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Opening hours update - August 2024

The shop will be CLOSED from Wednesday 14th to Monday 26th August and will RE-OPEN on Tuesday 27th August 10.00am

Robert's going on holiday (and we're having the builders in!)

If you need to speak with Robert directly, you can email [email protected] he will be able to get back to you after the 22nd.

Thank you for your understanding.

The team at SBIT.

Did you know that we have a stall at the North Laine Bazaar?
Pop in to browse our vintage botanical prints, local books & ephemera, historical mags & newspapers, and much, much more!
7 days a week, 5, 5A Upper Gardner St, Brighton and Hove, Brighton BN1 4AN
Find us here: https://maps.app.goo.gl/5zSGQYtiq1vh8Doy7

Been getting ready my Olympic team for The Athletics and Swimming, with some serious training. Think there looking in tip top condition here, serious medal contenders I THINK!

Great image looking west of Maderia Road around 1898.

My grandparents at the Goldstone in the 1920s right below the Barnsley Cup Tie sign, she was a great fan of Peter Ward and I always wished I could have taken her to see him play in the 1970s.

Brighton Motor Week 1905 outside the Old Ship Hotel, Kings Road. 120 years ago this was the new way of getting around if you could afford it. I,m sure the Policeman was not used to doing this sort of job directing traffic. Photographic postcard taken by A&G Taylor.

Lynton Troupe on the West Pier one of many entertainers/groups who performed on the West Pier in the early part of the last century This is around 1910 and you can see the old Bedford Hotel in the background.

2 Photos of Hollingbury Golf Links taken by Fuller & Clayton 1930s.
Any idea what holes they are! Lot 57 in the June 3rd 2024 Local History Auction. Info about how to bid and a link to the catalogue etc. can be found here:

https://www.facebook.com/events/1199931577832704

Blatchington Road "then and now" views showing the first Tesco's to appear, plus what was there before. Lot 153 in the June 3rd 2024 Local History Auction. Info about how to bid and a link to the catalogue etc. can be found here:

https://www.facebook.com/events/1199931577832704

Photograph of the Palace Pier being built about 1893/5, with the Old Chain Pier in distance. Chain Pier was destroyed in a storm in 1896. Lot 157 in the June 3rd 2024 Local History Auction. Info about how to bid and a link to the catalogue etc. can be found here:

https://www.facebook.com/events/1199931577832704

Very rare Brighton Guide by John Bruce 1831, complete with map & plates, very good condition for nearly 200 years old.
Lot 100 in the June 3rd 2024 Local History Auction. Info about how to bid and a link to the catalogue etc. can be found here:

https://www.facebook.com/events/1199931577832704

Postcards of 2 stunning houses 74 and 68 The Drive Hove circa 1906/11 now I'm afraid demolished and block of flats. Lots 15 & 16 in the June 3rd 2024 Local History Auction. Info about how to bid and a link to the catalogue etc. can be found here:

https://www.facebook.com/events/1199931577832704

Photograph of Pelham Tower being built in 1967. Lot 69 in the June 3rd 2024 Local History Auction. Info about how to bid and a link to the catalogue etc. can be found here:

https://www.facebook.com/events/1199931577832704

Photograph of Preston Village from the bottom of Preston Drove looking south 1930s. Lot 50 in the June 3rd 2024 Local History Auction. Info about how to bid and a link to the catalogue etc. can be found here:

https://www.facebook.com/events/1199931577832704

4 Postcards by A.H.Fry of groups of convalescing Indian Soldiers 1914/16 at the Royal Pavilion. Lot 46 in the June 3rd 2024 Local History Auction. Info about how to bid and a link to the catalogue etc. can be found here:

https://www.facebook.com/events/1199931577832704

Original photo of New England Street and corner of Boston Street with the railway shunting yard. 1949.
Lot 59 in the June 3rd 2024 Local History Auction. Info about how to bid and a link to the catalogue etc. can be found here:

https://www.facebook.com/events/1199931577832704

"Brighton's County Hospital 1828-2007" by Harry Gaston. All gone now except chapel! Pub 2008. Lot 235 in the June 3rd 2024 Local History Auction. Info about how to bid and a link to the catalogue etc. can be found here:

https://www.facebook.com/events/1199931577832704

The Grand, North Road a hanging card 1950 with Ella Shields, Burlington Bertie, the Shane Sisters the Footcontrollers, now what's that about! did anybody see them, and lots of other acts. Lot 305 in the June 3rd 2024 Local History Auction. Info about how to bid and a link to the catalogue etc. can be found here:

https://www.facebook.com/events/1199931577832704

Original press photo by Fox Photos of the entrance to the Palace Pier and a lady deckchair attendant taken in winter so no trade for her. 1940s I think!
Lot 60 in the June 3rd 2024 Local History Auction. Info about how to bid and a link to the catalogue etc. can be found here:

https://www.facebook.com/events/1199931577832704

"Then and Now" views of Neville Road, Hove, the old one 1892, the modern from 1960s. Lot 94 in the June 3rd 2024 Local History Auction. Info about how to bid and a link to the catalogue etc. can be found here:

https://www.facebook.com/events/1199931577832704

2 Photos of the Church of the Holy Cross, Warren Road in 1966. Demolished I think in 1968. Lot 281 in the June 3rd 2024 Local History Auction. Info about how to bid and a link to the catalogue etc. can be found here:

https://www.facebook.com/events/1199931577832704

Brighton Railway Station 1885 advert from Pages Directory

1883 and 1885 Pages Directory's, binding not in great condition, but inside they have so much info on Victorian Brighton.

Postcard of Western Road looking west. Good busy street scene around 1908. Lot 14 in the June 3rd 2024 Local History Auction. Info about how to bid and a link to the catalogue etc. can be found here:

https://www.facebook.com/events/1199931577832704

Amazing photo of Hollingdean Depot with all the Corporation of Brighton Trucks (Vulcan) all numbered and in a row 20+. Lot 54 in the June 3rd 2024 Local History Auction. Info about how to bid and a link to the catalogue etc. can be found here:

https://www.facebook.com/events/1199931577832704

Postcard of the Royal Pavilion Operating Theatre 1914/16. One of a series of postcards by photographer A.H.Fry of mainly the injured Indian Soldiers from the 1st World War. We think there's about 28 different images. This is No 10. Lot 47 in the June 3rd 2024 Local History Auction. Info about how to bid and a link to the catalogue etc. can be found here:

https://www.facebook.com/events/1199931577832704

Small photo of a Fire engine in Preston Park around 1910.
Lot 82 in the June 3rd 2024 Local History Auction. Info about how to bid and a link to the catalogue etc. can be found here:

https://www.facebook.com/events/1199931577832704

2 Postcards of London Road circa 1905/6. Lot 3 in the June 3rd 2024 Local History Auction. Info about how to bid and a link to the catalogue etc. can be found here:

https://www.facebook.com/events/1199931577832704