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Photograph taken c1950s

Ashton Street
Image reproduced with permission from Brighton History Centre

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  • I lived with my parents in number 38 from the end of the war until the slum clearance scheme. Not very happy days with stone yards and outside toilets and condemned rooms. Some good neighbours but the majority were introspective and lacked drive. (I wont name names).

    By Bob Munro (16/01/2011)
  • My father, at the time of his marriage in 1936, also lived at 38 Ashton Street, Brighton.

    By Carol (25/06/2011)
  • Haha, that’s funny because my father in law lived there at that time, and he remembers it very well but not the same as your story, he lived at number 45.

    By Sian (28/06/2011)
  • I remember Ashton Street well. The Bushby’s ( who produced a child every year – there were 11 to my knowledge), The Short’s who took in foster children and knocked two houses into one to make more space (the son Alfie never worked from school days to long into maturity) and many others.

    By Robby (25/02/2012)
  • My Dad William Cooper lived at 7 Ashton Street 1940/50s. Does anyone remember the Cooper family?

    By Lynda Duhigg (nee Cooper) (09/11/2016)
  • On my birth certificate it says my mum and Dad and me lived at number 29 Ashton street, Dennis Standen, bus conductor, and my Mum Margaret. I was born in hospital in Brighton. My mum is 90 and my Dad passed away about 30 years ago. I was born in 1954. It’s the first time I have seen this place – I’m quite shocked.

    By Lyn Weston (19/10/2017)
  • My Nan along with her parents, James and Ellen Savage and her sisters lived at 10, Ashton Street in the early 1900s. Of the other addresses that my Brighton ancestors lived this was the only street demolished.

    By Geoff Richardson (12/11/2021)
  • I’ve been trying to find Ashton Street for a while. Glad to find it on this site. My paternal grandmother Helen Rose Finch was born at 34 Ashton Street on 1 Nov 1900. Her family on later records are listed as living at 11 Ashton Street. Her parents were John Roland Find and Frances Elizabeth Finch (nee Akehurst). Was moving between addresses in the same street a common occurrence? What conditions might have facilitated this?

    By Steve Blunt (11/08/2022)
  • My great grandmother Louisa Elizabeth Stone (Ming on marriage) was born at number 1 Ashton street on 23rd March 1853. From research a lot of my mum’s side of the family lived around the Albion Hill area in various locations from the 1800s until the 1950s at least.

    By Melanie Beard (07/09/2022)
  • My 2x great grandmother Ann Corke (mistakenly written as Cooke) lived at 40 Ashton St on the 1871 census. She was widowed the year before and had 5 young children listed. Also listed was a visitor, 2 couples and a family of 5 – makes a total of 16 people! Would the houses in the photo be the same as those on the 1871 census and what type of area would Ashton St be like then. Ann was a needlewoman who emigrated to Canada in 1873. I am Australian.

    By Steve Nuttall (03/03/2024)

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