Finsbury Road, Brighton
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Finsbury Road, Brighton
Image: © Simon Carey Taken: 25 Oct 2015
A residential street that runs between Islingwood road and Southover Street that was developed in the late 1860s. On the right is Finsbury Lodge, a set of flats built sometime in the 1980s on a former garden, whilst to the left is the imposing Hanover Lofts which was built around 1880 as the Finsbury Road Board School. It remained a school until the mid 1950s when it was acquired by Brighton College of Technology, a predecessor of Brighton Polytechnic, and used as its arts and textiles department until the late 1990s. When the building was threatened with demolition it was listed and in 2003 converted into flats. Out of shot to the lefts are a number of flats built on the site of the former Home for Female Penitents.
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Image Location
Latitude
50.82805
Longitude
-0.126692