The Tates garage (as per Neil's original post) was originally a family laundry on a different site:
"During the late 1800s Alfred Tate started a laundry on the corner of Foredown Drive and Old Shoreham Road in Portslade. Most laundries were transporting their goods by horse and cart at the time, but after a car accident in 1896 Alfred converted a Daimler to what is regarded to be the first commercial vehicle in Sussex, using the cart top of a horse drawn vehicle to achieve this conversion. The business was ultimately taken over by his sons Albert and Fred, who started to operate a film transportation business. To keep their film distribution vehicles in shape, they built a small corrugated shed alongside the Southern Cross laundry to carry out simple repairs on their vans. They were soon helping to fix others vehicles. Word grew that this was the place you could take your vehicle to be repaired, adding another arm to their business. The Tate brothers expanded their workshop as more and more customers came to see the Tate brothers for parts and repairs."
https://www.tatesofsussex.co.uk/history-of-tates/
The Foredown Drive mentioned leads in the right direction to Foredown Tower in Mick's post, though with a few residential roads in between.
To the south on the coast there's Western Esplanade with a row of houses owned by the rich and (allegedly) famous. Fatboy Slim, Adele, P. McCartney, Derek Jameson all may or may not have lived there.
- Western esplanade - Googl'erf
Portslade and nearby Aldrington were also home to Britain's embryonic film industry, with early filming taking place in a backstreet workshop until the film 'industry' moved to Shoreham Beach to make use of the good light levels.
Southern Sound radio station used to be based in Franklin Road in Portslade.
The main north - south shopping road has a chippy called The Athena B - named after a ship that ran aground at Brighton in early 1980.
Enough trivia, or more required ?
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