63-64, Western Road, Brighton

Image: © Simon Carey Taken: 25 Mar 2016

Originally two separate shops that were merged in 1904 by the drapers Lea & Sons who also expanded into neighbouring Image Number 61 had originally been a stationers then bookseller before becoming a milliners. It returned to stationery in the 1870s was a novelty store in the 1890s before brief tenures as a mantle maker and frame maker. Number 64 was a butcher for 16 years, a corset maker for twelve, and what looks like a repository for funerals for 26. Lea & Sons merged the two shops and remained here until 1968 after which the premises were used for ladies wear, as a drug store, selling and renting televisions and since 1992 dispensing takeaway fried chicken. 63 1845-1862 - STATIONER & ACCOUNT BOOK MAKER (Elias Taylor) 1864-1868 - BOOKSELLER, LIBRARY, ARTISTS REPOSITORY (F Curtis) 1869-1873 - MILLINER (Mrs Carden) 1874-1887 - FANCY STATIONER (S Garner) 1888-1890 - STATIONER (J Burroughs) 1891-1896 - VIENNESE NOVELTIES (JE Stafford) 1897-1899 - MANTLE MAKER (Herbert Morson) 1900-1903 - ARTISTS, COLOUR MEN & FRAME MAKERS (Barbe Lechertier Ltd) 64 1845-1861 - BUTCHER (Sarah Awcock 1845-46, William Awcock 1848-61) 1862-1874 - CORSET & BELT MAKER (Mrs James Eberall) 1875-1901 - THE MOURNING WAREHOUSE (W Tooth 1875-79, R Baker 1880-1901) 1902-1903 - GLOVER & LACE MAN (A Martin & Co) 63-64 1904-1968 - DRAPER (Lea & Son) 1969-1974 - LADIES OUTFITTERS (Dorothy Norman) 1980 - BOUTIQUE (Jean Junction) 1981-1985 - DRUG STORE (Medicare Ltd) 1985-1987 - RADIO, TV & ELECTRICAL GOODS (Connect) 1988-1990 - TV RENTALS (Visionhire) 1992-2016 - FAST FOOD (KFC)

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