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Orchard Road, HOVE, BN3 7DR

New development built on the former Alliance and Leicester site which itself was built in 1967 before the company moved to Leicester in 1993 and sold the site for development. At one point the site was suggested as the place to build the new football ground for Brighton & Hove Albion but by the time of the government enquiry plans had already been drawn up to build new offices and homes which were opened in the last couple of years. Orchard House faces out onto Orchard Road along with March House next door, the rest of the site is taken up by new offices for Legal & General.

New development built on the former Alliance and Leicester site which itself was built in 1967 before the company moved to Leicester in 1993 and sold the site for development. At one point the site was suggested as the place to build the new football ground for Brighton & Hove Albion but by the time of the government enquiry plans had already been drawn up to build new offices and homes which were opened in the last couple of years. March House faces out onto Orchard Road along with Orchard House next door, the rest of the site is taken up by new offices for Legal & General.

Recumbent cyclists taking part in a racing event held in Hove Park. One of a series of races hosted by the British Human Power Club for the World Human Powered Vehicle Championships in August 2001.

Home to offices of Legal & General PLC who moved here a couple of years ago from their old offices in Montefiore Road. Until 1967 the site was largely empty with a small slice on the western side leased to Brighton & Hove Stadium for use as a spectator stand. The Alliance Building Society opened their main offices here and remained on the site until 1993 when, as the Alliance & Leicester, moved their operations to Leicester. Development of the site proved quite difficult and it wasn't until 2001 that the old building was demolished the new structures going up a few years later, offices to the north and two sets of flats on Orchard Road to the south.

The road has been blocked off to prevent it becoming a rat run for those avoiding the traffic lights at the A2023 and A270 junction. Orchard Road is the northern boundary of a small estate that was built in the 1920s on the site of a former apple orchard, a few trees did survive in the back gardens of the new houses. Hove Park is beyond the turn in the road.

Opened in 1905 along what was once Goldstone Bottom and still a popular place today. The structure to the left is a climbing boulder with Legal & General's new offices beyond the trees.

On the western side of the park

Looking through the gate on the northern side of the main stand towards the eastern side of the track and the new Legal & General offices beyond. The eastern side once had another spectator area known as the Orchard Road Stand which had been leased from the then neighbours Alliance Building Society but was demolished when the company refused to renew the lease in 1991 two years before they themselves vacated the site.

Linking Orchard Road with Nevill Road, the small estate was built in the 1920s on the site of a former apple orchard some of whose trees survived in the back gardens of the newly built houses.

Opened in 1905 on farmland in an area once known as Goldstone Bottom. The park follows the base of the dry valley around to Woodland Drive, there are a couple of football pitches though rugby has now decamped to nearby Hove Recreation Ground, tennis courts, bowling green, a playground, climbing boulder and basketball court, along with ample space to stroll and walk the dog. This view looks across the valley floor to the houses in Goldstone Crescent on the far side.