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Hampton Street, BRIGHTON, BN1 3DB

Small side street linking Hampden Place with Spring Street which is visible in the distance. Developed in the 1820s and occupied by small businesses serving those in Western Road.

A side street linking Hampton Place to Spring Street that was built around 1830. The rear of Mitre House, built in the mid 1930s, is on the right.

Head south down Victoria Street and this is at the bottom. Built between 1861-64. Click on the link to take you to another page. http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/211915

The large block of flats were constructed in the mid 1930s by International Stores Ltd whose logo was a mitre. Opened in 1935 the flats cover the block between Hampton Place and Spring Street with the exception of Image which was located on the corner of the former. The ground floor consisted of purpose built shops whilst the upper floors contained private flats and offices. Prior to the construction the block had been private residences with front gardens which had gradually been built over during the 19th century as Western Road commercial importance grew. This expansion also narrowed the road and the council began acquiring properties from as early as 1905 in order to widen it from the northern side. This section was the penultimate block to be developed and during the 1920s the leases on each unit had been drastically shortened. However, the extensive Bon Marche stores occupying 149-156 were used as temporary homes for Boots Image and Wades Image whilst their stores were rebuilt to the east. By the early 1930s all business had ceased and the block demolished over the course of 1933. Old Images Former shops, 1933 - http://regencysociety-jamesgray.com/volume19/source/jg_19_051.html Demolition in progress, 1933 - http://regencysociety-jamesgray.com/volume19/source/jg_19_055.html Cleared site viewed from Hampton Street, 1935 - http://regencysociety-jamesgray.com/volume19/source/jg_19_059.html Mitre House, 1940s - http://regencysociety-jamesgray.com/volume19/source/jg_19_147.html For individual shops within Mitre House see: Image Image Image Image Image Image

Unlike the other stores located in the ground floor of Image numbers 153 and 154 have remained smaller single units. The former was a residential dwelling until the 1860s when it became a carpet and furniture warehouse something it would periodically return to during the 1870s. The following decade it was a pianoforte retailer then an art furnishers prior to William Padison the drapers expanding into the shop from neighbouring Image The latter remained a residence until 1890 after which it spent a couple of years as either a furnisher or decorator until this shop too were taken over by William Paddison. Along with their other stores at Image and Image it became Bon Marche in 1920 and from 1925 temporary homes for Boots Image and Wades Image whilst their stores were being rebuilt. The new premises within Mitre House remained separate after the rebuild with 153 becoming a branch of WH Smiths from 1938 until they acquired a more prominent location in the newly built Churchill Square at the end of the 1960s. It was replaced by another long serving chain, Milletts, which remained here for forty years. After just over a year as Stead & Simpson shoe shop the store was taken over by Tropik Home, a Turkish textiles business. Number 154 also saw a long tenure after the rebuild with the Bata Shoe Company occupying the premises until the mid 1970s. It was replaced by a succession of camera shops one of whom, City Camera Exchange would be acquired by Jessops who remained here until 2007 when the company ran into financial problems forcing it to close a large number of its stores. A period of being empty was punctuated by home accessories store Shelleys who lasted less than two years and since late 2012 by City Global Link who moved from 150. 153 1862-1870 - CARPET & FURNITURE WAREHOUSE (Roberts & Chamberlain) 1871 - CABINET MAKERS (Isard & Co) 1873 - FURNITURE WAREHOUSE (George Duncombe) 1875-1876 - MILLINER (Mrs Cutler) 1877-1879 - FURNITURE WAREHOUSE (The Co-Operative Furnishing Store) 1880-1890 - PIANOFORTE DEALERS (E Barnes & Co) 1891-1892 - ART FURNISHERS (Oliver & Co) 1919-1925 - DRAPER (William Padison 1919, Bon Marche 1920-25) REBUILD 1938-1971 - STATIONER (WH Smiths) 1972-2011 - OUTDOOR GOODS (Milletts) 2012-2013 - SHOE SHOP (Stead & Simpson) 2013-2016 - TEXTILES (Tropik Home) 154 1890-1891 - HOUSE FURNISHER (SG Perry) 1892-1895 - HOME ART DECORATOR (Alice Cooper) 1896-1925 - DRAPER (William Padison 1896-1919, Bon Marche 1920-25) REBUILD 1937-1975 - SHOE SHOP (Bata Shoe Co) 1980-2007 - CAMERA RETAILER (Photomarkets 1980-81, Intercity Cameras 1982-84, City Camera Exchange 1985-96, Jessops 1996-2007) 2009 2009-2011 - HOME ACCESSORIES (Shelleys) 2012-2016 - ELECTRONIC RETAIL & PHONE REPAIRS (City Global Link)

