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Head east down Market Street, then west up North Street from the junction with East Street then look north from the junction with New Road. The road was new in 1805 when the Prince Regent paid for an alternative roadway to East Street which then headed out of town past the front door of the Pavilion. The Colonnade was added in 1806-07 to give a covered walkway to the Theatre Royal which itself opened in 1807. Parts of the Colonnade in North Street was lost when that road was widened in 1912, 1922 and again in 1929 meaning that the only section left is the one on view. The Theatre Royal can be seen in the middle of the picture whilst the Dome Theatre can be seen top right. Click on the link to take you to the next page. http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/230748

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)

Viewed from the junction with East Street. See also Image viewed from the western end at the junction with Western Road. Both that and this image can be used as an index for the individual shops that line the street each with a history of their occupants. SOUTHERN SIDE Here is East Street Image Image Image Image Image Image Image Image Here is Meeting House Lane Image Image Image Image Image Here is Ship Street Image Image Image Image Image Image Image Image Image Image Image Image Image Here is West Street Image Image Image Image Here is Western Road NORTHERN SIDE Here is Queens road Image Image Here is Windsor Street Image Here is Portland Street Image Here is King Place Image Image Here is Bond Street Image Image Image Here is New Road Image Chapel Royal Here is Princes Place Image Image Image Here is Pavilion Buildings

Now visible with the demolition of Image in order to develop the former service yard of Hanningtons into another shopping area as part of the Lanes. The cottage is Brighton's oldest surviving building outside St Nicholas' church and dates back to the 1640s. Any surviving medieval structure was destroyed in 1515 when the French raided the English coast and burnt the town to the ground.

The current building is known as Huntingdon House and was built in the 1970s on the site of the Countess of Huntingdon’s church. Number twenty had originally been the countess’ home from the 1750s which had a chapel added to the rear 1761. This was expanded three times in 1767, 1774 and 1788 as the congregation grew and after the countess’s death in 1791 her former house was converted into a chapel in 1810. The church was entirely rebuilt in 1870 with a large spire added, however, congregations gradually dwindled and the church was closed in 1966, the spire removed in 1969 and the rest of the building demolished in 1972. Numbers twenty one through to twenty five had gradually been merged during the late 19th century by another of Brighton’s department stores, Leesons & Vokins (Later just Vokins) whose main store operated at Image The firm was founded in 1882 and continued trading until January 2015 when it finally closed after 133 years. Both twenty one and twenty two had been already been merged by previous occupier Henry Sturt & Son, a drapers who had traded for fifty years, with both shops running through a number of different traders previously. Vokins would occupy the spot until the early 1970s when the entire block adjacent to the former Countess of Huntingdon’s church was demolished in 1972. Twenty one was then occupied by Froggetts menswear for over thirty years, its ladies department being next door, see Image, then replaced with a couple of gift shops though it is currently empty. Twenty two was a gift shop throughout the eighties, with another store nearby at Image but other than a brief stint as a bedding merchant in 2004 appears to have been a number of short term lets. For many years twenty three was a bookseller until the expanding Henry Sturt took over. Vokins took over in the 1890s and remained until demolition in 1972. After the rebuild it spent twenty five years as Country Casuals was briefly a gift shop and since 2008 been a convenience store initially run by the owners of Allsorts who were located until fairly recently over the road in Image Twenty four was a boot and shoe maker for nearly sixty years, was then briefly Brighton Stock Exchange before becoming a bakers. Vokins moved in here in 1912 much later than twenty one to twenty three. After the rebuild it spent just under a quarter of a century as a menswear shop but then changed hands a number of times thereafter with occupants spending rarely more than a couple of years at the shop. The current occupants are Candy, specialising in confectionery and sweets. Number twenty five has only existed since the rebuild and for many years was home to Lawleys, the china dealers and since 2009 to Ape and Cult Hero a succession of record and CD shops. OLD IMAGES Original Countess of huntingdon Chapel c.1870 - http://regencysociety-jamesgray.com/volume21/source/jg_21_129.html The rebuilt church after closure in 1966 - http://regencysociety-jamesgray.com/volume21/source/jg_21_136.html Numbers 21-22, 1897 - http://regencysociety-jamesgray.com/volume21/source/jg_21_045.html Number 25 in 1986 - http://www.photosbrightonandhove.org.uk/portfolio/shop-and-shopping/lawleys-at-night.html OCCUPANTS 20 1810-1972 - CHAPEL (Countess of Huntingdon’s church) 21 1822 - BOOKSELLER (Baxter & Co) 1833-1850 - TOY & FANCY REPOSITORY (Susan Chassereau) 1852-1862 - LACE DEALERS (1852-56 Edgar Adams; 1859-62 EL Thornton - inc. baby linen) 1864-1874 - PHOTOGRAPHER (William Hall) 1877-1880 - WOOL & LINEN WAREHOUSE (EM Stapley) 1881-1894 - DRAPERS & COSTUMIERS (Henry Sturt & Son) 1895-1972 - DEPARTMENT STORE (Vokins) Rebuilt 1977-2009 - MENSWEAR (Froggatt) 2009-2013 - GIFT SHOP (2009-13 Purple Heart; 2013- Mobile Specialist) 22 1822 - HOSIER (J Martin) 1833 - BOOKSELLER (Edward Burn) 1845 - TEA DEALERS (George Mitchell & Co) 1846 - LINEN DRAPER (William Bailey) 1848-1894 - DRAPERS & COSTUMIERS (Henry Sturt & Son) 1895-1972 - DEPARTMENT STORE (Vokins) Rebuilt 1978-1991 - GIFT SHOP (Here & Now) 2004 - BEDS & BEDDING (Nights in Iron) 23 1833 - BOOT & SHOE MAKER (David Stevens) 1845-1873 - BOOKSELLER (Edmundus Burn) 1874-1894 - DRAPERS & COSTUMIERS (Henry Sturt & Son) 1895-1972 - DEPARTMENT STORE (Vokins) Rebuilt 1977-2001 - LADIESWEAR (Country Casuals) 2004- - ARTS & CRAFTS (Afrika Collection) 2008-2015 - CONVENIENCE STORE (North Street Food & Wine) 24 1822-1886 - BOOT & SHOE MAKER (1822 Thomas Martin; 1833 David Stevens; 1846 Richard Yost; 1848-86 Lulham & Sons) 1887-1890 - LONDON & BRIGHTON STOCK EXCHANGE 1891-1912 - BAKERS (Clarks Bread Co) 1913-1972 - DEPARTMENT STORE (Vokins) Rebuilt 1977-2001 - MENSWEAR (Sammy Gordon) 2004-2006 - MOBILE PHONES (Sinic) 2008-2009 - BAKERS (Donut Factory) 2009-2010 - GIFt SHOP (King of Rock) 2012-2013 - MENSWEAR (Hudsons) 2015 - CONFECTIONERS (Candy) 25 Rebuilt 1977-1999 - CHINA & GLASSWARE (Lawleys) 2009-2015 - RECORD SHOP (Ape, Cult Hero)

