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hi, Hi, can you make a comment about my new project Encyclopine.org?

Hi, Hassocks5489.

I was pleased to see your photo of the K6 phone booth outside St. Mary's in Shoreham. Would you happen to have a phone number for it (if it indeed remains a public phone box with a number)? I am setting up an Easter Treasure Hunt remotely, using Google Earth, and would very much like to enable a small boy to cause the phone to ring. I'd be grateful f you could reply to gordonink at gmail.com before April 2nd, 2015.

Thanks in advance for your attention to the above,

Gordonink

Hello to Hassocks5489

I used to live at Nos 22 and 23 Clifton Terrace in the 1940s and '50s. My Grandmother ran it as a boarding house from the mid 1920s and my Aunt and mother continued after her death in 1950, after which my aunt ran it on her own, as my mother and father moved house then to Hove. We returned in 1964 and managed student lodgings at No 22 but left in late '66 when I think it was sold to David Heneker, the lyricist and musician. Do you have any information as to when No 23 was sold? I am guessing that it must have been around 1967/8. The elderly residents were needing more care and there were stringent rules about fire protection etc, which my Aunt could not afford to have installed. I have visited Clifton Terrace recently and met the current owners of No 22 but was not able to call on No 23.

I would be most grateful for any further information.

jill Leslie (nee Okell) Garlands, Askrigg, N. Yorks. DL8 3HH Email: jill.leslie@btinternet.com

Hi Hassocks - hope you are well and that your off-Wiki projects are progressing. I wanted to let you know that I’ve made a slight amendment to an article you started, Marine Gate. I removed the word “luxury” before “flats”. I have a particular phobia against “luxury flats”, which sounds to me rather estate agent’ese. That said, you will know the building better than I, and if they are indeed apartments of unparalleled opulence, let me know and I shall be pleased to self-revert. All the best. KJP1 (talk) 11:15, 9 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

p.s. Herbert Carden, Father of Modern Brighton, looks a good topic for an article. Is this yours, [1]? KJP1 (talk) 13:17, 9 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@KJP1: hope all is well with you! Good old Herbert Carden: a mixture of genius and madman. He bought more than 12,000 acres of the Downs to preserve them from urban sprawl, and effectively created "Greater Brighton" with the huge expansion of the borough in the interwar period; but he also wanted to demolish the entire seafront and replace it with copies of Embassy Court, and demolish the Royal Pavilion and replace it with a conference centre! He could definitely do with an article; one to add towards the top of my list (I have plenty of source material). Those were indeed my photos used on the blog; I had to walk a long way alongside the A23 on the grass verge, and zoom in a long way with the camera. Fun! No worries on luxury flats; in both cases it might be sourceable, but I had a look through the more obvious books while working on something else this week and couldn't see it stated explicitly, just strongly implied. Having been on a guided tour around Embassy Court, I can see how it would have appealed to "luxury" buyers back in the day, although the block has needed a great deal of work in recent years to bring it back up to standard! Cheers, Hassocks5489 (Floreat Hova!) 20:11, 12 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I was just wondering if you would be able to help me with an article I'm working on. It's a list of the tallest buildings and structures in Brighton and Hove and you can find it at Draft:List of tallest buildings and structures in Brighton and Hove. I just need help finding other tall buildings/structures to add to the list, and I've done hours of research but there isn't much I can find online. The main problem is reliably finding how tall the buildings are. If you could help at all that would be much appreciated, thanks! greyzxq ^talk 18:30, 20 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Greyzxq: I'll certainly have a look through my various book sources to see what refs and other info I can find, and any other buildings that need to be included. Off the top of my head I can't think of any obvious omissions, although some of the tower blocks in the Kemptown/Albion Hill area are possible candidates (St James's House in particular: that's 16 floors, I think). Cheers, Hassocks5489 (Floreat Hova!) 18:39, 20 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Alright, thanks a lot! I've done lots of searching for St James's House but haven't been able to find anything about its height. I also haven't looked through book sources as I've not got any experience with them yet. Thanks again, greyzxq ^talk 19:07, 20 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hi! I noticed you mentioned elsewhere that you have the latest Pevsner for East Sussex (do you have West as well?). Does he have anything to say about the war memorial in Hove, and do you know of any of any other sources I might have overlooked? I'm thinking there's a potential featured article there if I can squeeze every morsel of information out of the sources. I might get round to turning Worthing War Memorial blue at some point, but other things are higher up the list. Best, HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 11:34, 24 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

