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John Street, BRIGHTON, BN2 9PJ

Turn west down a footpath that links Richmond Street to John Street then turn north until the junction with Albion Hill is reached. The latter is another step east-west route in this part of town though it marks the northern edge of the slum clearances. The Albion Inn has been known as that since the mid 19th century. Click on the link to take you to the next page. http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/231701

Built in the 1960s as part of a huge slum clearance between Albion Hill and Carlton Hill with John Street being the eastern end of the development. The flats stand on the former eastern side of Dinapore Street which ran between Albion Hill and Richmond Street, see http://regencysociety-jamesgray.com/volume27/source/jg_27_082.html , that were demolished around 1961 though some of the western housing had been removed by the Luftwaffe during the Second World War. The large block on the left is Richmond Heights whilst the top of Normanhurst can be seen above Dinapore House.

The terraced style makes these flats distinctive

Originally the site of Liverpool Street which was built around 1859 and removed as part of a major slum clearance in 1965, see http://regencysociety-jamesgray.com/volume27/source/jg_27_081.html , for a view in 1965. The current flats were not built until 1980 and commemorate the last working farm within the old parish boundary which finally closed in 1934 limited by that point to a small triangular field to the immediate east of these flats.

Head south down Grove Hill a little way to the next blocks. Richmond Heights to the right and Normanhurst to the left. Built on the site of Cambridge and Ashton Street. Click on the link to take you to the next page. http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/231606

The road is a continuation of Image from the junction with Richmond Parade that was built in the 1960s as part of a major redevelopment that involved large scale slum clearances that removed Ashton Street, Cambridge Street and Dinapore Street. They were replaced by a number of high rises, one of which, Normanhurst, can be seen on the right.

Located at the corner of Richmond Street and Elmore Road the house predates the terrace on the right and juts out. It is the last remnant of Chates Farm which operated here until its closure in 1934, the last working farm within the old parish boundary of Brighton. It pastured its dairy herd in two fields; one bounded in a triangle of land formed by Liverpool Street, Albion Hill and Richmond Street; the other was located in a square field known as Tarner Land that was bounded by Apollo Terrace, Richmond Street, Windmill Street and Sussex Street. The former has largely been built on though an area of land is still used as allotments whilst the latter is now covered by an estate built by the council in 1931.

A road that runs from John Street to the junction with Richmond Parade where it becomes Image Developed from the late 1950s onwards when much of the area was cleared of former slum housing eradicating a number of roads; Claremont Street, Claremont Row and Claremont Place in the process. The streets were replaced by high rises with three in view from right to left being Saxonbury, Courtlands and Ecclesden. On the left hand side down the slope is Ebenezer Apartments.