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Brompton Close, BRIGHTON, BN1 8QD

The Old London Road was part of the main London Road until the Patcham by-pass opened in 1926. It retains many listed buildings dating mainly to the 18th century. http://www.mybrightonandhove.org.uk/category_id__714_path__0p114p450p.aspx

The 1899 Ordnance Survey map shows a smithy on the site of Patcham Garage, while the mosaic with the black writing on a white background on the larger brick building reads 'Brighton Equitable Co-operative Society Limited'.

Houses faced with both knapped and unknapped flints can be found in the centre of the old part of Patcham village, here lining the Old London Road. The narrowness of the road here, coupled with the amount of tourist traffic to Brighton, made a bypass essential from the very early days of motoring, and the current A23 London Road that bypasses this part of Patcham to the west was built in 1926, being shown on the 1930 edition of the Ordnance Survey map.

Most crescents return to the road they left, but this one does not. It changes name to Windmill Drive directly above the Patcham railway tunnel. Windmill Drive does not return either.

located between London Road (A23) and the Old London Road

Between the Old London Road and the Patcham By Pass Patcham Peace Gardens cover 3.12 acres of land which were purchased from the Abergavenny estate in June 1928, chiefly through the efforts of Herbert Carden; it had been planned to build a petrol station on the site. The northern half of the gardens is a simple grassed area, but the southern half was laid out as an attractive sunken rose garden and includes a Tuscan pergola and a small Doric temple, both purchased from the 1924 Wembley Exhibition; the temple is decorated with fruit motifs and figureheads. http://www.mybrightonandhove.org.uk/page_id__8438_path__0p114p450p815p.aspx

Built in the 1930s to advertise the newly built Ladies Mile estate. Looking north east Mackie Avenue leads off to the right whilst the road in the foreground Vale Avenue twists north then west to the northern end of the old village of Patcham and the A23/A27 interchange.

Another view of the clock tower on the Ladies Mile estate first submitted by Simon Image, it's good to report that the clock was telling the correct time. The Ladies Mile estate was developed by George Ferguson in the 1930s.