Category: Street scenes

Nelson writes:
East Street as it was with added close ups from our collections. Ellman Brown Estate Agents where the Tap House is now. George Hedgecock’s shoe shop now home to Teddy’s. Today’s Toast on the Coast replaces Arthur Eade’s bakery and in place of the East Street Arms is…. well nothing really, just a seat on the pavement on the side of La Patisserie.

Nelson writes:
In the Sussex Archaeological Society’s Bob Hill Collection there are these two photos. One is of a mock-tudor house fronting on to a field(?) of maize and Lancing College in the background but there is no description. The other is of a man cropping maize in a field that the accompanying notes say was on the north side of Upper Shoreham Road between what is now Downsway and Buckingham Avenue.
Were both photos taken in close proximity to each other? Where is that house now?

Before Connaught Avenue was extended in the 1930’s and joined to the southern end “elm trees up to four feet in diameter stood in the middle of the road above Colvill Avenue up to the bend. You could walk either side of them.” (Nora Snelling, nee Hatcher, Connaught Avenue resident b.1910)

Nelson writes:
For a few years what remained of the High Street market house, a canopy on ten columns, was rebuilt in East Street in the 1820’s before being removed again….. the 1828 map is the only map that shows it’s footprint.

Nelson writes…

October 2021. Quietly disappearing without a murmur recently was what must have been the last survivor of the once many buildings associated with Shoreham’s ship building industry.
Originally workshops and offices for Dyer & Son’s yard from the 1860’s and later taken over by yachtbuilders Stow and Sons the building and moorings were eventually acquired by the Sussex Yacht Club. Pedestrian access on that side of the Brighton Road will now be enabled but another piece of Shoreham history is lost.