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Carlyle Avenue, BRIGHTON, BN2 4DR

A residential road that links Bevendean Road to Canfield Road that was developed in the early 1920s.

A residential road linking Milner Road to Natal Road that was developed in the 1900s. Named after Sir Randolph Cosby Nesbitt who was not involved in the Boer War but who won a VC during the Mashona Rebellion in Rhodesia in the 1890s.

A view from the eastern end developed in the early 1920s near the junction with Bevendean Road. The road climbs Bear Hill and is a notorious rat run used by those wishing to avoid the Vogue Gyratory. The housing in the distance beyond the trees is the postwar part of Hollingdean.

Much of the estate to the north of Bear Road is built on Bear Hill and these steps linking Kimberley Road to Coombe Road give some kind of idea of hosw steep in places the hill is. The view looks across the valley containing Lewes Road towards the railway line, hidden amongst the trees and the postwar housing estate built in Hollingdean.

Looking at old Google images it appears that some of the houses in Baden Road, which back onto these new builds, have sold about half of their back gardens to accommodate.

The gates date from around 1900 and along with the two lodges that flank them are the only surviving parts of Bevendean Hospital. Built as an isolation hospital in 1881 during the outbreak of a smallpox epidemic the original buildings were wooden and thrown up quickly. By the 1890s they had come to the end of their working life and were subsequently replaced in 1898 by new stone buildings which included the gates. A further two wings were added between 1902-1905. It operated primarily as an isolation hospital until 1948 when it became part of the National Health Service though ironically it was isolated during part of 1951 following a local smallpox outbreak. The hospital's last years were spent mainly caring for psychiatric and geriatric patients and was closed to in-patients in April 1989 and for good in September 1990 after which the buildings were demolished. See http://www.bygones.org.uk/images/uploaded/scaled/Bevendean_Hospital41.jpg for an aerial image of the hospital.

A residential road that runs between Coombe road and Natal Road with this section north of Milner Road. Built in the 1900s and like many roads on the estate named after connections with the Boer War, in this instance Sir Redvers Buller who also had the street to the west named after him.