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The course of the service road for Leach Court, Sloan Court and Patching Lodge follows what would have been the northern row of terraced housing on Sloan Street which was developed in the 1820s and demolished and removed from the map in the late 1960s. The street contained two pubs; The Rifleman, closed in 1911, and the Cadogan Arms that closed in 1943. See http://regencysociety-jamesgray.com/volume22/source/jg_22_123.html for a view in 1961. Behind the tree on the left is the Brighton Telephone Exchange.

The recent development has 78 retirement flats http://www.hanover.org.uk/housing/sales/patching-lodge-brighton , see Image] for wider view

Residential homes in Eastern Road

A cul de sac off Freshfield Road that was built on the site of a former Southdown bus depot that existed here from 1915 until its closure in 1991.

Viewed from the junction of Eastern Road and Freshfield Road, the recent development has 78 retirement flats http://www.hanover.org.uk/housing/sales/patching-lodge-brighton

On Eastern Road; a stone dates the building to 1997. https://www.galabingoclubs.co.uk/club/brighton.html

A cul de sac off Park Street built on the site of the former Southdown Coach Depot which operated from here from 1915 until its closure in the 1990s. The name derives from a market garden to the north known as The Graperies and now part of Image

Look carefully, this is a train at the corner of the building. A bit of 'Googling' suggested (possibly tongue in cheek) that in bingo lingo ‘5 & 9’ is the Brighton line. 5+9 was the Brighton line because of some railway company back in the day using a promotional campaign about how it takes less than an hour (59minutes) to get to London from Brighton. A more plausible explanation is that the train is a tribute to the fact that the bingo club was built on what used to be the former Kemptown railway station.

Sheltered housing on the northern side of Eastern Road built around 1973 on the site of Sloane Street. Eastern Road is a dual carriageway up to the junction with Upper Bedford Street and Freshfield Road part of a 1960s plan to provide a highway to head east out of Brighton. Edward Street was dualled in the 1960s and this section begun so after which resulted in the complete demolition of the northern side and the road running parallel to the north, Sloane Street. See http://regencysociety-jamesgray.com/volume22/source/jg_22_108.html for a similar view taken in 1966. However, financial issues in the 1970s meant the end of the scheme which in all likelihood would have run into huge problems obtaining land around Brighton College and the Royal Sussex County Hospital.