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Portland Road, HOVE, BN3 5QT

A parade of shops located between Hogarth Road and St Heliers Avenue that was built in the 1930s as the road became the main shopping hub of the newly constructed estates in the area.

Completed in 2015 and built on the site of Image after a long battle to try and save the old structure. The development includes 25 flats, a doctor's surgery, pharmacy and two commercial units.

Opened in 1933 the Granada Cinema served the rapidly urbanising Western Hove, Aldrington and Portslade and remained in use as a cinema until 1973 when it was closed. The building then became a Bingo Hall until 2003 when its current owners tried to sell the land to a property company specialising in retirement flats. Plans to demolish the building have been turned down so for the time being the building stands idle awaiting new use.

Located in Portland Road http://www.westhoveinfantschool.co.uk/

Located between Reynolds Road and Hogarth Road and built during the 1930s as Portland Road became the main shopping hub for the newly constructed estates in the vicinity. Number 208 on the corner in the foreground was for many decades a bank.

On Portland Road: http://www.hovejuniorschool.co.uk/aboutus

In Portland Road http://www.westhoveinfantschool.co.uk/

Located on the junction with School Road and still vacant five years on from Image Opened in 1933 as the Granada Cinema which remained the name until 1965 when it became the ABC until its closure in 1974 the last film shown being Callan. It was opened as a bingo hall in 1975 and passed through various companies until Gala sold the freehold to a property developer in 2003. Planning permission for demolition and building of retirement flats was refused in 2004 and the building remained idle for another few years before another bout of planning applications which have also seen a lot of opposition by locals who want to keep the landmark building intact. The longer the building remains empty the less likely this appears to happen.

Built around 1898 and originally known as Portland Road School. After 1945 was known as West Hove Junior School which was it retained until fairly recently when it expanded onto other sites in Hove causing it to drop with 'West'.

A residential road that links Amesbury Crescent to Portland Road. Once part of a field called West Laine according to Aldrington's 1840 tithe map that by the 1880s had become Wish Brick Field who supplied building materials for much of the suburb. As a consequence it was one of the last areas to be developed not completed until the mid 1930s.