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Ashton Rise, BRIGHTON, BN2 9RD

Head south along John Street until the junction of Sussex Street is reached just north of the pub. Although rebuilt the pub remains in the same position it occupied before the slum clearances and is one of the few buildings in this area to retain its position. The steep gradient in this part of town is evident in Sussex Street. Click on the link to take you to the next page. http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/231626

Built around 1959 as part of the Albion Hill slum clearances. Viewed from Sussex Street with John Street in the foreground. Just visible beyond is another high rise, Courtlands.

Head south down Grove Hill then east up a footpath that roughly follows the course of Richmond Street then south down John Street. The tower block in the background is Normanhurst. John Street follows the course of what was once Sussex Terrace. The latter was earmarked for clearance in the 1930s but the war prevented though the council was inadvertently assisted by the Luftwaffe who bombed this area heavily. The clearances recommenced from 1959 and the flats and tower blocks went up in the 1960s. Click on the link to take you to the next page. http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/231610

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.

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 current road heads north from Edward Street and eventually ends on Albion Hill. However, it originally terminated at Carlton Hill with this section in view once known as Nelson Street until the old Victorian slum housing was cleared in the late 1930s though little was developed along the road until the 1960s. The road name appears to have changed in the 1970s. The building on the right is The Curve whilst in the distance is the former Lion & Unicorn pub that closed around 2010 and has now been converted into flats.

Built in 1938 originally as a chest clinic which closed in 1989. Beyond is the NHS Family centre which occupies the former site of Sussex Street School which was built in 1872 and demolished in 1962. See, http://regencysociety-jamesgray.com/volume27/source/jg_27_027.html for a similar view taken in 1962. The high rises beyond are Courtlands to the left and Saxonbury to the right.

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