Albion Street
Powys found rooms above Mr Pollard's grocer's shop in Albion Street, with a window overlooking the harbour.
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' There was a high-roofed, rather sorrowful-looking dissenting chapel in the middle of the main street...and next door to the chapel was a grocer's shop with a bow window protruding from the upper floor. The name over the shop was "Pollard".' |
Powys looked back on Mr Pollard's with a certain fondness, recalling how he would sit in the parlour marking up passages in Rabelais. He also mentions that he never felt 'the poignant magic of spring' more intensely than at Southwick.
' O, so vividly does the view out of that window return to me now...the open sea, the harbour, the backwater, a boat-builder's yard and the unimposing little street! Here I speedily settled down and began my lectures...' |
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The photograph above shows the boatyard immediately opposite JCP's window which, as can just be discerned, is the second one along from the chapel, flanked by advertising boards.
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