Edward Street

Image: © Simon Carey Taken: 19 Nov 2011

Viewed from the junction with Pavilion Parade. Originally the street was a narrow one that climbed the hill to the east of the Old Steine to the junction with Upper and Lower Rock Gardens. From about the 1930s onwards it began to be redeveloped initially the area on the left which became a bus depot and a pub called the Dog Tray which was later demolished to make way for the current buildings. The rest of the northern side came down during the 1960s to construct a dual carriageway which would take traffic out of the town though with a remarkable lack of foresight the planners were unable to acquire land around Brighton College and the Royal Sussex Hospital to continue the carriageway leaving its current end outside the area that was once Kemp Town station. A consequence of the widening was the construction of new buildings for the city's police and courts and from the late 1970s the European headquarters of American Express who remain one of Brighton's major employers.

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