Trafalgar Terrace

Image: © Simon Carey Taken: 21 Nov 2008

Small alleyway linking Trafalgar Street with Gloucester Road. Built up during the 1830s on a small plot of land purchased by developers. These plots were known as laines and the area north of the old town were known as the North Laines a name still given to the built up area today. Each strip was owned individually though many were bought up by a few though often leased to others. During the 19th century as the town expanded the strips began to be sold to developers who built houses on them though in this case the plot was so thin only one side of the pathway was built upon, the wall to the left is the boundary of gardens of houses in Kemp Street which belonged to another strip of land that was developed later. Much of old Brighton was surrounded by these fields of strips which has retained their medieval outline in the pattern of the streets today.

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