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John Ackerson Erredge. History of Brighthelmston; or, Brighton as I View it and Others Knew It
History of Brighthelmston; or, Brighton as I View it and Others Knew It
Table of Contents
PREFACE
Chapter I. THE ROMANS AT BRIGHTON
Chapter II. SITUATION, SOIL, GEOLOGY, AND CLIMATE OF BRIGHTON
Chapter III. THE ETYMOLOGY AND EARLY HISTORY OF BRIGHTON
Chapter IV. AFTER THE CONQUEST, TO 1513
Chapter V. ANCIENT AND MODERN GOVERNMENT OF THE TOWN
Chapter VI. THE BOOK OF ALL THE “AUNCIENT CUSTOMS.”
Chapter VII. THE TENANTRY LANDS
Chapter VIII. THE BARTHOLOMEWS
Chapter IX. THE WORKHOUSE
Chapter X. THE ATTACK ON BRIGHTHELMSTON BY THE FRENCH, IN 1545
Chapter XI. FORTIFICATIONS OF THE TOWN
Chapter XII. THE INCURSIONS OF THE SEA UPON THE TOWN
Chapter XIII. THE DOWER OF ANN OF CLEVES
Chapter XIV. THE PARISH CHURCH, ST. NICHOLAS
Chapter XV. DR. VICESIMUS KNOX AND THE SURREY MILITIA
Chapter XVI. THE OLD CHURCHYARDS
Chapter XVII. MARTYRDOM OF DERYK [118b] CARVER
Chapter XVIII. THE ESCAPE OF CHARLES II
Chapter XIX. PERSECUTIONS FOR CONSCIENCE’ SAKE
Chapter XX. THE BIRDS AND THEIR HAUNTS IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD OF BRIGHTON
Chapter XXI. THE WILD FLOWERS AND MOSSES ABOUT BRIGHTON
Chapter XXII. BRIGHTON CAMP AND THE TRAGEDIES OF GOLDSTONE BOTTOM
Chapter XXIII. THE STEINE AND ITS TRIBUTARIES
Chapter XXIX. THE THEATRES
Chapter XXV. BRIGHTON FROM ITS SIMPLICITY TO ITS PRESENT RENOWN
Chapter XXVI. THE MARINE PAVILION AND ITS OCCUPANTS
Chapter XXVII. ON AND ABOUT THE RACE-COURSE
Chapter XXVIII. PAST AND PRESENT PASTIMES
Chapter XXVIII. THE HISTORICAL STREET OF THE TOWN
Chapter XXIX. THE PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS, CHARITIES, AND ENDOWMENTS
Chapter XXX. THE CHURCHES AND CHAPELS
Chapter XXXI. HOVE AND CLIFTONVILLE
Chronological table of local events
Footnote
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John Ackerson Erredge
With a Chronological Table of Local Events
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The mariners about this time, in the Lower Town, or under Cliff, increasing in number and property, extended their habitations to the Upper Town, and began two streets westward of the Stein, named from their situations, East Street and West Street, forming the inhabited limits of the town in those directions. After East Street and West street had been continued some considerable way towards the north, the landsmen, who were also becoming numerous, found it necessary to build intermediate streets, parallel to those already constructed; and the proprietor of the north laines, finding it more convenient to have their barns, and finally, their own dwellings and the cottages for their workmen, at that extremity of the town, formed North Street.
Most of the ground now occupied by Black Lion street and Ship street, and the intermediate space, are, in all the Court Rolls, called the Hempshares; and were, even after East street and West street were built, plots or gardens for the production of hemp, for the use of the fishermen of the town. The name of the ropemaker who constructed all the cordage for the supply of the fishery, was Anthony Smith, who, in 1670 suffered great persecution from Captain Nicholas Tattersal, a personage who assumed great power when basking in the smiles of royalty, consequent upon his effecting the escape of Charles II. to France. Smith was more especially the object of his malignity, from having been the occupier of the house, in West street, where the king sojourned preparatory to his flight; he happening to recognise His Majesty, yet having too much loyalty to betray him. Jealousy actuated him; as he was desirous of claiming all the honour in the royal escape. He in consequence kept all the merits, which were really due to Smith, in the background, and took all the honour to himself, and the reward to. In process of time, as the population increased, and the sea made encroachments on the lower town, two streets were erected on the site of the hemp-shares or gardens. In the most eastern street of these, with one front to the High street,—that which passed along the verge of the Cliff,—stood an Inn, with a Black Lion for its sign; and in the other there was an Inn, with a Ship for its sign. The two streets of the hemp-shares were soon distinguished by the two signs, and are the present Black-Lion street and Ship street. The Black-Lion Inn on the east side of the street, was converted into a private residence about the beginning of the present century. The Ship, the oldest tavern in the town, is now, and has been since 1650, known as the Old Ship, to distinguish it from the New Ship, a more recent erection. Besides the hemp-shares, the ground to the west of the town, which was afterwards brick-yards, and is now termed the Brunswick Square and Terrace district, was devoted to the growing of flax for the use of the fishermen.
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