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Edward Street, BRIGHTON, BN2 0JR

Head south down Marine View then east along Carlton Hill. Mount Pleasant was first developed from 1800 but failed to live up to its name by becoming a notorious slum which was eventually demolished in 1935. It was rebuilt and widened to include another alley, Park Place and the eastern side was completed before the outbreak of the second world war. The war then the shortages in the aftermath meant the western side was not built until the 1960s. A theme often running in this part of the city, odd buildings and wasteland surviving from the 1930s but not fully redeveloped until the money reappeared in the 1960s. Click on the link to take you to the next page. http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/232047

Viewed from the junction with Edward Street with Tyson Place, the large block of flats at the end of the truncated street. The street was largely demolished in the late 1950s in tandem with the widening of Edward Street at the beginning of the following decade. On the left is part of the National Spiritualist Church built as a figure of eight in 1964 whilst to the right is Brighton Youth Centre originally founded as the Brighton Boys club in 1917 down the road in John Street. This new building was opened in 1957.

A cul de sac off Edward Street that was redeveloped in the 1960s having originally linked Edward Street to Carlton Hill. Tyson Place is the block of flats at the end of the street and the BYC on the building to the right stands for Brighton Youth club.

'X Every & Newman X Makers . Brighton'. An unusual use of an 'X' in place of a stop, or just a gap.

A fair amount of money must have been spirited up for this remarkable windowless building on a prominent site. Its local rival, the Brighton and Hove Spiritualist Church, is a far humbler establishment in far humbler surroundings.

'T. W. Porter Star Foundry Brighton'. The foundry was on Bread Street, with an official address on Church Street. It closed in the 1900s. In 1890 the proprietor was A. Burstow. A plate with his name is shown in Image Whether Porter was in charge before or after Burstow has not yet been determined. I also have a suspicion ironmongers sometimes got the foundry to cast their own names on the plates, otherwise there were an awful lot of foundries about in some fairly small areas.

A residential street running from St James's Street to Edward Street that was developed in the 1820s parts by well known architects Busby and Wilds. Tyson Place is the high rise in the distance.