The history portal for Shoreham-by-Sea, Sussex, England
2009 was the first part of the High Street Photo project to record the shop fronts of every shop.
http://www.shorehambysea.com/street-photo-project/high-street/
Is the High Street a better place 10 years on? Anyone fancy doing the same for 2019?
As for 100 years ago, this then and now slider demonstrates the evolution of the West End.
Can’t see that this has been posted before but it’s a small part of a larger photo and one of my favourites for detail:-
Passer by exhaling smoke from his fag,
Impatient man in car (and, yes, it’s a Model T Ford) with noisy kids thinking ‘How much longer – is she buying the bloody place!’
Automobile Association bonnet badge (blimey, do you remember those!)
Lad with wheelbarrow imagining how pleased his Mum will be when he brings fresh horse manure for the garden back through the house.
Evidence of an itchy-bum outbreak in Shoreham (that’s lowered the tone a bit!)
A much damaged photo but perhaps the only one of that subject that still survives. ‘The View’ stood near today’s junction of Woodard’s View with King’s Drive.
From right to left, anti-clockwise:- A newspaper cutting of an otherwise anonymous group and Shoreham location has ‘Standen Family’ written on it. A check through our street directories shows the Standen Brothers at Southdown Nurseries in Mill Lane (where the greenhouses are in the aerial photograph). A 1950’s parade of Morris dancers provides a closer view of the nursery just beyond the lodge to the cemetery and lastly a view of the entrance and shop in the 1930’s.
You don’t often see this part of the High Street in old photos
(courtesy of Neil De Ville)
Houses and buildings were advertised for sale in the papers very much like they are today. One gives details of the numerous store-rooms, cellars and counting room of Daniel Roberts’ huge granary on Mill Green, Ropetackle (1826). Earlier, in 1813, it had been advertised for sale, suitable for possible conversion into a tide-mill. Another advertisement in 1831 revealed that the lean-to still to be seen on the side of the Crown & Anchor was then a hairdressers’ and the sale of the original windmill in Mill Lane (1832) disclosed that it was a wooden smock mill before it was rebuilt in brick and converted to steam power. The Dolphin Chambers buildings on what is now Coronation Green in 1812 included ‘High Cage’ a pivoted boom at the end of which was a lighted brazier to guide vessels to the quayside in poor visibility. Below ground level was an arched cellar 30 feet by 13 only exceeded in size by the vaults in Church Street and the later Custom House/Town Hall.
(Photo shows Dolphin Chambers being demolished in 1938 with the arched cellar just visible behind the man)
Photos showing three phases in the life of the barn that once stood on what is now Coronation Green.
Below – as a workshop for John Wallace Brooker, signwriter – he also played in goal for Shoreham FC in the early 1900’s
Centre – Gutted by fire 1911
Top – Repaired and remodelled for use as a garage 1920’s
Interesting extract on e-bay from the 1908 deeds of Sea View owned by the Maple family. They sold their fish and oysters from their shop at the west end of the High Street – more here http://www.shorehambysea.com/a-fishermans-tale-the-maple-family/
Detailed plans like this of Sea View and surrounding bungalows are invaluable for confirming location and names at a specific time, particularly as the names were often changed. Inset is Louisa Maple, who signed the document, matriarch of the family at the time – husband Samuel had died just a few years earlier.
Found a photo I took of the courtyard at our previous house in Church Street that reminded me of the Winton family next door in the years when the courtyard was shared by both neighbours. Had a quick look through the Winton photos and realised that by putting their courtyard photos together the courtyard as it was in 1900 could virtually be recreated.
Left to right are Pansy Winton, Myrtle Winton, Reg Eley, Stan Winton, Billy Reading and Bobby Hall. The Wintons were a large, happy family of eleven and you can just imagine the laughter and occasional squabbles between brothers and sisters at the family gatherings that took place there (articles on the Winton family are at http://www.shorehambysea.com/william-edward-winton/ and http://www.shorehambysea.com/stanley-howard-winton-1881-1964/