HELP needed in BRIGHTON PLEASE

[corbie]

WOW!!!
   Thankyou so very much! How kind of you ALL  to go to this trouble for me.
   Glen the photo is fantastic and thankyou for the e-mail address's  I will contact the church and council for more info'.
    Once again I'm in debt to you wonderful folk on this site.
  MERRY XMAS  to you ALL
                Corbie
         

[kizmiaz]

Hi Corbie

I'll try to remember to wander past on Saturday and take a picture in daylight. Hopefully the van will have moved as well

Here's how close the house is to the front door of St Josephs, taken form the exceedingly great Microsoft (I can't believe I just used the words "great" and "Microsoft" in the same sentence!) site www.local.live.com.

This image is obviously copyright Microsoft, but I couldn't figure how to mark it up without posting it. The correct link for it is
http://local.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&cp=sg4rt6gzpbwq&style=o&lvl=2&tilt=-90&dir=0&alt=-1000&scene=4351606

Glen

[corbie]

That's GREAT! Glen
  Thankyou so very much. I now know that is the church my Gran went to. I recognise the entrance I was only 6yrs old the last time I was there.It is so good of you to do all this for me.
              Thanks again
                   Corbie

[Roy G]

Hi there.
I have enjoyed evesdropping your correspondance and think that in all probability, St Josephs of Elm Grove was the right church, for it is the only Catholic Church in the immediate area.
 
You may also like to know that from the 1880s the church had a school for Catholic children opposite it, and most of their parishoners sent their children there.  That school was then relocated to Davey Drive in Brighton in 1957, and I used to teach there.  Before their original registers were sent to the County Archives in Lewes several years ago, I wrote a pocket history of the original school which might also prove of interest.  You should find a copy in St Josephs in Davey Drive, Brighton if you feel other family members also went there.

Roy G

[corbie]

Hi Roy G,
  You can evesdrop all you want to. After all this is a public site.
 
        How good of you to let me know about St Josephs school. I can only assume that,"The Boys" as we call my Dad and his 4 brothers now, would have attended there. At least a couple of them.
      They have all passed now, so I can't ask about it. All we do know is that they were taught by "nuns" who were very strict!     
    Was it nuns who were the teachers there? If so it will be the right school for them and I would be really be interested in your  little book about it. I will have to get intouch with the school and find out if they would be willing to make a copy of it for me. Unless you know of anywhere else there would be one. What a small world we live in these days!
         Thankyou so much for your info'
                Corbie

[kizmiaz]

Here you go, Corbie

Slightly easier to see than the other one, and from a different angle, but I couldn't get a decent shot as the van had moved even more in front of the house.

I need a better camera-phone as well!

Glen

[Roy G]

Hi Corbie

The booklet (about 40 pqges)  was called "Where we Once Were".
It initially dealt with the origins of the church, but then focused on the school in 1880 when it was set up for the children of the Irish Dragoons at the local barracks with money donated from the estate of a late Catholic who held shares in the Suez Canal.  It included copies of the original plans for the school, remeniscences and early photographs of the children and nuns loaned by descenents of former parishoners.

Although I would love to help you further with paste in abstracts, the text was on my original Amstrad computer that has long since died and in those days any illustrations were just photocopied on the school's machine and physically pasted into the booklet in the alotted spaces.  My own copy was loaned out and sadly never came back before I moved abroad permanently.

Yours Roy G

[corbie]

Thankyou so much Glen.
   It's really good of you to do that for me. You camera works fine, I don't even have a mobile phone let alone a phone cam'!
   Now I know I'm being "cheeky" but do you know if Ashton Street still exists in Brighton? As my uncle "Bill Hyatt" used to own a greengrocery shop at number 8. I can't find it on the maps only Ashton Rise. Would that be the same street?
      I'm not "greedy" I just like a "lot" !!
               Thankyou again
                   Sue (corbie)

[corbie]

Hi Roy G'
  What a shame your own copy disappeared. I will contact the school and see if they would be willing to make a copy for me, if they still have it. It could be a project for a couple of the student's.
      Thanks again
             Sue (corbie)