Station Road

Hand-tinted colour photographic postcard of Station Road in Portslade, 1907.

The Railway Inn was built in 1861 by a local brewery, Vallance & Catt. The pub ended its association with Vallance & Catt in 1929 when it was taken over by Tamplin’s, another Brighton brewery.

In 1996 it was renamed the Whistlestop Inn but reverted back to its original name in 2015.

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    The Albemarle Hotel

    Glass plate negative showing the Albemarle hotel between Steine Street and Manchester Street.

    The Albemarle Hotel opened in the 1850s.

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      Hove Town Hall

      Postcard of Hove Town Hall, c1904.

      The original Hove Town Hall was designed by Alfred Waterhouse in a style known as Victorian Gothic. This was a revival of a medieval style of architecture that can also be seen in the Natural History Museum in London, another building designed by Waterhouse.

      Hove Town Hall opened on 13 December 1882. It cost £50,000 to construct, and featured a 30 metre high clock tower with four clock faces and twelve bells.

      The building was destroyed by a fire in 1966. It was replaced by a new town hall that opened in 1974.

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        Queen’s Road

        Photograph of Queen’s Road looking south towards junction with North Street and West Street, 1940s.

        The Regent Cinema on the left of the photograph opened on 27 July 1921. It cost more than £40,000 to build and was the first of Provincial Cinematograph Theatres Limited’s ‘super cinemas’.

        A dance hall opened above the cinema in December 1923. The space had originally been intended for a rooftop winter garden.

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          Old Steine

          Photograph of Old Steine, 1940s.

          The Old Steine was originally an area of green land where fishermen would dry their nets and stow boats. As Brighton became a growing seaside resort, the area became lined with housing for wealthy residents.

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            Hanningtons Depository 

            Photograph of Hanningtons Depository.

            The drapery shop Hanningtons opened on 25 July 1808, at the bottom of North Street. In 1816 the owner, Smith Hannington, received an inheritance from his mother which allowed him to purchase further retail property on the street. The business continued to expand through the 19th century and became Brighton’s largest department store.

            The depository in this photograph was constructed in 1901 and used to store goods that could be transported to the shop when necessary.

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              Devil’s Dyke entrance

              Postcard of Devil’s Dyke entrance, 1910s.

              Devil’s Dyke is said to be Britain’s longest dry valley and is named after the legend of its creation.

              In Victorian times, it was a popular pleasure spot. The site had two bandstands, a fairground, a camera obscura, a cable car spanning the valley and from 1897 a funicular railway.

              On 22 May 1893 during Whit Monday the Dyke received 30,000 visitors.

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                Lancing College

                Photograph of Lancing College.

                Lancing College was founded in 1848 by Nathaniel Woodard, a Church of England priest. It was the first of eleven schools to be founded by Woodard across England with an education system based upon ‘sound principle and sound knowledge, firmly founded in the Christian faith’.

                The chapel in the background of the photograph had its foundation stone laid down in 1868 and was designed by R H Carpenter and William Slater. The chapel remains unfinished to this day.

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                Photograph of Embassy Court Brighton

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                  Lyndhurst Corner

                  Photograph of a crashed Gloster Gladiator aeroplane on Lyndhurst Corner, 1938.

                  The accident in this picture took place on 24 January 1938. The plane  was piloted by Sergeant Ernest Harry Lomax, who managed to bail out after failing to recover from a spin at 4,000 feet.

                  Lomax landed in Beaconsfield Road with very minor injuries, for which he was sent to the Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton.

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                    St Nicholas Church

                    Topographic print of St Nicholas Church, c1860.

                    The earliest reference to a church in Brighton is made in the Domesday Book of 1085. The Church of Saint Nicholas of Myra (the patron saint of sailors) in its current form dates back to around the mid-14th century.

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