottage in Hollingbury Woods. I used to spend the occasional day there in the 50's and my aunt occasionally took me in to Brighton on a trolley bus from the wooden bus shelter in Ditchling Road. A novelty ride to me at the time, so even...

Don't be daft. All photo# are a snap decision! Snappy Snaps isn't called Snappy Snaps for nothing :lolol:

I think you're right and I occasionally dine out on the story that my dad used to French polish the walnut veneers there on higher end car dashboards before they went back out for sale.

The car was in the photo in #99 and you replied in post #103.

I know it's taken a couple of years to reply, but I'm confined to one room with Covid by Mrs Earle, so have time for NSC rabbit holes. The car in the picture is a 50's Ford Zephyr. My dad had a Consul which is the first car of his that I remember. It was a gorgeous ivory white with a blue bench...

See the baskets on the back of the cart - I'm descended from Brighton basketmakers (among other Brightonians). Apparently basket making took place behind what is now the car park behind Brighton Town Hall as pictured.