Home to Bert’s home accessories store since 2007 and part of the ground floor of Image Number 155 was a residential dwelling up to the 1860s then a wine merchant for just under fifty years being replaced by drapers William Paddison who expanded from Image and Image Paddison also acquired number 156, then located on the corner of Spring Street, about the same time with the premises having previously been used for a number of different businesses. After Bon Marche’s occupation in the first half of the 1920s the combined store was used as temporary homes for Boots Image and Wades Image whilst their premises were being rebuilt then demolished itself in 1933. The newly numbered 155-156 initially opened as a silk merchant then became a furriers from the start of the Second World War to the end of the 1960s. During the mid 1970s it became a TV Rental store which it remained until Boxfresh, a rebranded Granada, closed in 2002 ending the era of the High Street TV rentals business. Since 2004 it has been a household store retailer originally trading as Direct 2 U prior to the arrival of the current incumbents. Old Images Boots occupying the old Bon Marche store, 1928 - http://regencysociety-jamesgray.com/volume19/source/jg_19_052.html 155 1862-1910 - WINE MERCHANT (John Luff & Co 1862-96, Charles Martorell & Co 1897, ED Waller & Co 1898-1905, J Luff & Co 1906, Victoria Wine Co 1907-10) 1911-1925 - DRAPER (William Padison 1911-1919, Bon Marche 1920-25) 156 1862-1875 - GROCER & OIL MAN (Frederick Marshall 1862-71, JJ Evans 1873-75) 1877-1886 - BOX, TRUNK & PORTMANTEAU WAREHOUSE (Sheerman & Co) 1887-1894 - CYCLE DEPOT (TW Girling) 1896-1905 - CHEMIST (Sussex C-Operative Drug Co) 1910-1925 - DRAPERS (Bon Marche 1910-13, A Robinson 1914, Lea & Son 1915-19, Bon Marche 1920-25) REBUILD 155-156 1937-1938 - SILK MERCHANTS (Fashion Fabrics Ltd) 1940-1969 - FURRIERS (Soden Ltd) 1970-1976 - BOUTIQUE (Richard Sport) 1977-2002 - TV RENTAL (Rediffusion 1977-85, Granada 1985-99, Boxfresh 2001-02) 2004-2016 - HOUSEHOLD STORES (Direct 2 U Ltd 2004-06, Bert’s 2007-16)

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.

At the bottom of Victoria Street turn east along Upper North Street then south down Spring Street until you Western Road again. Originally the road was a track that connected Brighton to Hove church and the road gradually began to be developed from the 1830s as the new terraces and squares by the sea extended westwards. By the 1860s it had become a major shopping street servicing the great, good and not so good in their day to day urban life. By the early part of the twentieth century the road had become clogged with the traffic and was subsequently widened piecemeal between 1926-36. The demolition took place on the northern side and it is here that the reproductions of Selfridges in London along with art deco designs occurred. This building was constructed in the 1930s for Staffords and in the last 20 years has been home to Fads, Virgin Megastore and since 1998 Argos who originally occupied just the west wing of the building. Click on the link to take you to the next page. http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/211917