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Tram Shelters

Photo:Tivoli Crescent tram shelter, Dyke Road Brighton

Tivoli Crescent tram shelter, Dyke Road Brighton

Martin Nimmo

Photo:A Brighton Corporation bus at the Tivoli crescent terminus of route 51

A Brighton Corporation bus at the Tivoli crescent terminus of route 51

Martin Nimmo

A part of Brighton transport history
Martin Nimmo

There are still several Brighton Corporation Tramways shelters scattered about the town, having been constructed pre-1939 and served the trams, trolleybuses and buses - and indeed some are still in use nearly a decade after the Corporation sold Brighton Buses Ltd.

Some remain today
They were constructed in timber, and I recall a number (some of which remain today) - this one at the Tivoli Crescent terminus (now set into the wall, rather than stuck out in the road), another at the top of Miller's Road, the "Pepperpot" in Queens Park Road, the old Hollingbury trolleybus terminus at the top of Surrenden Road, St Peter's Church, and of course the bigger shelter and office that used to be found in the Old Steine until its demolition in circa 1972. There was also one at Fiveways, well into the trolleybus era. The shelter from St Peter's Church can now be found at the Chalk Pits Museum at Amberley.

Added to the site on 09-01-05
This page was added on 22/03/2006.

Comments:

Hi! How nice to see the Tivoli shelter, I have stood in it many times, as I lived in Tivoli Cresant some 36 years ago. Is the one in Ditchling Road still there? I have lots of school boy memories of that one! Thanks Chris
By Chris (21/01/2005)
I love these old shelters. I don't think Martin is quite right about one at the top of Miller's Road - do you mean by the Dyke Inn which would be Highcroft Villas? Another one still in situ is at the junction of Ditchling Road and Upper Hollingdean Road. The man credited with the job of constructing these shelters from 1910 was William Noyce. The fact that some are still in use today is a fine tribute to Walter. Incidentally, his grandson, Reg Noyce, also worked in the Corporation Transport workshops from 1934 until his untimely death in 1983. He was the last former Tramways man with the department.
By Peter Ticehurst (09/07/2005)
William? Where did that come from! It was Walter Noyce. Humble apologies.
By Peter Ticehurst (28/07/2005)
As a child (d.o.b. 1939) living in Stanmer Park Road, I remember the tram shelter at the top of Ditchling Road, near the entrance to Hollingbury Golf Course. I was told that my great grandfather, John A Monet, a carpenter with the Corporation had helped to build them. He lived at 62 Princess Road in 1901, designing and practical role.
By Alan Fry (27/12/2005)

Peter Ticehurst is quite right, it was in Dyke Road near the top of Highcroft Villas, but to the other side of the junction rather than the Dyke Inn side. I called it Miller's Road, because that was the road I'd have come up, rather than Highcroft Villas or Dyke Road, coming from Preston.

By Martin Nimmo (23/02/2007)

The large tram shelter that formerly stood at the south end of the Victoria Gardens opposite the North Gate of the Royal Pavilion was moved to the seafront in 1948 to become the Aquarium Station of Volk's Railway, and although modified several times since then is still in use today.

By Ian Gledhill (31/03/2008)

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