Photograph Collections:
Public Houses
During Victorian times Brighton had a pub on virtually every corner. Over the decades the numbers of pubs in Brighton have dwindled.
Even more so now, with the prices of alcohol rising and the ban on smoking in pubs, the numbers are falling fast. Over the years I have managed to capture a few that have now long gone and captured some that are still there but are no longer pubs. Some I have added just because they’re pubs and still pubs! I will add some more history as and when I find it.
Image: © Carol Homewood
It had many changes of landlords and ladies over the years but one notably was Henry Smith who ran the Devonshire Arms from c.1886 up until c.1921.
It is now a private house.
Image: © Carol Homewood
By 1872 it's name was changed to the Eastern Hotel. The landlord being H Betts.
I am unsure when the pub closed. I know it was still up and running in the late 1970s.
Demolished in 1993.
Image: © Carol Homewood
William Woolgar ran the Elm Grove Tavern from 1891 until 1914. Originally from Henfield William was a farmer in Petworth before coming to Brighton to run the Elm Grove Tavern with his niece Mary Botting.
For a short time from 1881 this pub was run by Charles Phelps and his wife Louisa who had previously run the Flying Dutchman and the Balcony Tavern in Elm Grove.
During the 1970s I remember this building being the Tooting Tyre Service.
Image: © Carol Homewood
In 1871 The Flying Dutchman was run by Charles and Louisa Phelps. They only stayed a few years before the pub changed hands.
1891 Henry Rose and his wife Louisa were running the Flying Dutchman up until c.1908.
From 1910 and for the next twenty years the landlady was Mrs Louisa Mary West.
From 1933 right up until at least the late 1950s the Flying Dutchman was run by Frederick Dean.
Closed during the 1970s. I do have a small recollection of this pub as a child. It is now converted into housing.
Image: © Carol Homewood
The stone pillar attached to the pub was once the gated entrance to the Phoenix Brewery.
Closed in 2010 after complaints to the council regarding the noise.
Image: © Carol Homewood
It opened sometime in the 1870s. The main landlords and landladies were Mrs Mitchell during the early 1900s then W. Stockwell took over the pub until around the time it closed in the late 1940s. W. Stockwell went on to run the Constant Service after this.
There is a lovely photograph of the Gardener's Arms on the Regency Society's Collection by James Gray:
http://regencysociety-jamesgray.com/volume27/source/jg_27_007.html
Image: © Carol Homewood
Image: © Carol Homewood
Now known as the Fishbowl.
Image: © Carol Homewood
By the 1880s the Gilder family were running this pub. The first mention of the Hampden Arms was in the street directories of 1888. It seems the Gilder family ran this pub up until its closure in c.1970.