Looking south-east. The local route 48 bus has come from Lower Bevendean and Brighton Station. The big clock is on the red-brick Chapel Royal. The impressive domed building on the left was built in 1904 for The Royal Assurance Company. It now houses Paddy Power the bookmakers, and other office accommodation!!

Located on the eastern corner of North Street and New Road the current building dates from 1903 by the Royal Assurance Company. Prior to that one hundred and sixty two had seen a succession of businesses pass through until acquired by Royal Insurance in 1895. One hundred and sixty three also saw a steady stream of traders and remained separate after the rebuild. Parsons & Sons (Later Parsons, Son & Basley) is an old established Brighton estate agent still trading today eight years short of the bicentenary, see also Image Martins Bank opened a branch here in the mid 1930s moving across the road to Image a new purpose built branch in the late 1950s and it was they who introduced the liver bird weather vane on top of the building. When the insurance office closed in 1975 it was acquired by the Leeds Permanent Building Society who would be absorbed by the Halifax in 1995. The latter moved out possibly in the early 21st century and since 2005 at least has been home to a couple of bookmakers. Also included are two properties which originally stood to the south of Chapel Royal and were numbered one hundred and sixty four to sixty five before demolition in the 1880s for road widening purposes. These numbers were later used for other properties in Princes Place, see Image OLD IMAGES Numbers 163-63, 1882-85 - http://regencysociety-jamesgray.com/volume21/source/jg_21_155.html Martins Bank - http://www.martinsbank.co.uk/11-133%20Brighton.htm Numbers 164-165, 1875 - http://regencysociety-jamesgray.com/volume21/source/jg_21_147.html OCCUPANTS 162 1845-1856 - FANCY REPOSITORY & TOY DEALER (William Wild) 1859-1879 - WINE MERCHANT (William Stone 1859-70, A Plumer 1871-79) 1879-1885 - AUCTIONEER & ESTATE AGENT (EJ Hamblin) 1886-1894 - INDIAN RUBBER MERCHANT (Thornton & Co) 1895-1975 - INSURANCE (Royal Insurance Co Ltd)-REBUILD 1903 1978-1999 - BUILDING SOCIETY (Leeds Permanent 1978-95, Halifax 1995-99) 2005-2015 - BOOKMAKERS (Metro Bet 2005-15, Paddy Power 2015) 163 1822-1850 - TAILOR & ARMY CLOTHIER (James Legg) 1854 - BRUSH & COCOANUT FIBRE MANUFACTURERS (Metcalfe & Co) 1856-1867 - BOOKSELLERS, STATIONERS & LIBRARIAN (S Style 1856-62, S Aylen 1864-67) 1868-1876 - MILLINERS & DRESSMAKERS (Dagg & Foster) 1877-1879 - WINE MERCHANT (A Plumer) 1883-1885 - SEWING MACHINES (Wheeler & Wilson Sewing Machine Co) 1887-1923 - AUCTIONEERS (JW Stride & Son 1887-1893, Parsons & Son 1894-1923) 1924-1925 - SHIPPING AGENTS (The Channel Fuel Co) 1927-1933 - ESTATE AGENTS (Reason & Tickle) 1936-1958 - BANK (Martins) 164-165 1833-1875 - BOOT & SHOE MAKER (Lulham & co) 1879 - CABINET MAKER (G Duncombe)

What happened to Alice. Street Art in Hannington Lanes.