(TPS) - Hassocks likely will have it, but I’ve added the entry at Talk:Hove War Memorial. It’s slim. KJP1 (talk) 13:20, 25 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@HJ Mitchell: @KJP1: Hi both: good to hear from you, and sorry for the delay in responding: real life getting in the way again! Thanks for sorting out the East Sussex Pevsner passage KJP. I have checked the separate "Brighton and Hove" Pevsner Architectural Guide (one of the small range of additional guides to cities) and there is a separate write-up, as follows – not much, but with a couple of extra observations: Corresponding at the avenue's north end [to the Queen Victoria statue at the south end] is the Hove war memorial, 1921, by Lutyens, a granite Tuscan column topped by a bronze figure of St George, after Donatello. (page 201) Buildings of Brighton (1987), a good handbook which often has interesting observations not found in other literature, calls it an "elegant and restrained homage to citizens of Hove who died during the First World War" (page 115) – possibly a useful quote. More useful is the typically in-depth write-up in The Encyclopaedia of Hove and Portslade, which runs to a few hundred words. It's by Judy Middleton, so there may be some overlap with her 2014 book which you have already used, but there might be extra detail. I can send you (HJ) a scan of the relevant pages from Volume 7 by email: send me a Wikipedia email and I'll attach them to my reply. I will put the cite book templates for these three books on Talk:Hove War Memorial. PS. My Pevsner collection runs to the current Hampshire: North, Hampshire: South, Sussex: East and Sussex: West volumes, and I am hoping to buy the new Surrey when it is published (maybe it is out already?). Happy to supply you with any war memorial snippets for any others you are writing. Finally, if you do Worthing I have access to some additional book sources which might provide extra detail. Cheers, Hassocks5489 (Floreat Hova!) 15:17, 26 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Glad I asked, especially before I wrote the lead! I'd love anything you've got; Hove is my priority but Worthing might be a fun side project. Send it to hjmwiki at gmail dot com. The complete Pevsner collection is way out of my price range and my editing doesn't seem to stick to one county long enough to get a good return on investment for just one. I adore the Public Sculpture of Britain series and I'm gradually acquiring all the extant volumes (I have Sussex and quite a few of the others) and I have lots of other books on various subjects if you ever need something looking up (lots on war memorials and architecture/sculpture more broadly; railways, especially architecture; military history; bridges; and some doorstops on policing).

In case you're interested, Sussex war memorials on my radar are (in no particular order): Littlehampton, Angmering, Bognor, Chichester, South Harting, Eastergate, Brighton, Eastbourne, Burwash, Ditchling, and Lewes. I'll have to take a day trip along the south coast one day when time and weather cooperate. PS, that reminds me: I don't know if you saw my ping on Meta but I was wondering what you thought to the idea of another Brighton meetup? HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 19:38, 26 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@HJ Mitchell: Email should be with you now, from my Hotmail address. I would certainly be up for another Brighton meetup as well. Cheers, Hassocks5489 (Floreat Hova!) 23:04, 26 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

• I thought I might as well give Victoria her own article since I red-linked her from the war memorial so here we go: Statue of Queen Victoria, Hove. Could you see what you can dig up from your books? I don't have the finances to go down another rabbit hole! And while I'm here, what would you think to a meetup in Brighton on a Saturday in February? Enough notice? All the best and merry Christmas, HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 22:02, 23 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@HJ Mitchell: I had a small window of time this afternoon to go through the "usual" Hove sources and add some local colour. Nothing in Pevsner which adds to the existing descriptions, nor in the Antram and Morrice pocket guide. Any Saturday in February should be perfect: I can be around on any of those days. Wishing you a happy Christmas! Cheers, Hassocks5489 (Floreat Hova!) 13:37, 24 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. Some good additions there, glad I asked! Unusual for Pevsner not to have some pithy remark. I'm thinking perhaps the 18th or 25th then, or even 4 March. Will have to check with the wife. Do you know a good venue? Much as I dislike Wetherspoon's politics, they do cater well for loosely formed groups of people coming and going at different times and the beer is cheap. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 15:08, 24 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@HJ Mitchell: Good stuff! Of the local Wetherspoons, the Bright Helm on West Street is the most logical: larger and generally less busy than the Post and Telegraph on North Street, but still in a handy location. The Lord Nelson on Trafalgar Street, a Harveys tied house which tends to serve the full range of Harveys ales and does a good range of food, would be an interesting alternative: it was extended a few years ago and now provides a good range of tables of all sizes with some measure of privacy. It's very near the station. For unpretentious, slightly ragged backstreet boozers with exceptionally good-value (and good) food and some less common beers, it's hard to look beyond the Battle of Trafalgar, also near the station, but it's not the biggest. I'm out of the country on 4th March but those other two dates would be perfect! Hassocks5489 (Floreat Hova!) 21:32, 24 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Just checked my diary again and I wouldn't be able to do 18th February, but 25th is still good. Hassocks5489 (Floreat Hova!) 11:38, 26 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Precious

Two years!

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I have shamelessly pillaged a number of your images - for which relief much thanks. KJP1 (talk) 15:20, 29 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@KJP1: Many thanks – good to see they are coming in useful! That was a trip where I spent a week roaming around most of Surrey, staying overnight in Guildford. Looking at my notes, Grayswood was my first stop that day (by bus from Guildford), then I covered Shottermill, Haslemere, Wormley, Hambledon and Milford, ending up with just enough time for a pint in Milford before the last bus back. I think I covered off about 200 churches that week...! PS Do you know if the new Surrey Pevsner is out yet? I think it was due for release in November or December. If so I might get a copy. Cheers, Hassocks5489 (Floreat Hova!) 17:08, 29 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

You got some grand shots. I very much like the Axel Haig grave. He was Burges’ greatest illustrator and, as you know, Billy Burges is my hero. I should have written the article years ago. Now, if you don’t mind making Mr Bezos even richer, the Surrey Pevsner can be in your hands by next Wednesday. I tried to post a link but Amazon’s apparently on Wikipedia’s blacklist. Who knew. Otherwise, in all good bookshops from 6 December just gone. All the best. KJP1 (talk) 17:27, 29 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

p.s. I see the front cover is a shot of Horsley Towers. Now there’s a real Victorian shocker! KJP1 (talk) 18:36, 29 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]