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'London Road Church' 1876 - 1894
'Miracle' operation in WWII
125th anniversary celebrations for Volks Railway
15th largest town in 1851
1773 Brighton Town Act
1810 Brighton Town Act
1810 Brighton Town Act
1825 Brighton Town Act
1872 fire that almost destroyed the building
1895:first motor car in Brighton
1930s development
1950s Development
300 years of schooling
3D construction of this famous landmark
48 in 11 countries
A 1930s view from a window
A 19th century middle class housing estate
A barrow hire yard, 1915-75
A Bevendean housing estate
A book of the area
A brief history
A brief history
A brief history
A brief history 1783-1851
A brief history of St Bartholomew's
A brief history, 1795-1990
A Brighton Housing Trust development
A Brighton Man of Letters
A changing cityscape, 2006
A detailed history
A family history
A history
A history of Brighton Quaker Meetings
A history of religious dissent
A history of two buildings
A leisure area since Regency times
A listed building constructed c1790
A local history
A long tradition of market trading
A major commercial thoroughfare constructed in 1845
A market place since the 1890s
A mediaeval field boundary
A memorial to Edward VII
A miniature town
A most prominent building
A new form of entertainment
A part of Brighton transport history
A pioneering psychiatric facility
A place to 'promenade'
A potted history
A potted history
A potted history
A potted history
A potted history
A potted history
A potted history
A potted history
A potted history
A potted history
A potted history
A potted history
A potted history
A potted history
A potted history
A potted history
A potted history
A potted history
A potted history
A potted history
A potted history
A potted history 1977-1988
A potted history and photo gallery
A potted history of Brighton
A potted history of the area
A potted history, 1919-2003
A potted history, 1934-1965
A quiet suburban area
A real leafy bower
A reminder of days gone by
A short history, 1901-1965
A shrine to mods
A staff firedrill
A strange history linked with Baghdad!
A talented entertainer
A very important day in 1932
A windmill in 1620
A zone in transition
Abandoned railway projects
Albert Road developed 1869/75
Alfred W N Langrish, Sussex Division RNVR
Alfred Waggett: A craftsman
An ancient site
An Edwardian gentleman born in 1860
An Edwardian view of Brighton
An extraordinary discovery!
An ice skating spectacular, 1936
An introduction
An introduction to the area
An introduction to the area
An introduction to the area
Ancient customs
Anciently known as 'Mockbeggars's Croft'
Appeal to save the building
Arcadia Cinema, 16 Lewes Road (no longer exists)
Area of outstanding architectural interest
As a palace it is pretty poky
As bad as any in London
Athina B: ran aground in 1979
Attree Villa: completed in 1830
Baby kidnapping in 1941
Became part of the Royal Pavilion estate in 1820
Beef and dairy herds
Before the storm
Beginnings and today
Benny Lee, entrepreneur and showman
Boarding school opened in August 1836
Boasts a famous lilac collection
Boasts the largest municipal rock garden in the UK
Bond Street to Frederick Gardens
Brief description of its main features
Brighton a municipal borough in 1864
Brighton and Rottingdean Seashore Electric Railway
Brighton bathers part 1: Origins
Brighton bathers part 2: The Hamman
Brighton Boozers: History of pubs in Brighton
Brighton census enumeration districts, 1861
Brighton Corporation Waterworks Act 1872
Brighton Division registered on June 14th, 1915
Brighton fishermen
Brighton Gay Switchboard 1979
Brighton largely unaffected by the conflict
Brighton Railway Engineering Works
Brighton School Board
Brighton Station: opened 1840
Brighton Tigers Net-Minder, 1946-1953
Brighton's first piped water c1834
Brighton's first purpose built synagogue 1838
Brighton's first theatre opened in 1764
British & Empire Heavyweight Champion
British and European backstroke champion
Brunswick Street West
