Leach Court, Eastern Road, Brighton
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Leach Court, Eastern Road, Brighton
Image: © Simon Carey Taken: 11 Oct 2015
Sheltered housing on the northern side of Eastern Road built around 1973 on the site of Sloane Street. Eastern Road is a dual carriageway up to the junction with Upper Bedford Street and Freshfield Road part of a 1960s plan to provide a highway to head east out of Brighton. Edward Street was dualled in the 1960s and this section begun so after which resulted in the complete demolition of the northern side and the road running parallel to the north, Sloane Street. See http://regencysociety-jamesgray.com/volume22/source/jg_22_108.html for a similar view taken in 1966. However, financial issues in the 1970s meant the end of the scheme which in all likelihood would have run into huge problems obtaining land around Brighton College and the Royal Sussex County Hospital.
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Image Location
Latitude
50.821761
Longitude
-0.127086
