{"id":142,"date":"2019-11-12T00:04:55","date_gmt":"2019-11-12T00:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/queensparkbooks.org.uk\/archives-alive\/?p=142"},"modified":"2020-03-12T16:34:41","modified_gmt":"2020-03-12T16:34:41","slug":"7-kensington-gardens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/queensparkbooks.org.uk\/discover-brighton\/7-kensington-gardens\/","title":{"rendered":"7. Kensington Gardens"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"audio-style\">\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-142-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/queensparkbooks.org.uk\/discover-brighton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Daily-Shop-in-the-Past-7.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/queensparkbooks.org.uk\/discover-brighton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Daily-Shop-in-the-Past-7.mp3\">https:\/\/queensparkbooks.org.uk\/discover-brighton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Daily-Shop-in-the-Past-7.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Before I lived with my father-in-law, my father was in the wholesale business and had shops in Kensington Gardens. When he died in 1912 I was so young that I had to give the wholesale up, I couldn&#8217;t manage it. He died when I was fourteen or fifteen. &#8216;Course, my mother sold the shops and all that, then I went on the street as a barrow boy. Mother sold the business in 1924. I met me wife and went to live with me father-in-law&#8230;I followed my father into the (Greengrocer) trade&#8230; I left school at 12. It was horse and cart in those days. My day consisted of 2:30 down the wholesale, come back at 8:00, went to goods yard at the station- had five tons of potatoes- two of us used two barrows- then from there to the passenger station to meet him, in from London with sixty packages. Sometimes we got finished 12:00 at night. I had to come in and do a day&#8217;s work in the shop, oh yes, as well. My pocket money was 2s.\/6d. a week. He made a marvellous profit.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-217 size-medium alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/queensparkbooks.org.uk\/discover-brighton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/kensington-Gdns.png?resize=300%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/queensparkbooks.org.uk\/discover-brighton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/kensington-Gdns.png?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/queensparkbooks.org.uk\/discover-brighton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/kensington-Gdns.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/queensparkbooks.org.uk\/discover-brighton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/kensington-Gdns.png?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Turn right at the North Road entrance and then take the first right into Upper Gardner Street.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &#8220;Before I lived with my father-in-law, my father was in the wholesale business and had shops in Kensington Gardens. When he died in 1912 I was so young that I had to give the wholesale up, I couldn&#8217;t manage it. He died when I was fourteen or fifteen. &#8216;Course, my mother sold the shops &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":143,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brightons-shops"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/queensparkbooks.org.uk\/discover-brighton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Ha931920_d01.jpg?fit=1199%2C870&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/queensparkbooks.org.uk\/discover-brighton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/queensparkbooks.org.uk\/discover-brighton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/queensparkbooks.org.uk\/discover-brighton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/queensparkbooks.org.uk\/discover-brighton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/queensparkbooks.org.uk\/discover-brighton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/queensparkbooks.org.uk\/discover-brighton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2053,"href":"https:\/\/queensparkbooks.org.uk\/discover-brighton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions\/2053"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/queensparkbooks.org.uk\/discover-brighton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/queensparkbooks.org.uk\/discover-brighton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/queensparkbooks.org.uk\/discover-brighton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/queensparkbooks.org.uk\/discover-brighton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}