Buckingham Place constructed c1845
Buckingham Road constructed c1850s
Building and restoration
Buildings of interest
Buildings of interest
Buildings of interest
Buildings of interest
Buildings of note
Built between 1805-1807
Built by William Lambert 1838
Built in 1813
Built in 1838 at a cost of £100,000
Built in 1846
Built in 1846
Built in 1846 on the site of the Dolphin Inn
Built in 1885
Built in 1895
Built in early English style c1250
Built in Perpendicular Style in 1896
Built in the 1860s
Built in the Italiante style
Built originally in 1558: rebuilt in 1764
Buskers
Butchers and the North Laine
Buy anything - anytime
Camera Obscura
Captain Fred Collins
Care of the poor previous to 1834
Carry on Girls (1973)
Carved from a fallen tree
Cavendish and Pax
Celebrated local ice star
Centenary celebrations in 2008
Centenary year celebrations
Changes in the 50s and 60s
Chapel Royal built c1793-95
Charting the changes
Chronological development from 1773
Church Hill: established 1821
Church of St George the Martyr
Church Schools
Church, school and community
City Centre Division
Clearing up
Closed in 1955
Closed to the public in 1975
Commemorative service in 2008
Community facilities
Completed in 1842
Completed in 1846
Computer generated model
Congress Hall of the Salvation Army
Constructed between 1810 and 1850
Constructed between 1821/1822
Constructed c1930/33 costing £360,000
Construction and completion
Construction and first extension
Construction and Opening in October 1866
Construction began in 1805
Construction completed in 1842
Construction completed in December 1859
Construction in 19th Century
Construction of present estate began in 1916
Conversion to an ice rink
Corporation takeover
Councillor and Alderman: Jonathan Burberry (1859 - 1943)
Countess of Huntingdon's Church
Covers an area of 63 acres
Crown Gardens: dating from 1820s
Curzon Cinema
CVA / Kearney & Trecker at the County Cricket Ground
CVA and the Hollingbury Industrial Estate
Daisy Noakes: 'in service'
Damage, further extension and improvements
Dates from the 12th century
Debenhams & Western Terrace
Deepest hand dug well in the world
Demise of the trams
Description and Volk's Railway offices
Designed by Amon Wilds: built c1849
Designed by Brighton architect Amon Henry Wilds
Destruction and devastation
Developed as a tennis centre in 1936
Developed by the mid 17th century
Developed by the mid 18th century
Developed during the 16th/17th centuries
Developed from about 1790
Developed from the 1880s
Developed from the 1880s
Developed from the early 17th century
Developed in the 1850s
Developed on the Hempshares c17th century
Developed rapidly in the 18th century
Developed with red-brick villas c1880
Development and improvements
Development in the 1920s
Development in the late 19th century
Development of North Street since the 14th century
Developments and modernisations
Developments in the 19th and 20th centuries
Different classifications funded at various rates
Disease and slum clearance
District police stations
Do you know where this laundry was?
Does anyone remember the Guinness Clock?
Domesday Book population 300
Domesday Book records a small manor
Earliest development of the Old Town
Earliest records date from 1665
Earliest reference to a mail service - 1675
Earliest Vicarage traced back to 1252
Early Charity Schools
Early companies
Early day tripper services
Early drains
Early family funerals
Early film pioneer
Early Gothic revival church built c1824-28
East Brighton Park and Sheepcote Valley
East Coastway
East side buildings
East Street had the first 'poor house' in 1690
East Surrey's regiment in World War I
Ecclesiastical and civil
Edward Sattin, Master of the Workhouse
Electric Seashore Railway: opened 1896
Electrification and recent developments
Elm Grove Workhouse: established 1867
Emergence of luxury trains
Encyclopaedia of Brighton
Enlightened architecture for its time
Entrance and Exit
Eradication in the early 20th century
Erected c1818-28 on the site of the Belle Vue Field.
