Portland Business Park, Portland Road, Hove
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Portland Business Park, Portland Road, Hove
Image: © Simon Carey Taken: 3 Dec 2016
Originally an open field called South Gores, according to Aldrington's 1840 tithe map, that had become allotments by the time of the 1898 OS map and remained so until 1921 when the section adjacent to Olive road was acquired by the Brighton Equitable Co-Operative Society who initially built a bakery fronting onto Portland Road and later included buildings erected for their grocery, dairy and laundry departments. The site was vacated in the mid 1990s and the current trading estate built soon after. See http://regencysociety-jamesgray.com/volume16/source/jg_16_054.html
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Image Location
Latitude
50.835729
Longitude
-0.197396