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Thrifty non-licker
Old Steine/War Memorial?
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[Brighton] Old Brighton Postcard
- Thread starter Klaas
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Things were much better back then, look at the trees in the old photo, full of leaves……the modern photo all bare.
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Thrifty non-licker
Preston Road?
Preston Road opposite Preston Manor I’d say
Jack Straw
I look nothing like him!
Can you let us know where this is, and if there's a Google Map screen print of the site now which you can add as a comparison, brilliant.
This is very important- when you say where it is, don't forget to put a question-mark at the end! (it's all part of the game!!).
A mex eyecan
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- Nov 3, 2011
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looks like bottom of South Road Preston Park. Brewery Tap on right hand corner.
Now the Shell petrol station
A mex eyecan
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- Nov 3, 2011
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remember around there before that was demolished (which I would imagine was around 1964-65). My grand parents lived just up the hill in Robertson Road. My Grandad used to manage to walk down the road and cross over to what was a lawned area outside Preston Manor. He would lean up against an old green telecoms box watching ‘all the motors’ coming down to Brighton while chatting with his old mate.
Poor old fella had been badly gassed in WW1 and his lungs terribly burned. That short little walk was about the best he could manage.
East Street?
An old fashioned grocers still open in the early 1970’s, in the old Sainsbury’s style. I remember being taken there as a kid.
The address is now part of:
An old fashioned grocers still open in the early 1970’s, in the old Sainsbury’s style. I remember being taken there as a kid.
The address is now part of:
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Thrifty non-licker
Queens Road?
Jack Straw
I look nothing like him!
In the 1960's, on the left side (west) of those photos was a shop where "The Glass Animal Man" would sit in the window, crafting little glass animals with his blow-torch. Fascinating to watch.
Great memories, as a child I always had to stop and watch "The Glass Animal Man" working, as you say fascinating to watch.
I remember seeing him in the 70s, not sure when the shop closed.
- Jul 10, 2003
- 26,186
Portslade Old Village?
And proof Portslade is stuck in a time warp
And proof Portslade is stuck in a time warp
I thought he moved to The Palace Pier, might be wrong though, reading the post below I must have been wrong, but on the link comments people are mentioning the pier as well.
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Is it PotG?
Thrifty non-licker
- Jul 10, 2003
- 26,186
I think he did (or maybe another ?), but not until later. Pretty sure he was on Queen's road through 60s and 70s.
- Aug 7, 2003
- 7,854
I’ve got a couple of thousand old images / postcards if anyone is looking for anything in particular
