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ALDRINGTON FARM

Cowper Street

Neighbourhood:
Westbourne
1893
2018

James Gray: From the farm the milk, eggs and farm produce was taken the short distance along Portland Road to this little shop at the corner of Westbourne Street and Cowper Street, then known as No 7 Upper Westbourne Street. The Denyers moved here from Montgomery Street in 1893 the year of this photograph and the business continued until about 1902 when all the land near Portslade Station was given up.

The shop was carried on by the daughter and son-in-law of Mr Denyer and after the last war it was let to a tenant until the mid-1960s when it was reconverted to a purely private house. The shop became a comfortable lounge with a tiny garden in front and the house is now No 101, Westbourne Street. jgc_16_067

2018: This view remains easily recognisable, since few changes have been made to the exterior, save the bricked up, rendered, corner doorway, new windows and a brick front wall. Its function is now a dwelling, rather than a shop. Lamp posts still have their regional bases, with swan neck tops providing better light in the last quarter of the 20th century. (Photographer: Gabrielle Conroy) 

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