171-173, North Street, Brighton

Image: © Simon Carey Taken: 20 Sep 2015

The current building dates from 1900 and stands on the corner of North Street and Pavilion Buildings. It was built for the Capital & Counties Bank who had traded at number one hundred and seventy three since 1879 and became Lloyds in 1920 who have been here ever since. Previously a bookseller occupied by Folthorps who also traded at Image Number one hundred and seventy one was a music library and number one hundred and sixty two a boot and shoe warehouse up to the 1860s when the two were acquired by Hanningtons, see Image, as a furniture repository. They moved out in 1925 eventually returning after the war to one hundred and seventy and were replaced by Lloyds who extended into the premises refurbishing it in the process. OLD IMAGES Capital and Counties, 1895 - http://regencysociety-jamesgray.com/volume21/source/jg_21_170.html Capital and Counties drawing and floor plan, 1901 - http://archiseek.com/2009/1901-the-capital-counties-bank-brighton-sussex/ OCCUPANTS 171 1845-1861 - MUSIC LIBRARY & PIANO WAREHOUSE (Alex MacCarroll) 172 1845-1864 - BOOT & SHOE WAREHOUSE (Dutton & Son 1845-61, Sharman & Co 1862-64) 171-172 1862-1925 - FURNITURE & CARPET WAREHOUSE (Hanningtons) 173 1845-1850 - SURGEON (Brewster Seabrook) 1852-1854 - MUSICAL LIBRARY (Frederick Wright) 1856 - BANK (Union Joint Stock Banking Mutual Association) 1859-1876 - BOOKSELLER (Robert Folthorp 1859-61, Thomas Page 1862-76) 1877-2015 - BANK (Hampshire Bank 1877, Capital & Counties 1879-1919, Lloyds 1920-2015)

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