Established in 1970
Established in 1981
Established in Sussex Square 1845
Establishment and routes
Estate acquired by the corporation in 1855
Examples of early flint work
Expansion in the early 19th century
Extensions and improvements c1860s
Falmer Road
Famous residents
Farmhouse, corn market, inn: a history
Farming in Ovingdean
First all electric village in 1930
First cinema opened in 1911
First council built houses c1890
First flight 10th July 1910
First laid out in 1824
First named in 1296
First non-conformist chapel erected here c1698
First public electric railway in Great Britain
First raid on the city: 15th July 1940
First record of Withdean c12th century
First refuse disposal squads c1810
First shop opened on 25 July 1808
First students accepted in 1961
First telegraphic message sent in 1851
First Town Hall erected in Market Street 1727
First World War hospital
Florence Place
Fluctuating fortunes with eventual success
Fords Ferry circa 1920 and Iron Boat Man 2006
Formerly known as 'The Knab'
Formerly known as Palace Pier
Formerly known as the Little Laine
Formerly Montpelier Road East
Formerly St John the Evangelist
Formerly the Municipal Technical College
Formerly the Tourist Information Office
Formerly West Street Concert Hall
Foundation stone laid in 1839
From 1896 to the present day
From below Madeira Drive to Western Street
From brewery to auction rooms, 1830-1913
From Elm Grove to Hollingdean
From mansion to youth hostel
From open fields to Bohemian quarter
From retirement village to thriving community
From sheep farming to 'infills'
From the start to the finish
Fulking Grange: smallpox hospital
Gardner Street to Kemp Street
Gas works built in 1832
Gay switchboard: a brief history
George Duddell: purchased the estate c1863
George IV statue erected in 1828
Gloucester Place
Goods yards and engine sheds
Grade II* building
Grand Parade
Grounds opened to the public in 1850
Guardians of the poor
Hard times shared
Has three distinct parts
Heading home: A history
Health giving properties
Heart of the antiques trade
Henry Nye Chart appointed manager 1854
Henry Thrale's house
High Street: Barclays Bank
High Street: Black Horse Inn
High Street: Margo's Mews
High Street: Mill Cottages
High Street: Numbers 43-49
High Street: Numbers 78-80
High Street: Rottingdean Club
High Street: St Aubyn's School
High Street: Tallboys
High Street: The Reading Room
High Street: Trellis Restaurant
High Street: Well Within Cottage
History : 1824 to 1900
History And Development
History c.1900-1980
History note
History notes
History notes
History Notes
History notes
History notes
History notes
History notes
History notes
History notes
History notes
History notes
History notes and photo gallery
History notes and photo gallery
History notes and photo gallery
History notes, 1884-1994
History notes: 1854-1987
History notes: 1893-1987
History of a "little church"
History of a Southover St pub
History of an impressive Georgian townhouse
History of Attree's Villa
History of Dorset Gardens Methodist Church
History of early storms in Brighton (before 1987)
History of Hollingbury
History of Kemps
History of number 53
History of Ovingdean
History of Peartrees Cottages, at Greenways Corner
History of the aquarium: 1872 - present
History of the Astoria cinema
History of the church
History of the early picturehouses
History of the Great Kitchen
History of the house
History of the Indian Gate
History of the spa
History of the square from 1818
History of this place
History of Westdene estate
History of Westdene estate:2
History of Whitehawk
History of Woodingdean
History, 1795-1976
History: 1970 to the present day.
