Albion Cottages

Photographed c1930

This is a photographic print of Albion Cottages, Brighton. It was made by the Borough Surveyor's department, shortly before the buildings were demolished. Albion Cottages, along with many of its neighbouring streets, was erased by the slum clearance programme of the 1930s. This substantially redeveloped the area of Brighton between Albion Hill and Edward Street.

Photo:Albion Cottages

Albion Cottages

Reproduced courtesy of Royal Pavilion, Libraries & Museums, Brighton & Hove

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This page was added on 12/11/2006.

Comments:

During the 50s I delivered newspapers for Harry Croydon, a newsagent in Richmond Buildings, the next street up Albion Hill. If these buildings in the photograph were demolished in the 1930s slum clearance, what happened to all the newspapers that I delivered to the non-existant doorways? Or was it that only some of the buildings were demolished, as I seem to recollect that there was a large and fairly new building at the Albion Hill end; part of the Tamplins Brewery?

By Ron Burtenshaw (28/02/2007)

I agree with Ron, I don't know who said these buildings were pulled in the thirties, that's a gross error. My name is David Hall we were a big family living at 49 Albion Street which was immediatley below Albion Cottages. We lived there untill 1957 that's when the council rehoused us at Manor Farm, Kemptown.

By David Hall (09/09/2007)

Your caption writer is Wrong. I lived at 2 Waterloo Place on the Lewes Road from 1950 to 1970 and I used to play with David Hall and I remember him and his family well. The cottages were demolished in the early 1960s to make way for the brick monstrosities stacked all over Richmond Street and Albion Stret.

Editor's note:
Thanks to you, and other posters, for indicating the incorrect captioning of this image. We will be looking into this and correcting it .

By Rod Ackers (17/10/2007)