192, Western Road, Brighton

Image: © Simon Carey Taken: 28 Mar 2016

The stand alone shop was rebuilt in the mid 1920s replacing two former shops 192 and 192a. The latter was on the western adjacent to 191 and had been a private dwelling up to the start of the 1870s. Its former garden was built over and turned into a brewery stores in 1873 which it remained until 1910. After a brief period as a jeweller it spent the remainder of its time as a milliner. The more substantial 192 had been converted into commercial use by the 1840s originally as a builder and very briefly as a working men’s school. In the 1870s it became a corn merchant, Shoesmith & Son, which it remained until the original building was demolished. There have only been two occupants of the rebuilt single shop since 1926 both part of national and international chains; Freeman, Hardy & Willis, who moved from Image for over sixty years and Gap for the past 25. Old Images Numbers 192 and 192a, 1925 - http://regencysociety-jamesgray.com/volume19/source/jg_19_099.html 192 1845-1870 - BUILDER (Charles Upton) 1871 - Working Men’s School 1874-1924 - CORN MERCHANT (Shoesmith & Son) 192a 1873-1910 - BREWERY STORES (Daniel Brothers & Chaplin Breweries 1873-86, Croydon Brewery Stores 1887-1910) 1913-1914 - JEWELLER (L Widenbaum) 1917-1924 - MILLINER (Honore) REBUILT 192 1926-1988 - SHOE SHOP (Freeman Hardy & Willis) 1991-2016 - CLOTHES (Gap)

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