Pool Valley, Brighton

Image: © Simon Carey Taken: 11 Oct 2015

Known as The Poole as early as 1296 it is most likely to have been a small inlet where the Wellesbourne, Brighton's lost river, flowed into the sea. The latter was culverted in the late 18th century and is now part of the city's sewer system. Consequently, Pool Lane as it was then known was bricked over and the first houses were built of which number 9 at the far end survives dating back to 1794 and for 150 years known as 'Ye Olde Bunne Shop'. The building on the right is Image which was built in 1818 and whose ground floor was home to a bus station from 1929, double deckers would enter from the narrow lane on the western side of the Royal York Buildings and exit onto Grand Junction Road, the A259. The buses have long gone but it is still used as the National Express terminus.

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