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Palmeira Avenue, Western Side
The building with the scaffolding was once the home of Sir Jack Hobbs, Surrey and England cricketer. This is the point of the avenue where the red brick buildings change into the white classical design of the 1830s.
Image: © Simon Carey
Taken: 7 May 2007
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Sandringham Lodge
Image: © N Chadwick
Taken: 13 Jul 2013
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Salisbury Road
Late Victorian villas lining the western side of this road. The eastern side is a hotch potch of styles that indicate that this was the limit of the then building in this part of Hove.
Image: © Simon Carey
Taken: 2 Sep 2007
0.03 miles
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Hove: Sir Jack Hobbs lived here
Sir Jack Hobbs, the most prolific batsman of all time (61,670 runs and 199 centuries) lived in this house on Palmeira Avenue. A plaque next to the door reads simply
Sir Jack Hobbs
1882-1963
Surrey and England
Cricketer
Lived here
For more about "The Master", see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Hobbs .
Image: © John Sutton
Taken: 28 Sep 2017
0.04 miles
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Palmeira Avenue, Eastern Side
Palmeira Avenue extends from Palmeira Square in the south past the County Cricket Ground until it reaches Cromwell Road. Named after a Portuguese title of Sir Isaac Goldsmid, a banker and financier who bought the local Wick Estate as a seaside retreat in the 1830s then proceeded to develop it. This part, between Palmeira Square and Lansdowne Road, was begun in the 1850s.
Image: © Simon Carey
Taken: 7 May 2007
0.04 miles
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Palmeira Mansions, West
This is the western side of the mansions which straddle Palmeira Avenue's exit onto Palmeira Square.
Image: © Simon Carey
Taken: 7 May 2007
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Hove: down Palmeira Avenue
No shortage of stucco and terra cotta.
Image: © John Sutton
Taken: 8 Apr 2022
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Church Road
Opposite St John the Baptist church at the start of Church Road are these mid Victorian mansions now converted into flats.
Image: © Simon Carey
Taken: 2 Sep 2007
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Opposite the Crown Court, Lansdowne Road
A few interwar houses fill the gap between Rochester Gardens to the left and Palmeira Avenue out of picture to the right.
Image: © Simon Carey
Taken: 3 Feb 2007
0.06 miles
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25 Lansdowne Road
New building completed in 2005 on the site of a couple of small family houses on the corner of Lansdowne Road and Palmeira Avenue.
Image: © Simon Carey
Taken: 3 Mar 2007
0.06 miles