Stylish, elegant and well laid out
Clifton Terrace, Brighton
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Best street for me is (oh dear I may regret this!) Clifton Terrace, up the hill from Western Road near St Nicholas Church.
A really stylish elegant and well laid out street: beautifully maintained, lovely gardens, ironwork, doors, paintwork and shutters, all raised up above the quiet street on a stone plinth.
I always try and take visiting groups up there, it is all so Brighton! Only drawback is that the view south is blighted by Sussex Heights and Chartwell Court.
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Manly,New South Wales (formerly New Brighton in 1860s and early 1870s) has a small group of terraces in Addison Road (formerly Clifton Heights) that bear a striking resemblance to Clifton Terrace. Perhaps more than a coincidence as Manly struggled to recreate a Victorian seaside resort in the Antipodes.
Ah, right! I’d forgotten about Manly. Any Brightonian visiting this Sydney suburb would notice right away that somebody from the old town got involved in the planning. There is even a pub called ‘The Steine’. I only got a short time there to take it all in, but the Brighton connection was very evident.
Strange how similar your Clifton Terrace, Heights etc are to the City of Bristol’s Clifton/Clifton Village (near Brunel’s famous bridge (wealthy districts sprung up mainly from slavery). Our Montpelier district (where I live) is a mix of Georgian/Victorian, but most houses are so individual on every road – a cottage next to a 5-storey Georgian property. Unlike Brighton, hardly any district has not been ‘graffitied’ (although most of our Clifton appears to have escaped) – but the infamous/wealthy Bristolian graffiti artist, Banksy, has left his mark around the City, and has many copycats!
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