North Laine

Trafalgar Street to Upper Gardner Street

Reproduced with permission from the Encyclopaedia of Brighton by Tim Carder, 1990

Please note that this text is an extract from a reference work written in 1990.  As a result, some of the content may not reflect recent research, changes and events.

s) TRAFALGAR STREET: This thoroughfare has a few buildings of the early 1800s at its lower end, but was principally developed in the 1840s following the arrival of the railway. In 1989 much of the northern side above Whitecross Street was demolished for the erection of Trafalgar Place, an office complex with shops fronting Trafalgar Street; it also occupies the site of the railway goods shed. The Prince Albert public house is an attractive, listed building of the 1840s with three storeys, round-headed windows, and Corinthian and Ionic pilasters, the capitals being highlighted in gold paint {44}. No.26 Trafalgar Street, at the corner of Tidy Street, is included on the council's local list as it has Ionic pilasters on its eastern side. {83}

t) TRAFALGAR TERRACE: A narrow twitten of small terraced houses with their gardens on the other side of the path. They were erected in the late 1830s. {108}

u) UPPER GARDNER STREET: In the last years of the nineteenth century street-traders ('barrow-boys') began to congregate in Bond Street and Gardner Street. The police and the county borough council, tired of moving the traders on, set aside Upper Gardner Street for their use on Saturday mornings just after the turn of the century, and the antiques, bric-a-brac and junk now sold between 7 a.m. and 1 p.m. every Saturday are a great attraction.
The street itself dates from the 1820s and a few cottages of that period remain. There are also a number of workshops and warehouses. The former Central National infant school, opened in 1887 and later the Central Boys Club, stands on the western side. {83,281,291,311}

Any numerical cross-references in the text above refer to resources in the Sources and Bibliography section of the Encyclopaedia of Brighton by Tim Carder.