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Head north along Gardner Street then across North Road is the southern entrance to Kensington Gardens. This was the first street to be built north of North Road and the houses originally had gardens at the front of them. However, it became a shopping street quite early on to serve the growing community around it. Today it is the third of four principal shopping streets in the North Laine area. Shops selling army surplus, homeopathic remedies, North American Indian culture, fudge, fabric, juggling balls and shoes operate down here. Click on the link to take you to the next page. http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/230797

Near Upper Gardner Street

After a start as a boot maker the shop became a bakery or confectioners for the next 50 years before becoming a tailors, hosier and outfitters from 1912 to the eve of the Second World War, the latter run by Percy Peckham who sounds like a character Charles Hawtry would play in a Carry On film. In the post war world the shop became a radio shop which then expanded into television retail which it would remain until the mid 1980s when small scale electrical goods shops such as these began to be put out of business by the new larger out of town chain stores. Between 1966 and 1990 the shop was combined with neighbouring Image then split up again becoming a number of ladies wear shops, a comic store, the first stop for Velvet who also traded at another shop in the street before moving south to Bond Street where they currently reside, and finally a shoe shop specialising in American boots. OCCUPANTS 1845-52: BOOT MAKER: Richard Cole (1845-50), George Strand (1852) 1854-90: BAKER: J Terry (1854-67), Thomas Vallance (1868-69), George Mitchell (1870-71), S Welfare (1873), James Robert (1874-81), Esther Gains (1882-90) 1891-97: CONFECTIONER: Mrs L Wiseman 1898-1909: BAKER: VG Smith - also known as Smith's Pastry Stores 1912-14: TAILOR: E Balchin (1912), F Suckling (1913-14) 1915-25: OUTFITTER: Percy Peckham 1926-39: HOSIER: Jocelyn Hansford 1947-85: RADIO & TELEVISION SHOP: Scotts Radio Ltd (1947-76), Wigfalls (1977-81), Robert Harding TV Ltd (1983-85) 1986-87: BAKER: Grints 1988-90: SHOE SHOP: Italian Shoe Centre Ltd (1988), Helmking Ltd (1990) 1990-93: LADIES WEAR: Laid Back Ltd (1990), The Clothes Rail (1992-93) 1993-98: COMIC SHOP: Fantastic Store Ink 1999-2000: LADIES WEAR: Bond 2000-01: GIFT SHOP: Velvet 2002-11: SHOE SHOP; Rock Sole Ltd - Trading as Bik Chief

Another shop with a long history of rapid turnovers of businesses. J Combridge ran another butcher at 79-80 North Road until 1907; Gardner, handy name for this street, moved his antiques business to Image; Jacob Lenz may have been related to some more Lenz's at Image and Image; one wonders whether Walter Pullingers descendants run the shoe shop bearing his name in Bond Street or that Ransoms, the hardware store, is related to that of the same name in Ann Street. Luigi's moved to Image and still trades today whilst the Clothes Rail also traded at Image The current occupants began life as a skateboard and fashion shop but seems to have dropped the former. OCCUPANTS 1868-71: BASKET MAKER: Charles Terry 1873-96: BUTCHER: CH Jones, later Jones & Co (1873-90, 1892, 1894-96), J Combridge (1891, 1893) 1897-99: SECOND HAND BOOKSELLER: Herbert Goldney (1897-98), J Smith (1899) 1900-04: ANTIQUE DEALER: C Gardner 1907: WATCHMAKER: M Tharin 1908-13: GREENGROCER: H Ayling (1908-10), W Harman (1911-13) 1914-17: DRAPER: Jacob Lenz 1918-22: WARDROBE DEALER: Mrs Georgina Harris 1923-40: STATIONER: Walter Pullinger 1947-49: HARDWARE STORE: GA Ransom 1951-54: DRAPER: E & B O'Grady 1956-64: TV & RADIO DEALERS: Ransoms (Television) Ltd 1966-69: SHOE DEALER: AG Martin 1971-84: TAILOR: Luigi's 1985-87: LADIES HAIRDRESSER: Front Page 1988-89: COSMETICS: The Little Green Shop 1990-93: LADIES WEAR: The Clothes Rail 1994-97: CLEANING MATERIALS: The Little Green Shop 1997-98: SHOE SHOP: Platform 1999-2011: CLOTHES: Jell-O

Currently home to Luigi's the tailor who have been trading on the street for over 40 years. They moved here from neighbouring Image in the mid 1980s when another longstay of the street, HE Bolton, finally closed. Bolton's egg business began back in 1887 in Hove moving into 47 in 1910 then across the road to this shop in 1917. Other than a long stint as a greengrocers in the 19th century and a decade as a toy shop in the early 20th century the other businesses have not stayed for long. OCCUPANTS 1873-94: GROCER: R Barber 1896-1907: TOY SHOP: BF Davis 1909-14: CONFECTIONER: C Yelland (1909-10), Robert Barber (1911-14) 1915: DRAPER: A Symons 1916: CYCLE DEALER: FG Curd 1917-84: EGG MERCHANT: HE Bolton 1984-2011: TAILOR: Luigi's

A small side street linking Church Street to North road that was built in the 1870s on the site of old slums known as Pimlico and Pym's gardens. During the 1980s the Bread Street development necessitated the removal of old houses on the western side. For a similar view in 1978 see http://regencysociety-jamesgray.com/volume25/source/jg_25_145.html

Komedia is an arts and entertainment company that operates venues at Brighton and Bath, It presents a diverse programme of comedy, music, cabaret, theatre and kids shows, featuring local, national and international performers. Komedia’s resident shows include the Kronenbourg Krater Comedy Club, The Kroon Kat Lounge and Bent Double. Komedia was formed in 1994 by Colin Granger, Marina Kobler and David Lavender, beginning as a theatre and cabaret bar in a converted Grade II-listed former billiard hall in Brighton's Kemp Town area. At that time, Komedia promoted many young performers including Graham Norton, Mel & Sue, Johnny Vegas, The Right Size, Al Murray, Jenny Éclair, Peepolykus, Alistair McGowan, Omid Djalili, Rhona Cameron and The League of Gentlemen. Within a few years, the tiny venue had proved so popular that the company was able to expand, and in 1998, Komedia moved into a former Tesco supermarket on Gardner Street in the North Laine area of Brighton. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Komedia Komedia web site http://www.komedia.co.uk/