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Hove Place, HOVE, BN3 2RG

Closed as a hotel in 2001 and run as a homeless hostel ever since though that too is coming to an end as the local council have recently refused to extend the licence. Will probably end up being converted intoo flats. Kingsway is the main A259 Brighton to Shoreham road.

A residential street that links Osborne Villas to Medina Villas that was built in the 1850s. On the right hand side are the rear views of Image and Image

Small street running between Osborne and Medina Villas. Strange mixture of housing including a small Seventh Day Adventist church whose entrance between the third and fourth parked car on the left can just be made out.

Located on the corner of Medina Place and built in the early 1850s. The pub is currently on its fourth name: it was originally the Cliftonville Inn; between 1983-1997 it was the Mary Pack, named after a former landlady who ran the pub throughout the 1970s; from 1997 it was the Red Lion, see Image; since 2015 after a refurbishment it acquired its current name, The Better Half.

On the corner of Hove Place and Medina Villas is this late Victorian house now subdivided into flats.

Originally four separate houses that have gradually been merged into one. Former numbers 9-10 on the right were reconstructed as a single entity in the 1870s and were linked to the rest in 1927 when the properties were converted into a hotel, St Catherine's Lodge, which it has remained ever since though these days it is more of a hostel that is popular with stag parties. The current name change is fairly recent too.

Looking across Medina Lawn to St Catherine's Lodge on St Catherine's Terrace, Kingsway, with Albemarle Mansions on the far left. St Catherine's Lodge was built in the 1850s and became a hotel, St Catherine's Lodge Hotel, in 1927. For a period in the early 2000s it served as a hostel for homeless people. It remains a hostel offering cheap accommodation (but with wider availability) and has been renamed Smart Sea View Brighton (despite being in Hove). Medina Lawn was originally a private lawn for residents of the terrace but was taken over by Hove Council after the Second World War for public use.

Located on the corner of Osborne Villas and built in the 1850s. The houses previously had their own forecourt separated from Kingsway by a wall but these were lost when the A259 was widened in the early 1970s, see http://regencysociety-jamesgray.com/volume12/source/jg_12_127.html for a view taken in 1965.

These large buildings are right on the sea front and they back on to the main road through Hove, Kingsway.