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
By 1885 it was known as the Race Horse Inn.
1908 the pub was listed as Ye Race Horse Inn and run by the Woolven family. They had the pub up until the sometime during the Second World War.
After the war George Bimson was the landlord here and he ran the pub until the early 1970s.
Recently the pub has been converted into student housing along with many other pubs in the area.
Image: © Carol Homewood
From c.1859 Listed in the Folthorpe Directory as the Race Hill Inn, livery and bait stables with the landlord being Walter Tilley, who remained here until c.1888.
Now the Park Crescent Surgery.
Image: © Carol Homewood
The Red Lion Tavern as it was known seems to have had many, many landlords over the years.
Image: © Carol Homewood
Before King's Road was built, this pub stood on the cliff edge. Originally known as the Ship-in-Distress. In 1822 it was renamed the Sea House.
Finally demolished in the early 1990s.
Image: © Carol Homewood
The Spread Eagle was at this address from at least 1864. The Morling family were landlords here up until 1887. Other landlord names such as Henry Reed, E.G. Cowley, George Titchener, Alfred Idel and Harold Victor Osbourne.
Image: © Carol Homewood
The Gillam family ran the United Service from c.1908 up until the 1940s. It closed in 1964.
Image: © Carol Homewood
Image: © Carol Homewood
It survived as a pub until 1949.
