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Trafalgar Terrace

Photo of Trafalgar Terrace

A tiny patch of green

By David Sawyer,illustrator

A greenhouse, under an apple tree, in the middle of town - this is Trafalgar Terrace. It's a tiny patch of green in the middle of the town. A space leftover which has reverted back to what it always was - a garden. It's signified as a garden by a rather hopeful bird table, an apple tree and a conservatory where tomatoes are growing in the background. And it's a reminder that the past is always present, ready to supply us with ideas that we might find more convivial in terms of patterns of living and action than those that exist and can offer roots to a more convivial future.

Image and text from the 'My Brighton' exhibit

This page was added on 22/03/2006.

Comments:

Myself and my friends know Trafalgar Terrace as 'Cat Alley', and one day a pet owner told me that there were EIGHTEEN felines who lived along there! There were two white ones until recently, one of which (now deceased) was an incredible twenty-four years of age.

By Stephen Drennan (28/08/2003)

I lived next door to this garden when it was owned by a Mrs Lock who was a school teacher and was one of the many nice neighbours I had during the time I lived there. A couple of well known actors lived in the Terrace too. I had some good and some bad times there and moved away 20 years ago.

By Anna Barontini (nee Stevens) (30/10/2006)