Conway Street, Hove

Image: © Simon Carey Taken: 17 Dec 2016

Viewed from the junction with Ethel Street. The road was laid out in the late 1870s initially with housing on the southern side and a mixture of residential and commercial buildings to the north. One of the latter was Chapman's Maltings which was built in 1879 and demolished in 1968 to make way for an extension of the bus depot which still occupies the spot today. The depot itself has had a long history with the street with stables located in the street to the west of Goldstone Street for horse drawn omnibuses which later evolved into that for motor vehicles. Most of the houses disappeared in the late 1960s as the whole area north of Clarendon Road was redeveloped into high rise flats or commercial depots, see http://regencysociety-jamesgray.com/volume14/source/jg_14_117.html for a view taken during demolition in 1969. The latter will be making way in the future for more of the former.

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