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Denmark Villas, HOVE, BN3 3TD

Pillar boxes erected from 1879 for approximately 13 years were called anonymous as there was no royal cypher or Post Office sign on them.

Looking south from the east side of Denmark Villas. Image]

Small mews opened in 1996 to replicate similar type housing in Cambridge and Eaton Grove. The gate at the far end is the entrance to the latter.

Residential road linking Blatchington Road with Hove Station becoming the B2120 towards its northern end. Taken from the junction with Eaton Gardens.

The building on the left was once part of a number of similarly built gothic style Victorian mansions that lined this side of the street. This one has survivied because it has become a nursing home. Unfortunately, its neighbours either side have succumbed and become a modern block of flats. This is very much the trend in Hove as the land these mansions are built on become more valuable than the buildings themselves. Mansions like these can be converted into 8 or 9 flats but there is more money in taller, newer blocks. Eaton Gardens runs south from the B2120 its southerly junction being split between this square and TQ2804. This picture has been taken halfway down the road and looks to the east.

This building is at the very edge of the grid square, in fact the line runs through the middle of the house at the far end. This piece of land has a fair history, it was first built on in 1921 when an Ice Rink was erected on the site. This went bust and was taken over by the Odeon Cinema chain in 1929 and converted into a cinema. The cinema itself lasted until 1961 when that too was closed down and the building was converted for a second time to a bowling alley. Unfortunately, the alley had to contend with competition from nearby King Alfred Leisue Complex and succumbed in 1969. This time the building did not survive being demolished and converted into Council offices. Underneath the offices are a small car repair centre, a health club and a Tesco Express, one of two in this grid square.

Some of the houses on the east side of Denmark Villas.

Located on the corner of Sackville Road and Coleridge Street though this view is from Sheridan Terrace. It was consecrated in 1883 to serve the growing area around Conway Street and the soon to be built Poets Corner. Prior to the church being built the land was allotments and before that a field which was a popular stopping place for gypsies.

As seen from the south-west.

North-west corner of Blatchington Road at junction with Denmark Villas.