3. Archers the Butchers

 

At no.128 Islingword Road, Archers the Butchers once stood.
The current shop is still called Archers and you will note the signage is very similar to how it might have been in the past.

Archers at 128 Islingword Road in 2019

“Father got to know people in the trade. He was a member of the Association (Brighton and Hove Meat Traders Association). He started at 6:30 and closed at 7:00. Buying was his department. He’d be down there at the meat market at 5:30 or so. I would cut up meat, make sausages, perhaps nipping the odd orders out. We did a mixed trade – you would do because we were reasonably near the front – the boarding house trade. We had a regular trade, 80 percent of the people you served were people you served each week.”

Turn round and start to walk up the hill, and you will walk past no.123 – this used to be a pork butcher back in 1924 and was still a butcher in 1983.

Carry on walking up the hill until you reach no 78.