Pelham Street, Brighton
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Pelham Street, Brighton
Image: © Simon Carey Taken: 21 Nov 2015
A former residential street linking Trafalgar Street to Cheapside that was developed between 1820-45. Only a few original houses survive and these are to the left in the foreground. The rest of the western side was removed in the 1960s to make way for the Technical College now known as City College. The eastern side initially contained large gardens for houses in York Place which were replaced to the south by York Place Elementary School which was expanded in 1884 to cover the entire eastern side of the street becoming the York Place Secondary School with separate sections for girls and boys. This school moved to a new site at Varndean in 1926 (Girls) and 1931 (Boys) after which the school became the Fawcett School for boys and Margaret Hardy School for girls. These too moved to a new site at Patcham in the mid 1960s and the buildings were taken over by the Technical College which still uses them today.
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Image Location
Latitude
50.828663
Longitude
-0.136892