16-19, North Street, Brighton

Image: © Simon Carey Taken: 27 Sep 2015

Numbers sixteen to nineteen formed the western extent of the former Hanningtons, see Image, though they were only occupied by the store from the 1930s to the 1960s when some were sold or leased out. All had been in commercial use since the late 18th or early 19th century and all have had a steady stream of businesses pass through them. Number sixteen was a chemist for twenty five years, then home to Alfred Plumer’s wine merchants for just under sixty before it was acquired by Hanningtons in the 1930s. The store remained in ownership until 2001 but used often let the shop as a concession first to Fludes the carpet retailers in the 1960s then houseware store The Pier in the 1990s. They continued to occupy the shop after the department store’s demise until they went into administration in 2008 being taken over by another Cargo. The latter vacated the shop in 2015. Number seventeen went through a series of different traders until stabilising in the last third of the 19th century as a fancy warehouse. A tailors followed before the shop was acquired by Hanningtons in the late 1920s after which it was merged with number sixteen though Hatchards the booksellers were often listed as 17-17a. Number eighteen’s history is similar, a series of traders with Biddle & Sons picture dealers occupying the shop for just over forty years prior to Hannington moving in, then leasing out to British gas as a showroom before taking over again. After the department store’s demise it was briefly occupied by a record store before the current retailers, American Apparell arrived in 2007. Number nineteen worked through a steady stream of traders the longest serving being a tea dealers and tailors prior to the inevitable arrival of Hanningtons who leased this part of their store out as a restaurant until a serious fire in 1986. After Hannington’s closure the store was occupied by the lady's section of Froggetts, with the men's next door at twenty one, see Image, until 2009 an arrangement followed by its successors Purple Heart until their closure in 2015 since when it has been home to the peripatetic Fun Learning after their occupation of Image, Image and Image OLD IMAGES Plumers at number sixteen in the 1890s - http://regencysociety-jamesgray.com/volume21/source/jg_21_163.html Cavendish the tailors at seventeen in 1911 - http://regencysociety-jamesgray.com/volume21/source/jg_21_096.html Number nineteen after the fire in 1986 - http://www.photosbrightonandhove.org.uk/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/q/s/qs2011-lwhitcomb078_2.png A view of 16-19 after the fire of 1986 - http://www.photosbrightonandhove.org.uk/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/890x490/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/q/s/qs2011-nimmo-c042_3.png OCCUPANTS 16 1822 - LINEN DRAPER (Philip Powell) 1833-1846 - HOSIER, GLOVER & OUTFITTER (Robert Perry & Co) 1848 - JEWELLER/WATCHMAKER (Thomas Bonner) 1850 - MILLINERY/FRENCH FLOWER ESTABLISHMENT (Thomas Webb) 1854-1879 - CHEMIST (1854-56 EA White; 1859-64 W Bretton; 1865-79 W Dowsett) 1880-1938 - WINE MERCHANT (Alfred Plumer) 1939-1960 - DEPARTMENT STORE (Hanningtons) 1964-1970 - CARPET STORE (Fludes) 1971-1991 - DEPARTMENT STORE (Hanningtons) 1993-2015 - HOUSEWARE (1993-2009 The Pier; 2009-15 Cargo) 17 1822 - DRAPER & HOSIER (E Rogers) 1845-1846 - DYERS (John Elliott & Co) 1848 - UPHOLSTERER/CABINET MAKER (Henry Saunders) 1850-1867 - DRAPERS (1850-61 Thomas Shales; 1862-67 C Presland) 1868-1899 - FANCY WAREHOUSE (RT Dagg) 1901-1927 - TAILOR/COSTUMIER (A Cavendish) 1928-1960 - DEPARTMENT STORE (Hanningtons) 1964-1970 - CARPET STORE (Fludes) 1971-1982 - DEPARTMENT STORE (Hanningtons) 1983-1994 - BOOKSELLER (Hatchards) 1994-2015 - HOUSEWARE (1993-2009 The Pier; 2009-15 Cargo) 17a see above, merged with 17 when Hanningtons moved in 18 1822 - LINEN DRAPER (Spencer Weston) 1845-1848 - CHEMIST (William Payne) 1850-1861 - JEWELLER/WATCHMAKER (EH Bonner) 1862-1883 - TAILOR (JH Hale) 1885-1928 - PICTURE DEALER (Biddle & Sons) 1928-1960 - DEPARTMENT STORE (Hanningtons) 1964-1971 - SHOWROOM (South Eastern Gas Board) 1971-1983 - DEPARTMENT STORE (Hanningtons) 1983-1994 - BOOKSELLER (Hatchards) 19 1833 - WATCHMAKER (Robert Philip) 1845-1846 - BOOT & SHOE MAKER (Thomas Court & Co) 1848-1874 - TEA DEALER (1848-65 George Sams; 1867-74 JD Wright) 1876-1880 - COOK & CONFECTIONER (1876-77 AR Reynard; 1879 Boullett & Regozzi; 1880 J Arnaud) 1883-1885 - CATERER & WINE MERCHANT (TH Bentley) 1886-1925 - TAILORS (1886-90 HF Johnson; 1891-1905 The City Tailor; 1906-25 Price & Co) 1928-1960 - DEPARTMENT STORE (Hanningtons) 1964-1986 - RESTAURANT (1964-77 London Steak House; 1980-84 Trotters; 1985-86 Taverna Sorrento) 1999-2001 - TEA DEALERS (Whittard) 2001-2009 - LADIESWEAR (Froggett) 2010-2015 - GIFT SHOP (Purple Heart) 2015 - TOY SHOP (Fun Learning)

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