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William Street, BRIGHTON, BN2 0BG

Head north along John Street and behind the law courts is the city's police headquarters. Also designed by Percy Billington and opened in 1965 it was long a concrete eyesore but some recladding and colouring seems to have soften its appearance compared to the harsh concrete of the law courts. Built over a previous area of slums. Click on the link to take you to the next page. http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/231490

The road runs between Edward street and Kingswood Street and was originally developed in 1815 though nothing remains from that period. The eastern side was cleared in the mid 1930s and is now occupied by either the Law Courts or Police Station. The western side had to wait until the 1960s before that was cleared and has been replaced by the County Court on the immediate left and buildings belonging to the University of Brighton further on.

In Edward Street

Good Beer Guide-listed public house on Edward Street; single room, back counter, drinking area left, front and right; TV, outside seating. Four cask ales were on offer at my visit, including three from Brighton Bier. Also the taproom for Brighton Bier: http://www.brighton.beer/

Located on the southern side between Steine Gardens and Dorset Street. Edward Street was developed in the 1800s and was originally a narrow street climbing the hill to the cross roads with Park Street and Lavender Street where it became Eastern Road. All of the northern side was removed between the 1930s and 1960s and the road turned into a dual carriageway. The southern side still retains some of its original housing.

An office block built in 1990 and currently occupied by the Brighton and Sussex Family Court Hearing Centre. The building replaced a former omnibus depot and the Dog Tray public house which had been built in the 1930s as the start of a road widening scene in Edward Street that was not completed until the late 1960s. The Dog Tray pub was a rebuild of a much older beer house that was open by 1854. The Dog Tray is the name of one of the dogs in Shakespeare's King Lear; "The little dogs and all, Tray, Blanch, and Sweetheart—see, they bark at me."

Looking across Old Steine.

Head north up Dorset Gardens then west down Edward Street to the junction with George Street. As mentioned before the northern parts of Edward Street were cleared between the 1930s and 1960s in order to remove some of the worst slums in the town. Part of the redevelopment included a new county court building designed by Percy Billington and opened in 1967. Click on the link to take you to the next page. http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/231486

Situated in Edward Street See broader view Image]