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Cheapside, BRIGHTON, BN1 4GZ

Part of the Brighton Station development that was completed around 2006. The pedestrianised walk runs between Sinclair Walk and Cheapside with this section roughly following the course of Queen Street which was built in the late 1840s and demolished around 1900 in order to extend the goods yard. The area then became part of the coal yard until that was shut in the 1970s and subsequently remained undeveloped until 2004. Theobald House is the high rise beyond.

Office complex built in the late 1980s on the site of the former railway parcel depot. Taken from the junction of Blackman Street and Cheapside.

The eastern extent of the new New England Quarter development. Until the 1960s this road was actually Fleet Street with New England Street being limited to the northern section between New England Road and York Hill. When the area was redeveloped in the 1960s and the old railway workers houses demolished and replaced with faceless concrete blocks and car parks the whole stretch was renamed New England Street replacing New York Street and Fleet Street the former middle and southern sections respectively. However, the latter has been reprieved and given to the new section to the west which loops around the development. Consequently, the former busy New England Street has seen itself broken into two distinct parts and this section into a quiet back street.

Solveig is the name of a local graffiti artist who has been producing work for the last few years. What makes her different from others is she is currently only eleven which produces a style that is far less aggressive than many other artists of that ilk and far more talented than many other taggers who all seem to share the same type of style. This one was produced a couple of months ago on a board at the north western end of Blackman Street with the help of a younger sister, see http://www.flickr.com/photos/supersolveig/3912155831/

A private car park still exists on the site of the goods station at Brighton though probably for not much longer. The development has taken place over the last few years on the site of the old goods yard and locomotive works. The 'Sol' graffiti art at the end is called 'Zombies Live' by Solveig who always signs her work with the age she is when completed. When she had finished this piece in 2007 she was 9. See http://www.flickr.com/photos/supersolveig/ for more of her work.

Linked to this Image and separating Block C into two parts.

Given the go ahead in 2003 and begun in 2004 this new part of Brighton is built on the derelict site of the former locomotive works and good yards. These are the first flats and apartments to be completed and inhabited and are on the former goods yard.

Viewed from Image and highlighting the large drop to the car park down below which was once part of the former goods yard. The area was extensively developed from 2005 onwards. Beyond in the distance is the suburb of Hanover which lies on the western slopes of Race Hill.

Viewed from Blackman Street. The office complex was built in the late 1980s on the site of the old goods shed which had closed in the 1980s once the Royal Mail's parcel force depot had decided to leave it. after a brief use as the headquarters for the local branch of National Carriers that was closed and the old building demolished. for the rest of the 1980s it was used as a car park.