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Head east down Sussex Street the south down Queens Park Road then west along Park Road Terrace. A survivor of the slum clearances in this area which had started in the 1930s but only completed in the 1960s. The houses to the right are the only other survivors. Click on the link to take you to the next page. http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/232043

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.

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.

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

Built in 1938 as a church hall for the neighbouring St John's and also known as the Edward Riley Memorial Hall, it became a centre for the deaf after the church was closed in 1980. The large flint walls predate the building and once belonged to the extensive gardens of St John's Lodge in Tilbury Place.

The road was originally laid out in the 1800s but was anything but pleasant as the area north of Edward Street and west of egremont Place soon became a slum area. The eastern side was cleared and rebuilt in the 1930s but the western side had to wait until the 1960s. St John's Mount is the block of flats on the left.

Greek Orthodox church built in 1838 in one of Brighton's most notorious slum districts, Carlton Hill, it was an Anglican church for most of its life: dedicated to St John the Evangelist, it was used by the Anglican community until it was declared redundant in 1980. After some uncertainty about its future, it was sold to Brighton's Greek Orthodox community in 1985 and has been used as their permanent place of worship since then. Reflecting its architectural and historical importance, it has been listed at Grade II since 1971 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_Orthodox_Church_of_the_Holy_Trinity,_Brighton The church was seriously damaged by fire in January 2010