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.
This is on the corner of Bernard Road. The earliest record I could find here was 1907 when the newsagents business was run by E. J Abel.
From the beginning of the 1900s this building was a tobacconist and confectioners ran by the Smallwood family.
The earliest record I could find of this building being a public house was in 1885.
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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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