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Western Road, BRIGHTON, BN1 2BB

From Churchill Square head west down Western Road then north into Marlborough Street which was built up with small workmans cottages from the 1830s onward. Click on the link to take you to the next page. http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/211999

The block between Dean Street and Crown Street was the first to be rebuilt in 1926 primarily for Staffords who occupied numbers 166-68 on the eastern side. However, numbers 163 and 164-165 were rebuilt for other businesses though the whole block was constructed in one style. The divide can be made out by the slightly different shade of yellow on the front of the building, the colours of the light holders and the plaques below the roof containing the letter ’S’, those on the western side have the shields but remain blank. Number 163 located on the corner of Dean Street had been converted to commercial use in the 1850s and after a steady turnover of trades became the first of a succession of drapers who occupied the store from 1871 to 1900. After further turns as a car agent and furniture seller, the shop became a stationers in 1918. Carters would retain their store in the newly rebuilt block but left after a couple of years to be replaced by a costumier, hosier and then a tobacconist. From the 1970s to 1990s it was a men’s clothes retailer which was subsequently followed by a discount bookstore, a second hand CD seller, another discount ladies clothes shop and since 2013 a cafe run by Foodilic, expanding from their other store in Image Number 164-165 were originally two private residences that were combined and converted into commercial use by Laing & Co, a draper in 1864. The shop remained a drapery under a succession of different traders until 1900 after which they were replaced by the national chain of Murdoch & Murdoch who retailed pianos and other musical accessories. They would retain the store after the rebuild and up to the Second World War when the business appears to have collapsed. After the war the store spent a nearly three decades as a shoe shop before conversion into a branch of the National & Provincial building society during the early 1990s. The company would merge with Abbey in 1996 and the branch closed soon after with the building acquired by the Co-Op and used as a bank since 2001. Number 166 began as a gutta percha merchant followed by brief excursions as draper and provision merchant before John Stafford, a hardware retailer, acquired the shop in 1883. By 1889 they had also moved into 168 on the corner of Dean Street with the shop having previously been a greengrocer since 1864. The middle store, number 167 was not acquired until the early 1920s having spent the previous sixty years as a succession of wine merchants. The numbers 166-68 were applied to the newly rebuilt Staffords who would remain here until the late 1940s when they were briefly replaced by Littlewoods who would later return to Image Since then the shop has seen a steady succession of businesses; a decade as a Fine Fare supermarket, fifteen years as an electricity showroom, five years occupied by Superdrug, (see also Image, and much of the 90s as a Levi’s store. The latter moved into the newly refurbished Churchill Square and were eventually replaced by Poundland around 2001 who still trade there today. Old Images Number 163, early 1920s - http://regencysociety-jamesgray.com/volume19/source/jg_19_065.html Number 168, 1896 - http://regencysociety-jamesgray.com/volume19/source/jg_19_066.html New block, 1930 - http://regencysociety-jamesgray.com/volume19/source/jg_19_071.html 163 1854 - CHEMIST (H Hooper) 1856 - FURNISHING & BEDDING WAREHOUSE (James Bourner) 1859-1869 - CABINET MAKER (G Baldry) 1871-1900 - DRAPER (George Emery 1871-77, Edward Cox & Sons 1879-85, Walter Walker 1886-1900) 1901-1903 - CAR AGENT (Sussex Automobile Co) 1904-1917 - FURNITURE DEALERS (WE Parry) 1918-1928 - STATIONERS (Carter Stores) REBUILT 1926 1930-1931 - COSTUMIERS (Rexmore) 1933-1947 - HOSIER (Janus Ltd) 1949-1973 - TOBACCONISTS (Bewlay Ltd) 1974-1991 - MENSWEAR (Michael Barrie 1974-87, Review 1988-91) 1999 - BOOKSHOP (Fair Deal Books) 2001-2006 - CDS - (CD Warehouse) 2007-2013 - LADIESWEAR (Fashion Temple) 2013-2016 - CAFE (Foodilic) 164-165 1856-1864 - LINEN DRAPERS (Laing & Co) 1867-1900 - DRAPER (George Emery 1867-77, Edward Cox & Sons 1879-85, Walter Walker 1886-1900) 1901-1940 - PIANOFORTE DEALERS (Murdoch, Murdoch & Co) REBUILT 1926 1951-1989 - SHOE SHOP (Lilley & Skinner 1951-74, Manfield (1977-89) 1993-1996 - BUILDING SOCIETY (National & Provincial) 2001-2016 - BANK (Co-Operative) 166 1864-1871 - GUTTA PERCHA BOOTS (William McLean) 1873-1877 - DRAPER (George Emory) 1879-1880 - PROVISION MERCHANT (William Turner) 1883-1926 - DEPARTMENT STORE (Staffords) 167 1864-1923 - WINE MERCHANT (James Dare 1864-75, Alfred Partridge 1876-97, T Larkin & Co 1898, WE Gilbey & Son 1899-1923) 1924-1926 - DEPARTMENT STORE (Staffords) 168 1864-1888 - GREENGROCER (Mrs Randall) 1889-1926 - DEPARTMENT STORE (Staffords) REBUILD 1926 166-168 1926-1956 - DEPARTMENT STORE (Staffords 1926-47, Littlewoods 1949-56) 1958-1969 - GROCERS (Fine Fare) 1970-1972 - DEPARTMENT STORE (Fine Ware) 1975-1989 - ELECTRICITY SHOWROOM (Seeboard) 1991-1996 - DRUG STORE (Superdrug) 1993-1999 - CLOTHIERS (Levis Store) 2001-2016 - DISCOUNT STORE (Poundland)

A side street linking Upper North Street and Western Road that was developed around the 1820s. The tall structure is the i360 tower which is being constructed on the site of the former West Pier.

Bright sunlight and deep shadow in one of the steep streets north of Western Road on a fine April morning.

The main shopping street of Brighton which extends from North Street to Palmeira Square in Hove. The road between the former and Montpelier Road is open to buses and taxis only.