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Cambridge Street

Photographed c1955

This is a photographic print of Cambridge Street, Brighton. It is a view of the terraced houses on the west side of the street, looking north. Four boys can be standing in front of the doorway of a house in the centre of the photograph. An area of wasteland can be seen on the opposite side of the street.

This photograph was commissioned by the Environmental Health department of Brighton Borough Council. It formed part of a visual record of areas considered for slum clearance. Cambridge Street was acquired by the Council as part of the Albion Hill Compulsory Purchase Order of 1955. The street was demolished in about 1959. Brighton's first tower block flats were erected on this site in 1961.

Cambridge Street

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

This page was added on 16/11/2006.

Comments:

My Grandparents lived at 35 Cambridge Street with their family until the War, when they were re-housed in Whitehawk. I remember visiting them when I was a child. Their name was Howard. Does anyone remember them? I would like to know.

By Rita Ludlam (23/11/2006)

46 Cambridge Street: The first time I was aware of my family living at 46 Cambridge Street was on the 1881 census. They were the Bushbys (my great great grandparents) followed by the Robinsons (my great grandparents) then my grandmother and father - the Glovers. My great grandmother was still living there in 1935 and remarried to Fred Sutton. Sometime in the late 1950's we travelled down from the North East for a few days and my father took me to see the house were he was born only to find it being demolished that very day - the only time I ever saw him cry.

By Judi Swinsco (15/11/2007)