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Park Road Terrace, BRIGHTON, BN2 0GT

Tucked away on the corner of Marine View and Park Road Terrace is one of the few manufacturing centres left in the centre of the city. The Zylo Works were established by Malby & Co formed 1810, a London firm, after the First World War to manufacturer nameplates. The works were extended during the 1930s and became the headquarters of the firm during the Second World War when they moved all production here to escape the blitz. During the conflict they made items for aircraft and maintained close links with the aerospace industry after. Still producing nameplates today under the London Name Plate Company and still run by the same family. The factory was one of the few buildings to survive along with the terrace to the right when the area bounded by St John's Place, Carlton Hill, Upper Park Place and Sussex Street was cleared of slum housing in the 1960s. Carlton Place, whose nameplate can be seen in the foreground was one of the streets completely demolished and replaced with flats truncating the street in the process.

The flats date from the mid 1960s and were originally the rebuilt Red Lion public house which closed around ten years ago. The original pub opened in the 1850s and was rebuilt when the area was largely cleared of housing, see http://regencysociety-jamesgray.com/volume24/source/jg_24_150.html for a view of the former pub building.

Head south down Windmill Street then east down Sussex Street. This is looking at its junction with Queens Park Road and is the opposite view to the one Bob Embleton took for this square. Click on the link to take you to the next page. http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/232042

The street originally ran from Carlton Street to Sussex Street and was developed in the 1840s but was demolished around 1962 removing the northern end at the junction with Sussex Street turning the road into a cul de sac. See http://regencysociety-jamesgray.com/volume24/source/jg_24_150.html for a 1962 pre-demolition view.

Go through the gate and head a little north up West Drive. These villas were added between 1900-04 and overlook Queens Park which is to the right of the picture. The red brick Edwardian villas can fool you into thinking you are in Hove. Click on the link to take you to the next page. http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/232055

Located on the corner of Marine View is the former Devonshire public house which closed around 2008, the last of the pubs in Carlton Hill which once numbered fifteen. The original pub dates from the 1840s but was rebuilt during the 1930s.