Image: (c) Carol Homewood
It remained a confectioners right up until the 1970s. Various owners over the years including J Marsden in the 1920s. Frank Gunn during the 1930s. During the 50s Thomas Oldfield. best known as Craghills during the 1960s and Kempshalls during the 1970s.
I only have a little memory of this shop as a child. I called it the Orange Shop because the woodwork was painted orange. I can only remember standing outside looking longingly at the different coloured soft scoop ice creams in the window.
I always knew this shop as Betty’s. My Mum spent a lot of time chatting to Betty and her husband whilst I stood with her in the shop watching Betty’s husband slice meat with a meat slicing machine.
For a short time between c.1880- 1914 this building was Grove Hand Laundry run by the Misses Foster.
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Work has now commenced on controversial plans to alter the traffic flow and accessibility of the area between St. Peter’s and Pool Valley.
Days are numbered for most of the buildings along Pelham Terrace, Lewes Road.
Demolition has started of the old Pink Coconut Night Club.
Built in 1933. Closed as a cinema in the late 1970s, it became a Bingo Hall. This closed in 1997.
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