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Introduction to Kemp Town

Famous residents
Sussex Square Thomas Read Kemp lived at no. 22 from 1827-1837. Lewis Carroll (Revd Charles Dodgson) spent summers at no. 11 between ...
Gardening Club and Community Group
The Kemp Town gardening club and community groups consists of 151 homes over the three roads of Bennett Road, Princes ...
Growing up in Kemp Town
My earliest memories are of my parent’s pet shop in High Street, just off St James Street. My father had ...
I really like Kemp Town
I really like Kemp Town. I like where I is. I have been told that its really changed in the ...
Kemp Town - a brief history
Whether you define Kemp Town as the elegant Grade I listed estate of Sussex Square, Lewes Crescent, Arundel and Chichester ...
Secret government depot?
Built as stables/laundry Kemp Town Mews, now private houses, was built as the stables and laundry of 16 Lewes Crescent. It ...
The first petrol pumps in Brighton
This photograph shows the Clarence Garage opposite St Mark’s Church circa 1920. In this garage my grandfather had the first petrol pumps ...

A family connection
A miniature town
A not untypical case of misplaced planning
A strange history linked with Baghdad!
Aerial views: then and now
Air raid shelters and evacuation
Brighton College Tower
Childhood memories
Choir outings in the 1920s
Church of St George the Martyr
Church, school and community
Class photographs c1930s
Drinking with Mr Punch
Floating cars, 1979
Growing up in the 1930s
Happy memories of the 1950s
History notes and photo gallery
History of the church
Kemp Town Carnival returns
Launch of Community Garden
Links to other websites
Lord Olivier's home in Royal Crescent
Magnificent architecture
Max Miller's house in Burlington Street
Meeting some amazing people
Memories of WWII bombing
Montague Place in 1967
Not built to last
Notes and queries: Building collapse in 1987
Origins
Photo gallery - now and then
Photo of the rebuilding in 1971
Photographed in 2005
Photos of the school before demolition
Photos: then and now
Presentation of Coronation mugs 1953
Service of rededication and blessing
St. John The Baptist (ATC) Boxing Team 1954
The area after redevelopment
The area before redevelopment
The day our digs collapsed
The Electrobus Garage
The Scholarship
Then and now
Thoughts of Romeo and Juliet
Tranquil secrecy
We just wanted a place to dance
What's in a name?
Development of Kemp Town
East Cliff
Introduction to Kemp Town
Schoolboy's memories of '60s Kemp Town

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