HERE’S one for all the cycling enthusiasts.
This great Argus archive picture shows George Hills cycle shop in Spring Street, Brighton, in about 1951.
The man on the left worked there and also used to race at Preston Park cycle track on Wednesday evenings.
Hove Station circa 1950
Also pictured in the Fifties is Hove Station. A reader in the know says: “The photographer is standing on what was known as the Lido siding. The 2BIL (bi-lavatory, ie one in each coach) has the Southern Railway typeface for the set number, which it kept from 1933 until around 1948 when Lancing would have repainted in the early BR green. This might be a Sunday site meeting.”
- READ MORE: Bevendean schoolchildren in the Sixties
Our final picture today is older, probably late Twenties.
Old electricity works, Brighton
It is the view from Portslade looking east towards Brighton and shows the original electricity works built on the canal banks in 1906. Beyond is the old gas works.
These pictures have been colourised at www.spcolourcollection.com
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