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Clock tower

Sticks up like a sore thumb

Martin Nimmo

The beginning and end of the Mackie Estate. Ladies' Mile clock tower was one of the first buildings to be completed, and sticks up like a sore thumb. There have been no clock towers built on Brighton's estates since!

The photograph below, taken at the end of Mackie Avenue, shows the typical suburban road metalling of the period

Patcham Clock Tower c.1960.

From the private collection of Martin Nimmo

North end of Mackie Avenue c.1960

From the private collection of Martin Nimmo

This page was added on 22/03/2006.

Comments:

My parents bought 246 Mackie Avenue in 1972. I lived there until 1993, when I moved up to London. The old roundabout here is where my friends and I would play football. One summer we made a barricade across the road and tried to charge people 10p to move it for them. We never got any money as our barricade was rubbish. It was a fantastic place to grow up in as we had the Downs all around us, and a big cow field to explore. I remember in the mornings hearing the sound of the factory estate over the hill, with the siren going off for the start of the day's work. So good to see the photos of my old stomping ground.

By James Malcolm (27/09/2006)