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Edward Street, BRIGHTON, BN2 0JD

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.

Viewed from the junction with Pavilion Parade. Originally the street was a narrow one that climbed the hill to the east of the Old Steine to the junction with Upper and Lower Rock Gardens. From about the 1930s onwards it began to be redeveloped initially the area on the left which became a bus depot and a pub called the Dog Tray which was later demolished to make way for the current buildings. The rest of the northern side came down during the 1960s to construct a dual carriageway which would take traffic out of the town though with a remarkable lack of foresight the planners were unable to acquire land around Brighton College and the Royal Sussex Hospital to continue the carriageway leaving its current end outside the area that was once Kemp Town station. A consequence of the widening was the construction of new buildings for the city's police and courts and from the late 1970s the European headquarters of American Express who remain one of Brighton's major employers.

On the other side of the junction of Grand Parade and Kingswood Street is the Art College part of Brighton University. There has been an Art College on this site since 1876 but the original design was redesigned and rebuilt between 1965-67 and currently dominates this section of Grand Parade. The houses to the south of the college date from 1790 and were originally called Town Row. Click on the link to take you to the next page. http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/231403

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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.