Hove Museum and Art Gallery
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Hove Museum and Art Gallery
Image: © Simon Carey Taken: 14 Jan 2009
On the corner of New Church Road, the B2066, and Pembroke Gardens. It was built in the 1870s and originally known as Brooker Hall being the home of John Oliver Vallance until 1893 and his wife until 1913. During the First World War it was used to house German POWs before becoming flats in 1923. Hove corporation purchased the building and opened the museum on the site in 1926. The structure in the grounds is the Jaipur Gate and was made in 1886 for the Colonial and Indian Exhibition at Kensington. It was donated to the museum in 1926 and stood on the eastern side of the grounds until 2004 when it was dismantled for renovation and returned in 2006.
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Image Location
Latitude
50.829811
Longitude
-0.181151