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Grand Parade

Aerial View

Aeroplane view of Grand Parade, Brighton

Image scanned with kind permission from the private collection of Jacqueline Pollard

This page was added on 22/03/2006.

Comments:

The caption on the picture suggests that it is a view from an aeroplane, but in my opinion it is more likely to be from the tower of St Peter's church.

By Roy Grant (17/11/2005)

In 1851 my ancestor was a master at a boy's public school on Grand Parade believed to include numbers from mid 20 to 42 and to 47. Does any one know the name of the school and what happened to its archives?

By V. Tranfield (05/01/2006)

Three trams can clearly be seen just right of centre so this would date the picture to 1939 at the latest as the trams were replaced by trolleybuses or buses then. It must have taken a daredevil pilot to fly so low but those were pre-HSE days and so it's possible. It's equally possible the photographers saved some expense by dropping a few pennies in the collection and using the church tower.

By Adrian Baron (25/01/2007)