History:1900 to 1960
HMS King Alfred: Part 1 - The outbreak of war
HMS King Alfred: Part 2 - Training begins in earnest
HMS King Alfred: Part 3 - 1945 and the end of the war
HMS Lizard, Combined Operations Landing Craft Base
HMS Vernon (R): Part 1 - The move to Brighton
HMS Vernon (R): Part 2 - Settling in
HMS Vernon (R): Part 3 - Life at Vernon (R)
HMS Vernon (R): Part 4 - Enemy action and local defence
Home to one of Britain's greatest champions
Houses for swanky merchants
Houses that grow in the trees
Housing development began c1920
Hove and the London main line 1879
Hove Library's 100th birthday
Hove's 'adopted' Submarine
Ice Skating Champions
Impressive middle-class housing developed c1860s
In 1777 the most exclusive part of the town
In 1931 the road had ten public houses
In business from c1912 until 1968
In praise of trolleybuses
Inaugurated for Queen Victoria's twenty-seventh birthday
Industry and agriculture
Inns, taverns and alehouses
Institute for visually impaired Armed Service personnel
Intercepting sewer and Portobello
Introducing Portslade
Introducing the Museum
Introduction to the area
Introduction to the area
Invented the penny post
Inventor, born 1851
James Philips' provisions shop
Jemmy Botting: the hangman
John Foster Forbes
John Hollingdale: Brighton sailmaker
Jonathan Harmer terracotta tomb ornaments
July 2001: Restoring the Clock Tower
Kemp Street: Scene of a grisly murder
Kemp Town - a brief history
Kensington Gardens to Queen's Gardens
Known in 1787 as Brighton House
Large villas replaced by office blocks
Last man off the Pier
Leading architects and builders of Regency Brighton
Leads from Bartholomews to the sea front
Legendary ice hockey player
Like pencils in a box
Listed buildings
Little remains of the 18th century farm
Lives Less Photographed: working class life in Brighton, 1860-1935
Local Authority control
London main line construction 1838
London to Brighton - South Coast Railway
London to Brighton line opened in 1841
Longest continuously named road
Longridge Avenue
Looking west from the public library
Lorna Vyse: do you know her?
Lower and Upper Rock Gardens
Madeira Terrace and lift
Manors in 11th century Brighton
Many different architectural styles
Map of the area
Marble obelisk erected in 1882
Marine Square and Eastern Terrace
Marlborough House, built c1765
Marlborough Place
Master of Ceremonies
Mayors from 1854 until 1899
Mayors from 1900 until 1990
Memories of a clairvoyant
Mentioned in a document of 1296
Montpelier Lodge/Heather Court
Muggeridge's General Store
Named after the land-owning Western family
Named by a Welshman
Named for Nelson's victory in 1798
Named from the Presbyterian Meeting House
Nineteenth century charities
North from the Steine:Devonshire Place
North from the Steine:Dorset Gardens
North from the Steine:George Street
North from the Steine:High Street
North from the Steine:St James's Avenue
North from the Steine:Upper Rock Gardens
North Gardens: developed in the 1840s
North Gate House c1774
North Gate: erected in 1832
North of Preston Village
North of Withdean
Northern Enclosure
Northern side of the street
Northwards from Regent Hill
Norton House and The Grange
Not built to last
Now converted into flats
Numbers 11-13: a pictorial history
Officers, nuns and fallen women
Oh! What a Lovely War (1969)
Old cobbled road under the station
Old steam engines in a Brighton siding
On official list of ports c1301
On the night
Once a marshy area of open land
Once again a village street
Once formed an ancient trackway
Once known as Spring Street
Once the boundary between Hove and Portslade
One entrance to the Lanes
One of the greatest of all Brightonians
One of the largest settlements in the Domesday Book
One of the oldest farms in the borough
Open for worship in 1795
Opened 5th August 1826
Opened as a convent school in 1872
Opened by Reverend Arthur Wagner in 1864
Opened in 1869
Opened in July 1890
