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Avondale Road, HOVE, BN3 6ER

Grace Eyre is a charity supporting people with learning disabilities to make the most of opportunities in their communities. We provide person centred services to 200 people, employ 80 staff and are supported by over 50 volunteers http://www.grace-eyre.org/aboutus/default.htm, the Hove base of the charity is a former united methodist church

House on the corner of the A270 and Glendale Road. A fair number of houses in Brighton & Hove are white which go well when there is snow.

Currently occupied by the Grace Eyre Foundation founded as the Guardianship Society in 1914 by Grace Eyre in order to help the disabled and other handicapped people. The society changed its name in 1988 and has been using this former United Methodist church since 1950. The church itself was built in 1904.

A small suburban street that links the A270 Old Shoreham Road with Lyndhurst Road. This view looks north from the latter towards the playing fields on the far side of the former.

Linking Davigdor Road with Old Shoreham Road and developed between 1895-1900. Lyndhurst Road heads left, Highdown Road to the right.

Looking north east from the A270 Old Shoreham Road at the very edge of the square.

Viewed from Montefiore Road bridge and looking towards Holland Road bridge. The original Hove station was built on this side of the latter and operated from 1840 until the 1880s when it was closed being usurped by the current station that was built in the early 1860s. What did survive was an extensive goods yard to the left later known as Holland Road Goods Yard until that too closed around 1970. See https://www.flickr.com/photos/31890193@N08/13941540382/ for a view from Holland Road bridge taken in 1971. After the rails were lifted it became a builders yard with the current industrial estate not developed until the mid 1980s. Just visible on the left hand side are the floodlights belonging to the County Ground, Sussex.

These fields are used by three schools, BHASVIC, whose buildings can be seen in the distance, Cardinal Newman School and Stanford Juniors. The land is owned by the council but it is also used by locals as an amenity though in theory it is not a public park. Cardinal Newman has recently been trying to enclose the fields again to keep the public out though there are suspicions that this is hiding a possible development.

This road runs parallel with the railway. The estate was originally built between 1907-1913.

The fields are bounded by BHASVIC (Brighton & Hove Sixth Form College) to the east, the Cliftonville Spur railway line to the west, Old Shoreham Road to the south and Dyke Road Park to the north. The section in view is on the western side near the railway with the floodlights of the County Ground visible in the distance. For a long time there has been questions over the ownership of the land which was resolved over the summer of 2015 whereby the pitches adjacent to BHASVIC in the east belonging to the college and the rest under ownership of Brighton & Hove Council. Although not designated a public park it has long been used by the locals as an open space which at times has run into conflict with neighbouring Cardinal Newman School who use the field as extra space for PE lessons and are responsible for its maintenance. In 2013 the site was selected by Michael Gove as the preferred site of a new free school which at least united the various parties in opposition which was eventually successful. As such it remains an open space though since September 2015 the council has banned dogs from most of the fields particularly during the week when in use. The field was originally a large triangular piece of pasture between Old Shoreham Road and Dyke Road that had become allotments by 1911 then subdivided between Dyke road park to the north and playing fields to the south during the inter-war years.