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Lansdowne Place, HOVE, BN3 1FG

Built as part of the Brunswick development between 1824-29. Brunswick Place is the northward extension of Brunswick Square and the houses here were originally intended for the not quite so well off who couldn't afford the apartments by the sea. These days many are subdivided into flats and bedsits. Looking across Western Road, the B2066.

The entrance is next to the Coopers Cask Pub on Farm Road. Originally stables for the houses in Lansdowne Place, the backs of which are behind, this mews still retains businesses and services and has yet to be converted into housing.

Estate agents on the corner of Lansdowne Place and Western Road. The building to the left is Palmeira House a block of flats that also has a Tesco Express on the ground floor.

Looking up to the junction with Western Road. The street was built as part of the Brunswick Estate in the 1820s primarily as a service road. To the left is Burger Off a pleasantly named takeaway which lies conveniently near to a pub a few doors up called the Bow Street Runner, which apparently was once the local police station for the newly built Brunswick Estate which had become the Station Inn by the turn of the 20th century. The large building next door to the pub was built in 1855-56 and was the original town hall for Brunswick later becoming Hove's first town hall before that decamped to bigger premises in Church Road. The building is currently used as part of the campus for the Brighton Institute of Modern Music.

The Freemasons public house is on the right with Brunswick Street West in front of it. Western Road is also the B2066 through here.

Originally a department store, Hills of Hove, which was founded by William Hill at number 58 in 1839 and gradually extended eastwards over the rest of the 19th century. The individual shopfronts were merged and extensively rebuilt in 1921 and the premises continued as a department store until its closure in 1982. Since then the ground floor has been subdivided into individual units including Starbucks and Sainsbury's whilst the upper floors have been converted into flats. See http://www.photosbrightonandhove.org.uk/hills-of-hove-shortly-before-closure.html for an image taken in 1982 before closure.

The road stretches from the A259 crossing Western Road before ending at Lansdowne Road which can be seen in the distance.

Takes up the bulk of shop space between Farm Road (to the left) and Brunswick Place (out of picture to the right).

At the Western end of Brighton & Hove's main shopping street