Opened on 11th June 1828
Opened on Good Friday 1963
Opened on May 11th 1840
Opened originally in 1819
Opened to the public in 1851
Opened to the public in 1892
Opened to the public in May 1899
Opening ceremony of the S.S. Brighton
Originally a small twitten
Originally a Tudor manor house
Originally a workhouse
Originally established in 1850
Originally known as Cragg Lane
Originally known as St. Bartholomew's Lane
Originally mill workers cottages
Originally one of five open arable fields
Originally Ovingdean House built c1792
Originally owned by V.P. Bennett-Stanford
Originally the home of Thomas Read Kemp
Originally the Railway Hotel
Origins
Origins
Origins dating to 13th century
Origins of the cottages, the inn and the fountain
Origins of the name
Over 50s in Bevendean
Over elaborate Victorian restoration
Owned by Thomas Attree, the 'King of Brighton'
Owners: from the beginning to the end
Parish Church built in 1838
Parochial history
Part 1: Introduction to the Paddle Steamer
Part 2: The early years
Part 3: The P & A Campbell
Part 4: The Golden Years
Part 5: The Post War Years
Part 6: Paddle Steamers in Preservation
Patcham's main village street
Patchings Builders Yard
Pavilion Parade
Peter Pan's Playground
Photographed in its 1930s heydays
Playing records
Please support the Martlets Hospice
Postcard collection
Postcard view
Post-war developments
Preston Barracks: Napoleonic times to latest conversion
Preston Village
Previously known as Woodendean Farm
Princes Street
Principal pioneer of cinematography, 1855 - 1921
Principal publications
Principal street for food shops in the 18th century
Professional skater
Programme from a carnival in 1888
Promenade Grove: Brighton's first pleasure garden
Proponent of Brighton's sea water cure c1750s
Prospect Cottage, Aubrey Cottage and North End House
Public gardens between the Steine and the Level
Purchased for £50,000 in 1883
Purchased from the Abergavenny estate in June 1928
Quadrophenia (1979)
Quaker meeting house
Queen Victoria
Query about its history
Quirky press release
Reconstruction and additions commenced 1863
Reconstruction in 1901
Recorded in the Domesday Book
Recorded in the Domesday Book
Recording fashionable visitors
Red Arrows: A dramatic incident
Regency Square conservation area
Regency Square conservation area
Regency Square conservation area
Regency Square conservation area
Regency Square conservation area
Regency Square conservation area
Regency Square conservation area
Regency Square conservation area
Regency Square conservation area
Regency Square conservation area
Regency Square conservation area
Regency Square conservation area
Regency Square conservation area
Regency Square conservation area
Regency Square conservation area
Regency Square conservation area
Regency Square conservation area
Regency Square conservation area
Regent Cinema
Research on four houses
Residences, occupations and businesses
Residents for thirty years
Residents of the mid-1800s
Residents of the terrace in 1901
Responsibilities for maintenance
Restoration and Regency exhibitions
Restoration nears completion - August 2002
Restored farm buildings
Revd Arthur Wagner (1824-1902)
Revd Henry Wagner
Richmond Place
Richmond Terrace
Robert Street to Tidy Street
Roedale named from William Roedale
Roedean Gap known as such since 1724
Roedean School: founded in 1885
Roedean: A potted history
Rottingdean Windmill
Rottingdean: A potted history
Royal Crescent: first developed in 1798
Run aground in 1980
Sabu, the Indian film star
Saltdean Park and Lido
Shakespearean theatre in the Spa
Shark attack in 1785
Sharp division of post-war housing
Side Streets: Borough Street
Side streets: Hampton Place
Side Streets: Norfolk Road
Side streets: Temple Street
Sir John Cordy Burrows statue
Site of the former Gaiety Theatre
Small Varndean farm established c1800s
Sold to Brighton Council for £50,000 in 1883
Somewhere for a weekend retreat?
