Brighton pub history index
From around 1983 named the Mary Pack (See information below), and more recently named the Red Lion. *
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1854/George Chipper/../../../Original Brighton & Hove Directory 1854
1858/Henry Charles Cooper/../../../Post Office Directory
1866/H C Cooper/../../../Post Office Directory
1878/Peter Travis/../../../Post Office Directory
1890/George Humphrey/../../../Post Office Directory
1899/A & A Taylor/../../../Post Office Directory
1905/A & A Taylor/../../../Post Office Directory
1913/Albert Edward & Alfred Daniel Taylor/../../../Post Office Directory
1915/A E & A D Taylor/../../../Post Office Directory
1930/Alfred O'Connell/../../../Post Office Directory
1938/Alfred O'Connell/../../../Post Office Directory
Regarding the Cliftonville Inn, Hove. My Grandmothers name was Mary Sheedy,
During the 1960s she met the then landlord Henry 'Harry Boy' Pack and
together they turned the pub from being a quiet backstreet one, into the
place to go in Brighton and Hove! Mary and Harry married and some time later
and with Harry being some years older than her, he unfortunately passed
away, this was around 1971. The brewery (Whitbreads) then asked Mary to take
over the pub because it was so successful, which she did with Joy. I should
mention, she was a self made woman, coming from near poverty as a child in
Paddington, she ran a hotel in Maida Vale and also The Osterley Court Club
in Osterley, prior to meeting Harry and then taking on the Cliftonville Inn.
The pub continued to be very successful, Mary was quite the character and
somewhat of a local celebrity, doing much work and holding many events for
local charities. Her birthday was always a major event at the Cliftonville,
she would have champagne and oysters for all the customers when it was her
birthday and there was always an annual Easter Bonnet Parade held for
charity.
Mary did a lot of remodelling at the pub, opening up the small rooms into a
larger space and they had a very good catering trade going on there too.
People began to refer to the pub not as the Cliftonville Inn, but as 'Mary
Packs'.
Sadly, Mary passed away in 1980 and the pub was handed over to new tenants.
Three years later however, Whitbreads renamed the pub 'The Mary Pack' which
would have made her immensely proud. It stayed this way until around 8 or so
years ago when someone decided to rename the pub 'The Red Lion', which is
how it remains today. *
* Provided By Elliott Leeds