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Walpole Road, BRIGHTON, BN2 0AF

An independent school for people with learning difficulties located in Walpole Road at the junction with Whitehawk Hill Road. The school was set up as a convalescent home in 1875 and moved to this site in 1886. I'm guessing there is some kind of refurbishment going on here.

St John's is a school and college for young people with special educational needs: see https://www.st-johns.co.uk/. The site was founded as a children's convalescent home in 1875 by Sister Jane Borradaile; the modern college honours her by naming one of its houses Borradaile. The home provided services to, among others, the Waifs and Strays Society which later became the Church of England Children's Society, and was taken over by that society in 1938. It functioned as a convalescent home until the late 1940s, becoming a special school in the mid 1950s. For more details of the home's history, see the Children's Society's "Hidden Lives Revealed" website at http://www.hiddenlives.org.uk/homes/BRIGH03.html.

A residential road that runs from Whitehawk Hill Road westwards to Brighton College then turns south to Eastern Road. The road was laid out in the 1860s but only Hamilton Lodge, the white building on the right further down the slope, now a school for the deaf, was built at that time. The rest was developed in the first decade of the 20th century. The eastern end of the road occupies the southern slope of Whitehawk Hill which climbs quite steeply here but allows for excellent views over the city.

Minor road that connects Whitehawk Hill Road with Eastern Road. St John's College is to the right.

An old droving road that predates all of the building in the vicinity. Looking down the steep descent towards its junction with Upper Abbey Road with a view of the pier in the far distance. The block of flats to the left is Courtney King House whilst the junction with Walpole Road is to the immediate right.

A residential road that links Walpole Road to Eastern Road which was originally a continuation of Abbey Road. The houses were built in the first decade of the 20th century whilst the road was renamed in the 1920s.

A residential road that runs north from Eastern Road then turns east and ends at Whitehawk Hill Road. Much of the road was developed in the late 1860s though parts have been rebuilt.

Opened in 2007 to replace the old cramped Victorian buildings in Dyke Road that had been its home since 1881. The original stone plaque was moved to the site and can be seen between the building and the lamp post. The hospital lies within the grounds of the Royal Sussex Hospital whose renal unit was moved to make way for this structure.

Opened in 2007 the hospital stands on a prominent site, and is here seen from Eastern Road