South and west side buildings
South Gate: a gift to the city in 1921
South of Preston Park
South of The Green
Southdown Motor Services buses
Southern Enclosure
Southern side of the street
Sporting Champions
Sports commentator (1923-1996)
SS Brighton:opened 1934
St Alban's House and the War Memorial
St Bartholomew's Church opened 1874
St George's Place
St James's Church
St Margaret's Church
St Martha's Convent
St Mary's Church
St Mary's Home
St Nicholas's Church
St Paul's Church built 1846/8
St Paul's Church West Street
St Peter's Place
Stanmer House built in 1721-30
Stanmer Park designed c1720
Stanmer village
Statues old and new
Steine House, built in 1804
Stony mere: a very ancient site
Street name changes
Street name derivations
Sudeley Place and East Mill
Sussex University Royal Naval Unit (Sussex URNU)
Tamplin's Brewery
Team originally formed in 1791
Ten officers and fifty-one men 1854
The "dance craze": 1920s-1970s
The 'Hundreds' - an important division of the county
The 'Old Crocks'
The 'Pepperpot'
The 'vestry': composed of parish ratepayers
The 1934 trunk murder scene
The ancient churchyard
The Archways, built c1830
The Bird Museum
The boundary of Brighton until 1928
The Brighton Film Festival, 2006
The Brighton Tigers
The Bristol K types
The clock: funded by a local tradesman
The commissioning of H.M.S. Sussex
The complete first Brighton directory
The cultural legacy of Brighton
The Drinking Fountain
The Electrobus Garage
The elms before destruction
The End of the Affair (1999)
The final days
The first petrol pumps in Brighton
The first stand erected in 1788
The first version
The first were built of wood in the 1720s
The First World War
The fishermens' workplace
The former manor house
The founding of the 50-plus club
The French Convalescent Home
The Great Kitchen: built in 1816
The Great Storm
The Green
The hamlet of Withdean
The heart of Preston
The hero of the North Laine
The history of 'God's acre' at Ovingdean
The Lake
The largest marina in Europe
The legend of Phoebe Hessel
The lesser developed western side
The line from London: 1841
The longest named roads
The longest road in Brighton
The Mantellian Museum 1837
The middle cottage
The murders re-visited
The mysterious bollards
The Norman Font
The official opening of Queen's Park
The Old Diamond Works (now the Big Yellow Self Storage Company)
The oldest building in Brighton
The original building and layout
The original scheme
The parish of Preston
The parish of Rottingdean
The Pepperpot - ideas on a date?
The Plough Inn
The railway comes to Brighton
The RN in Brighton & Hove 1798 to the present day, an overview
The Rockery: designed in 1935
The Royal Naval Artillery Volunteers: 1874-1892
The Royal Naval Coast Volunteers: 1853-1873
The Royal Naval Reserve: 1859-1994
The Royal Spa:opened in 1825
The scourge of smallpox
The Sea Fencibles: 1798-1810
The southern area
The Story of Brighton: a short quiz
The Sussex Arms
The Sussex Division RNVR Part 1: 1903-1914
The Turret Clock
The viaduct
The Victoria Fountain and the War Memorial
The West Pier Trust, established 1978
The workhouse in Elm Grove
The years following the Second World War
Theatre opened on 6 June 1807
Then and now
Three hundred people - a three quarter person
Tillings bus at the fountain
Totland Road Coronation Party 1953
Tower House
Town's first pillar-box erected in 1858
Traditional pizzas from wood burning ovens
Trafalgar Street to Upper Gardner Street
Tram cars and track
Tramways and the General Strike
Transformation begins in 1815
Treatment for infectious outbreaks
Tudor Cottages and Tudor Close
Two storey cottages built in 1820
Used to be the town slum
Vicars of Brighton
Victorian housing developments c1860
View across the main A23
View of the estate and the downs
Villas and lodges
Walking the Globe from London to Brighton
War Memorial, a potted history
War Stories: Hove Museum & Art Gallery
Waterloo Place
Welcome to Central Hove
Welcome to Hangleton!
Welcome to Hanover!
Welcome to Hollingbury
Welcome to Kemp Town!
Welcome to St Ann's Well
Welcome to West Blatchington
Wellesbourne: Brighton's 'lost river'
West Hill Road
Westdene:developed in the 1950s
What's in a name?
Which Mr Blaker built the 'Fly'?
Whipping Post House
Whitehawk Hill Camp
Whiteway Lane and Vicarage Terrace
Who's buried in St Nicholas Churchyard?
William IV
Winston Churchill in Hove
Workhouse conditions
Writing a history: can you help?
WWII Bomb mystery now solved
York Place
Lucky dip
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