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Elmore Road, BRIGHTON, BN2 9QS

A residential road that runs from Sussex Street to Richmond Street that was built by the council in 1931 on a former open field known as Tarner Land that was used by Chates Farm as pasture, see Image

A residential road running from Sussex Street to Richmond Street that was built in 1931 as a council estate on a former field called Tarner Land.

Head north along Elmore Road until it turns east into Richmond Street once one of the steepest streets in Brighton with a gradient of 1:5. To the west of this point a wall was placed across the width of the street to stop runaway carts heading to the bottom. The house on the left, 34A Richmond Street is the last remaining building from Chates Farm that continued operating as a working dairy farm between 1858 and 1934 behind the row of houses in view despite being surrounded by an ever expanding urban area. For a view of an old image of the farm click on this link http://www.mybrightonandhove.org.uk/page_id__5531_path__0p115p192p824p.aspx Click on the link to take you to the next page http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/231698

Once one of the steepest streets in Brighton that ran from Grand Parade to Queen's Park Road but has been truncated since the 1960s when the western end at the foot of the hill was renamed Richmond Parade and the rest ending at the junction with Elmore Road. The 1:5 incline necessitated the building of a wall across the road between Dinapore Street and Claremont Place to stop any runaway carts reaching the bottom of the street. The wall survived into the 1960s when it was removed with the rest of the street, see http://regencysociety-jamesgray.com/volume27/source/jg_27_080.html. The terrace on the right heading down to Image was built in the 1880s, see http://regencysociety-jamesgray.com/volume27/source/jg_27_052.html for a similar view taken around 1874 when the area was an open field used by Chates Farm. The steepness of the hill can be vouched by the high rise block, Richmond Heights, which is ten storeys but only six can be seen in this view. In the far distance is the North laine area along with International House on the western slope which is located next door to Brighton Station. Further up the slope is the West Hill area of the city.

Head east up Albion Hill then south into this road. This is near enough the summit 200 feet up from Old Steine. Windmill Terrace, named after a nearby windmill was built comparatively late in 1890 on land formerly worked by Chates Court Farm. The street links Richmond Street and Albion Hill as they almost converge beyond the summit, the whole length being viewed in the photograph. Click on the link to take you to the next page. http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/232016

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.

Originally a residential street in its own right that ran from Albion Hill to Richmond Street that was developed on the western side in the late 1850s. On the eastern side was a number of chalk pits and lime kilns which remained until the 1890s when the terrace in view was built. Numbers 1-7 on the western side were destroyed by a bomb during the Second World War and the rest were removed in the slum clearances of the early 1960s. The eastern survived also suffered with misfortune with numbers 15-16 collapsing due to a burst water main in the late 1930s and numbers 17-18 found to be unstable and demolished soon after. Numbers 19-20 were removed as slum clearances in the mid 1960s, however 21-40 survive.

Opposite the entrance to the recreation ground is the junction of Sussex Street and Elmore Road. This road and the one parallel in Tarner Road were developed on vacant land owned by the Tarner estate from 1931. Click on the link to take you to the next page. http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/231695

Originally a narrow terrace that stretched from Sussex Street to Richmond Street that were built in the 1810s. Condemned as slum housing part of was removed in 1930s, more in 1946 after a landslide, and the final properties demolished in the early 1950s. See http://regencysociety-jamesgray.com/volume27/source/jg_27_041.html for a 1935 view. The car park occupies the southern end of the former terrace whilst the rest has been left to nature. The chimneys on the left belong to Image which were built between 1905-09 within a former chalk pit. Richmond Heights is the large block in the distance.

The terraced style makes these flats distinctive