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Before 1900

A complaint to the town commissioners, 1844
Three unrelated documents were found among the rubbish lying on the floor at 210 Kings Road Arches in the mid-1970s ...
A solicitor's letter from 1826
This interesting old letter is dated May 15 1826. It was addressed to John Mills Esq., Banker, North Street, Brighton. The ...
Applicants for poor relief in Victorian Brighton
In 1873, Caroline Homewood sent this imploring letter to a lady she had encountered in the street. Was she telling ...
Correspondence of the manager of Brighton Aquarium, 1873
George Reeves Smith was the manager of Brighton Aquarium from c1873-1880. Some of his correspondence concerning variety acts at the ...
Extracts from the memoir of Arthur Henry Collins, 1896-99
Arthur Collins was born in London in 1883 and moved to Hove with his family at around the age of ...
Letter from a homesick child, 1887
Caroline Muriel Jervis (known as ‘Muriel’) was born ca 1879, presumably in London. On 4th October 1887, Muriel wrote a poignant letter ...
Letter to Sarah Sinden, 1886
Sarah Sinden (nee Fogg) was born in Hull in 1842. She married Alfred Sinden and died in Brighton in 1934. Alfred ...
Letters from Australia, 1849-1855
During the 1850s, the Brighton Gazette and other local newspapers published regular items of Emigration News which included letters received ...
Letters from St Mary's Hall school, 1838-1840
Sarah Jane Isabella Wolf Alexander (born in 1827) and her sister, Deborah Alexander attended St Mary’s Hall school in Brighton in ...
Letters of a Georgian windmill owner, c 1825-1836
William Vine bought the windmill in Clifton Hill, Brighton on 18th August, 1818. The mill became known as ‘Vine’s Mill’ and ...
Letters relating to Charles Treacher (1835-1871)
Sarah Sedgewick and Charles Treacher met in Brighton in 1861 when Sarah was staying with friends. On their first evening ...

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